You laugh manically in the padded room. How is it you ended up here? Oh thats right because you're a loony.

"BWHAHAHA" the laughter erupted the empty room.

Your name is DAVE STRIDER and you are COMPLETELY and UTTERLY INSANE. Not only that but the BIGGEST moron you've ever met.
You haven't even been in this room for two days and you can already feel yourself being slowly decomposed, looking at the white room you lay there on your back, hands bound and all. You didn't go down without a fight of course, when you first came here about 52 hours, 42 minutes and 5 seconds ago they just put you in a padded room with these sponge things on your hands but you started to hit yourself round the head with them and they got two guards to come in and change them, but you bite the woman with the injection to seduce you. Bitch.

She had walked to you so slowly while the guards held you down in a weak hold too, you never realized how easy it is to slip out of those holds when your skinny, your limbs are so easily pulled out of positions now. Your smile is wicked when you think of the woman's horrendous face when your sunk your teeth down and broke the skin so easily. The screech she let out was beautiful, seriously worth it when she jammed it in your neck so hard secretly swirling it a little leaving a scab that's defiantly going to scar, you don't mind though, it's just a reminder of that wonderful moment in time.

You don't like it here though, the people scream at night. You can't hear it in your little sound proof box but you can feel it, you know it like an instinct. You can tell they're scrapping at the walls, kicking and smashing limbs against them, you know the pain of where their fingers are dragging across the walls leaving a stain of blood from their bleeding and scarring finger tips, you understand the howling they call out in the night. This place is miserable, worse than the outside world, at least there you know you can kill without being watched by the never blinking eyes. Glancing in the corner you can see one now, hidden snugly in the corner. Grinning at it you watch the lens zoom in. Shitty cameras, you could probably come up with a better design.

Head snapping over watching the only door slowly open, is it the bitch again? But when you see a messy set of black hair with that red streak and grey eyes you immediately sit up, red eyes wide. Karkat's come for a visit. You haven't seen the boy in a while, even though he's your bro yet you had doubted joining him and his group, to the other twelve of older more...rational? People. Do you tell him your doubts? Do you tell him the group that's killed so many of his friends and workers is only a few years older than him and that there is only twelve?

He closes the door, neither of you say anything. You think about his point of view, he gives you some time off to let everything sink in and you wind up in a mental asylum. Your grins not leaving, but you eyelids lower as if you were tired when in reality your trying to not let tears spill. You feel so guilty, before you felt foggy like you weren't even there, like a way to slip out of this horrid white room without doing anything.
Opening your mouth to say something his stare doesn't lower, you then close it like a fool and look at the ground smile finally falling.

"I'm not going to see you for a while" whispered Karkat, barely even hearing him "The only reason I'm here is because we knocked out security...Sollux's on the other end of the camera"

Staring up at him the guilt killing you and to make it worse the voices are spilling cusses and insults at you again making you feel even more horrid- not like you shouldn't your a horrible person.

"Your really...Ill so I'm not going to visit for a while, not in till you seem...better. Seeing me and reminding you of the past will probably make things worse so...yeah. What happened to you...you seemed so, not asylum worthy? I guess. I mean you kill people but so do the rest and not all of them are bat shit crazy. Like only two so far ended up here..." Scratching the back of his neck Karkat leans on the door and sinks to the floor "You're not old enough to leave on your own consent without your brother or guidance, I looked into it he got into some sword fight and is in hospital something about being shot either way he wouldn't let them take him away demanding you to be put into here...Did you fight with him? You were at the scene when it happened" he was talking to you like you were a child but also talking to you as if he was still planning to talk to you in front of a mirror or something.

Looking at him something snaps, something really bad snaps inside you. A grin like Cheshire cat evolves on your face in a way so cruel you can tell a tiny piece of hims frightened. You remember the fight you had, you remember the voices cheering you on, you remember feeling so good when you did, you kept going like it was a drug.

"OF COURSE I DID" you yell like that time when this all started, you let yourself go lose "AND I'D DO IT AGAIN, I'D KILL ALLLLL THOSE PEOPLE AGAIN. BUT BETTER, FASTER SO I CAN GET MORE KILLS" Practically saying the same speech as last time
Karkat crawls over to you with wider than average grey eyes "Tell me what happened with your brother?"

