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EridanXReader - It's Not Over

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"Damn it, (name)! You could havve been culled!"

I slumped back against the poll of the hideout, panting, my knees feeling like rubber from running away. I turned to looked at the royal blooded troll who stood next to me. I glared slightly.

"If I did not go out, I would not have been able to get the food that we so desperately need." I said, wiping away some of the jade blood off of my arm from when I practically kicked the door down to get in since I was being chased. "Could you make yourself useful and get me the first aid kit, Eridan. I do not want to get this infected."

Eridan opened his mouth to say something and then sighed, resigning himself to not arguing with me. He walked out of the room, muttering, to retrieve the kit from the rundown bathroom of some trolls old hive. I let out a sigh. When did it become like this?

"Oh yeah." I muttered to myself, answering my question aloud. "Stupid scientists."

I kicked off the poll and began to walk towards the bathroom where Eridan was sure to be trying to find the first aid kid. My knees still felt a little wobbly and weak, but I managed. I walked into the bathroom only to find that Eridan wasn’t there, I sighed. He was a good fighter, but when it came to the health of others but himself, he didn’t really care much.

I walked into the bathroom and dug around for the kit. When I found it, I sat down on the toilet by the sink and started pulling out the bandages and antiseptic. I got to work on my wound, not noticing the violet blooded troll standing in the doorway watching me. I was almost done when I heard him clear his throat. I looked up at him.

"Eridan?"

"Um. Let me help you." He said, kneeling in front of me.

He took the first aid items from my hand and he finished cleaning the wound. Then he wrapped some bandages around it. When he was done, however, he did not let go of my arm, he just kept a firm grip on it, like if he let go, I would disappear.

"What is it, Eridan? What's wrong?"

He looked up and then he stood up. I took a good look at his appearance. His clothes were in tatters and his glasses had one cracked lens. His cape literally looked like he had pulled it from the garbage and his scarf was lost long ago. I offered to make him a new one with Kanaya's help, but he refused. He had healing cuts on his face, which was also covered with grime. I would have to make him wash all of that off or he would run the risk of getting infections.

"Nothing." He muttered before he walked out of the bathroom.

I watched him go and sighed. He must still be broken up about Feferi dying, or well, more accurately, turning. I rubbed my forehead. We have lost so many friends. He and I were the only ones left that I knew about. Tavros was one of the first to go, along with Gamzee, even after Equius gave him his robolegs. Next was Nepeta followed by Equius who tried to avenge the death of his moirail. Next came Terezi and Karkat was so broken up, he nearly threw himself into a whole slew of them. Kanaya disappeared, I assumed she died, though I hoped that she did not. She was my moirail. Vriska left the group with Aradia and Sollux to try to find a cure. I don’t know what happened to those three. That left me, Eridan, and Feferi.

One day Feferi and I were out scavenging for food. I didn’t see it happen. I had no idea that she was taken. When I got back to the hide out, Eridan flipped. He went on and on about how I should have protected her and how I should have looked after her. I yelled back saying that I may be a jade blood but I wasn’t anyone's mother. He and I stopped talking for a few weeks after that. He must still be mad at me. I sighed.

I guess I should mention who we are running from. The Zombies. No one ever thought that our race was susceptible to the virus that created them. So it made no sense when the first wave of them rampaged through the towns of Alternia and invaded the lawn circles of lesser blooded trolls like myself. The royal bloods, like Eridan and Feferi, Vriska and Equius, all seemed to have fled. Little did we know that they were some of the first to go.

I stood up and shook my head. I had to find Eridan. We had to find a new hideout soon, preferably a smaller, easier to defend, hideout, like Nepeta's old cave. I looked around all of the rooms, finding most of them open and unlocked except for one. The door at the very end of the hall on the topmost floor. I sighed. He had to be in here. I knocked on the door, calling out for Eridan.

