Jade knew she was dreaming, she went to the dream that she had been having a lot lately; it was the dream of shortly after Rose had left to go to the others, Aradia was being attacked, and Jade stood between her new friend and the being that was trying to kill her. Then a blinding light engulfed her and she felt a hot searing pain in her gut. In her dream, she put her hands down to where the pain was, and felt a warm thick substance. Looking down she realized that it was red. She felt herself falling backwards, and instead of falling to the ground, she was caught in the metallic arms of her troll friend.

She had analyzed the dream many times since she had first had it in the cave before Rose and her had left. She knew that her time was nearing the end, and there was nothing she or anyone could do about it.

Waking up in the familiar cold sweat, she glanced around. The sun was just starting to rise and her robotic troll friend smiled over at her. It was her dream all over again, this would be the day, she didn't want to dwell on it, nothing could be done.

"What the fuck do you mean?" Karkat yelled at Vriska.

"Stay out of this," She repeated what she had just said, "John needs to train, not goof off with you."

"Uh, guys…" John was starting to get mildly alarmed at the two raised voices, "You can both train me."

"Stay out of this," Vriska said to John.

"I can train him," Karkat argued. "What good will you do? You just want to paw him and take him away from me. And you don't let him have a say, why not hear him out?"

Dave stood up then, "He is not yours," he said to Karkat, "Nor yours." he added to Vriska. "Tonight you train him, tomorrow Karkat does. How does that sound?"

Terezi clapped her hands and smiled. "Way to go Dave."

John sighed and shrugged his shoulders, thankful that Dave had ended the discussion. "Come on Vriska, you did promise me."

"Yeah," She glared at Karkat before following John to the other end of the warehouse.

Dave sat back down and started to draw, it was a spur of the moment thing that Terezi had said that struck him as funny so he wanted to draw it.

"What are you doing?" she leaned on his arm and absently sniffed at him.

Dave was momentarily reminded of Bec, the first time he had met the dog, the same thing had happened. It had been Lil Cal that the large dog had been interested in then, this time Terezi was interested in Dave.

"Shit!" Dave looked around, "Where is Lil Cal?"

"What is lil cal?"

Dave got up, resulting in Terezi falling down to the cement floor, "I have to find him."

"Who is lil cal?" Terezi repeated.

"He was my Bro's puppet that I had. It was the only thing I had left of him." Dave explained as he searched his supplies. "I can't believe that I left him."

"When was the last time you saw him?"

Dave was thoughtful for a moment before he said, "The day we left the cave."

"Then it is still at the cave." she said all logical.

A sinking feeling flooded the pit of his stomach, he needed to go back and get him.

Terezi hugged him and said, "If it makes you feel any better, then after a while you and I will go back and get it. I am sure it will still be there."

"You would go with me?" Dave turned and at the same time, Terezi turned, resulting in their lips colliding. At first, both were startled and backed away.

"Yes…" Terezi absently put her hand to her mouth to savor the feel and possibly relive the taste of Dave. "You taste good…"

Dave nearly blushed, "You think so?"

"Yeah…" she turned around, slightly confused over how much she had liked the feel and taste of this human. "I gotta go, I am exhausted." With that, she went to where her recuperacoon was so that she could think in peace.

"Wait up Vriska," John said as they had finished a grueling two hours of training. "I shall call it Casey." he picked up the lizard that was in the corner of the warehouse.

"It's so ugly though to have that name." Vriska said as she too looked at the lizard in John's hand. "What is it?"

"It is a lizard." John explained as he rubbed its head.

"Can you eat it?"

"How dare you say you want to eat my daughter?" John tried to hide the lizard without losing it.

"I didn't say that! I just asked if you could."

"No! No one is going to eat my daughter." John looked around and found a box. "Could you empty that?" At her skeptical look, he added; "Please!"

Vriska nodded her head and emptied the box; it had about twelve boxes of zingers inside. How long had it been since he had a zinger? He wondered to himself. As soon as the box was empty, he put the little lizard in it and carried it along with a few boxes of the zingers back to where the others were.

"You found some zingers!" Dave said when they got back.

"Yep, and these ones are mine."

"Share and share alike." Dave said. "Gimme one. You know I would give you one if I had been the one to find them."

"What are zingers?" Karkat asked as John reluctantly gave one to Dave.

"Not as good as a Twinkie," Dave explained as he tore into the package, "But good none the less."

John took his 'daughter' and his snacks to sit down next to Karkat, "Here," he handed one to Karkat; "Try this."

Karkat looked at it disdainfully, however he too took one. "What is in the other box?"

"My daughter, Casey." John opened the box to show Karkat.

"What the fuck is that thing?"

"He called it a lizard." Vriska sat down on the other side of John.

"What is a lizard?"

Vriska just shrugged her shoulders and then took a zinger and opened the package. "Where is Terezi?" she asked as she ate the zinger.

Dave looked down and then said, "She wanted to be alone I guess."

Vriska nodded her head and didn't say any more, she just watched as the others talked.

"So do you like the zinger?" Dave asked Karkat.

All the troll did was nod his head.

Rose noticed the building off in the distance, in front of the large doors was an army truck, this must be the spot she thought as she treaded through the snow to get to it.

Glancing behind her, she swore that someone was following her, yet no one was visible.

Shrugging her shoulders, she smiled at the thought of seeing Dave and John once more; it seemed like a month had passed in the short time she had last seen them. She hoped that Jade would hurry up and join them too, then it would seem like normal, no matter if trolls were with them or not.

AN:/ Sorry for the delay. My friends keyboard broke and made things a bit harder writing these chapters. Hopefully she will be getting a new one soon. But until then we don't know when we will be updating the next chapters. Once again we would like to thank everyone who has Read, Reviewed, and Favorited this fanfiction so far. It makes us very happy to see so many of you guys are enjoying the story. :)