Chapter 20
Thanks for the reviews from Masterblader158, LordPeanut, FriendlyReader, GoggleHeadOtaku, Black Phantom Murder, Darkwolfpup22, peterpennykirkland, and HeirAndKnight
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"K-K," he stutters out. The red armored troll looks at him and now Eridan knows, he knows that Rednight is Karkat Vantas.
"Is something wrong with you Mr. Ampora?" Karkat asks like he has never seen Eridan before, "I should leave."
"No," Feferi says grabbing his arm, "you aren't fronds with Eridan." Eridan is still in shock. How is this possible, we all watched him die, he was beaten to death for crying out loud! Eridan thinks.
"K-Red," he says. Calling him Kar will just get both of them in trouble, he has to talk to him alone later to see what is going on, "you are with Fef?"
"Yeah," Karkat says, "and you are her famous moireel. It was nice to meet you but I need to…." he stops when he gets a death glare from Feferi for trying to excuse himself again. "Never mind," he looks away and Feferi smiles.
"What is wrong with you tonight Rednight?" she asks. Eridan wonders if she knows he is Karkat.
"I am just tired," he says, "I am sorry for my rudeness."
"You are a land dwweller," Eridan says then covers his mouth when Karkat glares at him like he taught him better and he did. Eridan knows not to be rude to him or any land dweller for that matter.
"Eridan!" Feferi screams, "That was mean!"
"It doesn't matter, Fef," Karkat says with his hand on her shoulder, "we are all friends here, well we are a shade darker," he smirks at Eridan.
Eridan growls, "are you tryin to push me?!"
"Yeah," Karkat admits, "so what. I do this with almost everyone I first meet, ask my moirail." A blue blood walks in and smacks Karkat in the back of the head, he is on the ground holding his head, "FUCK WHY?!" He growls up at the taller troll.
"Engineer," Feferi says shocked to see him. Eridan grabs his gun and Karkat waves him off, like he knows what will happen next.
"Moirails don't slap each other like that!" Karkat growls as he stands up.
"That was a pap," he says.
"I will show you a fucking pap," Karkat pulls out his red bow and arrows. The taller blue blood runs away and Karkat puts those away for his red sickles then chases after him, "get back here fuck ass!"
"Do I need to shoosh pap you again?" The blue blood asks and Karkat stops.
"You wouldn't fucking dare," he says and holds his sickles up in a defensive pose. The blue blood walks to him, "Engineer stop," he keeps walking to him, "stop… Oh fuck!" He drops his sickles and runs from the Engineer.
Feferi smiles and giggles, "aren't they cute?" She asks. Eridan watches the Engineer try to catch Karkat but he jumps out of the way or slides pass/under him.
"Fuck you," Karkat screams and does a double flip off to his moirail.
"Prepare for the shoosh papping of the life time Rednight," the Engineer says and catches the mutant blood. Karkat struggles to get free, "calm down shoosh," the sea dwellers watch the Engineer shoosh pap Karkat tile his was relaxed and his gray eyes are half lidded.
"Wwoww," Eridan says, "wwhere did you learn that?" He watches the Engineer pick up the relaxed Karkat who closes his eyes and falls asleep in his moirail's arms.
"He taught me that so someone can calm him down when he finally snaps," he says.
"What?" Feferi asks, "what do you mean snap?!"
"Oh my apologize I mean snap at someone, like attacking when they provoke him," he explains and everyone hears a small purr and the engineer blushes, "excuse me," he leaves quickly with Karkat. Eridan curses to himself because now he won't be able to talk to Karkat.
Feferi is laughing, "isn't he just so glubben cute?" She asks.
"Um yeah," Eridan says.
"That was him purring too," Feferi says, "and his moirail know that he hates it when people hear him purr like a kitty." She laughs since cat is part of Karkat's name. She knows Karkat is Rednight and she knows Karkat is a mutant. But that only makes her pity for him grow.