I heard a rustling and moments later, the door opened to reveal a shirtless Eridan with a new shirt that was slightly less ripped then the old one in his hands. He towered over me and looked down, his eyes glistening with unshed violet tears. He must be thinking about the day Feferi died. I sighed again.

"Eridan, we have to go find a new hideout. Soon the zombies will know this is where we are and well, we do not want them to find us. Plus I do believe that we should at least spend a little time to find Aradia, Sollux, and Vriska to see if they found a cure for the disease." I explained.

Eridan was silent for a moment. "I guess you're right." He said as he pulled on the new shirt.

"I will be on one of the decks." I said and turned around.

Before I could take one step, Eridan caught my arm. "Wwait."

I looked back at him. "What is it?"

"You look thirsty." Was all he said.

Up until then I hadn’t felt the thirst. I was content going for another few hours without the colorful elixir that jade bloods needed when they died.

Yes. I am a rainbow drinker.

It happened during the first wave of the zombies. Kanaya had trolled me, telling me about what she had heard was going on down the way from her own lawn circle. When she looked out of her window, she told me that she saw a whole pack of dead smelling trolls walking toward her hive. Then after a while she stopped responding. I thought she was dead. Almost half an hour later she told me to kill myself. Told me that it would make avoiding what was going on easier.

At first I thought she was kidding. Then she told me that she was killed, that she died at the hands of the zombies. I thought she had become one, but then she sent me a picture and I saw her skin glowing. Then I realized. She had become a rainbow drinker. I decided to follow her advice and I killed myself. When I woke up, I ran right to Kanaya's hive. At first I didn’t see her, when I looked all over and I saw her standing in a dark room, glowing the same way that I was. When she and I met up, we went around to try and find the others.

I looked up at Eridan, feeling the hunger take over. He just grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the room. He sat down on the couch and held out his wrist.

"Wwe'll leavve after you'vve fed." He said.

I did not respond; I just looked at his wrist. Within a few seconds I had latched on to his arm. I sank my fangs into his soft grey skin and drank. The violet liquid slid down my throat and I felt strength and life flow through me. I sank to my knees, my eyes fluttering closed as I drank. I took as much as I could to feel full, knowing that as a high blood, Eridan certainly had blood to spare. I detached myself from the other troll and looked up at him, still on my knees.

He stood up and pulled his sleeve over the puncture wounds on his arm. "Let's go." He said.

I sighed and nodded. "All right."

I stood up and went to my own room to find some things that I wished to take with me, but I found nothing other than Kanaya's old sewing supplies consisting of what little fabric I had left, needles and thread, Karkat's sickle, and Terezi's glasses. I threw all the stuff in a bag and shouldered it. I don’t know why I kept all of that stuff, I just could not let it go. I mean, Kanaya was my moirail before she disappeared, and Karkat and Terezi were also very close to me.

I walked out of the room and down to the front door. I reached into the bag and pulled out the sickle, just in case we were attacked before Eridan was ready to leave. Thankfully, it went without incident. I saw Eridan's stripped pants walk down the stairs and then his face came into view. I smiled at him. He didn’t return it.

"Ready to go?" I asked.

He nodded and the two of us walked out of the abandoned hive. We walked for hours to the north, closer to the labs that sent out the first string of the Virus. I thought going there would be best because maybe we would see Vriska, Aradia, or Sollux. Maybe we would even run into Kanaya. What felt like a day later, we found a hive close enough to the old labs that we assumed that might have been used by our friends. We walked in.

"Wwell. It looks good for noww." Eridan said and went to look for a room.

I sighed and found a room of my own. I placed the bag down, putting the sickle down with it. Then I set off to find Eridan. He and I needed to talk. If we were going to continue working together to try to find a cure, then he needed to stop hating me. I looked for the room that most likely had a closed door and knocked on it. I must have guessed right because Eridan opened the door.

"Wwhat?"

"We need to talk."

