AMONG US: Untrust

07 | bleeding feathers

🌊 BROOKE'S POV 🌊
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It has been about three days since Pumpkin's murder. The imposters seemed so guilty about it that they didn't kill for three days straight. Which was good.

Me and a few other people managed to bond with eachother. Nutella was basically now soul siblings with Andy, Lemon and Lime started recommending eachother books and I happened to strike an unlikely friendship with Vincent.
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"We still have to stay in groups though" I told all of them at the cafeteria table. "We don't know whether the imposters will kill or not". We went in our normal groups and duos. "I-I've got to do some task in Nav" Vincent said to me. "I'll come with you if you want" I told him. "In case the imposter comes, I can go do an emergency meeting". His eyes lit up. "Y-Yeah, that sounds cool" he told me.

As we talked to Navigation, we saw Lime and Lemon hanging out with eachother in Weapons. Lime was shooting some asteroids, the guns outside flaring. I stood beside Vincent while he was downloading some files. I stared down at the vents, hoping no imposters would randomly jump out.

"You need help?" Vincent asked me. "No I'm fine" I told him and kept on swiping my ID card. Too fast. Too slow. Just let me swipe the darn thing correctly. "Uhh, let me do it" Vincent told me and took the card off me. He swiped my ID card. Accepted. "You just have to time it correctly".

"Aww, hey guys". Angie walk over to us. "How are the tasks going for y'all??". "Good currently" I told her. "But I absolutely hate that thing". "Heh, I get why" she chuckled. "Anyways, where are you guys going next?". "We both have tasks in Medbay so we're leaving those for last" Vincent told her. "Oh cool" Angie chuckled. "Also, remember that bad flirting pun Vincent made a few days ago?" she asked us. "Uhh.. yeah?" I said. "Why??". She stared at us with an awkward smile and shook her head. "Please just.. don't" she told us and walked away.

"Wh-What??" Vincent said.."Oh wait Oh!!". He stepped out of Admin. "THAT WAS JUST A DARE!!" he shouted. I was laughing. But I was also cringing inside. Oh god why would an innocent like Angie say that. "A-Anyways" Vincent chuckled. "We should be going now". "Yeah.." I said.
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"D-Do we really have to stay for a minute here??" Vincent asked me. "This'll only take a few seconds!" I told him. "It's just checking the samples". "Oh gosh.." he muttered. "I think I'll just do a Medbay Scan while we wait".

He stood onto the platform and let himself be scanned. It was one of those Visual Tasks Fuchsia told me about. I knew I could trust Vincent now. But to be honest, I always did.

"Kay, done" he mumbled. He stepped off the platform and behind me. Only 30 seconds left. "Maybe we should stay in Cafeteria while we wait for the samples to finish loading" he suggested. "Uh yeah" I said. "M-Maybe we should. It'd be way safer for us". As we were about to exit, the doors closed on us.

Vincent immediately grabbed my arm. "Is it supposed to do that?" Vincent asked me. "N-No" I told him. "It's the imposters. They h-hacked into the system". "Oh sh*t" Vincent mumbled. He grabbed one of the pillows off the beds and threw it at the vent in the corner. He repeatedly stomped on the pillow.

"Th-That's not going to help Vincent" I told him. "At least I'm trying!" he yelled. "I don't have any other ideas-". Suddenly, a long black spike poked out of the vent and pierced the pillow. "Oh shoot" Vincent mumbled. One of the impostors jumped out of the vent. They had a large mouth on their stomach, it's tongue a long dark spike. But the impostor didn't look evil. They looked sad. "We need to run!" Vincent told me and grabbed my arm. Me and Vincent ran towards the door, which was locked.

"I'm sorry" they mumbled. The long dark spike that was their tongue aimed at us. It hit the metal door and we managed to dodge. Vincent grabbed a pillow and ran towards the impostor. "VINCE NO!!" I shouted.

Before he could hit the impostor, we heard a gunshot. Vincent stood there, then fell down. The pillow he was holding had a large bullet hole in it. And.. he was bleeding. The feathers which were in the pillow were now bloody red. The blood pooled out of his chest.

Another impostor came out of the vent. "I'm so sorry.." one of them said. Their faces changed between evil to melancholy. The parasite was taking over their minds. They didn't kill Vincent on purpose.

"Sorry. Sorry. SORRY. SORRY! SORRY!!" they kept on yelling. The impostor who had killed Vincent ran towards me. I tried running the other way, but the doors were locked. I was trapped.

The impostor grabbed my shoulder and threw me down onto the hard, cold floor. The other impostor stood over me. "Sorry.." they mumbled. Their mouth opened up and the long dark tongue impaled me.
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"B-Brooke?" I heard a voice say. "Brooke!". I opened my eyes slowly and sat up. Pumpkin was standing over me now. "Oh good, you're awake". "Pumpkin!?" I yelled. I stood up and stared down at myself. I was semi-transparent and didn't have legs. Instead, they were replaced with mist. I was now a ghost.

"Brooke!" I heard another voice scream. Vincent ran towards me. "Are you okay!?" I asked him. "Y-You just got shot!". "It's alright" he chuckled. "I'm just glad we're safe". "Technically, you aren't" Pumpkin told us. We looked down at our dead bodies. All bloody. Just a mess of death. Nobody had found our bodies yet.

"Yeah, we're definitely not okay" I said. I looked over at the wall where my task was. Select the anomaly. I picked up one of the tubes and I had finished my last task.

We could've made it out alive if I didn't stay in the damn Medbay. "Wait, where are our killers!?" I yelled. I ran into the halls to try and find the imposters. Everybody else who was alive was going about their daily business.

"Do you think we should head into Security?" I heard a voice say. "Maybe we could see the imposter on their killing spree without them knowing". I turned a corner into the cafeteria. It was Lime and Lemon.

"Yeah sure, why not" Lemon replied. Daisy was following close behind with her rabbit toy. I hope they would pass by Medbay and find our bodies.

"And then I think he said- OH MY GOSH!!". Yeah, they noticed us. "Oh finally, they're here" Vincent sighed. Lime and Lemon ran towards the bodies while Daisy stayed at the door.

Soon enough, everyone was gathering round our dead bodies. "Th-This looks bad" Fuchsia said. "I-I didn't know the impostors brought guns" Angie gasped. "Yeah we're dead" Vincent said. "Can you guys now DISCUSS OUR DAMN MURDER!?!".

"Calm down Vince" Pumpkin told him. We looked at the two impostors in the crowd. They were acting as shocked and surprised as everyone else. But I knew that they knew they were impostors.

They were sorry. But they didn't want to die. It wasn't their fault.
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