♋ PCG 18

[crusthatecean]

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[frogst]

[ Having heard his phone call, she approaches carefully. ]

Karkat? Are you okay?

[crusthatecean]

Jade!

[Pulling her into a tight embrace.]

Oh god, Jade, you're still alive.

[frogst]

Karkat... [ She's bewildered, slow to return his embrace. ] Of course I'm still alive, what happened?

[crusthatecean]

Gamzee...there was blood everywhere, I thought it was you.

But now I don't know who he killed. I was supposed to make sure this didn't happen.

[frogst]

[ She holds him tightly now, rocking gently. Something is very obviously not right, she just doesn't know what. ]

There's no blood, Karkat, Gamzee hasn't done anything. No one has. Are you feeling alright?

[crusthatecean]

It's fucking everywhere! How can you not see it?

[frogst]

No, I can't, because it's not there.

[crusthatecean]

He wrote on the wall with Jade's blood, you fucking idiot. It's right there!

[frogst]

[ Jade grips him tightly by the shoulders, jerks back enough to look at him. ]

I'm Jade! I'm right here! No one is dead!

[crusthatecean]

Why don't you believe me?

I know he killed Equius and Nepeta.

[frogst]

[ She's quiet for moment, resuming the embrace and trying to figure out what she's supposed to do. ]

That didn't happen here. He hasn't killed anyone here.

[crusthatecean]

I tried to stop him, but I wasn't able to.

I always try to fix my mistakes but I fail at the same things again and again.

[frogst]

That's not true. You've done so much here, for all of us. [ Her words are gently and sincere, but she's not sure how much will even get through to him. ] I think you should lay down.

[crusthatecean]

I can't.

Mayfield is going to disappear. Because of me.

[frogst]

It's not, I promise. You trust me, don't you?

[crusthatecean]

Of course I do. But you're wrong. It's not your fault, I just didn't tell you something you needed to know.