Ok, So I had a previous account but due to situation I had to move. I will be picking up on one story from my previous account but no others. I want to make this one pretty long; I already have it mapped out in my head.
"Please, refrain yourself from using the vulgar language you are oh so attached to using, and don't forget to be polite to the children" a small frown tugged his lips downwards and he reached to smooth out my hair but I swatted his hands away, my eyes narrowed and shooting daggers at him "Calm down, Karkat, I'm merely trying to help, you look a mess; that isn't very professional of you, you know. Why if I worked there I would not even begin to have the toleran-"
"I GET IT " I yelled in frustration, my hands covering my ears as he began to go into one of his lectures "I know how to do this shit, stop treating me like a little kid, I'm a fucking janitor, what do they expect me to waltz in there wearing a fucking tuxedo? I'm cleaning shit and litter; I'm not being paid to fucking look like a millionaire!"
Kankri rolled his eyes and took my moment of outburst to reach out and smooth some of my hair down before patting my on my cheek, I growled lowly and went to swat at him again.
"I'm just trying to help, it is your first job after all" I scowled and turned away from him, a slight tint to my pale as paper cheeks. It's fucking creepy when he goes all protective brother to the fucking rescue, I don't need him on my ass twenty-four seven, besides I'm a legal adult now; I can handle a fucking job.
"What time do you get off?" he asked suddenly, changing the subject and checking his phone for nothing in particular, probably just to ease the tense atmosphere and avoid a big blow up before my first day of my job.
"Five today, only because it's the first day" I grumbled, scratching the back of my head and messying my hair back to the way I liked it before pulling the mandatory fucking cap over it, my black, curly hair drooping just above my eyes.
"I'll try to be home by then, unless they hold my over, have a good first day Karkat…I'm proud of you" I shuffled awkwardly and scowled at him, shoving my hands into my pockets.
"Whatever fuckass, I can make my own food you know" I replied, trying to sound like my normal self but Kankri was unconvinced , he smiled and grabbed his car keys, heading for the front door of our apartment. I wanted to say something, to thank him and apologize.
"Kankri I-" I started to say but he cut me off before I finish.
"Oh and don't forget!" he gave a small gesture to his face and a flash of his teeth "Smile!"
The door slammed shut before I could get the first curse word out of my mouth.
XxX
It's five fucking thirty in the morning and I'm sitting here, on fucking time for the first time in my life, waiting for the fucking security or whoever the fuck gets here to open this goddamn place up. These fucking cement stairs are killing my ass and it's colder than fucking antartica here.
The guy told me to be here at five and 'Captor would be there to open things up, he usually gets there around then, I'll be sure to tell him'. When I meet this douchebag I'm going to give him a fucking earful.
After about thirty more minutes of freezing my ass off the dick decides to finally show. He pulls up on a yellow motorcycle, a really nice motorcycle too, if it weren't for the fact that he had made me wait a whole extra hour in the freezing cold I would have probably stared longer in awe at his ride.
He pulled of his helmet revealing short black hair and some shaded glasses hanging from the brim of his nose; he even looks like a douchebag in my opinion. I watch, gritting my teeth and standing up shaking like a fucking toddler seething with anger as he runs a hand through his hair and shoves his helmet under his arm before finally noticing me.
"Ah thit" he curses loudly with a lisp hurriedly making his way towards the front doors to unlock them with one of the keys hanging from his ring of billions of keys. I glare heatedly at him as he fumbles with the damn thing.
"The guy said you'd be here at five" I spat out at him, the fucking guy sits there and whistles a bit, finally managing to find the right key, and unlocking the doors to the place.
"Funny, he told me to be here by thix" he replied with a small snicker, twirling the keys in his hands and pulling the large glass door open for me. I hurry inside the building, shoving past him to get into the sweet warmth.
"Down the main hall, take a left at the end and it'll be the latht door on the right" he informed me as I found myself staring once again in awe at the large glass and caged areas of the indoor zoo. It was simply beautiful, despite the fucking animals everywhere.
Nearly the whole roof was made of a glass, some parts tinted. The floor was tiled in a wave sort of pattern, leading different colors to the center of the large lobby where the front desk stood; waiting posts and the ticket booths on either side of it.
There are three parts to the building; the left side where the Aquarium was, the right side where the caged animals were, and the main hall right in-between the two where the gift shops, photo booths and everything else was. Though the division at first seems simple when you first enter, the halls bridging off in every section made everything confusing. Conveniently though, there were various maps placed around for the visitors. And now there's me to clean all the shit up.
