Reunions (Tag-Kami, Kat, Hastur)

[N.P.C.]

--- NPC is Promethea (as Kami) ---

* ... took her fucking long enough.*

* I was liable to just say fuck it and kill the bitch right here in the hall before she took that little nibble. Even then... she has to waste even more time bargaining over what that Favor's going to be. It takes homework and $100 to get her to leave the safety of her room, and walk the green mile back to Kami's dorm. Little bitch is off in la-la land she doesn't even suspect what's coming. She doesn't even fucking notice I've slipped behind her to draw out the piece.*

* Course, by the time she does figure out somethings wrong.... what with spying Foxie all hogtied in her down... it's way too late.*

* The bitch tries the old 'fight or flight'... and I gotta admit, she's fast. All ready to pepper me with fire and fly to alert everyone else. Thing is... she isn't faster than a speeding bullet. I might not have hit her where I wanted.... but the leg will work. Within seconds she's belly-flopped on the floor, clutching her leg in pain.*

* Man I can't help but laugh.*

" Aww... didums somebody faww down?"

* Little bitch still tries to make a break for it... so I have to get the point across, and get rid of a little aggression, by punting her candy-ass back into Fido. She keeps trying to spark off her powers... keeps trying to fry me. And I just stand back and watch, smiling. She cries about her de-powering... I'm sure foxy's wondering too. About time I spilled the beans.*

" Magic bullets sweetness... small caliber rounds that pop in... and Mutant powers just disappear."

* I walk in closer, looking down on her. Man even without her powers she's still got fire in here. Given a chance, I'm sure she'd try something. I gotta nip that in the bud.*

" You don't remember me kitty kat... but I remember you... maybe this will help."

* Kneel down, keeping her face clamped in my hand as I let her get a good look at the real me, Let Kami's familiar face disappear, revealing the true beauty that is my perfect form. I sit back and enjoy the show... watching as all the color just completely drains out of her face, watch as all the fight just drains out of... and for that same, delicious look of absolute terror to seize back in her eyes.*

" You really didn't think we'd forget about a scrumptious little treat like you... did you? We had you right there on the gurney... it's just bad for business to let a fresh piece of meat slip away."

* Oh she is so fucking scared right now... I wonder if she's about to piss herself. I guess she's not as scared as she should be... tries to push away... tries to run... but she won't get far. I pin her to the floor... hard... I rip off her belt and wrap it around her hands... all the while she squeals and wriggles... trying to get away.*

"Where do you think you're going... you still owe me something."

* I roll her flat on her back... she's still kicking and screaming... trying to get away even as I've got her pinned. Man... I love the way her eyes bug out of her head after she sees my little organ-grinder come out to play. She keeps fighting... keeps squealing as I pull her shirt back, ready to re-open some old wounds. Only to find a surprise waiting for me.*

" Awww... you washed our party favor away"

* What the fuck? There should be a scar running up her chest from where we cut her... big ugly cross she has to bear, a brand declaring that she is U-men property. But nothing... not even a tan-line out of place. Man... what a buzz-kill.*

"Oh well... doesn't matter..."

* I trace one of those monstrous fingers up her belly... delighting as she cringes and whimpers at my touch... moving up where that autopsy scar used to be. Tears just streaming down that pissy little bitches face, cringing as I move in closer to whisper into her ear...*

"I'll give you all new ones you can enjoy... for ever and ever and ever.

* With that, all pretenses of holding back just disappears, and she just starts balling as I trace my tongue along her chin. I couldn't break foxy over here... but her... she's already having a mental breakdown.... *

* This is just DELICIOUS!*

* Man I could do this for HOURS! With all this begging and pleading I should keep her alive... fuck her over a little while longer before putting her out of our misery. But... business comes before pleasure of course. There's still one filthy mutie I gotta add to my poke'dex... it's just not right if you don't have a complete set.*

"Hate to cut an run sweeties..."

* She's still blubbering when I force her mouth open... shoving a fresh sock into her mouth. Can't have her waking up the neighbors after all. I pat her on her sweet little head before I stand up, delighting in her assuming the fetal position to cry some more. Man she is REALLY making this hard for me to leave. It's just so damn fun causing her to go into a full-blown PT-SD mental breakdown!*

" But I got one more guest to invite before we can start the party... but don't worry... you two can keep each other company until I get back. You know... say your goodbyes... go through the 7 stages... piss yourselves... whatever floats your boat."

* I say down to the both of them in an unnervingly chipper tone. Once I finish this nerd hunt... then we can start on the REAL fun!*

[Firekat]

*no... nono....nonono...*

* this isn't real...this... this can't be real...*

* they said they killed them.... they killed all of them...*

* she... she shouldn't be here... she can't be here...*

*...but she is...*

* those eyes... those same mismatched eyes... one of them is green, the other one is glazed over and glassy, like she's dead... that same damned look in her eyes... like... like i'm a damn peice of meat!!*

* ...she's here... god no she's here...*

* ...she smiles... a horrible, evil smile... says that... that they'd never forget about a little treat like me... she... she calls me scrumptious... a piece of meat... oh god no... no... their... their going to cut me again... their going to harvest me again...*

* ... i... i won't let them cut me!!!!*

* even with my hurt leg... even with it burning... i push up, shove myself into her.... and try to drag myself to the door... it's still cracked open... i can still get out... she laughs... says i 'owe her'... she pins me down... she... she grabs me.... tears my belt off and she ties my hands behind my back and rolls me over... back to face her... back to face that ugly face... back to those horrible eyes....*

*... and i scream...*

*... all i can do is kick and scream...*

"Get... GET OFF OF ME you freak!!! GET OFF OF ME!!!!!!"

* ... i keep trying.... keep trying to get away... even under her weight.... i keep screaming... then... then she grabs my chin... forces me to look up at her... look at her hand... it... it starts growing.... like... like what robin boes... but different.... her muscles start... start forming these disgusting knobs of chunky flesh... her fingers turn into disgusting bird-like claws and the palm grows spikes on it and... oh GOD.... her.... her palm has a mouth in it... a slimey... drooling sucker mouth with... with sharp little teeth... like... like a LEECH...*

* what.... what the fuck is this FREAK??*

* ... get away... i gotta get away... i keep fighting... try to get out from under her.... i need to wriggle my way out before she can use that... that THING on me. she reaches down... i can feel her grabbing my shirt... she's starting to take off my shirt... god... god no.... she's... she's going to eat me.... i can't let her eat me!!!! *

" you freak...you.... you sick FREAK....nggghhhyyeEEAAAHHH!!!!!"

