Look for the Light (Joel Miller fanfic)

Burn It Down, Burn It All Down

You stood there frozen in the middle of the room looking between Joel and David. Joel looked like he was about to lose it as he watched you with concerned eyes. And David just smirked at you, trying to make you as uncomfortable as humanly possible. You tried to keep your eyes on Joel, but David pulled you away as his voice came out in a low rasp.

"Look at you. Standing there with fear in those pretty eyes. Thinking about your time here, princess? Why don't you tell Joel about all the fun we had while he wasn't here to save you." A devilish grin pulled at the corners of his mouth, and he was staring at you with hungry eyes. Eyes that were about to eat you alive.

You wanted to be sick. You felt like running out and never coming back. You had to do this though. You had to end this. And it had to be you. Not Joel, but you. You gulped and stared back at him, trying not to lose control.

"Did you tell him how we played a little game of cat and mouse, and how I dragged you out from your little hiding spot under the bed?"

He stared at you, eyes glowing from the joy of bringing back those nightmare memories. You could see Joel in the corner shift closer to David, trying to get you to focus on him. You couldn't break your gaze from David though.

He continued to taunt you. "Did you tell him how we played Russian roulette, and how I choked you out on the pool table?" His laughter grew into a roar as he was laughing at your trauma.

Tears pooled at your eyes as one tear escaped, running down your cheek. You felt as if the weight of the room was about to collapse down on top of you and bury you alive. The room grew cold as you shivered in place.

"Alright that's enough!" Joel growled as he pulled on David's collar, slamming his fist into the side of his jaw. Blood spewed from his mouth, but he just laughed it off. He was psychotic, deranged.

"Aly, don't listen to him. He's only trying to get a reaction out of you," Joel said as he looked at you with pleading eyes.

"Tell him how it felt as I dragged the blade down your arm as your warm blood ran down your body. How you completely surrendered yourself to me as I told you Joel was dead, and he didn't give a shit about what happened to you." Another laugh escaped his mouth, carrying it into a low shriek to a high-pitched wail.

Joel took the knife from his pocket and jammed the blade into David's palm, the knife cutting all the way through the skin as the tip of the blade showed from the top of his hand. He screamed in agony but kept a smile on his face, staring unbearably into your scared eyes.

"You're lucky I haven't just ended your pathetic life already. Now stop taunting her!" Joel screamed into David's ear; his face so red you could see the veins bulging from his neck.

"That's right. I am lucky, lucky to be alive to see those sad, scared eyes of Aly's as I scrape every detail back into her mind." David's eyes turned cold as he stared back at you, his eyes haunting your mind.

You couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't take the weight of his eyes. You closed your eyes so tight you thought you'd topple over. Panic washed over you in a wave. Fear consuming every sense of being in your body. You remembered every single horror of this place. Remembered every stolen, forced touch to your body. Remembered how you thought Joel wasn't coming back for you.

He doesn't care about you. He abandoned you. He's never coming back for you. David's vicious words rang through your head, confusing your own mind. You couldn't think straight, couldn't do anything but stand there and be paralyzed by your own fear. The words taunting you over and over again as you tried to escape your own mind.

You got lost in your thoughts, sinking back deeper under the water as David pulled you down. Deeper and deeper. You drowned out the sounds around you. The only thing you heard was the shallow noise as you tried to catch your breath.