"About?" He said, crossing his arms and looking down at me.

"Look. If we are going to continue to work together, then I need you to stop acting so cold to me." I said. "I will not be able to help anyone if you hate me and refuse to help."

Eridan looked to the side and muttered something.

"What was that?"

"I said… I don’t hate you."

"Then what? Are you still mad about Feferi? I told you a million times that I was sorry and that I am trying my hardest to find a cure for her and everyone."

"No. I'm not mad either."

"Then tell me what you are." I said, looking up at him, my motherly instinct taking over.

"I'm…" Eridan took a deep breath. "I'm scared, ok? Happy noww?"

I blinked a bit. "Scared?"

Eridan looked to the side. "Yes, scared. Wwe are the only twwo of us left that wwe knoww of. Wwhat if wwe don’t find a cure? Wwhat if you die? Wwhat then? Howw wwill we savve the race? Howw wwill I get by as the only one left? I can't lose someone else close to me, ok? Evveryone wwas bad enough. Hell, wwhat if I die? Howw are you goin' to get by wwithout the blood? Either wway, wwe are screwwed. Alternia has fallen. There is nothin' else left!" Eridan's voice steadily raised to a shout. "There isn’t any hope anymore! Wwe should just givve up and accept our fates!"

My eyes widened as he stared at me. "Eridan…"

"Wwhat (Name)?!" He snapped, his stare turning into a glare though his cracked glasses.

I stepped back a bit. "I am sorry." I said and turned, going to the respite block that I chose for myself.

Little did I know at the time that Eridan watched as I walked away. I sighed. I wasn’t sure I should take what Eridan said as caring for himself or caring for me. I walked into the respiteblock and pulled out the project that I was working on to try to keep myself sane.

It was a new scarf for Eridan. I know that he told me that he didn’t want a new one, but I decided that the boy needed to be shown a bit of kindness in this dying world. I pulled out the needles and the remaining fabric that I needed. I told myself that I will finish it before I die, because right now, even I was losing hope.

I didn’t see Eridan for the rest of that night. I figured it would be best to let him stew in his feelings before I tried to comfort him, if he was even able to be comforted. Sometimes I thought that it might have just been better to die right off. And I mean die-die, for good, not come back as a rainbow drinker.

I stared out the window at the Alternian moons. I missed the sun. But Eridan hated it, and I would not be able to travel during the day with him, but I could not leave him either.

I looked down at the project. It was almost identical to Eridan's old scarf; I was just missing a few more stripes. I cut myself some more and I began to finish it. By the time I heard footsteps come to my room, I had it was completed. I quickly stashed the scarf in the bag and pretended like I fell asleep sewing a few new shirts by grabbing some other fabric. I closed my eyes just as I heard the door open.

I heard the footsteps pause at the door before they began to walk closer to me. I smelled the violet blood course through the troll's veins as he walked closer. He put his hands on the side of my face lightly, brushing back some of my black hair. Then he stepped back. Next thing I knew, I was being picked up and laid down in a slightly more comfortably position. Well as comfortable as one troll can be laying down without a recuperacoon. Then I felt some sheet's being draped over me.

Then Eridan leaned down and whispered in my ear. "You are so stupid, (Name)." Then he kissed my forehead so lightly, I didn’t think that it actually happened.

I wanted to blow my cover, but at the same time I didn’t. After a few minutes, Eridan stood up and left the room, probably going to eat some of the food I scavenged the day before. When he was gone, I sat up. Looking down at my body I saw that Eridan had laid his cape over me. I smiled a bit. I stood up as well, gathered the scarf I made for Eridan, hid it in a bag that I put on my back, and grabbed the sickle. I walked downstairs and saw Eridan in the kitchen of the hive, munching on some bread. I handed him the cape back.

"Thanks." I said.

"For wwhat?"

"Moving me from the chair."

He took the cape and put it back on. "Don’t mention it."

