Spider Lesbians
"She's losing blood, and fast."
"Get her on the bed!"
"Put a towel down first, fuckass!"
Equius put his strong stomach to use as he laid the unconscious Rose into a girl's room bed. Without wasting a precious second he cleaned his hands and demanded the first aid kit Karkat had purchased at the Walmart. Getting started with a pair of tweezers, he held open Rose's eyelid and sought out the remaining pieces of Rose's demolished eyeball. He plucked out piece after piece and rested them on a paper towel. Then, he said, it was time to remove her tear ducts. He pinched the little pink bulby thing in the corner of her eye and pulled, tearing it out and uprooting it. (1T 5H0U1D B3 N0T3D TH4T N31TH3R TH3 4UTH0R, WH0 15 50 T0T411Y N0T R0W, N0R 3QU1U5 H4V3 4NY 0PT1C M3D1C41 KN0WL3DG3, N0R D0 TH3Y KN0W WH4T TH4T L1TTL3 P1NK BU1BY TH1NGY 15 4CTU411Y C4113D. TH4NK5, K33P R34D1NG!) when all of her 'eye guts', as Eridan called them, were all out and all that remained was a bloody socket Equius cleaned it with hydrogen peroxide and wrapped it in ace bandages.
It was then that they noticed that Nepeta was missing.
Meanwhile, Kanaya was losing it. "Vriska!" She screamed into the vanishing light. "Vriska, come back! I didn't mean it!" Didn't you? A voice in her head asked. This is all your fault. All of it. And now she's gone. Forever. "Vriska!" Tears poured from Kanaya's eyes as she tore through the woods, tripping over rocks and roots and ledges. "Please, come back!" You did this to her, Kanaya. You double-crossed her, two-timed her, backstabbed her and now she's lost it, now she's gone, and it's all your fault! "Vriska!" Kanaya screamed louder, trying desperately to block out her own mind, but to no avail. You did this to her, it seethed. Why are you crying? You don't care about her. She don't cry for her or the pain she must be feeling. You only care about yourself.
This is it, Vriska thought. I've turned everyone against me because I'm jealous, I'm stupid and now she hates me. My only friend is gone. I'll never see her again because I let my jealousy get out of hand and now I have nothing left. Nothing but this rock. She grinned to herself as she looked over a steep hill below. One good bash to the head with this rock will send her tumbling straight down into hell where she belongs. She raised her rock, pulling back and preparing for the blow. And then she head her name. Well, a variation of it.
"Vurriskers, why are you doing this to yourself?" Behind her crouched Nepeta. Sweet, lovable, naïve little Nepeta here to kiss her wounds all better.
"Nepeta? How did you-"
"I escaped when Equius wasn't looking and I followed you up here." Nepeta explained.
"Aren't you scared of me?" Vriska asked. "I blinded Rose. I could do the same to you."
"You won't though." Nepeta said. "Right now your scared and you just need a furiend." Before Vriska could stop her, Nepeta had wrapped her arms around her and she was hugging her, snuggling her and filling her to the brim with warmth. Vriska started to cry again and Nepeta didn't stop holding her until she stopped. "I understand you, Vurriskers. I know why you did it."
"You do?"
"Mmhm. You got scared and acted too quickly and made a really big oopsie. Equius told me that everyone makes mistakes and sometimes they're big mistakes but you can't feel bad about them furever. Of course, he said it a billion times in a really boring voice." That made Vriska laugh and hug her again. "We don't have long."
"Huh?"
"Kanaya's coming for you."
"W-What?!" Suddenly she felt a pang of fear, she felt the tumble below beckoning to her. She pulled away in a panic.
"Wait, I'm not done." Nepeta said. "She's coming to say she's sorry.
"What?"
"Yes, Vurriskers. She didn't mean what she said."
"I can't. I'll mess up again. I know I will."
"I'll do the meowing. All you have to do is hug her when I says so, ok? Watch for my signal. The signal is- CA-CAW! CA-CAW!" Vriska nearly doubled over laughing.
"Vriska!" Kanaya's voice called faintly.
"Cmon, Vriska. Let's fix this." Nepeta led her into the night.
Everyone, including poor frazzled Miss Marcie, sat anxiously in the living room of the Inn. No one had ever seen Equius so distressed. He paced about, sweat soaking his shirt and slicking his hair, tapping endlessly on his phone. He sent text after text to Nepeta demanding her whereabouts, but no response came. "Has everyone sent at least two texts to her?"
"You've already asked that, you perspiring idiot, and yes, we've done all we can." Karkat rolled his eyes. No one else spoke. No one really believed that Nepeta or Kanaya would return- they had been gone for hours. To their knowledge, Vriska had slaughtered them again. Karkat regretted what he said. He knew what he was doing when he told Kanaya to fix it. It was a death sentence. But she didn't deserve it. There was no way to fix this. She had told her to go. Go and never return. He didn't mean to kill her. The blood was on his hands, too, now.
"Equius, please, rest." Miss Marcie pleaded shakily. "I'll make you some tea. Have some cookies. Let me get you a towel."
"I will not rest until Nepeta's safe return." Equius refused.
"Fathe it man, the's dead." Sollux said. "Dead, dead-"
He was interrupted by a knock at the door. Then in walked Nepeta, holding the hands of Vriska and Kanaya, tears on all three faces.
"Nepeta." Equius breathed.
"I saved the day!" Nepeta cheered, raising two triumphant hands.
"Get away from her!" Equius commanded. "She could have killed you out there! What were you thinking?!" But Nepeta didn't even hear him because she had run into his arms and he had scooped her up and hugged her tight and safe. "Nepeta," he said, kissing her forehead, "don't ever do that again."
"No purromises." She replied, cuddling him.
"Miss Marcie," Vriska addressed her. "I think it's time we come clean. Karkat, will you please get the tool?" Karkat nodded.
"So that's it." Miss Marcie said blankly. "You're all fifteen year old orphans on a scavenger hunt. Three of you are lesbians and one of those three is a psychopathic spider lesbian who stabbed another lesbian's eye out to get the third lesbian's attention. It all makes sense now." She laughed. "My oh my."
"Unfortunately, now we'll have to erase your memory." Rose said. Miss Marcie's smile disappeared. "Don't worry, you'll remember everything and everyone, just not us." She nodded.
"I'll sure miss you sillies." She said. "I'm ready."
Rose raised up 'the tool' to her eye level and clicked a small blue button, generating a flash in her open eyes. "We're sixteen twenty year olds staying until three thirty a.m. tomorrow. It's totally acceptable and you feel the need to give them one hundred and fifty dollars."
"Rose!" Feferi cried. Rose grinned as Miss Marcie smiled and walked to the cash register at the front desk.
"I cannot believe that works every single time." John shook his head.
"The art of placebo, my friend." Rose said, her one eye winking.
END OF ACT ONE.
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