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CG: SOLLUX.
CG: WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK HAPPENED TO ME
CG: WHY AM I ON EARTH
CG: HOW AM I ON EARTH
CG: WHY DO I HAVE A FUCK TON OF INJURIES
CG: WHY IS MY MEMORY ALL FUCKED UP
TA: woah woah woah 2low down kk
TA: you're 2ayiing you're on earth?!
TA: that 2hould be iimpo22iible
TA: diid np 2omehow conviince you two take part iin 2ome 2ort of weird a22 roleplaying
CG: WHAT THE FUCK SOLLUX
CG: NO
CG: I SOMEHOW GOT TRANSPORTED TO EARTH
CG: AND A HUMAN FEMALE FOUND ME UNCONSCIOUS AND TOOK ME TO IT'S HIVE
CG: WHICH IN OF ITSELF MAKES NO SENSE
CG: LIKE, WHAT KIND OF NOOKSNIFFING IMBECILE WOULD EVEN DO THAT
CG: HUMANS ARE SO FUCKING WEIRD
CG: BUT MY POINT IS IM ON EARTH AND HAVE MEMORY LOSS
CG: AND I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING
CG: ALSO YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE ONLINE OTHER THAN FUCKING NEPETA
CG: WHO I AM DONE WITH TALKING TO
TA: wow
TA: uh
TA: ii don't know how any of that happened
TA: but you were actiing pretty weiird the other day
CG: WHAT DO YOU MEAN
TA: iidk, you were actiing liike you were tryiing two do 2omethiing
TA: but you were beiing all 2ecretiive about iit
CG: WHAT THE FUCK
TA: ii know!
TA: ii was confu2ed two
TA: and now ii'm even more confu2ed
TA: maybe you 2hould check your memo2. you miight have wriiten 2omethiing about whatever happened in them, iif your past 2elf knew what happened.
CG: NO SHIT
CG: I WAS ABOUT TO DO THAT NOW
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As it turns out, Karkat, being the genius he was, in fact hadn't thought of doing that. He tried to access his memos, but it wasnt working.
carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling twinArmageddons [TA] -
CG: SO APPARENTLY I CAN'T ACCESS MY MEMOS
CG: ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE IM IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE
CG: OR MAYBE ITS BECAUSE THIS SHITTY HUMAN COMPUTER CANT HANDLE SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS TIME TRAVEL CHATROOMS
CG: CANT YOU CHECK THEM SOLLUX
TA: okay, ii'l check them now
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TA: 2o
TA: a2 iit turn2 out
TA: you made all of them priivate
TA: 2o ii can't acce22 them two fiind out what2 goiing on
CG: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
CG: WHY WOULD I DO THAT
CG: I NEVER MAKE MY MEMOS PRIVATE
CG: CANT YOU JUST HACK INTO IT OR SOMETHING?!
TA: ii dont know, kk
TA: ii'm feeliing pretty lazy today
TA: plu2, you've been pretty rude two me lately
TA: 2o iim not 2o 2ure ii am currently able two giive enough fuck2 two do iit
CG: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
CG: SOLLUX I DONT HAVE TIME FOR THIS
TA: kk
CG: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
CG: PRETTY PLEASE WITH ASSHOLE JUICE ON TOP
CG: HACK INTO THE FUCKING MEMO
TA: fiine, ii'l giive iit a 2hot
TA: but no promii2e2
TA: al2o, diidnt you mentiion before that you talked to np?
CG: YEAH, I DID. WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING
TA: diid you tell her about the human?
CG: YES, I STILL DONT SEE YOUR FUCKING POINT
TA: 2he'2 gonna go crazy wiith the 2hiippiing you know
CG: DONT FUCKING REMIND ME
CG: ANYWAY, LET ME KNOW IF MAKE ANY PROGRESS ON HACKING THE MEMOS
CG: ALTHOUGH IM NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOU READING MY PERSONAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF
CG: WHATEVER, BYE.
