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AN: This is Kevin’s POV so it might not make much sense. Try to bear with him.
Kevin’s POV
I look at Justin with a big smile. I know he loves me very much. I know it. I don’t care what anyone says. Justin is always going to be there for me. Even when he’s gone he’s going to protect me. I know that he and daddy are having problems and it’s all because of the spells. It’s causing so much trouble. I try to tell them but they don’t listen. It’s the spells, the spells. They are so stupid sometimes.
“Come, Kevin,” Justin tells me.
I look back at the club and frown. I let the tears drop. “I don’t want to leave daddy,” I tell him. It’s going to be so horrible once we go. Death is going to come for us. They are. They’re going to take Justin away and there is nothing that we can do about it. Not a thing. I’m too scared to face it. I won’t be able to stop it from taking Justin. Justin is the one that’s going to protect me. Oh my god! What am I going to do? I have to do something. I can’t lose pretty. Not pretty.
“I’ll get you a toy, I promise,” he tells me as he pulls me down the street.
I want my daddy here with me. Is not fair! I don’t want to be away from neither of them! I want my daddy!
“Kevin,” Justin yells. “Stop pulling away and walk,” he says and he holds my wrist tightly. “Please.”
I nod and walk with him as fast as I can. There are bad men around us. I know they are there. I can see the shadows trying to close in. But that’s okay because I can look at Justin. Justin’s pretty. He has this beautiful shinning light around him. It’s beautiful and I love it.
“Shiny!” I yell at him. I want him to know how shiny he is.
“Not now, Kevin,” he tells me. “We have to get out of here.”
I stop and look back. It’s there! I know it’s there!
“Come on, Kevin,” Justin says pulling me towards him. “Let’s get out of here. Maybe we can go see Marcus.”
Marcus…Marcus…Marcus…Marcus…Marcus…Marcus…Marcus!!! I hate Marcus! He’s mean now. That’s why I didn’t want him anymore. I’ll kill him one day…daddy will let me because he’s mean. He’s like Michael. They are mean! I’ve never done anything to them. But Michael looks at me with hate in his eyes not like daddy. Daddy shows me love in his eyes. I wish it was more like he shows Justin. But it’s not and sometimes it makes me sad. But that’s okay because I love Justin too. Justin gets the best look from daddy. But Justin is so afraid of daddy right now. If the spells end then he won’t feel like that anymore but then daddy won’t be here. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! They can make it right still. They have to end it now before it’s too late.
“End it, end it, end it, end it, end it,” I tell him. Maybe he would listen to me. “Oh my god, look at the stars!”
“Come on Kevin,” Justin says pulling on my arm. “We can look at the stars later.”
I can’t stop looking at them. They are telling us to go back. We have to go back. They are watching us and we’re going the wrong way. This is the wrong way.
“No pretty,” I yell at him. He has to hear me.
“Come on,” Justin hisses. “Stop it, Kevin. Let’s go.”
“But daddy and the stars,” I try to explain to him.
“No,” Justin yells. “Keep walking.”
They never want to listen to me. They’re so stupid. I always tell them the truth. I want to protect them because they’re my family and that’s what you’re supposed to do. But they never listen to what I say. Why won’t they listen? I don’t want to run anymore. I’m so tired. So tired…so tired…so tired. They won’t stop talking to me telling me that Justin belongs to them. But he doesn’t. He’s ours…ours, ours, ours! I’m going to save him. I’ll take care of him. He’s going to need me.
“I see daddy,” I tell him. I see them and they are going to need me.
Justin stops and looks back terrified. See! He’s scared of daddy! He’s so stupid. Daddy loves us. Oh my god! Daddy is so worried about us. He wants to find us. I’m gong to take care of them. I look at the stars again and they tell me! Oh? It changes! It all changes! Poor Ben, he’s going to be trapped forever! Oh! He’ll like it. My god! The thing! That thing is right behind us. My head hurts so much! I want them to stop talking to me. Why won’t they stop talking to me?!
“Kevin, where are you going?” she asks me and laughs.
“You can’t leave now,” he tells me. “You just can’t!”
“Kevin!” she yells.
“What do you want?” I ask.
“For you to keep walking,” Justin answers.
“He did something naughty,” he whispers.
“Now he has to pay for it,” she says.
“It’s only fair,” he tells me.
“He belongs to us now!” She yells.
This can’t be happening to me. I jump on Justin and hold him tight. No one is taking him away from me. “No one!”
“What is wrong with you now?” Justin asks me and pushes me to the floor.
“There is something you need to see, Kevin,” she says and laughs.
“Show him,” he tells her. “Show the boy what Justin did!”
I see the doors in front of me so I push them open. I see daddy fighting with some guy and he’s tall and has blond hair like Justin and me but is caked with blood. I’m so scared because daddy is losing and he’s bleeding everywhere.
“Brian!” Justin yells.
