The tape though, the tape

Stubbornness level at 100%

Blushing Kankri level 69%

You burst through the doors of the training room, looking around until your eyes fell on Morkai who was busy off sharping his 'equipment' like nothing had happened. You walked over to him while spilling out your thoughts without much thought going into them. "He didn't do it. You can't do anything to him."

"Hmm?" Morkai's eyes slid up to you, pausing what he was doing and the room fell silent. Looking rather interested in what you had to say, surprising enough.

"Caprus." You straightened your back a bit, trying to gather your thoughts before speaking again. "He didn't take the fucking tape." Caprus was a horrible liar, so you better lie for him. "I did."

Morkai's eyes only seemed to narrow as he watched you. "What tape did you take then?"

"The one with the surveillance footage." You said calmly, no way in hell you were going to tell him what was /actually/ on the tape. "Leave Caprus out of it, he had nothing to do with it."

"All of them have surveillance footage." Morkai's squint turned into a glare. "You're wasting my time. Get out." He moved to put the sword back to the grinder.

"The surveillance footage from earlier today, in the room down the hall." You growled over the sound of the grinding stone. Ears pinning back as you were starting to worry that maybe Morkai wasn't the one in charge of his punishment. Fuck, Caprus could be getting the snot beat out of him right now and you fucking left him! "Where is it..."

Morkai growled and dropped the sword on the ground, swiftly standing up to his feet and grabbed a hold of the front of your cloak. In a split second your back cracked against the wall of blunt instruments and Morkai was snarling in your face. "He's being taken care of. That troll couldn't lie to save his motherfucking life. I know he did it and I know you're trying to motherfucking cover him." He picked you up off the ground and slammed you back against the wall again. "What the fuck was on that tape that the two of you want to hide so gog damn badly!"

It wasn't a question, he was demanding you told him. "..Well it would be pointless if I told you, wouldn't it?" You curled your lip up and snarled right back at him. "Let me go." You demanded right on back to him.

Morkai wasn't taking no for an answer though. "If you don't motherfucking tell me. I'll kill you." He pulled a blunt club off of the wall with his hand that didn't have a dire grip onto your cloak.

You snorted at him, no way he would kill you. "You're just as terrible a liar as Caprus. Does that come with the blood?" Eyes darting to the club then back at him. He wouldn't kill you, sure, but he sure as hell could beat the crap out of you. "You wouldn't cull one of the Grand Highblood's pets unless you seek death."

"It would be fucking worth it. Your blood shouldn't even exist." Morkai swung the club and it cracked into your side.

The air was knocked out of you and you coughed and gagged to get it back. Making a most manly yelp if you do say so yourself. "The v-video was of me..." fuck.

The club pressed into your gut, cringing as Morkai pressed on. "What about you."

You panted a little at the sheer pain of such a simple gesture. "Me in a room... With a bunch of sick fucking clowns..." You couldn't take much more of the club pressing into you. You were still covered in bruises from your encounter.

"Do. Ing. What." Morkai hissed out every syllable. "OUT WITH IT FUCKER."

You gritted your teeth and reluctantly answered. "..Getting their jollies out with a mutant." Your eyes met his. This was wasting your time. You had to get to Caprus and you had to get that fucking club off your bruises.

That seemed to finally satisfy him. Morkai dropped you, mumbling "disgusting" as he walked over to a sink and threw the club into it. "I wouldn't motherfucking bother going to Caprus. He's being taken care of."

You pulled yourself back to your feet. Rubbing your stomach, but your own pain was the least of your worries right now. "Where is he!"

"Don't know. Don't care." Morkai had his back to you now, scrubbing off his hands in the sink with way to much soap. Had to be the cleanest clown you'd ever seen holy hell.

Anyway, you can think about how oddly clean he is later, turning and dashing out of the door and heading right to Caprus' room. Skidding to a stop just down the hall as you saw The Grand Highblood walk out with blood on his claws. He growled at you before he continued on down the hall, even left the door open for you.

running into the room once it was clear of The Highblood's presence you shut the door behind yourself and looked at Caprus.

Caprus was laying on his side, back pressed against the wall with his arms curled over his face. He was stripped of his clothes and his lap covered with his own genetic material, at least you hoped it was his own. The rest of his body covered in shallow cuts and blood. He didn't even look as you came in.

