Ok, there are i think 5 more parts and the little arc is done, then it will be time for random bits, but maybe i will just put those directly into ao3 instead of here.
@nonbinaryeye Heeey angst fest! i feel you will like this.
Also one more thing for the next few chapters. I had to shuffle and rethink some aspects for the characters since there can only be one per session. So either Jon or Elias had to win the light player spot and im afraid its not Elias this time. Im happy with what i chose instead for him but its just a heads up. I feel it suits him well considering several of his actions.
Due to unforeseeable events that you refuse to divulge or go deeper into, you are currently tearing apart the room you are residing in. You are ELIAS BOUCHARD and you are furious beyond repair, beyond imagination and you are also HURT. That man has no right to hurt you. No right whatsoever.
PETER LUKAS is your husband and he has broken up with you, but not like usual. Not like any of the ways before. This was not him and you refuse to acknowledge it, the fact that he actually did by text was even worse. Your sprite and Jonah are both watching you in your destructive fury. Both with different expressions on their faces.
BARNABAS looks like he wants to say something, yet the acidic look that JONAHSPRITE gives him stops him on his tracks. His double is not destroying the room and the only reason he can think of is that the words that the lonely man used with him, actually cut him deep.
It had been cruel and callous in a way that Peter rarely was and even less with him, with either of them. After all he had been the first to say that Jonahsprite was just as real as he was. So to hear him say the opposite was quite jarring, not even that, but to be told he would prefer the cat back instead of him was unbelievable.
You pick up your INDESTRUCTIBLE CANE OF KNOWLEDGE and ask your question. The handle had a crystal 8 ball that would answer anything you needed.
“Does Peter Lukas love me?”
You wait for the answer, for the single word that has appeared every time you have asked that same question since getting the weapon in question. Sometimes you were in a land on your own and the man would not answer back your messages, so you asked the object and knew without a doubt that Peter was just being stubborn and nothing else.
Its not because you loved to hear the confirmation of it.
The ball goes from clear and shiny to dull and grey with fog inside it.
NO
It takes a few seconds to comprehend what you just read, shaking it again you asks.
“Is Peter Lukas in love with me?”
NO
You start to pace and breathe harder.
“Does Peter have any feelings for me??!!”
The words take longer to appear as if it was trying to parse them through, but the answer leaves Elias frozen in place, feeling a deep pit of despair.
HE FEELS INDIFFERENCE AND HATE
PETER LUKAS CAN’T CARE ABOUT JONAH MAGNUS
“Why?!” You punch and hit the wall out of pure rage instinct and hurt. The others in the room flinch. The anger, hurt and grief is too much and you end up letting a sound more animalistic than human.
You don’t expect it to tell you an answer, it’s not that good yet for full complete answers, but somehow it does.
It’s not the answer you wanted.
THE EYE HAS NOT GLANCED TO THE LONELY
AND THE FOG HAS TAKEN A HOLD OF HIM
IT TOOK HIS HEART AND NOW ITS HOLLOWED OUT
THE SPIDER SPINS HER WEB ON HIM
AND NOW THE EMPTY MAN THINKS HE HAS NOTHING
CONGRATULATIONS YOU PLAYED YOURSELF
You are-
No
Elias is done with the narrative, done with the game and the web that got him here.
The thief of heart walks out while the other two follow, he goes until he finds the room he was looking for. Annabelle, Jon, Oliver, Martin, Basira and Melanie are there.
“So you started this and told no one?? What now, we are dooming another world again? Is that it, how many times can you-”
“What did you tell him Miss Cane?” The room goes quiet and everyone stares at him.
“What is wrong with you-”
“Melanie if you don’t shut up i will leave you brain dead before you can stab me again. Annabelle what did you tell him to convince him to help?” Said woman was staring at him with mild interest, but did not seem to care much. Annabelle was the only one of them left who had not reached god tier and was in her original body.
Melanie started to move in his direction but the detective stopped her.
“I told him the truth, that there is no other way out, he went willingly if that’s what you are concerned about. I did not lie or manipulate him in any way. As for anything else, i told him what he already was thinking, but did not want to say out loud” She waves him away as if it was nothing, as if she just didn’t basically ensnared him and doomed him.
“You should treat your toys more kindly less someone else picks them up to play with them. Then again… you do have a history to turn a blind eye to the lonely when its picking apart something you care about” Her eyes turn to something on his back and he knows Barnabas and Jonah are there.
“What are you talking about?” Jonathan, curious as always.
“He just wants to know how I got Peter to help me start the scratch. I just asked very nicely and explained myself and he went willingly that’s all, he starts it and Simon gets all of us out”
“Yes, but we leave him behind don’t we?” Her smile has fangs on it.
“A price he was happy to pay as long as he was alone, it is the only thing he asked for” No, he is not losing this easily.
“Tell him to stop”
“I’m afraid I can’t, and even if I did, he would not listen, too far gone. He is taking the worst parts of his aspect and mixing it with forsaken he is a lost cause now. I’m sure once we make a new earth you can find a replacement, it’s in your nature after all to interchange Lukas for Lukas”
Elias is fairly reasonable, he only ever acts out in panic and when he knows he has an advantage.
Which is why he doesn’t understand why the next thing he knows is that he is bashing her skull with the INDESTRUCTIBLE CANE OF KNOWLEDGE, over and over again, his ears were ringing and he was sure he could hear the others yelling at him, an arm tries to grab him and he shoves as much painful knowledge into the head of whoever is trying to stop him that they release him.
Before the first hit connected with her head however, Elias actually saw the surprise and fear in her eyes. Annabelle did not expect him to react like this.
She did not expect him to care at all.
By the time he is done, her body is lying on the ground with cobwebs and spiders spilling out of the remains of her crushed head. Breathing hard he looks around and sees everyone with their weapons raised at him, except for Basira who was on the floor holding her head and Oliver who merely nodded at him.
He already knew someone was going to die.
Oh.
“I- i think i might have overreacted” The faces of sheer incredulity hit him and before any of them try to stop him Jonah grabs his shoulder.
“He will be in the land of Time, if we hurry..” They won’t make it back he knows.
Elias doesn’t want to die, but he is so angry at Peter.
No, he is furious at him. After all this time and after everything.
This is not how it ends.
Holding the cane he makes a run for the window and jumps out.
He flies as fast as he can to go and beat up his husband to death. If Peter shall die it would be by his hand, he won’t let him leave him first, not like this. Elias will never let him have the last word over him and will not let him die like he wants either.