I nodded. "So I was thinking today we should go check out the lab. Maybe we will find a cure there."

Eridan simply nodded, finishing his food. I nodded at him to go get his harpoon. I stood by the door and waited for him. Moments later he was back and he and I quietly made our way out of the hive and toward the lab. Along the way, we encountered a few zombies, but we had taken care of them easily, or well, as easily as two trolls could when up against about twelve zombified trolls.

Finally, we made it to the lab and I picked the lock, only to realize that it was already unlocked. We walked in, Eridan walking in with his back to me to make sure that we weren’t being followed. After we were both in, we snuck around as quietly as we could until we were able to find the main research facility. Eridan closed the door behind us and I rushed to the nearest computer, hoping that I learned enough hacking from Sollux to be able to get into the computer before we were discovered by zombies.

Eridan walked over and watched over my shoulder as I tried to break into the computer. I thought I almost had it before I heard the door burst open. My fingers froze as I looked up at Eridan, His eyes widened and he turned around.

"Get back, (name)." He said and wielded his harpoon.

I slowly turned around as I took hold of Karkat's sickle. When the horde of zombies came into view, my eyes widened.

They were our friends. All of them. Karkat, Terezi, Kanaya, Tavros with his Robolegs, Equius, Nepeta, Gamzee, Aradia, Sollux, Feferi, and Vriska.

"Th-this cannot be happening." I muttered as Eridan and I walked back towards the wall, which in retrospect, was not the best idea.

Eridan didn’t say anything, but I could hear the sound of his rings hitting his harpoon as he shook. I looked up at him.

"You know what we have to do, right?" I said.

He nodded. "I knoww."

"Cover me." I said.

Before he could answer me, I ran into the horde of our zombified friends, the smell of their putrid rotting blood filling my nose. It was so very hard for me to ignore. I fought hard with the sickle entrusted to me by one of the friends I was fighting. I was so absorbed with fighting what was in front of me, not realizing that Eridan was frozen in his spot and could cover my back. One of the zombies got behind me. Its hands latched onto my shoulders and pulled me down.

I looked up to see the messed up face paint of the subjuggulator Gamzee Makara. He grinned, as if he understood what was going on. All of the other zombies surrounded me. My eyes widened and I screamed as each one of them bit into my flesh. As if they were conscious, after one bite, they stepped back, in unison they spoke.

"Join us, (Name). Join us." They said, creepy smiles painted upon their bloodied, rotting faces.

I cried. It was over. I was a good as dead. Eridan would kill me and everyone else to save himself. The worse of it all was I wanted him to kill me. I didn’t want to be turned into a mindless flesh craving monster. I was just fine as a rainbow drinker. I was just fine with one level of the undead. I was just fine being alone forever with Eridan.

I heard someone call my name as I cried through the pain and fear. Eridan rushed over and knelt beside me. Though my tears I saw that our friends were standing all in a line, as if waiting for me to turn before they killed the last living troll. I looked up at Eridan.

"I'm sorry." I said.

"No. Don’t go… Please. You can't leavve like this."

"I cannot help that." I said, reaching up slowly, flinching at the pain from the bites, and put my hand on his cheek. "Please, kill me now. Kill me before I turn."

I saw tears fill Eridan's eyes as he shook his head. "I can't. I can't do that."

"Please." I said, before I remembered the scarf I made. "Oh. Wait before that, before I lose my mind, I need to give you something." I got out as my body began to shake from the change.

"Wwhat?"

"Sit me up."

Eridan did as he was told and once I was sitting, I shakily reached behind my back and into the bag. I pulled out the scarf that I made. Then I held it out to Eridan.

"Take it. I made it for you." I said, my breathing becoming labored. "I know you said you didn’t want another one, but I thought that you would like it anyway."

Eridan unsteadily reached out and took the sewn fabric. "Thank you…"

"N-now, please, g-get away." I said.

