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Who: Vanitas and Sollux
Where: Violet City
When: Forward dated to late evening of Sept 18th/wee hours of the morning Sept 19th
Summary: While Karkat is off to Cherrygrove for some moirail times, Sollux needs a badge. Vanitas flies him there because he has nothing better to do, but he's missing his boyfriendo since it's the first time they've been apart in five months. Yeah. Sollux isn't going to be of any help, is he.
Rating: PG-13 for trollmouths
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While Violet hasn't exactly been one of Vanitas' favorite towns, it is much quieter than Saffron, Celadon or Goldenrod ever were. There weren't any late night things going on, and for the first time in a while, he wished there was. Laying in the dark and completely unable to sleep, Vani kept himself from texting Karkat for the fiftieth time today, grumbling and rolling over in an attempt to get comfortable again.

Clearing his throat quietly and somewhat hoping that Sollux is dead asleep over across the room, Vanitas quietly starts trying to hum the tune that Sanaa would sing when using the move with the same name. At least he's on key...?

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It's quiet. Too quiet.

Vanitas clearly wasn't the only one with sleeping troubles, because in the other bed, Sollux is rolling over quite a bit; his relatively light weight made the groaning of the bedframe a little more tolerable, but it was still clear that both of them weren't going to fall under anytime soon. More than once, Sollux found himself wondering if this was just what happened when Karkat wasn't around — was it so awkward that neither he nor Vanitas could sleep if there was no nubby-horned nuisance in the room?

God, the least they could have done was make a bit more noise outside. The sounds of nature or whatever were... annoying. He wanted to be back in Fuchsia or Saffron or Goldenrod, where he could at least hear that there was a city out there, even if he didn't necessarily look out his window every day and see it. Here, though, there was just the constant nagging of Hoothoots and Spinaraks and whatever else lived out in the forest, and it was driving him nuts. How did anyone sleep like that? Hell, there was even some bastard trying to use Sing, and it wasn't even working to make him fall asleep... wait.

Sollux turned around in bed one last time, staring at Vanitas with bicoloured eyes. They were locked in a very judging expression.

"Are you fucking serious?"

It's downright awkward when he hears the roll, his voice cutting out quickly, just in time to feel the stare and hear the words. Grunting and rolling over a bit further to drag his pillow over his head, Vanitas curls a bit in on himself.

"Shut up. I'm desperate to make time go by at this point and sleep just isn't happening."

How embarrassing, being caught attempting that bullshit.

"Unless you're so sleep-deprived that you think you're an actual Altaria..." His voice drifts off, leaving the insult at that. It's too late at night for him to brain the rest.

Ugh, whatever.

He grumbled and shifted around a little more, staring at the ceiling so that he didn't have to stare at Vanitas. He would never achieve a state of sleep by gazing at his spiky-haired mug. This situation was just really freaking sad.

"I'm trying to fall asleep, idiot. That means doing the song might just do that. I know I'm not a bird."

He's rolling over though with a disgruntled glare, dragging the pillow around to puff it up as much as he could.

"It's a song. The Pokémon has some magic property to its voice that makes everyone fall asleep, you can't do it."

Sollux seemed intent on dragging this out as long as possible. What fabulous 'bonding' this is, Karkat will be so proud of them!

"I obviously know that now!" Growls a little and flumps over; the arguing is only waking him up more. Sitting up and grabbing his spare pillow, Vanitas chucks it across the room to hit Sollux.

"You should've known it already." Sollux didn't even notice the flying pillow until it had made contact on his bed; afterwards, he sat up on the mattress, picked up the pillow, and hurtled it right back at Vanitas.

"How would I know unless I tried it before? I never had to."

Catching the pillow and climbing out of bed, he silently steps over and just whallops the troll.

Oh gurl, please.

The action of getting out of bed is large enough that Sollux can catch it, even with his lack of concentration. So he grabs his own pillow and sends another bonk right back Vanitas' way.

Catching that pillow and making an effort to yank it out of Sollux's grip, Vanitas just pelts him with both then. This is an all out pillow war. And an effort to exhaust himself to sleep.

Pillow wars are cool, he can handle that. Sollux attempted to pull his pillow back from the grip of the evil Vanitas, and eventually succeeded by virtue of having two hands to pull it while Vanitas could hold it with only one. This is totally fucking retarded and something only a wiggler would do, Sollux is already aware; but it's the closest thing he's had to an actual fight in a long time, and maybe he's kiiind of been itching for one of those. Hey, he's still a troll at heart, even if his body is crunchy and tastes good with ketchup.

In otherwords, they both needed this pillow fight.

Letting Sollux take his pillow back, Vanitas keeps wailing away on him with his own, changing the direction of his swings to be from side to side instead of downright striking him in a two handed grip again and again.

They really did. How sad is that?

Sollux actually began deflecting Vanitas' pillow strikes. Even though pillow fights didn't exactly work that way, he didn't really know much about pillow fights in the first place — only proper ones. And in proper fights one should always defend themselves, even with massive psychic energy fields. There was probably a couple of Pokémon sitting in the door by this point, judging them both deeply, but he really didn't care.

Vanitas didn't care about the "viewers" either at this point. All he cared about was getting the other to shut his trap, and to wear himself out so he could maybe, just maybe get some sleep. Stepping back once all his attacks were being deflected, he watches and waits, baiting with feints so he could get an open strike in.

