7: Curses and Despression
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Envy comes inside the room and starts to examine Pride's condition, Pride just stares blankly at his brother while he's tending to his spine. Carmella left a while ago because she had some other things to do, so it's just the brothers and silence.
"Envy," Pride speaks on a hoarse voice, Envy stops
"Yeah?"
"I've always been a terrible brother to you. I'm sorry," Envy's taken back because even though they get along now, they really don't take about their complicated brotherhood between them. "Envy?" Pride glances back turning a bit his spine, Envy pushes Pride softly so that way he doesn't open any stiches.
"It's fine. I know I haven't been the brother you wanted." Envy replies to get him to shut up but it backfires. Pride props himself up and grabs Envy by his shoulder as he gets down to eye level with him.
"Don't ever say that. Just because you don't have the same strengths as I do doesn't mean you're not my brother. Sure maybe you're not strong out in the battlefield but I owe my life to you countless of times because you and your medical skills have saved me, I wouldn't be able to do what you can do when it comes to a scalpel and needles. I'm sorry for all the times I've been an asshole to you and using you as a living punching bag when we were little." he apologizes, Envy doesn't reply immediately because there's some things he wanted to tell him but right now he can't.
"Lay back down you idiot," Pride smirks a bit and lays down. Envy finishes as Pride's back asleep, he cleans up and exits his room with a hollow feeling chewing at his chest.
Envy leaves Pride's room, sighs as he closes the door. He turns around and jumps a bit as he sees Wrath, Marshall, and Fionna there.
"What's wrong with him?" Fionna asks straight up because she knows there has to be something wrong, why would be acting so secretly about Pride's condition? Not even Love, who doesn't like keeping people in the dark hasn't spoken a word. Envy lowers his gaze,
"He's dying." Marshall and Fionna let out a startled cry, Wrath's face goes sour.
"What?! From his injuries?!" Fionna cries out, Envy shakes his head
"No. Pride has suffered much worst than what Ashley gave him. He had half of his body tore off of him and he survived." Envy replies so Wrath comes to a dreadful conclusion that he's hoping he's wrong for once in his life.
"It's the same thing that happened to Lust isn't it?" Wrath questions, Envy nods.
"Yeah, if Pride doesn't pull through his depression, then he'll wither away." Fionna tilts her head confused.
"What?" Envy swallows as they go somewhere else because he doesn't want Pride to be able to hear them. They settle down on some couches, Envy hangs his head between his knees, Wrath sits down next to him keeping his head down.
"Pride's depressed, and it's dangerous for him to become depressed." Wrath speaks out on a shaky breath. "Since he's the physical incarnation of pride, he's supposed to be strong and undeterred by emotions of others or what people think about him because his life source is his pride in himself, I know I might not be explaining all too well but it's true. Just imagine him as a flame that's burning brightly, that's how Pride's usually is, now imagine someone putting something over the flame and slowly smothering it not letting oxygen to feed it to continue burning; that's basically what depression is doing to Pride, his thoughts and admirations is his oxygen to keep surviving and burning but the object that's smothering the flame and slowly killing it is depression, if Pride doesn't start fighting against it or try taking the anti-depressants Envy's whipping up for him, he'll slowly wither away right before our eyes." Wrath explains, Marshall puts his head on his hand as he leans forward on his knees,
"How much time does he have left?" Marshall questions,
"Before he'll officially start withering, only a couple of days. I can't force him to take the pills, even if he does, it'll only prolong his death. He has to literally do this himself, if not there's no point." Envy chokes out, "Besides, he doesn't even know that Lust has been taken captive, if he does... He'll die faster, he always cared and loved us all the same but he and Lust have this connection because he helped her when she was depressed and dying in the Mushroom War after her lover was killed, so I ask you not to tell Pride she's captive." Envy orders at Fionna and Marshall because they're known to tell the truth if they're driven to it.
"We won't," Fionna and Marshall mumble in unison.
Lust is thrown against the floor as she, Ashley, Dustin, and Misery arrive at the hideout where Misery and Ashley have been taking refuge at. Lust snarls as she glares at her uncle and Ashley who holds Dustin.
"What the hell do you guys want with me?!" she snarls out, Ashley smirks as she attempts holding Dustin's hand. He coils away from his reach, Ashley gets annoyed as she keeps trying to touch him but he just coils away. "He doesn't like you Ashley," Lust growls out as Dustin suddenly disappears into thin air from Ashley's hold. She looks around trying to find him and finds him in Lust's arms. Lust draws Dustin to her while she keeps her eyes on Ashley.
"Give him to me." Ashley orders with her hand out. Lust shakes her head, Dustin looks up at her terrified as if he can sense the disturbance in her emotions. She smiles as she eskimo kisses his face while making smoothing noises. "Bitch if you didn't hear me the first time, give him to me!" Ashley screeches. Lust glares up at her
"No." Dustin pulls a bit on her hair, she glances down and tugs her hair out of his hand. "When you and Pride conceived Dustin, it was out of lust allowing him to be a creature in my domain, therefore meaning I can do whatever I please with him," Ashley growls as she lunges out to snatch him out of her hold when she springs away from them clinging onto her hand. Lust laughs, "I placed a curse on you, you can not touch him unless if I give you permission," Lust spits out, Ashley grabs her by her hair and pulls her towards her.
"That doesn't mean I can't kill you." she seethes through her teeth, Lust just keeps a calm exposure.
"You know, I've always had a merciful side to me towards people like you. I could have had you get an STD or that you would have exploded after you slept with my brother, but you're the mother of my nephew so I had mercy. But whenever you need mercy from anyone to save your pitiful life, you will die by a merciless hand." Lust curses her as a phantom python slithers over Ashley's neck and chokes her as its absorbed into her skin. Ashley snarls
"Take her away." Misery pushes himself off of the wall and takes Lust over to a cell. He puts the lock on the door and goes over to where Ashley's at. "You just let her curse me!?" She yells at Misery, he throws his hands into the air and shrugs
"Hey, I can't interfere. Besides, it's just a matter of time from what Carmella told us. Once when Pride's dead, Hatred will go berserk and come over to us for vengeance and we can force him to help Pain and I to revive our parents-"
"No! I will do it tomorrow, go wake up your lazy ass of a brother." Ashley storms off, "stupid Nightmares... They don't know what they're messing with..."