You feel a slight shift next to you and look down to see blue eyes looking up at you with a huge smile. “Did you sleep well?”
He nods, leaning up to give you a chaste kiss. It has been 4 weeks now since you began dating John Egbert and you still can’t get enough of him. You have been keeping a close eye on him whenever you can, making sure he isn’t doing anything too strenuous. You were able to rest with him today and allow him the time he needed to regain the strength he lost yesterday. You hate people who tease him or call him weak, they don’t know him like you and how he works hard every day. They haven’t seen him stay up all night working on a project for one of his classes, or how he studies on androids. They haven’t seen him in pain like you do when he pushes his body too far, on those days you keep him wrapped up in your coils and place his head near your own heart. You hold him closely while he tries to fight the pain off or hold off his need to cry in pain. Yesterday was one of those days and you tried your best to keep him away from everyone, making sure his glasses were off and everything that could distract him was out of sight, everything except for you that is. You don’t mind him touching you as he fights off pain, or how he muffles his screams against your chest. Usually after those nights you want to keep him with you in his room and not leave until you’re sure he’s fine, but today you can’t do that. He is having surgery to see if they can find the cause and test out something to see if it will work for him.
“I should probably get going, Jane will be pissed if I’m late or don’t show up.” You run your hand through his hair earning a soft hum of approval as he leans into the touch. “Will you carry me there before you go off to see Dirk?” You watch him smile as you give him a nod, shifting around so your coils hold him near your chest as you stand. He wraps his arms around your neck while your arms take his full weight from the coils, so he is in your arms bridal style as he calls it. He loves being held like this when you carry him somewhere and you want to keep him calm before you leave him. You don’t want to leave him with them again for this surgery, the last time you left him there he went into a shock and almost died on the table. His body had reacted badly to the stuff that they placed inside him to keep him safe while they searched for the problem, which in turn back fired and almost killed the one you hold dear. “Thank you Karkat.” You give him a soft kiss to his fluffy raven hair and he chuckles softly. During that surgery Kanaya had to call lord AR and Dirk to hold you back. You were pissed and you had a right to hurt them for hurting him. You weren’t allowed near there for a few days for worry that you might snap at them again, which you should have. The following nights for John were horrible, he tossed and turned trying to get out of your grip and screamed till his throat was hoarse. There would be times when he would stop breathing, causing you to panic as you tried to coax breath back into him, while his body hung limply in your arms. You don’t want to leave him with them again but Jane and Kanaya both said that they would keep him safe while you’re gone. That’s another thing you don’t like, you aren’t allowed to be near that area any more if John is scheduled for any treatments. They don’t want you to do anything reckless, even John was worried when he heard AR yelling at you for going off the handle in there once.
You stand at the labs entrance, tightening your grip on him. You feel him lay soft kisses on your neck, while one of his hands softly rub the base of your scalp. “I’ll be fine Karkat, when it’s all done you can do whatever you want to me. Just promise to be good while I’m gone, please.” You gently place your cheek on his forehead and rub softly, absorbing all you can before they realize you’re here.
“I promise, just be safe and don’t leave the area until I get back here.” He laughs and lays another kiss to your neck.
“You’re not allowed near here remember. I’ll have Kanaya escort me to you when I’m done.” You frown but nod, at least Kanaya will keep a good eye on him while he is walking over to you. “I love you Karkat.”
“I love you as well John.” You whisper into his hair while giving it a light kiss. Just when you two lock eyes and go in for a kiss one of the doctors see you.
“Miss Jane he’s here! And he brought the android.” You hear him whisper and growl. You lean in to try and get that kiss when you feel other coils wrap around him. You wrap your coils around him as well, making sure to squeeze the intruders. You glance up to see Kanaya glaring at you and sigh. John finally leans in to close the unwanted gap between you two and hums softly from the contact. You push back and swipe your metal tongue against his bottom lip. He opens his mouth obediently and you claim dominance quickly. You feel the new coils hit you softly and you growl once more, but kept your focus on John not wanting to waste any time you have with him. You soon part and watch as he catches his breath, you love seeing him breathless from what you do to him. He looks up to you and smiles and you tighten your arms around him in a real embrace, burying your head in his neck.
“I don’t want to leave you here with them, I don’t want you getting hurt anymore from them John.” He holds you close for a while before he pushes himself away from you to stand on the floor. You run your hand up his cheek to the back of his head and through his hair, feeling useless at that moment.
“I’ll be fine. I haven’t left you yet and I don’t plan on leaving you today.” You watch as Kanaya wraps her coils around him, while yours slip off him slowly. He soon follows her pull and the door closes behind him. You could easily break the door down and take him away but that would mean you would get in trouble and possibly deconstructed. You walk off down the hall to Dirk, who is supposed to keep an eye on you while John is with them.
“There you are, I wondered when you would be here. Sit down for a while.” You go and take a seat on the table you usually sit down on for check-ups and watch him as he fiddles with something on the table ahead of you. “So how did it go when dropping him off?”
“It went with no qualms. I hate leaving him there though.” Dirk nods and you try to busy yourself with your camera’s but keep on wanting to bother Kanaya for what is going on, just wanting to know if John’s still safe. “Dirk, may I ask if you could install something in me?” You close your work and he looks over to you confused. “I wish to be able to monitor John without relying on others, I also need it so I can keep an eye on his condition and see when I need to stop what I’m doing to keep him calm, or if he may have an attack.” Dirk nods and walks over to you.
