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Destrõy Me - Episode 25 & 26
(Her•Heartless•Monster)
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Lady Lorraine fell, so Twilight came to view, properly.
"Mother!" Imogen ran all the way to the front and knelt beside Lorraine who's still sitting on the ground in all shades of shame.
She's unable to look up, but she's shaking with rage, and her bones are shaking inside her skin. Her palms are bleeding as a result of the fall.
"Oh my! Mother you're bleeding!" Imogen gasped.
Lorraine looked up slowly, and the scene she met made her boil more.
Slade is still standing in front of Twilight, staring at her like she's the only start in a dark sky.
"You're interesting...as usual" he said in a mutter, and Twilight raised her face, taking one step away from him before speaking...
"Feel free to watch me till you go blind, but I didn't dress up for you... sociopath" she said, and Slade's brows twitched slightly.
Twilight took Echo's hand, but before they could move again, Imogen stood in their way.
"What are you gonna do about mother on the ground! Slade pushed her cos of you! She's f+çking bleeding!" She shouted.
"She might as well bleed to death. I lost my respect for her the day she kidnapped me and hung me" Twilight replied and pushed Imogen out of the way.
She found seats at the back and settled down with Echo.
Imogen couldn't move, and Lady Lorraine is still on the ground, too embarrassed to even stand as students began murmuring.
* Is this class going to continue or what?
* Someone help her up *giggles*
Slade turned robotically to Lorraine on the ground, and when their eyes met, she swallowed.
"Get out of my class" he ordered.
"What!" Imogen gasped, coming back to the scene.
"Get out of my class, Lorraine" Slade repeated stonily.
"But you can't talk to her like tha...
Imogen hasn't finished that statement when Slade glared his eyes at her, and she lost consciousness, fainting on the ground.
"Imogen!" Lady Lorraine finally stood, kneeling beside her.
* Did he just do that with his eyes?
* F+ck! That's crazy!
* How much power does he have?
"You either carry your daughter out, or I seize your consciousness too" Slade told Lorraine.
Ren and Posey quickly came down, and it was Ren who carried unconscious Imogen in his arms.
He rushed her out of the class, and Posey ran after him, then Lady Lorraine faced Slade.
She looks like she wants to say a lot, but her mouth only opened, she couldn't say anything.
She left the class too, then silence returned to the atmosphere as Slade walked back to the front, regally.
"He's hot, would have been cool if he wasn't a serial killer." Echo muttered beside Twilight.
"Can you stop talking about him?" Twilight replied, getting her pen.
"Sorry" Echo pouted as Slade's eyes found their seat.
"He's looking at us! He's looking here!" Echo gasped.
Twilight doesn't have to look up before knowing he's actually looking at her alone. She could feel the goosebumps.
"He's still looking at us! He's not blinking!" Echo said again.
"Then stop looking at him too, that bastard makes me wanna throw up" Twilight replied, writing jargons in her jotter.
Anything to prevent her from looking up at him.
Molly is sitting not far from them, and she's watching everything like a spy.
She's tracing Slade's eyes every minute, and it's obvious he's staring at Twilight only.
"Don't tell me that monster is planning to f+ck her again. Lady Lorraine will die" she muttered.
Slade smiled darkly when it got to a point. He's not staring at her face particularly.
The only thing he sees is her bre+sts. It's a pity he couldn't see them last night when he was banging her, he'd have sucked those titties till her n+pples disappears into his mouth.
Well well...he already gave her enough energy through the s+x, it should be enough to fight any danger that comes her way before the next recharge.
It's not his fault that any female he f+cks gets a share of his physical energy for a while.
He removed his eyes from her, and Echo breathed out.
"He's not looking at us anymore" she said, and Twilight slowly looked up.
Slade clicked a button on his laptop, and everyone of the students got a PDF on their phones immediately.
"Download and go through it for ten minutes, then the class can start" he said, and just as they were about to start downloading, a loud scream came from the corridor.
Within one minute, every single student ran out of the class to have a look.
Getting there, they met a girl crying and rolling herself on the ground.
She's a senior student of this department, and she looks so devastated.
"I and my bestie came to class together this morning, and she excused herself to go use the restroom before the class started. She never came back even after the class. I went to the restroom but I only found her right shoe and pen!! She has been taken!!!" She shrieked, crying more.
* F+ck! The monthly kidnappers!
* They even entered the castle?
