He asked softly, not knowing if there was anyone actually in the room with him. He looked around for a moment, looking at all the machines that surrounding him. His body ached but nothing hurt more than his head. He slowly reached his bandaged arm up, feeling for his horns. They were gone but the area was sensitive.

"Sollux?" He asked when he heard someone come into the room.

"Mr. Vantas, you're finally awake." Said the doctor, smiling. "You took quite the fall." He said, keeping the light off. "You might have some amnesia. That was quite the accident. I'm still shocked you're alive." He put the clipboard down on the bed side table. "Is Mr. Captor a friend of yours?"

Karkat nodded. "Y-Yeah…" he said softly, his eyes widening.

"Ah, I see. He's down the hall. He hasn't woken up yet, but if you're feeling like getting up, you can go see him. I'll call a nurse in here for you."

Somehow Karkat understood everything. He remembered leaving the hive with Sollux. He remembered hearing Sollux scream. He understood the needs for this society… The nuances, the wants, the social structure. Something had clicked inside of him during the change over.

All he wanted was to see Sollux.

"Can I see Sollux now?" He asked the nurse that came in. The man nodded and helped him from the bed. He looked down, seeing his now pale pink legs under the blue and white hospital gown. "Thank you…" He mumbled as they made their way to Sollux's room. Karkat looked in before entering. There lay his matesprit, asleep and pink…. Human… But somehow, this didn't take away from Sollux's attractiveness. He smiled softly seeing Sollux twitch in his sleep.

"Can I touch him? Not inappropriately but just run my fingers through his hair? He has nightmares…" Karkat said. The nurse hesitated but nodded before letting Karkat slip into the chair by the bed. Karkat leaned forward, resting his arm against the mattress by his matesprit's shoulder as his fingers wondered through Sollux's dark brown hair. It felt the same but he had to be careful not to run over the area where Sollux's horns used to be.

"Sol…. Wake up…" He whispered, his fingers tangling in the hair.

"Has anyone else woken up?" He asked the nurse.

"Mr. Ampora, Mr. Makara and Mr. Nitram." The nurse answered.

Sollux's skin was a pale milky white. He looked frail, even laying in the bed, cuts and bruises over his face. His face was stained a light pink, showing blood flowing under the skin. He breathed quietly, through that wretched machine that made a hissing noise. When Karkat touched his hair, his eyes slowly opened. For the first time in all of his life, he looked at Karkat with one blue iris and one red iris, his eyes coming into focus behind his glasses. "N…. Nn?" he whimpered.

"Hey Sol." Karkat smiled softly. "How do you feel? By the way Gamzee, Eridan and Tav are awake." He looked over at the nurse. "Can you leave us alone for a minute?"

The nurse nodded and walked out of the room. Karkat watched before turning back to face Sollux, gently leaning over and kissing his cheek. "I'm glad you're okay." Karkat ran his hand through Sollux's hair again. "We… Are human now… Aren't we…"

Sollux nodded, his throat hurting. He cleared his throat, swallowing as he looked at Karkat, his eyes growing soft. "Yeah…" he mumbled. "I…. I think I thcreamed the entire time." He said, feeling his head pounding. "My hornth are gone huh…" he said gently rubbing his head, shivering. "I'm tho cold." He stuck out his tongue, feeling that it was indeed still bifurcated. He looked at him, reaching out with a badly bruised hand. "They told me that I would have amnethhia.." he whispered, frowning. "I must have been bleeding a lot." He said, frowning. "I bleed red."

He watched Karkat's face turn to shock. He sighed a little, running his own hand through his hair. He frowned, laying his head back against the pillow, resting his eyes. "My eyeth look creepy don't they?"

"I think they look awesome. I always have…" Karkat whispered. "So… Humans have red blood? So that means that there are no more highbloods and lowbloods… Right?" He looked at Sollux. He kinda liked the pink flush that covered Sollux's face when he brought his pale but bruised hand up to his lips, kissing it gently.

"You're too kind." He said, looking over at him. "I can still feel them." He said, making a wink in his direction. "My powers that is." He shivered, trying to turn over, grunting in pain. His glasses were tinted the colors of his eyes. "My thheet thayth that I have heterochromia. Gueth that would cover my eyeth." He smiled a little. "Tongue is on there too." He said. "However…."

"However what?" Karkat looked over at him.

"Oh." He smirked that devilish smirk of his. "You know."

Karkat's face turned bright red. "Your…" He whispered. Sollux only has one now…. Well… That kind of sucks…

Sollux laughed quietly. "You look tho down. Don't get your hopeth up. I thtill have two." He watched as Karkat's face turned from red to even redder. He laughed and put his hand up over his face, looking at his hands. His skin was pale with hints of red and blue under his skin. He knew a little about humans… He knew their blood turned blue when the oxygen was gone. He breathed in gently, looking at the tubes leading to his nose. Pure oxygen. He sighed quietly and looked over at Karkat again, who was extremely flushed.