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Karkat slowly moves back to the couch, now with a new kind of headache.
You sit in science class, unable to focus. Your mind keeps drifting to thoughts of Karkat, and why wouldn't it? He's an alien! You're almost certain there are no other reasons for thinking about him so much. You wonder what he's doing right now, hopefully nothing stupid.
You had your math test last period, but with the lack of sleep the night before and your incredibly distracted mind you were pretty sure you did badly.
The bell rings, signalling the end of the day. You get up and go home.
As you walk home, you see a piece of paper someone has taped onto a telegraph pole advertising a yard sale. You take a closer look at it and see that it'll only only a minor detour to get there. You decide to check it out quickly, so that Karkat doesn't get pissed about being by himself. Although, you wonder, would he really be upset? From what he's told you about when he was on Alternia, he seemed to be alone most of the time.
When you get there, you look around but you can't find anything really interesting. You're about to leave when you spot something out of the corner of your eye. Are those... crutches? You walk over to take a closer look, and not only do you find crutches, but you also find a leg splint, along with a bunch of other similar things. Karkat was going to LOVE this.
As it turns out, the person running the sale's daughter is a doctor, and when they moved out they had left a ton of stuff.
You buy the crutches and leg splint and continue on your way home.
When you get home, you find Karkat playing on your ds. He doesn't seem to notice you come in.
"Hey Karkat, I'm home!" you call out, as you drop everything in the corner of the room. He looks up at you for a second, then looks back at the screen.
"Oh. Hey _" he mumbles.
"I got you something" you tell him
"What is it?" Karkat asks, not looking up.
"Its... can you just pause that?!"
Karkat sighs and closes your ds. "Those games are so fucking stupid" He tells you
"Really? Cause it looked like you were really into it," you say
"Shut the fuck up" he says. "So... you... got me something?" He seemed really confused about it.
"Yep! You said your leg is broken, right? So I got you these!" You say, grinning as you show him the crutches and splint. He stares at them in awe, and you think he starts to tear up a little.
"Why... why are you being so fucking nice to me?!" He yells. You open your mouth to respond but he cuts you off. "You- you find me lying in the street, but you don't kill me, or even leave me there, you take me to your hive?! Who the FUCK would even do that? Whats wrong with you? Even after seeing my blood colour you... you..." Karkat begins to sob, red tears flowing down his cheeks. He hides his face under his blanket as you stand there shocked.
You have no idea how to respond to this, so you wrap your arms around him in a hug, gently pat his head and make quiet shooshing noises. This was something that you vaguely remember your mum doing to you when you were little, and it seems to calm him down quite a lot, so you continue. Until he tells you to get the fuck off him, that is.
"Karkat I... why wouldn't I take you in?! You would have probably died otherwise... you needed someone to help you so I did... I don't know what you, or other trolls would have done but there was no way i could leave you there," you say as you sit down on the couch next to him. "and... what do you mean by blood colour?"
"I swear to gog, I'll never understand you humans." he says, wiping the last couple tears from his eye. "You're just so- so fucking stupid!" Karkat looks like he's about to start crying again, but he manages to pull himself together. He lets out a sigh and begins to explain to you about troll culture and how murder is often considered normal, the strong crush the weak. You sit next next to him shocked, and then he starts to explain about the blood castes and what it means to be in each of them. After he explains what the different colours are, you notice something.
"But... your blood isn't any of those colours" You say.
"Yep. Thats 'cause I'm a fucking mutant" Karkat says, clearly pissed off about it. A mutant? What does he mean by that?
Karkat sees the confusion on your face, and lets out a frustrated sigh. "Do I have to spell everything out to you?! Do you not know what fucking mutations are?!"
"Well... I do, i guess, but I don't really get what it means in troll society..." you tell him. Karkat groans annoyedly and throws his head back onto the couch cushions, and he mutters something about human stupidity under his breath.
