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They both had been walking, a long time, a short time, any time, it hardly mattered. When you’re dead, time isn’t really a thing anymore. There was nothing but blackness around the both of them now, both girls looking down, two girls lost in thought. Both remembering the past, remembering what it was like when they were only just a little bit younger.
When they first met on Trollian as young grubs, when they first started to Flarp together. The memories flashed by, but paradox space had a specific idea for the Scourge Sisters. With the dream bubbles collapsing around them, Terezi and Vriska continued walking unaware that they were finally going to see the person they wanted to see most.
Each other.
It seems at least in the oblivion of a second death, the outer gods were kind. It was only until the two were only a few scant meters apart they finally noticed one another. Blank eyes met blank eyes.
There was no way to be sure they were from the same timeline, it was the first time Terezi has actually SEEN Vriska in sweeps even before death. But this doesn’t look like any Vriska she’s ever encountered. She wonders what happened. At the same time though, they both knew. They both knew that the girl in front was the one version they wanted to find the most, they both knew they were the one that the other wanted to see the most.
Together as one, they were always best when working as a single unit, Vriska and Terezi stepped closer to one another. Maybe in the grand scheme it wouldn’t have mattered, any Terezi and any Vriska could have met here, or anywhere else, at any other time. But they were both here, one who was killed trying to save her friends, and one who died after the last of all she’s ever known was destroyed.
Once they were within arms distance of one another, they both broke into grins, Terezi before Vriska. Somehow, they just knew. This was the one Terezi killed, this was the one killed by Terezi. The sky cracked more above them, there was only a short amount of time until the end. The dream bubbles were infinite, but eventually it all got eaten up by Lord English.
Terezi reached for Vriska’s hand, it’s been so long since she’s had a kind touch. Since she has even wanted one. Together both children look up above, at the cracks in the universe denoting a dying era of old golds and universes.
It was Vriska who pulled Terezi into her arms, watching world fall apart and just knowing that this was how it was always meant to be. After all they’ve been through, all that they both did to one another, Terezi and Vriska were always happiest with the other girl by her side.
It was like this that they died a second and final time. In each other’s arms and smiling, it was a good death. And it was another Terezi, far away who gave witness to their death. At least she knew, that even out there they were always together, that the version of herself who seemed so much more capable, who saved them all, was happy even in death.