For The Better [1]

Chapter 3: Kill That Monster

"Well, if it isn't our big, wonderful family all in one place?" Robin sneered as she brushed between Hyde and Vore to get in the middle of the circle, a smirk on her maw as she looked around at the creatures gathered around her in a wide circle as rain poured down on us, "This certainly is a shock to see everyone here, even the little rat showed up." She casted a glance over at Piper on Beck's shoulder and Beck snarled at the feline, to which Robin only chuckled once more. "Such a temper on you." She remarked, giving a mere eye roll as she turned her back on the two of them and faced Hyde, "Let's get down to business though, shall we? Wouldn't want us to stay out in the rain for too long, now would we?" Hyde gave the female a glare and sat up from his position, looking her square in the eye. "I have no quarrel with you, Robin." He said, his tone stern. Robin only laughed, treating this like some twisted joke to her in sorts. "Oh, we may not have a quarrel, but let us all not forget your wrongdoing. We had the chance to get on the good side of a human, yet it was your doing by scaring him off and betraying us." So, this was her excuse to go after him. Threatening Tom when he first met him many months ago. There was a series of questioning murmurs that went through the crowd until Scruffy stood up. "His betrayal was not his fault if anything it was right of him to say such things about him! He might've been the only person that saw the bad in him from the start. He was the cause of Ciro's activity and neglect for many months, how was that Hyde's fault?' He defended the male and Robin growled, turning on her paws. "That may be true, but he has still caused much trouble for this family from the very beginning ever since it was just him and Rebecca." To that, Robin turned back to Hyde with her teeth bared, "It is time for this problem to be taken care of." She said and in a flash, the lynx forcefully rammed into Hyde, sending him into the middle of the circle and with a swift paw, pressed his head into the mud. There was an uproar in the crowd while Morph's smirk grew and there were various opinions being thrown around. I, frozen in place, sat there with widened eyes as Robin prepared to kill him in front of all of them.

This was wrong and I knew that as much as everyone else. Robin was taking this too far, jumping to too many conclusions and just getting right to the point in order to kill the one that had been in her way for so long. I shook my head and broke from my frozen stance and leaped to my paws, slipping in the wet grass slightly as I rushed at Robin, pushing her off of Hyde and standing in between the two of them, growling at Robin. "Leave him alone, Robin. This isn't the way to do this." I snapped at her, "Stop this madness." The black-furred lynx shook her head, getting up from her landing position, facing me with her teeth bared in disgust. "Of all people that you defend, you defend him?" She hissed at me and a lightbulb went off in her head, making her scowl turned to a smirk as she padded closer to me, "I have a better idea, actually." I watched as she calmly walked around me in a teasing, mocking manner as I kept her in my sight with every moment that she made. "Think about this, Rebecca. Hyde's been the one holding you back all this time, ever since the beginning. He mocked you, make fun of you, stripped you of your dignity." She murmured, making me face him as he laid on the ground, looking up at me with unknown emotions sparking in his single eye, "He hurt the one you cared about most, remember that time he hurt Scruffy?" She said, looking at the small dog, who was clearly displeased with this, "Broke his rib, didn't he? That's why he has that limp every time he walks. When he tried to protect you from Hyde. He even scared away the one that you planned your future with, threatened Tom to the point of leaving this place that you called home." Robin smirked and drew close to my ear, "He's nothing but a monster, in the end, enjoying the suffering of all those around him. He's your true enemy, with him gone, you'd truly have the upper hand in your life." A softened chuckled came from her throat, "Kill him, Rebecca. Kill him and let him pay for all the mistakes that he has done to you." With that, the lynx drew away from me, leaving me there.

There was another series of shocked murmurs that went through the crowd, but I couldn't hear anything that they were saying. All I could hear was the rain as Hyde and I locked gazes as I was now the one that had the choice to end his life. I watched as the red tint to his eye drained, leaving the softened emerald-hued gaze in his only eye. The red in his fur faded away to its normal black color and he was no longer Hyde, but Henry. In a span of several seconds, our whole history seemed to go through my brain. From the time that we hated each other to the bone, mocking and hurting one another to the point where hatred turned to lustful love and then turned to a love that he had never known. He had told me that he loved me many times before, promised to make up for his mistakes in any way that he could. He watched movies with me, taught Scruffy how to play piano, make sure that I was always happy in my life. He had just gotten a bit too protective, afraid that Tom would hurt me like he did and in the end, Tom destroyed me. Robin immediately blamed all of Tom's doing on Henry, seeing that it was his threats that started the whole thing, but that was not the case. Far from it, he did it to protect me and all of us. I loved him and he loved me, he always did from that dreaded day so many years ago.