So, hello all my lovelies! :D Here is the next chapter, I hope you all like it.

Warnings: :3 Secret!

~~Start~~ Karkat POV

You see John holding the red box of pocky and you instantly wonder why anyone would buy this. You know how it goes, two people each bite on the end of the pocky stick and slowly their lips connect in a sweet kiss. At least, that's how it goes in your romcoms. You slowly reach your hand out for the pocky box, and John lets you slip it through his fingers. You take the box in your hand and stare at it. You...feel like you want to take one out of the box and ask John if he wants to play the pocky game with you, but you know he wouldn't want that. Slowly, you open the box and and take out a piece of the sticks of pocky.

You glance up at John and he's looking at you with those big blue eyes of his. You blush and look back down at the pocky stick. You put the end of the pocky stick in your mouth and look up at John, you can see him staring at you, biting his lip. You smirk a tiny bit and watch as his gaze moves from you to the pocky in your mouth. He gives you this look as if asking for permission from you. You nod slightly and he closes in and puts his mouth on the other end of your pocky stick.

You're blushing super hard, but really you cant give a damn because John's lips are about 2 millimeters from yours and you cant help but to just lean in and place your lips upon his. You can feel him tense slightly but he doesn't pull away. Instead, he kisses you back and you can feel all your emotions just bundling up into a little ball and exploding into the kiss. You slowly place your hand on the back of his neck and kiss him a little harder, he weaves his arms around your waist and turns his head to kiss you at a different angle.

Slowly, you both break away for air. You're both flushed a deep red and panting slightly. John buries his face in your chest and sighs. "I'm... I'm still not a homosexual..." John said quietly. You laugh a little bit and wrap your arms around him. "Well did you ever stop and think that maybe your bi?" You say. He pauses and looks up at you. "Oh, I never thought of that!" He says and face-palms. You chuckle and hold him close to you. "Does this mean that we, uh... are going out now?" You ask quietly. He says nothing at first then nods slowly. "Yeah, I guess it does." He says and you can feel his arms tighten around you.

"Hey you two love-birds back there, find a place to hold onto something tight, we're going to take a short-cut to a town about 20 miles from here. It gets rough on this road so strap yourselves in tight." You hear Rose yell from up the front of the motor-home. "Whatever." You say back, just loud enough for her to hear. You and John decide to just stay where you are, since it seems safe enough. Neither of you really think the road is as bad as Rose makes it out to be. You lean into John and lean your head on his feel the motor-home start to jerk around and you instantly regret not securing yourselves more, it is one hell of a bumpy road.

"Ergh, this is bumpier than I thought it would be." John says as he clings to you. "It's too fucking bumpy. why cant some stupid goddamn workers get this road under control?" You growl. You see Rose slowly making her way down the isle of the motor-home, getting thrown back and forth, she slumps down beside the two of you and say, "This is a short-cut that isn't meant to be a short-cut. It used to go down to some old coal mines, but people found it a longer way back to town than the normal route so they made a secret road straight from the mines to the nearest town. It cut their travel in half my at least 76 kilometers. It's not used anymore since it's too dangerous." Rose explains.

"Then why the hell are we on this road if it is dangerous?" Gamzee says from up the back, he probably overheard Rose's explanation. "It's quicker." She says simply. "I hope it's all motherfucking safe and all, I don't wan't Tav to get hurt." He said, you take a glance in the back to see him wrapping an arm around Tavros and kissing his cheek. Tavros appears to be very flushed, at least that's what you think but you cant tell with all the bumping around happening inside the motor-home. You turn to look at Rose and you see her eyebrows creased together in a small frown. "You're worried." You say softly.

She turns and looks at you. "I am not." She says stubbornly.

"Yes you are."

"Are not."

"Are too."

" Are not!"

"Are too!"

"ARE NOT."

"ARE T-"

"Will you two please be quiet I cannot concentrate on my driving with you two arguing like that!" Kanaya interjects "And Rose, stumble your way back up here and quit lying to Karkat." Kanaya adds a little more soft than before. Rose sighs, "Yes Karkat, I am worried. This road is incredibly dangerous, and if we broke down it would be hell to walk to the next town." Rose says. You frown and look at John. "I hope we don't brake down..." You whisper. John had fallen asleep in your arms, and by god you didn't want to wake him. That would be mean, everyone loves sleep after all.

