How Many Times? (A davekat fanfiction)

Chapter Three

Dave had decided to walk home seeing as how after the day he had, he didn't feel in the mood for riding the bus back to his apartment. In fact, he wasn't in the mood for much of anything, really.

As he continued walking on and on across the large city in Texas, he felt a pulling sensation in his heart, he felt like he was slowly being detached from something he needed desperately.

He just couldn't tell what it was he was yearning for so much.

'If I wasn't in so much pain then I'd understand what the fuck is wrong with my head today...' He thought to himself, he really was clueless.

But soon he would understand all too well what everything was about.

The image of Karkat crying and running off replayed in his head over and over and over like a broken record, it was basically haunting his every thought.

Then something bright started shining in his eyes, he was no longer focusing and tripped over his boots, falling straight to the ground.

Clutching his head, he sat up and felt all of the now fully formed bruises from this morning. He was not having a good day.

He stood up slowly, trying not to cause anymore pain, and looked for what was shining in his eye. After looking around, his eye caught the reflective surface of something small in a department store window.

He crossed the street and walked over to the window and noticed there were watches put on display. Suddenly, karkats words played in Dave's head.

"I-I-I.. I have to g-go... My- uh watch is bro-ken... I- good bye..."

Dave bit his bottom lip and stared at the watches in the window for what seemed like forever. He took a deep breath in and walked into the store. Suddenly Dave felt overwhelmed, there were watches and clocks all over the place.

'How am I going to find the right one?' He thought.

He wandered through the entire store, just looking for something that he thought Karkat would like. And he was so close to giving up, until he heard a cat hissing at his feet.

He looked down and saw an almost fully black cat, aside from two white eye fur spots above the cats actual eyes. It almost looked like the cat had four eyes.

The cat suddenly ran off away from him, but tripped over a pink strip of fabric, knocking over a small table, with a single watch sitting on top of it.

Dave suddenly felt embarrassed when another costumer noticed and looked his way, Dave didn't want to look like a destructive teen so he ran over to the small table laying down and set it up right, while also picking up the wrist watch.

He tried looking around for its stand or whatever was holding it up but he couldn't find a thing, including the price tag.

Ruffling his fingers through his hair, he held up the wrist watch and examined it carefully. All Dave could say was that it was certainly one of a kind..

It was a type of digital clock but was not an average one. There were hours, minutes, and seconds, but they were printed on separate bands that looped all around the inside of the watch, along with gears and cogs unknown of to Dave.

He fished his phone out of his pocket and checked the time on his phone, and surly, the watched matched the time to the very second. This proved that the watch definitely worked properly.