The Boy raised by Lusus

Chapter: Maybe you can get along with him?


Karkat had been staying with the herd for about two weeks already and, dare he say it, things were starting to actually look up. Gamzee woke him up every morning and sometimes lulled him to sleep every night, he ate in silence, didn't have to deal with any bullshitted nimrod's okay so maybe he had to deal with Gamzee, but the best of it all was that he got to relax by the beach shore everyday. He loved to just stare out at the endless vast sea of blue and forget, forget about his family, and forget about everything around him. It felt nice not to have to stress about anything or to have to deal with his persistent family; he sure as hell didn't miss his father's rules, or his fuckass brother's discipline rants on how 'You should never trigger somebody; whether it be intentional or not.' Or 'You need to check your privileges' because over here he did what ever he wanted. He could go for a walk when ever he wanted; of course Gamzee always tagged along unless he was sleeping, he could wander where ever he wanted, and he could sleep when ever he wanted. He never got scolded and he never got in trouble because the herd simply didn't give a flying fuck.

So here he sat or laid wide awake in the middle of the night clearly exhausted, but he just couldn't sleep. The only bad part about staying here was that his night terror's seemed to get worst and worst every night; What he found strange though was that in every single damn one he was killed in the most disturbing, and gruesome ways. Like one he was torn to shred's by a pack of bark beast for a crowd's entertainment or another he had brain tortured by a highblood. Gog he hated the dreams that came to him every time he closed his eyes to try to go to sleep.

Karkat slowly sat up holding his waist, his wound had been slowly getting better thanks to that weird slime shit Gamzee had put on it and it felt amazing to be able to walk without Gamzee supporting him like he could collapse any minute or swinging him around like rag doll only to slam his head into something, and it wall thanks to that slime; though he swore he saw Gamzee eat some of the foul smelling goop. He slowly moved his way out of the cave he had occupied the entire time he stayed here and looked around for the herd. It didn't take long as he hobbled down to the beach shore to find the group of nannies; they seemed to sleep closer to where Karkat slept than the males did. Karkat hurriedly staggered over to them and sighed as he sat down next to one of the female goats who only opened her eyes to look at him then shut them with a sleepy grunt. Karkat leaned back on the females stomach and shut his eyes focusing on her soft appealing purrs; he tried to lure himself to sleep with thoughts of his Moirail's gentle paps and even tried remembering how his mother used to sing to him when he was a grub, it even got to the point where he even began to count hoof beast to try to arouse his need for sleep.

Karkat gave up with a frustrated sigh, opening his eyes he looked around in annoyance. Everyone was asleep, everyone except for him. Gog he really needed his Sollux; Sollux always stayed up with him whenever he had one of his night terrors or when he just couldn't sleep. Maybe Gamzee was awake? Karkat crawled to look past the females head and peaked over at a snoring Gamzee who was leaning back with his arms behind his head and one leg propped on the other in an extremely relaxed position. He was asleep right on top of Goat-dad's head and you cursed inwardly to yourself. How could Karkat wake him up without waking all of the bucks that surrounded him too? Karkat looked around him and stopped his gazer on a decent sized rock that fit in the palm off his hand. What was thing doing here? What the fuck ever. Karkat climbed up the nannies stomach and whispered Gamzee's name loudly. He threw the rock and winced as it struck Gamzee right across the face making his head snap to Karkat's right harshly. Gamzee sputtered as he fell off of his fathers back and landed not so gracefully on the floor, he looked around in shock and mild annoyance until he spotted Karkat who sheepishly waved towards him, and Gamzee tilted his head in confusion as he rubbed the now sore spot on his cheek. Why in the motherfucking hell did his little bro do that for? Karkat made a come forward motion and Gamzee slowly got up, brushing the sand from his usual comfortable as fuck pants, he walked over to the group of nannies.

"Hey brother what's a little miracle like you do' in out here so late at night?" Gamzee whispered a little peeved at Karkat for the rude awakening. There was a red mark on his cheek that was the exact size of the rock Karkat hit him with and he rubbed the sore spot unconsciously.

Karkat would have laughed at the way it hit Gamzee had he not have been well… Gamzee. Mituna and he had always scared the crap out of Kankri whenever he was walked from the path to the river to bathe by pelting him with pebble but again that had been Kankri. Porrim always did yell at both of them afterwards and trust him it was terrifying….. Until she left and he and Mituna started a whole new round of laughing their ass's off.

Breaking himself out off his thought's Karkat naturally made himself smaller in the presence of a higher blood out of instinct just as his father taught him. He was still mildly surprised that Gamzee hadn't smacked him around for that but having already slightly gotten use to the weird troll his body was already slightly comfortable, still a little on edge, with the Highblood's presence because had it been any other troll on the hemospectrum they would have ripped him limb from limb then tore off his horns as a souvenir…

"Yo, bro. You alright? Don't leave a motherfucker hang' in, tell me what the fuck is wrong…" Gamzee looked at Karkat with slight worry. The little miracle blooded brother was oddly quiet especially for someone who could rant as much as he could.

"I…..I couldn't sleep…." Karkat rubbed his arms as the cold struck him; he avoided eye contact with Gamzee out of pure embarrassment and as a way to hide the way his face was engulfed in bright red. He hadn't meant to sound so fucking childish…

Gamzee did the opposite of what he had expected though; instead of rolling his eyes and walking away he sat down next to him, and pulled him into his lap. Gamzee had a small smile on his face as he gently let out a soft shush. Gamzee was rubbing his arm as a way to warm his more sensitive body up, his warm breathe traveled down Karkat's neck when he nuzzled the shorter trolls cheek and Karkat just sat there eyes wide. W-WHAT THE FUCK?

