"Roooooose," Dave howled on the top of his lungs. The sound of Dave's incessant nagging could be heard by the severed heads in Gamzee's secret hide out. Rose just chose to tune it out, and make everyone else on the meteor learn how to make the sounds of Dave dissipate into a white noise.

"I want some AJ," Dave said.

"Dave, what I workin'," Rose hiccuped, "on, is way way more cool then like uh, ajjle puice." She was clearly drunk. In fact, Dave didn't need to see roSe to confirm his truth. The entire 'alchemy' room where she made everything constantly smelled like a seedy dive bar in new york city.

"You mean apple juice," Dave corrected her. Ajjle puice was simply the shitty, jpeg-artifact-filled knock off of what he really wanted, which was, as it always has been, apple juice.

"That whatta said. Ajjle puice."

"You're saying ajjle puice, not apple juice."

"Don't talk back ta me Dave."

"Rose I want apple juice. Ajjle puice just can't cut it."

"Okay, okay. Gimme some time and I'll get you some JA." Rose slurred.

Two hours hours Dave was called back to the odiferous room where Rose conducted her alchemy for his applejuice. He was so fucking excited for this. He was so ready for this he was about to jump out of his pajamas and into the outer ring for that apple juice. Stick a golden pitchfork in him, he's so done with waiting and he's readier than Spongebob on his first day of work. He takes the drink from Rose and takes a sip- he's so excited. But, he received an appletini instead! A pale alcoholic imitation of what he really wanted!

"Rose did you just make me an appletini."

"Yesh."

"You need APPLE JUICE to make an APPLETINI. Why can't you make it without the tini?!" Dave stammered. The lack of logic here was astonishing. An appletini was made by combining apple juice or apple cider with alcohol. Apple juice was the main ingredient in the recipe. Rose needed to make apple juice to make an appletini. But there was an appletini with no apple juice there that would have been used to make it. What. The. Hell.

"Shh... Dave. It's alchemy." Rose whispered in his ear.

Dave sighed. He was gonna' need another four of the ajjle puice tinis to put up with this.