"Fine, I'll explain even more of this shit to you." He says as he takes a deep breath and starts to explain. "Mutants are, well, to bluntly, extremely discriminated against. I don't know why, and I honestly don't give a shit about why, but for some reason, everyone just seems to hate us. If you're found out to be a mutant? You're pretty much guaranteed to be killed." You stare at him, shocked. He continues, "Do you know what it's like to spend every day making sure you don't injure yourself in the slightest? To have to make sure you don't get even a tiny papercut and risk people finding out the colour of your blood?! And then YOU come along, and you just- SEE it! You saw my blood! You know my biggest and most well kept secret, just like that!"
Karkat looks like he's about to start freaking out, so you roll up your sleeve, revealing a scab from when you tripped over and fell on the pavement a few days before, and start to pick at it with your fingernails.
"_. What the ever-loving fuck are you doing" Karkat says. You pull off the scab, wincing, and after a couple seconds, bright red blood starts to seep out of it. Karkat stares at the wound wide eyed, his mouth open in shock. "It... it's... it's the same as... it's..." he looks down at himself, then back to your arm, then back at himself.
"Mhm," You say.
After a minute or so of silence between you two, your stomach growls.
"WELP, I'm freaking hungry," You loudly announce as you get up and start walking in the direction of the kitchen. "I'm gonna go get some snacks and stuff. Want me to get you some?" Karkat nods slowly, staring blankly into space.
You walk back into the living room, with a bag of chips under your arm, and a packet of cookies in the other one. Without any parents around, you've generally been failing miserably in the healthy eating department.
You plop down on the couch next to Karkat. He seems to have mostly recovered from the shock of finding out about your shared blood colour. You open the chips and place it in between yourself and the bewildered troll. He takes a handful and starts to eat it. You glance over at the splint lying on the other side of the room.
"Hey Karkat, do you want me to put that splint on your leg now or what" you ask him. He nods. You walk over to the other side of the room and take it back to him, placing the crutches next to the couch in the process. You take the blanket off him, awarding you with a surprised yelp, and move the broken leg into an accessible position. You gently place Karkat's leg in the splint, trying to make it hurt the least amount possible, and secure it.
"There! Now, combined with these crutches, you should hopefully be able to move around without too much difficulty!" You say.
"...Thanks, _" Karkat says quitely.
You collapse into the free space on the couch and reach for the remote.
"Wanna watch some TV?" you ask, already switching it on.
"Well, everything on it is total shit, but it's not like I have anything better to do..." says Karkat.
You flick through the channels before arriving at a rerun of an old Simpsons episode. You haven't watched this in ages, but it might be something Karkat would enjoy. A few moments later,
"Okay. What the actual fuck even is this shit"
You laugh at his reaction and attempt to explain what the show is about. You watch random TV shows for a while until it becomes evening, and lots of TV stations start showing various movies.
"Next, on channel 99..." A dramatic voice comes out through the TV speakers, saying what they were gonna show next. "Its RomCom night! At 8:30..." as soon as romcoms are mentioned, you think you hear an excited gasp some from Karkat.
"You like romcoms?" you ask him.
"Hell yes! They're just... I just really fucking love them," he replies. "But, judging from the rest of your tv shows, I highly doubt your pathetic human ones will be any good"
You and Karkat watch the movies for the next few hours, most of which were filled with his complaining, and him attempting to explain the extremely complicated troll romances to you. You don't really get most of it, but you listen anyway. He also tells you about Alternian movie titles, which you find pretty hilarious.
About halfway though the second movie Karkat leans against you and rests his head on your shoulder. At about two thirds into the movie, he's fast asleep, his head resting on your lap. You stroke his hair a little bit and smile. He's so cute while he's sleeping... wait what. Theres no way you were developing feelings for him. That'd be ridiculous.
As the movie ends, you turn off the tv and contemplate going back to your bed, but you realise that you're way too lazy for that so you snuggle back into the couch, next to Karkat, and fall asleep.