* How is that possible with the guards?
"Oh gawd" Twilight muttered with so much pity in her eyes for the crying girl.
She felt devastated like this too when Slade killed Tanya.
"Who the hell are these kidnappers and what are they using the students for?" Echo pondered aloud.
Slade is watching from another angle, and when he cleanly turned to leave the crowd, he met Uriel behind.
"You're not taking this kidnapping case serious, and that's why the bastards were able to do it again" Uriel said.
"Did you just call another person a bastard? You're ruining my reputation, I'm the only bastard in this school" Slade scoffed.
"All the kidnapped students are from Arcade Home, the orphanage you grew up at" Uriel replied as they walked down the corridor together.
"Am I supposed to give a f+ck cos of that?" Slade grimaced.
"No, but please...act like you care for once" Uriel begged.
They entered an empty class together, and Uriel dropped Slade's laptop on the table.
"I went to class to take it, and I already sent a bulk SMS to your students that the class is cancelled" he said, settling down with him.
"And now what? You want me to focus on the kidnappers case? I've got my own problems to take care of" Slade said nonchalantly.
"But...
"I am cursed, Uriel! I and my siblings are cursed!" Slade cut in harshly.
"Yes I know everything! I know the Luther family has triplets...two boys and a girl. I know you're one of the boys, and you ran away from home at age 5 and stayed at the orphanage where you grew up! I know the second boy ran away from home at age 5 too just like you! And I know the girl is the only one at the island right now with your parents Stella and Timothy! I know Stella has been sick since he gave birth to you and your siblings, and I know Timothy has been begging you to come home! I know the solution to lifting your curse is to kill Twilight cos she's your human antidote, and i know if you fail to kill her before your rival, you'll grow old prematurely and die!" Uriel slammed without breathing, and Slade rested back on his chair.
"Impressive" he smirked, resting back on his chair.
"Yeah. I know you that much cos I'm your only friend and the only person who can tolerate your inhumane personality." Uriel replied.
"You know I have that much problem, and yet you're telling me to solve the kidnap case?" Slade glared.
"Cos you have your solution in your hands already. You can kill Twilight right now and get it over with, but these students have no one. Please...be a human for once" Uriel begged again, and Slade stood.
"Playing human is uninteresting. I'm outta here" he said, walking out of the class.
"Boss!" Uriel ran after him, but Slade was already out of the corridor before he got there.
"Hey! Uriel!" Molly came out of the restroom in that corridor.
"Molly? How long have you been in?" He asked instantly.
"Just now, why?" Molly asked innocently.
"Nevermind" Uriel said and left.
Molly watched him leave completely before smiling like she just made a huge achievement.
Actually, she heard everything.
"Cursed? Twilight is the antidote? Wait... Luther family?" She gasped, pinching herself.
"Slade Luther! His name is Slade Luther why didn't I notice? Of course he's from the rich Luther family! And he's a triplet? Gawd! He just got hotter!" She bit her lip.
"I love how all the secrets are coming to me willingly" she said, smiling again before leaving.
*
SPONSORS HALL*
"Another student just went missing, and this time, it happened on the school grounds, psychology department" Lord Vann broke the news, and the sponsors began murmuring among themselves.
"Are we sure it's not Slade doing this too? I mean he's the same person who kills students at 12 midnight" one of them said.
"Exactly. Why are we pestering ourselves? It's so obvious" another one said.
"The midnight killer and the monthly kidnapper are two different people, I believe" Lord Vann said.
"How can you be so sure? Slade has no heartbeat at all so wasting lives is probably his way of fighting his boredom. That guy is an animal" another one replied.
That same moment, Slade bursted the door open, entering the hall with a printed copy of the investigation made by Uriel.
He dropped the papers on Lord Vann's hands, and silence filled the hall.
"Research made it clear that the monthly kidnap has to do with the popular elixir called Kontrol. Whoever the kidnapper is is surely doing a project with the kidnapped students." Slade said plainly.
"Why are you giving us this?" Lord Vann asked.
"I'd have enjoyed it if y'all start seeing me as the kidnapper too. Trust me there's nothing more interesting than always being the bad guy, but I'm doing this for an idiot" Slade replied, his mind going to Uriel.
"F+ck... I might just f+çking die by doing this. Helping people is foolish" he muttered as he walked out of the hall.
Lord Vann stared at the papers for a while before facing the sponsors.