"Now you look like Aradia." He laughed even harder, watching as Karkat's face went white.

"No way."

"Yeth way." He replied, settling back down under the covers. "I'm tho glad there ith not a catht thythtem anymore." He smiled. "Very glad."

"At least it's not candy colored anymore…" Karkat sighed. "Do you think there is enough room for me to... Come up and cuddle with you?" He asked quietly. "I was really worried when I woke up and you weren't there…" his cheeks returning to the pale pink color.

"I don't know." He said, frowning. "Ith kinda thmall." He looked for the call button. "I'll call." He gently pushed it.

The male nurse that accompanied Karkat walked into the room. "Yes?" He asked, looking at the boys.

"Can he lay with me? Heth my boyfriend… And uh…. Heth thad, tho he wanth to lay with me." Sollux stumbled over the words, his tongue getting in the way. These new teeth were bothersome. He felt over them with his tongue, frowning. "Blah."

Karkat hid his face in his hands, his face blood red. The nurse nodded. "Sure. Just be careful since you both are wounded." He turned to leave, pausing and then turned back around. "No dirty stuff." He smiled before leaving the room again.

"Did you have to tell him?" Karkat asked. "By the way… What's a boyfriend? Is it like matesprit?" he asked. Karkat was oblivious to human relationships.

Sollux laughed a little, pushing his face against his hands. "Yeah. Ith like…." He thought about it for a minute. "Loverth? Mateth?" he shrugged. "Thomething like that."

Karkat nodded. "Now scoot over so I can lay with you." He stood slowly before crawling up into the space that Sollux had made for him, wrapping his arms around Sollux's waist.

"Fine." He scooted over, curling up into Karkat. He felt small and frail. "Guh… I'm tho thleepy." He sighed, looking up at him. "Bethideth." He said, looking out the closed door. "We can't do anything dirty, becauth that would require uth figuring out how." He frowned, tapping his chin. "We can figure that out when we get out of here."

"Is that all you think about? Or do you really just like torturing me?" Karkat asked. "We can still kiss though…. I'm pretty sure that would be the same…" he whispered.

Sollux laughed. "Yeah I thuppothe it would be." He smiled, gently leaning in to kiss Karkat. He felt happy and warm. "Thank you, KK." He said, laying his head on his shoulder. "I want to thleep." He curled up with him. "KK, you're thupid cute." He poked his face. "But you look weird all white and thit."

"So do you… It's weird to not see your horns and the grey…. But I… I like it…" He blushed. How did Sollux manage to turn him into a sappy bastard? "You still smell the same so that's good…" He breathed in, his face in Sollux's hair. "Let's take a nap… I'm tired."

Sollux nodded. "Good idea, fuckathh." He smiled and curled up with him, snuggling his chest.

Sollux awoke hearing beeps and buzzes. "Eh?" He had somehow in his sleep taken off his oxygen mask, and nurses were trying to pull a still asleep Karkat off of him. "Oi…" he grumbled.

Karkat awoke when Sollux spoke. His eyes opened slowly. That's when he realized that there were 4 pairs of hands on him and only one pair was Sollux's. "What?" he asked, confused as to why he was being touched.

"We need to move you back to your room." The nurse said, gently letting go of him. Sollux pulled him back into his arms. "We need to do a few tests on Mr. Captor." Sollux rolled his eyes. "Move KK."

Karkat nodded slowly, still partially asleep. He sat up and then made his way off the bed, sitting down in the chair that he had occupied earlier. He rested his head on his hand and tried to not doze off.

Sollux was helped up and put into a wheelchair, the scrubs that he had been wearing almost falling off his hips. He held onto them, sitting down into the wheelchair.

"Hey look, I'm AT." He laughed a little bit, watching Karkat nearly fall asleep in the chair as they wheeled him out for blood tests.

Karkat ended up curling back up in Sollux's bed, falling asleep again. He slept for a while before feeling someone kissing his cheek and neck. "Stop Sol…" he whispered as he scooted over on the bed.

Sollux smiled curling up next to him. He wrapped his now even more sore arms around Karkat's waist, curling up into his back. He breathed quietly, gently nipping at Karkat's ear before falling asleep again.

Karkat fell asleep soon after, his dreams going to a naughty place. His mind playing a movie of the two of them in his hive, before it had been destroyed… They lay there, wrapped in each other's arms, Sollux nipping at his neck as soft moans escaped Karkat's lips. Soon things started to progress in the dream as Karkat felt his body heat up from the pleasure. Then nothing…

A movement jostled him, causing him to wake up. "Sol?" He whispered into the now dark room.

