Lost in Transmission - Little Nightmares AU

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       There's a body lying on the ground.

       There's blood.

       His blood.

       I cry out, covering my mouth. NO! NO, NO, THIS ISN'T...THIS ISN'T REAL, I'M SEEING THINGS! HE'S NOT...HE'S NOT....

       I blink, wipe my eyes, and look away. Not real. I'm imagining it. Frantically, I shake my head over and over. My breaths are shaky. I'm trembling. The room sways. I think I'm gonna be sick.

       "...Seven...?" I whisper, my voice cracking.

       I don't want to look. I can't. I have to. I can't look away. I can't see the blood.

       He can't be dead. I can't have lost all of them.

       How did this happen so fast?! We were okay earlier! We were...we were all alive earlier.... Everyone I met here is gone. Everyone.

       ...Is this all my fault...?

       The floor rises up to me. Or maybe I sink down to it; my tears sliding off my chin and making little marks on the wood that disappear when I blink. I don't know. I don't care. All I know is that Seven is dead, and that Six...Six is....

       My fists clench and I grit my teeth. Six has something to do with this. She...I think she's what killed him.

       Trying not to look too closely, I glance at Seven's body and flinch. Something tore away a part of his neck. Blood pools around him, covering him and his clothes with red. His blank eyes stare unseeingly at me. A trail of blood trickles down his mouth.

      She did this, didn't she?

       Was this just like killing the Janitor? Did she think Seven was a monster, too? H-how long did it take?! Was he scared? How much did it hurt?!

       ...Was it easy for her?

       I stagger back to Six, holding onto the walls so that I won't fall over. My silent tears turned into gasps and sobs and now I can't even walk straight because it was her and she killed him and MY FRIEND IS DEAD NOW-

       "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" I yell at Six. I'm crying too hard to get out anything else. I can't ask her all the questions I was thinking; the questions I don't want to know the answers to but I have to because I need to know why.

       Six is facing away from me. She doesn't turn around. She knows exactly what she did. "I was hungry," she whispers, her voice quiet and calm in the silence. It only makes me angrier. "And he was the only food there was."

       'Hungry'? 'Food'?

       She tries to explain. Everything sounds like excuses. My ears are ringing, too, and I'm trying to see what she means but all I see is Seven, bleeding out because of her. I keep asking why.

       "You wouldn't understand."

       I wouldn't understand WHAT?! If she told me the real reasons instead of saying, "I had to," then I would get it! Just EXPLAIN, Six! "Really?" I ask, an edge to my voice. "Why not? EXPLAIN to me why you KILLED my FRIEND!"

       She finally looks at me, her eyes narrowed. "I just did, okay?! I HAD to, because when I don't eat, I get hurt! I thought I was gonna die!" She stares right into my eyes, frowning like she's just realized something. "...You'd rather have me alive than him, right?"