"Shall we start the investigation?" He said.
*
HISTORY DEPT*
Tamlin and Ruslan came out of their second class with the other students, and Tamlin couldn't stop the smile that covered his face.
"What's up? You couldn't even concentrate in class" Ruslan said suspiciously.
Tamlin brought a small square box out of his pocket, and Ruslan frowned, recognizing it immediately.
"This belonged to Isobel" he said.
Tamlin opened it, and truly, it houses a beautiful necklace with an heart-shaped pendant.
"You gave this to Isobel when she was still alive, and I remember seeing it around her neck even after she died" Ruslan said.
"I removed it before she was buried" Tamlin replied.
"Wait. You're gonna give it to Twilight? Are you crazy? Twilight is not Isobel" Ruslan said.
"Chill, Isobel is my last and Twilight the present. This is to mark her cos once it's on her neck, she's mine" Tamlin winked, and Ruslan scoffed.
"You're crazy"
"Tamlin!" Posey and Ren appeared, running like crazy and almost bumping into them.
"Stay back!" Tamlin pushed the two of them and wiped his hands with an hanky.
"Imogen... Imogen is unconscious" Posey said breathlessly.
"What! I locked her up!" Tamlin glared.
"The thing is..." Ren said, looking at Ruslan.
Tamlin looked at Ruslan, and Ruslan shifted back.
"You f+çking idiot!" Tamlin snarled and ran all the way to the infirmary.
Truly, Imogen is in bed, unconscious.
Dr. Kali is there with her, but she's not doing anything.
"Why aren't you waking her!" Tamlin faced Kali.
"There's nothing I can do. Slade seized her consciousness, and he's the only one who can wake her" Dr. Kali replied.
"Slade?" Tamlin seethed.
"He pushed Lady Lorraine earlier in class too, and she got hurt" Posey said slowly, and Tamlin held his own head, turning around.
He suddenly lunged at Ruslan and threw a kick at his face.
Ruslan staggered and fell on a chair with a cut on his cheek.
"This wouldn't have happened if you didn't idiotically let her out you moron!" Tamlin yelled.
"I did what was right. It's not right to lock her up like a slave" Ruslan replied, standing up.
"Then wake her, wake her!" Tamlin pushed him, and he fell on Imogen's unconscious body.
"Wake her idiot!" Tamlin yelled again.
"Calm down. She'll wake up whenever Slade wants, she's not dead" Dr. Kali assured.
Tamlin stormed out of the infirmary, and Ruslan stood guiltily.
"Maybe you shouldn't have let her out after all" Posey said.
"It's your fault" Ren added.
Ruslan left the infirmary and went to a garden to sit alone.
He was near-tears when Echo entered with him.
Immediately she sat beside him, he stood.
"I hate when you're around, why do you keep showing up!" He snarled.
"Did I...do something wrong?" Echo said, slowly standing up too.
"You don't have to do anything, your face alone is disgusting!" He spat and left the garden.
Echo fought back her tears as she stood there like she was paused.
"He told me he loves me in the text. What changed?" She muttered, finally letting out the tears.
*
LORRAINE'S OFFICE*
Lorraine took off her black heels and threw the two out the window immediately she arrived.
She began pacing her office barefoot, unable to sit down.
She got a text from Lord Vann, requesting her presence at the sponsors meeting, but she's too pissed right now to attend a stupid meeting.
The thought of Twilight and Slade is making her insane, and she can't concentrate.
She was humiliated in class cos of Twilight, and she might just enter the ground right now.
It has never happened before.
She gets everything she wants so Slade won't be any different. Twilight and Slade will never happen.
She punched a line in her telephone and dialled, ordering her guards to send for Molly.
Three minutes later, Molly came in, smiling like a witch.
"I wasn't expecting you to act this fast" she said, sitting in front of her without being told to.
"Tonight at 8pm, post the video you showed me on the university homepage. Some might not be able to see it cos of the poor network here, so print out the scenes and paste it around the school" Lorraine said.
"With what hashtag?" Molly asked.
"Tell everyone she's a bî+ch who did eight abortions for Slade already, and she sleeps around with lecturers" Lorraine said.
"What's in it for me? I'm not doing your dirty work for free" Molly asked.
"I'll pay any amount" Lorraine said, and Molly sat back.
"Done" she smiled.
