Maverick's POV
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Lilliana's got a system full of prescriptions.
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Lilliana might forget the events of tonight.
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When her posture became lazy, eyelids got heavy, and words began to slow, I finally took her to the bedroom.
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I've been holding it together well, but seeing her since our kiss is distracting, making it difficult to focus on me and Malachi's plan. After crossing that line, I've came close to losing my ability to not let her fog my mind. I want to kiss her over and over again, but guaranteeing tonight goes as I hope is crucial to the future of our relationship.
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The past two nights I've lied awake, trying to pinpoint how the fuck I found myself in this position; having done made out with my best friend and told her I'm killing my way to be anonymously infamous. She's created a vulnerability about me, leaving no secrets to share. There's a part of me that enjoys forming a truthful bond with Lilliana, one without wondering how dark the other's bad side is. The other part of me isn't sure if I fucked everything up for us.
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None of that matters now, of course.
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Here I am, cross faded, adoring the sight of Lilli bound by her ankles before me and praying what she's being forced to do tonight won't destroy our friendship as a whole.
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There's no turning back.
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"Detach yourself, Maverick." Malachi leans to his right, closer to me. "I can see the way you're looking at her..." Lilliana is standing right inside the closed door to the bedroom, eyes glued to the center of the room and wheels turning as she tries to piece everything together. "Will you be able to show her this side of you...or would you like me to take over?"
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Telling her about little about what I do is nothing compared to fully embracing who I am in her presence. Though realistically, I know...if Lilliana was going to be turned off by seeing me in action, she would've tried to run by now.
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Still, I'm mentally fighting for my level of brutality to be the same tonight as it is any other night.
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"What the fuck is this?" Lilliana asks under her breath.
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She's referring to the man restrained to the chair, duct tape forbidding him from speaking. He's shaking as he comes face to face with a sad and bloody ending to his life.
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The stranger, named Cody, had spent hours trapped in this basement, in a foreign room, alone. Malachi and I left him here around noon, going to re-up and grab some food while we waited for Lilliana to get out of school; where one might say I should've been.
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Cody filled the first hour or so juggling different ideas around in his mind as to how he could escape. When hitting a wall, registering that he couldn't move from his tied up position...his thoughts shifted. 'Surely someone would come save me;' he said to himself repeatedly. If he didn't stay positive, he'd have to come to accept death. It's torture really; having faith that the next person to walk through that door will be someone to save him. I'm sure it sucked to see Malachi's shit eating grin on the other side of it.
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"He's a talker." I motion towards Cody who is writhing in his seat, like he'll soon magically break free. "The tape was as necessary as the chains."
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Lilliana's eyes find me when I begin talking, brows drawn together, looking perplexed. The drugs have hit her hard; aloof eyes and mind struggling to focus on the very real predicament she's in.
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"We'll take it off soon." I tell her. "Did you know that men beg just as much as women do?" Lilliana appears as if she's seen a ghost. "I feel like we all assume the same thing;" I give a shrug, waving a hand between Malachi and Lilli. "That men would be more prideful, not wanting to seem weak under the power of another man...yeah...it's not like that."
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Malachi shakes his head in agreement.
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"The effect isn't quite the same though..." I go on, noticing Lilliana interested in the rant I'm on as her head tilts to the side, just enough to notice. "A woman's plea is like a symphony. The moment between a killer and a woman is intimate, raw...exhilarating, really."
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I hold a hand out to Malachi who places the handle of the knife in my hand.
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Dropping that hand down to my side, I begin again. "I don't typically tie the women up; the harder they fight, the more fun we have." I glance over at Cody who is murderously glaring at me. "But we shouldn't dive too far, too fast; he'll do fine for tonight."
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Lilliana returns her gaze to Cody. There's an ever so slight look of worry, but I don't believe it's because of him; it's more so her involvement in what we're about to do to him. She then looks at the knife hanging down by my hip before raising her eyes up to mine.
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"You're fucking crazy." Lilliana observes in a breathy voice. Her voice doesn't hold any fear, she's just stating a fact.
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"This is nothing." I clear my throat, shifting my weight from one foot to the other. "I've starved people to death in underground cells and went to school at the same time. I've chopped every limb except the head from a body and then made him sing 'if you're happy and you know it'."
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A chuckle escapes Malachi. He holds a hand up as if to say he's sorry, pressing his lips into a thin line to hold back laughter.
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"Don't worry" I address Cody. "That won't be happening to you. As a matter of fact...I won't be doing anything to you."