Karkat tensed at the defiantly pale motions trying to fight the urge to curl up into the taller's arms, this was basically cheating on his Moirail! Although the pale quadrant wasn't exactly the most celebrated it was defiantly still considered cheating if you accepted these feelings from someone who wasn't your Moirail. He could never forget the hurt and complete anger he felt when Sollux had accidently papped the handmaid's youngest daughter Aradia. No, he wasn't exactly cheating on his Moirail if he didn't requite the paps, but Sollux would be incredulously jealous if he had seen how close Gamzee was; as an unrequited red partner and a pale partner. Though it had never crossed his mind if Gamzee was purposely trying to enter a red quadrant with him but he seriously doubted that… Karkat's thoughts mellowed out as Gamzee shooshed once more making his low whimpering stop. The Neanderthal probably had no clue as to what a quadrant was.

"G-Gamzee, stop it." Karkat growled out as his blush darkened, Gamzee, seeing absolutely no issue with what he was doing, was only doing what Goat Dad had done to him when he was little. Gamzee paused in his ministrations and looked down at the flustered miracle in his arms; something within him stirred creating a slightly warm feeling spread throughout him making him start to purr quietly. Karkat looked upset with him and it left him confused; what did he do that was so bad? Maybe he wasn't doing it correctly? Maybe he didn't want Gamzee to hug him? No, it couldn't be that; everybody loved hugs…. Maybe Karkat would feel better if he played with him? Motherfuck yes that had to be the answer! Gamzee felt sort of proud at himself as he came to that conclusion, playing with the kid's that were in his family always cheered him up.

Karkat let out a breath of relief when Gamzee stopped; he slowly pushed himself out of Gamzee's lap fixing his shirt careful not to disturb the wound that was still annoyingly present on his side. Even though the large gash was healing rather quickly the damn thing still hurt like a bitch… Why was he staring at him like that? Gamzee had his body crouched, down his shoulder tense, and his teeth clacked. He had his gaze looked onto Karkat as he put one leg back.

"Gamzee what the ever loving fuck do you think you're- ack!" Gamzee pounced onto Karkat pinning him to the floor, and when Karkat tried pushing the tall clown off of him Gamzee only growled playfully before nipping at his ear; Karkat squeaked as the highblood threw him up before rolling over and catching him while purring loudly. Karkat growled softly as Gamzee continued to play around finding it completely stupid as Gamzee tried to get him to participate. He refused to do something as retarded as this, it was completely useless anyways. That is until Gamzee scraped his ass with his claws.

Gamzee only laughed as Karkat rammed one of his nubby horns into the bottom of his chin resulting in Gamzee thumping his head in to the floor. Karkat bared his teeth as Gamzee let out a low trill and Karkat immediately stood into a more defensive stance. Gamzee smiled at Karkat as he too stood up, he laughed when Karkat, with all his strength and weight, pushed into him making him go down onto the soft sand with the short troll on top of him. The two rolled around on the beach send each other painful yet surprisingly pleasant nips, and scratches; heads butted and horns grazed each others skin as they both 'fought'. If it were an actual fight though it was no doubt Gamzee would win, he was already over powering Karkat and he was barely using even a quarter of his strength. Karkat soon felt himself purring as Gamzee grazed one of his incredibly sharp fangs across the open space of his neck, Gamzee was actually doing a good job shielding his wound from the sand and helped keep the [pressure off of it with his hand or he just merely shifted Karkat before he could put too much stress on it.

Gamzee pushed his weight onto Karkat keeping him locked in place long enough for him to lock horns with him. Karkat hissed at the painful feeling as Gamzee held his head in place; it was turned at a specific angle to give him enough access to his now vulnerable body and gave him the upper hand in the rough housing to keep Karkat from moving his neck and head.

"Ow! Fuck Gamzee don't do that!" Karkat let out a low whimper as Gamzee twisted his to the side as a warning for Karkat to stay quiet. Karkat growled as his horns pulsed grinding against Gamzee's in a delicious way that sent a pang down his spine and he hissed in frustration as Gamzee licked his cheek before opening his mouth wide to accommodate Karkat's throat. Gamzee gently pressed into Karkat's throat softly enough not to break skin but hard enough to give Karkat the clue that it was time to give up and admit Gamzee had won this round.

The position was awkward enough as it is with Gamzee resting between Karkat's spread legs pushing his entire body onto his save his stomach up. Gamzee was twisting his head even more and Karkat let out a low whine as it hurt his extremely sensitive nubby horns even more. Gamzee was purring even louder than he was at first and his wet warm tongue sent vibrations into Karkat's throat making his own purring rise in sound; Karkat tried to dislodge his horns from Gamzee's but every time he tried Gamzee let out a warning growl promising a not so very pleasant outcome and tightened his hold on his throat even more. Karkat couldn't move his arms or his legs as Gamzee made sure everything was securely pinned in its position.

Karkat swallowed careful of the fangs that were pressing into his jugular and let out a keen whimper shrinking in Gamzee's arms. Gamzee, who was intensely satisfied with Karkat's submission, released his best bro's neck and licked at the bruises he left behind with care as he trilled loudly. He dislodged his and Karkat's horns carefully to keep from causing his miracle even more pain in his ridiculously small nubby horns; but he did have to admit thought that Karbro sure knew how to make it fun even if he didn't like it in the beginning.

Karkat swallowed awkwardly as Gamzee spent his time to lick his neck where the teeth had been. He had to admit having a large, warm, muscular, and purring body above him felt… relaxing and it almost lulled him to sleep; it actually did lull him to sleep as Gamzee nuzzled him comfortably. For once with Gamzee he felt at home.

A/N: See Karkitty Highblood's aren't that bad! X3 I mean maybe a little dominating… but not bad at all!