Hate My Guts (Kenny x Butters) [Completed]

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When the police showed up, Kenny still hadn't moved. He knew it made him look bad, like maybe he had a part in this, he found himself not giving a shit though. The only thing he cared about in that moment, was the fact that David's life had been taken from him, and he hadn't deserved that.

Even after the coroner took away the body, and the police got his statements, Kenny stared down at the blood soaked grass like it would change what happened. Nothing could change this, it was permanent.

God, Kenny wished that David would've just left the city. Seeing his life obliterated like it had meant nothing made something snap in him - he was hellbent on getting revenge as soon as he could get a handle on things.

He didn't know what happened to the rest of the gang. Leo was the only one still with him, staring down at the spot with the same intensity that he held; Kenny couldn't imagine how he was feeling, since it was likely that Leo's parents did this, or at least someone he knew. Either way, Kenny wrapped an arm around his shoulder to comfort them both.

They stood out there for a long time. Maybe it was a trauma response, but they just refused to leave the fallen soul behind. Leo had seen what it was like for Kenny to die alone, and although they hadn't been there for his death, they didn't want David to be forgotten.

While the neighborhood was roped off to the public, the two boys were left to process it all in silence. The ability to process this terrible event was interrupted when Kenny realized that the blood caked on his jeans was starting to harden, and stick to his skin - it was making his stomach churn. He gently wrapped his fingers around Butters' wrist, leading him back to his house when he realized he couldn't stand to be there anymore. And to think, just about an hour ago, Kenny had been unknowingly smoking a cigarette three hundred feet from David's murdered corpse.

Leo was still caught in a daze, seemingly unaware of the fact that he had been moved away from the scene. It was probably better that way. They had to snap out of this, Kenny knew that for sure; if they let this get to them like it was set up to, they would absolutely lose. He wasn't going to allow that to happen to Leo.

Since Karen had gotten to school without incident, and Kenny didn't remember where the gang was, his focus was all on stabilizing Butters. He set him on the couch carefully, before managing to get himself into the bathroom where he would have to deal with the bloody clothes alone. The whole day had to be washed away, that's what he decided before he turned on the shower, but as he looked down at his clothes, Kenny needed to burn them instead.

By some means, he managed to look in the mirror. There were blood splatters on his cheeks somehow, and as he looked into his eyes, he didn't find himself there. Kenny had seen some fucked up things in his life, things that most humans would never dream up, yet the memory of David's body was dragging him through Hell all over again.

"Fuck, fuck, FUCK!" He was yelling now, pulling at the ends of his hair like they would save him from the images replaying over and over again. They wouldn't stop, and it forced him down on the ground, the world spinning as he tried to make himself breathe, just breathe.

Something from Kenny's outburst had snapped Leo out of his trance. He was now standing in the doorway of the bathroom, the same pale, shocked look stuck on his face as if he was haunted by a similar, terrible loop. Forcing his legs to crumble underneath himself to get to Kenny, Leo landed on his knees in front of him, tears streaming down his face as he tried to reach out to comfort his friend.

The bloody clothes were still on him though.

Kenny shuddered again as he realized this, ignoring Butters' presence as he ripped off his shirt, desperate to get the stench of death away from him. Next came his jeans, and although this normally would've been awkward between them, Leo nodded numbly as he understood what Kenny needed, managing to run up the stairs to find something for him to wear. He didn't know how Leo was functioning so well, while he couldn't stop shaking.