Pills, Potions. | David Brewster, Jr Fanfiction.

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"Anything to feel alive."

When David was seven almost eight the doctors wanted to diagnosis him as crazy because he had episodes. These episodes were caused by the lack of medication to treat his Borderline Personality disorder. His stepmom Trease tried to handle Dave's multiple personalities all in one but it was hard. She had never dealt with that before and since her husband was always out running the streets doing gods know what; she was left to deal with everything by herself. Dave was never himself, sometimes he was calm but would ruin something then just started laughing like a maniac. One time while Trease was driving on the highway, Dave started screaming really loud causing her to almost swerve off the road. When Trease asked Dave 'Why would he do that?' He always answered with, 'It wasn't me' and deep down Trease knew it really wasn't him. Dave had the biggest fit in the grocery store when this man accidentally bumped into him, Dave beat him with a turkey and kicked the officer that tried to stop him in the nuts. He then ran and sat in an aisle and started eating some cereal. He was sent away for a little while but when he started showing progress, he was released to come back home. By that time, Darius was born. Everyone knew about Dave condition but that didn't stop Hansen or Mike from being his friends. Most people both kids and adults were scared of him, that's why nobody bothered him because they knew that he could snap at any moment. Expect the new kid in town, he didn't know anything about Dave he just heard about him. James decided that he wasn't scared of Dave and he wouldn't back down from a fight with him. In Seventh grade, James sat in Dave seat but instead of making a scene he just sat somewhere else which surprised everyone. They had gym the next period and James decided to keep bothering Dave, he threw the ball at Dave's head and all hell broke loose. They started fighting and Dave almost killed the poor boy.

The doctors started to put him on any medication possible but Dave didn't like it. To him he felt like someone was controlling his body and he didn't like when people had control over him. He had did a lot of things he wasn't proud of but when he started having flashbacks of holding Daequan under water it made him cry.

That evening, it was windy in Harlem. Trease was laying in her room watching good times while Dave and Three year old Daequan her nephew was in the other rooms down the hall. Dave was sitting on the ground playing with his action figures while Daequan was laying in his twin bed in the room next to Dave's sucking on thumb. Spongebob was playing on his television and Dave could hear it. He didn't like the laugh of that stupid sponge and it was making him anger. Soon he heard a voice in his head, "Go run some water in the tub now!" Dave stopped what he was doing and followed the voices. Opening the door to Daequen room, Dave turned off the tv and stared at him. "Now, kill him." Dave grabbed the baby and started rocking him. Once the tub was full dave laid him down in there and put his hands on his chest pressing him down. "Die! Die!" Trease heard the water running and Dave yelling. Quickly getting up she ran into the bathroom to see Dave standing by the door smiling and Daequan's lifeless body with his eyes still wide open. "What did you do?!" Trease screamed running to his body. The sounds of Trease yelling and crying caused Dave to snap out of his form. Seeing his stepmom cradle Daequan body he was shocked. "What's wrong?" He tried touching Trease.

"You did this! Why would you kill him! Why David? Good God!"

"Mommy it wasn't me!" They took Dave away, and he hated Trease for that because he swore he didn't do it. They wanted to name his different personalities but he didn't like that. That would've meant he was crazy. And he refused to be labeled as crazy.

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Sitting down across from Dave, Geles studied his face features. She thought to herself, "This is the man I married." And she smiles just thinking about when he first asked her out, and how everything wasn't perfect but she was okay. "What you thinking about?"