Karkat: Worry

Yeah, that goes without saying. You're worried. So is John. Heck, John is even more worried. You hold your matesprit tightly. Its daytime now and you should both be sleeping so you can look for the others tonight, but you can't sleep. John fell asleep in your arms a little while ago but your too worried that if you shut your eyes something bad will happen. That if you look away for a second he'll be gone. It's a stupid fear, but you can't help it.

You've been trying to distract yourself by checking your trollian every second to see if any of the missing players appear, so far no one has. You're really worried actually. You hope that they're all right. So far, you have no clue. But you have bigger worries right now, like the fact that you have no way to protect John if Jack does attack because currently the only thing you have to protect either of you is your sickles, you know John has his hammer and his windy thing but you don't want him to need to use those things.

You could say that you were worried about John's well being and only John's well being right now, but that would be a lie. The boy tried to hide it from you, tried to make sure you didn't see it but really there was too much indigo blood for you to miss it all. You'd have to be stupid not to know what it means. Gamzee is either dead or dying. There's too much blood for it to be anything else. You tried to think it wasn't his, but that's impossible.

It wasn't the only thing you found around your hive either. Dave's shades, a few computers that belonged to Jade, a knitting needle, a shitty wand, some material that Kanaya confirmed came from Feferi's skirt, one of Vriska's dice, there was blood of many different colors scattered around as well but the only color that was enough to worry about, other then indigo, was red blood that was going brown. You assured John that there were three humans and it was unlikely that all of the blood came from just one of them. It calmed him down, but you weren't as convinced by your own words.

The tinge of a message on your phone alerts you out of your thoughts. You start getting your hopes up until you realize its only Tavros.

-adiosToreador began trolling carcinoGenetist [CG]-

AT: uHHH,,, hI KARKAT

CG: WHAT IS IT TAVROS?

AT: I WAS JUST UHHH,,, wONDERING IF YOU WERE ALRIGHT

CG: YEAH, I'M FINE.

CG: WORRIED AS FUCK, BUT OKAY I GUESS.

AT: wHERE ARE YOU AND JOHN?

AT: tHAT IS UHHH,,, iF YOU WANT TO TELL ME

CG: IN MY BASMENT, HIDING.

CG: TAVROS, I KNOW THE REAL FUCKING REASON YOUR PESTERING ME, SO JUST GET TO THE FUCKING POINT ALREADY.

AT: uMMM,,, dO YOU KNOW IF GAMZEE IS OKAY?

CG: NO, I DON'T.

CG: ITS ON MY ENDLESS FUCKING LIST OF THINGS TO WORRY THE FUCK OVER.

CG: BECAUSE THERE IS BLOOD, SO MUCH FUCKING BLOOD, OF EVERY FUCKING COLOR, INCLUDING GAMZEES.

AT: oHHH

CG: BUT THERE ISN'T ANY FUCKING CORPES.

CG: SO DON'T LOSE HOPE.

CG: OKAY ASSHOLE?

AT: aLRIGT,,, yOUR RIGHT I UHHH,,, i WONT LOSE HOPE

AT: uHHH THANKS KARKAT

CG: YOUR FUCKING WELCOME AND SHIT.

CG: I'VE GOT TO GO, I THINK JOHN'S HAVING A NIGHTMARE.

AT: uHH OKAY,,, bYE

CG: LATER FUCKASS

-carcinoGenetist [CG] ceased trolling adiosToreador -

You sigh. Hoping you were right to tell him not to lose hope. You turn to the human boy in your arms, his face is pained and you're certain about the nightmare. You shush him, holding him closer trying to calm John down.

"Shush John. It's alright. You're safe." You say softly, kissing John's head. The other seems to relax slightly, clinging to you. Every cell in your body tells you that you have to protect this boy, this human child that you love with all your blood pumper.

"Do you have any fucking idea of where we could find them?" You ask Sollux though the earpiece.

"Not really. Though you could try TZ'th houthe, it ith the clothetht." Is the lisped reply.

"Fine. We'll try there. Keep trying to fix the fucking teleportizer." You say, the buzzing informs you that it's been turned off and you turn to John.

"Well, to Terezi's tree hive I guess." You sigh. John takes your hand in his and the two of you walk off with you leading the way.

You open the door to Terezi's house nervously, walking in.

"Hello?" John calls nervously.

"John?" A strained voice replies. You both walk towards the voice, opening the door to Terezi's guest room and finding a shade-less blonde cool kid in there.

"Dave!" John exclaims, hugging the boy tightly. Dave lets out a wince and John lets go.

"Hey Egderp." Dave says, his voice is more strained than normal.

"Where is everyone else?" You ask.

"They went ahead. I was slowing them down so I stayed back." Dave said. You look over him; he's pretty badly beaten up. His pale skin is purple-y and covered in cuts. His left leg looks broken and you have no clue how his still standing. Dark circles cover his eyes and he doesn't look like he's slept. "Expect Vriska, she's asleep in one of your slimebed things." Dave added.

"Is she alright?" John asked.

"Only some minor cuts and things, she'll be fine. She just opted to look after me. Even though I told her she didn't need to." Dave answered.

"Are the others alright?" John questioned.

"More or less. Rose broke her wrist but nothing else really big. Makara and I probably got the worst of it." Dave answered. He knew what was coming.

"Where is Gamzee? There is no way he won't have been slowing the others down. Where is he?" You ask, almost scared of the answer. Dave seems hesitant to answer but eventually he does.

"I'm sorry Karkat. No one knows what happened to him. He fell when we were all fighting. Jack vanished with Gamzee. No one knows where they went."

A/N – I almost feel bad for this cliffhanger. Almost.

Sorry for the long wait for such a good chapter. I finally had an idea of what to do for this story so, hopefully, there won't be such a long wait for the next chapter. I'm going to try to make sure you don't have to wait any longer than a month for updates starting now.