A/N: Hey, guys! My god, you have no clue how happy it made me when my email pinged and I saw y'all reviewing and following! My heart could burst! So here's another chapter! Hope y'all keep reading!

-Princess

"Care to explain what the fuck just happened, John?" Karkat put his hands on his hips, glaring daggers at John. He's trying to intimidate me, John thought. Normally, he'd chuckled, but he was subdued by the attack. He grabbed the bowl of batter to give his hands something to do.

"Sit down, Karkat." The little grump flopped down onto a chair.

"Rose has a panic disorder, one her doctors have never seen before. If any of her emotions go on a flare, she gets twitchy and starts imagining things that aren't there. Everything gets dark for her. The first time it happened, we ended up having to take her to the hospital. She'd imagined a little monster was trying to crawl into her and began stabbing herself in the arms and legs.

"Of course, we called Kanaya. At the time, they'd only been going out for about four months. We were all in the waiting room when the nurse rushed in to get the sedative. We followed her back to the room. Rose was thrashing around, ripping the drips out and fighting the doctors. The worst part was that she was conscious. She screamed and fought and snarled. It was terrifying." John took a deep breath, mixing the batter to get rid of the lumps.

"We, me and Jade and Dave, we were trying to hold her down so that the doctors could inject her, but she got superhuman strength or something. She screamed at us. The doctor finally got her strapped down, but she'd thrown the needle at the crowd. Kanaya had been standing around the edge, too terrified to do anything. When they strapped Rose down, they asked Kanaya if she wanted to see her properly. Of course, being Kanaya, she put her game face on and stepped forward. I was the only on that noticed at the time, but the second Rose spotted Kanaya, her eyes softened a little and she stopped straining for a second. Kanaya was really silent and calm in her movements. She put her hand on the side of Rose's face and Rose's pupils dilated. She seemed to not recognize us, but with Kanaya, she seemed to struggle between remembering, wanting to, and wanting not to."

"Why could her closest friends not calm her down, but her girlfriend four months could?"

"We don't know. Neither do the doctors. But it took Kanaya all day to calm Rose down sufficiently to stop fighting, agree to examination, and to recognize us. However long she freaks out, it takes that long to get her to remember. We found that out the fourth time. She's had these... attacks... for years, but never on this scale, and she'd never hurt herself before. Around the tenth time, about six months after the first, she learned that there were signs. She'd get really depressed and couldn't really... function. Her thoughts turned dark, no matter what. She also learned to calm herself down, and how. The reason she had to was because we were all out. Jade and Dave had left their phones at home because we were going to a movie."

"I remember that," said Karkat in a soft voice. "You ran out of the theatre in the middle of the movie." John nodded. They sat in silence for a while when a voice startled them, though it was soft and weak.

"It's not just a panic attack. I get scared. Horribly scared of everything. Loud noises, soft noises, the dark, the light... Everything. I don't remember John, or Jade, or Dave. I remember nothing but fear, pain, and Kanaya." Rose was coming down the stairs, closely followed by Kanaya.

"Rose! Are you all right?"

"I'm fine, John."

"Should I call off the sleepover?"

"No. It's ok, John. You've been planning this forever. We can do this," she said, resting a hand on Kanaya's shoulder. Kanaya slipped an arm around Rose's waist, supporting her. John couldn't understand it at the moment, but that was the second that he thought Rose and Kanaya are meant for each other. He just stared for a second. Karkat snapped John out of his trance by poking him- repeatedly- in the face.

Karkat reached the door first. The second he touched the knob, the door burst open in a swirl of purple. Karkat flipped out.

"Gamzee! Calm the fuck down! Jegus- no!" Karkat started screaming as the juggalo picked him up and whirled him around. Gamzee set the screaming grump down and leaned down on his shoulder.
"What's up, motherfucker? How's your shit been hangin'?"

"My 'shit' and my sanity have been hanging by a thread since the day I fucking met you, asshole!"

"Aw, come on, Karbro. Get your relax on. It's time for a motherfucking wicked sleepover." As he finished talking, ten people burst through the door, all at once. Aw, shit. Let the fun begin, John thought.