* she stops... she... she isn't eating me... i try... try catching my breath.... can't... she's too heavy.... when she talks she sounds dissapointed... says i lost my party favor... but she says not to worry.... and then... i feel it...*

* i can feel it... as clearly as a knife cutting into me.... that... that hideous claw thing running up my chest... tracing over my scar... opening it up... i close my eyes... tighter than i've ever closed them before... tears just streaming down my face as i whimper...*

* ...she's cutting me.... she's cutting me and... and I can't stop her!!!*

"..no...no please... please no..."

* she gets down close to me... and whispering her putrid words in my ear... i can't fight it back.... when that disgusting.. inhuman tongue begins running down my chin... i explode... i start crying... blubbering out like a baby in loud... messy gibberish... her words echoing through my head*

"...pleeeeeassee....nooooo..ho..ho....."

* she wants to eat me.... she's going to eat me.... i can't stop her...*

* i can feel it... i cringe... biting my lip together as i whimper... any second she'll drive that... that disgusting thing into my chest... tearing me open... cutting me.... i can feel it inside of me... sucking my organs out... i can't do anything...*

* i hear her voice... then feel her forcing my mouth open... my squeal stopped by feeling something shoved in my mouth.... a gag... she says that we can keep each other company while she finds someone else...*

* i cringe as she pats my head... like i'm...i'm her damned pet.... she gets off of me... and i curl up into a ball... biting down on this nasty tasting gag and sobbing... she's... she's going to kill us... she's going to eat us and kill us... and we can't do anything to stop her...*

*then... hope...*

* i can hear a creak... the door's opening... but she isn't the one doing it. thank... thank god somebody... somebody's found us! we're... we're SAFE! i look up at the door... anxious to watch whoever it is kick this bitches butt.... but it's then that my heart sinks...my blood runs colder than before... as a horror worse than anything this freak could have instilled in me grips me down to... down to my very soul....*

* ...no... mother of god no....*

* silence echoes across the room... broken only by a sponge-bob dvd case hitting the ground... it's robin... she's standing there... eyes wide with fear.... with confusion... she's there... more helpless than the two of us... and she's staring down that... that monster... and i can feel my eyes well up again. of all the people who had to walk in on this... why... WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HER? i shake my head... my screams muffled while i gnaw at the gag... trying to spit it out... trying to scream at her...*

* Run dammit.... For the love of god Robin... RUN!!!*

[Hastur]

“Who lives in a pinapple under the sea sponge bob square pants absorbent and yellow and porous is he spongebob square pants If nutticle nonsense is something you wish Oh shoot.”

I grumble at myself for messing up the line again. Nautical is a weird word. Naaawt-i-cal. Nautical. I read in a book that it means having to do with the sea. I guess it makes sense to use it in the song, since it works really well having the two N words back to back. As I ponder, I pass by some of the older boys playing catch back and forth, having to duck aside as they rush past not noticing me. I wish I was taller so that things like this wouldn’t happen. To bad the food chat doesn’t tell you what makes you taller. Milk for bones, carrots for eyes, vegetables for….what are vegetables for anyway? They just say that they are ‘nutritious’. Sounds even less like a real word than Nutticle-er…nautical.

I can’t wait to see the DVD I picked up from the school’s collection. They have like, every single video ever made ever! But this one tops them all. Say it with me. SpongeBob Square pants….The movie!!! Finally, we can see what happens when sponge hits screen. The only part I don’t like is that one guy. The live action guy from the previews. David Hassaoff or something. What does he think he’s doing, butting into the SpongeBob Square pants movie. Probably just some guy hoping to get his big break. So sad.

I wonder if Kats going to want to watch it with me. She’s been a lot nicer lately, ever since the nice Cheshire girl left. I don’t understand exactly what I did to help, but people have told me that I did a really good job of whatever it was. I kind of miss Cheshire, she never talked to me like I was a little kid.

I go for my room key as I approach the door, but see that it’s already open. Pushing on the knob, the hinges glide without a sound as I enter, and freeze. The DVD drops from one hand, my room key from the other. I scream.

Theres a Monster in my room. Despite everything I’ve ever been, whatever this…horrible thing is, its far scarier. Kats in there, and so is kami. I try to turn, to run, get a teacher, get help. There was blood everywhere. Doctor, they need a doctor. Don’t slip, don’t fall, keep screaming, get someone, anyone to hear. Keep running.

Don’t let the monster eat me!

[N.P.C.]

--- NPC is Promethea ---

* Anyone else ever notice it's always at the worst possible moment when you forget things?*

* All I wanted was just a little bit of fun. Get a teensy bit of sadistic payback on this stuck up bitch for wasting my time. You know, gouging out some painfully memories to reduce her to this crying heap on the floor before getting back to the Nerd hunt. Oh man, if I wasn't strapped for time I could just sit here for hours and just lick the delicious tears off of this pissy little bitches face. But of course, as Anxious as I was to make that bitch suffer, I forgot to lock the fucking door behind me.*

* sonofabitch*

* Seriously... I go to all the god damn trouble of being covert... and I forget to lock the fucking door. And NOW because of that... I have that sugar-coated Disney-brand cutesy little blond girl standing in the damn doorway, her eyes bugging out of her head at the sight of lefty, before she starts screaming her cutesy little head off!*

* Oh well... my lips curl back in a vicious sneer as I look on the bright side of this. Now I have an EXCUSE to kill Shirley Temple over there!*

" Oh shut up already. This'll all be over soon you little brat."

* I flick out leftie... letting the quills form out of my fingers. I cringe excitedly as the jagged little things begin to jab their way out of my flesh. I reach back over my left shoulder... and in a wide swiping motion, let the my little spikes fly.*

* A couple are high, what with her being a short little brat... but a couple hit their mark, nailing her back and shoulders as she starts to make a break for it. She stumbles... falling flat on her sweet widduw kisser. She can try to get up... try to keep running... but she won't get far... not with my poison running through her veins.*

" Now why'd you have to do that? I was going to make this quick... and.... "

* I'm stopped mid sentence.... at first I just brushed off her straining as my venom messing her up... but something else is going on here. Her shoulder's starting to pulsate... I can hear the wonderful sound of bones breaking and shifting... then all of a sudden... her arm and shoulder just rip out of her shirt... her muscles bulking up to huge... animalistic proportions... her little hand just being... cut apart with a big hook made of meat and bone. But that's not all... no... it's shoulder and elbow open up with these big toothy mouths with bug-eyed tongues... and it's all covered with jagged little quills... like a hedgehog.*

* I stand there... and blink a few seconds... just staring back at her as she stares back at me... fear and terror and pain in her eyes*

* and I squee*

" .... that is SO COOL!!! "

* Honestly, I'm squeeing here. Like some nerd at a Trek convention. This unholy reactionary morphing power... it is just SO fucking awesome!!!! I trail my tongue over my lips. I'm salivating at the the potential that this power has. Just think of the lovecraftian insanity I could force on my prey with that.*