The motor-home continues it's bumping along the road. As you stare out the window, you feel John wrap his arms around your neck. "Hey... Karkat," He says tiredly "You know, I think I might just be in lo-!" A sudden jerking of the motor-home cuts off John as the tires squeal in protest of having the breaks put on too quickly. "What the fuck-!" You say as the motor-home lurches forward again, and you're thrown forward, squishing John. "Ouch!" You hear John say, you scramble to get up off the boy at the same time that a funny sensation goes through your body, and when you register what it is, it's too late.

The motor-home tips up and crashes down on the ground, you figure you must be on some sort of slope downwards since the motor-home is rolling. You're been thrown about and have lost track of John. You hear screaming coming from everybody, but it doesn't register in your brain, since you cant hear properly over the sound of your own voice. You can feel sharp pains in your side and on other numerous parts of your body. Your body is aching all over and your head feels like it is ready to split open at any moment.

A particularly hard jab to your head sends you into a world of dizziness and you can't think straight. Suddenly, everything is black. All the sounds have been drowned out and there is nothing.

~Rose POV~

Your leg is hurting really bad, and you can feel cuts all over yourself. You hear whimpering coming from somewhere around you, and you open your eyes. You immediately have to squint them to see through the dust that is yet to settle. You try to sit up, the vehicle has stopped moving, but the pain in your leg is too great. You try to slide yourself along the ground in the direction of the noise. You can feel bits of glass crunching under your hand and cutting your palm. It hurts, a lot, but you make your way along the floor anyway.

Your hand comes to rest upon something warm and soft, and you can tell it's a person. "A-are you ok?" You say, hoping they can answer you. You feel a hand grab your wrist, and someone mutter help. You cant quite recognize the voice straight away but you move your hand up their arm and to their face, trying to find out who this person is. You can feel warm fluid on a part of their body, but it's only slight. You know it's blood, it's the only warm fluid around.

You grab the person by the shoulders, and start pulling them. You don't know which direction to go in, but you choose any random one. Anywhere is better than here. You manage to pull the person to the side of the vehicle, the glass is cutting your hands and legs, but you don't care. Suddenly, something grabs your arm, and you let out a slight shriek. "R-Rose, is that you?" You recognize the voice as John. "John, help. We need to find the exit. We need to find a way out of here." You say as calmly as you can.

"Rose listen to me, I've already got Gamzee and Tavros out, I just need to get you, Kanaya, and Karkat out." John says in a very serious voice. "You're alright...?" You say, you're slightly dizzy. "Yeah I'm fine, a little cut up, but fine. Who've you got with you?" John replies. "I-I don't know." You say, you try to see John through the smoke, but you can only make out a slight haze of his face. He grabs your hand and pulls you up, and takes you through some wreckage and not before long a bright shine comes through your eyes and you can see daylight again.

He lets you fall down on the ground and runs back inside to get the others. You sit there crying a little, praying for everyone to be all-right. A few minuets later you see John jump through the wreckage, Kanaya in his arms. You smile happily for a moment and then stumble over to help her. She's unconscious and a bit bloodied, but she looks fine. You smile and let the tears roll down your cheek, your mind is going hazy from the smoke, and you cough every now and again. You place your hand on Kanaya's cheek and whisper sweet nothings, and words of safety.

You can hear John helping out more people, you feel around in your pocket, and realize your phone is still zipped up in there. You pray to whatever God's are out there that your phone is ok, and will get a signal. You pull out the light pink cellphone and flip it open. You have a few bars of signal, and you immediately dial 000. You hear a lady answer you.

"This is the Emergency Line how may we help you?"

"Uh- there's been-been acci-dent..."

"An accident? Where is your location, may we ask?"

"I-I don't know- it's somewhere near an old mine- it's the road that was closed off a couple years ago!"

"Hmm that's a dangerous road. I'll send an ambulance up to you guys."

