Chapter Text
To say that it bothered him to no end would be an understatement.
Day in and day out, he was forced to chill with what he considered to be his best trollbro while a certain pissy Cancer watched from afar.
The worst part of it all was that Dave had to pretend as if the other weren’t even there. And pathetically enough, Karkat was pretty much the only one who still acted as though the whole thing were a secret. Hell, Terezi was even aware of the other’s stalking mannerisms. Not that they weren’t obvious enough as it was. That, and Dave reasoned she could probably whiff him out from a mile away anyways.
It was frustrating. Just when he’d thought he was going to get some quality alone time with T-Z, he’d show up and just kill it. Murder it. Slaughter it. Tear it to fucking pieces. Both Rose and Kanaya had noticed the blonde’s obvious irritation and would quietly discuss the possibility of Dave holding feelings for Terezi. Rose noted that the signs were all there.
The first being the obvious possessiveness Dave seemed to have over Terezi, due to the aforementioned irritation on the Karkat issue. Then there was the seclusion, the long periods of alone time Dave would spend with Terezi. Subtle flirtations and inside jokes. Everything added up. They were both just waiting for Dave to finally make a move.
And he probably would have.
Except the thing was, it wasn’t Terezi he was after.
It was Karkat.
At first he swore it was for the irony of it all.
Shit was so ironic that it was just meant to fucking happen eventually.
Dave had had his fair share of what he deemed to be ‘ironic hit-n-quit’ crushes before, so he was pretty damn sure he’d get over this one quickly as he did the others. Even if this one was pretty different, seeing as how Karkat wasn’t even the same species as he was.
Oh yeah. And he was kind of a guy, too.
But the feeling refused to ollie the fuck out of his life, and just kept on being the persistent fucker that it was.
Which Dave realized could only mean one thing.
He was only after Karkat because he saw him as a challenge.
Yup. He was sure that was it.
He had been practically raised on challenges his whole life, and from a very young age he learned that if something was easily obtainable, it wasn’t worth going after. The greater the challenge, the more satisfaction you’ll get out of it once you overcome said challenge.
And fuck if Karkat wasn’t the biggest fucking challenge on the meteor. Not only was the guy pissy as a prude math teacher, but hell. Could he even stand to hold a relationship with someone? Dave just couldn’t see it.
But as Dave had learned with all challenges, there’s a time when you’ve just met your match. You have to give in eventually because fuck, no one likes a sore loser. So he proceeded to just waited for the day his mind would snap out of it’s weird phase and realize Karkat just wasn’t worth pursuing.
But it didn’t.
And that’s when Dave may or may not have started panicking.