" I WANT it!!! "

* I start moving in... bringing lefties claws out, flexing them a little to get the point across... to get that delicious paralyzing fear going. Not like she needs help with that... with the toxin running through her she's lucky she's even upright. And even then, she's like what... 10? What could a 10 year old possibly do to ME? *

* Man this is the luckiest screw-up I ever made.*

[Hastur]

The first thing that comes to me is that I should run, find some help. We we’re told about that, if anyone bad shows up, to get a teacher as soon as possible. The monster has already got Kat and Kami, and they are like, two of the strongest here. But the teachers are even tougher than that. They can do something. And Kat was bleeding, she needs help. Got to run, get help. I don’t make it to steps before I feel something come stabbing into my shoulder. I stumble, feeling my power start to kick in, the stinging going numb. I try and get up, by my arm is getting heavy, the muscles swelling and bursting, my fingers tearing off as a big bony spike appears. I blink as I can suddenly see behind me, and it takes a second to figure out where the new eyes have appeared.

I manage to get back onto my feet, looking over at the patchwork monster girl. She looks so…happy. Its scary. She shouldn’t be smiling; she should be glaring or something. Bad people aren’t supposed to be happy. As she walks closer, she raises her arm, this mouth thing on it gnawing at the air. I don’t want to fight, I need to get help. Maybe I can push her back or something. I lean back, straining to work the new muscles, and I take a big swing, the bony knife on the end cutting through the air.

And I Miss.

I stumble back, my arm twisting around and hitting the wall, the wood splinters apart. I try to go again, but I’m stuck, I cant get my arm free.

“P-Please, stop…d-don’t hurt me”

My eyes water. I’m so scared, I don’t want her to hurt me. Kat cant help, Sheena cant help, and I can’t run.

Inside my arm, I feel something tighten, and I try and pull free again. Somethings different this time, and instead of moving, the spins along my elbow all raise up, and then suddenly, they go shooting out, flying at the Patchwork girl.

I hope it doesn’t just make her even madder.

[N.P.C.]

--- NPC is Promethea ---

* Oh MAN this is too sweet!*

* Here I thought I'd botched the whole thing... but right here providence has shined upon me and delivered this tasty little morsel down upon me! Some new-fangled kind of shape-changing tapped into the subconscious, morphing you into all kinds of nightmarish critters. MAN I wouldn't think a 10 year old could have such nightmares that she'd dream up something like this... man she must have some serious problems.*

* Course I can fix that.*

* Naturally... this delicious little nibblet seems to want to make a stand. Okay, I'll bite. Sure, I've never gone up against one this young before... but what exactly is she going to do? I mean yeah, the hideous arm of a Lovecraft and Goodall lovechild, but aside from her being doped up by my spines, it's bigger than she is! No way she can lift it... but she does. Well, I guess I was wrong there, I'm slightly impressed as she just up an hoists that big meaty hook in the air and whips it at me...*

* and misses so horribly that she ends up nailing herself to the wall.*

* Really, I shouldn't be doing this... but I just burst out laughing at all of this. I am about ready to suffocate I'm laughing so hard here! She's just straining and crying and begging 'oh please oh please' all while she's stuck in the wall like outta some Tom n Jerry cartoon.*

*I gotta stop and wipe a tear out of my eye I'm laughing so hard.*

" Oh..heheheh...oh.. hehheh...ohh you don't haveta worry your sweet little head lemon-drop... leftie isn't gonna hurtcha... much."

* I keep talking in that creepy, chipper tone as I keep moving in... keep watching her kicking and crying up a storm... trying to flex that big slab of meat arm she's got. With all the bulk it's got you'd THINK it could at least help her out here. But no... it seems to be flexing out in all the wrong places. Amateur! Don't worry you delicious little genetic quirk, I won't misuse you like cutie-pie does!*

" You don't haveta worry. I'll take your power home with me and we'll have ALLL kindsa FUN together! I'll let him out to play an..."

* probably should be paying more attention here... course it doesn't really matter when I start screaming*

" NNNGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

* FUCKING HELL!!!!!!!! That... that damn arm shot me! THAT FUCKING ARM SHOT ME IN THE FACE WITH MY OWN GODDAMN SPINES!!!*

* My concentration lost... leftie shrinks back to normal as I clutch my face... all 3 of the damn pig stickers still embedded in my head! She nailed me in both my Fucking eyes, can you believe it??? Gotta... get these fuckers out so I can fucking see.... can't let that brat fucking get away from me! Try tugging... can feel the barb tugging inside the wound... aggravating it. SHIT this fucking HURTS!!!!!!*

* Gotta man up and get these fuckers out. I finally take hold and give a good pull... tearing them both out as I let loose a blood curdling scream that rattles the windows. I let both of them fall to the ground and grab my face.... letting my regen kick in. Slowly the darkness begins to give way to a red blurr... becoming clearer with each passing moment. Soon enough, I'm wiping the blood from my face, releasing an angry, feral growl at the little twerp as she tries to squirm her way free.*

[glow=red,2,300]" You.... little.... BRAT!!!!! "[/glow]

* I start moving in... ready to do some extremely nasty things to that sweet widdle face of hers... and then I get thrown ANOTHER curve-ball. Seems someone has finished pissing herself and sobbing, and decided to make a stand for her little bestie... somehow got on her feet and tries throwing herself into me, knocking me over... screaming. This is cute and futile and all, but I am NOT in the fucking mood for this! I have wasted WAY too much time on these Idiots!*

[glow=red,2,300]" Get the fuck off of me you stuck-up little BITCH! "[/glow]

* After just a teensy bit of grappling and elbowing and biting, I manage to shove her off, and just for a little bit of stress relief, plant one of these platform boots in that pissy face of hers, sending her rolling back into the wall. Mighta broke her nose. Hope I did, not that it's really gonna matter. Their all going to be slowly dieing in a few minutes.*

* FUCK the plan... Fuck the nerds... and FUCK THESE THREE!!! These tasty little bitches are toast... and I'm starting with the brat!*

* I take firm hold of her neck with my right hand, pulling her out of the wall and twist her around so she's facing me. I start to focus... letting leftie twist and knot himself out to play. If I wasn't so pissed off right now I would really delight in that look of fear plastered all over her face. I'd also probably be quoting Temple of doom considering what I'm about to rip out of her chest.*

* I'm really too focused on my work right now to give a damn about all the screaming. You'd think a 10 year old would be easy to cut into... but every twist I make... her body starts putting up heavier resistance. She's a fighter... Good. I didn't want this to easy for either of us. If this nightmare-fueled healing factor can do this for a widdle kindeegardnur... imagine what it'll do for me!*

