A/N: Chapter 2, Woo hoo! Sorry this took so long, but I had to talk the storyline, plot etc. out with the original owner. As well as do my d project, write 3 reports, end a trimester, have my sister over, have my cousins over, get ready for and go to sakura-con and deal with a friend almost get sent to boarding school. Okay guys I hated the second chapter I had done so I am rewriting it and writing the next one. Please R&R.

It had been a few weeks since Karkat had met with the bard; It had been a small annoyance in his life that had to be stopped. Karkat couldn't figure out what that part of his brain wanted, was it to forget him, was it to see him again? He honestly didn't know which pissed him off, it was his brain! It should be a given that he would be able to control and understand it. But maybe that was wishful thinking he did not know many people who could control their emotions, expect for Gamzee. However he was 90% sure Gamzee was high 99% of his life the 1% being when he needed to buy more drugs, Karkat groaned as if this thought process was more difficult than anything that anyone had to do before.

Falling back on to his bed he wretched his eyes closed and rubbed his temples, he saw Sollux do this when he had a migraine maybe it would help with his headache. It did slightly, but it was close to useless with how small it helped. A loud angry knocked sounded on his door, knowing it full well who it was Karkat groaned rolling off his bed and on to the floor with a thump. The person on the other side of the door must be kicking the door by now with how loud the knocks were. He growled under his breath and forced his body off the floor.

"Wait one fucking second!" He wanted to spit on Sollux for his impatience, and went as slowly as he could mange to the door once the door had begun to open, Karkat was seeing stars from being hit in the face with the door. Sollux dashed in shutting the door behind him as well as all the windows and drawing the drapes.

"What the ever loving fuck are you doing?" Surprisingly Karkat was so tired that instead of a yell, it was more of a confused statement in a normal tone. Sollux looked over at Karkat with anger.

"What the hell took you so long to answer the door!?" Karkat was slightly taken back at Sollux's anger. So he didn't sprint to open the door? What was so big about that, Sollux did the same to him more often. Sollux anger faded away with and was replaced shock. If Karkat wasn't already confused he was now, He couldn't deal with much more stress right now. Unfortunately he could tell he was about to receive some bad news, he only prayed that Sollux was over reacting to whatever was going on.

"Oh god… You didn't hear? That carnival, it turns out…." But the rest wasn't heard as one of their windows broke, and lights went off. Someone grabbed his hand and began running somewhere he couldn't tell in the blackness of the house. Karkat decided this was a good time to flip the fuck out and try to run away, but the person didn't give up. The person threw Karkat into a room and closed the door after itself. Karkat Inhaled and was about to scream when his mouth was covered with the persons hand, its other hand grabbed one of his hands and placed the hand on its face. Karkat flinched, but soon after calmed down when he felt the weird 3D glasses perched on what was now identified as Sollux's face. He melted down from his terrified state and removed Sollux's hands.

He wanted to ask what the hell was going on, but from what was happening right now that seemed like a death sentence so he waited in silence with Sollux. After about an hour Sollux stood up and grabbed Karkat's hand with his own pulling him swiftly up. They stood in a comfortable, if not a little panicked silence. It was just about to be a normal household again when the floors creaked. Sollux shoved karkat into a corner and pressed himself in front of karkat, staring at the door in a rare act of bravery. When door opened they both almost had a heart attack, it was their landlady.

"Dear fucking god! I thought we were good as dead." Sollux said in relief, moving away from the corner where Karkat was squished. Karkat looked around frantic and confused, before realizing whatever danger was there was no longer haunting them and he was safe. He walked out of the room into his and Sollux's home while Sollux and the landlady were talking; it was like a hurricane blew through it. Books and paper littered the ground, furniture was tipped, and there was an odd odor masking the area as if someone was killed in the area. Karkat looked about the room unsure of what he would find, nothing was a huge surprise, thought looking into his room he turned as pale as a sheet, it was covered in blood and someone was passed out in his bed. He ran out of his room and slammed the door, holding it shut in case the man on his bed was to wake up. Karkat feverishly locked the door from the outside, something he was happy he never fixed.

"Wow it really is a mess in here." Sollux stated slightly amazed at how terrible their shared apartment looked.

"Yeah, it looks like the crap that crap craps" About 6 hours later Karkat was almost done, Sollux had given up 2 hours in saying they could finish in the morning. Karkat refused and Sollux headed to bed, saying sometime along the line of 'if you pass out on the floor you're not allowed to complain in the morning.' It was around 2 am when he heard a bump in his room. He froze watching the door with eyes wide, the knob kept moving but the person on the other side was experiencing trouble. Karkat heard a distinct tearing of wood, as the knob spun all the way around no longer connected to the door he panicked. Karkat was so scared he just looked around really fast trying to find the best exit. However he just stopped and looked in horror as the door creaked open, and his eyes widened.

Gamzee's eyes widened as he saw the same kid from a couple of weeks ago stare at him in utter terror and what looked like surprise. His mouth tried to find words, and he saw the kid shift uncomfortably. Oh no. It dawned on Gamzee, the kid was going to scream. He stepped backwards but it was too late a shrill sound came from parted lips.

"Sol-!" He grabbed the kid and ran, it was no doubt the Sol person had heard and was coming for the kid. Who knew what he looked like and who he work for, or rather who worked for him. He had to give the child credit thought, he was slippery he almost dropped him twice. Before long he reached the carnival, he placed the little thing in one of the train cars.

"Now look, I don't want to hurt you. But I don't want to get caught either, so you'll have to be content at being a new act. People love albinos, so don't worry brother." Gamzee left and shut the door locking it making sure the kid couldn't leave. Each and every time he did this he felt terrible, but he had to if he didn't want to be killed. He watched the train car as if something would happen. Once he clicked the app on his phone to rant to his best friend, began to walk away from the train car. Karkat wasn't online, how bothersome.