Spooky Week 2018

Promises From The Dark

Summary: Dan was so deeply in love with his boyfriend Phil he would do anything to be with him again. Even if that meant murder.

Rated: R for blood, gore, murder

This is it he thought, the last one and it will all be complete. Dan watched the young man from the shadows of the alleyway. Sweat dripping down his face and heart pumping with adrenaline. No matter how many times he did this the initial feeling of fear was always there. But it was something that had to be done. It just had to be.

The man was clearly drunk and stumbling around on the sidewalk. Dan looked around making sure that the streets were completely empty before he reached out from the darkness of the shadowy alleyway and pulled the young man into its depths.

"Hey! Wh-at are you doing?" the man slurred, trying to pull out of his grasp.

Having been through this already multiple times he didn't answer instead he stuck the needle he was holding in the man's neck.

The hardest part of this was dragging the heavy body back to his car and then getting it up the stairs to his apartment so no one saw. Luckily for him, the neighbor on his left was an older grandma who was deaf and was most likely asleep at this time of night and the neighbor on his right was never home anyway.

After he determined the coast was clear he dragged the man's body from his car up the stairs to his flat. He wheezed after the third flight of stairs, mental cursing himself for living on the six floor.

By the time he made it to his front door, he was out of breath and sweating profusely. As quickly as he could, he unlocked his door and drug the unconscious man through into his apartment.

He had to work fast as the sedative he used only lasted around an hour. He had learned his lesson the hard way. On his first "outing" as he liked to call them he had not set up his lab before getting the victim and while he set up the man had woken up and tried to run. He ended up having to kill that one without getting the part he needed. So he now set up everything before he went out to retrieve the person with the part he needed.

He had difficulty getting this one onto the table he hadn't really noticed before that the man was much larger than his other victims. But finally, he let out a breath as he got the man up on the table. Securing the last of the straps he let out a little cheer of victory. Since the man was not awake yet he decided he wanted to go visit Phil.

He opened the door the bedroom right off where he had his lab set up and stepped inside. The air was cold and it was dark as he made his way over to the bed. Phil was just as he had been when he had left him earlier laying peaceful in his bed.

"Hey love how are you doing?" Dan brushed a piece of hair out of his eyes. He knew Phil wouldn't answer him but a smile crept on his face knowing that soon that wouldn't be a problem.

"This is it Philly, the last piece to the puzzle. Soon we will be together again," he giggled giving him a kiss on the forehead.

Two months ago when Dan had lost his boyfriend Phil in a car accident he had been utterly distraught and devastated. No matter who tried to cheer him up he was just inconsolable. He couldn't imagine life without Phil; they had been best friends since they were little and boyfriends for the past ten years. Phil was everything he had and the only thing he ever knew.

The depression had gotten so bad he'd made a plan to jump off the bridge in the middle of town to end his life so he could be with Phil again. But something big that happened at work had stopped him.

Dan worked in a lab where they tested knew serums and stuff on animals and the latest serum that his company had been working on was the resurrection serum. No one aside from a few actually believed this serum would ever really work. But that all changed one night when one of their rat test subjects died. His colleges decided why not try the latest version on the rat, the college had figured it couldn't do any harm. And it didn't do any harm, in fact, the rat sprung back to life running around its cage like it just hadn't been laying there lifeless a moment ago. And that's when his plan had started to form.