Images of running, screaming and adrenalin your mouth moves with our your consent detailing everything you can remember
Leaning your head back you close your eyes letting you imagination run wild "It was so pretty Karkat, the rain made the random trees that had grown be such a pretty green, the people barely payed any attention to me just another random kid that was running somewhere, probably late for work or something. But they were so wrong...I was running because some woman wanted me and had a gun so I got the fuck out of there. I had done so much shit in the past week it's almost laughable" Letting out a belly laugh you lean forward holding your stomach watching as Karkat flinches too your wide beam "I was in a burnt building, killing people, betraying, meeting, thinking and trying not to die! Die of all things. That's something I would never try to avoid!" Pouting a little you carry on "I had realized that certain things aren't what they seem, not all cake is delicious no matter how pretty the icing"

Looking over the boy was still listening, how strange. You don't like it, so you try to throw him off by speaking faster "It's not my fault I'm so crazy is it? People can twist you in such awful ways that its almost ironic I didn't kill sooner, but heres the thing. My Bro wasn't as cool as it seemed. The guy had a mental break down on what a piece of trash I turned out to be, how disgusting and pitiful I had become!" You hadn't realized it but the voices had slipped into your own words again "I'm an awful piece of meat, I shouldn't even call myself that! I'm just a waste of space that kept struggling for survival when in reality I would have just given up and let it go to waste. No one seems to like me only the part of me that i show- ACTINNNNNNNG, EVERYTHING I DO IS ACT AND ACT, LIE OVER AND OVER TO MYSELF TO YOU TO THE OTHER TO EVERYONE AROUND ME AND GUESS WHAT THIS IS ME KARKAT. I'M CRAAAAAAZY, AS SOME WOULD PUT IT LOOK AT ME, I'M BOUNDED UP AND CAPTURED. IF I EVER LEAVE THIS PLACE PUT ME IN THE WILD LIKE YOU SHOULD I'M ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS ALL MY TALENTS WERE MEANT TO KILL!" Panting and breathing harsh Karkat kept staring lost for words

"Look at you, your at a lost for words how insignificant I really am, my brother should have lived not me he was the one who was worthwhile, HE WAS THE ONE WHO MADE MY BRO SMILE, HE MADE PEOPLES DAYS I WAS JUST THE EXTRA PACKAGE THAT TAGGED ALONG! HE HAD EVERY TALENT I DIDN'T AND THAT'S A WHOOOOLE LOT OF TALENT" Your screaming now and there's no stopping you "I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT MYSELF, I'M A SICK TWISTED SON OF A BITCH. A BITCH THAT TOOK THE GUY WHO MADE ME A BASTARD LEAVING ME TO MY BRO AND MY TWIN. MY TWIN WHO WAS MURDERED IN FRONT OF MY FUCKING EYES!" Staring at him you try to point at them but your arms were bound, vision going blurry from them leaking "EYES THAT ARE SO FUCKING EVIL AND TWISTED, SEEN SO MUCH, FORGOTTEN SO MANY, THAT HAVE GIVEN ME SO MANY FEARS AND ANXIETIES OF PEOPLE JUDGING ME I JUST STOPPED CARING. AND THEN I FUCKING CRAVE MORE. THE VOICES, THE VOICES- KARKAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEY DON'T LEAVE THEY JUST MOCK QUIETLY, AND WHEN THEY ARE QUITE ALL YOU CAN DO IT WONDER WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO BE BACK. IT'S LIKE A BIG SPIRAL OF NEVER ENDING TORTURE" Taking in another deep breath the boy was still listening quietly

"And then...And then you wonder...What did I really did to deserve this? I'm a sack of shit I know but...Do I really need to be treated like it from myself?" Snarl weakening and turning into a sob "I've done such sick things, and then I forget about what will happen like I'm not even there anymore and someone else is driving my body. I like killing but...I think part of me wants to be a hero I can't be because...Just look at me, I have so much wrong with me that I end up here. I never really got people and I wonder if any of the truly cared what happened to the boy with the red eyes"

And then Karkat gets up and walks closer and hugs you "I do idiot, I'm your best friend. If you needed release like this tell me, I'm not here just for decoration. I'm here to help that's what friends are for. And in no way are you pathetic got that? And if you feel like shit I'll come feel like shit with you, that's how i usually feel anyway"

"But-"

"Shhhhh" He brings a hand to your puffy face, tears still falling from your eyes "Your eyes are not from demons it's more like a rose garden in blooming. Don't be ashamed of something that is part of your characteristics it makes you who you are"

And then you fall asleep reliving your memories of a few nights before.


Ok so I haven't updated in a while because word reallllly fucked me over and I lost about 5 chapters so i rewrite this one so even if I did get word back it would just become unrelevent. But it's all fiiiiiiiiine I'm trying to type them all today and tomorrow because I'm going on holiday in 48 hours. Whooo.

So in this chapter, whoooo baby what the hell happened to him? Karkat gave us a clue and Dave described a little bit of it.

~NEXT TIME FEATURING BRO STRIDER AND DAVE STRIDER AN EPIC DUEL. ALSO CASTING JOHN EGBERT ROSE LALONDE (I really need to look up on how that's spelled because I swear I've spelled it 3 different ways) SN0WMAN AND A FEW OTHER UNIMPORTANT CHARACTERS AND ONES NAMES I FORGET~