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Destrõy Me - Episode 9 & 10
(Her•Heartless•Monster)
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"You amaze me, little one" he muttered, and Twilight froze as he fell on his face, his blood flowing down the classroom.
"F+ck! Damn it!" Imogen was already crying as she knelt beside him, but even in his unconscious state, she was too scared to touch him.
"Call the guards, tell them to bring a stretcher we need to get him to the infirmary" Posey told Ren.
"Infirmary? Do you think that stupid Dr. Kali will be able to do anything? There are four bullets in my baby's body!" Imogen shouted.
"Then what do we do?" Ren asked.
"Get the stretcher, we're taking him to the hospital downtown" Imogen replied, and Ren stepped back.
"Fast!!" Imogen yelled, and that made him race out of the class.
Twilight is still where she is, and the rate at which her heart is slamming right now could kill.
She had to rest her palms on the table as she stared at Slade's body in front of the class.
Why the hell would he call her little one?
It's a coincidence, right? A bloody coincidence.
There's no way that animal is her dream guy.
No damn way.
"Twi" Echo called beside her, and she faced her slowly.
"What have you done" Echo muttered.
Twilight took her before starting to walk out of the class, but when she got to the front, Posey blocked her.
"Where do you think you're going after wrecking havoc!!?" She yelled.
"He killed my friend!!!" Twilight yelled back, and Posey flinched.
"Is that enough answer? Now move!" Twilight pushed her out of the way and left the class.
Echo quickly followed her, and then Ren rushed in with a stretcher and two guards.
Slade was placed on the stretcher, and his blood continued pouring out of the wounds in large quantities.
It was forming a trail as his stretcher was wheeled out of the class.
"Please... please stay alive for me" Imogen begged in tears as she ran after the stretcher with the rest.
To avoid too much clamour, they took the other side of the hallway, and Lorraine coincidentally ran into them.
"Who's that on the stretcher?" She asked suspiciously.
Before Imogen could answer, she pushed her out of the way and gasped when she saw Slade bleeding away his life.
"Slade!!" She yelled.
"How did this happen? Who did this talk to me!!" She yelled again, breathing heavily.
"This isn't the time to talk, we should save him first" Imogen replied, ordering the guards to continue wheeling.
Lorraine ran after them till they were at the park, and Slade was taken into the school bus.
"Tell me, who's it?" Lorraine asked Imogen again
"Twilight" Imogen replied before getting in the bus with the guards.
The bus drove out of the castle, and Lorraine felt rage swelling inside of her, so much that she almost went blind with it.
"That witch" She said, storming towards the lecture halls.
*
Coming out of the class was Twilight's mistake cos as she walked the hallway, she was nearly choked to death by girls who're willing to die for Slade.
* Why did you even come here?
* You're the same person who talked down at Lady Lorraine yesterday
* Four bullets?
* I swear if Slade doesn't survive it I'll kill you myself.
* Survive it? The first bullet hit his chest what are you talking about? He's dying!
Echo was caught in the crossfire too cos as she tried to free Twilight from their hands, she got dragged too.
Her hair was pulled out, and she got several nail marks.
As for Twilight, she's a mess already.
Her corset top is almost in tatters, and her hair is a tangled shit on her head, they're even trying to pull down her skirt.
"Hands up, everyone!" Tamlin's voice came, and a pause happened immediately.
Everyone let go of Twilight and raised up their hands except Posey and Ren who're still holding her hair.
The girls made way for Tamlin, and he came forward with Ruslan.
"Hands off her" he ordered.
"She shot Slade!" Ren glared
"No. She killed him already" Posey added.
"Am I supposed to start crying?" Tamlin scoffed, and the two blinked.
"I'm not Imogen, so if you want this to end with your complete set of teeth, then let her go" Tamlin continued.
Posey was the first to let go of her hair, then Ren did the same.
"This isn't over" Posey told Twilight, then the two left the corridor.
"Come with me" Tamlin took Twilight's hand, dragging her away.
"Are you ok?" Ruslan asked, and Echo looked up, brushing her hair with her fingers.
"Huh? Yeah...sure" she awkwardly said, and he nodded before walking away too.
She was still admiring his back side, reminiscing about their chats last night when Rihannon and Damien joined her.
"Is it true?" Rihannon asked urgently.
