In the Darkest Hours... [Closed]

[est33medpouncellor]

Who: Nepeta and Karkat
What: Dealing with absences.
Where: Phone; might move to either Karkat or Nepeta's address depending.
When: Sometime (maybe a day?) after Karkat's announcement/rant call.
Warnings: None

[At some time long after Karkat's call, the phone will ring. For a moment after answering, there won't be any sounds; if there are, it's plainly obvious that whoever's calling is having issues speaking, but...]

..I told them not to go in... [Not to- Oh. The Carnival.]

...It's not fair...

Comments

[crusthatecean]

Nepeta?

[He's still flipping out but he's immediately concerned with one of the few friends he has left.]

What happened?

I actually did a paranoid check to see if Equius was still here- he is. PHEW! xD

[est33medpouncellor]

I told evurryone not to go to the carnival thing but they went anyways and now evurryone's gone, and I can't find Equius or anyone and...

[crusthatecean]

I know.

It wasn't the carnival, though. I was trapped and Gamzee wasn't, but I'm still here, and he's...fucked off somewhere.

[est33medpouncellor]

Then why aren't they coming back..? [Not fair not fair- not fair..!] Even...

Even some of the ones that died came back..! So how come... [Ahhh.. Nepeta calm down...]

[crusthatecean]

Shit.

Look, I'm sorry about earlier. Don't listen to me, I'm just...everyone still might come back. Everyone probably will come back, they have many times before. I am just feeling pessimistic. It has been an incredibly shitty month and that doesn't excuse me from being an asshole all over the audiohook and worrying you.

[est33medpouncellor]

[. . .]

It's okay. [-sniff-] Because that's just because you care right? And you're worried about evurryone, and you've b33n here all this time, and evurryone k33ps going back and forth and and-

[NEPETA THIS ISN'T HELPING.] ...I just hope we get to s33 evurryone again.

[crusthatecean]

Yes. [And that's kind of a big admission for him to make.]

I hope so too. It's just hard to see so many go all at once, but we've been in smaller numbers than this before.

[est33medpouncellor]

[A very very big admission! She'd say so, but you'd probably deny it ahh... (or would you, right now?)]

Y-yea! ...It's really hard... But... That just means we gotta make sure no one else leaves eithurr..! [Positive, positive...]

[crusthatecean]

I don't know how to do that. Honestly, there is fuck all to do about our situation, this is just me being brutally realistic.

[est33medpouncellor]

...Right. [Ummm...] ...Well, I'm gonna try looking fur evurryone in any case. Just in case they come back..!

[crusthatecean]

Sure, you do that.

[He just sounds resigned, though; trying to pretend otherwise, but he doesn't think anyone is coming back.]

[est33medpouncellor]

I'm gonna make sure Roxy's still here too!

Oh, and Conan too! [...who's- oh never mind.]

Not just the people furrom our universe!

[crusthatecean]

Yeah. That sounds good.

[Of course, he's given up on waiting for anyone to come back or hoping anyone will stay; he just wants to go home now. But he can't bring himself tell Nepeta that he's just accepted she's going to die. Just thinking that way is more guilt than he can handle.]

[est33medpouncellor]

Mhm!

And I'm not gonna leave eithurr! No matturr what!

[crusthatecean]

All right, if you say so.

[est33medpouncellor]

Yea!

...Mn.

Thanks fur talking to me Karkat. I f33l a lot bettur now..!! It's still cr33py here, but at least I'm not all sad anymore.

[crusthatecean]

Oh. You're welcome, I guess.