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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Graphic_Depictions_Of_Violence, Underage
  Category:
      Other
  Fandom:
      Homestuck
  Relationship:
      gamkar, Gamzee_Makara/Karkat_Vantas, Gamzee/Karkat
  Character:
      Karkat_Vantas, Grand_Highblood, Gamzee, Damara, porrim, Meulin, kurloz,
      Gamzee_Makara, Damara_Megido, Porrim_Maryam, Meulin_Leijon, Kurloz_Makara
  Additional Tags:
      Prositution, teen_prostituion, Drugs, Pimp, pimps, Sex_Worker, ungerage
      sex_work, cross_dressing, NSFW
  Stats:
      Published: 2017-05-30 Completed: 2017-10-06 Chapters: 3/3 Words: 1488
****** i never asked for this life ******
by vexingDevient
Summary
     i was watching a documentary about hookers and thought of karkat
***** Chapter 1 *****
i was sixteen when my dad threw me out. he didnt like his son wearing stockings
or liking other men. I didnt know what to do, i wandered around with just a
backpack and my shit in storage. I had the key to it but i could pay them, so
they didnt let me get anything from it. I was just sixteen.
Eventually I wandered far enough from the city that never loved me into a
rougher one, known for its shady side. Hookers, Drugrings, hell even the chief
of police liked his 'pretty ladies'
I was just sixteen when Makara found me.
Gabriel Makara, or as i would come to know him, Daddy Makara. I was young and
didnt know anything about the city, i didnt know who i was getting mixed up
with.
"Hey Kid," he had said "your lookin mighty fine, got a tag on that ass?" he
never talked the way the other pimps did.
I was sixteen when I stopped being Karkat Vanats, the preachers son and the
younger brother of the straight A harvard student Kankri Vantas, and I started
being Cherry Bomb.
Gabe was a cruel man. He had two sons. The girls wherent allowed near him, but
I was. He thought his sons only liked girls. his older son, Kurloz, had a
secret thing going on with Frisky. Her real name was Meulin, one of Gabes other
girls. She worked to take care of her sister, who was my age. Kurloz and Frisky
where about twenty. then there was Gamzee. He paid me double, so that I could
keep more money. Gamzee was kind.
Gabe always said I was so pretty I could be a trap. And, young nieve me, didnt
know what a trap was. I didnt know until two more girls, named Rim and Mara,
forced me in heels and female langerie did i understand. And so at seventeen I
was a cross dressing hooker.
I sat on the stoop in front of my apartment buildings reminiscing about how I
got here, lighting up a cigarette and pulling my jacket tight. Most of the
girls where used to the cold by now. Im the only male on the strip, and the
most experienced of all of us. I waited for Gabes car to show up to take me to
tonights standpoint, and i shoved my cigeratte pack into my pocket.
I had fishnets and high heels, as well as a short skirt and lipstick on, and my
only protection from the cold was a leather jacket Gamzee gave me. Gamzee... he
was so kind to a useless bitch like me. On nights he called me, yes called me,
to come visit him, he'd always pay for a full lay but only ask for a blowjob or
handjob. He seemed to take more enjoyment out of kissing me. but he holds me so
soft and warm...
my mind was jolted from its happy thoughts by gabes car pulling up, and I ran
to the backseats. Gabe, and Mara where in the car, and Gabe was in a good mood,
thank god.
"Evenin Daddy, evenin Mara"
"Goddamn Cherry you look fine tonight, im expectin alotta money alright? I
better get at least $500 from you or else your off the corner"
"yes daddy"
how did my life end up here
***** old friends meet new ones *****
Chapter Summary
     sollux basically visits karkat. next chapter sol will meet coworkers
It was the one night Gabe have me off. "you've been doin good, cherrybomb" he
said "take a night off."
and the one goddamn night I have off and sollux called.
When my phone buzzed I had just taken a hit from a joint. I answered and tried
to sound normal. "Captor?"
I wasnt ready for the instant yelling.
"KARKAT VANTAS WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN WE HAVE BEEN WORRIED PEOPLE HAVE
TRIED CALLING YOU FOR A YEAR WE THOUGHT YOU WHERE DEAD IN A DITCH--"
"HEY! sollux, calm down. Whats up? I didnt have a phone until now. How've you
been?"
"HOW HAVE I BEEN? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??"