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Malachi finally speaks up, saying; "I don't get how she hasn't pieced this together yet."
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"Obvious things aren't obvious to Lilliana." I inform him. "You kinda got to tell it to her flat out." I shrug. "Thought I'd have a little fun though."
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"Yes...well..." Lilliana says, "If you haven't noticed, I'm plenty past cross faded. So if you're done having whatever kinda of 'fun' this is, I'd like to get tonight over with so I can sit down."
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"I'm happy for you, Lilli." I tell her, taking steps forward, making the distance between us shorter and shorter.
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"Why?"
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"Killing others makes someone want to kill themselves just a little less." I stop to stand only half a step away from her. "Your life is taking a turn; a good one."
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That was the hint she needed.
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Much to Malachi and I's surprise...
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Lilliana laughs.
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She turns her head to the side, away from me with a smile and her melodic giggles sounding.
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"I'm sorry." She relaxes but her smile remains. "But this is a joke, right?" She looks between the two of us. "You two aren't really wanting me to kill this guy, are you?"
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"Well that's an excellent idea. We should go with that one, don't you think, Malachi?"
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Lilliana's face falls, mentally slapping herself for putting such an option out there.
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"I'm fucking with you. That is the plan, Lilliana." I chuckle, making her roll her eyes hard. "After tonight...if we go down, you go down. Can you see the beauty in what I'm doing for us?"
A silence falls upon the room. The only sound we can hear is Cory's heavy breathing, who is more than likely wishing we'd shut the fuck up and kill him at this point.
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"Can we just get this over with?" She asks, shoulders sagging with an exaggerated sigh.
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"You're not scared?" I ask, cocking my head to the side as I take her hand in mine, guiding her forward as I take steps backwards.
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"I'm very high." She states in a matter a fact tone, nodding her head for emphasis.
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Although she had a more indifferent demeanor from the moment we entered the bedroom, I can sense the reluctance in each shuffle of her feet as we get closer to Cody.
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"Then this won't be so bad, will it?"
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Her eyes meet mine again, in question, as if forming my sentence into a statement in her head. But it doesn't work as she says; "All this isn't really necessary. You know I won't say anything." She then glances over at Malachi as if asking for backup. He uncaringly gets comfortable on the bed, folding his arms behind his head and giving Lilliana a grin.
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"Well if I knew that then we wouldn't be here, Lili." I chuckle, stopping her directly behind Cody who's huffing and puffing with such exaggeration. I guide her by her waist to face him, back facing me, stuck in between us. "Like you said...it's been a very hard few days without me around to take care of all your issues." She shoots me a glare from over her shoulder, making me smile. "Now that I'm here, Lilliana...let me fix them for you."
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No matter the situation she's in, no matter what I'm making her do...she blushes. A shade of pink grows on her cheeks before she turns her head back around...somehow thinking it's better to look at the back of the almost dead man's head than at me.
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"He's a human being, Lilli."
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"You think I don't know that?" She hisses back.
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"Touch him." I instruct as I take her left hand from behind, placing it on Cody's shoulder.
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He tries jerking away, but I apply pressure to Lilliana's hand, keeping him in place.
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"Feel him breathing. Focus on it...then match it."
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She glances back at me again, a confused expression on her face. Though when my eyebrow arches, expressionless myself, she does as she's told.
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Lilli takes in a deep breath before letting it out slowly, looking down at Cody. She closes her eyes, finding his pattern before slowly letting her body get in sync with it.
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"Do you feel that?" I ask her. "It's like your one, the same being. I like to pretend that person is me...like I'm killing myself. We fantasize about that a lot, don't we? This, Lilli, is like a better version of it."
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Lilliana has kept her breaths in unison with his, eyes still closed. My right hand, holding the knife, places the handle in her hand. As I keep my right hand on top of hers, my left makes hers take a fist full of his hair, cranking his neck at an awkward angle and holding it still.
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Then I make her hold the blade to his neck, right by his left ear.
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"Stay focused, Lilli." I remind her. "In just a few moments the world will be yours."
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My eyes close with hers, matching their breaths as the three of us merging together, uniting into a single entity.
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I've never felt closer to Lilliana.
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And just like that...I swiftly press the edge of the blade into his neck, making one quick sawing motion as I jerk my arm back towards me...slitting his throat from ear to ear.
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When Cody begins gargling on his own blood, eyes bulging as he mentally fights his death, Lilli springs back to life. She jerks her hands away, dropping the knife to the floor in the process.
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"Good girl."
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