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[selfhatred]

I'M NOT GOING TO THE REST OF MY CLASSES TODAY.
COULD SOMEONE PICK UP THE HOMEWORK FOR ME AND HAND IT TO ME LATER?

[Filtered to other Vantas-Leijons]

i don't know

it's

Uncle Sal, Aunt Di...dad's here.

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[mo_cara]

[Gamzee smiles as he presses his face against the smaller boy's hair. The question is so undeniably, so completely Karkat.]

You say, "Hell, yes, motherfucker, I am, and all on my ownsome, too." [It's half joke, half fierce pride in his best friend, because he thinks karkat's dead da is right, he is becoming a fine young man, without even a da or mam to help him.]

[selfhatred]

[That actually kind of makes him laugh a bit, and it's not totally true. His aunt and uncle were pretty much his parents at this point, but the sudden reappearance of his dead father had made him remember that they weren't. Instead of responding to the half joke, he runs his sleeve under his nose.]

...This might be the last chance I get to have with him. Whatever it is, it's not going to last. He's dead. He can't stay around forever.

[mo_cara]

What are you going to be doing? [Gamzee asks gently, rubbing circles into the smaller boy's spine.]