A New Meeting- DaveKat

'"Will I ever see you again, Vantas?"

"I already fucking promised, Strider. I like to keep my promises."

"I'll miss you, Vantas."

"Yeah, whatever."

"Goodbye… Karkat."

"Goodbye Dave."

Three Years Later

His red blood dripped down from his arms. There were cuts everywhere. His legs were gashed, and probably infected. There was a gash on his forehead, and numerous bruises covering his body. Dirt caked his skin, drying and crusting up. His horns were dirty and one was half ripped out. There was only a jagged trunk where his nubby horn was. Some of his hair was pulled out, and his red eyes drooped sadly. His ragged breathed shuddered out, creating a fog in the cold October air. His legs felt like lead as he trudged through alien ground.

Earth was weird. And Karkat could attest to that. There were strange things happening. Small, pink monkeys were running about, dressed up in strange gear. They carried small bags of what seemed to be filled with some small, wrapped-in-paper treat. From his memory, Karkat remember that the 'humans' called it candy.

But that wasn't important at the moment. His ship was wrecked, and there was no way he was going home anytime soon. Especially if Sollux was dead. And where would he go, anyway? His home is gone. Alternia was destroyed, after a raid and attack from Bec Noir. And they all thought Bec was gone for good… Fuck… Karkat had watched as Bec painted the walls with colored blood. It was sickening to watch maroon, teal, and indigo be the first to spray the walls. And all he did was watch. He could faintly remember Sollux looking at him with feared eyes, telling him to save himself while he was still alive. At that time, Sollux had not much of a scratch on his face. And as Karkat left the room, he could see Bec advance on the dual-loving troll. Karkat couldn't look back as Bec was in front of Sollux. But he knew that the Gemini had taken a sword through the chest. His best friend… dead.

It sickened him.

All of his friends were most likely dead. The trolls whom he had grown up with. All of them… he'd known since grub-hood. Thinking of them being dead…. Karkat shuddered. He couldn't think about that right then. He was near death himself, having Bec catch up to him and basically torturing the troll. Karkat had only been able to escape if it weren't for… Vriska, who'd kicked Bec in the head, kissed Karkat, and pushed him the escape pod. The last he saw before blacking out, was Bec stabbing his kismesis in the chest. And even that caused relentless tears to pour down the Cancer's face.

With a heavy shudder, the troll trudged down the street. People didn't give him a second glance.

'What's with these stupid humans? I thought they'd be fucking terrified or something…' The troll thought. 'Well fuck…'

Karkat turned down a street, and something inside the troll lightened up. Then, as if something inside was pulling him forward, he trudged further. Then… he knew where he was going.

A bubble of hope burst inside him. Could this really be it? Could he finally be there, to meet the human? Karkat trembled as a gust of wind blew in his face. He held himself and walked further along the Houston, Texas streets.

Then he stopped in front of a white building. It was tall, with a ledge up high. Something inside of him smiled as he thought of the human actually being there.

'But what good would he be able to do? He's so stupid. How could he help me?' Despite his grumpy thoughts, Karkat entered the building, disregarding the old woman at the front desk who was casually flipping through some book and smoking a cigarette. The lady didn't glance up once, which also helped the troll. But then he stopped. Which floor should he take to first?

He really didn't want to talk to ugly, heaping mess of the front desk lady, so he just said, "Fuck it," and went to the top floor.

The trip up the stairs was exhausting, and Karkat was about to lose consciousness soon. He had to get to the human's hive. Before he collapses in the hall. He continued on, reciting his room number from when the human had given it to him as a joke. He had said, and quote, "So if you ever want to visit Earth for some sloppy make outs… Hehe."

Thank fucking God for his stupid sense of useless humor.

Finally, finally, Karkat stopped at the room number. He weakly banged on the door, as soon as things were beginning to get fuzzy.

The door opened, and there, standing there shocked was Kakat's poker faced, red eyed (covered up by shades) matesprit.

"V-Vantas?" the human gasped, taking in the troll.

A small smile let itself on Karkat's face. "Hey Strider," he mumbled, before falling down, losing consciousness.