It was maybe two weeks after Karkat showed up at your door that you noticed a change in the boy. He stopped eating and talking to anyone and one day, didn't show up for class.
According the Gamzee, he wasn't answering his phone either.
"Well...maybe we should go over to his house or something?" You poke your fork blankly at the applesauce on your tray.
"He's fine, motherfucker, just all up an' been busy, I think." Gamzee takes a swig of his faygo.
"Maybe he's, uh, sick?" Tavros nibbles at the end of a chicken nugget, you roll your eyes.
"That kid came to school with the flu once."
"Fine, let's just go to his house after school." Terezi finishes the apple the was eating and stands.
For the rest of the day, all you can think about is Karkat
"Yo, Kar-bro, open the door, man." Gamzee is peering through the window. Karkat lives in a basic house in a cul-de-sac at the end of the town. His dad had let him come home only last week.
"Maybe, uh, he's not, um, home?" Tavros leans against the door frame.
You guys are about to leave when a car pulls up.
"Hey, Mr. V." Gamzee aims a wave to the man who steps out.
"Oh, hello all." Mr. Vantas reaches behind him to get his briefcase.
"Is Kar-bro all up and home?" Gamzee asks.
"Yes..Do you guys think you could get him out of his room?" He says as he unlocks the door. You all nod and quickly make your way into the house.
Gamzee leads the way to Karkat's room and you all soon discover the door is locked.
"Kar-bro?" The tallest of your group knocks on the door.
"G-Go away." You hear Karkat from behind the door.
"Uh, Karkat, we, uh just want to talk to you." Tavros tries.
"Please...just leave me alone."
This goes on for about an hour until you guys give up and decide to leave. You are just about to follow the others outside when the bedroom door opens.
"D-Dave?"
You turn quickly and almost scream. Karkat's face is so thin he now resembles a skeleton. He's wrapped tightly in a blanket and looks like he just came from hell and back.
"Karkat, a-are you okay?" The smaller boy stares at his feet before motioning you into the room. He sits on the bed, sucking in a deep breath.
"Dave...I think I'm pregnant."
"Wait...what?" You take a seat beside him, he has started to cry.
"I just haven't felt right the last few weeks...Dave, what am I gonna do!?"
"Well...are you positive yet?"
"No..."
"Well...let's...let's tell your dad and...get you checked out."
"B-but...He'll find out about Sol..."
"Karkat, please..."
With a breath, Karkat nods.
You have to hold him up as he breaks down in front of his father.
"What am I gonna do." You hold Karkat's hand as you wait patiently for the doctor to re enter with the test results. Mr. Vantas was in the hall, in the middle of tracking Sollux down. Since the incident, he hadn't been in school.
"It'll be okay, Kitkat." You rub his hand softly.
"But what if I-."
"Then...then I'll help you raise it." you give his hand a reassuring squeeze.
"B-but you'll just leave." Karkat begins to tear up.
"No I won't...Karkat...I-" Karkat sits up now. He moves swiftly, hopping off the bench pulls you up into a soft kiss.
"Love you..." You finish off your sentence dumb-founded.
"How do I know you mean that?"
"Karkat Vantas...I will never leave you..."
"That sounds like a proposal." He rubs his eyes.
"I think it is."
"But...we're too young to get married." Karkat himself had just turned sixteen.
"We won't be someday." You let him sit on your lap so you can run your fingers through his hair, calming him.
The doctor returned shortly later, test results in hand.
"I have good news and I have bad news..."
"...bad news first." You test slowly.
"Due to the...damage done during the incident...it may or may not be harder to concieve, but it's hard to tell."
"The good news?!" Karkat jumps off your lap.
"You aren't pregnant."
You sigh in relief, but Karkat does not.
"Karkat?"
"Does this mean...you will leave me?" he turns to you.
"Karkat...this doesn't change one damn thing. I swear to God, I will never leave you. Count on that."
You've never been pulled into a tighter hug than the one you were in now
Three years after the incident, two years since Sollux went to prison, and it was also Karkat's eighteenth birthday and man are you nervous.
Taking up a second job and asking for a loan from your parents, you finally had enough for the perfect engagement ring. Now all you needed was a 'yes'.
A group of you had gathered around your living room, eating pizza and watching Karkat open his presents.
"You got it, motherfucker?" Gamzee elbows you in the side.
"Got, uh, what?" Tavros sets his up down
"Nothing." You quickly respond.
"What nothing?" Karkat is looking at you now. Fuck.
"Um, well, uh.." You stamer, all eyes on you now.
Alright, here goes.
"Karkat, um, will you...ya know..."
Karkat only stares.
"Ya know, like, be with me."
"Dave, we're alread-"
"No, I mean, like..." Apprently this was pissing Gamzee off because next thing you know, you are shoved on your knees in front of Karkat, Gamzee stands behind you.
"This motherfucker wants to marry you, motherfucker." He blurts out.
"Dave...is that true?" Karkat looks down at you. You nod, kneeling now, ring in hand.
"So...will you marry me?"
Karkat looks near tears at first, then he just looks ready to smack you.
"Well, it's about fucking time!"
A/N: Next chapter...wedding day :D