The lights hanging from above flickered to life as the guy messed around with the controls at the front desk. And just like that, everything began to come awake, I could hear the animals start to stir and make noises, and the telltale buzzing and sounds of the lights and machinery working.
"Do you need me to walk you there or thomething?" my mouth snapped shut and I scowled at the asshole before sauntering off towards the main hall, but not before his hand grabbed onto my shoulder. I twirled around quickly.
"One more thing" he whispered for reasons I find rather pointless seeing as we're the only two fucking people here, his glasses drooped a tad bit revealing his "Don't go wandering around where you thouldn't , I'll know, name'th Thollux by the way"
"Will do" I jerk away from the douche and stomp off in the directions in he had given me earlier, not giving him my name in return, the creep probably already knew it. The main hall was fairly large, many closed shops lining it, the bathroom towards the end, along with the food court section. At the very end there's a door, the door that leads into the hallway I'm supposed to be in, its plain white, no windows , with a small sign reading 'Employee's only' hanging above it. I grab at the chain around my neck, I lose things easily and Kankri had suggested I attach my ID card to it as to prevent it falling in the wrong hands or me losing it and getting fired, I lean forward and slide the stupid thing into the scanner. The light on the front blinks red for a few seconds before flashing green and the sound of the lock unlatching being heard.
I grab roughly at the handle and push the door open; this hallway was narrow, very narrow, and plain white lit up by few fluorescent lights attached to the ceiling, giving a dim but bright enough glow. Various doors on either side with signs hanging above them, I didn't read them though as I walked briskly down the hall to my destination; the janitors closet.
The closet wasn't really a closet at all. I pictured a dusty, small and cramped up area filled with supplies that were also dust ridden. This room was actually rather large, kept in tip top condition as far as cleaning goes, and had a fucking soda machine. What kind of janitor's closet has a soda machine? The supplies were organized and put away in a simple and easy to find way, the lockers for them on one side of the room, as well as a small bathroom connected to it on the far right.
This room is fucking cleaner than the one at my house for god's sake! I rake in a deep breath and sigh, one of the lockers already had my name labeled on it, well my last name. There were two other janitors that I would be working with. 'Harley' and 'Egbert' were the last names labeled on the non-vacant lockers.
I couldn't wait to meet these shit heads.
XxX
"So basically it's a before and then after kind of thing, but we have the major days on the weekend and there will be the occasional spill of kid getting sick. Oh! And don't forget to keep an eye on the Food Court, the kids can get pretty wild, man!" the obnoxious voice giggled and repeated for nearly the fifth time in the past five minutes. Egbert came to be known as John, a blue eyed and rather young kid who had a knack for pulling 'pranks'. He was annoying as hell but I have to say I prefer him over his step sister; jade, they looking nearly identical with glasses, black hair and weird fucked up teeth. Only she was far more talkative and way too fucking sweet.
"I get it already, I clean the shit. I wait for more shit to clean then I clean it all fucking over again!" I nearly growl out, but the stupid kid is still fucking grinning.
"Great!" he smiles cheerfully before checking the watch on his wrist "People usually start to show around eight, we have at least thirty minutes to make sure everything is in tip top condition before everyone else shows…"
"Since we got here now we can split the building up evenly!" Jade piped in, patting John on the back and beaming brightly at me. I think I almost threw up in my mouth. "I call the furry section!"
"I'll take the sea dudes!" John quickly said, not like I was going to call for it anyways "That means you get the main hall, you won't have to do as much as you think, just really keep an eye on the bathrooms "
"So I get the shit hall where all the little kids eat and throw shit around?" I groan but I seriously need this job so I just nod in agreement.
"It's not really that bad, I promise!" Jade says in an attempt to ease my ill temper, I can she where she's coming from, if anything she has the shittiest section, what with the shit flinging beasts in the cages. I simply nod and stand up heading the supplies, which of course leads them into a whole new fucking conversation on my 'cart' and the supplies I'll need to take with me.
XxX
If this wasn't noisier than my neighbor fucking hookers against the other side of my wall then I don't know what is; children running fucking everywhere, parents screaming, shit being spilt, tantrums being thrown over why some brat wants some stupid plush toy and the parent snapping back with why they shouldn't have that toy. I grumbled to myself and kept to sweeping and picking up and trash the shits drop. I'm doing a relatively good job at not yelling or cursing at anyone, at least not out loud.
