You rise from the couch in your hive, yawning and scratching behind the collar of your sweater. What happened last night? Your hive's a mess! Ah, fuck it. You glance around, catching no sight of your beloved Terezi. You love her dearly, and would be deeply upset if anything were to happen to her, which is why you, Karkat Vantas, are her matesprit and guardian. Kind of like a troll-lusus combination? You decide not to put that much thought into it and continue the search for your teal-blooded partner, before finding a note she had written and laid out on the table. D34R K4RK4T, it read, 1'V3 GON3 B4CK TO MY H1V3. YOU SNOR3 4 LOT WH3N YOU SL33P. :] S33 YOU L4T3R. 3, T3R3Z1 PYROP3. She'd gone back to her hive? Oh, you think, then she'll probably be waiting for you now, especially considering she wrote "see you later" on the note. You smirk a little, just noticing she wrote in her quirk. Adorable. You exit your hive after you finish stretching and waking up. You have a slight headache, and are urging to know what in the hell happened last night as you make your way to Terezi's hive. You begin to drift into a deep wonderland of thought as you make your way to your beloved's hive. You stop, realizing you've gone a little past, and backtrack a little, climbing up to the entrance of the teal-blood's hive. It's a weird hive, but you've gotten used to it over the time you've spent together. You poke your head in through the makeshift doorway and look around. "Terezi?" you call in your rather loud voice, moving the rest of your body into the treehive. "Terezi?" you repeat, walking around a little quicker now. Where is she? You stop when you hear a loud honking noise and a short shriek. "Terezi!" you yell, running towards the direction of the sound, stopping to see your matesprit curled up in the corner, burned eyes opened wide with fear. "Where is it? Where is he? Where?" she whimpers, shaking with fear. You look around the room slowly, observing everything you can, stopping, slowly moving towards the female after noticing no trace of the clown (aside from the bike horn you didn't want to tell her about. She was scared, and didn't like being made into a fool for nothing). "Terezi," you murmur, "Terezi, it's okay, I'm here now." You drop to her side and wrap your arms around her, moving her onto your lap, stroking her dark, shiny hair. "Karkat's here now. He—I'll protect you."