"I could hate you now, it's quite alright to hate me now when we both know that deep down the feeling, still deep down, is good." (Ivy by Frank Ocean)
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(Peter's POV)
MY EYES BRIEFLY opened lazily to see the damned Emperor and...Cas. I knew I was about to die. Even though I always planned on going out in a super awesome way with explosions and hot girls and glitter, I knew I was too weak to do anything.
But at least I knew one thing: Cas wasn't too bad. He would probably be gracious enough to make my death not painful. I flashed an uber cool smile at him, the one that always got the girls. I'm sure that in the dark light of the chamber, my teeth looked green and my dimples simply blended in with my cheeks. If the emperor didn't just kill me, I would probably die by myself. None of that delicious, life-sustaining substance called food had reached my stomach in ages. I had licked water off the floor of the prison cell I was shoved into. Acid ate at my stomach walls and I threw up regularly. Probably from the strange life forms on the floor. I was licking baby aliens.
"You've still not said where the other two are," the emporor growled at me, and I heard it as if it was through a foggy tunnel.
"No," I grunted. My voice was so cracked and hoarse. "I've said I don't know." Actually, I've said that seventeen times since I've arrived here. Eighteen now.
"Tell me if he is truthful!" The emperor bellowed.
Honestly, the people here seem to speak like Shakespeare. Ugh. And what's with all the yelling? Sheesh.
The already dark chamber darkened even more and the world spun. My eye caught a human skeleton in the corner. And no, it wasn't a Halloween decoration, as the maggots crawling over a suspiciously meaty part in the head showed.
Suddenly all the noise in my mind and the chamber floated away. My vision warped and changed, until everything looked like I was looking at it through an X-Ray, with 3D glasses on. I felt high. My mind drifted with thoughts that weren't my own, ones of impressing... Lilli? And my brother. I longed to be with him again, but I knew I had limited time left with him. The more I thought about these thoughts, the more they seemed like my own. But they're not... a voice floated in my mind. Who's voice was that? Oh, right, Peter's voice. You're Peter... No, I'm not...
The head on the shoulders turned. The eyes landed on two figures huddled in one corner. The eyes made contact with the eyes of the blonde haired female and the mouth formed a smile before the world turned black.
(3rd Person POV)
"Are we invisible?" Warren hissed in Lilli's ear the same time the emperor growled. Lilli was too shocked at how Peter had seen her, and she quickly reinforced their invisibility.
"Yes," Lilli whispered back.
The emperor kicked Peter's side, but he didn't budge.
Lilli watched the emperor kick Peter again, and hoped to every Lord and God she could think of that Peter was just unconscious.
But her eyes slowly unsquinted as the horrible truth came to her. They were too late.
Peter was dead.
Her body convulsed violently as silent sobs shook her to her core. Peter was dead. Peter, who had always been there for her even when she wasn't really accepted by anyone else. Peter, who had lightened everyone's day with his jokes. Peter, who had risked his life for the X-Men.
Warren wrapped his arms around Lilli and squeezed tight, but tears still streamed down her face. She was absolutely devastated.
"Huh," the emperor said nonchalantly. "Well, now it seems we will need a new source for our information."
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