*
LIBRARY*
Twilight's legs are crossed as she read her favorite novel with her earpieces plugged in her ears and a stick sweet between her lips
At least, this will lock Slade out of her head and make her concentrate.
She has been here alone for an hour since Echo is not a reader.
Someone suddenly pressed something cold on her cheeks from behind, and she gasped, looking up to see Tamlin.
He's the one pressing two canned sodas to her cheeks.
"Hey" she smiled sweetly, removing her sweet.
He took the cans away before sitting in front of her.
"Echo said you're here, so I came" he said, giving her one soda after opening it.
"Thank you, it's silent here, so..." She shrugged, and he leaned forward, giving her a closer look.
"You look prettier" he whispered.
Twilight smiled before standing, walking out of the seat to give him a full view.
"What do you think?" She asked, but he couldn't talk, just staring like speechless with open mouth.
"Tamlin?" She called, making him blink.
"Huh? You're... you're s+xy as f+ck" he said, standing too.
"Really?" Her smile grew wider.
"Yeah, and I have something for you" he said, bringing out the box.
He opened it, revealing the necklace which made her gasp.
"Tell me this is the first gift you'll be receiving from a guy" he said.
"Yeah... absolutely" she said, unable to hide her excitement as he went behind her and slid the necklace into her neck, hooking it.
"It's beautiful" she purred, rubbing the pendant.
"Like you" he replied, coming back to the front.
"Thank you" she said, her cheeks reddening.
"And also...I have the elixir already" he said, bringing a vial out of his back pocket.
Inside the vial, there's a small portion of Kontrol.
"I stole this from mother. We only have to use this on Slade, get the necessary information and kill him" he said.
"We can't inject him so far his ring is intact " she replied.
"There's a plan. How many minutes can you spend underwater?" he asked.
"As long as possible with an oxygen mask" she replied.
"I have oxygen masks ready, let's go" he pulled her out.
"Can we go visit my mama at the hospital first?" She asked.
"Sure, there's enough time" he instantly replied.
They went to the park and both drove out of the castle in his car.
*
They arrived at Argentum hospital after thirty minutes, and Twilight led him to her mother's ward.
The woman had just finished her early dinner which she was fed by the nurses.
The nurses left the ward, and Twilight sat beside her, supporting her back with a pillow.
"Meet my mama, her name is Owen" Twilight said, looking at Tamlin as she stroked Owen's hair.
"Good evening, ma'am" Tamlin greeted respectfully, but the woman only gave him a lifeless gaze.
Her eyes are so dead, and she looks like a ghost with her scattered hair.
Twilight arranged the hair with her fingers before making her lay in bed.
"You have to get well soon, mama" she said with a small smile, stroking Owen's face.
Owen suddenly grabbed her by the wrist, making her gasp.
"Mama!"
"Your father, your father is...
Before Owen could finish saying that line, Greg came in.
"Papa" Twilight stood.
"Why are you here and not in school?" Greg questioned.
"I came cos I missed her" Twilight replied as Greg took her place beside Owen.
Owen is back to her lifeless state right now.
"She's fine, just go back to school" Greg replied.
"Sure, papa" she said, nodding at Tamlin. They left the ward together.
"Your father looked unfriendly" he said.
"He's probably not in a good mood" she replied, and he nodded once.
"Shall we?" He said, taking her hand.
They returned to the park and drove out of the hospital, back to the university route.
Tamlin rode the car into a shrub, cutting through trees and figs till they arrived at a bridge.
Under the long bridge, there's a big still river.
"This place is only three minutes drive from the university with good speed" Tamlin faced her
"And I'm jumping in?" She faced him.
"No. We're going in together" he replied, bringing out the mini oxygen masks.
They both used it, and he took her hand.
At the count of three, they jumped into the river together.
*
UOG, ATTIC*
The sudden beep that came from Slade's phone made him look up from the piano he's playing.
His long fingers stopped moving, and he stood, walking to the phone that's in bed
He took it, and his brows clustered when he saw the redness surrounding the location beep, meaning Twilight is in danger.
He traced the area on a map, and his brows went up when he saw it's the Glennville river.
She's in the river? Does that mean his rival is back?
Is he the one drowning her? If he kills her before him, then it's over.
But then, she's supposed to be able to fight the rival with the energy in her body, so why?
Why the f+ck is she trapped in the river?
He didn't think for one more second before rushing out of the attic, going down the elevator.
Uriel is in front of the elevator, but he didn't even see him.
