Tangled and Twisted

chapter thirteen

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KARKAT: "So this is your plan? Everythings going through harsh times so you're going to try to bully me into coming back? Man, everyone's feeling pretty stressed, better add guilt triping to the mix!" He curls himself into a ball and makes himself as small as possible. He pauses and tries to breathe. "I'm scared Damara....I really am."

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KARKAT: ((I had another idea

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Demonstuck-Damara [] joined chat.

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:"I wouldn't call this guilt tripping I'm not here begging you to stay. (please I need you.) We can handle our own in your absence, I'm simply telling you the result when you do eventually run. (Don't you think I'm scared?) " Outwardly she seemed nothing but angry, dry, and near emotionless. But the whispers that came after showed differently as if she was speaking two different truths.

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KARKAT: He takes a deep breath and pushes himself to stand wiping the tears away from his eyes. "I-I'll come back..." He was still crying but he was trying to stop. "Thank you...for coming after me...whether it was on purpose or not."

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:" (Just come home.)" Was all she said before her image vanished, not because she had willingly left but because Dean had heard everything and had been trying to wake her thinking it was all another nightmare.

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KARKAT: He takes another deep breath. He didn't have the energy to fly so he started to walk the way he came from. He was going to apologize as soon as he got home. He checks his phone this time, dead. He scoffs a little while walking and holding it. Too bad he didn't think to grab the charger or else he would find some 24/7 place to plug it in at. About an hour into his walk back he started feeling strange, like he was being watched or followed. He hunches his shoulders and continues to walk. He passes an alleyway and someone or something reaches out and yanks him in by the arm. He drops his phone, cracking the screen and he almost yelps a bit as he was pinned to the wall by the neck. He attempts to push the person currently choking him off with no success. It's like whoever it was had super strength. He growled and he hears a womans voice chuckle. "Well you're certainly something aren't you? Two in one. How nice." He growls again, continuing to squirm as she pulls him off the wall by the neck and slams the back of his head into the wall. "Oh don't you worry. I'll put your abilities into far better use than you ever have." His vision was blurring and breathing was impossible. She threw him onto the ground and he finally blacks out. Causing her to be able to pick him up and walk away with him.

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:Damara explained what had happened and while Dean was hurt that Karkat was just going to leave without telling him he was glad that he was coming back and Damara, even though it was harsh, had said what she had wanted. So they waited for him like kids waiting up to see santa but the wait grew long, suspicious, and then worryingly long. So Damara did her best to astral project back to where the were and walk around until she found street signs that they could go off of.

Damara refused to let Dean drive, knowing that he didn't know her car and the limits that you could push it passed. And they spent hours scouring the area until they came to the alley where his phone lay. "He's gone but it wasn't willingly." Dean said as he picked up Karkat's phone.
"Whoever took him is stupid. I'm connected straight to him because he has a part of me."
"We have to let everyone else know, come up with a way to find where he is."
"And gut whoever thought it was okay to touch him."
"Protective much?
"You're thinking the same thing, not to mention I've done so for you already."
"Okay, so I cant't talk shit. Come on speed racer let's go break the bad news." The first stop was Sean's , which ended up with them taking him back to the apartment with them to tell Kankri and Cronus and start the search.21:44:16