Brook X GN Reader || I'm The Grim Reaper

Chapter 86

Woof. Meow.

Ahem.

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You think this is the first time you and Brook have been left alone in Chase's apartment.

You frown at the remote in your hands.

Usually, in situations where you had to wait, you and Brook would go to a park or something to watch the people wander around there. But because of the incident on the street, you have to pay attention to the news, meaning you have to be on an electronic. You squint at the TV channel, eyes already starting to hurt when you keep them open for too long as you switch between two different news channels, one talking about a recent murder and one talking about a sinkhole that opened a few hours ago.

"Says there might be a family stuck in it," You mumble absently to Brook. "I didn't know so many interesting things happened in this city." Brook makes a humming sound next to you as he types away on his phone. You look at him.

"You're supposed to be checking the news, too, you know." He makes another noise, still typing on his phone. You sigh heavily, dramatically dropping your head on his shoulder as you switch to another channel.

Brook finally looks at you for a second.

"How do you even know how a TV works?" He mumbles, watching your hand as you switch between a few other channels. "I don't live under a fucking rock," You sigh, letting your eyes fall closed as a woman comes up on the screen, volume too low to hear. Her voice isn't urgent, so you let the remote fall from your grip in favor of leaving further into Brook to stretch your legs and look at what he's doing.

"Are you playing a word game?" You inquire, resting your cheek on his shoulder. You can feel his body heat through his fabric, even though you know his hands are probably cold. They usually are. He nods, connecting a few letters to form a short 3 letter word.

It's silent for a while and you stare as his gloves fingers move across the screen quickly, glancing up at the TV every minute or so to check if the broadcasting has changed from different channels.

You close your eyes after a few minutes, only for you and Brook to violently jolt up when a blaring sound fills the room from both his phone and the TV. You let out a loud string of curses as you pick up the remote to try and turn the volume down, only to halt when you see the screen.

Chase, and Scarlet are on the screen, a red dim casting around the room as Chase's cat wanders around mewing loudly. Several words pass on the screen, the most common ones being WANTED and EMERGENCY. You glance at Brook staring down at his phone with pinched eyebrows, and he lets out a curse before shoving his phone in one of his pockets.

"Okay," You mumble, reaching for a harness for Chase's cat because you won't leave her here but don't want her getting lost.

Brook basically shoves a mask on your face when you get to your feet with the cat in your arms, not commenting on it as he slips his own on and you both hurry out of the apartment.

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You silently make your way behind a group of police officers and SWAT as they speak in hurried voices. Scarlet just threatened everyone, and now people are panicking. Of fucking course.

"Who the fuck cares what the orders are! It's an effing demon! Fucking shoot it!"

"Wha- I'm not gonna do it! It said if we shoot it's gonna kill all of us!"

"What if it kills all of us anyways?!"

They don't get to speak anymore when Brook drops down on them, and you try and catch a glance at a nearby alley that you left Lightstalker in. She hadn't come out at all, meaning she was probably digging through a trash bag having the time of her life in that stupid ass sweater.

You watch Brook slam into the cement next to you, debris flying up and the air becoming dusty. His new mask looks nice, you think to yourself as he stands to his full height.

"Just knock them out, you idiot, or else we're going to run out of sinners," Brook says loud enough for Scarlet to hear, and you grin under your mask. You haven't fought in a while, and you'd be lying if you said you weren't looking forward to this.

Brook turns around sharply and punches one of them through their masks and in the face, and you whoop at him.

"What the absolute fuck-" Someone from behind you says, and you turn just in time to see them take stances and raise their weapons at both of you. "That thing's not human!" They shout.

"No shit, sherlock!" You laugh as Brook looks at one of them. "And?" He asks, and the person stammers. You grab one of their masks and throw it to the ground, basically body-slamming the poor dude. You stand up and rub your clothes off, looking back at Brook as the sound of helicopters overhead gets louder. The man doesn't get back up, but he releases a groan.

"I hate that Scarlet keeps getting us in these situations, but this is fun!" You end up yelling over the sound, jumping over another guy who had been charging at you with his shield in front of him. He stops when he passes and you elbow him in the back of the head. He falls forward, motionless.

You turn around just in time to watch Brook loudly lift a car. Your jaw drops, because Jesus Christ, you've never seen that before, and, oh, hello, he looks good doing it too.

You watch as he throws it rather far, directly at one of the helicopters, then wince as it hits and causes a huge explosion.

You dash out of the way of falling burning particles, standing a few feet away from Brook and watching the way his hair whips around in the wind. He glances at you, then over his shoulder at the rest of the SWAT team. You face them, too, crossing your arms over your chest.

They're all clustered together. "Y-You weren't a target, but we will use lethal f-force!" One of them shouts. You grin through your mask, fully aware that they can see it because you have a weird mesh plate over your mouth instead of having your face completely covered like Brook's.

You hum thoughtfully.

"Lethal force, huh?" Brook murmurs, spreading his arms out. His shirt definitely blows way too high to be normal in the wind, fire behind him.

"Go on, then." He shouts at the men.

You look shamelessly at the sinner's marks along his ribs. "You look like one of those people with a god complex," You yell to him over the noise. He ignores you, per usual, staring the men down. You shrug, keeping your arms crossed but facing the men stubbornly.

"Kill me." Brook shrugs. You wait a moment, and there's no response from the men. They look between both of you and themselves, not sure what to do.

"Cowards!"

Authors Note: Sorry it's been so long. I may or may not have broken my writing laptop, so I'm using a new on from a friend for now. It's frustrating and I'm still getting used to typing and figuring things out on here. (I can't download Wattpad as an app, I can only use the website, which sucks). I am grateful that I have something to post on, though, so I'm not going to complain. Updates may take just a little longer than usual because school has started back up again, yay, but I just wanted to let you all know. Forgive me for any mistakes, I'm not used to typing on here, as I've said. Have a great day!