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>Vriska: Terrorize the other derptwin.

Characters: Jade Harley [AU] and Vriska Serket
Format: Action
This log is: closed
Location: Black 1-B
Summary: Jade has nightmares. Vriska makes fun of her for it. Profit????????
Warnings: None unless you count crying and Vriska being a bitch.

[It's another disturbed night of sleep for Vriska, but this time it isn't some arbitrary sound from outside that wakes her up. No, it's definitely in the room. She glares up at the ceiling for a few minutes, trying to will herself back to sleep. She'll never get used to having roommates. What happened to individual respite blocks anyway??

Sleep isn't working, so she throws the covers off and hops out of bed, stalking over to where the sound is coming from.]

Hey! [She goes to shake whoever's on the bed only to find it empty.] What the hell?

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[ Someone is having nightmares.

They happen every night, but sometimes they're worse than others. Tonight, for example, the nightmares are all about being left behind to die. And Jade screams and screams, but her friends aren't answering her. They don't care about her any more. Maybe we should have just killed her.

What she doesn't know is that her screaming has woken up Vriska. And said screams are coming from under the bed. ]

[Vriska peers around the bed before dropping to the ground on all fours to look under it.

It's that Harley girl. Seriously? Sleeping under the bed? Was that even a customary human tradition? She's never seen it before on the timelines, but who knows.

Now that she's closer, she tries again.]

Hey!

[ A rule of all Jade Harleys is that they never wake up until some inexplicable force commands them to. Also she probably couldn't hear Vriska over her own screaming.

Try again? More force might be needed. ]

[Too bad Vriska doesn't have ability anymore. She growls, this is so ridiculous. She's not above using force.

She reaches under the bed, wrapping her hand around an arm and yanking.]

[ OH GOD STRANGER DANGER Jade's awake and the incoherent screaming has turned into something of a yelp as she's dragged forcibly from under the bed. ]

Let me go!

[Vriska doesn't let go until Jade is completely in view. She stands up, eyes narrowed down at her. She's too tired for this shit. She hasn't slept in days as it is.]

Can you be any less obnoxious with your sleeping, Harley?? I'm pretty sure eeeeeeeevery one in this hive can hear your wailing.

How-- how do you know my name?!

[ STRANGER DANGER!

She is going to attempt to get back underneath the bed now because no one can get her when she's under the bed!!!! ]

[She drags a hand through her hair. She is really, really not in the mood for this.]

Seriously? It should be pretty fucking obvious. But since your thinkpan is apparently lacking, I'm one of the trolls. You know, in that game you were playing before you got here??

[ She is now officially peering out from under the bed again. ]

There was only one troll! I don't know who you are, go away!

[ WHY IS THIS PLACE SO SCARY ]

[Vriska stoops low again to grab at her to yank her back out. Stop Jade it's rude to hide when people are bitching at you.]

Wrong! There are twelve of us. Or there were twelve us until a bunch of us died. But whatever, it's not important. What's your malfunction, Harley??

[ She shrieks again, now seriously panicking because strangers are dragging her out from under her bed and it is extremely disconcerting. ]

No, there was one of you! I talked to all of the trolls and I only remember one! Let me go!

That's because not every single troll was tripping over themselves to talk to you. I'd say not to take that as an insult, but I'd be lying. It's pretty much meant to be one.

[She doesn't let go this time, because she really doesn't feel like having to drag her out from under that stupid human sleeping square again.]

No, only one talked to me! [ She is going to cry now, thank you. This night has only been made worse by the fact that a crazy girl with obviously fake horns is shouting at her. ] I don't know who you are, just let me go back to sleep!

[ WHERE IS DAVE she wishes she was in Dave's dorm, because he would protect her. :( ]

[And Vriska's sighing, incredibly exasperated, resisting a 2x facepalm combo. After the initial gratification of Jade bursting into tears, guilt starts nagging at her. Seriously? She's so weak that seeing someone cry is getting to her? What the hell is wrong with her.]

I just told you we all didn't talk to you. The only ones throwing themselves at your chumhandle were Vantas and Nitram.

[Wait- only one troll? Her mind is trudging to full alertness. She had definitely talked to Tavros too.]

Just who the hell do you think is the only troll who talked to you?

The-- the gray one, I don't know his name, I didn't even know trolls had names!

[ Continuing to sob. ]

There was only one troll on my trollslum, and that was him! I kept blocking him but he wouldn't go away...

[Ugh no stop that crying right now. She relents her grip.]

Karkat. What his Trollian handle carcinoGeneticist? He's an obnoxious shit that doesn't know when to give up. Not surprising considering your devilbeast is the problem.

And maybe you didn't notice but we're all grey.

N-no, his text!

