Show and Tell (𝓡𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬 // 𝔸𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝕩 𝕍𝕠𝕩)

Finale (part 9): Goodbye

Alastor and Vox were lying on the grass, watching  clouds drifting by. "That one looks like a little kitten!" squeeked Vox, pointing at the sky. Al squinted his eyes. "Well... um..." All he saw was a child being burnt alive and screaming in pain. "Yes.... a kitten, of course, yes," he lied, smiling.

"And that one.." continued Vox, "looks just like a..." Alastor giggled and turned his head to Vox. "Like a deer!" he guessed, "Just like m-" "...fucking hypocrite," Vox finished his sentence as if he hadn't heard him. Alastor blinked. "...what.." Vox wasn't looking at him. He continued smiling and looking at the sky. "A fucking hypocrite, a liar. Looks like the type of liar to even lie to himself. That's some serious shit." The blue sky turned grey, and the fluffy clouds doubled their seize, looking threatening. A thunder struck the ground.

Vox turned his head slowly to face Alastor's expression of pure confusion and... pain. Vox broadened his smile and continued. "Well, you know, those motherfuckers who pretend to be all high and mighty, but actually all it takes is breeze to take them down." His neck made an awful bony noise as he tilted his head to the side.

Alastor sat up quickly, wanting to leave, but Vox grabbed his wrists and got on top of him. "You think you're powerful? You can't even control your feelings. You can't even control me." Alastor tried to move but couldn't. He started breathing heavily. "No, Vox, I don't want to control you... I never... I.." he tried to free himself. "Oh, but you want to. And badly too... You have control over people. You always have the upper hand. But with me? You don't." Alastor tried to lift his head, but Vox grabbed his forehead and slammed it to the ground.

He brought his lips close to Alastor's ear. "Think about it... If you could, wouldn't you kill Velvette and Valentino?" Alastor stopped moving. He had froze. Yes, indeed he would, but... "But you can't." Vox completed his thoughts. 'How did he do that?' Alastor was now panicking. He was at Vox's mercy. "Wouldn't you end the contract, wouldn't you make me stay? But no, you can't. You can't protect me. And look at you! You can't even protect yourself."

Alastor's lips trembled. Vox didn't stop for a second. "Even that one thing that any other partner could give me..." Vox lowered his head over to Alastor and licked the left side of his face, from his chin to his forehead. His tongue was sore and scratched him. "...you're unable to give it to me." Alastor closed his eyes and felt tears wetting his cheeks. "I'm s-sorry," he whispered. "Sorry?," repeated Vox, spitting on his face. "Sorry for wasting my time, I guess, huh?" Alastor nodded, clenching his mouth, tears still flowing. "You should be. And that's partly why I'm leaving, you know," he shrugged. "Absolute boredom." Alastor's pupils trembled. His tears had a salty taste.

Vox started giggling unnervingly. "But still... you're still hoping that I'll stay..." Alastor shook his head, looking down. Vox grabbed his cheeks, forcing him to meet him in the eyes. "Give me one fucking reason and I might think about it." Alastor shook his head again. It was way too heavy. His brain couldn't function right. 'Because I love you...' Alastor tried saying it aloud, but his lungs couldn't let him speak. He was breathing fast and inconsistently. Vox waited for an answer. He sighed, letting Al's face go violently, he stood up, and started walking away. "You're an absolute disgrace." He had only walked a few steps, yet he was already miles away.

Alastor stood up too and all he saw was a dark silhouette getting further and further away. The grass was gone. Now Alastor was stepping on a puddle of... some kind of black liquid. He tried to run to Vox, but his feet were stuck on the goupy ground. "I didn't raise you that way." Vox's voice echoed into nothingness. It was mixed with a woman's voice. "If you are not careful enough, love," now the voice lost all its masculine air. It quickly turned to a full-on voice of a mature woman, a mother's voice, "...you might lose everyone you love...."