[Homestuck] strewn among the blood-bright stars

[rampantrecs]

Title: strewn among the blood-bright stars
Author: valmora (or Val Mora.)
Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: M
Author Links: AO3 | FFnet (dead) | dreamwidth | livejournal
Story Links: AO3
Summary: Sollux, setting up an apiary network on a university campus, meets a troll who isn't from Alternia. Romance, and politics, blossom.

===
An awkward pause where they look at each other, and then Eridan’s chin drops, horns coming up, and Sollux takes a step back – warm and soft, cold and cruel, the wiggler rhyme croons in his head – and then Eridan says, voice quiet, “Um, do you want to get coffee?”

“What?”

Eridan looks back up, horns drawing away again, and Sollux realizes, dully, that Eridan uses human body language, of all the sick things. That was submission, that little head drop, not horn-baring aggression.

His face has fallen, though. “Not right now, I guess?”

“No, it’s fine,” I thought you would move like a troll, excuse my mistake. “I misheard you for a moment. Sounds good.”
===

Reccer's Notes: If you like political clusterfuck made even more clusterfuck-y by romance, this is for you.