"T-Thanks..."

You turn the phone off and let it slip from your fingers. You hold Kanaya close to you as you hear John stumbling around, he stumbles over to you. "I can't find Karkat!" He says, you can see he's about to start panicking, and you can easily see that in his eyes. "Don't worry John- everyone will be fine!" You say, he looks back over his shoulder at the motor-home, you see a tear slide down his face. "Karkat..." You hear him whisper under his breath. You reach out and grab his hand. "Everything will be absolutely alright! Please stop worrying you're making me worry even more now, and worry will not help nor solve anything!" Just as you finish saying your sentence, you hear the sounds of the siren in the distance, and you know the ambulance has arrived finally.

You close your eyes and try to sleep, knowing that the people will help you out now, and everything is going to be alright.

~End of Rose POV~

~Start of John POV~

Your hands are hurting like crazy, and not only your hands but your heart is also in pain. Worry has taken over you, and you can feel yourself crying. Gamzee is unconscious, but Tavros is awake now. You're in the hospital, your hands are bandaged and you've got a few stitches in multiple places over your body but nothing internal, or any major damage. You haven't heard anything from Rose or Kanaya yet. You sure do hope they're ok. Karkat is making you worry the most, you don't know how he is doing, and you didn't see who pulled him from the wreckage. You don't even know what ward he is in.

You're sitting in a chair beside Gamzee and Tavros's bed, you have your head resting on the back of the chair. Tavros's head resting on the bed-sheets of the bed, sleeping lightly. Suddenly the doctor walks in and sees you. "Ah yes, I thought you might be in here." She says happily, her long messy black hair swirling about her, drooping down to her waistline. She suddenly sees that you're worried and she stops looking happy. "I know you're worried, but I can't give you any information yet, as I don't know myself. I wish I could be of help." She says, a forlorn look on her face.

You sigh and droop your head. "Do you have at least a little bit of news?" You say quietly. She sits down next to you. "I'm sorry. I really don't know anything- actually I'm not even assigned to be your nurse, I was really only popping in to say hi to you, John.I mean, fancy meeting here." She says, a caring smile on her face. You look up at her, "What do you mean? How do you know me?" You say, you're now highly confused. She lets out a small giggle. "Silly, can't you remember me?" She says. You look at her for a minute before you remember everything.

"Jade! Oh my god, I didn't recognize you, how have you been?" You say, you would normally be happier, but your friends lives are more important than the good old family reunion. She gives you a hug, "Oh I've been fine. I can see you haven't been keeping fine, but... I hope everything goes alright." She says. You nod, and Jade messes up your already messy hair. "So have you found anyone special yet?" She winks at you and you turn a bright shade of red. "Maybe I have, maybe I haven't." You say. Jade smiles and looks over to the bed Gamzee is on. "Is he your boyfriend?" Jade says in a quiet voice.

You shake your head as quick as you can. "Oh? Then is it him?" Jade points to Tavros, who's still dozing lightly. You shake your head, yet again. Jade frowns lightly. "So you have no one?" She asks. You blush, "No, no, I do have someone...and how'd you know I would have I boyfriend instead of a girlfriend?" You whisper. "Girls intuition." She says, she then goes to say something but stops when the door to the ward opens once again.

"Ms Harley please go back to your patient, I need to speak with young Mr Egbert, and Mr Nitram for a moment thank you." Jade bows and hug you good-bye before hurrying back to the ward she's supposed to be working in.

"Now, Mr Egbert, we have some good and bad news." The nurse says, only addressing John as she can see that Gamzee is asleep. The nurse was only a young girl, she had long hair wildly placed everywhere, she had kind- but creepy- look about her. Her name-tag read 'Aradia'. "Would you like the good or bad news first?" She said. "How bad is the bad news?" You ask worriedly. "Bad." She replies softly. You put your head in your hands and let out a puff of air you didn't know you'd been holding. "Oh..." You say under your breath. "Well then I'd like to hear the good news first please..." You whisper. "Very well." Nurse Aradia says, "Your friends, by the following names, Rose, Kanaya, Gamzee and Nepeta, are all in good health, although they will be sore in various parts of their body for a few weeks at the most. Karkat, although in bad condition, will live- but his healing process will take a while."