"Something wrong?" Sollux wasn't even close to tired yet, but the fact that Vanitas had gone off the offensive led him to believe that perhaps he was being worn down more by the little spar. (Of course, there was no way that a hacker could have more stamina than a swordsman, but he didn't know Vanitas could fight at all.)

"No."

Stepping to the edge of the bed down near the foot, Vanitas uses one hand to reach down and outright heft up the mattress, throwing it up onto his shoulder and standing to flip it sideways, knocking Sollux right out of his comfortable position.

Sollux cursed much too loudly for that time of night. No one ever told him Vanitas could do that!

The boy still managed to stay on his feet, having gained at least a little bit of coordination from his time in Johto. But you bet he kept a vice-grip on that pillow.

"Hey — overkill. Heard of it, asshole?"

He chose to ignore the fact that 'overkill' was one of his favorite words.

"Yeah. I did it all the time before I came to Johto."

The loud cursing had him cracking a bit of a grin, but it's the action that is making him feel better. Lifting his foot and giving the now empty bedframe a rough shove with his heel, Vanitas darts forward and swings his pillow like a sword, swiping it up at the last minute in an attempt to disarm Sollux.

Dude. You're trying to disarm him. With a pillow.

...But then again, Sollux seemed to be using his like a shield, holding it up in front of him as he jumped back.

"What's wrong, don't trust yourself to end me the first time?"

"A pillow isn't a good weapon. I'm probably strong enough to rip part of it out of your hands again though."

Using that step back, Vanitas darts in and dips down with one knee almost touching the floor to swing his pillow up and nail Sollux in the jaw.

"Aaaaahhhh," he deadpanned, snapping his head up in an exaggerated fashion and falling dramatically onto the bed. It was obviously a mockery. "Curses. I have been struck a fatal blow by the vengeful wrath of Vanitas' stuffed cranial rest. I am bleeding out. Oh nooooooo."

Vanitas downright sucker punches him in the gut for that.

"Son of a bitch!" Sollux curled up on the punch, but as he did so, proceeded to kick Vanitas in the face. And then grabbed on to the bedframe because he has been thrown around before, and it was not an experience he'd like to relive.

"You asked for it."

Catching the foot even if it's leaving a nice bruise on his face, Vanitas grabs both legs and yanks, dragging Sollux and the bedframe across the room a bit while trying to make him let go.

He was joking around, dickwad. "I did no—"

Of course, he never got further than that (it kind of degenerated into a scream). Sollux let go of the bed much more easily than either of them could have anticipated, and he wound up falling into Vanitas. Wonder if that woke up the neighbors?

Stumbling from the sudden release of tension, Vanitas winds up falling to the floor with the troll falling on top of him. Grunting and rolling then, he puts Sollux into a headlock... and noogies. If the screaming woke the neighbors, Vani really doesn't care.

"Now, suck it up and shut up when I try something disgustingly desperate to get some sleep!"

Sollux flailed pathetically when Vanitas took him around the neck, and his efforts doubled at the noogie. Oh >i?fuck no. There's only one person he allows to noogie him, ever, and that's Karkat.

"Why the fuck should I?"

Struggle all you want, hacker, because Vanitas has a stronger grip than all those flailings will free him from. Just going to keep up the noogies for a few minutes before he finally lets go and pushes him away.

"Because I think I'm going to call Karkat in a little bit. I just don't want to pester if he's busy."

"Oh yeah, because calling KK will knock you right out," he grumbled, regaining his bearings and kicking the bed back into place (he failed). "Seriously, just go back to sleep and wait out 'til morning, you're being a total grub about it."

Snorting while watching Sollux attempt to push his bed back into place.. Vanitas grunts in the end and flumps there on the floor, before rolling onto his side with his back to the other.

"I'd feel better. I haven't been apart from him since we started traveling together." Hey Sollux, did you forget that he is pretty much a grub still?

"That's... sad. That's really, really sad." Seriously, grow a pair. "Ickle baby Vanitas can't sleep without his safety KK? Maybe now is a great opportunity to stop being so dependent on him!"

He wants to snarl, to gripe and to bitch right back at him, but the words don't come. Instead, Vanitas just curls up on the floor with a scowl, ignoring when his Liepard finally decides to step into the room to stick her face down by his and try to lick his cheek.

"Keep crying." Sorry, Vanitas, Sollux is just an asshole like that. Sensing that the conversation was over (since his opponent had just kind of camped out on the floor like a grub having a tantrum), he climbed back into bed and commenced staring at the wall.

"'m not crying." Just annoyed and frustrated with this dependency that's been pointed out to him. It's a good long hour before he finally gets up..

and approaches Sollux's bed to reach down and flip the entire thing on it's side.

Before he goes to his own bed and flumps onto it.

Vanitas receives more than a few mumbled curses for his trouble. Immediately, it becomes apparent why he became such good friends with Karkat; they were practically two of a kind.

Almost like...

twins.

Ooooooooohhhhh.

It's quiet on his end for a few minutes until there's the soft taps of typing on the gear, this conversation going on. He winds up speaking rather quietly, but then again, silent room... so when the bird on the other end of the line starts singing, it should be enough to knock both of them out.

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Reading comprehension, I has it

luls

sollux and vanitas bonding: successful. THEY'RE LIKE BROTHERS

YUP

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such a grub sob sry mang

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