Everyone lies

Take over

~At a safe house~

Dark's pov

"What do you mean that Jack wants to kill Anti?" I shout furiously at Jackie who was frantically looking around. "I don't know man, it was like he wa-was possessed or something?" He offered looking at the panic clearly etched on Anti's face. "Th-that is no-not helping," Anti stuttered holding onto my hand with a death grip. I could literally see my hand turning white. "He-hey it's okay, now we know that it's not Jack that really wants to kill you. We can try to knock some sense into him." I say prying off my wrist from his death grip. He feverishly nodded stumbling back onto the sofa. I could see him spiralling in anxiety while staring blankly at the ceiling. "Hey come one man, I'm sure the fridge has some ice cream!" I said brightly, and then scowled. Happiness was not a nice colour on me. Anti seemed to buy it and we both went to the kitchen. The walk there was short and silent, just the way I like it but I could feel Anti's anxiety buzzing the air and so I broke the ice. "So...what's your favourite flavour of ice cream-" ugh no. Small talk. The lowest of the low. Small talk is only for strangers and conmen. 

Ok nope can't do it.

"Hey Anti? I-I don't know how to help you. I know you are scared, and for a good reason may I add, but sitting and asking random question to fill the silence is slowly killing me. I really want to help you, I really do, and if I have to sit through hours of small talk I will, but trust me it's going to be awkward. Like super-" I rambled really afraid of how Anti was going to react.

"Dark... I know. When you started small talk with me, it felt really unnatural. Like you said small talk is only for weird people and you just being there even though it makes you uncomfortable is really all I need." He said cracking a genuine smile after a long long time. 

"Now now don't get wholesome on me, you bring tears to my eyes," I said playfully while grabbing a tub of ice cream out of the freezer. "Jackpot!" Anti shouted grabbing the tub from me and taking off. A distant thank you could be heard and I knew that would keep him busy for some time.

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I grabbed Mark, Jackie and pulled them into another room so that Anti wouldn't have to be reminded of the harsh reality of the situation. "Okay so we need to actually come up with a game plan" I whisper-shouted. "I can try to get Marvin and Hen on it and JJ might tag along. We can try to show Jack the truth if it is like some physiological effect on him from— what should we name the dude?" Jackie rambled hands in his head. "Dude stop spiralling!" Mark shouted before I shoved him. "You better hope he didn't hear that." I hissed clearly annoyed at Mark. 

"And also," I turned to Jackie, "go give them a call right now and tell them not to tell Chase, okay?" 

Jackie curtly nodded before he left Dark and Mark. 

In an empty room.

Face to face. 

"I never should have let him in the house..." 

"What did you say?" I whispered, my voice ominously low. How. Could. He. I was seething with anger, staring down at him. I was just slightly taller which gave a bit of an advantage. I could sense his aura slowly turning dark. Like dark dark. Not scared, not angry, just evil. It was like a switch in demeanour. A change in personality. 

"I SAID I SHOULD HAVE NEVER LET THAT GLITCH INTO MY HOUSE!"

If I was a cartoon character smoke would be bellowing from my ears. I was just about to lunge at him when I heard a small mumble. 

"What did I ever do..."

I turned to face Anti and my heart broke. Tears streaming down his eyes as he sniffled at the sight of me and Mark staring down at each other. He had shrunk down from his happy carefree persona to one of sadness. It just seemed to be all my fault. All my fault. All my fault. All my f-

Indeed...