You sigh in happiness at finally knowing your boyfriend is ok, damaged, but ok- "W-what is the bad news?" You choke out. Aradia gives you an apologetic look, and places a hand on your shoulder. "Sir you may need to take a seat, this might be a big deal for you, but please try to remain calm..."

You let her ease you into a chair before you let your head droop. "...Give me the bad news." You say. She swallows before replying, "Your friend, the dark haired one- Ms Maryam, she has... I'm sorry, but she has ot survived the crash. We are unsure if your friend, Ms Lalonde, will ever recover- I mean don't physically, I mean mentally. She wouldn't leave Ms Maryam's side the entire time and we literally had to pry her away from your friend. I'm so sorry, you probably were not ready for the details."

She stops talking as she looks at you. You feel hot tears sliding down your face, dripping onto your shirt. You hope to whatever is out there that this is not happening. You can hope with all your might, but you know that hope alone never makes reality fake, and the fake reality. You being to break out in racking sobs, Tavros awakes and looks at you.

"Huh? What's going on...?" He says groggily, rubbing his eyes on the back of his hand. "John? Are you ok?" He wheels himself over to you and drapes an arm around your shoulder in an act of comfort. "Nurse Aradia? What's going on, I'm confused?" Tavros asks just above a whisper. You manage to choke out a few words. "K-Kanaya's dead..." You whimper before breaking out in silent sobs again. Tavros looks at you with a shocked face. "No...This isn't happening. Is Rose ok!? Does she know!?" He starts asking questions, tears starting to well up in his eyes.

You look at Tavros, but you can't see him trough the tears in your eyes. "S-Someone needs to go get Rose-" Tavros says quickly, "She must be with a friend right now, John, you're the only one who can right now- I'm in a wheelchair, with more damage than I already had- so you have to go look after Rose! Please John." He says. You wipe the tears from your eyes and stand up. You must go get Rose. You head towards the door and open it, you turn left and sprint down the hallway. On your way you crash through people and objects, your eyes are hazy from the tears.

As you round a corner you see Rose sitting in a visitors seat, her foot is tapping under the stress, her fingers strumming on her knees. You rush over to her and hug her. "Rose, calm down, please try to remain calm." You say, your tears trickling down your face and dripping onto her skull-imprinted shirt. "John? Have you got any news?! No one will tell me how Kanaya is doing! Is she ok? Please John I must know!" She says frantically. She turns her head to look at you, she finally notices you're crying. "No..."She says softly at first, before breaking into sobs. She starts thrashing around, her whispers of 'no' soon turning into desperate yelling.

It makes you cry even more when you have to watch as the doctors and nurses have to wrestle her too the ground to contain her violence, you have to close your eyes as you watch them sedate her. You open your eyes when you hear her screams start to fall silent. You watch as she gets lifted up and taken to one of the wards. You know then and there just how bad the toll of Kanaya's death was on her, and how bad this will affect Rose in the future. You know she will never recover, and the great feeling of sadness only strengthens as you realize this is probably the last time you will ever see Rose again, and that was the last conversation you will probably ever have with her- if you could even call it a conversation.

You sit there in silence, your eyes dead of any life. You want to see Karkat right now. You want Kanaya to come back. You want everyone to be well, to be safe. You want... You want everything to go back to normal.

But what's done is done- and nothing can change what's already happened.

~End of Chapter 7~

Edit: /April 24 2015- I realize there are mistakes (I think) and I corrected the ones I saw in this chapter, sorry about late update, also, when I originally made this fanfiction, I had killed Gamzee AND Tavros off, but then I realized too late, that we didn't really know them well enough in this fanfic to have done that, and although it may have hurt since they were still characters most of us liked, the impact would not have been of the greatest caliber/

I am so sorry. I was fine writing the first part but I was dying while writing Rose's POV. And John's POV. This update is so late due to so much shit happening, and maybe a lot of talking with an awesome internet anon, but yeah- real life shit as well. Hope you all stuck with me!