Troubled pasts (a Horrorlust story)

The orange spark

Joeys POV
"Wait you're not serious" he glared at me "I'm serious, burn it to the ground"  "but what about everyone in there, all your guys are in there" he grabbed my shirt "I don't fucking care! I have spent too long loaning and ruining peoples lives, I've made a fucking business out of this, and I am not letting it go down because of a maniac and a slut, NOW BURN IT!" He handed me some gasoline and a lighter.

"...no"

I watched as his face got angrier "...I'm sorry?" "Y-you heard me, I said-" he pulled out a gun and pointed it at me "I'm not gonna tell you again, burn it down, now" I had no choice, if I refused, I couldn't save them.

Dave watched me pour gasoline in the side of the building, I made sure to only use a small amount, so the fire wouldn't spread much, I hesitated before setting it on fire, thankfully it didn't look like it was going to spread, "and just to make sure" I saw him pull out a Molotov and aim for the building "Dave no-" he threw it aggressively at the building, it quickly ripped through reception and the employee lounge, as he admired the fire with a smile I saw him put the gun back in his pocket, it stuck out slightly.

"...I'm sorry Dave" I grabbed his gun and hit him in the head with it, he stumbled around and put his hand on the wound, I took the opportunity drop the gun and run away, I burst through an emergency exit door, trying to navigate around the fire, which was quickly spreading around the ground floor.

Third person POV
Lust and horror stood still, resting while looking at the dead bodies surrounding them, anyone who wasn't dead was bleeding heavily and defenceless on the floor. "We...we did it!" Lust turned to horror with a smile "heh...we did" they gave each other a tight hug, until horror started sniffing the air, he pulled away from the hug, alarmed by the smell. "Huh, what's wrong horror?"

"...Somethings burning" horror looked around cautiously, until lust screamed and pointed at the fire slowly coming towards them "RUN!" They both began to run down the corridors "we need to get to an exit!" They tried to reach the loading bay, but it was set ablaze, the corridors leading to reception were also burning. "Shit...maybe if we use the ladder we can get to an emergency exit"

At this point, nearly most of the ground floor was on fire. Horror picked up lust and held him in his arms and ran up the stairs, the increasing amounts of smoke stung their eyes, causing them to water, lust started to cough "hang in there babe, I'm gonna get us out" "a-are we gonna die?! I-I'm scared!" "Don't worry, we're gonna be fine...hopefully"

Soon horror made it to the top floor, he rushed to his room, hoping to get to his secret exit, but a large piece of the buildings foundation fell from the ceiling and blocked the way, horror stopped dead in his tracks as he watched the flames slowly crawl towards his room, he couldn't help but shed a tear, the place where he's lived for two years, being burnt in front of him.

But horror had no time to think about the past, he turned round and ran in the direction towards the main escape ladder, but a small barrier of fire blocked the way "what are we gonna do?" "It's risky but...I'm gonna jump over it" "what?! No it's too dangerous! W-what if you drop me, or get hurt?! I don't wanna lose you!" "Look just trust me, we can't go anywhere else, it's now or never" "...fine" lust buried his face into horrors shirt and tightly shut his eyes, horror ran as fast as he could and took a giant leap of faith, he felt the hotness of the fire under his feet.

He landed on the other side, and he wasn't burning, and neither was lust, "I am so badass!" He looked at the whimpering skeleton in his arms "...lust you can look now" lust hesitantly peeked his head up, and was relieved to find himself unscathed, but he was still recovering from the shock "p-p-please don't d-d-d-do t-that again-..." lust cut himself off as he started to cough again, this time more violently, "oh fuck, no, stay with me lust" horror began to sprint, worried about the unknown fate of his boyfriend, but he felt a small glimmer of hope when he reached the door.

Horror put down, a now unconscious, lust and tried to open the door, it wouldn't budge "ugh c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, open up!" He saw a lock with a 4-number combination, he fumbled about with the lock, trying to figure out the right combination.

"Um 1234?" It didn't unlock "0000?" Still locked horror tried multiple combinations "fuck!...um...2036...8008...6969...?" It still didn't unlock, horror screamed in frustration "shit, no we can't die now, we're so close!" He used bone attacks, gaster blasters, bashing his head against it, kicking it, nothing worked, he tried to use the gun Joey gave them, but it was empty.

Horror tried to think of another combination, but the fire that was slowly surrounding them both wasn't helping him stay calm. Horror looked around desperately for a way out, but there was nothing, he tried to use his axe, but it broke when he hit the door with it "shit!" Horror threw away the broken axe out of anger, letting it burn in the fire.

Horror leaned his back onto the wall and slowly slid down onto the floor with lust laid on his lap, he kissed him on the lips, he looked at his poor defenceless face, "I'm sorry lust...I'm sorry that I couldn't give you a better life than what you had...I-I'm sorry for leaving you...I'm sorry you had to get into this mess...I-I'm sorry" after he wiped the away his tears that dropped onto lusts face, he gave him one last hug and stared at the fire, waiting for it to reach him.

He closed his eyes and waited for the fire.

But he could hear someone in the distance calling his name, horror opened his eyes and saw someone at the opposite end of the corridor, they started running through the fire like a maniac, suddenly horror was met with a face full of white smoke, he stood up and blindly batting the white smoke away with his hand, while coughing uncontrollably.

"Oh thank god you're okay!" Horror calmed down after the smoke cleared, he recognised the mans voice "Joey?!" "No time to explain, we gotta get outta here!" Joey quickly extinguished the fires around them and entered a combination, it unlocked the door "c'mon!" "You're not gonna put out the fire?" "Don't tell me you actually care about this place?" "...you're right I don't, let's go"

Horror quickly followed Joey down the ladder, being careful not to drop lust, they both ran out the emergency exit door and into the trees around the back of the building, it had been years since horror went outside of the property, he had almost forgot what the outside world looked like.

They kept on running until they were a safe distance away from the fire, horror and Joey turned back at the now burning building, slowly falling apart, it was almost a sad moment, so many memories made, now turned into ash.

Remembering lusts unconscious state, horror quickly leapt into action, he gently laid him in a bed of leaves and began to heal his soul, Joey approached them and put his hands on lusts restraint "go ahead" Joey managed to release it with no mistakes, horrors jaw went slack "wha-...how did-...you....what?!" Joey had a smug face "Heh, you can't be the manufacturer of these things and not know how to get them off properly, heheh"

Horror stared at lust and kept a tight grip on his hand, he waited for a sound from his mouth, his eyes to open, for his arm to twitch, anything, but nothing happened "hey, he probably just needs more time to heal" horror continued to wait for lust to wake up, Joey sat by his side, patting his shoulder.

Both unaware of the man in the shadows.