You dropped yourself down beside him, afraid to touch him, but oh how you wanted to help him. "Caprus..."

Caprus' mouth worked as he swallowed down an answer. "...He said, I had to make up, for the footage he lost." He lifted up a hand and gestured over to the corner of the room. Looking over you saw a camera set up there looking directly at the two of you.

You frowned and set a hand on the taller trolls hair. Silently trying to shoosh him. "I'm sorry Caprus... I... I tried to prevent... I'm just so sorry." You glanced over at the camera again before looking back to Caprus. "Where would the video be?"

"No, Kankri." Caprus moved his arms from his face to look up at him. His form trembling just a little. "He can have the video, I don't care." He pressed hsi cheek down against the ground, void of any expression. It hurt you to watch him be like this. "He didn't do much to me, really, it's fine."

You tried again anyway, voice remaining soft and soothing. "Where is the video?"

"I'm not answering you." Caprus' arms folded back over his face.

Pouting a bit, you removed your cloak and laid it over Caprus. "I'm sorry he did this to you."

"He's done worse." Caprus pointed out with a sigh. He seemed rather, content, really. "Thanks though."

You laid your head against his, softly petting his side, giving a few last paps before lifting your head up again. "If you don't tell me where the tape is, I will have to ask the highblood myself. I won't let him have it. Please just tell me."

Caprus shook his head, he looked rather fed up with your stubborness. "No Kankri. That's stupid and you know it. If you did something like that, he'd kill you." He forced himself to sit up. Head hanging down as he looked at you with tired eyes. "He told me that if you fucked up again, he'd kill you."

"I don't care what..." You trailed off and sighed. Giving a defeated nod. "Fine... But that goes for you as well. No more butting into each others shit... Are you okay?"

Caprus nodded back to you, his arms shaking just a bit at the effort of holding himself up. Or maybe he was just really shaken up about the whole thing. "I'll be fine. I'm not hurt that bad."

You hesitated a bit before asking him. "What did he do...?" You paused and quickly added. "You don't have to answer that."

Caprus just rubbed his face with a hand. "He just sat there and watched me. If I didn't do good enough, he hurt me." He moved a hand to the wall and slowly stood up. Other hand holding onto your cloak as he held it onto himself. "I'm gonna clean up."

"I will be here." You stayed sitting, looking up at him, watched him walk into the bathroom, and close the door.

You walked out of the bathroom, hair still damp. You were sure Kankri was checking our your new scars, especially the one that was going vertically down the gills on your left side. You hunted through your clothes and found some loose pants that probably wouldn't bother your injuries to much.

Kankri sounded, and looked for that matter, really concerned. "Can I help with anything?"

You rubbed your head with a still relatively shaky hand. You couldn't get yourself to stop shaking. Moving over to Kankri and flopped down on the ground beside him. Arms lazily wrapping around the shorter as you dropped your face into his shoulder. "Pap me." You said simply. You wanted him to calm you down, you knew he'd be able to.

Kankri did just as you asked. His fingers trailing down your back before placing a few paps there. "My pleasure."

You let out a content sigh, pressing closer to Kankri, you knew where your injuries were and carefully avoided them. "...Thank you."

"No problem... Are you gonna be okay?... Like your side and stuff..." He was referring to your gills. You gave a little bit of a nod. That was the one that hurt the most and was really the only one that was still hurting.

"Yeah, it just hurts a whole motherfucking lot." You sighed, shifting your legs around so they were laying on either side of Kankri. Much more comfortable.

"does it give you breathing troubles?" Kankri's concern for you was adorable. But why would a scar hinder your breathing? You had three other sets of gills. And you were above water so you weren't even using them right now.

"No." You snuggled your face into Kankri's shoulder and neck. "I can breath just as you do."

A comfortable silence stretched out. The two of you just enjoying each others presence, until Kankri had to break it again. "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault. But I appreciate it." You sank into Kankri's touch. Voice quieting tremendously. "One sweep. That's it."

"One more sweep." Kankri agreed, his chin resting on your head.

"I think you should come to training with me tomorrow." Your hands trailed down to Kankri's knees. "I think you should come all the time."

