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 Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:23 pm
Liam nodded, and then added rather roughly.
"No matter how much I beg." He grabbed Julian's other hand and placed it forcefully over his mouth and nose.
This was going to suck. Hardcore.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:29 pm
I can't. I can't go through with this.
Julian's hand pressed down against Liam's face hard.
No. No. I can't. I can't!
His grip on Liam's throat tightened.
Stop. Stop. STOP.
Julian met Liam's eyes and held them, and he screamed inside his own head. He didn't want to do it.
But I can.
"I'll make it as quick as I can," he said, grip steadily smothering.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:31 pm
Liam couldn't even exhale now, goddamnit. At least he was starting off out of breath. His eyes watered, and tears fell as he closed them tight. His right shoulder spasmed suddenly and he cringed.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:35 pm
Julian ignored the tears that splattered onto his hand, ignored the response of Liam's body. All he had to do was hold on, and he would snuff the life right out. He looked at Liam's tearing eyes, at the bizarre hook-like pupils, and his grip tightened.
Thief.
Crow would never forgive him if she found out what he had done- was doing - to Liam. Forget the fact that he had come back. She would be furious. Hateful, even.
I just won't tell her.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:38 pm
Liam swallowed frantically, trying to coax more air into his lungs, to keep the comfort of breath for just a little while longer. It was a completely unsuccessful try, at that.
Suddenly, though, he didn't want to die.
He writhed and tried to pull his face away, his throat clicking as it attempted to draw air from where ever it could.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:40 pm
The smothering grip followed, clamping down harshly.
"No," Julian said, voice toneless. "You asked this of me. Don't."
He wasn't going to let go. He didn't have to. There was no guilt in this.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:43 pm
Liam, nostrils flaring, reached up and clung to Julian's wrist, drawing blood. He flailed terribly, wishing for anything he could just get away, go back to his drugs, and not die. Suddenly, his body wrenched. His hands locked in their position. His eyes rolled back.
Again came the tears of blood.
Liam was beginning to turn blue-grey.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:49 pm
The pain in his wrist was barely registered. It healed over with a vile wet sound, and was forgotten. The bloody tears triggered a very fresh memory, and the pain of watching Rabid suffer returned. Julian's grip faltered.
NO.
His hands crushed against Liam's face and gills, recovering from the slip, Julian's breath grew labored. It hurt to watch. Gods, it hurt. He was killing a man. The feeling of sickness exploded inside him, and he swallowed hard.
Stop being weak. It's not like he's going to stay dead, he thought viciously, scorning himself. Don't slip. Kill him.
He made himself watch. He wanted to look away, but his eyes lingered on Liam's face, watching as the skin turned blue, watching the blood run down his face.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:51 pm
Liam body rolled a few times, as if he was gagging, and a fresh wave of silvery blood rushed from his mouth, nose, and gills as best it could. One final, violent jolt and he went entirely limp. Dead weight.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:55 pm
Julian's forced calm was not broken so badly by the blood that unexpectedly gushed on to him. He was used to blood. It was the wave of triumph that washed over him as Liam had died. He'd done as he was asked. He'd killed.
Falling onto his hands and knees, Julian gagged, coughed, and vomited.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:57 pm
Neither body so much as twitched. There was no sudden resurrection.
Uh-oh.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:01 pm
"Hnnhh...hahh..."
Julian wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and smeared Liam's blood over his face. He gave a cry and wiped it off roughly with his sleeve. He was exhausted.
"Liam, I swear, don't you ever..." he began, glaring at Liam. There was no response. "...Liam?"
Oh no. No.
Julian swallowed hard again, and reached out to turn Liam over. Dead. Still dead. Oh, gods, he'd made a terrible mistake.
"Please, not you too," he said, grabbing Liam's shoulder. "Liam, please."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:03 pm
Liam stumbled, weak in the knees, and tried to run to Julian. Poor guy must think he was really--
"GNNK!" he choked as he rammed full-on into Julian.
"Ah. Sorry."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:06 pm
"AH!"
Julian fell back, cracking his head against a rock half-buried in the sand.
"Ow ow OW son of a ******** leprous whore I just cracked my SKULL OPEN and Liam what the ********, man," he said, words jumbling together as he rolled over and grabbed onto Liam, looking from the live walking and talking version to the unmistakably dead one on the ground. "You said NOTHING about new bodies."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:08 pm
Liam gawked.
"I thought you knew," he yelped apologetically, "Sorry, sorry! I generally just...err..." He held his hands palm-down with the fingers splayed out, staring intently at one, and then the other.
A mottled, wrinkled hand suddenly broke through the ground at his feet.
"Helloooo, sweethearts~"
Another popped up a few feet away. A smaller one even closer. Another...and another...and another...
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