Eridan jolted from his sleep as his eyes tried adjusting to the dimness of the room he was now in he tried getting up but couldn't a look of confusion came over his face as he tried to realize what was happening.

"wwhere am i and wwhy am i bound" his anger grew as the only answer he was getting was silence-

"ANSWWER ME I KNOWW YOUR IN HERE"

sollux flicked on a light.

"your awake?,good"

he start to walk over to eridan swinging the keys to the lock on the chains that bound eridan on his finger. he stopped midway.

"iim here and viisable so whath ith the problem with you?"

he walked over to the chains and jiggled them

"ith it the fact that you've benn put in your place? that your getting what should have been done to you? what you deserive? to sit the like a helpless little grub,the freshest hatchling that wont be able to feel the security of a lusus that wont love you?"

he chuckled a bit.

Eridan's face showed a pissed off expression but again words failed him..had he really been defeated? most of what sollux said was true but he'd be damned if he let this lowblood feel as though he had one,throwing morals out the window he no longer cared he looked back at sollux and spat in his wiped his face disgusted my then he smiled the smile wasnt a happy one as the light bounced making shadows under his eyes, then he slapped eridan.

"thiis is exactly why your here in the fiirst place because your a fuckiing guppy in a pool of sharks, you dont last long" he grabbed Eridan's chin to force him to look up

"week after week your here breaking shiit, trying to 'iight me' only to have your ath handed to you ,and you runniing away like a scared little puppy."

he chuckled "well siince you want to be here so much you can stay here and work for me".

Eridan looked up at him "wwhat,you must be joking"

"does iit look liike iim jokiing riight now?" Sollux replied

eridan snarled and the other troll and let him go. then walked towards the door.

"ii'll let you decided iif thiis really makes you laugh"then he walked out the dorr closing and locking it.

Eridan didn't need to think about it the words came out "Hell no there no wway i wwould evver wwork for you" he yelled

Sollux smirked as he heard the words and went to his room. he knew eridan would say no,that he didnt want to be tamed by a lowblood like himself but he knew that he could break eridan. he shufled through his drawer a caphologed an article of clothing and walking back to the room eridan was in.

"so you refuse?"

"Didn't you hear me airbreather wwhy wwould i wwant to wwork for you and there nothing you can do to change that" Eridan said with a smug look on his face

"so you stiill refuse?"sollux sighed

"you've been trampling on my properiity for the last couple of weeks, breakiing my things,trying to kill me. yet..." he smilled and looked towrads eridan

"you havent, not even once come close to killing me have you? and thiis iis just embrassiing iisnt it. week in and week out haviing your ass handed to you by a lowerblood and ME of all people,now arent you just a discrace?" he chuckled and bent down to eridan's level

"look at you all high and mighty and you cant even kiill a lowerblood, what would others say? think about it,when they find out that you got caught and killed by a yellow-blood oh the shame!" sollux said while making a fake gasp and putting his hand over his mouth. then he smirked

"how do you think it would feel to have evryone no give a shiit's glance at your grave, to piiss and spiit on iit,generations wiill know of your failures and look back with regret of your existence" he got closer to eridans ear

"but oh how you the mighty have fallen"

Eridan gave up, he was just a confused mess of anger and sadness,he had no more fight left in him it was true and he admitted it to himself he was weak and a failure no more was he going to keep up this rouse,he looked down he didn't want show his face to the one the demeaned him so,he felt ashamed of himself so in a expressionless tone he agreed to sollux demands

"wwhat do you wwant of me"

"you work for me now" sollux said with a smirk, amused at how much damage he had just done to the water breather

"you'll be, my maid"