Zombiestuck- Not Okay

Chapter 48

Karkat

"Well it's official: I'm bored," Eridan said, walking into the living room where I had been talking to Gamzee for the past ten minutes. I wasn't really sure where he had been, but I didn't really mind much because I didn't think anyone would bother leaving the house. Besides, I had something much more important to worry about. After we saved Eridan, Gamzee stole the watch with the map on it.

It had been a long time since I was able to check that map, and I had no idea how much time was left, but I didn't think it was a lot. I needed to get it back. I had to know if Dave was ok. When he died, it felt like everything that was left of my world had just shattered. I didn't know how I was going to survive, but then suddenly I found out he was still alive and it actually seemed like everything was going to be okay. I knew I had to come back here so I could save him. I hadn't considered the fact that if I didn't save Gamzee and Eridan, nobody else would. It wasn't until Gamzee and I saw Eridan's zombie roaming the street on our way to Dave that it occurred to me. It hurt to have to put his life in the hands of someone else, but I had to. If whoever that person was failed to get him out of here alive, I was going to lose it.

"I swear to god Gamzee, if you don't give that back right now I'm going to push you down a flight of stairs!" I yelled.

He lifted up his legs and draped them sideways across the armchair he was sitting in, so that he was now lying across it with his head dangling off the other side. "Nah bro, you just need to chill instead of whipping that thing out every two seconds," he said.

"I need it! At least tell me where you hid it!"

"It's on the top shelf," he smiled mischievously.

"YOU LITTLE-"

"I said I'm bored," Eridan interrupted from the doorway to the kitchen, "fix it."

"Remind me why I decided to save you again?" I asked him. He had done nothing but complain all day, and he never even thanked me.

"Because you know nobody else would," he muttered.

"Well I'm starting to regret it," I said under my breath, although there's a pretty good chance that he heard me.

Before he could say anything else, Gamzee sat up in his chair. "Calm down bros, if you're bored why don't we play a game or something-"

"THAT'S STUPID!"

"I found this," Eridan said, and all of a sudden he held up the watch that I had been looking for all day.

"Give me that!" I shouted, jumping off the couch and running over to snatch it out of his hands.

"Aw, come on Kar-bro-"

I didn't listen to him. It didn't matter how much Gamzee thought I needed to stop stressing out. I had to know the time. He was just being an idiot; if there was anything I needed to be stressing out over, it was definitely this.

"You know for once I think the juggalo might be right," Eridan said, but I barely heard him. I was too busy staring silently at the screen on the watch in front of me.

"Karkat?"

"You okay bro?"

I couldn't believe it.

We had fifteen minutes left.

Rose and Aradia had been rescued by John, and the other Strider was with the Crocker girl.

But Dave was still dead.

A/N: Sorry this chapter was late! Also, there's only two more chapters left and I'm getting very sentimental.