It was the middle of the night. The days were much shorter here. The nights right now were long and cold. The room smelled like cleaning supplies and alcohol. Sollux mumbled quietly to himself, getting up out of his bed, looking at Karkat, who now woke beside him.

"Thorry, gotta pee." He said, gently touching Karkat's shoulder.

Karkat nodded and turned back over, falling asleep rather quickly but not into a deep sleep… He felt Sollux crawl back into the bed, smiling as the warm arms surrounded him again. He snuggled into Sollux's arms, a small purr escaping his lips. Wait… He was human now… He shouldn't be purring at all... He shrugged it off and let the dark comfort of sleep reclaim him.

Sollux smiled. "Goodnight." He whispered, curling up next to him.

The next few days, the pair barely left each other's side. They were only separated by shower time and when they had to have tests done on them. Karkat's bruises had turned from vibrant purple to pale yellow within the few days that they had been awake at the hospital. Everyone else had woken up and the pair was frequently visited by Terezi who was having trouble adjusting to not being able to smell and taste colors as well as she used to.

"Let's ask if we can go on a walk around the complex…" Karkat suggested to Sollux one day. They hadn't left the bed and no one had come to visit them. "It's a nice day outside…" Karkat sighed watching the branches of a tree sway gently with the late fall breeze.

"Yeah..." he said, smiling a little. "It'th... Beautiful." he said, gently stretching his arms out.

Karkat pressed the button to call the nurse. The man smiled when he came into the room, looking at the couple. "Yes Solkar?" He asked.

"Can we take a walk around the complex?"

Sollux smiled a little, poking his tongue out. The doctor nodded and gently helped Sollux get up, working on getting his IVs attached to the wheelchair.

"Guh, I have to sit in thith thing?" The doctor nodded.

"Until you heal, yes."

"I can push you Sol." Karkat smiled softly as Sollux sat in the wheelchair. The doctor nodded and walked. "How did you get more injured than me? We went through together..." He asked quietly.

"Who knowth." he said, shrugging. "I'm really underweight." he said, gently rubbing his eyes with his fingers, cleaning his glasses on his shirt.

"I know but you're adorable." Karkat kissed his cheek gently. "This will be fun. Maybe Gam and Tav are outside." He started to push the wheelchair through the halls and finally out the back door to the garden. "It's so nice out today."

"Itth a little cold." he said, rubbing his arms. "But I'm okay." he smiled, looking back over the back of his chair.

Karkat walked slowly, enjoying the time outside. There had been a lot of rain the last couple of days. "Do you want my sweater?" Karkat asked. "I'm actually pretty warm right now."

"Jutht over my shoulderth." he said, smiling. "It thmellth good out here."

"It does." Karkat said, taking the sweater off and slipping it over Sollux's shoulders. "Better?"

"Nnn." he hummed nodding his head. "You thmell good too." he smiled.

Karkat blushed slightly. "Thanks..." He ran his hand over the back of Sollux's head before leaning down by Sollux's ear. "I love you Sol." he whispered into Sollux's ear.

Sollux blushed. "Love you too." he said, smiling. "Now leth go over to the flowerth. They thmell good."

How was Sollux so adorable? Even as a human? Karkat pushed the wheelchair over to the flowers, which happened to be blue and red. "You really like blue and red don't you?" he chuckled softly.

"Yeth." he said, smiling. "I like theth colorth." He blinked his eyes one by one over at Karkat. "Thee?"

"I know and I like them too." He kissed Sollux's cheek. He had started to feel a little better about public displays of affection but he would only kiss or hold Sollux when there were a few people around.

Sollux blushed pink. "Thankth." he said, gently reaching his hand out, blushing as he touched Karkat's face, pulling him in for a gentle kiss.

Karkat blushed, almost the same color that he used to but kissed Sollux back.

Sollux blushed, smiling. He pulled back, leaning back in his wheelchair.

Karkat walked behind the wheel chair, following the path around the garden. "This is our first date..." He whispered.

"How romantic." Sollux replied sarcastically. He laughed a little, rolling his eyes.

"Well... It's the best I can do given our circumstances..." Karkat smirked. "We can go have a formal date after we get out of here..."

Sollux blushed. "Well then..." he said, blushing. "You're...Thilly."

"Why am I silly?"

"You just are." Sollux replied, smiling. "Thilly." he whispered. He wrapped the sweater around him a bit tighter. "Mmmm" he hummed quietly, his face warming up. "Mmmm~"

"Why do you look so happy?" Karkat teased. "You have been smiling a lot more since we arrived on Earth..."

