towerofanimus | Cripplekat: Attempt to clim8 stairs.

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romcomedian and YOU
Setting: The Stairwell
Format: I'll match.
Summary: Karkat is fucking tired of laying around in bed after nearly a month -- not quite fully healed, he's venturing out to try and get to the library. And its taking a longass time.
Warnings: Usual Bluekat warnings.

Karkat extremely done with being pinned to a hospital bed feeling like shit. Thankfully, the horrible paranoia finally subsided long enough for him to pull himself forcefully out of his bed to wander out of the infirmary. Every one of his limbs was extremely stiff, as he hadn't gotten out of bed without help since his arrival. Now he knows why.

Cripple or not, Karkat has an image to keep. He's not going to take the time to shrug his dress shirt on, but he pulls his jacket off the coat rack to cover up the bandages still wrapped around his torso. His arm remained in the cast, but the sling had been disposed of a few days ago.

There was no way to fix his hair, so his hand would have to do until he could locate a fucking comb or something. At least he didn't look like a complete frump. At least not until he started to try and climb the stairs. He would only reach the next floor up before he started to run out of breath.

Stupid spiderbitch and her stupid problems fucking up his physical health.

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Romeo was re exploring the tower, getting used to being human again. He was still a little wary, after all he had spent the day before being chased by people who wanted to kill him.

Luckily everyone seemed back to normal now, so when he saw the troll coming up the stairs towards him he pressed against the wall a little frightened. Until he saw that he was hurt, his arm was in a cast just like Romeo's leg had been when he had fallen from the roof.

"Are you alright?" He bounced forward, everyone had been so nice and helpful while he had been part deer (until they had tried to kill him at least) and he wanted to help people too now that he was better.

Karkat nearly jumped in surprise when Romeo came bounding around the corner, fingers digging into the tower wall. Despite the increased paranoia having gone away from him, it had made him considerably jumpier. The troll stared at him for a moment, trying to make sure he was, indeed, actually there and not a hallucination before relaxing.

"Yeah. Just peachy," he grumbled, straightening to preserve some of his dignity to the best of his ability.

Romeo smiled at him even though the other boy seemed like he was in a bad mood. Romeo could understand why people would be scared or sad or angry here but they had to keep their spirits up so that they could work together to find a way out.

"Did someone hurt you? Or did you fall?" He looked at the cast on the arm, it was scary that here in this tower his first thought was that someone had done that to the boy on purpose, probably they had been made to by the bad people.

The troll simply grunted, giving Romeo the suspicious once over. He still wasn't used to people genuinely being interested in his well-being, so it was hard not to be suspicious. Nevermind the whole thing about him swimming in paranoia during the experiments.

"Happened about a month ago," he replied simply, forcing a shrug. "No falling. Just me getting my ass kicked."

"So someone did hurt you!" Romeo looked angry and sad, which he was. He wondered if the bad people had made someone hurt him. "Does it still hurt bad?"

"Yeah, like a month ago over something retarded. Don't worry about it," he mumbled, waving a hand. He was never going to get used to this.

"Not as bad as it did, I guess?" Karkat replied, raising an eyebrow. "Look, I'm fine. I'm pretty good at avoiding injury, usually, but its not like I'm not used to it."

Romeo frowned again, "People shouldn't hurt you!" Because from what the troll had said, especially his last words people hurt him a lot, and that wasn't very nice at all!

"Don't worry!" Romeo made his decision quickly and smiled, reaching out to grab the trolls hand. "I'll make sure no one else hurts you! I promise!" Because no one should be hurt, ever.

He couldn't hide the surprise and discomfort from his expression when his hand was grabbed, nearly flinching away. Instead, he opted to stare incredulously. "Look, I can take care of myself," he replied, defensively. "I just fucked up a little, that's all. I'm fine."

"Oh..." Romeo dropped his hand and looked a little embarased. "I didn't mean to say you couldn't!" He really hadn't, even if the troll did have a broken arm, Romeo had broken his leg before and had been hurt lots of times, sometimes bad things happened. "But we all need to work together and look after each other!"

Cripplekat: Attempt to clim8 stairs.

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