September 10th
Ship: NepetaxKarkat
Quadrant: Matesprits
Rating: T
Requested By: TailsDoll13
"Nepeta!" you cry out, sprinting down the halls. Honking sounds echo throughout the entire meteor as you round a corner, nearly tripping and falling in your haste. The fear inside you has hit its boiling point: your moirail was fucking insane, and your shitty job at pacifying him might jeopardize the lives of the trolls you care about. More specifically, what if he kills your flush crush?
You'd already told Equius to look for Gamzee, and so far you've gotten no response, so you're pretty sure he's dead. Without him, who else can protect Nepeta? Sure, she might have a chance of damaging Gamzee, but killing him? It was next to impossible. Your lungs ache from the physical exertion as you enter one of the many lab-like rooms on this desolate rock. There's a strange green glow coming from the tubes that illuminates the room, and you can see it all so clearly.
On the ground lay Equius, a bow string around his neck and a smile on his face. The sick fuck probably enjoyed being choked to death, which is obviously what happened to him. His legs are pointed in different directions and his face is bright blue, the color he so greatly prided himself on. Beside his corpse lies your one and only, Nepeta. She isn't dead yet, barely clinging to life. From what you can tell, her ribs have been bashed in. The blow to her grub scars must have stunned her, because it doesn't look like she even fought back. Her hat is missing, as are the action claws she loved so much.
The tears well up in your eyes as you kneel down beside her, not even caring if she knows the color of your blood right now. Suddenly, having candy red blood doesn't really bother you. Fuck, compared to what's happening, it was so stupid of you to hide it. The bright red liquid pours from the corners of your eyes and onto the green cloth of Nepeta's jacket. Her eyes lazily point at you, but you doubt she can focus on your image for long. She doesn't have much time left, does she?
"Kar… Karkitty?" she asks, almost as if the name were foreign to her. You nod and grab her hand, placing it on your tear soaked cheek as you try to till away the sorrow burrowing into your soul.
"Ya, it's me asshole," you say, not even willing to put any venom behind your words. The insult was more of a formality than anything, and thankfully, she understands that and giggles a little. Unfortunately, the giggling soon turns into coughing. Her whole body shakes and olive green blood sputters out of her mouth and onto your shirt, but you don't care.
"Fuck Nepeta I'm so sorry. This is all my fault, if only I'd been a better moirail and a better leader, then you'd stay alive. Then we could be together for all of eternity or some bullshit like that," you sob, hoping against hope that this is just a really vivid dream. She smiles up at you, reaching her other hand up to grab your empty one. The gesture sends more tears down your face.
"It's ok Karkitty, I don't mind fur one second beclaws you're here now," she says, stopping to cough up more blood, "and maybe we'll see each other another time. You know how time shenanigans can be."
She laughs at her own weird joke, and you laugh too because she's right. Time was really weird and offered a lot of loopholes to how ordinary life worked, but you can't shake the feeling that something bad will happen. Something that'll ensure that you never see Nepeta again.
"Thank you fur being here in my last moments. I just want you to know, I'm… I'm flushed fur you. We're OTP," Nepeta says, and it makes you laugh.
"I won't even pretend like I know what the fuck that means, but I'm flushed for you too. Please Nepeta… Don't leave me, not now," you beg, even though it's useless. Her life isn't in your control.
"I'm sorry," is all she says before her eyes flutter shut and the breath escapes her lungs. You shake her a little, not believing that she's dead. There was just no way she could be, not her!
"Nepeta wake up! You can't die, you fucking can't!" you scream, shaking her more vigorously, "As your leader I command you to fucking wake back up and live!"
Then you hear footsteps from behind you, and a gravelly voice whispers right into your ear, "And I command you to motherfucking die Karbro."
…
You wake up on a bridge, sweating bullets. At least now you know what Equius feels like, yuck. The last thing you remember is a searing pain in your head, then blackness. You sit up and look around, gazing at faces you've never seen before. There's plenty of hives, but this doesn't look like Alternia and why is it so… Sunny?
"Karkitty!"
You shoot straight up to your feet at the word, memories of what happened flooding back into your mind. Where was Nepeta? Was that all real? If so, why did this place feel like a dream? You feel two slim arms wrap around your waist and something nuzzling into your back. Could it be? You pry yourself away from the warmth that troll provided and turn around to be met with the whitest eyes you've ever seen. She was… Here.
"What the fuck is going on?" you demand, and her smile slowly subsides. You shifts on her feet and stares at the ground with her pupiless eyes, hands clasped guiltily behind her back.
"Well… We're dead," she states simply, then adds, "But at least we're together, right?"
You sigh and wrap her up in a hug on impulse. You were actually dead, meaning that asshole fucking murdered you. That would explain the headache you have right now. You bury your face in her shoulder and cry again, only the tears don't really symbolize sorrow. Their happy tears, because Sgrub was finally over. You were safe here, wherever this was, with Nepeta and that's all that mattered.
"You're right Nepeta: at least we're together."
Got in the mood for some death, oh well.