* Just because it takes a little effort... doesn't mean it takes very long. Soon enough... I can feel the little thing in my hands... the deceptively weak little thing beating like nobodies business. The room goes dead silent as leftie gets to work... all except for a little squeak... and her body goes still. I open my hand... and let the sack of meat fall with a thump to the floor.*

* Still... even after I tore the heart from her chest... it's still fighting. I cringe, grabbing on to my wrist as I feel it wage it's little war of independance... violently... painfully... it's trying to anchor itself... fighting the flow... it's going to make it's way out either the way it came or make another path as it fights against all attempts at integration.*

* I keep murmuring... whispering to myself... staying firm... it's tough... it's strong.... but it's in me now. Every second that passes it's fight weakens.... it's resolve loosening... then... I can feel it... spreading up my arm... the warm, steady murmur of a new heart. Exhausting to say the least... like that little ticker sucked all of the energy right out of me... but it was worth it. Her powers... her delicious nightmare-inducing regenerative powers are Mine now.*

* I'm still breathing heavy as I flick leftie's over-sized claws... splatting blood down on the floor... before speaking over to my next two victims.*

" well now.... who's next?"

[Firekat]

* it... it gets quiet... too quiet...*

*... it's... it's just like in the med-bay... quiet... dead... like a morgue... Robin... she... she's just standing there... staring... for hours... wh... what are you waiting for you little twerp??? don't... don't stand... run... run as fast as you can.... find another student... find a teacher... find... SOMEBODY... ANYBODY... don't... don't let her...*

*...please don't let her get you...*

* ...then... my eyes clamp shut... she's screaming...*

* I whimper... tears rolling down my face... crying muffled by the gag... god no... no no no... that... that monster's got her... she's dissecting her... tearing her apart... she... she doesn't deserve this... any of this...*

* ...why didn't you run... *

* that... that monster is talking... mocking her... growling that she was going to make it easy... but... stops talking at the same time I hear something else... clothes tearing.... and then popping, cracking... I know that sound... my eyes shoot open. She... she's still alive! Thank god she's alive! She... she was only winged... and now... now her powers are kicking in. Please... whatever it transforms into... let it be something that can help her... something strong enough to fight this monster or horrible enough to scar her away...*

* It doesn't take long... her arm just bulking up bigger than she is... bones jutting from it to form a monstrous hook where her hand was.... with these horrible... toothy mouths forming all over... the whole thing covered in this tiny little hairs like a porcupine...*

*... then I hear something that makes my blood runs cold... a high-pitched squeal... like the silly little noise that Robin makes when she sees a puppy... I look up... it's... it's coming from that monster... she's even got the same look in her eye.... that... that freak isn't scared at all...*

* She WANTS Robins powers.*

* she moves in... that hideous hand moving... gnawing at the air in anticipation... leaving a trail of drool behind it. Robin tries to fight her... tried to hit her with that meaty hook... but misses... and gets stuck in the wall...*

* that monster stands there... laughing... long... hard... mocking her as she just hangs there... begging her for her life... fear tainting her sweet little voice... my heart sinks... I close my eyes... banging my head on the floor... she's going to kill her... she's going to eat her alive right here... and we can't do anything...*

*... why didn't you run? *

*... my eyes shoot open... my head jerking up... more screaming... but not from Robin... it's... it's the monster! Robin... somehow her arm shot those spines back into her face! She's... reeling... grabbing at her face... blood spewing everywhere as she tried to pull them out! Robin... she just... *

* She just fought back... and she hurt her. Robin HURT her!*

* If not for this gag... I'd be smiling....*

* I start fiddling with my tongue... wriggling it around... trying to shove this stupid sock out of my mouth. Gawd... this better not belong to the spaz... I've got to talk to her... try and talk her down.... get her over here to untie us. I barely get that disgusting striped sock out of my mouth when that freak screams.... a scream that hurts my ears... I can only imagine how horrified Robin is right now.*

* That Monster... SHE's got healing too! Both of her eyes have healed over ... blood still dripping down her face... making her look like even more of a monster! She's got this horrible look in them... this evil, bloodthirsty look! She's going to kill Robin! She's going to eat her alive right here and we can't do anything!!*

*NO!!!*

* I won't let this happen... I CAN'T let this happen... not... not again.... not to her... I don't care if I am tied up... I have to DO something!!! Robin does NOT deserve to be some freaks lunch! I rock back and forth, push myself up onto my feet, and I lunge ahead, slamming myself head-first right into that Monster, screaming at her.*

"Get away from her you BITCH!!!"

* I fight with every ounce of strength I have. Even as she tries to shove me off, my weight is still pinning her down onto the ground. She throws an elbow into my face... hitting me in the eye... and I open my mouth and bite down as hard as I can! It's disgusting... feeling those scars, that pasty... cold feeling to her arm. I don't care! I avert my eyes to Robin... tears streaming down my face... I can't let anything happen to her... I WON'T let anything happen to her!!!*

* She growls at me to get off... then stars getting stronger... with little effort she shoves me off and then kicks me in the face! I hear this snapping sound... then everything blurrs for a second until I slam up into the wall... dazed.*

* the rooms spinnin... I can feel... feel blood on my face... I close my eyes and shake my head, trying to get back to my senses. Have to get back up... can't... give up....*

* And then my body freezes.... bloody running cold... my eyes ready to bulge out of my sockets....*

* that sound...*

"...no..."

* Robin... she's screaming... she's screaming... that... freak... she's... got her arm on her... she's... she's EATING her!*

* I fight... I fight as hard as I can against this belt... wrenching, writhing on the floor... using every ounce of Strength I have trying to loosen this thing so I can slip my hands out... I don't care if I throw my shoulder out.... I'm getting out of this! I have to stop her...*

* I AM GOING to stop her!!!!*

"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

* I strain and I fight and I scream... and even with this stupid belt not giving an inch... even if I feel that stupid 'magic bullet' burning in my leg... I just clench my teeth and keep fighting! I am NOT going to be held back... not by some dime-store fashion disaster... not by some stupid bullet... I will NOT sit here and let that monster DO THIS!!!*

* but then... then there's a squeak, then some horrible gurgling sounds.... and a thud. And then everything goes quiet.*

* dead quiet*

* I... I feel dead inside of me. Unable to speak... unable to think.... my lip trembles as I stare right ahead.... my unblinking eyes unable to look away from the horrible sight. Robin's just lying there... a crumpled heap laying in a puddle of her own blood... not moving... not breathing... not doing anything... please... god please do something! Heal over allready.... grow another head... erupt in a mass of tentacles... do... do SOMETHING!!!!*

*...please....*

* my lip is still trembling.... still staring at her body... when I hear something else. My teeth grit toghether... my blood begins to boil. The freak... standing over her... flicking the blood off of that freak arm of hers as if she just washed her hands.... acting as if she was NOTHING as she casually just asks us who wants to be next.*

"...y...you freak...."