The Engineer puts Karkat in his bed; he knows very well that his moirail doesn't like to sleep in his recuperacoon. He worries that one day he will just stop sleeping because of nightmares he must have when he is out of the slime. He puts the gray blanket over him and leaves, he doesn't understand why but every time he has to shoosh pap Rednight he always falls asleep afterwards, maybe that is why he hates to be shoosh papped.
"You want me to fucking work for you?!" Karkat asks in disbelief, he shakes the chains that hold his arms to the wall.
"Yes, and be Feferi's matesprit, you must have figured out she is flushed for you," the Condesce says, "unless you are really that oblivious to how she feels for you."
He looks down, "I am fucking clueless," he growls then glares at her, "why do you want to leave me alive?" The mutant blood is so confused right now, he is bargaining for his and his family's lives right now.
"I just gluben told you seaweed," she says and runs the back of her hand across his check, "you won't tell her of our deal either. You will live with us and protect and glubben love her until you two die together. You will also allow me to raise your life span again like I did that night."
Karkat is shocked, so that is what she did to him. He knows fuchsia bloods live for a long time and if he did die with Feferi then everyone he knows, everyone he cares about, and everyone he is trying to protect will be dead by then. Even if it is for a short time, he will protect them.
"You want me to live with you and love Feferi in return you will protect Miss. Kanaya and the Signless. And before you try to say I am the Signless, I am the Sufferer; the boy with me is the Signless." He is making sure she won't screw him over with the deal.
"Yes, do we have a deal mutant jade blood?" She asks and runs her hand across his check.
"Yes," he says and she smiles like a shark.
"Then you will need a new name," she says, "What will we call you?" She thinks.
Karkat interrupts her thinking and says, "Rednight, Red because of my mutant blood and night because I like the night sky. Well?" he asks for her approval of his title.
"Ok Rednight," she says and grabs his chin, he feels his life growing, "welcome home."
After being beaten he wakes up in a medical block with several rust bloods scurrying around him to make sure his wounds are healing correctly. He opens his eyes and sits up slowly, "what the fuck?" He looks at them all stop. They give him food since he hasn't eaten in a month and after he is finished Feferi and the Condesce come in.
"Katfish," she hugs him, he cringes from the pain that still exists in his back up bites his bottom lip and hugs back.
"You gave us quite a scare seaweed," the Condesce says, "and a surprise too."
"Katfish, why would you be the preacher?!" Feferi asks sounding hurt, she pulls away from the hug and grabs his hand, "why?! And why did you lie about your blood color?!"
Karkat sighs, making it looks like it was time for him to come clean about something. He remembers his deal with the Condesce. "I am sorry but I did it for us," he says, good keep the lie rolling.
"Us?" She asks, "what the glub do you mean?!" She asks on the verge of crying.
Karkat looks at her sadly and puts his hand on her check, "I wanted to make a world that would let us love each other." She blushes, "in this one a mutant like me would never be allowed to be in a matespritship with you, the highest blood on the hemospectrum."
The Condesce is impressed with his performance; she is even starting to think he is telling the truth. Maybe he does pity her like she does with him, he cannot be that good of a liar, can he?
"Reely?" She asks. She is overjoyed to hear this, her pity is returned, he does like her.
"Yes but I know someone like you would never pity me. I have been fucking lying to you since we met that night, I have lied to everyone about what I am and I am sorry," Karkat says. He is actually sorry for lying to her but he knows her feelings for him and he knows his pale feelings for her.
"Katfish," she puts her head on his, "I pity you so much it glubben hurts," she starts to cry, "when I was watching you get hurt it took so much glubben effort to not run up and save you and when he said you were dead…"
Karkat makes her look at him and he wipes her tears away then kisses her. "Then if you will allow me, may I be your matesprit?"