"im a city over, ive been here for the year."
i could hear sollux take deep breaths. "Alright. Alright fine. Where are you
exactly? Im going to find you."
i gave him my address, and i heard him get in his car.
"dont you have school tomorrow though?"
"karkat its spring break"
"it is?"
"do you not go to school?"
"not anymore"
he sighs. we decided to meet at the gas station a few blocks down, and i walked
to go meet him.
the clack of my heels against the pavement was a familiar sound and offered
little comfort, so i lit up a joint as i walked. I was in sollux's sights when
a car pulled next to me. it was Gabe, great. Sollux walked over just as he
rolled down his window.
"CherryBomb you better not be workin out here and not givin me money!"
"im just meeting up with someone Daddy, hes right there"
Gabe looked angry now. "IF YOU FUCK HIM YOU BETTER MAKE HIM PAY AND YOU BETTER
KEEP YOUR PLACE!!"
Sollux called out "Hey karkat! whos that?"
"my.. boss?"
Gabe decided to get out of the car. I took another hit.
"Gabriel Makara" he offered his hand. Sollux shook it "Sollux Captor. What did
you mean by 'he better keep his place'?"
Gabe chuckles "oh it doesnt matter, Cherry Bomb here is one of the most
obedient hoes i have."
"hoes?" he raised an eyebrow
Gabe chuckled agian and slapped my ass "yeah, hoes! hes a great hoe, makes alot
too."
I cleared my throat "Da- Gabe, Permission to go home?"
"Fine, CherryBomb. Be safe."
I grabbed Sollux's wrist, and all but ran away. Sollux looked concerned "hoes?
cherrybomb?"
"look ill answer when we get home"
________________________________________________________________________________________
we where sitting on my couch, and i was smoking agian.
"so now youre a prostitute, that was your pimp, and you cross dress for that
reason."
i sighed. "yes, you got that right."
"and.... how did you get here?"
"Mi papá me expulsó por ser gay. my dad kicked me out when i came out."
"why the fuck where you speaking spanish. where did you learn spanish."
i shrugged "i dont know im high as fuck"
***** a visit *****
Chapter Summary
     many thanks to my amazing boyfriend/girlfriend/datemate neko for
     editing this for me!!!
     i love you!!!!
I was pretty used to scumbags coming though looking for a cheap fuck, but I
never expected him to pull through. I walked over to car, bending down to the
rolled down window. The man inside looked from down up, before gasping. I've
gotten in a habit of not looking at my clients faces, and I let out in the most
sultry voice I could "what do you want sugar?" And I heard a voice I haven't
heard in a solid year said "Karkat Vantas what are doing with these skanks!" He
scolded, I took a look at the face, and said bitterly "making a living dad" And
of course he was my first client, so Gabe was still here.
"this is not a living for any respectable man" I took a drag from my cigarette,
and Gabe got up. "ya know i'd love to chat but I'm working right now" I said
causing the older man to scoff "what, being a trashy gutterslut? You don’t even
have a boss." Gabe got closer and closer. "well had you not thrown me out I
would be fine. Hows your little golden child by the way?" Gabe walked over to
me "hey, Cherry Bomb, you gonna chat all night or get some work done?" I glared
at the man in the car before saying in my most effeminate voice "sorry daddy,
just discussing prices with someone from my home city" "ok well either get in
the car or find another client. You got a lot of calls tonight" "yes daddy." I
turned to the car "well?"
 
The man I once called dad opened the door and I got in, driving away "you know
you still have to pay me right, or else i'm getting the pimp stick" I said with
slight disdain in my voice. "a pimp stick?" "four or five wire coathangers all
twisted together and caned on your back" He was silent for a moment. "Cherry
Bomb huh? That your new name nowadays?" I chuckled softly and put my cigarette
out on his seat, leaving a burn hole. "yeah, Gabes little nickname for me.
Better than that godforsaken name you saddled me with. Oh, and tell me, o
holiest father, why are you looking for some creatures of the night?" He
cleared his throat "to save their souls from damnation" "yet you couldn’t keep
your own son from having to survive off sex from strange men" "you aren't my
son" "id say that burns but I think lubeless fucking burns more" I lied. That
stung like a fucking bee to the heart. But I waited so long to meet him again,
I can't let him see he's hurt me.
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