Sollux
You slid the sweater over your head, moving to open your door. “Hey bee boy.” You said, meeting eyes with Sollux.
His bicolored glasses gave off a glint, a kind of smile in his own way. “Hey __.” He spoke, shortened version of your name as welcome as ever.
“Doing okay?” You asked, sniffling as you spoke to him.
“Migraine,” Sollux replied, asking in his own way to come inside. The two of you had spent a lot of time together in the past, comfort for his migraines and your emotions. “By the lookth of it, you could uthe thome comfort too.” He murmured, hearing the sad music and and stepping closer to you.
“I-I’m okay,” You stuttered, stepping back to allow Sollux into the house. Even if you felt useless, at least you could do something for the boy you had a huge crush on. He had confided in you that you were the only one that really helped his headaches, and that had made your whole month.
"Yeah, and I'm the model for mental health." He said, walking into your place and snagging the office chair that sat close to your bookcase.
"Now that's funny," You said, trying to have that familiar lighthearted tone in your voice you normally had.
“Juth get over here __.” Sollux spoke, his voice just on that edge of demanding that you had to follow it.
You trodded over to where Sollux sat, taking a seat at one of the kitchen stools and looking at him. "Can you do the thing?" He asked, looking away and brushing his messy black hair back with his hands. You nodded, standing and pulling over the stool to sit behind him. You took your seat and got to work.
You fingers moved, brushing quickly and smoothly through his messy hair, palms caressing and gently massaging his scalp. He almost seemed to melt into the office chair, a quiet purr escaping his lips. You smiled, and continued to brush and trace imaginary shapes on his scalp, carefully avoiding his horns but brushing the tender skin at the base and between the two sets. By the end he was less of a troll, and more of a puddle, to which you couldn't help but continue. Your hands kept moving, drawing from the base of his neck up and soon you were humming. You weren't sure how long it had been, but Sollux was most likely asleep. He did that sometimes, as much as he hated to admit it. But then again, you never saw anything of the sort according to the mustardblood.
You let a low note roll from within you, a quiet tune forming, which quickly developed into singing along to the song playing on your speakers. It wasn't exactly sad, but it wasn't happy either. By the end of the song, you were a blubbering mess, your hands still soothing the troll. Your quiet cries were stifled by the biting of your lip, Sollux could not know how broken you felt. Eventually though, you pulled your hands back and hugged them against your chest, doing your best to cry silently to little avail. You eyes scrunched shut, body curling in on itself. Just a little bit. Sollux was asleep. He wouldn't know. It would feel so good. You kept your eyes closed, but rolled up the sweater's sleeves.
You were expecting the warmth of the familiar burning, or the slight wetness of broken skin. What you weren't expecting was a warm hand suddenly resting on the exposed arm. You jumped back at the touch, rear end sliding off the the stool with both you and your seat tumbling to the ground. With a whimper, you landed on your back on the floor, a few curses heard as the gemini scrambled up from the office chair to kneel beside you. "F-fuck, __ are you hurt?" His hands hovered above you, unsure where to put them to help.
"No..." You sat up, sleeves falling back down to cover the mess that was your forearms. Sollux kneeled in front of you, and his eyes seemed to read every line on your face, despite not having pupils.
"I'm glad you're not hurt, but let me thee your armth again." Sollux spoke, trying to be gentle but falling just short. You shook your head.
"Don't worry about it Sol, I'm fine."
"No, you're fucking not. Let me thee." He was getting snappy now, a downside to his duality. He seemed to bite his forked tongue, and moved his hands to gently clasp your forearms. You whined, the pressure feeling so good but so bad. "What happened?" He mumbled, as he drew the sweater sleeve up.
"I deserved it..." You replied weakly.
"No, you fucking didn't. What the hell maketh you think you detherve thomething like thith?" His lisp, combined with the worry clear in his voice made it hard to understand exactly what he was saying, but you could take a guess.
"I'm useless Sollux. I can't do anything right, a-and everyone just lies about liking me, and I don't deserve you, or any of you guys as friends," Everything just seemed to explode, and when you finally put a cork in your rambling Sollux's psionics were crackling around his horns.
"Who thaid that?!" He snapped, a snarl resting on his face. "Who the fuck thaid that to you?! I'll kill them! I thwear I gogdamn kill them!" He shook his head furiously and his glasses came askew, horns still crackling and eyes glowing their faint respected colors.
You paled, color draining from your face.
"You are none of those things! __, You're fucking fantathtic! You're beautiful, and calm, and you put up with all of my thit and you help with the migraineth and you are worth more than the universe," his voice seemed to slow and calm down much to your comfort, when "And anybody who thays otherwithe ith going to have to go through me!" With a large psionic crackle between his horns briefly wrapping Sollux in a psionic halo.
You jumped at the sudden noise, and clung on to Sollux. He tensed briefly, before relaxing and holding you in his arms. "Pleathe, tell me if you ever feel like thith. I'll be here. I'll do whatever you need." His hand moved from holding you, to tangling itself in your hair. "__, I'm tho unbelievably red for you. Like redder than the thothe wondeful plant blothom that bloomth near your hive. Pleathe don't do thith to yourthelf anymore."
You nodded weakly, and finally broke down, holding fistfuls of Sollux's black shirt sobbing into him. He shuffled every once in a while, but kept one hand around your waist, and one running through your hair. A few stray words escaped your lips. "I love you Sollux..." Soon, you had been the one to fall asleep this time, still clinging to the bony troll but warm and happier than you had been in months.