* I growl out... lowly... the cold, venomous tone in my voice contrary to the sudden rise in temperature in this room. Even through the swelling and the tears, I'm staring daggers up at that disgusting patchwork face... that sick twisted little grin on her face... ignoring everything else in the room.... her words are just... blotted out, like I'm going deaf.... Kami doesn't even register on my radar.... I barely even feel the growing intensity of the burning in my leg. Everything else around here is a blurr except one thought running through my mind...*

[glow=1E90FF,4,300]"YOU DISGUSTING FREAK!!!!!!!!!!"[/glow]

* I barely even had to think of it.... I didn't even realize what I had done.... I was up again... ready to lunge at her... then there's a fizzle sound... like a sparkler coming from my leg, the next minute I am airborne... I'm flying... the belt that held me burnt apart.... my right arm coming up, burning with a blue light. Focused. Intense. Unforgiving. I don't even have the time to enjoy the actual look of fear in that freaks eyes... what the nerd would call a 'deer in the headlights' look plastered on her face. She hardly even had time to react before I shoved that fireball into her gut.*

* It's almost like a bomb went off.*

* One of those 'sharped charges' focused solely into that freak's body... the stink of burnt flesh lofting through the air, mingling with the scent of blood and tears. She tumbles through the air like a rag-doll... crashing through the window with me at her back. I don't even register the shards of glass cutting open my face and shoulders. I don't care. That same thought running through my mind... my sole focus.*

* She's leaving trail of smoke behind her as she begins to fall to the ground... arms flailing. I swing both arms foreword, sending two columns of flame to slam into her, washing over her back and hasten her descent. I can hear her screaming over the pyre's shriek as she slams into the courtyard.*

* The few students out here have alleady scattered... not willing to gawk at this car accident or get caught in the crossfire. I hover over her... a burnt piece of meat laying down in that burnt crater. She's gasping... her back split open by my last attack... her flesh practically seared off like the peel of a banana. I have no idea what she took to her front, but I hope... I PRAY that that... FREAK is in agony.*

*She isn't sprouting tentacles yet. Good. She's still stuck with that lame-ass healing factor she already had, and right now it isn't worth shit. It's trying to work, trying to heal the damage I've already done. Not going to happen.*

* I'm not going to give it the chance*

* I breathe deep, focusing down on her... focusing my anger and my hatred and my anguish down onto her.... I can feel it building... that blue fire, flaring up in my hand, all the while the same thoughts running through my mind.*

* She's going to die*

* The Monster is going to die*

* And I am going to kill her.*

[Hastur]

The monster, that girl, she’s bleeding all over the place. The barbs stuck right in her eyes, both of them. She screams a horrible loud scream that makes me wince. She pulls the barbs out, her eyes beginning to grow back already. I’m so scared, I can’t even move. I don’t even try and pull free, just standing there, watching her. What am I supposed to do?

“P-Please…leave me al-alone”

I whimper softly, tears rolling down my cheeks. As the last bits of her eyes come back, she glares at me, moving closer. This is it, she’s going to get me. I tug on my arm again, hoping to get free, but it all seems futile, Even If I got free, I can’t stop her. Kami couldn’t Kat couldn’t. What am I supposed to do?

KAT!

Somehow, she managed to get onto her feet, running into the girl, knocking her down. Biting, holding her down. She’s Doing it! Kat is doing it! Or at least she seems to, for a minute, but then The girl throws Kat off, kicking her in the face. Hard. Then she turns back to me.

“No…Stop. Stay away from me! DON’T, PLEASE DON’T!”

I beg, so afraid that I’m shaking. She grabs me, her hand on my neck. I gasp, feeling her squeeze, I cant breath. I try and push her off, with my normal hand. My other arm just twitches about, firing more barbs. Its useless. So useless! It hurts so bad. Then, she brings her hand up, it shape changing, a mouth appearing on the palm. It snaps at me, the look on her face almost burning into me. No…please don’t. She can’t do this, She can’t! Someone has to stop her, anybody.

Please…

She stabs me, her hand breaking into my chest. I scream, just barely able to let out a tiny squeak, more of a wet gurgle. My power, I feel it moving around inside me. Not enough though. It hurts so much. So much…I feel blood, all over me, running out of my chest. Then, she pulls.

My body goes limp, all my strength just disappearing. I slump over, falling down. Wheezing, I try and breath, but it doesn’t do anything. Everythings going black.

Mom…I’m cold…

[N.P.C.]

--- NPC is Promethea ---

* Man that felt good*

* It isn't like gobbling up new toys doesn't feel good... but this meal is especially sweet this time all things considered. That little brat was getting on my nerves with all her whining and pleading and stabbing out my eyes... when you look at it I honestly went easy on her with a quick kill like this. I've tormented people for less... but time restraints and that kinda killed that option.*

* Oh right... getting sidetracked again...*

* and then I hear a little whisper... a tiny little growl. All pissy and bloodthirsty and meant to be scary. But really... how scary CAN a valley girl be when she's hogtied and with her face beaten to a pulp.*

" Oh please... what can you possibly do sweetness? You're just as helpless as you where last time... just a cute widdle piggie ready for the slaughter."

*... it took a little bit for things to start clicking... shoulda noticed sooner how she wasn't getting as demoralized as before.... probably should have noticed how the room was turning into a sauna. Not like I didn't get a little sweaty fighting down my new upgrade. It's only seeing that shimmer around her body... that mirage-inducing sheen you see on sun scortched highways that indicates something is DEFINITELY wrong! The gun... where the hell did the damn thing go?*

* One minute I'm trying to find that worthless derrenger... the next there's this burst of light... and princess is flying right at me... riding a plume of fire while screaming like a mad woman, this deranged look on her battered face that could make even ME wince. She's got this blue glow enveloping her right hand... she didn't even give me time to raise a proper defense... only increasing my density by a little bit...*

*... hell... I don't know what the fuck is going on... how the hell COULD I raise a proper defense?*

*... it was like someone just nailed me in a gut with a molten sledgehammer.... forcing all the air out of my lungs. horrible... searing pain just digging into my body... it's like it was alive... gnawing into me... eating me out before....*

*... it just.... explodes...*

* flames... that's all I can see... all I can feel... bringing with it an intense, searing pain as it just rips across my body.... washing out into the halls... before I'm send flying backwards... my chest still smoldering while I'm crashing through a dorm-room door.... and then through a window...*

* but she's not done yet*

* I'm not even facing her when it hits me... massive pillars of flame that just plow into me like a semi.... ramming me down into the courtyard below as the fire's roar drowning out my screams as it practically skins me alive...*

* my body... my beautiful body... what...what's left of it... just...trembling here in the smoldering crater.... racked with insufferable pain. The bitter taste of dirt and ash in my mouth. My lungs let out raspy gasps... trying to suck in oxygen... I'm trying to move... but it hurts so much... even the slightest breeze at my back is agony! Lefty's barely able to hold me up.... my right covering the wound in my gut.... holding my burnt innards... in... I wait... any second now to start healing... and even when it does... it's slowed to a crawl...*

*... this... this isn't right...*

*I should be sprouting hentaicles now... I should be some kinda lovecraftian freakshow.... a monstrosity that induces bed-wetting on-sight... straight out of this pissy bitch's nightmares....