"Yes. She really shot Slade, right in front of everyone" Echo replied.
"Is she setting herself up for hatred? They'd hate her!" Rihannon said.
"But why? That man is a killer, and they should be happy she got killed" Echo replied.
"It doesn't work that way, Slade is the most brilliant professor in this university, so he's cherished by the council of sponsors, and also, no one ever asks for the body of the students he kills so it's safe." Damien explained.
"So because the students he kills are nobodies, he's free to continue killing? Who even knows if he's the one kidnapping the missing students every month, and then the girls love him despite the darkness surrounding him. Is everyone mad in this school?" Echo said.
"Look...you have every right to get angry, but have it in mind that this school is not your usual type of university, so just chill out" Rihannon said.
"And who exactly is he anyways? What's his family history?" Echo asked.
"No one knows the family he comes from, cos he grew up at Arcade Home too" Damien shrugged.
"What? Arcade Home? Isn't that the name of the orphanage?" Echo muttered.
"Yeah, and enough of the chats, we should look for Twilight before Lady Lorraine gets to her" Rihannon said, leading the way.
"Let's go" Damien told Echo, and she followed with a nod.
*
LIBRARY*
Tamlin took Twilight to the old big library and made her settle down on a chair.
He made to arrange her hair with his fingers, but she shifted back, doing it herself.
He sighed and took off his jacket, covering her with it too, but she took it off and dropped it on the table immediately.
"Do you hate me this much? Are you allergic to me? Why can't I touch you!" Tamlin glared.
"Why would you touch me?" She replied, looking up.
Tamlin opened his mouth to talk, but nothing came out cos Ruslan entered the library.
They're the only three inside cos Tamlin sent out everyone when he came in with Twilight earlier.
"What's going on?" Ruslan asked.
"Nothing" Tamlin said curtly, turning away from Twilight who's still arranging her hair.
"Where did you get the gun?" Ruslan asked.
"My pa gave it to me when I was coming here" she replied simply.
"Crap" Ruslan said.
"At least I didn't kill anyone innocent with it, and I hope he dies and burn in hell" Twilight said, and Tamlin smiled, turning back to face her.
"You're something else" he said, and his smile graduated to a loud laughter which made her smirk.
She stood and started walking around the shelves, and she was surprised to see romance novels, many of them on a secluded part of the shelf.
They're much, and she hugged the shelf.
"Why haven't I visited this library before?" She gushed and started checking out the books, especially the erotic ones.
"So you like spice?" Tamlin asked behind her, and she turned to face him.
"Mind your business" she replied.
He was about to do something silly when Lady Lorraine stormed into the library with her two famous guards.
Tamlin quickly covered Twilight, but his energy didn't match their own cos the guards easily threw him off.
Lorraine arrived at Twilight's face and dazed her face with a stinging slap which made Twilight gasp.
Before she could recover from that one, Lorraine slapped her again on that same cheek.
"Mother!" Tamlin yelled behind.
Ruslan just sat calmly on the table, watching everything silently.
Lorraine slapped Twilight for the third time, and her lips bled.
Her hands were itching to slap back, but she just can't. Her father didn't teach her that way.
"Are you done?" She told Lorraine after the third slap.
"Talking should be forbidden for you after what you did. How dare you lay your filthy hands on Slade! How dare you!!!" Lorraine barked.
"I did nothing wrong. I only did what he does to other people, and now I'm guilty? Yunno what? I'm unapologetic about it and I'm gonna remain that way till the end" Twilight bit back, and Lorraine raised her hand on her for the fourth time.
Before she could land the slap, Lord Vann came into the library.
"Stop it, Lorraine" he said, and the woman turned back with a smirk.
"Again? Really? Tell me are you in love with her? Why always defending her!!" She yelled.
"She killed the monster who kills students. As a matter of fact, the monster killed her friend first so she had every right to off him." Vann said.
"Slade is not a killer, he's not" Lorraine said and pushed Vann out of the way before waltzing out of the library.
"Good job, Twilight" Lord Vann said, and Twilight gave him a slight bow before he left the library.
"Twi!" Echo rushed in with Rihannon and Damien.
"Echo" Twilight rushed to her, and they hugged.
"Glad you're still alive" Echo said, and Twilight smiled.
"I knew I'd be alive" she said, she Echo grinned as she pulled her out
Rihannon and Damien looked at Tamlin, and Tamlin kept up a blank look as the two exited the library.
