Living with dying

AFFLICTION

Fluttering my eyes open, water flowing down my cheeks, I gasp in shock.
"Wake up bitch" he says throwing the bucket he'd used to gush me with cold water.
"I leave you for one second, one second!! And you are already trying to escape" he breathes out angrily.
He starts walking up and down the surface before me, as if planning his next move.
His eyes snap to mine devilishly and a smirk to match his devious mind appears.

"You and that little bullshit who helped you escape are going to pay, but let's start with him shall we?"
He steps out of the room and comes back a few minutes later, dragging the familiar man who'd helped me earlier.
Scrutinising his body of wounds and swollen up skin, a wave of guilt hits me.
"You see, I hate traitors....with all my heart. So Winter tell me, what shall we do with him?" He says throwing him to the ground.

"Please, please Archreon.....I beg you, please forgive him" I breathe out heavily.
"How can I, when James decided it would be a great idea to betray the one person who took him in and fed him, how?!" He yells as his voice fills the room.
"I'm sorry" a whimper leaves a worn out James on the floor.
"I forgive you James...." A sarcastic expression of sympathy appears on his face before it is taken over by a merciless one.
"But now I thirst for your blood" he voices pulling out a gun and a knife from his boots.

"Which one should I use, sweet angel?" His gaze snaps to mine and I shake my head vigorously.
"Both will be quick....."
James and I start begging him to have mercy.
"Tell me you love me and you won't try to leave me again....then I'll spare him" his request causes a chaos of confusion in my mind.
I furrow my brows before he yells at me to say it before he loses his mind.
"I...I love you a-and I won't try to leave you...again" I stutter with a bit of hope in my heart.
He slowly comes close to me, eyes holding a certain emotion that I can't comprehend.
"Do you really love me?"
I pause for a second in bewilderment before I register what is going on.
"Yes, yes, I love you so much" I nod trying to make him believe my white lie.

"Kiss me" he says eagerly.
I charge slowly towards his lips as he looks at me astonished.
Our lips finally meet and a pool of disgust fills my lungs.
His lips move against mine hungrily before he bites down on my lower lip, earning a wince from me, and pulls away in satisfaction, placing his forehead against mine.
Something registers in his mind seconds later and he grabs the knife he'd thrown on the floor earlier on and rushes towards James.

"ARCHREON what are you doing?" I question in panick.
He takes him into his arms and positions his head to reveal his neck.
"Archr..." A gasp escapes my lips as I am cut off by his sudden act.
A cut on James' throat now visible because of the blood oozing out causes a thick blanket of tension and silence. He falls on the ground and my eyes widen in horror and my vision is blurred by tears forming, as a pool of blood appears under him.

"What did you do that for?" I cry out.
"Oh....we don't need people like him" he says, wiping his knife clean.
A river of tears cascades down my cheeks as I struggle to catch my breath.
"You monster!" He takes slow steps and crouches down infront of me.
"Well you love that monster, don't you?" He smirks knowingly.
"Fuck no!" I yell in his face.
A sting itches my cheek as a sharp ringing disturbs the peace in my ear.
"Bitch again and it won't be just a slap next time" he warns before he leaves me with a dead body.

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I watch in distaste as Archreon cleans up the floor stained by red. He had came back with a cloth in which he wrapped James' body with.
A few minutes later after he is done, he speaks out with determination.
"We need to leave soon, I'm running out of time.." he trails off, his thoughts taking over his mind.
I watch closely as he admires the blood stain on his hands and washes them unwillingly.

He walks out with the bucket of water along with the sponge he was using.
He comes back with another chair which he sets right infront of me and occupies it.
"I will tell you a story now....a very interesting one." He informs me, his face stone cold.

"I had a brother..." He starts and I eye him bewildered by how he says it as if I didn't know that.
"We were the best of friends. When our parents died during a break in, something died in us too. We watched as our parents were slaughtered inhumanely, my mom had hidden us in a hidden room behind the bookshelf before they got to her. I died the moment she fell to the ground and mouthed an 'I love you' from afar. That day we swore to avenge them, which we did.
Xander protected me with all his might even if I could take care of myself.
One day we got into a fight and I left, when I came back....my brother was laying on the floor, with an axe in his chest! You killed him and you will pay for that." He voices angrily, temper rising with each second.

I gather the courage to say something that only angers him further.
"You forgot the part where he kidnapped my sister and I, the part where you both tortured the life out of us, the part where he murdered my sister....you forgot the part where he was a monster who deserved nothing but death!" I hiss.
"You will shut your mouth before I shut it for you" he growls earning an angry glare from me.

"I will kill you, my plan is to kill you. A life for a life, you know. I will do it in his honour, I will do it in the one place he loved with all his heart. I promise to make it slow though."
My face pales as I take in his evil grin.