"Hey Karkat!" John exclaimed once he finally found the cancer troll after searching for him for nearly an hour. It turns out, Karkat hadn't left the roof of the meteor. He was still staring up at the sky, at the spot where he saw the last two sane members of his race shove this giant rock into endless space. Karkat flinched upon hearing the human's happy voice and absolutely refused to acknowledge his existence. "Is something wrong?" John asked, making Karkat grumble. Pretending John didn't exist would be hard if John kept talking.

"No, nothing's wrong." Karkat replied curtly as he kept his gaze up at the sky in front of him. The Heir of Breath frowned but quickly shook it off. This was just Karkat being Karkat, right? He slowly floated over to the troll and stayed afloat besides him, looking up at the sky as well.

"What're we looking at?" John asked. Karkat sighed in frustration and in turned around on his heel and stomped to the transportalizer, disappearing without another word.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Karkat had spent the last three hours in his room on his husktop, trying to find some way he could possibly regain communication with the two trolls exploring space. So far no such luck. He cursed himself and slammed his fists down on the keyboard, if Sollux were here he would've gotten this done in half the time and possibly would've created some sort of super code that would allow communication with aliens of other galaxies.

A knock on his door pulled Karkat out of his thoughts. He stood up and walked over to the door, pressing a button on the side panel and making the door slide open. Kanaya was standing there, tall and proud. Seeing her made Karkat relax slightly, at least it wasn't anyone else.

"Hello Karkat." The Jade blood smiled warmly and walked into Karkat's respiteblock. She had changed her clothes, thankfully, from her previous blood covered ensemble. Karkat didn't know how much longer he'd be able to look at that without vomiting.

"Hey Kanaya." The door slid shut behind the new rainbow drinker and Karkat plopped back down on his office chair. "May I ask what has brought me the immense amount of pleasure of having you enter my shitty-ass respiteblock?"

"Can a friend not want to visit her friend every once in awhile?" Well now Karkat felt bad, he had just gone and assumed Kanaya wanted something. It didn't immediately occur to him that she may just have wanted to talk to him. "Especially since," oh boy. Here it comes. Karkat just knew there was some specific reason she came. "Your previous caliginous, flushed, and pale crushes are on this very meteor. I assumed it might be a bit...difficult for you." Karkat rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.

"Fuck off, I don't need this bullshit right now okay? Yeah so Terezi and I didn't work out, no big fucking deal. And yeah I was rejected but John over some asinine human cultural block or whatever the hell it was, who gives a flying fuck? And so what if Gamzee is...that now. Everything is fine. I'm fine. Everyone is fine."

"Karkat, someone doesn't say 'fine' that many times without meaning that they aren't fine." Kanaya said while patting her friends knee.

"I can use the word fine as many damn times as I please and it will mean absolutely nothing." The cancer troll huffed and crossed his arms, refusing to look at his friend.

"Karkat, I'm just saying it must be a bit difficult for you to have so many rejections in one area. Even more difficult that you will have to spend the next sweep in close quarters with them all the time. I just want you to know that if you ever feel overwhelmed with all of this, come talk to me. My door is always open." Kanaya smiled and leaned over, pressing a small kiss to Karkat's cheek before standing up and exiting the respiteblock, leaving Karkat alone.

For a good long minute, Karkat just sat there thinking. Kanaya did have a point. Spending one long sweep with three different quadrant crushes and constantly seeing them. He supposed with Gamzee it wouldn't be so bad. Vriska had Gamzee under her mind control and locked him up in a cheap refrigerator. Terezi and John though...John seemed intent on becoming Karkat's friend where as Terezi seemed intent on keeping as little communication between them possible.

Karkat sighed and tried to focus on the husktop in front of him. Things would be so much easier if Karkat just didn't fall for people so easily.