“I’m going to need to shut you off while I do this. You might miss John coming over, or if something happens.”
“If something does happen I want you to turn me back on and tell me what it was, you may also have to restrain me if that were to ever happen for I can’t guarantee that people won’t die if he is hurt or dead.” He just nods, laughing and the last thing you remember is the taste of John’s lips.
You wake back up to see Dirk smiling at you and monitors on the bottom right of your eyesight. “That thing you’re seeing is heart rate, you can adjust it however you want, and make it show other things that you can tinker with once you’re back with John.” You nod and begin to fiddle with it, shrinking it and sliding to the top right of your sight.
“Hey Dirk can I take my boyfriend from you know?” You look over to see John smiling at you, leaning against the door frame with Kanaya right behind him a little concerned.
“Yeah sure he’s all yours. How did it go anyway?” You stand up and check the monitor to see his heart rate normal for now and sigh in relief. You walk over to them and Kanaya shakes her head at you.
“It didn’t work, they had to cut it short seeing as my conditioned worsened from them prodding around inside me.” John looks up to you, gently placing his hand on your arm and sliding down to hold your hand. “They said that they want to try again in another two weeks.” You watch him closely as he winces in pain when he tried to step away from the door frame.
“Is that true Kanaya? Did you really not find anything at all before he got worse?” She nods, while you wrap your coils go around him and left him up off his feet and to your chest, where he quickly wraps his arms around your neck.
“I regret to inform that he may not be able to be saved. If he keeps on rejecting everything we do to him in surgery or meds then he may have to deal with the limitations his body sets. They began and cut into his chest and the first thing that happened was that his heart rate dropped. Once they got him stable and began to look around his body gave up once again.” Dirk take a quick glance at you which you catch from the corner of your eyes as you felt yourself began to shake. John squeezed you tighter, feeling him shake slightly and kissed his forehead. “Once they got him stable from that they needed to…”
“That’s enough, I get it. John, Janey is trying you know that right?” John nods against your neck and you rub your hand in a circle on his back.
“He understands, if you would excuse us. I would like to get him to his room before anything or anyone comes in here to tell me to let him go again.” You walk off with John shaking in your arms, while you try to calm down the rage that is building up inside of you.
“I’m sorry Karkat.” He whispered softly while you walked him into his room. You look down and plant as soft kiss on his forehead which makes him cuddle up closer to you. You tighten your grip on him and bury your face in his hair. Just being able to sense him and only him. The system on the right of your vision Dirk installed began to beep and you go over what it wants. The thing that caught its attention was the rise in John’s heart rate and he began to squirm a bit in your grasp. “Sorry…” You rush him to his bedroom, laying him down as you began to see what you could do for him. He tries to push you off him as he reaches for the part that’s in pain. You lift his shirt up to see the stitches on his chest, and the program puts an X on it. You look to his heart and the program is unsure at this point seeing as his heart is dropping fast. “Sorrysorrysorrysorry…sorr…” He takes one last breath before his eyes close. The program picks something up at that point and you see an object inside that isn’t supposed to be there and your rage builds up once again. You quickly gather him up in your coils, ignoring the way his body hangs instead of clings to you like usual.
“John…John please if you can hear me just hang on.” You bring his head up with your hands to whisper into his ear. “Don’t leave me baby.” He’s always loved you calling him baby, he told you it made him feel like you really do love him. You do though, you really do love him and him dying on you is not on the list. He said he wouldn’t leave you, yet here he is laying limp in your grasp as you try to calm yourself.
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CG: KANAYA PLEASE TELL ME YOU’RE STILL AT THE HUMAN CARE CENTER WITH MSS. JANE?
GA: Yes Karkat, We Haven’t Left Yet. Some Of The Other Workers Have Though. May I Ask Why?
CG: JOHN’S STOPPED BREATHING AND I CAN’T GET HIM TO WAKE BACK UP. THE PROGRAM DIRK PLACED IN ME HAS TOLD ME THAT THERE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS HURTING HIM. ONE OF THOSE ASSHOLES LEFT SOMETHING HIS BODY HATES INSIDE HIM. THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL JOHN. MY JOHN!! HELP ME KANAYA PLEASE, I CAN’T LOSE HIM.
GA: Of Course Karkat. How Close Are You?
CG: I’M ALMOST THERE. 2 MORE MINUTES TOPS.
GA: Everything Is Going To Be Ok Karkat. I’ll Go Tell Mss. Jane, Oh And Karkat?
GA: No Matter What Don’t Cause An Unneeded Fight. Lord AR Would Be Disappointed In You And John Would Be Worried Sick If You Were Missing. I’m Sure There Is A Logical Explanation For This.
CG: FINE, BUT IF THEY REALLY WERE TRYING TO KILL MY JOHN I WILL MURDER THEM. LORD AR WOULD UNDERSTAND THEN, SINCE HE’S DONE THAT FOR DIRK.
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“Hang on Baby please.” You made it to the door just when you said, rushing in to place John down on the table. Kanaya was right behind you with Jane on the other side of the table. You lean down to John one last time before Kanaya can take you away. “I love you John.” You then leave the room, waiting outside to try and keep your temper while John is in there once again.