Chapter 2
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Gamzee sits in his Recuperacoon thinking, is this what having a moirail feels like? "No," he says, "this is what it feels like to have a mother fucking mother," he drifts into a needed slumber.
Karkat wakes up and looks at the sun setting, "crap I over slept," he jumps out of his Recuperacoon and puts on clean clothes, "fuck," he ties his cloak on and runs out the door.
"Karkat," Kanaya says seeing him run in, "you should be asleep still."
"Not tired anymore," he says and starts to carry buckets to mother grubs.
"Karkat, if you don't sleep enough then you will…."
"'Just slow down the progress we have to make each day,'" Karkat says quoting his mother's words, "I am fine." Karkat doesn't need much sleep to get enough energy to work his job and Kanaya's, even though Kanaya wishes he would sleep more. His body makes him need less sleep for more energy, "why don't you take a break mother?"
"Ok," she says and leaves Karkat to finish the work.
He pets one of the young mother grubs, "hi," he says and puts down the pail of genetic material. Even though he isn't a real jade blood, all of the mother grubs like him, "I bet you would have taken me in if you were there during the choosing." He knows that isn't true though, the only reason they all like him so much is because he is always taking care of them. He finishes moving the buckets and eggs they recently laid with the others, "anything else?" He asks as he cleans the eggs, he smiles when he is finished and leaves.
When he leaves the moon is up and everyone is awake now, "Karkat," Kanaya says when she sees him, "are you going to go back to see Gamzee?"
"Yes I am mother, is that ok?"
"Yes," she says, "don't forget to pick up everything on the list," she says and hands him a new list.
"Ok," he takes it and leaves.
He walks around until someone hugs him from behind, he freezes, "hello mother, honk," he hears Gamzee say.
He sighs out the breath he didn't know he was holding in, "Gamzee, you shouldn't do that," Gamzee walks next to him, "it would be bad for your reputation."
"SO what?" Gamzee asks, "It doesn't matter."
"Gamzee," Karkat growls, "you are the one who asked me to be your lusus, if you want me to then you need to act more respectful."
"Yes mother," he says, "I will do my mother fucking best."
Should I start taking that as an insult now? No. "Good."
Karkat and Gamzee buy the things on the list, "why does Miss. Kanaya need this stuff?"
"I really don't know," Karkat says as they both walk out of the store, "but I know how to make clothes now because of it."
"Really?"
"Yeah," Karkat says and someone hits him in the shoulder as they pass, "hey."
"Wwatch it!" The sea dweller spits.
Karkat steps back and bows his head, "my apologizes high blooded sea dweller," Karkat says, "I should have been paying more attention to where I was going."
"Stupid low blood," he spits looking at Karkat who is still bowing his head.
"Hey, you should be the one who is mother…"
"Gamzee," Karkat hisses, "don't!"
"But!" Karkat raises his head so Gamzee can see him glaring at him, "yes mother."
"Mother?" The sea dweller starts to laugh, "That is ridiculous."
"I am a jade blood sir," Karkat says respectfully, "it is m duty to take care of young trolls and grubs."
"Hm, wwell you are still just a stupid land dwweller," he says.
"I am sorry I make you feel that way, come on Gamzee," Karkat says and they leave.
"Hey, wwhere do you think you are going!?" He stops them, "I nevver said you could leavve!"
"Well we need to leave sir," Karkat says trying not to lose his patients, leave us alone you stupid sea dwelling fish fucking bait brat!
"Wwhat did you say your name wwas?"
"Karkat Vantas, jade blood," Karkat says even though he never said his name in the first place, only his blood color.
"Wwell Kar," he says, "I am Eridan Ampora, wwhy did you act so respectful to me?"
"You are a high blood," Karkat says and they start walking away again, Eridan follows them.
"But you could havve just yelled at me or something."
"I could have, but I didn't," Karkat says, "are you asking me to yell at you?"
"NO!" Eridan booms, "I wwant to knoww wwhy you acted…"
"Like I said Ampora," Karkat says cutting him off, "you are a high blood while I am a middle class blood."
"Yet you are taking care of a high blood?"
"By his request," Karkat stops so he doesn't lead another high blood to his hive, "what, are you looking for a parent?"
"Wwhat?!" Eridan asks, "wwhy wwould I want a land dwweller as a parent?!"
"I was just asking because you have been following me home since we left town," Karkat says, "and unless you want me to be your parent or something I will have to ask you to please stop following us." GO AWAY FISH FUCK!
Eridan is blushing purple, "wwell, maybe I could spar some of my precious time to let you help me."
Karkat sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, "is that a yes or no?"
"Yes," he mutters.
"Ok, we can play after I give this stuff to Miss. Kanaya," he says and starts walking home again, "and we have wasted a lot of time too."
"Well let's hurry to your hive mother!" Gamzee grabs the bags from Karkat and runs ahead.
"Gamzee don't do that!" Karkat chases after him.
"Hey, wwait up!" Eridan runs after them.
