“Past Karkat is an idiot, Future Karkat is an idiot, and Present Karkat is the biggest grubfucking idiot of all.” He’s just sitting there with his knees pulled up, arms around himself like that can hold him together. It’s not helping, but he can still pretend it is. Karkat tries not to look at Danny because he knows what look he’ll see. He knows he’ll see that look of too-human pity that has nothing to do with romance and everything to do with thoughts like, “I want to help but I have no idea what the hell to do, oh God please don’t cry” and “Oh my God should I hug him or will that make him fall apart? What do I do?!” So he keeps his eyes on the ground in front of his feet as the ghost-boy sits beside him.
“I’m not going to pretend to know how to help, but I will tell you that not all of that is your fault.” Danny’s voice is surprisingly strong.
Karkat risks a glance in Danny’s direction and there’s pity on the human’s face, but there’s also determination. "What the fuck makes you say that? I was the leader; it was my responsibility to make sure things didn’t fall apart! I’m a fucking failure! Over half my team is dead, I’m stuck here instead of on the meteor that’s hurtling through space and I have no fucking clue how I got here and fuck if I know how to get back, and the rest of my team is falling apart - HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU SAY IT’S NOT MY FAULT!? The worst part is that my teammates would still be alive if I hadn’t allowed them to kill each other! They fucking killed each other and I should have stopped them! I should have handled the situation but I didn’t! DO YOU SEE WHAT I’M SAYING HERE!? ALL OF THAT SHIT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF I HAD DONE MY FUCKING JOB! EVERYONE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE!“ Karkat’s whole body is shaking but Danny’s expression doesn’t change.
"I’m not saying you didn’t make any mistakes. I’m saying that you have no control over what anyone else does. You did not tell them to kill anybody. You did not kill anybody. It is not your fault that they killed each other. It is not your fault! Do you understand what I’m saying?”
“I still messed up…” Karkat looks back to his feet, eyes defeated.
“Yeah, but people make mistakes. Sometimes bad things happen because of those mistakes. But it’s pointless to dwell on it. That just makes it harder to make things right.”
Karkat looks back to Danny to find him looking at his own feet, a distant look in his eyes. "What mistake did you make?“ Karkat doesn’t know exactly how he knows, but Danny is definitely speaking from experience.
Danny’s gaze shifts back to Karkat and says, "I cheated on a test,” and doesn’t say anymore. He moves to get up before Karkat ask any more questions. "Come on, it’s almost time to meet Sam and Tucker. He thinks he might be able to help you figure out how you got here.“ Danny holds out his hand to Karkat and is surprised when he actually accepts the help. The troll still looks upset, and Danny’s pretty sure this isn’t the end of that particular conversation, but at least Karkat doesn’t look like he’s about to freak out again.
Super short thing~ just to let you know, I haven’t written anything in like a year and a half at least and it’s been forever since I’ve watched Yu-Gi-Oh! so yeah~! I hope you like it!
They haven’t really discussed exactly what the consequences of the duel will be. Everyone’s, of course, wondering how life will be if Yugi wins. Yami will be gone, finally able to rejoin all those he didn’t remember he had lost all those thousands of years ago. Since Yugi completed the puzzle, they’ve all become such good friends, been through so much together, and they’ll all miss him.
But the thing is that nobody else has had to share brainspace with him. So while everyone else is wondering what they’ll do after Yami is gone, Yugi is faced with being alone in his head, his body, for the first time in so long. And he wants to help Yami get home, he really does, but he wonders if he’s even strong enough to defeat the Pharaoh. Yami is confident in him, and he’s grown so much from the timid kid he was, but there’s still that doubt.
And then when the duel is almost over, and Yugi has those last few moves to make to defeat Yami, he doesn’t know if he can. He knows he has so many friends, he won’t be alone, not physically at least. But going from having someone so close your very souls are connected to being utterly alone is daunting.
And while Yugi knows that Yami is ready to go, he doesn’t know if he can do it. He doesn’t know if he can let Yami go. Yugi feels so selfish for feeling that way and can’t look Yami in the eyes. Who is he to keep Yami from his loved ones?
But when he hears a soft hey he looks up to Yami’s smiling face.
“Yugi, it will be alright. You will be alright. It doesn’t matter where I go. I’m with you, okay? Always,” and Yami’s smile is gentle, and his eyes are full of love and pride.
Yugi smiles, nods his head as his lips form a quiet yeah and is finally able to stand tall and finish the duel.
Originally posted here on March 1, 2016.
thekittyisahoneybadger submitted to eeyore9990:
(I was going to say this in a series of asks but decided not to because I had no idea how many asks it would take and didn’t want to flood your inbox with my almost screaming)
Okay so I’m having a lot of feelings about neck kisses and I can’t stop thinking about how neck kisses would be something that werewolves would be a little weird about because hey those are TEETH near the THROAT and whatnot and how Derek letting Stiles kiss his neck is kind of a huge thing for both of them because Derek still sometimes has trouble trusting people to not screw him over and hurt him and Stiles has trouble even trusting himself sometimes because of how many people have outright said they don’t trust him (even his own father, I mean, come on) and so when Stiles kisses Derek’s neck the first time and Derek just kind of stops Stiles is immediately like OMG I FUCKED UP OH SHIT SO SORRY GOT A LITTLE CARRIED AWAY because he knows that werewolves are very particular about who they let anywhere near such a vulnerable spot and while Stiles is freaking out Derek is also freaking out a bit because wow here’s somebody that he actually seems to trust enough for that and he’s really not used to it, to be completely honest. The last person Derek let do that burned his family so he has never let anyone else in that much, and yet he’s so comfortable and feels so safe with Stiles that it’s like it’s no big deal when, for Derek, it kind of is. And Stiles is flipping out because he knows how Derek is about that stuff, how he’s getting better with trusting the pack and trusting other people to not completely fuck him over but this is different, you know? And he’s thrown through a loop when Derek tells him to do it again and when he hesitates Derek lifts his chin and a soft “please” makes him slowly place his lips on Derek’s throat. And when Derek kind of whimpers a bit he stops, but Derek says “again” and Stiles is like “you sure?” and Derek is so sure and tells him “I trust you” and Stiles’ brain kind of shuts off after that and they don’t even have sex that night. It’s mostly spent with Stiles mouthing at Derek’s neck because Derek seems to really like it (and let’s be real here, Stiles really likes it) and Stiles is just amazed by the fact that Derek trusts him like that, like yeah they trust each other when it comes to fighting supernatural baddies but this is different. This is like Derek trusting Stiles with himself, he’s letting Stiles in, and that fact just amazes Stiles.
And later they have a serious discussion about how much Derek does trust Stiles because seriously the boy has some issues when it comes to accepting that people do trust him. (And after all this the neck kissing really becomes a ~thing~ for them and it’s totally not weird to get turned on just from a kiss on the neck, it’s not weird at all.)
So here have these feels. I am now glad I did not try to send this in a series of asks~
I wasn’t sure how this would show up, lol, but I wanted to make sure your name appeared on it and omg, this is beautiful. Derek TRUSTING Stiles and that realization that he DOES and omg… this is everything. Thank youuuuu for sharing this with me omg!! ♥ Eey
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