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What's Hidden Beneath the Surface

7\15\20

Starting from the latest episode........

John's POV

"Get the fuck out!" I demanded.

"Plz don't come for me!" Isen squeaked.

"John! What is wrong with you?" My used to be best friend, Seraphina yelled. AT ME! HOW DARE SHE!

"Seraphina. Arlo. Isen. Blyke. My dad. And almost everyone else on Earth. You don't know me. What I've been through. What I've seen. What I've experienced. Now, GET THE HELL OUT! ALL THREE OF YOU!"

"I know what happened between you and Keon." Seraphina spoke.

I shuddered. Keon. Keon. Keon. That name would haunt me as well as another thing will for the rest of my life.

"He did things to you. Twisted your mind. You're a monster. You're repeating the things from New Bostin all over again John! Can't you see! Do you really want to be a monster?"

Thats when I froze. A monster? That word rang in my head. A monster is not what I was.

Seraphina's POV

So that is his weakness. Perfect. All I have to do is use it against him.

"You hurt everyone here at Wellston. You hurt me! You are a monst-!" The room temperature seemed to suddenly drop to subzero temperatures and darkness that seemed to be coming from John started to seep to all the corners of the room, surrounding the room at a escalating pace. "John?"

"Whats happening?" Isen freaked.

There was a cry of pain coming from where John stood. "G-get o-out."

"John? Are you okay-" Cecile said.

"DON"T TOUCH ME! Everybody get out! Or-or else it'll be-be too-"

John didn't seemed to be slipping out of consciousness and the darkness and temperature seemed to fix itself so that it was back to normal. The darkness slipped back into its user. My eyes started to adjust to the light. Once they adjusted I looked at John. His whole uniform was tattered and torn, as if he had just been through a bloody war.

"John?" I crept towards John cautiously. I flipped him over so I could see the frontside of his body. I froze. 

"G-guys. Get Elaine right now!"

"W-why?" Arlo questioned.

"Come see for yourself!"

Arlo walked over and his eyes grew wide, his body became tense and he seemed to be frozen just as I had been.

"What the-" Arlo hesitated. "Isen! Get Elaine here right this moment!"

John's body was covered in scratches, claw marks, burns, bruises, and blood.

"John? John! Stay with us John!"

Suddenly, everything seemed to heal. The claw marks and scratches started sewing themselves up. The bruises gradually faded into fair colored skin. And the burns started to heal increasingly, but the pool blood still stayed. John suddenly shot up gasping for air with wild eyes. He took hold of his throat and started coughing.

"John?" I reached out to him.

He seemed insane. His shoulders kept on going up and down as he breathed as if he were panicking. His entire body shook. He was sweating, heat to toe. His hands were against his head. His eyes. They were so different. Back then, when he was acting like a cripple his eyes seemed so full of peace and calm. When he was Joker, all I could see was anger and revenge and I thought that that was terrible and terrifying. But this was different. His eyes reflected things. Madness, horror, torture, torment, anguish, sadness, and on top of all of that, his eyes seemed to just scream out that he had gone insane. John was just unhinged. I would never forget what I saw.

John started to mumble things ranging from. "I-I'm sorry I couldn't save you." to "NO! DON'T LET GO!" to laughing like an asylum patient to desperate cries of help and even something that left me petrified. "We're-we're alive. D-don't worry. We're alive, we're alive, we're alive..." It seemed as if John was trying to reassure himself rather than the unidentified person he was talking to.