Equius/Nepeta - Purrfect {HOMESTUCK}
she was already halfway across the field before he reached her. Tears swelling up at the edges of her eyes and he almost-almost felt like punching the man who had said that to her. He was just a lowly servant, with an even lesser blood color than she had. There was no reason they should have spoken that way to her-but he knows she wouldn’t have allowed it.
“Nepeta-”
She jerks away from him and sobs louder.
“Nepeta-” He starts again, “I’m sorry.”
Nepeta hiccups and sniffles loudly, “B-But it was purrfect! It was purrfect and he r-ruined it!”
Equius blinks in confusion, “Ruined….what? Whatever it is I’m sure it can be repla-” But oh she was glaring at him now, even through the tears staining her cheeks. He asks again, softer this time, “What…was it?”
“A-A gift.” It’s then that he notices (and he wonders how it had escaped his view before) the tunic in her hands. It was a soft shade of blue and the embrodery was esquisit, “I-I had Kanaya…and R-Rose show me how.” She sniffles and clutches it tighter to her chest. He can see the frayed ends now and it makes an old flame burn inside him, “I-It was a lot…harder than I thought it would be. B-But-”
He isn’t quite sure when it was that his body moved on its own. He just knows that she’s in his arms and he’s, somehow, not crushing her. He’s being gentle because she needs it and he wants so desperately to comfort her. At least somehow.
“I’m sorry.” He whispers again into her hair, “It’s perfect.”
“You mean ‘purr’fect. Right?” The giggle is watery but it’s better than tears and so Equius pulls away. She’s smiling now, and that’s -quite honestly-better than both.
“Right.” He cracks a grin and even if he feels like an idiot he says it anyway, “It’s purrfect.”
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A/N: Only Sam would probably know what this is from. Yay for AUs and YAY for potential RPs!~