Verisimilitude

9 Im sorry, I'll exist beside you

It was raining when Felix, Dan and Jack walked into the cabin. The officers that had once been laying unconscious where no longer there. The trio was greeted to a open door and smashed furniture inside.

Felix was the first to walk in and see the open trap door on the floor. The vampire eyed it suspiciously. Peering in for a moment to see that it had been recently used.

" Looks like you and Mark left in a hurry" Felix stated when he turned to Jack just as the human walked inside.

Jack shook most of the water from his green hair.
" Yeah, Logan sent the cops after us after Marks pissed him off".

Dan walked inside. Not bothering to do anything about the water that soaked his clothes and leaked off him into the carpet.
" I wouldn't doubt that Logan would do that. He was always petty" Dan said.

Jacks gazed turned to Dan. In the eyes of the human. He saw a broken boy. The dull eyes of a man who had seen to much. The stance of one who didn't care about his wellbeing. When Jack looked at Dan. He saw a broken being.

And it killed Sean to know he was the one who broke him.

" Dan" Jack spoke.

The brown haired male looked over to the call of his name, to see the Irishmen looking back at him.

" Dan I'm sorry" Jack breathed.

Felix quickly left the room to go to one of the back rooms. Knowing it wasn't any of his business.

Dan was confused, the Vampire shoved his hands in his pockets.
" Why are you sorry? I should be the one apologising I went to school with a fucking shot gun".

Jack shook his head.
" No. I'm sorry for turning you into a Stockholm syndrome victim. One that I created. I'm sorry for every making you feel like you were below me. I'm sorry that I ever took control of you. I'm sorry for the things I've made you do. I'm sorry for trying you addicted to pain. I'm sorry for..."The boy stopped. No longer being able to hide his feelings. his tears flowed, so did his words.
" I'm sorry for making you into something that you're not".

Dan took his cold hands out his jacket. The vampire walked over to the man who had essentially ruined his life. The brown haired boy took the hands of the human he had loved. The human he had lost.

" Jack" He breathed.
" When we first got together, in the early days of highschool. I loved you, I really did".

Silence filled the room for a few seconds as Dan tried to find the right words to say. The right ones to say goodbye.

" When you introduced me to your...torture. I was scared, terrified. But-when I found out it was how you showed your love. How you're affectionate, I felt honoured to fall under your knife-" Dan stuttered as more tears of his day fell down his face. Soaking his clothes even more.
" I thought I loved you before that. But that night, when you-you hurt me. At first I hated it. But I grew to love it the more you manipulated you mind. All burdens of the outside world where lifted from my shoulder and-".

Dan took in a shaky breath, his hands jittering.
" And for the first time in my life I felt free. I felt free of the weight of the world. Because I knew all I had to focus on was, making you happy".

" Dan I didn't make you free. I caged you!" Jack protested.

The taller boy shook his head. His now curly wet hair falling into his eyes.
" No. You made me believe I was free from the world. Ignorance is bliss. I never saw the cage around me. I always saw the world in the distance with you above me".

Jack closed his eyes as his head fell the humans eyes saw only the floor.
" I broke you Dan. There's no denying it, the minute I brought you down stairs you were down for".