I had a lovely morning cleaning up after these shit heads and thank god my shift is almost over. I had one guy who owned the fucking candy shop think I was some thief because he didn't recognize me and I was 'eyeing his goods the wrong way', after a very embarrassing incident with some female security guard, it was cleared through though.
I've never wanted to scream at someone so loudly for being a fucking moron, stealing the damn goods; do I look like the kind of guy who steals candy? Not to mention I have the chick up my ass any moment she can manage.
She's pretty decent looking, if not for her shady red glasses and big as smirk she seems to always be wearing, but I don't mess with her about it. I can't fuck this job up, especially on the first day. So I bit my tongue and took their bullshit with a big ass smile on my face. She wasn't very convinced and could tell it was getting to me.
So now here I am, leaning against the fucking wall and waiting for my goddamn shift to fucking end so I can go the fuck home. Unfortunately I still have a whole hour left. And then I'll still have to do another look over my section. My stomach is killing me; I haven't eaten anything since the strawberry pop tart I scarfed down nearly twelve hours prior to now. I'm sure I had thrown something to snack in my bag, and nothing is happening, the shit heads probably won't even notice I'm gone and if they do I'll just tell them I needed to use the restroom.
I toss my broom against the stupid push cart I was forced to take around with me, leaving it in the corner of the room before making my way towards the hallway. Kids bustled around me, parents shooting some glares every now and then when I'd bump into them, probably thinking of what a low life I am and that I mustn't have accomplished anything, which is pretty much true. I'm a worthless piece of shit who couldn't fucking get into college and is forced to live with his older brother, living off ramen, until he forced me to get a fucking job which unfortunately the only people willing to hire me were these shitbags.
"Hey Karkles, where are ya going" a familiar voice cackled behind me, I groaned and turned to the peppy guard; she dangled her keys from her finger and raised an eyebrow in suspicion.
"I need to fucking use the bathroom, what are you going to follow me in there too?" I ground out, crossing my arms. She seemed to stare at me quizzically for a moment for reasons unbeknownst to me before shrugging and smiling once more.
"Only if you want me to" My eyes nearly bulged out of my head and I could feel my face heating up, she began to laugh again and I turned around stomping off and hurriedly rushing inside of the employee hall, hoping that she wouldn't follow.
Luckily she didn't, and I was finally greeted with silence and solitude. I sigh, and rub at my temples in frustration. I need to eat something before my stomach decides to eat me.
I start to walk down the empty hall when it happens. It sounds like a scream, only more muffled and very short. It stops me dead in my tracks and I look back to see where it's coming from, one of the doors to the left is slightly ajar. I know I'm not supposed to wander into places deemed as 'off-limits' but the scream literally almost made me shit myself.
I snooped a little closer to the open door, even though there was an itching feeling that I shouldn't be doing this and that something bad was at the other side, that I need to turn around and go where I'm supposed to, but another part of me is telling me to go in there, someone might be hurt. It's as if a string is pulling me as I find myself stumbling awkwardly into the forbidden room, my hand shaking lightly by my sides.
I strain to hear anymore screams, but I'm only met with scraping sounds. The forbidden room is large and filled with tables and tools that give little kids nightmares, doors lining every side of the room, locked rooms, the kind that you see in the psycho hospitals. All of them except one have the red light signaling that they're locked.
My eyes focus on the unlocked door, where the scream must have come from. I grab at my flashlight dangling loosely from my belt and slowly step towards the door. As I near it I can hear more muffled cries and pleas. There's a small window on the top of the door, almost out of my sight if I hadn't been standing on my tiptoes to pear in, I'm so fucking short.
I look into the dimly lit room, straining my eyes and squinting to see what it held. It looked like an animal cage, green plants were decorating the room and even trees, like a forest, but the ground was tiled and on it laid a fairly older man, holding his arm which dripped red around his tight fingers, he was staring up at something, muttering pleas out wide eyed.
And that's when I heard it, I low and long growl from the other side of the door, obviously not coming from the man but some kind of animal, I jumped, startled and lost my balance, unable to see into the room I heard the man scream again, this time it was loud and frantic.
I panicked, if I didn't do something I'd be in bigger shit than just fucking roaming I here like nothing, they wouldn't keep a room like this without having it fucking rigged with cameras so they were bound to know I was in here. I'm at a loss whether to turn and run for help or barge in there, but what if the animal in there gets me?
I'm quaking, this isn't what I signed up for, I'm Karkat fucking Vantas I shouldn't want to go in there and help the guy he probably deserved it for fucking going in the goddamn place to begin with. But something pulls me to the room, I feel like I have to be there, like I have to stop whatever it is that hurting the man.