"Rihannon and Damien, those two seems to be hiding something. They're not afraid of you or me, and it's bothersome" Ruslan spoke up.
"Leave, I need my alone time" Tamlin said, and Ruslan didn't even argue before leaving the library.
Tamlin faced the low windows, staring out of it as sadness arrived at his face again.
"I love you, Lin" a female voice echoed in his mind, and he gritted his teeth, bringing a small picture out of his pocket.
In the picture, there's a girl who looks a lot like Twilight, and her smile is contagious.
It made him smile too as he stared down at it, rubbing her face.
"Isobel" he whispered, bringing it to his lips to kiss.
*
GLENNVILLE PRIVATE HOSPITAL*
Nurses were already waiting outside the hospital before Imogen arrived cos she had called them.
Slade was taken in in a blind rush, and Imogen kept crying as she ran after them till he was taken into the emergency ward, and the door shut instantly, locking her in the hallway, but she could still see them through the transparent wall.
"He has a GSW and has lost a lot of blood so his pulse his weak." A doctor said.
"Impending cardiac arrest, get the defibrillators ready... one ampoule of epinephrine" another doctor said, and the nurses got to work.
The defibrillators started from 200j upward, but the more they gave him shocks, the more his life slipped away till the monitor lines went flat.
The doctor dropped the defibrillators, and Imogen gasped from the wall where she's watching from.
"No. No don't tell me..." She shook her head.
"Get him to the theater and remove the bullets in his body, then clean him up before transferring his body to the mortuary" the doctor instructed the nurses, and Imogen barged into the ward
"No!!! He can't be taken to the mortuary when he's not dead yet!!! Slade is not weak!!! He's not a chicken!!! Tell me you're joking! Slade!!!!" She started rolling on the ground like she's mad.
"He's got four bullets in four vital parts of his body, miss. If he was a nobody, I'd have rejected him when you brought him cos there was no hope of survival, but I decided to try my best cos of who he is... I'm sorry he couldn't make it" the head doctor consoled her.
"No no no!!! Bring back my baby!!! Bring back Slade please!! I can't live without him!!"
Her screams got too deafening that she had to be bundled out of the ward by the securities.
Her phone rang in her pocket immediately, and she took it out with a sniffle.
It's Lorraine calling.
"Mother" she cried, standing up.
"It's not what I'm thinking, right?" Lorraine asked.
"He died... Slade died!!!" Imogen cried again.
"No...it can't be...it can't be!!!" Lorraine screamed from the other end, and Imogen ended the call, crawling on the hallway ground as she cried.
"I'm gonna kill Twilight...with my two bare hands" she mumbled as her tears entered her mouth.
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*
UNIVERSITY OF GLENNVILLE, 7PM*
The news of Slade's death spread like wildfire, and every single student in the university heard of it already.
While the guys celebrated and screamed around the castle, the girls were wailing and cursing Twilight.
A lot of them were regretting the fact that they didn't get to have a taste of him before his death, and only a few percentage of the girls showed happiness towards the news .
The party is still holding, so students are starting to leave for the woods since it started already.
"Are you sure I can go? They'd tear me apart" Twilight said after Echo forced her to wear a cropped top and a mini jean skirt which hugged her slimness perfectly.
"I blame the sick system of this school cos you should be praised, not condemned. Girl, you killed the killer you murdered your friend, you should be celebrating. Also, I and Rihannon and Damien will be with you, and you have Tamlin on your side too" Echo persuaded.
"Ready?" Damien said by the door.
She's waiting with Rihannon already.
"Sure, we're ready" Echo grabbed their phones from the bed and pulled Twilight out.
They really came out to wolves cos girls lined up on the corridor, ready to rip her to pieces, especially Molly who's like their ringleader in this tower.
"I hope you don't die in the party. Pray before you leave" Molly told her, and the other girls snickered.
"If she comes back alive, I'll make you choke on my d+ck, I promise" Damien said, and Rihannon laughed.
Echo stuck her tongue at them, and Twilight chuckled as they left the tower.
They met several students outside who're on their way to the woods too, it's like a pilgrimage cos they're much on the way.
Arriving at the spot in the woods, Twilight gasped. The ominous settings is enough to mesmerize her.
