Chapter 2
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Gamzee smiled. He thought that feeling red for Karkat was great. Maybe Karkat feels the same. He ran his fingers gently on Karkat's horns. The Cancer's sleeping body jerked slightly, then sighed unconsciously. Gamzee leaned down and kissed Karkat on the younger troll's lips. Karkat's eyes flutters open, and sat up almost instantly.
"Gamzee? What happened? Why am I here?"
Gamzee blushed a bit. "You were covered in wounds. I brought you back to my hive to care for you, best friend."
Karkat's face blushed red.
"Then why did you..."
Gamzee blushed bright purple. He muttered: "I'm flushed for you."
Karkat's eyes widen slightly.
"You're...flushed for me? But...why? You don't deserve a fuckass like me..."
Gamzee tilted Karkat's chin up and kissed him. "You're perfect, Karbro." He whispered. "You might not look at yourself in a polite way, but you're perfect to me, motherfucker."
Karkat put his hand on Gamzee's well-defined chest and pushed him away slightly.
"Gamzee...I..."
Karkat looked worried.
"Why was I chained up like that? I don't understand it...I..."
Karkat pulls his knees against his chest.
"Why would someone so that to me?"
"Some trolls are scared of trolls that aren't the same as them. You with your blood for example."
Karkat fiddled with his hands. He was concerned. He rests his head against Gamzee's large shoulder.
"But...why the fiery chains? They hurt like fuck..."
" I think its cause of our ancestors or shit. "
Karkat looked at Gamzee.
"I don't know who was my ancestor...even Crabdad never told me. He said that my ancestor was different. And nothing else..."
He covered his face with his hands.
"I don't understand why people hate my ancestor so much...he was a troll ...right?"
"Somethin about preaching about harmony and shit and high bloods didn't like him."
Karkat didn't remove his hands.
"Then that was him...not me...I didn't do ANYTHING similar like him! Why would they mistake me for my fucking ancestor? They're such FUKING FUCKASSES!"
"... The same reason why some look up to me." Gamzee pulled Karkat close. Karkat's face blushed up. He gripped his hands onto Gamzee's strong arm.
"But...those chains...were they trying to kill me like what they did with my ancestor?" Karkat looked into Gamzee's eyes.
"I'm not sure." He rubbed Karkat's back, nuzzling his nose into Karkles' hair. "I'm not sure."
Karkat let a few tears down his face.
"Gamzee...I'm so fucking terrified...I don't want that to happen..."
"I'll protect you." Gamzee softly kissed Karkat, sealing the promise.
Karkat woke up to the sound of footsteps. It took a while for him to realize that he was being dragged. Around his mouth was a cloth preventing him to yell out for help. He struggles, but his kidnapper had an iron grip. When he looked up, he saw the horns of an Aries troll. At first Karkat thought that it was Aradia, then remembered that she was gone. This was the new one...and her name was Novaze. Karkat thrashed around and tries to yell out Gamzee's name, but the Aries shook him.
"Stay still, gutterblood!"
Karkat continued to scream for help. The cloth finally fell from his mouth.
"GAMZEE! GAAAAAAAAAMZEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Gamzee jolted up out of the recuperacoon, climbing out and grabbing a shirt and boxers, dashing down the halls as he pulled them on. A girl whizzed past him and tore down the halls. A black void opened up and Gamzee ran right into it. He walked around in some black space before coming into a room. Karkat was hunched over by a wall as two female trolls fought in combat.
"SHINJI!" One shrieked at the slightly smaller, stealthier troll who had a saffron yellow flame symbol on her black tee shirt. Silver knives glinted in her hands.
"You shall not hurt the Sufferer's incarnation!" She shouted.
The female troll with a staff and with blue tips at her hair glared at Shinji with her blank eyes.
"He deserves to die! The Sufferer's preaches cannot continue!"
Karkat was watching with eyes filled with terror. His wrists were tied to some sort of chain against the wall. The cloth was more tightly around Karkat's mouth. He muffled words towards Gamzee, begging for help.
"You never understand, Shinji! The Incarnation must not live! That gutterblood is not ONE OF US!"
"HE IS! WHY DONT YOU UNDERSTAND? THE DOLOROSA SAW WHEN SHE ABANDONED HER DUTIES TO CARE FOR THE INFANT SUFFERER!" She shrieked. A throwing knife was flicked out and she threw it at Novaze.
Novaze dodged the knife and shot an ice spell towards Shinji.
"She was one of the TRAITORS! He was never one of us! He was meant to DIE!"
Karkat squirmed backwards. His eyes were wide with fear. Gamzee ran towards Karkat, until Novaze created a firewall between the Capricorn and the Cancer.
"Grand Highblood! You should not waste your time with the gutterblood! "
Visions filled Gamzee's head, spinning through both bloody and pleasurable ones.
"HE IS MY MATESPRIT! LET ME NEAR HIM!" Gamzee shrieked, scaring even himself at the declaration. "HE IS MY LOVER! I COMMAND YOU TO LET ME TO HIM!"
Novaze was dumbfounded. She couldn't bring herself to disobey Gamzee. She removed the firewall. Karkat was crying again. Novaze looked away with disgust from Karkat's mutant blood. She destroyed the chains and ripped the cloth with a wave of her staff. Karkat ran into Gamzee's arms.
"GAMZEE!" He weeped. "I couldn't believe any of it... What is with you..."
"You're the incarnation of the Sufferer, Karkat. And I am the incarnation of the Grand Highblood." Gamzee ran his fingers through Karkat's hair. "And this time, I will protect you as my lover." He looked up. "Karkat will not resume his past life's sermons. If it is to keep him safe." He ordered the two trolls. Shinji nodded and opened a void under herself.
Karkat kept close to Gamzee, his eyes wide. Novaze glared at Karkat. "This isn't over, gutterblood. The Mirthful Messiahs will haunt you." She opened a portal of swirling clocks and disappeared through it. Karkat hugged Gamzee, and the highblood embraced him as well.
"Gamzee...Thank you...if you hadn't come...I...I..." Karkat buried his face in Gamzee's chest. Gamzee let his head rest gently on Karkat's head.
"Karkat, as your matesprite I will ALWAYS protect you..."
Karkat looked into the Capricorn's eyes. His face was plastered with innocent fear. Gamzee leaned over Karkat and gave him a kiss.
Karkat nodded. "Protect me." He murmured against Gam's lips.