𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 5 - 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞

Keith turned around to look at Jessica who suddenly didn't look so scared like before, in fact she started laughing right in his face "Look what you've done now! you scared him, you made him do the one thing you hoped would never happen." she smirked "You made him run away." , he couldn't stand to look at her so he shoved his hands in his pockets to hide all the blood then he left without a word, he couldn't go home, so where was he even meant to run off too?, that insane feeling was still poking at him, the urge to end a life, any life. As he kept walking there was the children's park that of course no kids were in so he took his hands from his pockets and sat on a swing, he stared at the blood all over them with disappointment, guilt because why did he do that? why did he let his past take hold of him so easily? Lance was right, Jessica was right - he's an insane person who can't control himself in the slightest. He sat on the swing re-living what just happened until something caught his attention.

A voice in the distance has him turning his head to look down the street at a house with two people outside and due to the quietness of the night, he heard every word "Jess what happened!? you're arm!" a young boy looks at who he see's is..Jessica, she's still clutching her arm from earlier like it still hurt even though it shouldn't "It was just some crazy guy Altair its fine but it stings really badly." "then cmon get inside so it can get bandaged up." They walked inside so Keith turned his head back 'thats where she lives then' he thought 'and she has a brother'. a smile crossed his face at a thought as he got up to stalk towards the house slowly. There was an open window that he managed to silently crawl through that made him end up in a bedroom with various personal belongings and photos, the closet seemed to be the only suitable place for him to hide in. He would wait in there until Jessica's brother came in.

Down the hall in the bathroom Jessica was explaining her own version of the party incident as she cried softly about it "I don't know! he just ran at me with a knife , i-i tried to hold him off but-" she glanced down at her arm that was getting some white cloth bandage wrapped around it "but you got hurt.." her brother finished her sentence before going on with a sigh "do you know how he looked? was it someone you know? because we're gonna have to call the police Jess so he doesn't do this to others." She shook her head in a lie because she knew how Keith looked but the police can't be the ones to get rid of him. It has to be her, she has to kill him then make it look like he ran away so she can have Lance.

Altair finished with the bandage then got up with a disappointed look "then i guess we can't call anyone but then even if we did wheres the proof other than that cut? the police might not believe a word you say." Jessica looked up at him "Its fine. Maybe he didn't mean it? some people suffer some fucked up stuff then it makes them do fucked up things." Her expression almost looked forgiving which is how she usually is towards other people, her brother looked concerned but walked off to his room anyway "whatever you say.."

When he got into his room he closed the window because even despite the summer weather during the day, it wasn't that way at night because instead it was cold, eerie. He was standing in front of the closet unknowingly making direct eye contact with Keith so he opened up the two doors but then before he could register anything in his mind there was two heavy hands around his throat causing a state of shock where he stumbled slightly, grabbing something in his room to stop himself from falling. A look of confusion and pain was plastered all over his face as he looked at Keith since he didn't know him so why was he doing this? , Altair was struggling to get out of his hold - even trying to scream only he couldn't because the words were suppressed down into his throat by agony.

A hand went over his mouth to stop any sound possibly escaping and to only make breathing harder, Keith was quietly talking into his ear "Stop moving and maybe it'll be less of a struggle to accept death.." he sounded angry when he spoke so darkly into his ear "also it'll be easier for me to see a pretty thing like you, die." the grip around his neck was tighter now causing tears to flow down from his eyes uncontrollably but Keith didn't seem to care, he's done this before and he'll do it again- feel a body go limp in his arms and see their soul leave their body. That's exactly what was happening to Altair but in the slowest way possible because he was trying to cling to life so desperately, he wasn't accepting death like he was told to do and that only irritated Keith more that he was holding his neck impossibly harder to try and get this boy to give in to the inevitable void he would experience in a few years to come anyway meaning dying now wouldn't matter. Then the struggling stops, the body is limp and he lets it fall to the floor with a thud and when he looks down at the now corpse there is deep discolouration, bruising around his neck that will take god knows how long to fade away.

He takes his phone out, opens up the camera, even puts it on the flash then takes a photo of the body at his feet, he sends the picture to Lance with a message that reads "all for you<3" and he doesn't even expect an answer but he just wants to show his love for the boy, how much he does for him. Keith leaves the body like that on the floor before opening the window he came in and jumping out - the police would definitely find the body tomorrow if Jessica called the police but what would be the point? they wouldn't know it was him since they didn't even know he and Lance moved here..he could probably go home now since his mind was settling but the only issue there is , is the emotions that would crash down on him like a tidal wave.
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Meanwhile back at the house Lance is staring at his phone and the little message that was sent with it because it was hurting him, how he was the reason everything happened to begin with and how he was the reason it was happening again. It's 1:45am but he can't sleep and because of that its why he hears the front door open and hears the "I'm home!" that comes with it, Keiths standing in the bathroom door way with a normal expression on his face "What you doing in here my love?" he asks and Lance has no choice but to choke back his fear "Had to take some medicine.." "well do you feel better now?" "M-mhm."

He doesn't know why he still loves this man and why he always will, it's just a feeling that nudges at him, he doesn't know why he wants to pull him closer but also push him far away..he never will know. "Do you wanna go to bed then?" Keith holds his hand out to help him up off the bathroom floor however, as soon as he gets up everything feels foggy and he passes out before he can even take a step forward.