Fusion

26: Drowning

ZERO POV

When I woke up and she was gone, Lilly had gotten out, I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I've NEVER been so on edge for another person. I've ended lives, hundreds.. thousands over the years. I went through a stage of no emotion and just shredding through people, Carrie is who brought me back and, well, I haven't had an episode like that in almost 80 years now. That's besides the point, I've never been one to care about another's life but with her, I felt like I couldn't breathe any time Carrie got close, fuck, I couldn't breathe at all knowing she was in here with me. I'm just happy she got out, I know she's alive, I know she's okay and back with her family. 

Oh sheesh... her family... they know. They'll want me dead, I'm a dead man. I signed that contract blindly without realizing when I let Carrie tell me what to do but now it's out and they'll be coming for me and Carrie both. I know we won't survive it, I know she knows that too. She's always been a hot head, the one to call the shots and not let any bullshit fly but tonight she was different. She had nothing but hatred, even when she was looking at me and in that moment all I could see was our father. It was like he had taken over her body. 

She killed me twice, two more times than she ever has. She broke my neck and then she sat there and boiled my blood, broke my bones until my body couldn't even take that. I knew she was angry but I never knew she'd been so angry for so long. I didn't know I always ruined things, didn't know I was the reason stuff never goes to plan... I've always listened to her, I disobeyed this one time and now I'm here... laying in some stone box that barely has any room. I can't see around me because I can't see over top of the box I'm in. Leather straps here wrapped around my arms tightly, securing them to my sides. There was another around my thighs and ankles. 

"Carrie!" I snapped, "Carrie where are you!" I tried to break the straps but I couldn't, I could hardly move. 

"No Zero, I'm over it!" she yelled as she got closer, "dad was right about you!" 

"Dad?" I scoffed, "dad was dumb enough to believe I was someone elses when I was all him and mom! Dad was wrong about everything and he only cared about you! He beat me till I couldn't stand, couldn't move! What happened to you? What's wrong with you?" 

"Nothing is wrong with me," I heard her step into the room with me, "just the more I've been thinking, the more I can see why dad felt the way he did about you. It all makes sense." 

"Oh yeah?" I laughed, "how so?" 

She started to explain, "He was always going on about how slow you were-"

"Slow?" I had to cut her off, "SLOW? I'm a vampire for crying out loud! Even before then when were you ever working on the farm? Daddy's little princess? Never! You never had to get your hands dirty, you never had to do anything you didn't want to, you got everything you ever asked for. Me? Slow? I busted my ass out there everyday in the sun as a human with him just standing there watching me, yelling at me. I mean come on Carrie how many times did you run out and beg him to stop hitting me? You remember that right? The times he beat me so senselessly that I couldn't remember my own name or who any of you were for hours and hours! Weeks where I could barely walk but where was I? Outside chopping wood, feeding animals, mucking stalls, mowing grass, tending to the crops, cleaning inside the house!" 

"Mom cleaned in the house!" she snapped back. 

"Mother barely lifted a finger!" I could feel my face getting hot, "the only time she ever helped was if dad was in the house screaming at me because 'she felt bad'. News flash, she didn't care that much either, she was just kinder than dad!" 

She leaned over and looked down at me, "I remember everything but I was a kid, I didn't understand it then. I just do now. Being with you all the time, I mean don't get me wrong you're my brother and I love you but I'm always picking up after you. I mean the years you were shredding your way through cities. Who was there? Me. The girls you brought into your life, whether you liked her or not, I saved you from heart break. The 'friends' you've had that were always trouble, I always stepped in-" 

"No you were just controlling," I shook my head, "I've always listened to you! Always! I'm not doing in anymore!"

"Great because I wasn't going to pick up after you anymore," she nodded. 

"Wh-what do you mean?" I asked trying to break the straps again.

"Well you're my brother and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I actually killed you so I came up with the idea of you just dying but not fully dying," she smirked as a cover came over the top of the stone crate.

"Carrie?" I asked as I started to frantically try and get out, "Carrie what are you doing!" Soon the lid was completely on. "Carrie!" I yelled, "Carrie take the fucking lid off! Carrie!" It started to move around and it sounded like I was being moved somewhere. Suddenly I heard a car start and we started to move. "Carrie!" I screamed, "Carrie what is going on! Carrie please!"

Time dragged on and after what felt like forever we slowed to a stop and I heard the car door open. It wasn't long before I heard the doors open beside me and I started moving around again, "oh relax Zero. You'll be fine." 

"What's going on!" I called out, "Carrie let me out of here!"

"Sorry bro but I can't do that," she said. I could hear water and suddenly we stopped moving. "Hey I really do love you," she started again, "I just can't baby you anymore and you'll be too much if you're on your own so I'll come back for in a couple hundred years. It'll give you some thinking time." 

"WHAT?" I screamed, "what? Carrie! Carrie!" I suddenly hit something hard and the casket started to fill with water. "Carrie!" I yelled, "Carrie stop!" Water flooded inside and before long I was completely under. I held my breath as long as I could but before long I couldn't anymore, so I took a huge gulp of water in. My lungs started to burn, my throat, my nose and eyes too. I tried to scream but being in water does nothing.

I woke up again, still completely submerged in water. I started to shake trying to take a breathe but I couldn't. My lungs felt tight, on fire and soon I was swallowing the water again. I jerked my body around trying to free myself but it wasn't working. 

I was going to drown over and over and over....