"Gamzee!" Karkat screams, "stop the fuck right now!" Gamzee skids to a stop, "do you understand what would fucking happen if you came to my hive without me leading you there?!" He growls.
"No," Gamzee says.
"Bad things," Karkat takes the bags back and leads.
"Wwell that wwas unexpected," Eridan says, "to think you wwould see you get mad."
"Yeah I have a temper," Karkat says, "so what, your my kid now, you will just have to behave yourself unlike your big brother," he growls at Gamzee.
"Aw come on mother, I am a mother fucking good troll!"
Karkat silently walks ahead, "someone's in trouble," Eridan says, "and wwhy I am younger than him?! I am four swweeps old!"
"So I am mother fucking four and a half sweeps old," Gamzee says, "so I am mother fucking older than you, Lil Eribro."
"Wwhat?! I wwill cull you Gam!" Eridan says, "then Kar wwill only havve to look after me."
"SILENTS!" Karkat screams and they both shut there talk busters. "This is not good," he says.
"Something wrong mother?" Gamzee asks.
"Yes," he says, "you both need to go home; I will meet you two in town tomorrow."
"Wwhat?!" Eridan says, "wwhy are you sending us awway?"
"Because we have guest," he says and they see The Condesce's battle ship.
"Wwhy wwould she be here?" Eridan asks.
"Leave now," Karkat orders, "I promise you don't want to know," he runs back to his hive, "Miss. Kanaya?" He ask when he walks inside.
"Karkat," she says with the Empress next to her.
"Hello Miss. Condesce," Karkat bows his head.
"Hello Karkat," she says with a smirk, "in town again I sea."
"Yes," he says and places the bags in Kanaya's room, then quickly returns to the main room.
"Karkat," The Condesce, "why don't you and Feferi go outside and play?"
"Yes, I think that would be a wonderful idea," Kanaya says. The Condesce comes over a lot and whenever she does she always have Feferi in tow. Karkat doesn't understand why the Empress comes over so much but he knows Feferi like to play with him. Feferi is four and a half sweeps.
"Katfish!" Feferi says and hugs him, to her they are moirail but Karkat doesn't know this yet.
"Hello Miss. Feferi," he says.
She puffs out her checks, "stop krilling me Miss.!"
"Sorry, Feferi," he says and she taking his hand then pulls him outside. "Feferi be careful," Karkat says and grabs his extra cloak before they go outside.
"Hurry up Katfish!"
"I am coming," Karkat says following her, "where are we going this time?"
"To a lake I saw from the window in the ship!" She says.
"Who is this mother fucker?" Karkat hears when they reach the lake; Gamzee and Eridan are just waiting there like he knew they would be there.
"Gam!" Eridan says, "I hope you can forgivve his stupidity, Gam here is special."
"Feferi I am so sorry about this," Karkat says and puts the extra cloak down, "this is Gamzee and Eridan, my adopted…." He doesn't know what to call them.
"Mother!" Gamzee says, "are you mother fucking embarrassed of us?"
"NO I am not!" Karkat says defensively, "they are my adopted sons!" he says quickly without thinking, "shit! FUCK!" He grabs his cap and bites it as he mutters inaudible curse words into it.
"Katfish?" Feferi asks worried then thinks, maybe if I can fin him somefin nice he will cheer up. She starts to look around for something nice.
"Kar?" Eridan asks, "are you tryin to censor yourself?"
"Why are you…?"
"Because it is rude to say thing like that in front of high bloods and my children!" He snaps and spits his cloak out, "where is Feferi?"
"She was around the mother fucking lake a few minutes ago," Gamzee says.
"What?!" Karkat runs over to the lake, "shit!"
"Wwhat is wrong?" Eridan asks, "she is a sea dwweller, she can swwim."
"She lives in a castle on land and no she can't!"
"What?" Gamzee asks, Karkat jumps into the lake and swims around looking for her.
"SHIT!" Eridan says, "howw do she not knoww howw to swwim?!"
"What about mother?" Gamzee asks waiting for Karkat to surface.
"I can go and pull one of them out," Eridan says, "but wwhat about the other?"
Karkat finds Feferi holding on to something, "Katfish?" she asks still sinking, Karkat knows she can't drown but she won't be able to swim back up by herself. He grabs her arm and starts to swim up, "Katfish are you ok?" She asks seeing little bubbles escape from his mouth.
"I see them," Gamzee says and Karkat surfaces with Feferi. Karkat is gasping for air that his lungs desperately need.
"Take my hand," Eridan says and pulls Feferi up. Gamzee pulls Karkat out of the water and when he is on land he is coughing up water.
"Mother, are you ok?" Gamzee asks worried.
Karkat finally catches his breath when all of his worried friends are surrounding him, "I *cough * am fine *cough cough *," Karkat forces himself to stand up to prove his is fine but he isn't. He is dripping wet and cold, he wants to change and scold Feferi for running of like an idiot. "Why did you go in the water like that Feferi?"
"For this Katfish," she hands him the small red shell, "I thought you would like it."
He looks at it then pats her head, "thank you Feferi," he puts it in his pocket then pulls out a fuchsia shell, "I thought you might like this one," he places it in her hand.
