Solitude is Isolation
M
Warnings: graphic violence, and … trauma
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The beating couldn't stop. It was overwhelming and too loud for his ears.
He kept looking at the man; the maniac; the killer; the sad and lonely man before him; and still couldn't find the strength to do anything at all.
Bart was clutching at his shirt as if that could so something–anything.
The beating of his heart didn't allow for him to hear what Bob was saying but he could see through tear filled eyes that the man was talking.
A tear fell from Bob's face as he looked at the fear stricken boy, gripped the knife in his hand so tight, with so much remorse as he pressed it against skin. The crease that formed around the knife was comforting.
"I … am such a failure."
Then Bob put all his strength into that knife that was against neck and sliced through it as hard as he could. He wanted to feel it scrape something; tear something vital, he just wanted death.
It felt like relief and hell to Bob–to be at the end.
A final thought passed through Bob's mind: I have "freed" the Simpson boy.
And there was nothing; nothing that could be called Robert Underdunk Terwilliger.
Bob's eyes released any tears the boy was trying to suppress everything seemed to cave all around the boy and his resolve was crumbling.
He couldn't take the shreds of skin that were so apparent to him. The blood, the veins: it was coming to him.
He released the most pain filled and bone chilling scream that could stop a demon in its tracks.
Why was there a dead human before him; why did Bob; Why!?
Bart's mind wouldn't let him form a coherent thought, but at the same time he couldn't hear them. The sound of a knife going through skin was echoing in his ears.
His throat was burning and his lungs began to fail him.
Bart couldn't find the air he needed to keep breathing; his body was palsied.
He did notice though, that he was on the floor before he blacked out.
A/N: If you really do not wish to read Bart in pain and having trauma …. And most likely NOT getting a happy ending here… Then you should not continue reading…