Karmas bitter but so am I (S.A.M.S.)

Chapter 7 - Trademarks

(Narrators POV)

"Are you worried about him?"

Blood Moon stiffens, turning their head to glare silently over their shoulder at Sun, of whom stares down at him with a curiosity that he quickly realizes may prove to be rather deadly. Despite their urge to retaliate and deny Sun's claim, Blood Moon simply turns their head away and glares daggers into the floor, willing the other animatronic to drop the subject entirely before they actually do find something to say.

Lunar glances over from his place on one of the cushions normally reserved for the children, murmuring something to Moon, who sits idly by and watches through narrowed red eyes.

"We killed him. Why would we be worried?" Blood Moon snaps after more than just a few seconds of silence, bitterness rising like bile in their throat, threatening to spill out of their mouth in violent words that they know would be self-incriminating. They don't wish to make themselves look worse than they already do.

Confliction twists their mind, cutting it in half just long enough for their claws to sink into the floor, leaving score marks that they wish were on something that would scream.

"I don't know...it just seems as if you've been diligently sitting by his side since Moon and Lunar brought him back. It makes me assume you care." Sun replies with a shrug.

"We don't ." They snarl, both voices overlapping, minds crossing into a shared consciousness as their thoughts realign once more.

"Alright...if you say so." Sun says dismissively, turning on his heel towards Eclipse to begin checking his wounds and changing his dressings as needed. Moon stands and makes his way over to his brother's side, helping Sun work with a vacant expression on his face.

Blood Moon knows they're just going through the motions of keeping Eclipse alive because it's an obligation now that they've already brought him here. It makes them wonder what would've happened if Eclipse wasn't found. Would he have just been left to die? Would it have been painful and slow? Would he have been scared?

The idea of Eclipse being scared is almost comical in their mind, but they know it's possible , given the look on his face as he realized that Blood Moon was, in fact, going to kill him . It was a moment that made them realize just how alike they were to him- not the persona he plays, but the real him, the one that they remember talking in calm tones along the streets of a world abandoned amongst flames and fiery that continue to vex Blood Moon. It was unfair. All of it was so unfair .

They shift closer to Eclipse, settling beside the beanbag he lays upon as Sun and Moon finish aiding him. It frustrates them that this seems more like a simple chore to them rather than a life-or-death oriented task. Despite all that Eclipse has done, doesn't he still deserve some respect?

Then again, they reason, Eclipse has done more to harm the brothers than he has done to harm them.

Once they have begun to move away and murmur things that Blood Moon doesn't care to catch, they lean closer to Eclipse, listening to the unsteady rise and fall of his chest as he vents. They don't really know what's changed, really. The anger they felt during their confrontation is still fresh on their mind, yet they feel none of it, curled beside his remains like a stray dog.

Did they ever truly want to end the fight that way? Or were they simply doing as Moon ordered in hopes that they wouldn't be seen as the outcast?

If it's the latter...a great lot of difference that made.

But Eclipse never saw them as an outcast. He saw them as a threat, sure, which wasn't exactly ideal either, but...he never intentionally turned his back on them.