Before I know it my hand is on the handle and I'm pulling the door open and stepping inside. My eyes widen and I turn to go back out, fear latching onto me but the door shuts behind me and it clicks in place. There's no handle on this side.
I hear shuffling and I swallow around the lump in my throat before turning around, expecting some huge ape or cat to be there waiting. But instead I find nothing but the wide eyed and bloody scientist looking guy on the ground, coated in his own blood and staring at me like I'm a fish out of water.
"w-what are yo-" he tries to say but only winds up coughing, blood spewing from his mouth. I stare back just as wide eyed. The wound on his arm was pretty bad but he had a fresh one on his throat, like something had tried to rip it out, he was gripping at the wound tightly but the blood kept flowing freely around his hand. I blinked, what the fuck am I supposed to do, I'm screwed what the fuck was I thinking.
"y-you" he croaks out pointing at me, my eyes are still locked onto the wound, I need to stop it I need to stop the bleeding but I want to run, I'm terrified. I've never seen this amount of blood before, he's dying and I'm too scared to move.
"I-I-I" the word tumble out of my mouth, I'm stuttering, sweat beading down my face. The man gurgles and somewhat leans back, his blood is pooling below him. I snap, reality coming into place.
"H-hey!" I somewhat shout, rushing towards him and trying to lift him up "What happened, are you ok?" of course he's not fucking ok, he looks like something tried to tear he fucking neck out, I grab at his coat and try to rip it, but I'm shaking too much, I choke on a growl and instead press it to his neck. But he's still pointing to where I was originally standing, his eyes are becoming unfocused, he's paling.
I look to the door, he wants me to escape, but there is no escape. I'm trapped.
I look back at him as his eyes slip shut, his breath becoming ragged, his blood is smeared on my hands as it's endless amount seeps through the makeshift rag. I shake him lightly with no response, he's dead, he died in my arms.
"No, no, no" I repeat, I drop him and scoot away from the body, my hands smearing his blood, until my back hits the cool wall of the door. I'm scanning the massive room of jungle. Where's the animal, is it hiding, is it watching me. A low growl from the right, I turn my head only to see the rustling of some leaves. Again on the left, only to see the same. It's toying with me. Toying.
"I-I know you're there you fuckass" I growl out in frustration, I'm scared but if I'm going to die then I at least want it to be quick and not be toyed with like the man in front of me. I hear more rustling and then it, he, appears.
It's a man, I can tell from the bush of hair, and I sigh out in relief somewhat, the beast must have not came yet, or the others must have subdued it. My vision blurs and everything comes out rushed
"Oh god thank god. I'm sorry.. I didn't mean to come in here I just.. I heard him scream and I wanted to help and now he's…I didn't mean to please… It wasn't me I tried to help but..." I sniffle and choke on my words, the fact that I'm crying now apparent, I go to wipe at my face with my sleeve, not wanting any blood on my face. I wait for a response but I nothing, only silence.
I glance up at the man, finally taking in his appearance and gaps somewhat, my back pressed flatly against the shut tightly door, nowhere to escape.
The man wasn't really a man at all, his eyes were locked on me, eyeing me curiously, he was crouched in a defensive position, stark nude but that didn't so much catch my attention as the rest of his state did. His hands were armed with rather long and dangerous looking claw like nails, as well as his feet. His indigo eyes had slits for pupils that locked in on my every movement, following the rise and fall of my chest as I gasped for air. Blood dripped from his mouth, his lips pulled back in a somewhat snarl, baring pearl white canines that looked as deathly as his claws. Ears twitched at the side of his head, barely noticeable in his monstrosity of hair that rested on his head.
There was no man, there was no animal, there was a beast and it was currently staring me down like it's next meal.
I swallow and blink, hoping that the thing would go away, that I'm only dreaming, that I'm still in high school crushing on people I could only dream of having and playing games with my friends online. But I'm not, and he's still there a small smile forming its way onto his face. If not for the fact that he had a dead man's blood leaking and smeared down his face and chest he would actually be quiet beautiful.
"What the fuck are you smiling at" I growl out, it's stupid to try to defend myself, it had just killed a man and it was going to kill me, it more than likely couldn't even fucking understand me. But it seemed taken aback by my outburst, growling lowly back in return and stalking over to me on his four legs just as an animal would do. I shiver and close my eyes shut tightly as he zoned in on me, his hot copper tainted breath stinging and sending a sizzling heat down my face.