She smiles, "glub yes!" She hugs him and he hisses, he almost screams. She pulls back to see him cringing and the red tears on the corner of his eyes, "Oh my glub I am sorry!" She says and tells the rust blood nurses to help him.
"Don't worry it just hurts when someone touches it," he says and gives her a small smile, "I am fine," he gets out of the bed and everyone is shocked when he walks to her. He has bandages over his chest a back to hide his scars and he is wearing new black pants. He is relieved that he has pants, if he wasn't then that would have been very embarrassing.
Feferi touches the bandages over his chest, "sixty nine times," she mutters sadly, "it must have reely hurt."
"It is fucking over now so forget about it," Karkat says but the scars from that day will remain on his back for the rest of his life. She smiles sadly at him.
Eridan spends the day at Feferi's by her request since she wants her moireel and matesprit to get along. Eridan didn't protest but as soon as she goes to her own room Eridan searches for Karkat's.
"Are you looking for something honorable high blood?" The Engineer asks when he sees Eridan walks around alone, "did you get lost?"
Eridan smiles, "wwell I am lookin for K-Red's room, wwhere is it?" He hates calling Karkat Red but he has to keep up this act until they are alone and can talk.
"What do you want with my moirail if I may ask," he asks.
"You may not noww showw me," Eridan growls. He is losing his patients; he needs to see why Karkat is still alive and working for Feferi.
The Engineer scowls, Karkat must have taught him how to do more than shoosh pap someone. "What do you want with my moirail?" He asks sternly this time, "I will not show you to his respiteblock until you tell me why."
Eridan growls, "I need to talk to him," he says. He refuses to tell this troll about why he needs to talk to Karkat.
The Engineer growls but leads him to Karkat's room; he doesn't trust the sea dweller with his moirail. They stop at the door with a gray cancer sign on it, "here."
Eridan looks at him, "you can go noww," he growls.
The Engineer leans down to Eridan, "if he has a new wound on him tomorrow I will know. Then I will hunt you down a beat you with my bow," he walks away. Eridan shutters at the protect moirail's words, he knocks on the door then enters.
Karkat wakes up from someone knocking on the door; it must be Feferi since he is sleeping alone. But Eridan walk in, Karkat slips out of bed, "hello Mr. Ampora. Are you lost?" It shocked Karkat to see Eridan tonight and it took him a lot of control not to ask him about Kankri, Gamzee, Sollux, Kanaya and Vriska. He knows he will at least know something about Sollux since they are in a pale and somewhat blackdom and he knows Sollux will tell him things that have happen. He should also talk to Vriska since he is a very blackdom with her. They all know he has two blackdoms and neither one minds the other.
"Kar cut the act already!" Eridan says as he closes and locks the portal, "do you not recognize me?!"
Karkat makes a fist as he puts back on his belt with his sickles still sheathed on them, "I must apologize but I don't." It is best to keep Eridan out of this, if only to protect him. "Karkat was the Sufferer and the Sufferer is dead."
Before Karkat can leave Eridan cuts Karkat's hand and a few drops of his mutant blood hit the floor, "really Kar?" He asks with a grin.
Karkat's eyes widen, "oh fuck!" He growls and runs into his hygiene block to wrap his hand up, "what the fuck is wrong with you Eridan?!" He hisses in a low voice, "are you trying to get me culled again?!"
Eridan is taken back at Karkat's attitude change, "but I…" He says as he watches Karkat clean up his mutant blood from the floor.
"It is still a fucking secret Eridan," he washes off the red cloth then hangs it over the shower to dry, "well?"
"I…" Eridan is still confused.
Karkat sighs and lead him to his bed, "go ahead and ask. You already got yourself into this shit so ask," Karkat sits on his bed.
"Howw are you alive?" Eridan asks and sits next to him, "and wwhy didn't you tell me you wwere the Sufferer? Is Kan the Signless?!"
