Stay With Me

It's utter trash but feels and #kareziweek

"... of the things I said seriously though. Um. Yeah. Ok. Bye," Karkat finishes speaking to the blind girl. He feels like this might have been the worst moment of his life. What a fuckup. He's half tempted to just go back and self-loath again. Ironic. Terezi is just to perfect to be seen like this, but he knows he isn't.
Karkat turns to walk away and hangs his head. What a fuckup.

He manages to take three steps back out of the 'forest' before his name is called. He turns around, a little surprised that Terezi even wants to see his face right now. He still only shows defeat on his face. She beckons for him to come back.

He's to ashamed. "Terezi, I-"

"Karkat, please... Please stay with me."
The silence following her sobbing voice cuts more than the words themselves.
He walks back to the Libra sitting below the tree. He sits down next to her in a matching position. She turns and stairs at him. Now he can see her face, no longer hidden by her hood.

And where he always pictures Terezi, he sees surrender. He sees the tear-stained eyes of the girl who has given up and broken. Now he truly sees the sole of the one other who has buried more inside than he has.

Karkat knows that he's to blame for some of that emotion he can see. He never really grasped how much he put himself before Terezi when they were together, but it is all spilling at this moment. He has known this before, but Karkat truly understood what a fuckup he really is.

At this moment, he has never loved this girl more in his entire life

Terezi sees the tears developing in his eyes, and she can tell what just hit him. She can tell that he has realized more fully his actions, but mostly his feeling. She knows that that is what drives him in his core.

Sometimes his anger is true, but he mostly uses it as a cover for what he really holds.

Passion.

Terezi opens her mouth to speak, but she is stopped by Karkat's hands, gently placed on the sides of her head. Staring into her eyes, he just whispers.

"Terezi... I'm so sorry. I know I've been a fool, but... But I love you so much I-"
He is the one now cut off. Cut off by Terezi's face slowly meeting his. Their lips just touching enough to send euphoria through both of them.

The kiss is momentary, but it feels as if they've been there for days. They have felt their bodies dance with passion, but completely still and silent. The complexity of the instant is imprinted on their very existences.

The kiss breaks. They stare yet again into each others eyes. They can see the other's passion and feeling and suffering and...

And completeness.

Terezi breaks the silence with the return of the 'I love you,' but she can tell Karkat already knows. She places her head softly into the crook of his neck, and begins to relax. Both ignore the tears, streaming down their faces, for the compassion of the other. The passion of the other.