Nightmare

Chapter 18

(Slight trigger warning in this chapter: violence, descriptions of extreme pain, and a little blood)

"Alright boys, welcome to the viewing area," Echo hums, throwing his hands out as the siblings and vampires enter the same room from last time.

"You don't sound as excited about this as you did when you first found Sol," Yeonjun notices, looking towards the male. "Have you finally realized this is a bad idea?"

"We just aren't excited to listen to Erebus cry again," Gaia rolls her eyes. "But this is not a bad idea, it will work."

"Sure," Yeonjun huffs. "But you are really shitty siblings. And if Sol-"

Echo whips around quickly. "Stop fucking calling them that! That's not their name. It's Erebus!"

"We are not calling them a name used by the people killing them," Taehyun growls, before Yeonjun has a chance to respond. 

"We aren't killing them!" Gaia screams. "They won't die, Amos swore they wouldn't die!"

Soobin rolls his eyes, a dead expression on his face. "Even if it does work and they do survive, do you really think they are going to want anything to do with you?"

"Of course they will," Gaia scoffs, but the vampires can see the uncertainty in her eyes.

Echo cuts in for his sister. "Ere will understand why we did this and will come back to us, even if it takes decades."

"Which they might not have," Beomgyu interrupts. "How do you know if stripping their power won't strip their immortality too? Or, what if the diseases they are protected from now attack when they don't have their abilities? Are you prepared for that?"

Both siblings pause, unsure of how to respond, so instead they chose not to, simply turning towards the mirror once again.

The coven takes this chance to survey the room, finding all of two guards by the door, and that being the extent of the guards watching over the vampires. Their arms are bound by silver cuffs at the wrists and they take a moment to test the strength of the bindings. 

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"I know you hate this," Circe begins as she moves around you. "But this is going to be a good thing for you."

You roll your eyes for the thousandth time. "Gods I'm fucking tired of that response. You've been the one to do all of these, you know I'm not surviving this. So please, can you at least stop pretending there's a future ahead of me? They aren't in here right now."

Circe just shakes her head, continuing her preparations.

You take another attempt at moving your limbs, only to come up empty once again. 

"I don't know if you are going to really care," you begin, voice coming out soft. "But would you be able to do me a favor once I'm gone?"

"If you're gone," Circe corrects. "But sure. I feel kind of bad about doing this to you, so might as well."

"When I'm gone, can you try to lessen my mates' pain? Losing a mate is normally crushing, I don't want them to have to suffer because of what Amos caused."

Circe takes a moment, before nodding. "I can try, but I won't be able to promise anything. Broken bonds are not easy to calm."

"Thank you."

Footsteps from outside the room stop you from speaking further.

"Alright, let's get them into the operation room," Amos claps their hands together, excitement clearly running through them.