IV

Gaz quivered as she looked through the sites, hesitating to pull the trigger. Her goal broke. She tried to take a breath, but could get no air as she stood standing aiming the gun. Dan him. Why did he have to be here in this classroom? He was always ruining things for her. Why couldn't he have been in another classroom? Dib's lips moved as he tried to choke out her name, shaking. Dib's face was pale and splattered with blood His eyes were wide as he shook and tried to cough out her name.

"G-Gaz?" He managed to say.

Gaz stared at him, pointing the gun, a heavy feeling of dread, disappointment, anger, and sisterly love flooded over her. Her head ached, her vision blurred, but she kept the gun pointed, shaking though she was. He shouldn't of some to Skool today. He was always getting in her way! he deserved to die! Always picking on her, stealing her pizza, and making her watch 'Mysterious Mysteries' all the time. Gaz gritted her teeth and balled up her fist. He didn't deserve the live. He needed to be submerged into darkness forever! Gaz's finger started to press down on the trigger.

"Gaz! Wha-what are you doing? Gaz" Dib chocked.

Gaz's finger loosened as she looked into his eyes, filled with fear, life flashing before them. Gaz looked deeper, into his should almost, her eyes starting to water. She couldn't kill him. He was her brother. She had tortured him through the years. They could have gotten closer, like real brother and sister. Yet as the years went by, they just got farter away. Gaz realized now that that was the only way Dib could express his love for her, by being rude. Dib had such a simple mind in away. Sometimes overlooking the obvious, but such a good mind he could figure anything. Dib was like Dad in a way.

Gaz frowned at the thought of Professor Membrane. Anger returned. He was never there for either of them. He didn't even know or use her name. It was always "work first! The world needs me!" They never even spent any time together. Dad never understood what his children needed or wanted. They practically raised themselves in ways. Gaz realized now that video games had been her source of comfort and escape from the harsh reality of not having a real family. Dib had used a similar escape, becoming obsessed with the unexplained. Maybe if he could solve the mysteries of the universe, he could understand why his dad was never there for him. V

"gas, please out the gun down. You don't know what you're doing." Dib sputtered.

"Shut up Dib! I hate you! You always thing you know what's best! You're like Dad! You over look the obvious and study the smaller, less important things! I do know what I'm doin!" Gaz yelled, lowering her gun a bit.

"I'm not like dad! I'll never be like him! Neither will you1 We're not like him Gaz, don't throw it away because of him."

"I said shut up! You might not think so, but you are like him! The only thing different is you actually socialize and pay attention!"

"Socialize? No one likes me!"

"I like you Dib. I hate you too. It's not fair. You don't deserve the light nor the shadows., Dib stuttered, not getting anything but little sounds out. Gaz shook. She couldn't kill him, yet she had to finish the job. The police would be here soon and they were to leave no survivors. She couldn't bring herself to pull the trigger though. Gaz's watery eyes burst and tears ran down her cheeks. She shook, pointing the gun at Dib's head still.

"Dad was never there for us. He still isn't! He doesn't deserve children like us Dib! You have a whole life ahead, but it's so full of shadows. I can help. I have to help. I can remove the shadows We could go together Dib! We could leave Dad to his work! He doesn't deserve us. The shadows are gathering Dib. We have to go."

"Gaz! You're insane!"

"No1 I'm not. You are and I can fix it! The world doesn't deserve your intelligence, you can't grow up like Dad. Come with me Damnit1 Dad doesn't care. No one does. They hate you Dib Come and let's find the light. I hat you so much for all that you've done, but I love you too Dib! You were always there for me. Dad wasn't. He doesn't care or he would have loved us and watched out for us."

Dib stared at her words, she was crying and talking in circles, yet her message was beginning to become clear. he looked down the barrel of the gun, shaking and quivering,. Gaz's finger twitched on the trigger as her brown eyes locked with his.

"We should have gotten close when we had the chance. It would have made life easier. I'm through hiding behind games and vengeance. You don't have to hide behind the paranormal mask anymore Dib. I'm here for you. We could finally become real brother and sister. Life is screwed up enough."

You can't believe that you can shoot all your problems away Gaz. Put the gun down. With death comes eternal darkness, not light. We do have a chance if you're willing to, but if you kill me, you'll forever be submerged into the shadows. put the gun down and give it a chance Gaz."

Gaz quivered as she stood. Dib wasn't right. They didn't have a chance. There was only one way out of the darkness. Death was the key to the unlock able door. Dib's eyes pleaded with hers as the gun centered on his head.

"You're wrong. You don't deserve to die. You deserve to live in your shadows. You are just like Dad. Overlooking the obvious. Dad needs to feel pain, to feel darkness. he needs to pay. So do you Dib."

Gaz's mind buzzed, screams from down the hall echoed in her head as her blurry eyes watered more. Suddenly there was a loud mental snap. Her limbs went num and her eyes glazed over, staring at nothing, yet everything. her vision blurred, doubled, then became clear. her mind stopped running in circles and became blank. The shaking stopped and Dib stared.

"It's too late for you Dib. Good-bye."

Gaz raised her limp arm, aimed and squeezed the trigger. There was a loud blast as everything played in slow motion. The bullet ran down the barrel of the gun, emerged in a loud blast and sped through the air. Dib's eyes widened as his mouth dropped open to whisper her name. The air waves rippled as the bullet sped through them. VI

Gaz stared in disbelief into Dib's eyes. There was a brief moment of sanity as she watched the bullet. Sanity was followed by pure horror as she watched the bullet rip through the skin on Dib's forehead. it tore thought, separating the skin and going deeper into the skull. Blood burst from the wound and splattered out and back to splash up against her face, warm and sticky. Dib's eyes locked onto hers as the bullet penetrated his skull and entered his brain His head was blown back with such force he fell out of he desk. The blood sprayed up as the bullet pushed through to lie deep in his brain. The splash of blood flew up, splattering against the desk, walls, bodies, and Gaz.

Gaz stood there and screamed as her brother's blood ran down her face, jacket, and hair, in drips. Pieces of brain splattered and stuck to the wall beside Dib, the blood running down in trickles over them to fall back to the floor. Dib's blood mixed with the other blood to form pools that would permanently stain the floors and walls. Gaz screamed and screamed, her mind numb with horror and recovered sanity. She shook, her vision blurring and doubling again as their eyes locked. She couldn't pull her eyes away from the dead brown ones of her brother's. His glasses, slightly tipped, the hole in his head unbearable, yet magnetic. Dib lay slumped, staring into her eyes, as he would be for all eternity.