it was you on that early morning || karlnap fanfiction

tuesday

Karl was high.
He had just gotten a pill that would prepare his body for anesthesia and was laying under his blanket, already in an operation robe, when Nick bursted into his room.

He was out of breath, as if he had just finished a marathon.

"I'm sorry.", he took a deep breath, "Everyone drove so slow, I- god- I ran up the stairs."
He tried to catch his breath, looked up at Karl, who was confused about what was happening.

His brain only worked slow, because of the pill he had been given and he saw Nick two times, what made everything even harder to understand.

"Are you okay?", Nick asked, as he saw Karl's confused look.
"I don't know, why is there two of you?"

Nick looked at him amused.
"There is only one of me, what did they give you?"
"I don't know, but my brain hurts."

Karl said the last part with a weirdly cute expression, making Nick smile.
He walked up to Karl and hugged him.
"How are you feeling? Nervous?"

Karl nodded.
He seemed unfocused, reached for Nick's hand absentminded.
He counted the fingers, starting over two times.

"Why is it eight?", he mumbled to himself, before looking at his own hands, whispering, "Oh my god."

"Whatever drug they gave you, you should never take it again.", Nick said, holding back his laughter.

Karl took his hand again, just intervened their fingers this time.
"Will you be here for long?"
"As long as you want me to be."

Karl smiled, mind in a daze.
"So you'll stay forever?"
Nick caressed his cheek with his free hand, smiled softly.
"If that's what you want, I'll try to make it happen."
"That's nice."

After a few minutes a nurse walked into the room.
"It's six am. It's time for your surgery."

Nick ran his hand through Karl's hair, looked at him, waiting.
"Okay.", Karl mumbled, fumbling with Nicks fingers.

He wouldn't let the fingers go, until they had reached the elevator, that Nick wasn't aloud to go in.

"Can I have a hug?", Karl asked, when the nurse told Nick, he couldn't come along with them further.

Nick smiled at him lovingly, before leaning down, hugging him.
Karl nuzzled into Nick's neck, lips touching the skin softly.

Nick blushed, as he let go of Karl softly.
"I'll be waiting for you."
"Promise?" "Promise."

The nurse waited for them to finish their temporary goodbye, smiling at the lovely relationship she witnessed.

They gave each other a pinky promise and then Nick stepped away, waving Karl as the nurse pushed the bed with Karl on it into the elevator and that until the elevator door closed.

He made his way out of the hospital, he'd get Karl flowers. He thought that would be something nice, he could do for him.
And he'd get food too. Karl would be starving when he wakes up.

At the same time Karl was pushed into the anesthesia room.
"Hey kid! How are you doing?", the anesthesiologist asked.
"Scared.", Karl mumbled, feeling light, because of the pill he took.

The doctor nodded, while he gave Karl a venous access on his arm.
"Everyone feels like this, but don't worry, we're all professionals."
He connected some kind of tube with the access.

"You'll get tired now and you'll fall asleep. Have you already picked a dream?", he joked and Karl thought off Nick, smiled and nodded.

Soon after a mask was placed on his nose and mouth and he breathed in a gas.
His vision blurred and soon he feel asleep.