* why... why isn't this WORKING?*

* I move my head to the side... looking skyward... she's just hovering there... staring down at me... staring down THROUGH me... her face devoid of any emotion... no sorrow... no pity... the only tell coming from her eyes. Those horrible eyes of hers... they where green back in the room... now their sporting a frosty blue glow matching the ball of fire in her hand... focused... intense... unforgiving...*

* my fried brain races... trying... trying to think of what to do... this... this wasn't supposed to happen... the... the damn bullets where suppose to work! I push through the pain... scrambling.... I've... I've got... got to get away.... got to run away.... can't let her burn me... Father sublime don't let her burn me...*

* PLEASE DON'T LET HER BURN ME!!!*

* that sound... that horrible sound... the unholy lovechild of a bottle rocket and a falling bomb.... and then the ground that I was standing on erupts into a wall of fire... and I go flying, bouncing along the ground like a ragdoll.... until I nail some immovable object... wall or something... all that matters is the sudden impact... and the excruciating pain reverberating through my body, as my back... stripped to bare muscle by the fire...impacts the rigid structure...*

* I didn't even have time to scream.... barely even had a chance to glimpse at what was coming next.... a living... blinding wall of light bearing down on me.... and then... darkness... and agony. I feel them... washing over my body... pinning me back onto the wall as they begin their feast... devouring me.... the flames ... father... father when will this stop? Please make it stop!!!*

* SOMEBODY MAKE THIS STOP!!!!*

* hours pass... YEARS pass.... before it subsides.... and I fall to the ground.... coughing... gagging... still.... still can't see... don't know how... how bad damage is... just... left trembling.... trembling on the ground.... can still hear. Can hear... hear the horrible sound again... the bombs... father not again!!!*

* I try to speak... try to plead.... have to make her stop.... voice shallow... raspy...*

[glow=black,4,300] " pl..pls...no...no mre.... s...srrender..." [/glow]

* ...don't let her burn me... please don't let her burn me....*

[Kami]

I struggle where she pulled me out of the way, trying to get up, feeling the bullet in my back, the blood pouring out.
I can take more than this... if I could just... reach my collar.
Why haven't the Cuckoos picked any of this up yet? I just need to think...
And that's about where I black out, everything going dark as I'm left to bleed out, unseen.
I don't know how long I'm out, but Robin's screams bring me back, and I blink my eyes, trying to see, wiggling to move, and I feel so weak.
Where the hell is my access energy levels when I need them?
That bullet... whatever she shot me with, it's effecting my powers.
And now she's got Kat and Robin, and I can't see what she's doing, but the sounds and cries makes my blood boil.
When I get off this floor, I'm going to kill that bitch.
Kat seems to think along the same lines, I can hear her explode, as the room suddenly gets hot.
That's it. Fight back! Get that bitch!
When Kat really goes postal, my bedspread catches a bit of flame, and I get an idea.
Moving as well as I can hog tied, I twist, the pain in my back rolling through making it that much harder, as I use Kat's flame to set my restraints on fire.
I hate the smell of singed fur.
Finally having my hands free I reach up to my collar, and hit a succession of buttons, feeling the chemicals in my brain start to flow through me, down my spinal chord, pushing out whatever it is that bitch hit me with.
As I feel things in my body waking back up, including my powers, I also feel Subspace coming on, the pain tingling on the edge of pleasure.
But I ignore that tinge.
I brought the chemical reaction on purpose, to get the use of my body back.
Not to enjoy it.
There's still work to be done.
Finally getting up I see Kat's blown the bitch outside, and gone after her.
I notice that the room, and the hallway has lingering flames, my Kinetic sense popping up, letting me feel how the flames move.
Flame is Kinetic Energy in itself, the molecules moving fast is what generates it...
I concentrate on the feeling of the flames moving, and I use my powers to stop them, snuffing the fire out easily.
And then I run to where Robin is in a pile on the floor, blood everywhere.
I know Robin's medical profile, the special circumstances her mutation puts on things, from being Dr. McCoy's assistant.
I did pay a bit of special attention to the details of my own team.
I figured it would come in handy for field medical emergencies... to know what I'm dealing with.
After a quick examination of her vitals, I'm sure she'll live.
Her powers are already patching up the damages.
I use my powers to move her mutated body to Alice's bed, laying her out a bit, before using my Kinetics to follow Kat and that bitch outside.
By the time I arrive, the bitch is laying in a scorched crater, and Kat is hovering above her in full on flame mode, her eyes showing everything I already feel.
She wants the bitch dead, and wants to do it herself.
Part of me, wants to stand back, and let it happen.
The bitch deserves to die. I will see her dead.
But, Kat has never killed.
She's not a murderer. She's a teen-aged girl trying to grow up with super powers.
She doesn't deserve this on her conscious.
I use Kinetics to get close to Kat, as I also put out the flames she's already let loose of.

"KAT! STOP!"

One hesitant thought, and I get between her and the bitch.
I hate the smell of burnt fur, but if she burns me, I can stop it from causing any real damages.

"Kat, we both know that bitch deserves to die, but think about this.
Do you really want to become a murderer?"

I look in her flaming eyes, hard, trying to get through the redhead temper, to the girl underneath.

"Once you cross this line, you can't go back.
You'll always have her blood on your hands."

I look down at the cunt, the flames I put out, didn't do anything to alleviate her suffering.
Burns effect the nerve endings. There is no way to stop the pain of third degree burns, even pain killers the potency of Morphine and Ty-lox, can't stop the pain.
The pitiful noises she makes, the way she shudders on the ground, saying something about surrender, maybe that will help break through to Kat's sympathy. Her sense of personal decency and compassion... her humanity.
I know what it's like. To kill someone.
I don't want Kat to find out this way.
That monster doesn't deserve to get this deep under her skin.

"Don't let that bitch ruin you so completely.
Katherine, you're better than this.
You're better than her!"

