Crying

twenty three

*Nightmare Realm*

*Taeyong's Perspective*

I felt the tears begin to fall from my eyes. I grabbed his bloodied hand, and kissed it. He was gone. Lee Jeno was gone. 

Sobs wracked my body as Nightmare Mark panicked and Nightmare Ten laughed his unfamiliar evil laugh. I couldn't stand it anymore. He had killed Jeno. Not my Jeno but still Jeno. I remember something he told me a long time ago. 

"Whatever happens here happens in the other world."  

My heart stopped. What seemed like a while ago, but had only been a day or two, Ten had told me that everything that occurred here happened to the other half. Which means, if this Jeno is dead........

"NO!" I screamed and buried my face into Jeno's shoulder. I tasted blood on my lips but I didn't care. "YOU-" I yelled in fury but my screams were muffled in Jeno's ripped up shirt. 

Mark tried to comfort me but I wouldn't be comforted. Nothing would make me feel better than to just wake up from this horrible nightmare and find none of it was real.

I had a feeling though that this in fact was not just a nightmare. 

This was real. 

Impulsively I kicked off Mark and stood up, my fists clenched. My eyes riveted around the room until I saw him. He was standing in the corner, satisfied, his scar twisting into a monstrous smile. I stormed over to him and grabbed his shirt collar. Caught off guard, he gasped in shock.

"You killed him!" I snarled.

Ten's face went from terrified to what seemed like enjoyment. I hated it. I wanted him to be scared of me. But he wasn't.

He laughed the best he could while I held his collar. "Come on Taeyong, just kill me now." 

Hatred flowed through my veins and all I wanted to do was choke the life out of him. For all he had done to me and my friends, he deserved nothing. Darkness encaged my heart, it must of. I felt so strange, so different, I couldn't really kill someone, could I?

I shook his small body again. "Why did you do this to us? What do you get as a result?!"

He made a motion with his hand of sealing his lips, playfulness twinkling in his eyes. Frustrated I tightened my grip on his collar. His eyes bulged but he still smiled. It was at this moment, I would kill him. 

Finally I threw my hands around his neck and squeezed. Hard. 

"Stop it!" Mark shouted behind me. He, though being smaller than me, was able to rip me away from the choking Nightmare Ten. Once I released him, Ten gasped for air and fell to the ground.

My checks went hot. My legs felt like jello. I wanted to fall down but Mark supported me. So much had happened in just seconds and I couldn't process it. 

One, Ten has lured us into this warped version of my home. Two, he had killed Nightmare Jeno which also affected my Jeno. And three, out of anger I almost chocked the life out of Ten. Which would have resulted in my love dead as well. Thank god Mark has stopped me.

"Oh my god." I huffed. 

He just howled in frustration that I hadn't killed him. He didn't want to die but he would give anything including his life for me to feel awful. 

Mark rubbed a hand on my back, telling me to calm down. I took a couple deep breaths and steadied myself. I could stand but I was shaking all over. Too many awful things had just happened. 

"You-" I choked out and pointed a trembling finger at Ten. "You killed Jeno." 

Nightmare Ten rolled his eyes and shook out his messy dark hair. "Yeah and you know what? Blood is such a bear to wash out. It's going to take me forever in the shower." 

Mark, who has been holding my other hand, clenched his fist to keep from doing something he'd regret. I on the other hand, bit my tongue from giving a sharp remark. 

He crossed his legs and tapped his finger on his arm. "Sorry about your friend Taeyong. I really am. I just needed you to see how dangerous I can become if you leave me by myself."

"What the hell does that mean?" I asked, astounded by him and his pitiful excuse for murdering someone I truly cared about.

"Well," he started, still confident in himself. "I always miss you so much and when I'm left alone, I begin to do drastic things out of grief-"

"So you're blaming Taeyong?" Mark ripped his hand out of my grasp and paced towards Ten.

"No no no-" I mumble-screamed and ran towards Mark but it was too late.

"You son of a bitch!" Mark punched Ten in the face. 

I covered my eyes, knowing this was the end of our semi-peaceful conversation and the start of a fist fight between the two nightmare versions of my friends. 

"Oh-" Ten quickly recovered and pushed his feet at Mark, slamming his rib cage and knocking the wind out of him. Mark stumbles back clearly shocked. I hopped over to him and pulled him out of the way of Ten. 

"Let me go! Let me at him!" Mark scoffed darkly. "That lying son of a bitch deserves everything that's coming to him!"

Ten's eyes flashed. He looked so murderous and feral, blood spilling from his nose and his hand on his knife. 

I held out my free arm and took a step away from him. "Don't come any closer!"

He took a step closer. "Drop him and come to me or I'll kill you both." He growled, viciously.

I blew an air bubble in my mouth, gears turning in my head. I weighed the options; drop Mark and let him live at my expense, get us both killed by refusing, or hightailing it out of this place through the basement door. 

We were getting out of here. Now. 

In the dim lighting, knowing he couldn't see me well, I whispered to Mark: "stand up, we're making a break for it."

Mark, who like me had cooled down was all for it. He straightened up, ready to dash out the open door.

Ten had noticed but he was too late. "Run!" I hissed through my teeth and just like that we bolted up the rickety stairs and out the front door of the house, Ten following us until we were far enough away on the streets for him go find us. 

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