Something missing, left behind

[8etterl8]

Who: Vriska (8etterl8) and John (ghostytrainer)
Where: Other House
When: Aug 19, Afternoon
Summary: Vriska kind of needs a feelings jam after this thread
Rating: PG-13 for potential language
Log:


After finally getting away from Karkat and his ridiculous nonsense, Vriska spends a little while, just sitting there, thinking of all the different things. Things from back home and things from Johto. Regrets, which she does have, though it's none of Karkat's fucking business.

With a frustrated sigh, she grabs her gear again and sends a text to John.

Hey, where are you?

Comments

[ghostytrainer]

Not expecting it, John jumps a little as his gear goes off. He's spent the greater portion of the afternoon in the music room, pounding out random tunes on his piano. He's been spending a fair few afternoons and even some nights in here over the past month, since apparently throwing off the mutations of a legendary pokemon is not a quick process. It's been a month and save for his yellow splotches being a little lighter and his teeth maybe an inch shorter, not much has changed.

At this rate, he'll probably have an entire symphony composed by the time he's normal again.

You know if...he less lazy and actually that motivated.

He flips open the gear and quirks a brow at Vriska's message. Short, simple, and kind of hard to tell if she wants to know where he is because she's bored or because she's upset. He's more leaning towards the latter though. If she were bored, there would probably be another line on there asking if he was up for doing something that wasn't totally lame.

music room, what's up?

[8etterl8]

She should have figured. She rolls her eyes a bit at the text. John's basically been shut up in there for days now. Grabbing a blanket from her bed, she haphazardly folds it and answers him.

I think I need to talk.
8e there in second.

She's still not too good at this feelings jam stuff, but it's easy with John.

[ghostytrainer]

And here we have one of the cases where John kind of wishes he had been wrong. Not because talking to (or listening, in this case) Vriska is particularly hard or unpleasant. Just the opposite, really. He just hates it that his friends have to be upset in the first place, childish though that is.

okay, i'll be here. :)

He hits a few more keys at random before shutting the cover on his piano and picking up the notebook he's been using as his voice for the past month. Flipping to an empty page, he spins around on the bench to face the door and waits.

[8etterl8]

It doesn't take long before Vriska enters, with the blanket casually draped over one arm. She then takes it, and shakes it out, going to spread it out on the floor. A comfy place for them to sit. She thought about bringing another one, but that seemed like it might come off as excessive. Flopping down, she glances up at him.

"Hey."

[ghostytrainer]

It's okay, Vriska, he wouldn't have judged your need to create piles of things for feelings jams. He would have been confused, yes, but hey blankets are better than say...piles of card-suit ninja stars or wands.

"Thup?"

He slides off of the bench and joins her on the blanket. Whose butt does he need to kick?

[8etterl8]

Karkats. Please.

She shrugs a little, not really looking at him now, and staring at the Pokémon pattern on the blanket.

"Do you ever miss being back home. Back in medium or wherever?"

[ghostytrainer]

He's caught a little off guard at that. He wasn't sure what he was expecting, but apparently it wasn't that. after a moment or so, he starts scribbling an answer out in his notebook. Apparently, his answer is just too long to attempt to lisp it out.

not really,
no. because i have you and rose and jade and karkat here! plus all the other people i have met from different worlds like luke and our other father.
i'm not saying life back home was terrible or anything, because it really wasn't. but at the same time, it really wasn't anything worth missing.
at least not when you compare it to a place like this.

i do miss my dad though.
he is pretty much the one exception.

[8etterl8]

She glances over his shoulder as he writes, curiously. And she can't help but roll her eyes only a little at the part with his dad. His parental lusus figure seems to be his one exception to everything.

"You know, that's basically how I think of it. Though I don't miss my lusus." She shrugs, and pulls her knees up.

"There are some things I miss from back home. But I think most of that's stuff from Alternia. Things that aren't even relevant anymore. And being on the Meteor wasn't the worst, but it wasn't a fucking picnic either.

"This place might lack death defying adventure excitement, but I guess it's got it's props."

It's got people, it's got creatures. It has it's challenges which Vriska fully expects to take on. And it's got her friends, mostly. There's Tavros, who she's gotten an entire second chance with. And even if that Tavros is gone she still got the opportunity.

[ghostytrainer]

He just really misses him, okay? Come January it will have been two years since the last time he saw him. Other Father is wonderful and John loves him just as much as he loves his dad but...that desire to see him again just won't go away.

there are definitely worse places to be stuck!

He giggles a little at that.

so what brought this up?
why the sudden nostalgia for home?

[8etterl8]

"Eh, Karkat decided to get nosy and asked if I ever regretted my actions from back home. Like I'm some cold bitch that lacks basic motivations or some shit? I meant what a dumb question. It's not like I like killing my friends!"

More like she doesn't like sharing her feelings of remorse on killing her friends. With John it's okay. With John it's different. John doesn't really judge her like the others would. But having to tell Karkat was just plain dumb.

[ghostytrainer]

He frowns a little, quirking a brow.

what brought that up?

And then he hastily adds.

in your conversation with karkat, i mean.

Because obviously he knows what brought that up just now, he did!

[8etterl8]

She shrugs. "I guess he had some heartfelt feelings jam with Eridan or some shit. Now he's got me thinking about things though. I have a lot better things to be doing that thinking about all the stupid shit that happened back home."

Because thinking about this stuff is giving her feelings, and god forbid there be feelings.

[ghostytrainer]

well let's put those better things on hold for a second. because thoughts are like burps. they're better out than in.

well some thoughts, anyway. you know! like troubling ones or ones that make you feel weird wow let's just pretend i didn't make this analogy.

He scribbles out the last few lines. It's like that embarrassment never happened now! You totally didn't read it Vriska.

Totally.

anyway, what's going on in that spidery brain of yours?
we will talk about it and you will feel better and then we can do something fun. :D

Why he drew a smiley face when she can clearly see that he's smiling is anybody's guess. Could be a force of habit, could be a double reassurance that everything will be okay or it could just be because John doesn't see why the fuck not.

[8etterl8]

That analogy (that totally didn't happen, because Vriska's okay with pretending he never wrote those words. Burps John? Really?) earns him a weird look at first, but it eventually morphs into a small smile.

"Just thinking about all the stuff I guess I regret and wondering about second chances. I mean, I got a second shot with Tavros and I thought it went pretty damn well, until he up and disappeared. Now things are weird again."

[ghostytrainer]

It sounded like a good analogy at the time!

what about second chances?

and even if things are weird, you managed it once, right? so it's not like it's impossible to patch things up with him again.

sucks that you have to but that's one of the negatives about johto that unforutnately, we can't control.

But oh how he wishes there was an off switch on whatever force it is that sends people back home.