I would have continued, I can tell by the look on Kat's face that she's thinking, she's starting to come down from the temper blow, but somehow, that bitch actually pulls her burned carcass off the ground, and I turn at the feel of her moving, keeping Kat behind me as I sneer.

"Katherine may be too good to put you out of our misery, you sick bitch, but I've killed BETTER people than you.
You're not even a foot note to me."

All it takes is a tiny amount of intent, My Kinetic sense picking up her heartbeat, and using the Kinetics involved to tear her body apart from the inside.
The sound as she's torn to pieces is indescribable, her blood, half coagulated from the flames, splattering high enough to get in my fur.
I don't want Kat to know what this is like, Looking down on a life ended by her own hand, knowing any hope of fixing anything, was ended in that moment.
I look back at her, looking directly in her eyes, so she can see the shadows in mine. The experience.

"You're not a murderer Katherine.
You're better than me.
Don't stoop to this level.
Trust me. Once you've crossed this line, you can't go back."

[Firekat]

* I pause for a moment... as our eyes briefly meet over her shoulder. That disgusting, glazed over eye... the one that was staring over me like a piece of meat... the eye that was gloating over me seconds ago... staring up... trembling... like an ant under a magnifying glass. She's afraid... her eye silently pleading for mercy. My mouth curls back into an angry sneer... Robin plead for mercy... this freak ignored her before she murdered her! If she thinks I'm going to show her ANY quarter... she has another thing coming!!! Just as I let that ball of Fire fly... She scrambles... like some wounded animal she's trying to run away... desperately trying to escape...*

* She doesn't quite make it.*

* the ground explodes right behind her... a massive pyrotechnic cloud sprouting up from where she was... shaking the ground below. Once again... she's sent flying with the rest of the burning debris... and like before I'm right behind her as that disgusting body tumbles along the ground, slamming back-first into a brick fence on the compound... her eyes lighting up... what's left of her face twisting back... her mouth opening wide, probably ready to scream over that cold brick salt that just slammed into her wound.*

* She's battered.... burned... broken... but still alive.*

* For the moment.*

* She doesn't even get the chance to exhale... I pull back while my hands swing ahead to unleash a massive pyre down onto her. There's nowhere for you to run this time. Nowhere for your body to fly. You are caught between an immovable object and unforgiving fire.*

* I hover here... keeping the pillar of fire pouring down upon her. The world around me blurs... I can't hear the other students screaming, I can't feel the pain coming from my leg or eye, I don't notice the moisture rolling down my body. My attention is focused solely ahead, solely down upon my target. Not that there is much to see... just a faint shadow.*

* You disgusting freak...*

* You murdered her...*

* She never did ANYTHING to you... and you murdered her...*

* Just... tore her heart out right in front of me...*

* you... you've done the same to other mutants... killing them... stealing their organs to build up your disgusting body... a body you where so proud of. And now look at it... it's NOTHING... YOU are NOTHING... just a worthless piece of burnt meat being devoured in the fires. Any pleas she has for mercy being drowned out by it's roar!*

* and then... it just... cuts out on me.*

* just 'poof', like candles on a cake. Everything... the pyre and the flames that surrounded her... just gone. With nothing holding her charred body against the wall... she's just left to flop down onto the scorched earth... leaving a ghostly void where she once stood. I don't get that good of a look at what's left of her... before an orange blur obstructs my vision.*

* And I hear a voice, telling me to stop.*

* I glare straight ahead, my mouth still curled back into an angry sneer. Of all the people in this shit-hole, KAMI is the last person I want to see right now, let alone play the role of Jiminey Cricket and try to talk me out of finishing that monster off! I growl at her, in no uncertain terms, as a fresh ball of blue fire begins screaming to life in my hand...*

[glow=1E90FF,4,300]" Get OUT of my way Kami! "[/glow]

* The spaz isn't taking the hint... coming off like some public service announcement. Preaching all about the consequences of what I want to do, wanting me to think it over. I don't have time to waste on this... I already feel the flame in my hand, the pulsing rhythm... like a heartbeat... beginning to fluctuate. I close my eye... trying to shut her out... trying to shut everything out... I can't let anything distract me!*

[glow=1E90FF,4,300]"shutupshutup just SHUT UP!!!! I don't care what this does to me... I need to do this... I'm going to avenge her... "[/glow]

* the flame continues to waive... trembling... fighting to stay lit... my good eye beginning to well up... feeling dampness trickle down my cheek... as I slowly begin to float down to the ground....*

[glow=1E90FF,4,300]" She needs to PAY! Robin didn't deserve to die! It should have been ME... not her...."[/glow]

* My feet touch the burnt earth... feeling the dirt and debris through my socks... and just as quickly as it came... I can feel the rhythm increase... sputtering before it dissipates.... just like flame on a candle.*

"...should have... been...."

* suddenly... I feel her shove me... I almost fall over... she's yelling at someone... and then this sound... horrible sound... like the sound of Cockroaches being stepped on over a loudspeaker... before something wet and sticky hits me in the face... hard. My eye shoots open...

* and my blood runs cold*

* the freak... she... even with all the damage I did, she still managed to get back on her feet. It's... it's like she was skinned with a blowtorch... crusty brown skin and charred muscles over a nearly skeletal frame... but now... now it looks even worse than I could have imagined! Her body is twisted... broken. Blood... her blood is splattered EVERYWHERE.... it's draining out of her eyes... her nose.... the massive wound in her belly... thick... disgusting blood that just slithers down the freely hanging burnt and shattered organs she's trying to hold in. She's not doing anything... just standing there... her only eye staring ahead... gagging on the syrup of ash and blood in her mouth... before she falls to the ground...*

* .... and she stays down...*

* ...i'm numb as i stand watching the body... waiting for something... anything to happen...*

* ... nothing does...*

* i reach up... feeling my face... wiping off whatever just hit me.... i look down and.... OH GOD..... my hand trembles... i'm... i'm staring....staring down.... she's on me... that... that freaks blood is on me! it's on my face and my hand... dripping down through my fingers like... like watery jello....*

* i... i'm liable to puke....*

* i squeel in revulsion... shaking my hands down... the blood sliding off and splattering on the ground like sloppy mud... get it off.... GET IT OFF OF ME... i don't want any part of that THING on me... i'm only brought out of it by the spaz... forcing our eyes to meet... tells me i'm no murderer... tells me i'm better than her... not to cross the line... *

*...she...she's dead...*

*...the freak is dead...*

*...she killed her...*

* SHE killed her...*

*... that... hypocritical... BITCH...*

* She's just standing there, high and mighty, covered in that monsters blood. She gave me that public service announcement only to turn around and does it herself... to steal my only chance to avenge Robin... to atone for this... for all of this!*

* My nails dig down into my palm, biting down into them with every ounce of strength I have left, I reach back and I lunge foreword...*

* For the first time since this started... I can feel... the second that I put pressure down on my right leg in my charge... I feel it... pain just ripping up and down my body... and I stumble foreword. My fist misses it's mark... and I fall just fall down onto her bloody chest. That freak's blood is still tacky... right now it doesn't even phase me.... I push back, holding myself up on the one leg... I grab onto her mangy hair to anchor myself... before launching my fist right into her face!*

" You BITCH!!!!"

