A Hyde's Secrets (A Wednesday x Tyler Story)

Chapter 2: Scars of Woe

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: SELF HARM, PTSD, SEIZURES⚠️

(Tyler P.O.V)

I swear, I've never felt more secure since I was born, it had been weeks since I started my friendship over with Wednesday. Over the past few weeks after we started over, we got to know each-other again, she even got to show me her latest torture devices, on video of course. I told her how I've been living in the woods, and how I managed to feel her presence, like a sixth sense. But I could tell that she still didn't believe me fully no matter how many times I told her, she was always telling me "I know" and "I believe you", but I could tell she still didn't trust me, after all I did break her heart. I taught her how to feel for the first time through all those endeavours, and no matter how much I told her I genuinely loved her, I got an eye-roll. Whenever I was alone I would think of how our friendship was going, it was a start. But whenever I thought of my victims, I could hear their voices, their screams of terror and them begging for mercy. I would always cry myself to sleep in the cabin whenever I thought of those innocent lives I took, or rather...he took. But Wednesday wouldn't understand how I feel, she's only precognitive, not telepathic.

She had to got to Nevermore for school, and I was sitting alone in the cabin watching the tv. It was a report of Hydes and how they obey their masters, and the report then went to me, how I killed all those people, I could hear their screams ringing through my head, so I turned up the radio. But I could still hear them "SHUT UP!" I yelled, "I'M SORRY, LEAVE ME ALONE!" I yelled with my hands on my temples. I ran to the bathroom and grabbed the piece of glass I kept with me, and I started cutting into my wrist, but they would always heal up. "FUCK!" I yelled as I cut deeper, I was crying in pain, but I knew I deserved it, I was bleeding and crying as blood coated my hand despite my wounds instantly healing. I gave up and was exhausted and I looked in the mirror, but I only saw the monster I was, I roared and broke the mirror. "I hate you, I HATE YOU!" I yelled to myself and I collapsed on the floor, I started crying. Wednesday and I decided to exchange numbers before she left, and I woke up to a text from her, "Meet me at Nevermore" she said. 

I got up and covered my wrists up, I made myself look as presentable as I could as I walked to Nevermore, which wasn't far from the cabin, I took the black van Wednesday stole and used it to get to the school I tried to destroy. I didn't want to be seen so I layed low, and my dumbass decided to hide in the basement, where all the medieval weapons were. I climbed in through the open window and jumped down into the room, thank you Hyde strength. The basement was fun to look at, like a dragons lair, but soon I bumped into a bunch of pots that were piled up and they fell down making a bunch of noise, "Shit!" I whispered to myself as I hid behind a suit of armour.  I heard the door open and much to my relief Wednesday opened the door, with a girl that made my heart drop, it was that wolf girl and the hand were with her, those were two beings I didn't want to see. "Tyler?" Wednesday asked, I came out of hiding and waved to her, "Hi" I said, "You're really clumsy" she said while folding her arms, "Yeah, dumb move" I said trying to steady the pots that were piled up. Enid helped me, "Thanks" I said, "You're welcome" she said with a smile, "I told her everything, and she believed me instantly, which is strange" Wednesday said in her usual deadpan way, "Yep, I could smell it on you, you smelled like apple pie, while the Hyde smelled like rotten steak and necrosis" Enid said, that weirded me out but then again, it was her way of telling the difference, and I was fine with that.

Then Thing jumped onto her shoulder, he signed something to me, "Huh?" I asked, "He says that he believes Wednesday too, but not fully, but he needs to see it to believe it" Enid said, Wednesday walked up to me, "We all do, you keep saying that you and the Hyde are different, my visions are always cryptic, but it often needs the source to see the truth" she said. I see I needed to tell them, and show them, "Here" I said as I held out my arm, showing something that I really didn't want to show, but I had to, Wednesday only looked at my face, but Enid looked down and gasped in horror, "Wens, you need to see this" Enid said, Wednesday shut the door and lit a match, she held it over my exposed wrists, where there was some scars present and some dried blood from earlier, I sighed as I looked at the girls, Enid had her hands over her mouth, and Wednesday looked her version of horrified. "You did this?" she asked, "You might wanna sit down, it's a long story" I said and we all sat down on a dusty table in the back corner, Wednesday lit a candle and Enid leaned in to listen, Thing was crawling towards me slowly as I revealed more scars on my wrists, "I was free for more than a week, staying in the woods, bathing myself in a hot spring. But every night I'd dream of my victims, and it nearly killed me each night" I said, the girls looked at me as I kept going, "All those days in those woods made me realize you were right, I'm a coward, and I didn't have the guts to confront their families, ask for forgiveness. I even saw my father after he put me away, he was drinking in his room, he looked horrible and it was all my fault." I started to cry.