"Ok hold that thought," Karkat says stopping his questions, "I made a deal with someone, I didn't tell you because of how you always talked about us and yes Kankri is the Signless. How is he anyway? I mean how did he take my death? And how is my mother?" Karkat asks with a softer look. He worries about Kankri and his mom every day and night.
"I havven't seen him any and wwho is your mother?! Wwhat is a mother?!" Eridan asks. Eridan lies about seeing Kankri since he has changed so much, Eridan still thinks the boy that he met on Vriska's ship wasn't really Kankri but a different mutant blood boy.
"The troll that raised me fuck ass," Karkat says, "Miss. Kanaya."
"I havven't seen her either," Eridan admits.
"What about Gamzee please tell me you have checked on him soon," Karkat pleads.
Eridan looks away ashamed, "sorry Kar."
Karkat lets out a low growl, "forget it," he stands up, "what do you even fucking want?"
Eridan signs, what did he want? He wanted to see if Rednight was really Karkat but what now? He has no information about anyone, he can't tell him anything.
"Wwhy are you here and wwith Fef in a matespritship?" Eridan finally asks, "and moirails with that blue blood?"
Karkat signs, "that isn't any of your fucking business Eridan," he pinches the bridge of his noise and takes off his belt again knowing he isn't leaving his room anytime soon.
"Kar!" Eridan says, "tell me wwhy you are stayin here instead of tellin Kan you are alivve and kickin!" Eridan sounds upset, he is too. Why would Karkat be hiding here when everyone thinks he is dead?! He could have at least told everyone he is alive and where he is. So why didn't he?
Karkat looks away, "Eridan, you wouldn't understand!"
He says then Eridan makes Karkat look at him, "try me! Everyone has been mornin you for a month noww and here you are alivve and wwell. I wwant an explanation for your hidin!" HE growls the last part in Karkat's face.
"You want to know why I didn't tell anyone I am still fucking alive?" He asks and looks straight into Eridan's purple gray eyes. Karkat still has his gray contacts in, Eridan nods. "I am a fucking prisoner here," he hisses, "I am not allowed to leave without someone with me and it is usually my 'moirail' and he isn't going to let me leave here. Fuck, no one even knows I was the Sufferer at one point or the fact I am a mutant blood. If I could leave then I would have, I made a deal to stay here too. If I do then the Signless and my mother get protection from everyone," he says.
Eridan is shocked, "your stayin here to protect them?" He feels bad for growling at yelling at Karkat now, "I didn't…."
"Don't," Karkat says, "now you should leave before someone notices you are gone."
Eridan walks to the door, "I am sorry," he walks out the door and runs into the Engineer, "wwhat?!" He stumbles back into Karkat's room.
"Engineer," Karkat says, "what the fuck are you doing?!" He moves his hands behind his back to hide the cut.
"Did he do something to you?" The Engineer asks, "Did this sea dweller hurt you Rednight?" He has his bow out but no arrows with him. Eridan quickly scurries behind Karkat.
"No," Karkat moves his hands and the Engineer sees his hand wrapped in a cloth, "fuck." He signs, "fine yes he cut me but…"
The Engineer walks closer, "I warned you sea dweller," he holds his bow up to strike him.
"Hey," Karkat stands in front of Eridan, "shoosh," he shoosh paps the Engineer until he drops the bow. "It was an accident, he thought I was his lost friend and his friend had an unusual blood color so he wanted to make sure I wasn't him."
"How was the cut an accident then?" He asks.
"Shut the fuck up," Karkat growls, "this does not leave my room."
"Fine," he says, "I will escort you back to your room sea dweller," he picks up his bow.
"Don't tell anyone about today," Karkat says and his moirail nods, "thanks," Karkat goes back into his bed as Eridan and the Engineer leave.
They walk to Eridan's room, "if you ever hurt him again or give me a reason to think you will I will break you in half," the Engineer threatens, "I will also keep today a secret from the Heiress for his sake alone." He leaves Eridan and goes back to his room.
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