I saw tears spill from Eridan's eyes. "Let me givve you a return gift first."

I raised an eyebrow. Eridan leaned in and then pressed his lips to mine. It was the last thing I felt before my world disappeared.

*     *     *

Eridan felt the body go slack in his arms. He knew that if he didn’t get away now that it would be lost, even though it was already lost, but he had to at least save his friends before he left as well. He curled his fingers around the scarf that (name) made for him. He wrapped it around his neck. He walked away from the jade bloods body, his harpoon in his hands and a glare on his face. He saw (name)'s body stand up and join the line of the zombified friends.

Creepy grins sprouted on their faces as they stepped closer. "Join us, Eridan. Join us." They said.

"Nevver." He said and let a flurry of shots loose from his harpoon, shooting down every one of his friends in the place that would make sure that they never got back up again, the heads.

Not long after he let lose the final shot, he looked at the carnage, the rainbow assortment of the blood smeared on the white tiled floor of the laboratory. There was only one color missing.

Bright Royal Violet.

He walked over to the body of (Name) and looked down at her.

"I'll be wwith you soon." He said.

He held the harpoon up to the bottom of his neck. He closed his eyes and pulled the trigger.

Alternia has fallen.

*     *     *

I woke up in what looked like my hive. Wait. I woke up. I'm alive? No. That can't be. I died and became a zombie and Eridan killed me. How was I awake?

I climbed out of my recuperacoon and before I could change, my clothes changed on their own. What was going on? Where was I?

I looked around and looked out the window. If I was "alive" then maybe someone else was here as well. Kanaya. She lived close to my hive. I ran out of my hive and I went in the direction that Kanaya's home was. I got there faster than normal and banged on the door

"Kanaya, if you're in there, open up!" I called.

The door opened on its own and I walked in. It wasn’t Kanaya's hive. I was in a large room. I looked around and no one was there. I was about to leave before I heard several doors opening. I turned around so see all of my friends walk in, save one. Everyone looked so disoriented, except for Aradia.

I rubbed my eyes, not believing what I was seeing. I walked into the middle of the room and everyone followed my lead. I looked at Aradia.

"You know something."

"Who said that?"

"The look on your face." I said. "What's going on? Where are we? Why are we all alive?"

"We aren’t alive. We're dead." She said. "We're in a dream bubble."

I noticed her eyes at that moment. They were white. Completely and entirely white, as were everyone else's. My breath caught in my throat.

"What's going on here?"

"Eridan saved us." Aradia said. "By killing us, he let our souls come to the bubbles. We can, for lack of a better word, live here."

"Really?"

Aradia nodded, smiling.

"Where is Eridan?"

"He's probably still alive and hasn’t fallen asleep yet." She explained.

I nodded slowly. "All right." Then I hugged the rust blooded troll. "It's so nice to see you again."

Aradia hugged back. "You mean without all of the blood and rotting flesh, huh?" She laughed a bit, as did I.

"Yeah." I smiled and then turned to my other friends.

Terezi was first. She, of course, licked my face. "Just had to make sure it was you." she said, laughing a bit. "So do you have my glasses still?"

I laughed. "I had them when I died. Not sure if they came with me though." I said.

"Check!"

"If it'll make you feel better." I said and checked my pockets, not entirely believing that the red glasses would follow me into the afterlife, so I was surprised when I felt them.

"Are they there?"

"Surprisingly." I said, blinking a few times.

"Gimme, gimme!" she said, holding out her hands.

I laughed and handed them to her. "Here."

She smiled and put them on. "Thank you."

I laughed again and turned to my other friends. Kanaya and I talked a bit, rekindling our moirailigience as I told her about what happened after everyone left. I apologized to Feferi for letting her die. Gamzee tried to get me to eat his dream sopor slime, I politely declined. Nepeta listened in to my story I told to Kanaya and she kept whispering "I ship it" in my ear while Equius just shook his head, sweating about a highblood and a jade blood being together. I wanted to smack him, but I knew it would only end up with me getting a broken hand.

