Karkat knelt down, picking up his sickles, strapping them on his belt.
"Feferi, take me to Kanaya." He ordered.
Feferi glances at him, seeing him that way. She couldn't take him to his death, she promised Kanaya that she wouldn't do it.
"I . . ." Feferi pauses, "I can't, Karkat."
"Just do it Feferi," hisses Karkat, "Kanaya would've done the same for any of us!"
"I can't break the promise I made."
"What promise?" asks Tavros, shyly.
"Kanaya wants you to stay alive Karkat," Feferi again pauses, "I can't break that promise I made her."
"There isn't much time, Feferi!" Karkat huffs, "The Condense probably has something already up her sleeve for all of us."
"She probably does, Karkat." Terezi pauses, "But, we can't all just go willingly to our doom just to save Kanaya."
"No one gets it," Karkat taps his foot, "Kanaya was more than a second mother to all of us!"
Dave glances over at Karkat, seeing his anger rising as he couldn't hold it in any longer.
"So, if none of you are going to do what you think is right," pauses Karkat, his voice full of anger, "then I will."
He turns his back to the others, clenching his fist before he began walking slowly. Terezi grabs onto his wrist.
"Karkat . . ."
"Don't stop me, Tez." Karkat hisses.
"I am not letting you go to her."
"Why?" He pauses, "It's just a matter of time before the Condense finds the camp and we all get arrested. Just let me go!"
"Karkat!" Terezi screams.
He turns to see her, teal tears running down her cheeks, her grip on his wrist tightened.
"I just . . . I just don't want you to die."
He inhales deeply as he pulled her into a small hug.
"Terezi, there is just no other way." He pauses, "What would you do if you were in my shoes?"
She stood there, pondering about the question. The answer was clear to her.
"Just don't get yourself killed, you big idiot." She cries.
Karkat gave her a smile.
"You haven't changed one bit." He pauses, "I promise that I will come back to you."
She nods her head.
"I'm red for you, Karkles."
His cheeks lit up a bright shade of red, his skin became warm to him.
"I'm . . . I'm red for you too, Terezi." He says.
Terezi's grip loosened, as Karkat turned back around before walking off again. He froze, taking one more glance at the others of the rebellion, taking his final glance back at Terezi, seeing her teal tears falling from those burnt out eyes of hers. He turns his head back around, rolling his shirt off his body, his muscles were visible for everyone to see. He turns his body around, showing his bare top half as he stared at everyone individually.
"I'll bring her back," He pauses, "I promise."
He let his shirt fall from his hand, the cancer necklace still around his neck, turning his focus on Feferi who took a deep breath in as she walked to him.
"I will take good care of him." Feferi says, before turning around and walking off.
Karkat turns and follows Feferi to the Condense's warship. Sollux stood there, watching them leave. Everything he had was gone. His first flush crush was murdered, died right in his arms. His second flush crush has to marry someone else. He felt his emptiness within him. He had no one to turn to; not a friend, not his ancestor, not even Aradia to complain too. The emptiness made him break down, right there. Meulin goes to his level, and comforts him. Those tears didn't stop though. He couldn't help it, he could feel his ancestor's pain, his own pain, and the pain of losing two flush crushes on the same day. He began to think that Karkat was right, there was something he could do. But now he couldn't stand up and go after him, he couldn't get himself to stop crying.
