AN: Don't know why I came up with this...It's too sad...And Never Surreder makes me think of Bryn every time I hear it, so using it in this fic was kind of obvious. There's also gonna be a second chapter, so stay tuned!
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Bryn stared at the man before him, his eyes wide and full of fear. "Alistair...? What are you doing?" The redhead in front of him was staring, expressionless, his emerald eyes seemingly glazed over as thought their owner was in some sort of trance. "What's going on?" Bryn took a step back, unable to tear his eyes away from his brother. "Ali?"
"You're my enemy. And my enemies need to be killed." Bryn cried out as Alistair grabbed at him, dodging slightly. "So you need to die."
"Alistair! I'm not your enemy! I'm your brother!" Bryn was dodging every attack thrown his way, the fear and desperation in his eyes evidence of his refusal to fight back.
"I don't have family. I don't have friends. I only have enemies, and enemies need to die." Bryn cried out again, tears falling from his eyes.
The tears fell harder when Alistair grabbed a sword sticking out of the ground nearby, swinging it at his brother. "Alistair! Please! This is wrong! I'm not your enemy, and you know that!"
"He doesn't know anything except how to kill and that you and Arthur are his enemies." Bryn turned toward the new voice, glaring darkly at a built man standing behind his brother, obviously the one behind all of this. "He doesn't remember you, Bryn."
The Welshman was still defending himself without fighting back, tears falling down his face. "Ali...please..." It was then that he decided that he was going to figure this out, somehow. He was somehow going to make his brother remember him. "Do you know what it's like when
You're scared to see yourself?
Do you know what it's like when
You wish you were someone else
Who didn't need your help to get by?
Do you know what it's like
To wanna surrender?"
It wasn't working. Bryn could tell his voice was reaching the man, but not affecting him. He still couldn't help but keep trying. "I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow
I don't wanna live like this today
Make me feel better
I wanna feel better
Stay with me here now
And never surrender" The sword kept slicing through the air and Bryn was fighting to keep his voice steady against his fear. All he wanted was for his older brother to come back to him, to stop this nonsense and just...remember him...He didn't want to have to fight anymore. Not that he was fighting anyway.
"When are you going to shut up?" Alistair's words were practically a growl as he slashed at the air where Bryn's head had been, before the blonde had dodged. "And if all you're planning on doing is dodging, then just let me kill you already."
"Alistair..." Bryn leapt backwards, dodging strike after strike. "Do you know what it's like when
You're not who you wanna be?
Do you know what it's like to
Be your own worst enemy
Who sees the things in me I can't hide?
Do you know what it's like
to wanna surrender?"
Alistair was still fighting, still sending Bryn ducking and jumping in all directions in an effort to dodge the sword's strikes. "If you want to surrender so much, then do so and let me kill you already!"
"I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow
I don't wanna live like this today
Make me feel better
I wanna feel better
Stay with me here now
And never surrender"
Laughter filled the air as the man behind Alistair as Bryn was hit roughly, making him gasp for breath before continuing. "Make me feel better,
You make me feel better,
You make me feel better,
Put me back together."
Bryn was sobbing through the song by this point, somehow managing to keep his words steady and unbroken. "I don't wanna feel like this tomorrow
I don't wanna live like this today
Make me feel better
I wanna feel better
Stay with me here now
And never surrender"
Bryn gasped as he was hit and pinned to the ground, staring up into a pair of expressionless green eyes, crying when the tip of the sword was pressed to his chest. "Put me back together,"
"Shut up..." The words were a growl.
"Never surrender..."
"Shut up." It was a bit louder this time.
"Make me feel better.
You make me feel better,
Stay with me here now,
And never surrender..."
"Shut up!" Alistair screamed the words, driving through his brother's chest as the last line of the song died on his lips in a gasp of shock and pain. "Just shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" The sword cut through the boy multiple more times. Emeralds lost their luster as the soul left the body, leaving nothing but a shell behind.