"Boss!" Uriel called after him.
He wasn't hearing anything.
He sprinted to the park and drove out of the castle, straight to the river.
He roughly climbed the bridge and checked his phone, making sure her location is still beeping here before jumping into the river from the lowest railing point.
However, jumping was his first mistake of his life cos Tamlin immediately jammed the injection into his neck underwater.
Slade groaned out, becoming weak instantly. His arms went limp in the water, and Twilight proceeded to taking off his ring.
Slade was already unconscious when they surfaced, getting out of the water and dragging him to the shore.
"We did it" Tamlin removed his mask,, brushing Twilight's wet hair away from her face after removing hers too.
"Where do we take him to?" She asked, looking at Slade's body on the ground.
"I have a place in mind" Tamlin replied.
*
AN ABANDONED QUARRY, 8:30PM*
It's drizzling, and even the blind will feel that the drizzle will soon turn to an heavy rain.
Despite that, there's a faintly burning fire, set by Tamlin.
Inside the fire, there's a knife getting hot, and beside the fire, Slade is chained to a tree.
Twilight is beside Tamlin, watching as Tamlin took the already red-hot knife out of the fire.
He brought it to Slade and thrusted it into his chest.
"Urghhhhh!!!!!" Slade groaned back to life, his blood pumping down his chest to his pelvis and his pants. His shirt became blood-soaked in a millisecond, and the chains he was tied with rattled loudly.
Tamlin inserted the hot knife into another part of his chest, and he groaned like an animal again, unable to even move at all.
"How do we remove the chip on her wrist" Tamlin asked, and Twilight pointed her wrist forward.
"How?" she asked, but Slade couldn't even talk nor blink or make the slightest sound.
"Kontrol is in his system, right? Why is he not talking? Isn't he supposed to do anything we say?" Twilight asked.
"Unless it didn't work on this bastard" Tamlin muttered.
"What! That's...that's not possible" Twilight swallowed.
Tamlin stabbed Slade again, on the tummy this time.
"F+ck!!! Arghhhkkk!!!!" Slade shrieked, shaking the forest as it echoed thunderously.
"Why did you kill Isobel then? Why!!!" Tamlin yelled, and Twilight faced him in a twist.
"He did?"
"Isobel was his first midnight kill. They stayed in the same orphanage" Tamlin replied.
"Arcade Home?" Twilight muttered.
"Yes. This bastard here killed her without a reason! He pushed her into a well" Tamlin replied, and Twilight gasped.
Tamlin then faced Slade again, thrusting the hot knife into his chest for the third time.
"Arhhhhhggkk!!!!" Slade growled thunderously again, vomiting blood from his mouth too,his eyes blazing red and his swollen veins running through his skin like map lines.
"Why did you kill Isobel? Why did you kill Tanya and all the other students you killed, why!!!" Tamlin yelled again, stabbing Slade for the fifth time.
This time, he didn't stop.
He continued stabbing him till the fifteenth stab, destroying Slade's chest remorselessly.
Slade's stomach is almost in tatters, but Tamlin continued stabbing hatefully, blood splashing on his face in splatters.
Twilight couldn't even watch, so she turned around as Slade's shrieks rented the forest like a tiger's.
"Why did you kill Isobel!!!" Tamlin yelled, stabbing him for the 20th time.
"It's enough!" Twilight pulled him suddenly.
"No it's not!" Tamlin breathed
"Yes it is. He's not with his ring, so I'm sure he's dead" She said.
Tamlin looked at Slade who's already lifeless against the chains and tree, and he released a vengeful breath.
"Let's just go, rain is coming" Twilight urged again
"Fine" Tamlin replied, throwing down the bloody knife .
He untied Slade from the tree, and Slade's blood was flowing endlessly as he dragged his body to his car trunk.
Tamlin entered the car with Twilight, and immediately he drove out of the quarry, a heavy rain started.
They only drove for five minutes before entering the streets.
Tamlin stopped the car and dragged down Slade's lifeless body.
He dumped it inside a muddy puddled water in the middle of the ruined road.
Slade's body landed in the mud, face-down with a thud, and his blood mixed with the water.
"Rest in pieces, I want everyone in Glennville to see your dead body tomorrow morning. The pigs will have a feast" Tamlin said with a victorious gleam.
"Let's go" Twilight pulled him back into the car, and they drove off.
TBC.
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