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[caliginous]

Characters: Karkat Vantas (AU) and YOU
Setting: Across the tower! Mark in the subject line, please!
Format: Action to start, but I'll follow.
Summary: Karkat has been awfully quiet lately, and hasn't quiet been seeking out others. How unusual.
Warnings: TBA

[Karkat has just had too many things on his mind. Staying out of trouble, trying not to make more people furious with him, dodging mealtimes to instead feed Spidermom. The attack on the tower had sated her slightly, but it hadn't helped his psyche any. The visions of Imperial Drones on top of more copies of Spidermom were a little too much for him.

He was still sick to his nutrition sack over the whole thing. If those drones had been real, then he would have been leaving Kanaya to them. What kind of shitty friend was he?

Oh wait. That kind of answered the question. So wherever he happens to be, Karkat will be propped against a wall, staring down at his shoes with an everpresent frown of thought.]

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[caliginous]

[The lack of breathing keeps up to the point where his skin actually tinges blue for a moment before he finally inhales and closes his eyes.]

That's what you're not getting.

[It wasn't ok. Nothing about it was ok. He had already promised to lay off of her, and that was what he had wanted at the time.]

[gloomyapoplectic]

[She bites her lip. Well, here goes...]

...because of ours?

[OK vague, but she doesn't really want to say Terezi's name. She's pretty sure Karkat is intelligent enough to know who and what she means.]

[caliginous]

[No, that question is far too direct. He merely swallows and says nothing, looking very ill in combination with that immensely drained expression he suddenly wears so well once he opens his eyes.

He's very content to remain plastered to Kanaya, though he certainly wishes this strange nauseous feeling would go away. He admitted it. Now what would happen when she found out?

The whole incident with Spidermom was still under wraps, but what would happen when that finally came to light? Everything would have been better off if he had just ignored it.]

[gloomyapoplectic]

[His silence is answer enough.]

...you do not have to tell her until you are ready. But I do not think it will be as bad as you are worrying that it will be. That's all.

[She sighs a little, absently stroking one hand along his back in what she hopes is a mildly comforting fashion. She wishes there was a how-to book for this kind of thing, but in all her years on Prospit's moon, no book ever told her how to be prepared for this.]

[caliginous]

I don't need quadrant advice, Kanaya. In fact, that's probably the opposite of what I'm looking for.

That thing? Not going to ever be a thing. That conversation? Never happened.

[Karkat runs a hand through his hair. His skin feels oddly warm to him, but it barely registers. He continues to stare and breath in that awkward fashion until he lets his hand fall down.

After he's managed to regulate his breathing, his eyes glance down at the floor in a most defeated fashion.]

...anything else?

[gloomyapoplectic]

[Oh come on don't make her mad now.

She backs up a little, setting her hands on his shoulders and inclining her head to try and meet his eyes.]

You can pretend that, but I will not. Just as fair warning.

[...and then she just kind of looks worried.] You should rest.

[caliginous]

[He meets her eyes, but not because he wants to. Its rather pathetic, the expression he's wearing. Defeated. Exhausted. Disappointed.]

Yeah.

[He tries to remove himself from her person to stuff his hands in his pockets and leave. He's so caught up in his own thoughts that he's completely forgotten that Kanaya is injured.]

[gloomyapoplectic]

[She lets him go...physically at least, she's tired too so she's kind of walking in the same direction as him since the dorms are that way and all. Except she's limping oops?]