[ She curls up into a ball, not really wanting to be reminded of the horrible troll. ]

Just please let me go back to sleep...I promise I won't have bad dreams any more, just let me go...

Yeah, that's Vantas. Hiding his blood behind blocks of grey rambling.

[She squints down at her, though it's not necessary since she can see in the dark. What is this girl's problem?]

Like I'll believe that. And would you quit acting like I'm going to kill you? There's no need to be so melodramatic!

I've already died, you can't kill me again...

[ If she lies in this small ball and stays really still, maybe Vriska will go away. ]

Why are you doing this to me...?

You're kidding me, right?

[This whole thing seems really off. And she's going to get to the bottom of it. Sorry Jade, she's not leaving and you can't go back to sleep. She sits down on Jade's bed.]

You aren't making any sense. Sure, I didn't pay attention to your timeline that much because it wasn't that interesting, but I saw plenty of it through Egbert's. And this doesn't add up.

N-no... [ She wipes at an eye. Something about her hands probably seems really off -- maybe the fact that they're bandaged to oblivion and back, along with her feet, which look about the same. ]

I died. John didn't get me into the session, so I wandered around earth, but it was months and they didn't come and they all left me behind-- and-- Dave said he'd save me, but then he... [ she pauses. there's the sudden realization that maybe she's been blaming the wrong person all along. But then she continues. ] he didn't. He left me behind.

And the world went black. I died.

[Gears are turning and things are clicking now.]

You're from Terezi's doomed timeline. Egbert didn't save you because she sent him after his Denizen too early and he got killed. That's no excuse for Strider not saving you, though.

[She shrugs disinterestedly.] Probably got too distracted looking at Terezi's shitty drawings to pay attention to saving you.

[ Things are falling into place. Reasons why Dave didn't answer her -- it's not because he wasn't there, it's because he was busy with some girl named Terezi, who Jade doesn't even know. How does this girl know everything about their session, anyway? Maybe she was from some alternate timeline? ]

I don't even know her...why would he do that?

[ The shock is practically tangible. ]

Soooooooo many reasons! Let's see if I can name even half of them off the top of my head.

[And here Vriska leans back a little as she puts up a finger for each reason.]

You whine too much, who would want to deal with that? Your barkbeast is the reason your session is doomed, why not get revenge? You just aren't interesting enough. Pyrope is persuave. He cares more about art drawn by a blind tree girl than he does about you.

Take your pick. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons but I don't really care.

[Step 1 in making Dave's life hell: underway. This makes her feel a lot less shitty about making Jade cry.]

[ Each reason hurts a little more -- is she really that whiny? She supposes she has been, a little bit; and Dave kept laughing at her as she asked questions a few days before. Maybe he was just putting up with her. Maybe he'd rather have this Terezi girl here instead of his sick, dying friend.

Maybe they weren't actually friends at all. Dave probably thought she was really boring.

A few tears leak down her cheeks, but she can't think of much to say. So she settles with sniffling and curling up into a tighter ball, where Vriska can't watch her cry. ]

He doesn't like me, does he?

Probably not, but I can't really speak for him! Though is seems really obvious at this point that he doesn't care. But hey, he's here. Go ahead and ask him why he left you to die.

[She's going to pointedly ignore that sniffling because it'll make her feel bad again. She just needs to concentrate on the fallout of this.]

I-- [ She clenches her fists. How dare he lie to her? She's been holding this guilt in for months -- how maybe, if she'd owned up, told them everything, that they'd still be alive today. But in reality, it was Dave's fault. He let John die. He let Jade sit in the desert for four months so he could talk to some weird girl on the internet, all because Jade wasn't interesting enough to merit saving.

And she wasn't, really. She was some stupid girl who'd listened to some stupid clouds that didn't even exist any more. And the stupid nonexistent clouds had lead her to some friends who probably didn't even care whether she had lived or died.

Jade wants to feel the guilt again, almost. She wants to internalize it again, because then it can't hurt anyone. But right now all she can think is that the blame can only be placed on one person and it isn't her. ]

He should've died. Not me.

[Her lips curl up into a smirk. Oh this is better than she expected. Man this manipulation thing was fun, and look! She's doing it without mind control. How about that, Pyrope?

Ugh. Are her actions still fueled by Terezi? That annoys her, so she pushes it to the back of her mind.]

Haaaaaaaarsh, Harley!

No. It's true.

[ She slowly uncurls from her ball to stare blindly into the distance. ]

He was the one who messed things up. He deserves to be stuck in a wasteland for months.

You're right, of course. So what are you going to do about it?

I'm-- [ There's a pause while she figures that out. ] I'm going to tell him that. I'm going to make him cry.

Good luck! Too bad I can't watch. Someone needs to kick him where it hurts for once.

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