*cackling

So you know, instead of updating on time like a good little fan fiction writer, I forgot in favor of doing eight loads of laundry. Not my choice.

So you know, to make up for it, I GIVE YOU THIS.

Enjoy my pretties.

Screaming. Endless, horrifying screaming. It was everywhere, and nowhere. He grabbed his head, curled into a ball. There were screams of rage, screams of pain, screams from loss, screams from terror. All loud, endless, and everywhere. Why? Why was this happening? What did he do wrong? Why did he hear this? He sat up quickly to see his own reflection. There was bright, bright red blood, leaking from his eyes. There was black oozing from his mouth. There was a rainbow decorating his hair. His mouth was wide, and he was screaming. He couldn't hear it though, it drowned in the voices of the thousands around him. He turned around, and they appeared, slowly. Their mouths open in pain, in fear, in anger. Thousands upon thousands of trolls of every blood, but in the front were them. All his friends, drenched in their colors. Making a morbid rainbow. They reached out their arms, grabbing for him, and he stood, backing away. He backed into the mirror, but they kept getting closer, closer. He could feel it crack, slowly, surely. Just as their collective fingers brushed his chest, he fell through, and into darkness and silence. The screaming was gone. His friends were gone. All that was left was the void. And soon, he was swallowed into its maw.

"KaNaYa, HeLp HiM! i CaNt WaKe HiM uP! aNd He WoNt StOp ScReAmInG!" Gamzee grabbed his hair and tugged, great indigo tears falling down his cheeks, running his paint together. Kanaya looked up from Karkat's screaming, writhing form with pity.

She looked down in pain and stated, "I Can Not. I Can't Seem To Wake Him Either." Her forehead scrunched, and she placed her hands over her eyes as she cried softly. Everyone else had fled to the other side of the hive. They just couldn't take seeing him so hurt, and they couldn't take the sheer noise of his screams. He had started screaming almost an hour earlier, and there wasn't even the slightest waver in the noise level. It wasn't even really so much the loudness either though. The tone. The horrid, nerve wracking, gut wrenching, tear jerking tone. He sounded like he was dying, in the most slow and painful way anyone could ever die, while watching the love of his life be murdered brutally, and his friends tortured.

And suddenly, it was gone. The silence rang, and Karkat lay still on the floor, sweat glistening on his forehead, bruises showing dully on his arms where he had flailed in his throes. Gamzee fell to his knees beside him, and watched him breathe carefully, evenly, before he hugged his sleeping form gently. Kanaya dropped her hands to see his forehead smooth out, and see him breathing evenly again. She smiled tiredly at him, and went to grab a damp cloth so she could wipe off his glistening forehead.

As she was walking back, the door in the back end of the hallway creaked open, and Sollux's head stuck out. "Ii2 he ok?" Kanaya nodded, and Sollux visibly relaxed, opening the door more. "Can…. can we 2ee hiim? Ii2 he awake?"

Her forehead scrunched a bit, and she responded. "He Hasn't Woken Yet. Which Is Quite Strange To Be Honest. He Usually Wakes Up Right After." She looked toward the living block, and then back to him. "I Don't Think Seeing Him Will Do Him Any Good Right Now. I'm…..Going To Check On Him." She turned worriedly toward the living block and walked briskly. She sat on her knees in front of his crumpled form, and looked at him closely. She noticed that his face was relaxed, which it never has been before. Even when he retreated within himself, his face wasn't relaxed. Something was wrong. "Gamzee, I Need You To Get Up And Roll Karkat Onto His Back. Now." Her curt voice startled him, and he complied immediately. When he looked at her face, he could see that something was wrong. She leaned her head down to his chest, and listened to his blood pusher. Her face grew more and more worried, creases forming on her forehead. "Gamzee, I Need You To Get A Flashlight. Now Please." He jumped up and went to grab one, rushing back to her once he retrieved it. She nodded a thanks and took it. She scooted up to his head, and opened one of his eyelids, only to fall back as she was greeted by a bright red iris. She shook herself a bit and got back up, opening it again and shining the light on it. His pupil didn't move. She started breathing hard, and almost screamed for Feferi to come. When she came running, Kanaya's face was covered in jade, and she pointed, with a shaking hand, to Karkat. When Feferi saw his limp form, she almost screamed too. She joined Kanaya on the floor, and listened to his blood pusher. It had a steady enough beat, but it was so faint, she feared he was going. As she listened though, it seemed to hold steady at its faint speed. She looked up to Kanaya and Gamzee, and the others as they filed in and tried to hold themselves together.

"H-e's in a coma."

Am I an asshole?

The answer is a resounding yes