I'm Not Always the Bad Guy

The News

Thomas POV

"Come on, it's shortcut." I smile grabbing Anxietys hand dragging him behind me into an alley.

"I don't know Thomas, something doesn't feel right." he looks around almost looking scared.

"Oh come on. Lets go we'll be fine." I ignore his nervous glances. We walk down the alley a bit when suddenly someone jumps out of the shadows and pulls out a metal object pointing it at us.

"Hand over all your cash, now!" he said shaking his weapon at us. Anxiety an I looked at each other, neither one of us had brought our wallets.

"Fine, you leave me no choice." he states aiming the weapon at me, he pulled the trigger.

"Thomas, watch out!" I see a blur.

BANG

BANG

BANG

Thud

I look down and see Anxiety laying there with a puddle of blood surrounding him. I instantly drop to my knees and cover his wounds, all 3 shots went in his shoulder. "Help! Please help! Anxiety, you're going to be okay. Help! Somebody help! Please!

I wake up gasping, Anxiety bolts upright about the same time breathing just as ragged as mine. We look for the source of the sound. It was just the tv, some how it was changed to the news. "It was just the tv." I say out loud not sure if I was trying to convince myself or Anxiety. I hear something move next to us. I whip my head in the direction of the noise and see three familiar figures sitting on the couch next to us looking at us with worry and guilt heavy on there features. It's just Roman, Logan, and Patton. I look back towards Anxiety he still looks terrified, suddenly he gets up and rushes upstairs. Roman raced up the stairs after him, Patton scooted closer to me and and started to rub soothing circles on my back, and Logan left the room.

-------A Few Minutes Earlier-------

Roman POV

I left the mind space to see if Thomas knew where Anxiety is but was met with the sight of him laying down, asleep, cuddling with said personality on the couch. I text the others that I found him and sent Patton a photo. They showed up rather quickly, Patton looked like he was about to burst and Logan looked like he only came along to make sure Patton would stay under control. We look at the tv and notice an announcement from the news was on. We sit down and decide to see what it was all about, carefully as to not wake them up.

"3 weeks ago at approximately 10:00 pm two civilians were nearly killed in a downtown alley shooting. An anonymous bystander has recently brought in a video of the conflict that they recorded on their cellular device."

They proceeded to play the video.

"Hand over all your cash, now!" he was holding a gun aimed at two individuals. The two stayed silent. "Fine, you leave me no choice." he fires the gun as the darker dressed individual jumped in front of the other. With a audible, "Thomas, watch out!"

BANG

BANG

BANG

"It's Anxiety and Thomas, Virgil got shot." Patton sounded so... defeated.