I bite my tongue, as to not make any sounds, to not scream or cry out. Until I feel a very hot and wet appendage slide against my cheek, lapping at my tears. My eyes burst open and I want to glare at him but he smirking, baring his teeth at me, they were dangerously close to my neck. I break and let out a small whimper, turning my head to the side and away from him.
Another growl, this one loud and right into my ear, he didn't like my response. A clawed hand grabs at my chin, digging slightly into my skin and jerking my head to face him. Another pathetic choked whimper is released from my throat and I struggle against him slightly. He snarls and jerks my head in his grasp. I open my watery eyes and stare into his deep purpley ones, they shined somewhat and he cocked his head to the side in somewhat confusion.
As fast as the confusion was etched onto his face it was erased and replaced with the same snarl he had when I first saw him; that was the only warning I got before he tossed my body forward and next the deceased man. I small scream shook from my body as I tumbled to the ground, but I quickly flipped myself back over, slipping somewhat on the blood. But the beast was already on me, its body hovering above mine, eyes locked on mine.
I stared into his eyes, watching for any sort of movement or change that might hint or clue as to what he might do next. But nothing came, he was studying me, his eyebrows were furrowed as if he were confused about something. I'm still shaking but I slowly move my stained hand upward, he quickly notices and lets out a warning growl but I make a small shushing sound like you would do to a pet to calm it, his eyes narrow but I continue slowly still making the small shushed noises. I reach up and slowly pet his matted and caked hair, he probably hadn't washed in god knows how long for it to be this mucky, he tenses but relaxes into the touches purring almost as I stroke hi head, my fingertips lingering and traveling to caress his face gently. He pulls back and I'm afraid I've done something wrong but he gently pulls me up to, into a somewhat sitting position. It's awkward but it's saving my life so I continue to pet and caress him, even going as far as to reach out scratch behind his wolf like ears. I hear a small thumping and see a tail swaying behind him in somewhat excitement. I smile a little, he grins and purrs excitedly, still examining me. He leans forward, I tense up not wanting to agitate him, his nose brushes against my neck and I stifle a giggle my hands covering my mouth, he leans back in question but returns and nuzzles my neck. His nose and face tickles gently against my skin and this time I can't control the laugh the breaks free.
This is wrong, I shouldn't be doing this, I shouldn't be laughing he or it had just killed a man and now he thinks he can just nuzzle all up on me? But he does it some more, purring and smiling against my neck, even nipping at it.
"Ow you fuck ass!" I yell out at the small pain, he jerks back and I rub at my neck, glaring somewhat at his surprised expression "That hurt."
He lets a noise out, it seems like a cross of a whimper and growl and nudges my hand away, licking at where he had nipped, I cry out and stumble backwards but his hand catches me and he resumes his nuzzling.
"I get, I get it" I half smile out patting his head and scratching behind his ears some more. More purrs and noises of content leave his body as I comb my hands through his hair. Everything was quite except for his soft noises, until my stomach decided to remind me of my body's lack of food intake. It grumbles loudly, startling him, he jumps back in shock and bewilderment, lips pulled back defensively. I almost want to laugh at his outburst and confused expression.
"It's my stomach" I say bluntly, not really sure if he could understand what I was saying but he did seem to be able to understand what I had said before. He looks from my stomach to my face cautiously before finally slinking back over and pulling me up on his lap roughly, the fact that he was naked and covered in blood made it all the more terrifying. I grumbled and struggled but his arms locked around me, keeping me place.
I don't understand him, one minute he wants to rip my throat out and now he wants to cuddle?
"Hey" I start but I'm interrupted by his long and draw out growl, I look up, fear coming back, thinking that he changed his mind and that he really is just toying with me. But his snarl is towards something else. I turn my head in the direction he's looking at and see four people standing in the previously closed doorway. Their eyes were wide and filled with either astonishment or anger, I couldn't tell which. I recognized two of the four people standing before me; one was the red shade wearing security girl, Terezi. And the other was the other Security guard whom had let me stay out in the cold for a whole hour before showing up; Sollux.
Terezi and Sollux were armed with guns, and they were pointed straight at us. I hear him growl out again and tug me against him, pushing me behind him. Was he trying to protect me? But from what, they wouldn't hurt me.
I feel it hit me in the arm, my eyes widen and I am just barely conscious enough to get a glance at the needle like dart embedded into my forearm. Everything goes dizzy and I hear the loudest and angered shriek like growl before darkness sweeps over me.
So this one had a lot of skips due to it being the introduction and first chapter, the next one won't really have any, if any at all. Please drop a review. 3