"Wow, when did you fin this?!" She asks looking at the shell.
"When I was going to get you, as we were coming up I grabbed it," he says and takes off his cloak, "now I know why I grabbed my second cloak," he says and slings his wet on over a tree near the lake. The lake is surrounded by a forest environment but is close to Karkat and Kanaya's hive.
"I am sorry, but I thought this would make you feel better," she says looking down sadly. She just wanted to cheer Karkat up, not cause trouble for him like she almost always does.
Karkat puts the dry cloak around her, "you are going to get sick, let's head back." He looks at Eridan and Gamzee, "all of us," he grabs his wet cloak and they walk back.
Feferi holds Karkat's dry cloak close as she walks, "are you cold Heiress?" Eridan asks.
"No," she says but still pulls it closer to herself, she just wants to hug it, her cloths are almost dry now but she can see that Karkat is still dripping wet.
"Mother, maybe you should borrow my shirt," Gamzee offers, "so you don't get mother fucking sick."
"I will be fine Gamzee," Karkat says, "now please be respectful."
"Yes mother," Gamzee says with a grin.
"And don't call me mother in front of Miss. Condesce," Karkat says, he can just imagine her laughing at him. They walk in, "Miss. Kanaya, we are back and I have guest."
"Oh," The Condesce sees them first, "whale Karkat, you sure do have friends in high places."
Karkat looks down in the realization that all of his friends are high bloods.
"Why are you so wet?" Kanaya asks when she sees Karkat.
"Katfish got this for me," she says holding out the shell and Karkat cloak moves as she does.
"And why are you wearing his cloths?" The Condesce asks.
"She was cold," Karkat says, "and I didn't want her to freeze while we were gone since we went for a little swim."
"Why don't you go and get changed," Kanaya says.
"Yes ma'am," he walks to his respiteblock with everyone following him.
"Hurry up and change Kar," Eridan says sitting in his room on Karkat's bed, Kanaya got it for him so if her has nightmares he can move to sleep on it so he doesn't eat slime in his sleep. Karkat's room let's light in from all the windows but he has cloths around them that can block out all the light when he puts them down. His room has a viewing monitor (TV) on a shelf and the shelf is filled to the brim with movies Karkat likes to watch in his spare time when he can't help Kanaya because the sun is too bright or something like that. Random fabric is hug around the walls near the ceiling of his respiteblock and he has a large wardrobe full of cloth Kanaya makes him.
"I will when you turn around," he says refusing to take off any more of his outfit in front of them. "Why did you even follow me into my room?!"
"Because we are you mother fucking 'guest'," Gamzee says.
Karkat sighs, "turn around so I can change."
Feferi looks at the wall but Gamzee and Eridan don't, "no need to be shy mother," Gamzee says.
Karkat throws his wet cloak at them, "look away or I will punish you."
"Howw?" Eridan asks.
Feferi looks at them, "trust me, you don't want to know," she mutters and looks back at the wall, Eridan joins her.
"Mother," Gamzee says.
"Wall," he says and Gamzee looks at the wall. Karkat slings his wet clothes to the ground and looks at his soaked bandages that he wrap around his grub scars, he groan.
"What?" Gamzee asks.
"Don't look!" Karkat snaps and puts on dry pants; he has a towel on his head to dry his hair.
"Wwhy did you groan?" Eridan asks.
"Because I can't find something," he says looking for the same shirt he was just wearing, "where is it?!" He changes his bandages and goes back to looking for his shirt.
Feferi nudges Eridan and shows him the shirt Karkat is looking for, "sh," she says.
"Forget it," he puts on a red shirt with a small jade Cancer sign on the top right of his shirt, "ok you can look."
"Wwhy are you wwearing red?"
"Because I can't find my black shirt," Karkat says and throws his wet clothes into a pile near the closed door, "now I know where it was," he says looking at Feferi.
"Sorry," she says and gives him the shirt.
HE throws it in the closet, "I am not changing again," he puts on his cloak but leaves the hood down.
"Karkat," Kanaya says and they all go to the living room, "Feferi is leaving now."
"Ok, until you come to visit again Feferi," Karkat says and she hugs him.
"Glub, I am going to miss my Katfish."
When she lets him go he kisses her on the forehead, "it won't be that long until you visit me again Feferi, continue doing a good job on your studies," he says with a small smile that surprised everyone.
"Right," she says and they leave.
"WWHAT?!" Eridan asks, "wwhy did you kiss her head?!"
"I do that with everyone," Karkat says, "see," he kisses Eridan's forehead and he blushes.
"Wwwwwwhat?!" Eridan says confused.
"Mother did that to me when he was leaven me yesterday," Gamzee says.
"You are a cheater!"
"What do you mean Eridan?"
"You are trying to start a Moirallegiance with everyone! He is a pale slut!
Karkat looks at him confused, "so it is wrong to kiss my children on the head?"
Eridan is silent, "Lil Eribro forgot," Gamzee laughs, "honk."
"Shut up!" HE screams.
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