Don't Burn Out (Currently Editing)

Sixty

All the Capers lined up by my toe on their stage in the middle of their pack. I choose the more public scene. They sit execution style. On their knees, heads down, arms tied with a cord of silver behind their backs.

"Where we trying flee? Tsk tsk tsk. A good captain goes down with his ship, but to be honest I would have been surprise if you didn't try running."

Click. Click. Click.

I had changed into my heels. My feet hitting the wooden floor makes such a delicious sound.

All three packs including what is left of the Golden Moon pack will witness the executions. I will read the charges, and shoot Nathan and Edeline. Zayn would read Taylor and Joshua their charges and shoot them.

Each of the Capers wait for his or her end very differently. Taylor is a crying, screaming mess. She prays for god to take her.

An image of me in the same position as Taylor, in the basement of the Capers home surfaces. I scoff toward her direction. Where was her humanity when her father was shooting me up wolfsbane?

Edeline silently prays for, forgiveness. If there is a god I doubt he would forgive someone who sat idly by while innocent people suffered.

Nathan does nothing, absolutely nothing. He just sits there with no facial expression or any thing.

Joshua does nothing as well, but has his mouth craved into a Cheshire Cat grin. He chuckles menacingly.

I step in front of Edline with the gun that would be her end. "Edline Lillian Capers, for your crimes of abstinence and knowingly allowing innocent people to suffer you are sentenced to death."

I take a step back, to line up my gun with her head. "Is there anything you'd like to say? Before?.." Now in my calmer state, I hold a kind of pity for Edeline. Her abusive, manipulative, monster of a mate forced her to bare his spawns.

She looks up and I see myself just minutes ago, her glossy green eyes and red, tear stained face, and chapped lips. "I'm sorry, Tiffany. I'm sorry about everything. I should've done something, said something. I'm sorry for my weakness, but I was afraid. I know that's a pitiful excuse, I-I-I don't know what else to say. God I'm sorry."

She continues apologizing, I see the years of abuse and neglect reflecting in her aged face. Yellowed bruises in her face and arms, black bags under her eyes and sagging wrinkles. Her forest irises remind me of those of a caged animal's.

"Luna Edeline, please stop. You've most likely have also suffered Nathan and your children. I have no idea what you must have gone through, and I'm immensely sorry for this and everything."

She nods and tears travel down her cheeks. "Thank you gracious Queen Tiffany."

I can't watch her eyes as I pull the trigger. I turn away the release the bullet. Bang. Thump. Edeline is dead.

Taylor's sobs getting annoyingly loud. I am seriously considering shoving my shoe down her throat.

'Please do.' Zayn links from the other side of the stage. He walks to Taylor. We decided on killing Taylor and Edeline first, so the last thing Nathan and Joshua would see is their pack falling to pieces.

"Taylor Brilla Capers, for you crimes of forcing unlawful labor on the people of the Golden Sun pack and abstaining from providing help to those whom were suffering you are sentenced to death."

She releases an ear biting scream.

"No no no! Please no! I'm sorry. Please spare me!! This was all his fault," she turns her dagger eyes to her father. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU." She chants sobbing.