Beneath the Ice: An Among Us Fanfiction

Chapter Seventeen: Demons in a Mirror

The moment the meeting was done, Odyssey snapped out of it. Forte. If he was responsible for this—

Cinnabar seemed awkward as she was trying to pry Forte off of Omega's body. Odyssey put her out of her misery by roughly dragging Forte outside. It gained him a strange look, but he didn't care.

"Where are you going?"

"To do something. No one else will."

If Forte had done anything to Omega, Odyssey was going to kill him. Omega was their friend. He trusted them with his life. If it came to it, he would jump in front of a gun for them. And they would do the same for him in a heartbeat.

I give my life for you, you give your life for me, Odyssey thought bitterly, dragging Forte outside and to where the wheel to open the waterways was. Well, Forte, let's see what you know.

"What. The hell. DID YOU DO?!" Odyssey screamed. Odyssey had Forte pinned to a wall by his shoulders. Not that he had been planning to do it, but at that point he was so angry that he didn't care. Forte's visor was turned to the side, and he wasn't trying to look at him. "Forte! 你做了什么?! Did you kill him?"

"I didn't—" Forte stammered, "I didn't mean to—"

"You didn't mean to? Like that distinction means anything! You killed him! 你杀了我们的朋友! You killed our friend! He is dead and his corpse is being lugged out right now! What does that mean? What does that mean?!"

Forte started to take small, fast breaths. Odyssey shook him slightly. "What did you do, huh? Did you take a knife from the kitchen when you came in? I thought I lost one after you left! Unless you broke into the commander or Clasher's quarters and stole their gun!"

"The knife," Forte gasped. "I'm sor—"

"SORRY WON'T BRING OMEGA BACK!" Odyssey screamed. "You knew that he was the only one of us planning to stay! We were going our separate ways, you to San Francisco Hospital and me to study at culinary school! He wanted to make Commander and go on more missions!

"What did you say to him as the life faded out of his eyes? Did you rub in his face that he would never advance in rank? Did you tease him that his family wouldn't care if he died? What did you do? Do you even feel sorry for him? Huh? ANSWER ME!"

Forte whimpered and that's when Odyssey realized that Forte was crying. But at that point, he didn't care. He didn't care for anything except for the fact that Omega was dead, and no one else knew what Odyssey knew. "I... am sorry... I couldn't... I still can't... Odyssey... I. Killed. Omega."

Odyssey stepped back in disgust as Forte slumped against the wall and started to let out louder sobs. It didn't matter that he was being infected against his will; Forte had crossed a line when he murdered their best friend.

"Well," Odyssey said after a while in a calm voice. His anger had dropped below the surface of his mind and instead had buried itself in his chest; a tight, tense feeling that would take a long time to go away. "你杀了我们的朋友。你背叛他的信任。如果我是我的父母，我一定就要打你。但是，我不是我的父，所以。。。再见。You killed our friend, you betrayed his trust, and I would be pounding you right now if I was my parents. But I'm not, so all I can say is... goodbye."

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Through the tears in his eyes, Forte watched as Odyssey walked off, away from him, and away from their broken friendship. Not like it was whole to begin with.

Out of the corner of his eye, Forte saw the ghost of Omega emerge from Admin, phasing through the wall and looking quite surprised. "Whoa, I bet this has got to come with the deluxe package of death!"