I have heard him yell like that before. He’s so scared. Why is he always scared? Then he runs away and comes back holding a book to his chest. I try to move to them but I can’t. I see as daddy falls down and he won’t open his eyes. The man is going to kill my daddy!
“No!” Justin yells and attacks him from the back. He uses daddy’s sword and injures the guy. The holy man falls down. The holy man can’t do the same to Justin. He could only hurt daddy but not pretty. Pretty is not under that spell.
“Are you watching, Kevin?” She asks me. I look at her and frown. Sometimes she comes to me like this. She dresses all in white and her black hair is so long. She has blue eyes and they are mean eyes like Michael’s eyes. “Are you?” she asks again.
“I would do the same thing,” I say. “That’s our daddy! Ours!”
“Look at your sire,” she tells me. “He’s never ever waking up. No matter what.”
“But he’s not dead,” I point out.
I can feel it. My sire is still there and he’s not dead. He can heal.
“No,” he agrees. I turn and look at him. This is the first time he comes to me like this. He’s dressed all in white too and he’s strong like Ben. He has white hair and purple eyes. “But he’s never ever waking up again; he won’t heal. He’s never going to open his eyes because we want it like that. Because it’s written like that; so Justin can’t have him!”
I look at Justin crying over daddy’s body and she takes my hand and moves us closer.
“But Justin was a naughty boy,” she yells. “He undid what we did!”
“What we wanted,” he tells me.
I look at Justin searching wildly in the book.
“Don’t do it, Justin!” I hear someone screaming. I can’t see him. I can’t. Who is that? “Don’t Justin. Don’t! Don’t!”
“Justin wanted him back,” she whispers. “So he can have him!”
“But now Justin is ours,” he tells me.
“No!” I yell at them.
“It’s only fair,” she tells me with a smile. I hate that smile. “A life for a life.”
I frown.
“But he does it wrong,” he tells me. “Look Kevin.”
I look at Justin who is punching at the floor. “Work, please work!”
“And it screws everything up,” she tells me. “Everything.”
“So we couldn’t touch him,” he whispers. “But now your sire is back and Justin belongs to us,” she tells me.
“No!” I yell at her.
I know about the spells. I know how he can take it back. I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know the spells! I do!
“Kevin!” Justin is yelling at me.
I blink at him. “What?” I ask and I’m not in the room anymore with them.
“Oh my god, you’re okay,” he says picking me up from the floor. “You started shaking and talking to god knows who and I was so scared.”
I caress his face and smile. Then I look back. It’s them. They are one and they’re coming. “Justin!”
Justin opens his eyes wide. “You used my name,” he points out.
“It’s coming for us,” I whisper.
“I know,” he tells me. “We have to move.”
“I hurt,” I tell him. I’m so tired and hungry. So hungry!
“Oh Kevin,” he mutters and carries me.
“The pretty colors,” I whisper.
I close my eyes and he keeps walking. Then I open my eyes when he puts me down. He grabs my wrists and we enter the house. I see the pretty colors and the boys and girls waving at me. They are not there any longer. They’re not! I glare at them and hiss to stay away. They never could go up. They’re trapped here and I don’t like them!
“Whom are you hissing at?” he asks me and breaks into the house.
The colors are gone. Now is like it’s supposed to be. Ashes, all but ashes so many ashes and grey; the place is covered with shadows and I feel the pain. I do. I feel it! I open my mouth wide open. “Pretty!” I say crying.
It’s so sad in here. So sad.
“Shut up, Kevin,” he tells me. “We can hide in here for a few days.”
“Its here,” I tell him and put my finger over his lips. “They can’t see.”
“What am I going to do with you?” He asks.
Then the door busts open again and they are here. They’re one. They’re one and they aren’t nice anymore. They have never been. They will never be. They are a monster. They want him! They want to take him away.
“What the fuck?” Justin asks and pulls his sword out.
I jump at it and attack them.
“Now, now, Kevin,” they hiss as it grabs me by the neck.
It’s so horrible. I hate them. I hate them.
“You know he belongs to us,” it says.
The monster!
“Leave him,” Justin yells and punches them.
It sets me free but it grabs Justin. Then it throws my pretty up and up and up and up and up. They hit me but that’s it. They can touch me. I don’t belong to them. They run up to get Justin.
I sigh and nod. “My daddy is going to get you!”
I hear them laughing.
“They can’t see pretty,” I shout at him. They won’t!
I look up and then back. “Daddy!” he has to hurry up. He has to. They want to take our pretty away. Ben will give them what they want. He will. Oh yes! He will. “Daddy!” I scream as hard as I can. Daddy is coming. He is. Justin is going to stay. He’s ours. I knew it. They can’t take him away. He’s ours!
“Daddy!” he’s coming. I feel him.
Oh! We’re in so much trouble. Good. Misbehave and we get punish. Lot’s of nice punishments.
We should have gone back. The stars told me so. They did, but pretty didn’t want to listen. Pretty didn’t listen. He’s so stupid.