Songs for the Captors

Polarize

A/N: Polarize is one of my favorite songs but holy fuck, I'm not ready to write this. The meaning looks so difficult ;-;

EDIT WARNING: SOLLUX BOUT MAD OOC POSSIBLY BECAUSE HIS WHOLE CHARACTER HAS JUST FLEW AWAY FROM ME LIKE WHOOSH BITCH BYE WHICH IS WHY I'M REREADING THE COMIC.

~~~Starting point~~~

You don't remember where you found your descendant, but you do know that he's following you now. You can't get rid of him for some reason but you can't bring yourself to really try. He's an interesting six sweep old thing. You think he finds you interesting too for him to keep following you. Maybe he thinks you can't hear him because he's trying hard to sneak but you're not one to let someone sneak up on you. You're too paranoid for that and it'd ruin the whole 'I'm too cool to let someone sneak up on me and spook the shit outta me' vibe you have going on even if you are actually a skittish loser. You slip into your hive and intentionally leave the door open, hearing it softly shut behind you.

You walk a little faster to your destination of the basement until you're sure he loses sight of you. You hear his footsteps of him coming downstairs and grin. You sneak behind him and poke him in the base of his spine, rejoicing in his surprised squeal—he'll never admit to you, but you'll always remember it—and don't even contain your laughter.

"Don't you dare get all piththy," you snort once you finish laughing and see him frowning at you, "you thhouldn't have followed me."

"I wathn't...following...you." He frowns even more and you laugh again.

"You abtholutely were. Thince you're here, you wanna help me with thomething?"

"Jutht never do that again." He sighs and you beam, nodding.

Help me polarize, help me polarize, help me down/Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems/Help me polarize, help me polarize, help me out/My friends and I, we got a lot of problems

"Okay, firtht, why the hell do you live in a dark athth bathement when you have an entire hive?" Sollux chided and you curl up, hugging your knees.

"Babe, I don't even know if thith ith even my hive. It lookth like it but a lot of hiveth look alike in the dreambubbleth. Altho, I like bathementth."

"I do too, but you can't jutht break into thomeone'th hive." Sollux frowns and you pout, laying your head on your knees.

You know where I'm coming from/Though I am running to you/All I feel is deny, deny, denial

"What do you need my help with?" Sollux runs a hand through your hair once he sees that you're pouting. You can't help the purr that kicks up and you look at him, dim white meeting meeting bright. Gog, you hate how your eyes show how you feel even in death.

"Feel like acting ath a temporary moirail?" You mumble and he continues petting you. You see a familiar crooked smile find him and you blush, embarrassed by how much he looks like you.

"I'll learn more about you, tho thure." Sollux lays in front of you and you poke his forehead, giggling softly when he buzzes.

"We're tho alike that it'th creepy. But, like, I'm a terrible perthon."

"Thame. Though, I'm not ath bad ath you are probably. I killed my matethprit."

"Thank you for the honethty no one athked for, and I did too. It wath a bit unintentional though. I jutht didn't tell him what I knew." You frown softly and he frowns at you.

"If you wanna get thaththy, I can leave." Sollux reprimands you quickly and you lay your head back on his knees, flustered. You don't want him to leave and you almost fucked this up already.