Stockholm syndrome (VegasPete)

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p.o.v pete

I woke up earlier than vegas and it was around four in the afternoon.  He was still sleeping peacefully so I just left him sleeping and went to the kitchen.

Tawan was sitting looking thoughtful.

"You are well?"  I asked going to the kitchen to prepare something, soon tawan accompanied me, his face changed and he gave me a smile without answering my question he just answered me "do you want help to prepare something?"  I just agreed, I think that was his way of saying he didn't want this stupid little war anymore.

He took some things from the fridge and some utensils.

"Did you spend the night in his room?"  He asked while chopping some tomatoes, but something was off, I could feel it in his tone of voice and the way he was acting.  "Yes, he asked me to, yesterday was a very... troubled night" I say looking for the right words.
"You know... before you came here, when it was his mother's birthday, he always did the same thing, drank a lot and cried, then he would come to my room and we would make love" he says, I just turn around those words in silence.  Looks like the truce wasn't a truce, but I'm not going to let it affect me and I'm going to be mature.

So I just reply with an hmm.  So the same goes on.

"Last night I waited for him as usual but he didn't show up, I thought he was going to spank you and tell you not to meddle in his business so I would have to come into the living room and calm him down so he doesn't kill you ...but that didn't happen. I just heard the silence, so I got curious and came to see what was going on, then I saw you two sitting there..." He points with the knife to the porch, where Vegas and I were. sitting in the morning.  "I saw his hand fondly over his face as he kissed you. And that made me thoughtful, because since you came home, Vegas hasn't kissed me, or accepted my cuddles."  He says each word so bitterly, I could see the anger in his eyes.  Soon he started walking towards me with the knife.

"You know Pete, after thinking a lot, I saw that if you disappear, everything will go back to the way it was before."  He says and then tries to attack me, he grazes my shoulder.  I grab his arms and knock him to the ground.  Tawan is stronger than me so soon he punches me knocking me down and getting on top of me, then his hands go to my neck.

I reach out my arms in an attempt to smack him in the face and somehow save myself.

I start to feel my hands tingle and my vision darken.

'Pete do you have any dreams?'

Soon I hear this question and remember my answer.

  'I always wanted a family'

Soon a spike of adrenaline hits me and I take my hand to the side, and it lands on the knife that I had tawan a short time ago.

'A family with children?'

Without thinking twice about the hit in the waist, soon tawan takes his hands off me placing the where he was injured.

'Yea"

Without a second thought I go for him with the knife.  I can't pay attention to anything happening around me.

'A girl or a boy?'

Soon the knife that was in my hand hit tawan again but now in the chest.

'A boy'

And the process repeats itself.

'A boy?'

And again

'Yes, with a pert nose...'

And again

'...And dimples...'

And again

'...and cute smile'

Then with a snap of my fingers I hear someone call out to me.

"Pete!"  I look where the voice is coming from and I see vegas, his surprised eyes shocked by the scene.

Then I look at lifeless tawan covered in blood.  Then I look at my hands, which are also covered in blood.  The knife.  My clothes.  The floor.

All covered in blood.

I throw the knife away, and step away from the body.  Panting, zoned, lost.

"Pete, what happened? Pete?"  I hear vegas call me but the only thing i can think about is what i had done, the body that was on the floor.

So I'm consumed by despair, it seemed I didn't know how to speak.

"I... vegas... he..." I don't know where to start.  The only thing I could do was cry.

unicient narrator

Vegas seeing the boy's despair bends down holding his face making him look at him.

"Pete, look at me, I need you to tell me what happened" he says watching Pete cry like a child.

"He attacked me vegas... i swear i didn't mean to do that... i'm sorry..." pete breathed amidst the desperate cries.

Vegas hugs Pete and looks at the camera in the corner of the kitchen.  He believed in Pete, but he wanted to know the whole story.

"Come on... You need to shower and change" vegas says helping pete up and leading him to the bathroom.

It wasn't the first time someone had died in that apartment.  But what scared vegas was the brutality that pete used to kill tawan.

Vegas called Pete at least eight times before he heard him.

Vegas fills the tub, and helps Pete undress and get in.  He looked calmer now, at least that's what he looked like.  But the truth is that in Pete's head there was a zone at the scene, the image of the lifeless body couldn't get out of his head.  Knowing that someone lost their life and that you were the culprit, that the blood of that step was on his hands made him afraid.

"Pete?"  Vegas speaks as he gently cups his face to wipe away the blood there, soon seeing the speech mark on Pete's shoulder.

Pete never complained of pain, he just stood there staring at the white wall.

"Pete, it's going to be okay, you're going to be fine" vegas hugs pete.

Pete just closes his eyes, focusing all his attention on the heartbeat of vegas, and in that moment the noise in his mind is all gone, and he manages to cry.  Just cry.

Vegas had noticed how sentimental Pete was, and knew that even Tawan was doing everything he did to try to kill Pete.

Pete remembered only the good parts.  Pete couldn't imagine this whole thing being a Tawan theater.

Vegas seeing Pete cry made him completely break down inside.

Soon vegas heard a knock on the door and one of his men opened the door a little asking permission to enter.

Vegas didn't want to leave Pete alone so he just asked the man to come in.

"Don't look at him, look at me" vegas says to the man who keeps his eyes fixed on him without straying to pete.

"Mister vegas, everything is clean and here is what you asked me to" the man says handing over the iped with the recordings of the beginning of the day.

Vegas looks at the entire video, he didn't recognize the person in the video... that pet, it wasn't his pet, it wasn't the pet that held him and comforted him.

Vegas handed the device back to the man.

"Get rid of it, get rid of it all, and it never happened. Don't let anyone gossip about it" vegas says, he knows it can't get to kinn or tankhun's ears.