Hide and Go Seek

18. Grim

I watch Alan push Max out the window. Just as she falls out of view with a scream, I collide with Alan. He grunts when he hits the floor with me on top of him. He looks at me. I can see the fear in his eyes. But along with that I see determination. Determination to protect his sister, even if that means dying while trying to take me out.

Please do. At this point I have been praying for death. I hope every day that my body will collapse, finally give out, unable to live any longer with the way It was living. But alas, the Thing keeps my body just well enough that it doesn't die. Maybe Alan will be able to end it though. He always has a solution. Maybe he has a gun on him.

It is still faster though, and he screams as my fingers gouge at his eyes.

Alan fights back the best he can, scratching and kicking. At one point he is even able to grab my neck and start choking me, all the while I cheer for him. But as soon as It feels my airway close, It thrusts me back into my own body. Now it is me choking. Me being strangled, while I feel the presence of the Thing in the back of my mind. 

I fight the urge to reach up and fight Alans hold on me. But he could see it in my eye. He must have seen the fear, felt the fight leave me as I regained control. His grip loosened. That was just what It wanted. Seizing control of my arms It breaks his grip and escapes. But now, after feeling myself back in my body, I fight back too.

Spasms break out across my body as I try to hold on to the feeling of being back into my body, trying to fill the space and push Thing's out and back into the corner. A scream tears itself from my throat, though I don't know if it's from my straining or It's annoyance.

Alan seizes the opportunity and tackles me. But my body is out of control. Spasms and seizures make it hard for him to hold on. I fight on inside me. Suddenly, I feel a strong force, almost like being smashed with a wrecking ball, crash into my consciousness and trap me. It pushes me back into my corner. Then I disappear farther. I am no longer anywhere. Not in the Twins apartment. Not in my body. Darkness surrounds me.