Sollux nodded. "The voiceth are gone." he said, smiling. "Ith thomething that I don't have to worry about anymore." he blushed. "I'm thorry that me being happy bugth you, but juthh tho you know, I'm thill expecting you to be my matethprit."

"Why would that bug me? I'm happy too ya know." Karkat stopped walking, stepping in front of the wheelchair. "I'll always be your matesprit." He put his hand on Sollux's face, rubbing his thumb over Sollux's jaw. "If that's what you want..."

"Good." he said, smiling even wider, showing off his teeth. "I don't know if I can get uthed to thith, but I'll try." He smiled. "I'm happy you're here with me."

"Getting used to being human? Or something else?" Karkat asked, cocking his head to the left. "What's up?"

"My teeth." he rolled his eyes gently, looking over, seeing Tavros wheel up.

"Hey Tav!" Karkat said waving. "How are you?"

Tav smiled a little. "Uh... Okay. Not... Sure what to do." he said, smiling, scratching his head. "Gamzee's... All weird and stuff." he rubbed his hair.

"Have you tried talking to him?" Karkat asked. "There isn't slime here... So maybe that's the problem..."

Gamzee walked through the door and went over to the group. "Hey guys..." he said quietly.

Sollux smiled. "Hey guyth." He saw Tav give him a sad look, frowning.

"Hey Gamzee." he said, his face flushing. His skin was slightly less pale than Sollux's, almost taking on a tanner quality. He looked over at Gamzee.

Gamzee put his hand on Tavros' shoulder. "How are you feeling?" He asked.

Karkat looked between Tavros and Gamzee.

"Let's go Sol..." He said pushing the wheelchair away.

Sollux nodded, going inside with him.

Karkat wheeled Sollux back to their room. "That was nice."

Sollux nodded, getting up out of the wheelchair, his bags being reattached to the poles by the bed, food being brought in for the pair.

Karkat crawled up on the bed and started to eat from his plate. "This is pretty good." He whispered.

Sollux glared at him, shoving a carrot in his mouth, munching on it. He sighed quietly, leaning back. "Ith not bad." he said, frowning. "But I like your cooking better."

Karkat blushed. "I like your old room better than this hospital..." He kissed him gently. "Now eat."

"Well of courth." he said, smiling cutely. "I'm eating." he said, munching on more veggies.

"Besides vegetables." Karkat glared lovingly at him.

A nurse that the pair didn't know entered the room. "Mr. Vantas. The doctor would like to speak with you."

Sollux blinked and looked over at the doctor before nudging Karkat. He shifted, looking at the nurse. "Well go on." he said, starting to eat more of his food.

Karkat climbed off the bed, following the nurse out into the hall. "Yes?"

Sollux ate the rest of the food on his plate, sighing as he settled back down in the bed, sucking on a juice box.

"You are cleared to be released. We can get the paperwork ready soon." The doctor said.


Gamzee looked at Tavros after they left. "I'm sorry that I've been weird lately... Coming down from a high sucks..."

"It's okay Gamzee." Tavros said, blushing slightly. "I understand you completely."

"Thanks Tavbro." He smiled softly bending down and kissing Tavros' cheek softly. "You are a miracle." He fluffed Tavros' hair.

"Gamzee..." he blushed, looking over at him. "I was scared."

Gamzee backed away, "I'm sorry I scared you..." He whispered, wrapping his arms around Tavros.

Tavros blushed. "It's okay."

Gamzee grabbed the handles on Tavros' wheelchair. "Let's take a stroll." Gamzee started to walk the wheelchair around the bushes and toward the gazebo by the small pond.

Tavros relaxed, shifting slightly. "Please don't jump on and go crazy." He blushed darkly.

"I won't. I think they would get mad at me..." He walked slowly, pushing the wheelchair.

Tavros nodded, shifting a little. "They're... Making me new legs."

"That's motherfucking awesome Tavbro." Gamzee smiled. "You excited?"

"Yeah!" he said, grinning. "I'm really excited!"

"That's going to be awesome!" Gamzee smiled as they settled in the gazebo.

"Yeah... I'll be able to walk and stuff!" he said, grinning. "I'm so happy!"

"Then we can take walks and stuff. That will be awesome." Gamzee smiled stopping the wheelchair as he bent down and grabbed Tavros' hand.

"Yeah! And...I'll be able to go down stairs and stuff...and feel confident." he smiled, shifting in his chair.

Gamzee squeezed Tavros' hand. "Do you want me to put you on my shoulders?"

"Uh... That might be a bad idea." he said quietly, looking at him. "Maybe later." he blushed.

"Okay." Gamzee said. "Can I... Have a kiss?" He asked. He normally just kissed Tavros

whenever he felt like it but that seemed to make Tav feel... Uncomfortable...