New Blood

'No! Please don't do this. There has to be another way. PLEASE! Just stop.' I grip his arm, turning him around to face me. All I could see is a person that wears the same mask as someone I used to know, cold eyes filled with unrecognizable emotion with a stoic and frigid expression.

'You don't have to do this. We'll get through this. Together.' Tears freely flowing as I reach for the kill-safe. 'Just please give it to me.'

'There is no other way! I have killed MILLIONS just to come to the same fucking conclusion every single fucking time! What I am doing can fix all the suffering and pain I have caused to all those people.' He pulls away from me. 'One sacrifice stands between the next generation of the human species and total extinction. I'll take my chances.'

'I can't watch you torture yourself! You've seen what that thing does to everyone that has taken it! I wont stand by and watch you kill yourself in order to save a race that is doomed as it is!'

'You can't kill something that is already dead.'