Author's Note: I'm still not certain if this will be a simple one-shot or if I'll make it into a small series. Will be turned into a comic as well that I will post in DA. Enjoy~


The pen clicks. She could hear her tapping the tip on the clipboard. She heard the ticking sound of the clock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. She counted the seconds that passed as she sits on the sofa, holding her legs close to her chest, staring at her toes as if she would find the answers she sought there.

"You didn't sleep again, did you, Xion?" Xion. Yes, that was her name. Gale Sterling – her therapist – is the only person that treated her like a person. Like the girl she had once been. Not a subject like the rest of the doctors treat their patients.

"No…" she answered after a while. It was so obvious though, the dark marks under her eyes were the sign of that. She began counting her toes under her breath.

Gale scribbles something. "Tell me, have you been having that nightmare again?" That question again. Though Gale already knew the answer, she asked. Xion was glad she did. It made her feel like she mattered. Like she wasn't a nobody.

"Constantly…" Gale didn't speak. She knew there was more. Xion kept staring at her feet. "I close my eyes… and I see it all over again. I see the horrifying detail and hear it. I wasn't there… but the nightmares make me feel like I was."

Gale started writing again. She always did, as if the story was new, as if she has never heard it before. But it was comforting. The sounds of the pen as it scribbles reminded Xion she was not there, that it is nothing but a nightmare.

"It's that day again…"

"What are you doing?"

"Heading home. I bought everything I needed to make the special dinner I had planned. I walk in the house. It's all so… normal and comforting." She was silent again. Gale waited. "I hear something. I head towards the sound. The closer I get, the louder it gets. It sounds like… someone's in pain but it's a familiar kind of sound."

Gale stopped writing and looks at Xion. Her body was shivering, as it always did when she got to the worse part of the story. The part that always broke her heart, the part that drove her to this kind of madness.

Xion swallowed hard. "It was coming from the bedroom. My heart sank… I knew what the sounds were, but I refused to believe it. There was no way those sounds could come from there… That was a place only he and I…" She trailed off, shivering. She heard the pen again, comforting her and reminding her about the reality she was in. "I opened the door. It was… It was them. It was horrible. I close my eyes and… I see it over and over! I hear her saying his name over and over again, gasping for air, I see the pain mixed with pleasure on her face! He looks at me, but… but all he does is smile! All he does is smile at me, sadistically. That look in his eyes! The kind of look like saying 'Watch. Don't look away and watch how I humiliate you! Watch as I make her scream! Watch! Watch!'" She began to twitch a bit and Gale begins scribbling again, calming her down a bit. Tears form in her eyes as she forces herself to say the word "Sex". Gale looks at her as she says it in a whisper. "They… were having sex. He… was having sex with my best friend… on our bed and smiling at me, humiliating me…"

The doctor spoke, "But it did not happen in your house. It did not happen in the bed you shared with him." Something she always told her to help her a bit, to pull her away from that thought.

Xion shook her head. "It might as well have happened…" She bit her bottom lip, hugging her legs tighter. "He slept with her. He slept with her. When… When he should have been with me." Everything was silent again. It was almost as if everything had stopped for a moment and she continued "He should've been with me… He should've been with me! With me! It was our anniversary! It was our anniversary!" she cried out and slammed her hands on the couch. "It was our anniversary!" she repeated and kept slamming her hands down.

Gale quickly rushed to her side. "Shh. Shh. Xion, calm down." The raven-haired girl kept shouting as the doctor tried calming her down. She quickly rushes over to turn something on and a tune begins to play. As the tune slowly begins to sink in, Xion's shouting slowly turns to whispering cries as she got in a fetal position. The melody of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata plays in the background, calming her mind. Gale takes her seat again and watches in silence as Xion sobs, letting her frustration out in tears.

"You killed her…" It wasn't a question. It was known very well.

Xion sniffed and stayed in the fetal position. "She wanted to gasp for air… Well, I left her wanting more than just a gasp… I gave her a reason to want to cling to the very thing that keeps us alive. To want to cling to the bits of air, the bits of life she had left. And all I did… was smile." She formed a quivering smile. "I… I said to her, 'Is that the sound you made… when my husband touched you? Is that the sound you made when my husband entered you? Is that the sound you made, you fucking whore?!'" She screamed at the top of her lungs, but Gale stayed in her seat, watching her and scribbling again. Xion frowns. "She gasps, she screams, she cries. But all I do is laugh. All I do is remind her about the pleasures she had that night and that she'll never have again! I told her… I told her 'Why don't you beg? Why don't you plead for more like you did that night, you bitch?!' And I asked all this, I asked all this as I stabbed her with the knife! I was tired of playing; I was tired of only scratching her skin. No! I needed to hear her cry! I needed to hear her beg me to let her live! To apologize for the sin she committed!" She manages to calm down. She slowly sits up, staring blankly in front of her. "She did."

"But you did not stop…"

She slowly shakes her head. "No. I killed her." There was no remorse in her voice. No joy, but no sadness or regret either. "I said to her stilled body… I said… 'The sinful act that cannot be forgiven, even with your life… For the damage you caused, was greater than your pathetic life was ever worth…'" Everything was silent again as the melody kept playing. "And I sat there, knife in hand. Humming, smiling and humming, as she gasped for her very last breath…" She grinned. "Her very… last… breath…"

Gale begins to scribble again as the melody comes to its end.