Troubled pasts (a Horrorlust story)

The needle

Third person POV
The group stopped running once they reached the town, mettaton called for a taxi, but he hijacked the car when they pulled over "hey what the fuck?!" "Guys, get in!" He shouted, pulling error and lust in, making sure he still had the documents secured in his hands.

Mettaton hit the gas and sped down the road, they had less than one hour until midnight. The car was swerving and turning left and right "FuCk! Do YoU kNoW hOw To DrIvE?!" Error asked while pushing himself into his seat.

"Hey! Of course I know how to drive you bitch!" Mettaton said offendedly "I'm just in a hurry, I want to save horror just as much as you guys" he said while driving around moving cars, occasionally hearing them beep at him, followed by a bunch of curse words.

"D-do you even know w-where you're going?" Lust asked paranoid, mettaton nodded as he looked around his surroundings. Error looked over at lust, who was just as scared for not only his own safety, but also horrors safety, error grabbed his hand "DoN't WoRrY, wE'rE gOnNa GeT hIm OuT"

Soon red and blue lights began to illuminate the back of the taxi, error looked out the window "Um MeTtAtOn, We'Ve GoT cOmPaNy" mettaton cursed under his breath.

"Stop in the name of the law!" A voice came from a megaphone, mettaton ignored the demand "if you do not pull over, we will be forced to fire" soon enough they started firing "DuCk!" Error and lust both ducked down to avoid the bullets, mettaton tried to go faster to avoid the gunfire, but a bullet hit mettaton in the shoulder, he screamed in pain as his wires circuitry started showing from the wound "AHHHH! FUCK!"  Mettaton ignored the pain and continued to drive, but another bullet hit one of the tyres causing the car to swerve out of control "oh shit! Hold on tight!"

The car started to drift and tilt sideways. It was sent rolling swiftly down the road, flipping several times before coming to an abrupt stop when it hit a streetlight, they were upside down "is everyone okay?" Mettaton asked, holding the documents tightly in his hand, lust nodded, recovering from the shock, while error groaned, clearly more injured.

They quickly made their way out the car, all of them were bruised and battered after that accident, but thankfully nothing too serious. "To the police station!" They sprinted as fast as their injured bodies could.

It was only a few minutes till midnight.

The bursted through the main doors and ran to the reception desk, occasionally limping in pain. "Oh, can I help you three?" They were greeted by a sweet elderly woman. "Where's the cheif?!" "Oh, I think he's in execution room three with a prisoner. Are you here to observe?" They knew she was talking about horror, mettaton and error ran off to find the room "thanks!" Lust said before joining them "what nice people"

As they were running through the corridors, there was a lot of attention attracted onto them, some of the cops knew who they were and started chasing them, determined to foil their plans "it's them! And they have the documents!" "Don't let them get to the chief!" "oh shit! Keep running guys!" Error occasionally looked at the crowd of guards chasing them, so many past memories played in his head.

After running around in the endless corridors, they reached the execution rooms, mettaton quickly used his eyes to navigate the room horror was in, it was at the end of the corridor "it's over there, let's go-" mettaton was cutoff by a guard tackling him to the ground and cuffing him "mettaton!" "Don't worry about me-ow! Just go!" "LuSt C'mOn!" "Good luck! Ow ow, hey be gentle this body is expensive"

Error swiped the file from the floor and grabbed lusts hand, "GET THEM!" they sprinted down the corridors, dodging the increasing amount of guards blocking their way.

When they were halfway there, error felt his legs sweep from under him as another guard swooped in "AhHhHh!" Error fell into the wall "Ow! CaTcH!" Error powerfully threw the file in lusts direction, he jumped up the and caught them in midair, lust felt like he was flying.

There was only seconds left.

Lust sprinted as fast as he could to the door and used every ounce of his aching and bruised up body to open the door.

"WAIT!" Lust shouted as he bursted into the room, followed by error, who managed to free himself from the dog-pile of officers, they quickly blocked the door with a chair.

They were relieved to see horror, still alive.

But there was an empty syringe on the floor next to him.

"...Oh No"

"...horror?"

"Oh...h-hey guys"

*DING* *DING*

After they heard the clock bell chime midnight, horror started to fall to his knees, lust dropped the documents and rushed in to hold him up, while error stood back slightly, giving them space.

"No, no, no, no nononono, a-are you okay?!" Horror gave him a smile and a thumbs up "yeah yeah I'm fine, I just...need a...a little nap" horror started to cough as he gradually lowered to the floor, lust looked around the room, hoping that someone would help him, but they didn't do anything, knowingly was already too late.

"S-someone help...p-please!" Lust held horror in his arms "so I guess this is it huh? Heheheh, the end of the road for me." He said quietly, his voice was unusually more mellower and relaxed than normal.

Lust tried to find a way to help horror stay alive, but nothing worked, horror could see lust freaking out "hey" horror moved lusts head so he was staring at him "don't worry lust...I'm always gonna be here with you" "but, y-you're dying!" Horror placed his finger on lusts chest "I'll always be in there" at this point lusts eyes were filled with tears "but...but I don't want you to be there...I want you to be with me physically...I want to see you with me...as a couple...m-maybe even living together"

"Babe...we both know it's too late for that" lust felt his tears drip onto horrors face, his breathing got shaky and faster "lusty no, don't cry" horror cupped lusts cheeks with his hands and moved his mouth into a smile "there, you know how much I love your adorable smile" lusts teary smile remained after horror removed his hands from lusts face "hey...since I'm gonna be gone soon...I want you to do something for me, lust" horrors voice got quieter as he placed a hand back on lusts cheek and started stroking it, knowing how much lust likes it "...o-okay"

"promise me one thing lust...promise me you'll be happy....and no matter what happens...stay out of that dark place" lust started to smile "I-I promise."

"And error." Error stood closer to him "...look after him for me, please. I know you're not exactly the caring type, but...please try" error gave a teary smile "I wIlL" horror started to cough again, but quickly forced himself to calm down "lust, I don't know how much longer I've got...so I wanna make this one count"

Horror slowly pulled him in for a kiss as he started to turn into dust, lust closed his eyes and kissed deeply, making the last one count as more parts of horror began to dust.

"I love you both...so...so fucking...much"

When lust opened his eyes again, the only thing he saw.

Was the dust of his lover, and his jacket.

"...h-horror?" Lust spoke quietly before bursting into hysterical tears and sobbing into his hands. Error slowly approached him and crouched down to his level "...LuSt I'm...I-i'M sO sOrRy-" lust pulled him in for a hug, error came close to crashing due to the suddenness of the hug, but he managed to calm himself down and hug lust back, gently rubbing his back, they stayed like this until lusts tears ran dry.

Horror, the man he loved so dearly, was gone. Forever.

(A/N I'm sorry that it had to be this way, but sometimes things don't have a happy ending....but the story isn't over just yet)