She's Back
-- carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling ectoBiologist [EB] --CG: HEY JOHN! ASSHOLE!
EB: oh hey buddy. what's up?
CG: GUESS WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW.
EB: needlepoint?
CG: ... OKAY WOW I'M ALMOST SPEECHLESS RIGHT NOW.
CG: THAT IS THE STUPIDEST GUESS YOU COULD'VE MADE.
CG: I'D FLIP MY SHIT ABOUT IT IF I WEREN'T ALREADY DOING THAT FOR ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASONS.
EB: what?
CG: THAT'S THE THING THAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW.
CG: TAKING A QUICK BREAK FROM FLIPPING MY SHIT SO I CAN INFORM YOU.
EB: hold on there buddy. inform me of... you didn't! D:
CG: THANK WHATEVER DEITY YOU BELIEVE YOU IN I DIDN'T!
CG: IT LOOKED KINDA PAINFUL TO ME.
EB: how is she?
CG: TEREZI? HAVING A GIGGLE FIT, STARING AT THIS LEATHERY SPHERE SHE PRODUCED.
CG: IT'S JUST SITTING THERE ON A PILLOW WE BORROWED FROM NEPETA.
CG: I THINK IT'S...
CG: I DUNNO. PULSATING A LITTLE?
CG: COULD JUST BE ME.
EG: wow dude!
EG: whatever happens next, congratulations!
EG: you're the first confirmed father in several hundreds of years of troll history!
EG: at least, from what you told me about troll history.
CG: HOLD ON, I'M GONNA GET A PICTURE OF THIS THING.
-- carcinoGeneticist [CG] sent ectoBiologist [EB] the file "IAMSOCONFLICTEDNOW.JPG" --
EG: oh wow.
EG: so. trolls lay eggs, then.
EG: jade would love to hear this.
CG: SHE WOULD?
EG: yeah, what with her biology studies and all that...
CG: I SEE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT, SEND HER THE PIC IF YOU WANT.
EG: i will! good luck buddy.
=> Karkat: continue flipping some shit
Karkat found himself too calmed down by his little chat to continue what he had taken a break from. It was a stupid idea really, he thought to himself. He decided he might as well go poke Terezi in the face and ask her what they could do next.
"Hey, Rezi?"
Terezi took a moment to try and stop giggling at the egg. "Yes, Karkles?"
"What'll we name it anyway? When it hatches?"
"I dunno... wouldn't that depend on what exactly it is?"
"Boy or a girl, that thing?"
"Yeah, I mean you can't very well have a girl go 'round with a name like 'Dave'", Terezi joked.
"You would name it after him?"
"No, ofcourse not. That'd be silly Karkles!"
"Then what do you have in mind?"
"More like what do you have in mind? Heheheheheheh."
Karkat was dumbstruck for a moment. "Nothing specific... yet. Probably something exotic-like, with a hidden meaning..."
"An excellent idea, my dear", Terezi agreed as she sauntered over to her computer. "Let's see what the internets have to offer."
Karkat considered looking over Terezi's shoulder, but decided not to. He wouldn't be able to read the screen anyway with all that saliva smeared all over it. It looked to him like the subpixels had exploded or something. Instead, he just stared at the egg and wondered if it really was slightly pulsating or if it was just him.
"Here's something nice", Terezi announced after a bit of searching. "It's... in some squiggly bullshit language called 'Arabic' and means 'flame'."
"What's the name, then?"
"Am I pronouncing this right? If it's a girl, we can call her 'Shula'."
"And if it's a boy?"
"Let me see..."
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Years in the future, but not many at all...
"Y'know Karkat buddy, it's always great to be here", John said as he looked over the ever-developing colony of New Alternia. "I don't think that lake was there last time I visited. Dave, was it?"
Dave couldn't answer because he was busy hugging Terezi.
"It wasn't, fucknuts", Karkat answered instead. "The hardest part was getting it filled. At least that's what Equius told me."
"Jeez Karkat, you just let those two do that where you can see it?" John asked when he noticed Dave and Terezi hugging. "I mean, Terezi is for all intents and purposes a married mother now!"
"No, it's okay John. I know what'll break those two apart", Karkat said with a grin as he spotted Jade leaving the car.
"Karkat, you dog", John joked. Karkat and Jade were also tightly hugging, and true to the plan, Terezi caught wind of it and left Dave to chew out Karkat for doing exactly what she herself had just been doing.
"So where's the little one, fuckass?" Jade asked Karkat, who lightly flinched at the old nickname.
"Inside. Right this way, folks."
=> Chums: enter
i gu3ss you just cant k33p a good pho3nix down...