Slenderverse One shot things

Repeat (EverymanHYBRID)

//so this ones actually kinda has a place in time were it takes place lmao its supposed to take place like immediately before "Isolation" and vinnys all sad bc they're all gone now so yknow enjoy :^))))//

Vinny sat in front of his laptop staring blankly at the screen. His camera was in front of him were he had placed it earlier. He must have turned it off at some point but he didn't recall doing so. There was a video playing on the laptop. The same video he'd been watching over and over again for the past few hours. He remembered finding the drive that the video had come on but the memory was hazy even though it had only happened earlier that night. He could only barely remember replaying the video over and over again.  It was as if he was remembering things from a dream, the details kept slipping and small pieces that made the memory feel real were  missing. Everything kind of felt numb and empty.

The video ended once more and vinny toyed with the idea of rewatching it. He wasn't sure why he kept watching it again and again as he hated the contents of the video. Perhaps he hoped that if he kept watching it that it might change. That instead of the horrible reality that the video kept displaying, it would show him something else, anything else. It was pointless of course, the video never changed. Why would it? It just played the same way over and over again.

Vinny shut the laptop and sat, unsure of what he should do now. Everyone was gone. Everyone who he'd cared about, laughed with, shared memories and stories and loss and hard times and holidays and hopes and dreams with, was gone. Jeff, Alex, Steph, Jessa, and now Even they were all somewhere he'd never see them or hear them again. It had been hard having some of them disappear. It had been even harder seeing some of them die, slaughtered by malevolent monsters. He'd had other to grieve with and help each other get through each death then.

He'd felt alone and lost when Even, or rather whatever was possessing him, had disappeared after doing unspeakable things to the others. Somehow he felt even more alone now knowing for sure that Even was no longer alive. It hurt knowing that Even had died feeling guilty for doing things that weren't really his fault and that he deserved to die. What he wouldn't give to just to hug Even and tell him it wasn't his fault, to make him believe it.

Vinny realized he was crying. He put his head in his hands and sobbed unable to do much else. He cried until he couldn't anymore. Until he couldn't feel anything besides his growing headache and sore eyes.

What now. Should he keep going? Keep looking for some kind of answers? It's not like he had anything left to lose besides his own life and at this point he wasn't sure if he really valued living anymore.

But he wasn't interested in answers or clues or anything. He just wanted his friends back. He wanted to go back to before this whole mess started and snowballed. Back to when he was just having a little fun with a couple of close friends and there was nothing to really worry about.

He stood up and walked over to the nearest couch and lie down. He was tired but that was nothing new. He just wanted to sleep so he wouldn't have to think or feel anymore. The last conscious thoughts he could remember having were "why? Why us? Why now? Why ever? What did we do to deserve this?" But of course, he had no answers.