At John's hive, Rose stands in the white living room, pacing back and forth, Karkat holding Terezi's sleeping body in his arms, and Dave sits on the chair.
"It's been two hours," Rose wraps her arms around herself, "I am worried about Kanaya."
Karkat pets Terezi's black hair.
"I AM TOO, ROSE." He says.
"i'm sure she's fine, rose."
Upstairs, John sits in his room, the sliding glass door to his patio locked. Earlier, he told the group that he would wait for Kanaya. Two hours later, he sits on his bed, facing the glass door.
"kanaya, we are all worried about you," he pauses, "please say that you are still alive."
He sees a bright light, then jade blood on the glass.
"kanaya." He gasps in a whisper.
He runs to the door, unlocks it and sees Kanaya, unconscious.
"kanaya!" He goes to the ground, gently picks her up, seeing the scratch marks.
Kanaya was limp in his arms.
"dave!" He yells.
Down in the living room, Dave hears his voice being called.
"what is he yelling about now?" Dave sighs.
Rose hears the fear in John's voice.
"That fear, that tone . . ." Rose gasps, running up the stairs.
Outside the patio, John was patting the blood off of Kanaya's wounds with his shirt. He hears footsteps running up the wooden stairs, the white door in his room opening, and his friend standing there.
"I heard you scream." Rose looks into John's eyes.
John looks down at the bleeding troll, back up at Rose, back down at the troll, and then back up at her. He takes his left hand, uses his pointing finger, pointing downwards at the injured troll. Rose looks down at whom he was gesturing to. She gasps, falling down to her knees.
"Kanaya!" She screams.
John tares the fabric of the double shirts down so he could see the three deep scratch marks on her back.
"dear god." John whips up the wounds.
"Oh, Kanaya," Rose pauses, tears flowing down her cheeks, "I should have stayed, you needed my help."
John looks at Rose, then back down at Kanaya.
"rose can you lend a hand?" he asks.
Rose nods and looks at John. Slowly, Kanaya's eyes flutter open. The pain is overbearing, she lets out another scream. Down in the living room, everyone looks at Karkat.
"WHAT THE FUCK?" He asks, running up the stairs.
When Karkat had gotten there, he looks down at Kanaya, who is still screaming.
"Shh, it's okay Kanaya," Rose cries, "Everything will be alright, I promise."
Kanaya bites her lip, trying to keep from screaming louder.
"KANAYA!" Karkat screams.
"karkat look at the wound." John says.
Rose looks down at the three bloody lines on her matesprit's back.
"That looks awfully . . ." Rose starts.
Kanaya slowly falls back asleep, the lack of blood made her head spin and very exhausted. Sooner or later, Karkat, Rose, and John figure out whose claws went into Kanaya's gray colored skin.
"N-nepeta." Karkat exclaims.