* I feel my fist's impact... landing right square in her nose. I actually got through that stupid kinetic field of hers.... but, she hardly reacts... as if she was slapped with a pillow...*

" You could have stopped this... you could have easily stopped this.... "

* I reach back again... harder this time... but even then... with that... it didn't do a thing... she jerked a little bit... but nothing. Blow after blow... the same reaction. She just stares right ahead... not backing down... not nothing...*

* and with each blow my blood just keeps boiling...*

"WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU???

* I grab a firm hold of her hair with both of my hands... and just tear it down... dragging her face to face with me... and I scream, as loud as I possibly can...*

" SHE'S DEAD NOW!!! BECAUSE OF YOU ROBIN IS DEAD!!!!"

* my eye's welled up... tears mingling with that freaks blood watching... waiting... but nothing comes...*

" SAY SOMETHING GOD DAMN IT!!!!!"

* Why the hell won't you fucking defend yourself? HUH??? You're just standing there like stone! You have NEVER acted like this before... EVER! Whether it was back at the school or on the beach... you NEVER held back. EVER!*

* Come on spaz... Defend yourself allready! Hit me... Scream back... DO SOMETHING!!!!*

" You STUPID... MANGY... BITCH!!!"

* Why the hell can't I hurt you???*

I HATE YOU!!!!

* Why can't I make you feel what I'm feeling right now?*

I HATE YOU!!!!

* Each punch, each scrape, each bitter word... all of it I watch just casually ignored through my tears...*

I HATE YOU!!!!

* Why.... why can't I hurt you?*

[Kami]

Kat sees the display, and goes off berating me on how I could have easily stopped this at any time, And at first I just look at her shocked, even as I feel her hit coming, I don't move to stop it, her first hit barely touching me, as she stumbles, falling to my chest, before rearing back to try again, the second one landing square.
It hurts, but Not as much as her words.
If I could have stopped this, I would have. I should have.
But I was blindsided. Completely.
I thought she was Talia... and I led her right in.
This is my fault. If I hadn't felt so bad for forgetting Talia in the move to Graymalkin, I might have sensed something was wrong about her...
I should have stopped this way before now.
But, Kat starts screaming that because of me, Robin is dead.
My eyes go wide with that, and I start to shake my head as I take every hit, letting her hit as hard as she can to get it out of her system.
I can feel her running out of steam as the hair pulling and the hits to the nose start to come slower, weaker.
But she's gone, she's not listening to me at all, her words falling to chants of how she hates me, her grief causing tears to stream down her cheeks as she blames Robin's death on me.
I let her get a few more hits in before finally reaching out to her, grabbing both of her wrists, pulling her toward me, to get eye to eye, to try and shake her past this fit.

"Robin's not dead.
Her powers are already healing her.
That bitch wasn't good enough to take Robin out."

Kat's eyes still have a wild look to them, as if she's unable to grasp things, her black eye standing out a bit, as she looks even worse for wear.
I didn't see what she saw. I was on the other side of the bed, I heard everything, and I saw the after math.
But I didn't see what that cunt did to Robin to put her in that state.
Kat did.
And she's more than traumatized.
She starts to shake violently as she cries, and I let go of her wrists, and watch her crumble from the emotional fall out.
I've never been too fond of Kat. And she just knocked me around a bit and said some things that still sting.
So it feels awkward as I move my hand to her shoulders, pulling her near me to let her cry.

"That bitch is the only one that died here.
Everything's going to be alright."

As much as I dislike the spoiled brat, She's still our spoiled brat. I do care for her. She doesn't deserve what happened here.

[Firekat]

* Dammit!*

* Dammit!*

* Dammit!*

* Every blow... every scream... falling defly on her... as if I'm not even here! She can't ignore me... she WON'T ignore me! I won't let her!!!*

* Why won't you break?*

* FINALLY after all of this... this non-violent CRAP, she finally does something, grabbing me by my wrists and pulling me in. That's it... throttle me... beat me down... do what you do best. Come on... after all I've done, all I've said, a selfish brat like me deserves it! She doesn't raise a hand... all she does is look me right in the eye... and speaks 3 little words that stops me cold.*

* Robin's not dead *

* I... I just go blank.... staring right into her eyes... staring right through her... like she isn't even there.... briefly feeling a massive weight lifting off of me as I start stuttering...*

" ...she...sh...she's....alive?"

* i.... i want to smile... i'm even tempted to hug kami... that monster didn't kill her.... she wasn't tough enough to get past robins powers... she was weak and pathetic and empty... and robin is stronger than her.... stronger than she could ever be...*

* but... i can't...*

" ...she...sh...she's....alive?"

* my body goes numb.... completely numb, like if it was winter... it get to the point i begin to shiver... and everything comes pouring out. everything i've held back... all the fear and sorrow and guilt comes rushing out like a tidal wave... tears flowing with nothing to stop them. kami lets go of my wrists... i...i try standing.... but i'm.... i'm too exhausted to stand.... my body feels like it's going to collapse into a heap any second... as i weakly stand there... blood and ash smearing my body... sobbing and blubbering incoherantly... like a baby...*

* my mind is a haze... just a complete ball of mush... with only one thing running through it...i just keep seeing it... running through my head.... over and over and over... her screams and the sounds from that bitch ripping into Robin.... tearing her poor little heart out... her little body crumpled in a pool of her blood.... robin's blood... its everywhere.... can't... can't get it out.... it's all over... robin's blood... it's all over my hands... it's my fault... this was all my fault....*

* make it stop....somebody make it stop...*

* suddenly... i feel hands reaching down... touching my shoulders... pulling me close... it's kami... she says things... i can't hear them...the way she says them is weird... i don't like her.... i want to shove her away.... but i let her pull me in pull closer... and just keep crying. she's a furry spaz... a weirdo looser who i don't like... and i'm here, my face buried in her shoulder... crying my eyes out. i can hear them... other people running up... voices all over... i don't bother to listen... she whispers something... going to see robin... i feel lighter than i did a moment ago... a breeze on my body... we're in the air... they'll see me like this, all of them... weak and frail... snuggled up to kami like she's a stuffed animal... i don't care....*

* i don't want to be alone *