Tavros and I caught up to. He didn’t really have much to see seeing as he was a mindless flesh-eating zombie since the last time that I saw him. Vriska and I just exchanged a nod and Sollux sort of apologized for turning me into a zombie, but I told him there was nothing to apologize for, he didn’t know what he was doing. That only left Karkat.

"Hey, Karkat." I said.

He looked at him. "That was pretty stupid of you, nooksniffer."

"What was?"

"Charging into the middle of us with only that sickle." He said.

I blushed a bit. "Shut up. It was either die trying to be a hero or die being a coward."

He rolled his white eyes, or at least, I assumed. "Still. You shouldn’t have done that."

"Well there was not a way to save you and there would not have been a way to save the race so now the Alternian Trolls will be extinct. End of story." I said.

"You shouldn’t have given up like that."

"I was not giving up… I was letting go." I said and then handed Karkat the sickle. "That is yours by the way."

He took it. "Thanks." He looked to the side. "By the way, I think Eridan is outside."

"He is?"

"I think. I saw him here earlier, but he left when he saw you talking to everyone." Karkat said.

I nodded. "Well, thanks, Karkles." I said.

He shook his head. "Just go thank him for me 'cause there is no way in hell I'm going to do it."

I laughed a bit. "I will." I said before kissing his cheek lightly. "And thank you."

He blushed ever so slightly, probably worrying about if Terezi smelled that. "For what?"

"For worrying about me even as a zombie."

He shrugged. "Just go find your matesprit." He said.

"He's not my matesprit yet."

"Yet." Karkat repeated, smirking a bit.

I rolled my eyes. "See ya around, Mr. Nubs."

"SHUT IT, ASSWIPE!" He shouted as I ran out of the room.

I was laughing as I walked out of the room and outside to the lawn ring. Still laughing a bit, I looked around for Eridan. As I walked, giggling at Karkat's outburst, I heard a voice.

"Sounds like you wwere havving fun in there."

I whipped my head around to see Eridan standing in one of the dark corners of the hive. I smiled a bit.

"It was nice to see everyone again." I said.

"I'm glad."

"Why did you not come over with us?" I asked.

Eridan shrugged. "I just didn’t wwant you to see me yet."

"Why not?"

Eridan stepped out of the shadows. I gasped as I saw his eyes. I walked up to him and put my hands on his cheeks.

"You did not." I said, staring into the white eyes.

Eridan reached up and put one of his hands over mine. "Wwhat did you expect me to do?"

"Live? I do not know." I said.

Eridan chuckled humorlessly. "Look, livving wwith just the twwo of us wwas fine, but I wwouldn't be able to go on by myself." He confessed. "I couldn’t go on, knowwing I wwas the last of the trolls, knowwing that I wwasn't going to see you again until I died. So I just hastened the end of the extinction of the trolls. It wwas going to happen sooner or later. I choose sooner."

I sighed. "I guess you are right."

"I knoww I'm right." He said.

We were both silent for a moment and my hands fell from his face. After a few minutes, Eridan spoke up.

"You knoww, wwe wwere in the middle of something before you so rudely died." He said. "I could punish you for such a thing."

"And what was that, oh high and mighty highblood?" I teased.

"You remember." He said.

"Refresh my memory?" I said.

He smirked. "Wwith pleasure."

With that he cupped my face, pulling it closed to his. He lightly pressed his lips to mine, his eyes fluttering closed along with mine. I kissed him back, wrapping my arms around his neck as his slid down to my hips. He pulled me against him and slowly went back into the shadows so that no one would be able to see us. He leaned back against the wall, holding me against him. I smiled into the kiss.

I had a feeling this was going to be a wonderful afterlife.
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elitur12345's avatar
its like post apocalyptic, homestuck romeo and juliet