Chapter 5

You haven't talked to him since then. It's been a week. Too long, but not that you'd like to admit that to yourself, you feel like if you do something will happen. Something you don't like. Sometimes you'll message each other when the other isn't online, just to tell the other what their brother happens to be doing to the other. But other then that. Nothing. You don't say hi, He doesn't say hi.

Sighing you get yourself a glass of water, listening to the quietness of the house interrupted by Kankri blabbering away on the wireless talker to Cronus. You return to your room, to your ceiling, to your safe-heaven. After a while you half pass out, but not really, you are fully aware of what is going on around you, the noises still filling the hive. Still rushing through the air around you.

There was silence for a while, then a small noise you could only describe as a sob. But you can't be sure. Pulling yourself away from this slightly lifeless state you focus on the door to your respiteblock. There was a small bit of yelling, but not more sobs that you could call. "Karkat! Come here please!" You fell a shiver run down your backbone. Something isn't right about this. The yelling, Kankri, calling you. Usually he'd come to your door to talk to you. Even then it was a rare occasion.

Slowly you make your way down to the living block, glancing around you find Kankri pacing, the wireless talker is still lit up, you can clearly see he had just finished talking to Cronus. His face looked red, you know that kind of look. You'd memorized it actually. That was the face of someone who'd been crying. Mutant tears. You sallow nervously. "Y-yes Kankri, what is it?" You aren't good at concealing your concern.

He looks at you and stops in his track. He opens his mouth to say something but nothing comes out. He just opens and closes his mouth twice before sitting down with a plop and putting his head in his hands. "We've been found out. S-someone reported us."

You swore in that moment the world slowed down. Honestly you knew that was gonna happen, you saw it coming from a mile away! But...Hearing it after getting this far in life...was just cruel! "But, d-don't worry, I have a plan." Kankri stood again and look you right in the eye, resting his hands on your shoulders. Pulling you back to him he look determined. "Cronus said there's a loop hole in all this business. That if a mutant has a high enough matesprit they'll be allowed to live..." You noted the nervousness he mimicked from you. "I'm hoping because we're brothers you'll count with my relationship with Cronus..." Great, you're life was just a gamble played by two trolls. Probably both having their first real serious relationship. You hope Cronus really cares about your brother, because doing this little loop hole is gonna be a real risk. "But...we'll have to leave our home...and...move in with the Amporas..." He watches your face carefully.

Oh hell no.

A/N: Sup~ So yeah, Started High school and shit. But since I didn't have motivation mostly over the summer and now I kinda do! (Motivation is my new word for procrastination, I hate homework...) Tell me what you think of this and stuff because I love to hear what you have to say! Gives me a smile and a little bounce of joy every time someone talks to me and stuff! One of my favorite writers once said, "Review! A Happy Author is a happy reader!" :D