Loyalties (an Among Us fanfic)

13. Faith

"Commander?!" Brown exclaimed the second the lights turned back on.

Beside her, Blue was quick to turn and notice. With the same sharp volume as Brown, he dropped the F-bomb. And beside him, I faked a gasp, pretending to be the last to notice.

With a thud, Commander White had collapsed to the floor with a disturbing amount of blood leaking from beneath his chin. It bathed the floor and one side of his face in shiny, red fluid. Seeing his state so clearly under the fixed lights made my stomach twist and churn violently.

Even though I was the one who slit his throat.

"Okay, okay, okay," Blue frantically yelled, distancing himself from both Brown and I. He was quick to go into full detective mode. "So, I was the one who turned on all the light switches."

I stood at the left wall of Electrical. Brown backed up against the right wall. Blue stayed right beside the entrance, directly facing the body and light switches and cables. That gave all three of us a perfectly clear view of the Commander's dead body and the inky crimson still seeping from his throat. The knife itself was right beside his corpse—right after I killed him, I dropped the knife and threw myself to Blue's other side so I wouldn't be next to the body.

Brown accused me anyways . . . but I was already waiting.

"It's Red. It's Red! It has to be Red!" she shouted, her words flying out at a million miles per hour. I didn't get a chance to speak before she pointed at me and continued, "I was trying to help Blue with the lights, and the Commander was right behind me. It's gotta be Red!"

Blue instantly turned to me. "Red—"

"I did not do this," I whispered shakily. "I didn't."

It was time to let my emotions guide me to victory.

"You didn't?!" Brown demanded, glaring at me. "Both Blue and I were already there at the light switches! You and the Commander came after! It couldn't have been either of us!"

Despite the shine in her eyeglasses, I saw it all. Her rage was unreal, her grief was intense, and she now loathed me to a degree where even Satan would be impressed. This was a Brown I've never seen before.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I shot back. "I literally came here one second after you two, and I went straight to Blue's other side—I wasn't even keeping track of Commander White's location, since I was hurrying my ass to make sure something like this didn't happen!"

Brown laughed, but there was absolutely zero comedy—only hatred. "That is bullshit and you know it."

What came next was one of the most heated arguments I'd ever been in. Brown's persistence and my resilience clashed so violently that the sheer intensity could've started a fire right here in Electrical. Before things escalated into a full-on screaming match, Blue intervened.

"Hold on, hold on," he said, waving his hands to make us stop yapping. "So let me get this straight—I came in here first. Brown was next and came to my right side. Red entered right after and went to my left." He glanced at the Commander's body, but I could tell that looking at the slit throat was the last thing Blue wanted to do. "And I'm pretty sure White was murdered a bit to my right."

Brown stared at him. "I think I'd be careful of which direction he'd fall in if I were the impostor! I'm telling you, Red's framing me right now."