"Caprus." Kankri's form tensed a bit under you, you knew he wanted to say no, but he didn't. "...Okay."

"Don't be nervous." You papped your hands against Kankri's knees softly. "I'm his student, so he'll only be really mean to me." You lifted your head, meeting Kankri's beautiful red eyes. "He really doesn't like touching you." You offered a smile.

"Believe me, I know." Kankri smiled back at you. You knew he loved your smile just by how much he lightened up when you did it. "You know you have an amazing smile." And the fact he tells you all the time.

"Shut up." You said stubbornly, laying your face back into his neck. "You're just saying that."

"If I was just saying that, would I try so hard to get it out of you?" You could tell he was still smiling like an idiot.

"Maybe." You mumbled into Kankri's neck. "I can hear your smile in your voice, knock it off."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"You look like an idiot when you smile." You grumbled into his neck. "Makes your face turn all red."

"Well, I am an idiot. But you know you like it and you can't deny this like you do with my puns." Kankri set a hand on your cheek and lifted your head up so he could see your face.

You grumbled though and turned your head away stubbornly. "I sure can try can't I?"

"I don't know why you would want to." Kankri chuckled at you, his fingers running through your hair instead.

You paused a moment, pursing your lips as you thought about that one. Hnmm... "Someone's full of themselves."

"Who, me?" Kankri had a clealry fake shocked tone to his voice, as well as a good lacing of sarcasm.

"The one and only." You lifted your head, looking at Kankri. But you had to remain hunched forward so you could be eye level with the smaller troll. Your thoughts wandering around as your eyes scanned over Kankri's being.

"Well that's not possible. I'm /never/ full of myself." Kankri met your gaze, his eyes searching over yours in return, he must be able to tell that you were searching for something.

"Hnmm..." You sat yourself up straight, moving a hand up to poke the top of one of Kankri's horns. "Do you think your horns will get bigger?" Pausing a moment after that. Looking at how red Kankri's face had gotten.

Kankri shoved you away, biting his bottom lip. "...F-fuck off!"

You tilted your head a little, at first you thought he was just being a little self conscious, but no, his horns were just that sensitive. "Are they really that sensitive?" Of course they were that sensitive.

"No..." Kankri's face only grew redder and redder. "Maybe... Yes... Shut up..."

You tilted your head the other way. "Hnmm..." Observing how flustered the smaller was getting and decided to change the topic. "In one sweep, how much taller than you do you think I'll be? Still a foot? Or maybe five?"

Kankri blinked at your question, thinking about it himself it seemed. "I'm not familiar with the growth patterns of higher bloods. Although I would hope you don't get to much taller, I feel like you would just end up stepping on me."

You grinned a bit. "I can't imagine me getting any taller than my teacher. I think he's pretty average height. At least for the highbloods on this ship."

"Yeah, and I'm concerned he could squash me under his boot." Kankri grinned back at you.

"But you'll be a little bit taller by then as well." You lifted your hands up and showed 'a little' between your two hands. About 3 inches.

Kankri grabbed your wrists and moved them closer together to about an inch. "There we go, more accurate."

You chuckled and moved a hand to pap Kankri's head between his horns. "Much better. Much less full of yourself now aren't ya?"

"Shut up." Kankri smacked your hand away playfully. "I'm always full of myself... I'm just a realist."

You rolled your eyes at him. "I don't think you can be both."

"It comes with the blood. It makes it possible."

"You're just impossible through and through huh?" You poked Kankri's chest. "So impossible that it's possible?"

"That's me." Kankri winked at you. "My blood allows me to defy logic."

"Makes sense. You didn't seem like a logic kind of troll." You gave a little shrug. "I'm getting really tired."

Kankri became more serious then, though he still had a smile as he nodded. "Go to sleep, I will come back in the morning for training."

You made a face, you sorta wanted to object just to be stubborn, but you just nodded instead. "Okay, Kankri."

Kankri stood himself up. "See you in the morning then." He headed over to the door and not to much later he was gone.

You managed to pull yourself to your feet before moving to your recuperacoon. Sliding into it. It didn't take very long before you were fast asleep.

Hnmm... Sleep tight (o:

I've been writing this at school recently when I have free time so I'm going to be updating a lot faster.