Recovery
Nepeta traced the scars on karkats body for what must have been the hundredth time that day she had each one committed to memory except for his grub that was she was to embarrassed about him being only in his boxers to consider touching those sighing she wondered briefly when he would wake up it had only been a week. a week she repeated quietly full scale war was being waged over this one troll well maybe not him exactly but he is the symbol they're rallying behind the second mutant blood to ever be hatched the signless being the first one and the reason this was even possible at the thought her hand reached up to the necklace she wore as did every rebel they are no longer just necklaces they have each individual trolls name and rank carved into the back this served two purposes a way to identify the dead and a means to unite the living she looked down at hers nepeta leijon brigadier general she couldn't really say she had earned it she was pushed into the position because of ancestry more than anything she didn't argue in fact she was good at this she had already saved two hundred lives by changing the plans of her inferiors they might have been more experienced but none of them seemed to realize the more of them that died the easier they would be to defeat she had two peers as it stood as the door opened behind her she saw one of them feferi pexies the former empress to be a scar going from her cheek and down to the bottom of her jaw marred her otherwise perfect feature the scar came from her fight with the condese the hit she had landed in fact feferi won the fight but had refused to kill the bitch so she went into hiding and joined us she had been the one to bring karkitty here he had hit the water twenty feet from her temporary home as she liked to call it she messaged me on trollian which was in and of itself dangerous and told me to send a transport she had been spending her time trying to recruit more see dwellers since hey there catfish she said in her typical bubbly demeanor hi there she said trying to sound cheerful but with karkitty sitting there fighting for his life it wasn't easy fighting for his life isn't the correct phrase he was almost guaranteed to pull through it was just a matter of when but still her flushed crush was hurt and she couldn't do anything about it hey feferi said quietly he will be all right her typical happy mood wasn't there anymore she was a good friend to all of them nepeta thought it wasn't fair how she had been treated but then again what was in this society feferi scratched nepeta behind her horns and she couldn't help but purr and smile only she knew she did that they have become good friends in the past week even though she was usually busy she still stayed in here with her for two hours every day they didn't talk about anything at first but after a while they talked about movies and TV shows they liked as well as their favorite foods and once they were done feferi would leave and nepeta would stay up and watch karkat sleep until she passed out herself she was never sure if feferi came back at night but nepeta always woke up with a blanket draped over her as she took her usual place across from nepeta she still frowned profusely after five minutes of silence feferi spoke up they want to force him awake she said quietly what nepeta growled they could kill him I know feferi said sadly but they think if he isn't woken up soon what morale our troops have left will dissolve and our men will lay down their arms and surrender nepeta choked at these words but it's only been a week how can they be that demoralized already the response she was afraid of were getting beaten bad if our leader delivers a speech any doubts about a second signless being hatched will be put to rest and the four lowest castes will throw there lot in with us completely until then were working with a tenth of our man power nepeta chewed her lip in thought why ask me is all she could manage because they asked us all I said yes tz said no so you're the deciding factor chewing her lip harder she only stopped when she tasted the salt and copper of blood she decided to stop that habit as soon as possible feferi was staring at her expectedly she sighed fine she finally said he will die if we lose this war anyway better to be awake and fighting then be culled while he slept what do we need to do she asked hesitantly this is when the doctor decided to come in no doubt waiting for her dession on the matter she walked in carrying a vial of a clear liquid you can hold him down while I give him the adrenaline shot he will wake very fast and trying to sit up as he will could harm him due to all these tubes in his arms they both nodded and took there places on either side of him pressing down just slightly she slid the needle into his arm and pushed the plunger down it was maybe thrity seconds before his eyes shot open dialated and full of fear he jerked up and it was amazing they were able to hold him at all let alone the tenetaive grip they had every time he got his chest up it took everything they had to push him back down at one point he hit the doctor and clawed nepetas arm drawing quite a bit of blood it continued on like that for five minutes his screams for help being the only thing anyone could hear at all he wore himself out quickly though that's when he noticed who he was fighting against he touched nepetas cheek hesitantly and whispered an apology it took him twenty minutes to be brought up to speed and another twenty to be our leader a far cry from the person he had been a few sweeps ago the last few years had changed him significantly nepeta decided she would talk to him alone later they stood and made there way to the conference room after he had dressed in a uniform gray of course but his symbol had all of the hempospectrum in it this was going to be a good show nepeta couldn't help but smile at the thought and apparently feferi had a similar thought because she was smiling as wide as nepeta was as they walked in a holo table sat in the middle alternia was projected in the center its moons orbiting as normal the camara was set up across from there position severel trolls scurrying around nepeta and feferi took position flanking karkat three two one the troll behind the camara said and were rolling