Dreams Come True

Why Were You Alone?

The whole room fell into a tense silence for what might've been the one hundredth time today. The storm sounded like it only got worse, so much so and so suddenly I couldn't tell if it was natural or Rainbow's reaction to the sudden bomb I dropped. All of the Council looked at me in shock, none of them daring to say a word as me and Thanos kept our eyes locked together.

His face was twisted into a look I couldn't decipher, a clouded mass of varying emotions behind his eyes, as if he didn't know how to truly react. It seemed like he wanted to let me go, throw me to the ground, crush my head and scream, and leave me alone without a word all at once. So instead, he snarled and forced me closer.

"What do you mean by 'your brother'?" The Mad Titan asked angrily.

"My brother taught me to stand you against monsters like you", I spat back. "He told me to hold my ground even when cornered."

"A brave but foolish lesson", Thanos growled. "Because all it did was prove to me you left someone behind."

"I didn't!" I screamed, making the Mad Titan's eye twitch. "I would never run away from him!"

"Then explain to me why you were alone! If you had a brother, why weren't you with him? It could've saved all of us here the headache."

"It's because..." My resolve was slipping as memories of a broken past played on repeat in my head.

"Why did you feel the need to trample over our homes like they were nothing if your brother taught you to be better?"

"It's because..." I was shaking now, and I heard Rainbow and Virus stand up behind me.

"Just tell me. If you have a brother, THAN WHY ARE YOU HERE?!"

"BECAUSE FREDRICK IS GONE!"

Thanos' face fell as the rest of the Council all looked at me in sad shock.

Still in the Mad Titan's grasp, I let the tears flow. "I;m here because Fredrick is gone! I had a brother, but not anymore. I can't remember what happened to him. I can't, but I loved him with all my heart. After he was gone, I left. I had no place where I was. And now that I'm here, I can make him proud!"

I was slowly devolving into nothing but pathetic sobs. "He was always there for me. You think I want to be labelled a villain all my life by everyone around me? He was that shining light I needed, always there to tell me that I was fine just the way I was.

"I didn't want him to go..."

At that point, I was a mess. My tears flowed down my face, my glasses were crooked, and I had curled up into myself. "Fredrick... I'm sorry..."

"You..." Thanos said in a hollow tone. Fear clutched my heart, and I looked up to see the Mad Titan giving me a dark look. "You, child... You are impossible. After everything you've done... Do you think this sob story can excuse that? We have order in this world. And you ruined that."

"I-I-I-I..." I stammered amongst the tears. "Please, I-I-I-I.... I didn't do anything wrong..."

I cried out when Thanos suddenly brought me up into the air, his gauntlet wearing hand choking me. "We have a system in place to take care of this. You aren't going to like it, but that doesn't matter to me." The stones on his glove began to glow.

He gave me the faintest hints of a smirk. "Goodbye, child-"

Everything stopped when a tendril from behind me cut Thanos' arm right off his body. He cried out in surprise and pain as I fell to the ground. I took a deep breath, trying to regain some sense of what was happening. But the war of emotions, the sadness in my heart made that impossible.