Karkat looked down at his razor which was covered in his own blood. His arms were now covered in fresh new cuts that he inflicted on himself. Cutting himself is his own way to make him stop feeling any sort of emotion. He doesn't want to be happy, depressed, and most importantly, he doesn't want to cry. He cleans his arms from the blood and then he cleans his razor. As he looks at himself in the bathroom mirror he has a dead expression on his face. An expression as if he had no soul. He throws his sweater back on and walks out to join his other friends so they wouldn't wonder where he is. Karkat goes to the living room to find Dave, Kanaya, Rose, Terezi, and Vriska all sitting and watching T.V. Its another cartoon marathon they are watching called Steven Universe. He sits on the couch next to Dave. Dave, noticing the dead look on Karkat's face, says "Hey Karkat, you alright? You were in the bathroom quite a while there. What did you have to take your 'massive rage shit-snake' or whatever?" Dave chuckles but he gets no response from Karkat.
"Karkat, are you tired? Would you like to go to bed?" inquires Kanaya.
"Hello?" She still gets no answer from him.
"Karkat!" Finally, they get a reaction from him as he jumps in surprise. The dead look on his face is gone and was replaced by paranoia.
"Wh-What?! Oh sorry Kanaya I...dozed off that's all. Did you say something?"
"Well we were wondering if you were ok. As Dave said you were in the bathroom for a long time. Are you feeling sick? You are looking a bit pale."
"I'm fine Kanaya. I'm not sick."
Dave was now feeling very uncertain about Karkat's behavior. Its not like him to doze of that easily. Dave gets up and excuses himself to go use the restroom. When he enters the restroom, he notices a razor blade. He picks it up and gets a sickening feeling in his heart. He turns it over and what he saw made his heart break. He saw some dried candy red blood on the razor. He knows where that blood has come from but he doesn't want to believe that Karkat is actually doing this to himself. Dave takes the razor blade and sets it in his pocket and returns to the living room.
Dave enters the living room and sits back on the couch. He looks over to Rose and gives her a "I need to talk to you about something important but not now" look. Rose nods her head and they all continue to watch T.V. They run out of snacks to eat so Rose volunteers to go to the kitchen to some more. Noticing that this is a perfect time to tell Rose what he saw, Dave gets up to join her. Once Rose and Dave were out of everyone's sight, Dave showed Rose the blade.
"I saw this blade in the bathroom and look, there's Karkat's blood on it" says Dave.
"Oh my gosh, Dave I-" Rose could barely speak at the sight of the blade.
"I know, it left me shocked too. I almost was in tears when I found this." Dave's hand began to shake a little as he set the blade on the counter. Rose then put the popcorn in the microwave while she tried to gather her words. "Well, this certainly explains the dead look on his face." Rose explains.
"Rose, what should we do? I don't know why he's doing this and I don't want him to die!" exclaims Dave.
"What's going on in there? Where's the popcorn?!" exclaims Terezi from the living room. Rose takes the finished bag of popcorn. "You're going to have to talk to him Dave. And make it soon."