There are red string lights and white lights too, so a mixture of both crafted an unusual atmosphere.
Loud rock music was filtering out of the speakers at the backstage, pouring into the woods in waves, and there's a sea of students present already, rocking with the music.
Twilight has never attended a party all her life. Where would she get the opportunity when she's always couped up in the cottage with her father?
She felt a large rush of excitement, and Damien did the favor of getting them drinks.
He handed the girls their cups separately, and Twilight looked into her cup, swirling the drink curiously.
"It's called absinthe" Damien told her.
"I've never really tried alcohol before" Twilight replied sincerely.
"Try it, you'd like it" Rihannon told her, and she had a sip, the taste of fennel coating her tongue so much.
"Mmm!" She moaned out.
"Good?" Damien smiled, and she nodded, holding the cup with her two hands delicately.
They moved to the midst of the dancing students, and despite the death glares from students, Twilight didn't decline when Damien offered to dance with her.
She took his hand and allowed him swirl her to the music, making her happy.
She's leaving this school tomorrow anyways. She's gonna pack her bag tonight and leave first thing tomorrow morning, so she might as well use her remaining momehts well.
While she got lost in the flow with Damien, Rihannon and Echo danced with each other too, but Echo couldn't focus.
Half of her attention is on her phone cos Ruslan is texting her again.
Ruslan: You at the party already?
Echo: Yeah, but I'm not seeing you.
Ruslan: Will be there soon. What are you wearing?
Her heart fluttered as she typed a reply to this one.
Echo: Black shorts and a cropped singlet
Ruslan: Hot!
She chuckled and was trying to type a reply when Rihannon peeked at her phone screen.
"You're hooking up with Ruslan?" She said.
"No! No we're just...we just chat" Echo quickly said.
"Ruslan? You?" Rihannon chuckled.
"What's wrong with me? Am I ugly?" Echo said seriously.
"Don't take it personal, I was only joking" Rihannon threw up her hands.
"It didn't sound like a joke. Yes he's chatting me, and if you're jealous about it, then walk into a wall or something" Echo rolled eyes and walked away, leaving her at the dance floor.
"That was fast" Rihannon nodded, leaving the dance floor too to get a bottle of scotch for herself.
She was about to drink from it when Damien appeared and took it from her, gulping everything.
"Where's Twi?" She asked.
"She excused herself to go pee" Damien replied, and Rihannon snatched the bottle back from him, making him chuckle.
*
Twilight had to find a good spot far from the party spot since the surrounding is full of students f+çking each other.
She wouldn't have drank the absinthe if she knew it'd make her feel this way, but here she is.
She lowered her panty and did her business under a tree, but just as she stood to leave, someone jammed something into her neck from behind.
It's an injection, and a shot was released into her system before the injection was removed.
She turned slowly, and her eyes met the eyes of Lorraine's two guards.
"Follow me" one of them ordered, and they both led the way, but instead of following them, she turned around and began running as far as possible from them.
They definitely injected her with Kontrol, an elixir which makes people do anything they're told.
She's sure it didn't work on her cos of the choker pearl necklace on her neck.
She was panting as she ran towards the party place, and she could hear the fast footsteps of the guards behind herself as they ran after her.
She was just some steps away from the tent when someone hit her on the head with a plank
That was all she remembered before she blacked out, landing on the ground.
Molly's face came to view, and she smiled at the guards.
"I'm pretty sure Lady Lorraine ordered her to be brought, please tell Lady Lorraine I played a part in getting her, I wanna be on the first lady's good side" she said.
The second guard bundled Twilight on his shoulder, and they left into the forest.
*
GLENNVILLE PRIVATE HOSPITAL, MORGUE*
The hospital lost two patients today.
Slade, and one other person.
The two bodies got moved to the morgue just now, and as the attendants closed the door behind them as they exited the room.
The lights in the room suddenly began flickering, and the ring on Slade's finger shone with a ray.
The flickering stopped at this point, and Slade's eyes opened.
He grabbed his head with a growl, getting down from the stretcher he was placed on.
He lifted his shirt from his tummy and wasn't surprised to see the gunshot wounds gone, even the ones on his arm and legs.
He leaned on the wall, his brows impossibly pulled together.
"Took longer than usual...fûck" he groaned, walking nonchalantly out of the room with occasional grunts.
When he remembered how Twilight shot him with the intense hatred in her eyes, he smirked.
