Lilo, with Nani's help, had successfully managed to stitch any wounds that needed it. Cleaned and bandaged anything else, all just before the boy had woken up. Upon further inspection Lilo learns that the boy had regular black pupils bordered by grey and flecks of red (like his blood?) and a golden-yellow base. They were really pretty actually, but she wasn't about to say that aloud. "Hello?" She asks. "Can you speak English?" All the aliens she'd met so far knew at least a little bit of English, so she'd have to consult to Jumba if the other couldn't manage.
But never mind, because what he says next surprises her. "Of course I can speak fucking English," he spat. Lilo had no idea when she'd last heard such intense language, and from the looks of it Nani was pretty shocked too. "Who the bulge-fondling fuck are you?" Did this guy have a reason to be angry? They'd pretty much just saved his life! "I'm Lilo, and this is Nani. Who are you?" She was trying to be nice. Maybe the guy was in some sort of shock and needed gentle voices in order to calm down? "Karkat," he replies, seeming reluctant.
Karkat was an interesting name, and it made her think of cats. But at this point he didn't really seem to resemble a cat all that much. "Well Karkat," she says after another moment. "Welcome to Earth. Or more specifically, Hawaii," when told that he was on Earth, the troll's eyes widen. "This place was supposed to be gone," he says. "We must have somehow entered another timeline..." He suddenly shoots up to his feet, groaning and falling back down. "Shit, where are the others?" There were others? "You were the only one that washed up," Lilo informs. "There were others of you?" Lilo quickly stands up. "I'm going to search the beach again, okay?" With that, Lilo leaves the house.
Nani sighs, "always running off," and turns her attentions back to Karkat. "Can you share with us what happened?" She asks, and the troll shakes his head stubbornly. "Like Hell I'd just tell complete fucking strangers what happened, who's even to say that you guys aren't having a team of scientists to come take me off and run experiments. Or at least, that's what Dave said. Fuck knows if he's ever even serious...the bastard." At the mention of this 'Dave' guy, a hurt look crosses Karkat's face, and he sighs. "The asshole had better survive..."
An hour of thorough searching passes before Lilo returns, looking sad. "I didn't find anyone," she says. "I looked all along the beach and even went in the water to look around, I didn't see anybody that looked like you." At this, the normally angry Karkat looks heart broken. He tries to hide it by rolling over on the couch (Lilo and Nani could tell that Karkat had winced, laying on his stitched side now, but he doesn't seem to shift afterwards despite it) and shuddering. "I'm the worst fucking leader ever..." He mumbles, barely audible.
"Are you...are you hungry?" Lilo asks, hoping to take the other's mind off of his angst. Surely he was, right? A small nod confirms that yes, he was. She bounds off into the the other room to fix something up. She makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and grabs some Apple Juice to wash the peanut butter down with, running back into the room. By this point Karkat had shifted again so that he was sitting up. He looked angry with himself, tense and guarded even in such a weak state.
She smiles reassuringly and hands the foods to Karkat, and he looks heart broken when he sees the apple juice, though he takes it anyways. Perhaps Lilo would be able to get information out of Karkat eventually, including as to why he looked upset at seeing the beverage. Not really thinking about if it could be poisoned he takes the lid off and sips at the apple juice, capping it again and taking a bite out of the sandwich. Karkat tries to seem expert with the PB&J, but Lilo could tell with a giggle that his sharp teeth were struggling with the peanut butter, and he seemed frustrated his tongue couldn't get it off like it could with most foods.
Eventually Karkat does get the food down, drinking the rest of the AJ after the sandwich, which definitely helps him get the peanut butter down a little bit. He seems a bit more relaxed, though he's still definitely tense. Lilo smiles and sits beside him, the boy flinching and tensing again when the cushions bounce with her weight. Whoops. She tries to ignore that and makes an attempt at trying to find ways to calm him down. "You know what I like to do," she says, and before Lilo can continue she's interrupted. "No, I obviously fucking don't," and she pretends she isn't insult. "-Is to listen to Elvis' music. I've also got a lot of other stuff in my room! Maybe you'd like to come up there?"
Karkat seems reluctant, but she could tell even through his angry mask that he was appreciative of her, even if he was hurting. Being it mental and/or physical. She helps him stand up, Karkat trying his hardest to not lean on her as to not appear weak, but she was mainly tugging on him to do so, because she didn't want him to fall and hurt himself further. She leads him into her elevator, which brings them upstairs into her room. She realizes with slight embarrassment that it was a bit messy, but oh well. She has him come over to sit on the bed, grabbing her record player and putting on 'Jailhouse Rock'. He seems annoyed by it at first, but slowly she can see him subtly relaxing again.
While the music plays she slowly creeps behind him, and he doesn't seem to notice. She presses her hands on his back and he immediately goes rigid, and before he can whirl around and lash out, she presses down on a knot in his back. He lets out a surprised gasp and she does it again. A shudder, and she begins steadily massaging his back, getting rid of all those nasty knots. He had a lot of them, and she had to wonder what had him always so stressed. Not even two minutes in Karkat was laying sprawled out in the bed, purring and putty in her hands, not tense anymore but those pesky knots still were.
Long ago had the record stopped playing, but she doesn't pause in her massaging to put on another record as she continues, figuring out that yes, in a way Karkat was like a cat, because of the purring and position he was in. She smiles at the thought of him having cat ears and a tail, giggling even, and he doesn't seem to notice.
It takes a long time, but eventually she manages to get the knots out of his back, massaging his shoulders for a few minutes more before stopping. Karkat ceases his purring two minutes later, shuddering then sitting up. He looks over at Lilo with a half angry, and half affectionate expression. She was about to say something, but he shakes his head and interrupts her. "Thank you," and Lilo smiles big. She was getting somewhere, and so far Stitch had yet to cloud her mind with depression again.