Karkat Vantas angrily pushed away what he thought was Candies moist hair. It soon worked its way back to his face and continued its normal up and down pattern. Karkat lazily opened his left eye and saw Candies pink tongue brushing his grey cheek.

"Candy stop licking daddies cheek this instant." Karkat growled as he pushed her away. Candy waited a few seconds before licking his forehead.

"Candy K. Vantas..." Karkat warned shoving her away gently. "Don't try and be smart with me..."

Candy gave a tiny hiss before settling on her pillow. Across the hall she could hear Striders soft voice singing; "Wake-up Wake-up WAKE-UP WAGON CALL!"

Gamzee Makara slowly reached for his son and stroked his wild black hair, quieting him instantly. A few seconds later Strider would start all over again.

This was a normal morning routine in the household. A few minutes later both children were tossed into the hallway by their tired dads. They immediately stood up and walked to the stairs.

"Lets go chug some Faygos!" Strider declared sitting on the stairways banister. He gave himself a small push and slid down three stories before falling off face first onto the ground.

"Step aside and let the girl show you how its done!" Candy smirked before grabbing her Pupa Pan skateboard and hopping onto the railing. Artfully the girl rid the skateboard down the polished wood.

Strider recorded his companion in awe using his fathers black phone that Strider had "borrowed" this morning.

"CANDYIZE IT!" Candy exclaimed as she did a kick flip over the corner. "SO SWEET!"

SNAP! Candies skateboard snapped in half at the landing causing Candy to go flying down to the first floor.

"SNAPDWAGONS!" Candy yelped as she hit her mouth against a small table.

"CANDY!" Strider dropped the phone and ran to his fallen friend. Candy stood weakly and leaned against the nearest grey wall, tears rolling down her face along with blood.

Karkat growled awoken by the screams of Candy and got out of bed, seeing it was impossible to get anymore sleep he decided to go keep the kids busy. He leaned over the railing that kept the toddlers from falling to their death on the stairs.

"WhAtS gOiNg On BrO?" Gamzee yawned walking towards the raging Karkat. The Faygo loving troll peered over the rail and saw his phone carelessly tossed on one of the steps. "My PhOnE?..."

"S-S-Strider?" Candy moaned blood dripping from her mouth. "My mouth feels weiwd..."

Karkat headed down the stairs careful not to step on a part of Candies busted up board or Gamzees still recording phone. When he reached the landing to the first floor he stepped in a red puddle.

"CANDY GOT HUWT!" Strider exclaimed pointing to the bleeding troll who was holding her mouth. Karkat quickly jerked her hand away and pulled her mouth open. Two teeth were missing from her mouth and their spaces were filling with blood.

"WhY iS mY pHoNe On ThE sTaIrS?" Gamzee asked picking up his phone and stopping the camera. Strider gave a small purple blush as a reply and picked up a small white object.

"It's ok Can-Can its ok...does anything else hurt?" Karkat questioned Candy picking her up carefully.

"Yeah," Candy sniffed rubbing her eye. "My pwide..."

"Not t'at you had any of it..." Strider mumbled under his breath earning him a look from his father.

"My mouth feels weiwd..." Candy repeated as her father stroked her head gently.

"You just lost a couple of teeth sweetie..." Karkat comforted her scanning the carpet for her teeth. Strider observed the sharp white object in his hand. It looked kinda like a piece of painted glass. Strider ran a grey finger along its ridged edge.

"OW!" Strider yelped as the shard cut his finger. Gamzee looked at his son and snatched the object from his bleeding hand.

"HeReS oNe..." Gamzee gave Karkat the sharp tooth. Strider began sucking his bleeding finger mumbling something under his breath.

Candy looked at the bloody tooth then reached for it, Gamzee smiled as Karkat gave the curious Candy her tooth. Immediately Candy tried to place it back where it belonged in her mouth.

"No can do Candy," Karkat explained taking the tooth and shoving it in his back pocket. "Once it's out, it's out."

Gamzee noticed the broken skateboard causing a thought to pop into his head. "WhAt WeRe YoU kIdS dOiNg?"

Strider was quietly trying to scoot down the stairs when his father shot him another look, a look that stopped Strider right in his tracks.

"OnE mOrE mOvE," Gamzee growled his voice low and threatening. "aNd I'lL pUnIsH yOu SeVeRlY..."

Strider sat down instantly in fear. The video Strider had been recording on Gamzees phone started playing.

"CANDYIZE IT!" Candies voice rang out from the phone. The video was shaky but pretty good, enough for a scene in a 4 star movie. A snap was heard and Candy had been sent falling from the third floor to the first. Gamzee paused the video then facepalmed himself.

"WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU, ABOUT SKATEBOARDING IN THE HOUSE!?" Karkat raged at Candy. "LET ALONE THE FACT THAT YOU DID A CRAZY STUNT ON THE RAILING, THEN FELL TWO FLOORS! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED! HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO IDIOTIC? CANDY KIT VANTAS! GO TO YOUR ROOM NOW!"

Candy winced at her middle name then tears filled her eyes. Not because the pain her mouth was in or the fact she was in trouble, but because her father had never yelled at her before in her whole life. Candy ran crying into her bedroom locking the door behind her.

"Dude," Strider began turning to face Karkat. "Even though I highwy bewieve it doeshn't need to be said, YOUW A WEAL MEANIE HEAD!"

Strider ran up to his room and also locked the door, not wanting to be pursued and punished. Karkat calmed down and slumped against the wall.

"Where did I go wrong?" He demanded punching the wall.

"BeSt Go AnD tAlK tO hEr BrO." Gamzee recommended before checking on Strider.

Karkat sighed and walked upstairs and knocked on Candies door. "Sweetie can I come in?"

"NO GO AWAY!" Candy cried in her room. Karkat tried turning the knob only to reveal she had locked it.

"Candy please let daddy in so we can talk." Karkat said leaning on the brown door softly.

"NO! I HATE YOU!" Candy screamed back, the words hit Karkat like lightning. Candy hating him, the only parent she had left and she hated him. Karkat sighed before speaking again.

"Candy, daddy only yelled because you made him worry. Please let me in."

"NO!"

"Candy Kit Vantas let me in thi-" Karkat was cut off by a scream of terror from her room. "CANDY!"

"WhAtS sHe ScReAmInG aBoUt?" Gamzee asked exiting Striders room. Strider slipped his hand inside Gamzees and the other hand in his mouth.

Karkat ran into the end of the hallway and shoved the door as hard as he could with his shoulder. The door flew open just in time for Karkat to see Candy being dragged out the window by a mysterious, but small, figure.

"DrOp HeR oR i ShOoT!" Strider yelled showing his first sign of talking like his father, in Striders hand was a water squirter filled with liquified Neo-soap.

"As you wish..." The figure purred allowing there self to fall out the window carrying the squirming Candy.

Strider managed to get the figure twice, once in the eye and once on their cape. Karkat grabbed at the spot where they had just been.

"The best thing I ever had in my life, is now gone..." Karkat said falling to his knees and crying.