Maybe it's insane, but he wants the hatred in her eyes to remain constant. If possible, he wants it to increase.
It's fun.
*
UOG, WOODS*
Posey and Ren are the ones handling Ruslan's phone since Imogen is not available, and they're currently beside a twig.
Ren is the one doing the text while Posey told him what to type.
They're a laughing mess already cos from their angle, they can see Echo beside the bartender table, blushing as she replied the texts.
"I still don't understand why Imogen went for her though. Shouldn't we go for Twilight instead? She's the main target after all" Ren suddenly said.
"So far she's Twilight's friend, she deserves to suffer. Wait till Rihannon and Damien's turn too" Posey replied evilly, and Ren grinned.
"Hey, you both" Imogen joined them, her face so swollen from crying too much.
"Imogen! Oh my gawd your face!" Posey gasped.
"Where's Twilight? Shoe me that hoe I'm killing her myself" Imogen replied, getting a knife out of her bag.
"Her friends are over there but I haven't seen her" Ren pointed, and Imogen took off immediately.
She stormed to Rihannon and Damien who're currently in a drinking competition, and she kicked away every bottle on the table.
"What the hell is your problem!" Damien pushed her back.
"Bring Twilight out, now! If you don't provide her then I'm killing you both" Imogen glared, pointing the knife forward.
"Twi went to pee" Rihannon said calmly.
A small crowd has gathered around them by now, watching where this will lead to.
"Wait... it's been more than twenty minutes" Damien suddenly said, and Echo joined them
"Where's Twi?" She asked.
"What's going on?" Tamlin entered the circle too with Ruslan.
They're just coming.
"Twilight..." Echo muttered, running into the forest immediately.
"Twilight!!" Rihannon and Damien rushed after her too.
"What did you do!" Tamlin grabbed Imogen.
"I did nothing! I wanted to kill her but she's nowhere to be found!!" She yelled angrily.
"Shit" Tamlin mumbled and rushed into the forest with the others.
Ruslan followed him, and Imogen threw her knife at the sand.
"Does that mean she's gonna be the missing student for this month?" Posey said.
"That won't be bad" Ren added, and Imogen grinded her jaw, gripping her head with her hands.
She squatted and started crying again.
"My baby Slade..."
*
A FORTRESS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST*
One of the rooms in the fortress is illuminated with a burning fire.
Lorraine is seated on a fur chair not far from the burning fire, and right in front of her is Twilight.
She's almost naked cos her jean skirt and crop top are both gone, and she's left in her panty and net bra.
A rope is tied to her neck, and the other end of the rope is tied to the ceiling. Her hands are tied behind her too.
The only thing keeping her from dying is the bench below her leg.
Once the bench is removed, she'd automatically die by hanging.
She's struggling to make her legs stable on the bench, and at the same time, the rope is tightening on her neck.
"Why....why are you doing this to me?" She gagged, her voice tired and weak.
There's blood on her head as a result of Molly's plank earlier too.
"Is that even a question? You killed Slade...were you expecting to get away with it?" Lorraine replied coldly, her voice traveling around the whole room.
"He killed my friend first, and I don't regret killing him" Twilight replied, and Lorraine stood.
"I don't plan to exchange words with you tonight. Just go" she said and began walking to her.
"What's the relationship between you and Slade? Why are you so biased towards him? Why is it that he can never be wrong in your eyes? I did nothing wrong!!! If you kill me, I'll haunt you I swear!!" Twilight shouted despite the fear eating at her mind .
Lorraine got to her, and her eyes widened when she realized she wasn't joking.
"No please you can't kill me! My father needs me, my sick mother needs me more!! I did nothing wrong!!! I wasn't....
She was cut short when Lorraine kicked the bench away from her legs, so the rope tightened on her neck, hanging her automatically.
Her legs dangled in the air, and blood escaped her nose as she struggled to breath and take in air, but it was impossible.
Forceful tears came out of her eyes as she continued struggling in the air, and Lorraine turned her back at once, walking out of the room.
Twilight suddenly stopped struggling, and she went limp on the rope, giving up totally.
"Burn her body with the fortress" Lorraine told the guards outside as she went down the stairs regally.
"Yes, my lady!" They chorused with a bow.
The first one got the matchsticks, and the second one got the gasoline.
TBC.
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