Waking at the touch of a hand on his shoulder John quickly grabbed his hammer. "Hey bro, relax." Opening his eyes he looked up when he heard such a familiar voice soothing him. "Just relax, you look like shit, ok?" Dave never spoke like this, like he actually cared. Usually he was all ironic and acted like a douche.
"What do you mean?" John asked in a confused manner. At the moment he had no recollection of having found Karkat and having somehow made the trip back the base camp. His friend just smiled and sat back; apparently just glad to see that the derp hadn't died on him. "Dave, what do you mean?" he pestered with a frown.
"It's nothing bro. Just chill." Waving his hand for him to shut up he stretched out his legs. "You do not look well is all I meant by anything," he scoffed and lowered his shades to look his friend in the eye. "Will you just chill out now?"
Giving up he laid back with a sigh. "Whatever man." Groaning slightly he rubbed his head, trying to scan his mind for any trace of why he felt like he was missing something. He watched Dave for a minute, as if scanning him too for some answer. Unfortunately his bro could keep a straight poker face even in the toughest of situations. It didn't help at all. Staring back at the ceiling above him John bit down on his lower lip as he tried to form this missing emotion and memory.
After what seemed like forever he jolted upright and stared at Dave. "Where's Karkat? Is he okay? Please tell me he's okay. Dave, you have to let me see him. Right now. This instant." Before the derp could get too far into demanding things the other just held up a hand to stop him.
"Hold those horses still bro. Nothing has changed since you got here, well… other than you three being here I guess." Shrugging in a nonchalant manner he slowly stood and fixed his shades. Always being such an ironic prick. "You need to rest though, leave Karkat to us." Watching John seem to struggle with accepting this the other human slowly smiled. "Please trust us?"
At such a polite tone John was taken aback and stared at Dave for a full minute. "Oh… sure. I guess. Can you still take me to see him?" he asked in his concerned voice.
Wheels starting turning in his head as Dave formed a little plan. He wanted to make sure Terezi was doing fine so this was a nice way to do both things at once. It wouldn't hurt anyone to let John actually see the troll. "Fine, you can go see him." Seeing the concern and gloom evaporate from his friend for a moment almost made the cool kid smile. "But! Since you're weak right now I'm going to have to carry you there." Leaning down he picked up the other and tossed him over his shoulder.
Squeaking in surprise as he was lifted up in such a way John became kicking weakly. "No, I can walk by myself. Let me down."
As much as the boy protested Dave didn't care one bit. "Oh shut up, it's not even that far." With that he started walking towards the room they were keeping the dying troll in. Dave didn't have the heart to tell John that Karkat wasn't actually going to get better or ever wake up again. After the trouble of getting him here in one night he didn't want to think about what that idiot actually meant to his best bro.
Welp. I think I might take a little break from this fanfic and start another, probably not actually. Dunno... would you guys care to read some of my other JohnKat fics…? I might post them soon.