I Was Only Six Sweeps

by docmatoi

Summary:

And I can still see Frankie drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie lying screaming in the jungle
'Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row
Redgum, "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk In The Light Green)"

Three sweeps to the day and Eridan "Bulgegrabber" Ampora was still screaming in your fucking ear. You woke up in the middle of the Earth-C morning with him as an alarm clock.

There he was, on your floor again, getting his gushing blood, squishing guts, and splintery little bits of flimsy seadweller bone all over your tiles. Screaming his fucking head off like he was the lead in a Operager all the while.

You didn't get sleepwalking daymares the way Terezi did, waking up with her sword already buried in something. No, instead you just fucking stayed awake for the terrors.

Notes:

You ever see the music video for The Herd's cover of Redgum's "I Was Only Nineteen"? That's the primary inspiration here.
Anyway, this has been sitting in my wips for like a year but I realized I could just release it as a drabble instead of going into the other surviving trolls and their own issues