Gunshots and growls were echoing in the clearing as the four brothers were killing off all of the agents as possible. Offender's anger and rage grew as he felt a bullet strike him in the shoulder, near his heart. The skin over his eye began to recede, reveal glowing, violet eyes. His whipped his head to the shooter who was about to aim, then teleported. Appearing behind him, he swiftly snapped his neck.
"Offender!"
He turned around to find Trender limping toward him, splattered with human blood on his sweater and missing his glasses.
The brother was about to rush to him, until he spotted a nearby agent, aiming a gun on the left in the bushes. "Trender!" He cried in terror.
Then a shot rang out and his brother stumbled with fear.
Offender's violet eyes grew wide in terror as he ran to his brother and caught him by the shoulders, but he stood up, seemed to be fine, and looked around. "Look!" He pointed to the bushes and Offender's heart lurched with worry as he spotted Carol dart away. The two went to the bushes and found the sniper with a bullet to the head. "Either that was a lucky shot or she has good aim," the nerd commented.
"Either way I don't want her to get hurt." He then dashed into the woods where the woman fled. He ran as the gunshots were lessening and lessening. Then he find her, but she turned around and aimed the gun at him. making him skid to a halt as his face was returning to normal.
She then sighed in relief as she lowered the gun. "I thought you were an agent."
"I told you to stay away," he growled.
"I saved your brother's life!"
He then sighed, knowing that it was true. "You're right," he said gently. "But you have to go, otherwise-"
"Behind you!" She seamed with wide terror-filled eyes.
Just as he turned around, he felt something strike him on the back in the head, causing him to go down to his hands and knees.
Carol was about to fight back, but was shoved away, hitting a tree, then a gunshot went off, making his blood run cold.
"You monster," a man growled as he walked in front of Offender, then knocked him in the side of the head with a rifle, who fell to the ground on his side with his vision dazed. "You don't deserve to live."
Offender hardly heard him through a ringing as he kept glancing at the straining Carol.
The agent rolled him on his back.
"You're dead," he growled as he glared down at the helpless creature with blazing dark eyes.
Offender looked up at him with blurry vision, then turned to the wounded Carol. He may not be a human, but he still had a heart and right now, it was confused, scared, and helpless. He then felt the barrel of the rifle placed over his beating heart. He smirked thinly at all of this.
That woman. That human woman caused all of this. Now, he and his brothers, were going to die. He loved her, though. He still loved her.
"Breathe your last," the man growled. "If you even breathe."
A black tendril then wrapped around the man's neck and strangled him, making him choke and gag as he dropped the gun to the ground.
"How dare you try to kill my brother?" A deep voice growled. He then slammed the agent into a tree with his head, killing him. "Offender," Slender said as he knelt beside the dazed and confusion brother. "Are you alright?"
"I'm sorry," he said as his head was slowly changing back to normal. "I'm sorry that I allowed this to happen. I'm so sorry, brother."
Slender sighed as he picked up his arm and tried to heave him to his feet. "Everyone is alright. We got the last of them."
As he placed a hand over his wounded should, fear shot through his body. "Carol?" Then he saw crimson blood over her body as she was gasping for air. "Carol!" He knelt beside her and cradled her in his arms, stroking the hair from her face. "Carol. I'm here."
"Offender?" She choked as her face was growing pale and her eyes were wide with terror and pain.
"I'm here," he soothed. "I'm here, love." He then turned to his older brother. "We have to save her!"
"There is nothing we can do," he said darkly. "She is dying, Offender."
He looked back at her. "Carol, please. Stay with me. I-I'll figure out something." He tried to pick her up, but she screeched in pain. The scared Offender quickly let her down, but still in his arms.
"I'm sorry, Offender," she choked. "I'm so sorry." A tear ran down her cheek.
"She's suffering, Offender," Slender said as he placed a hand on his brother's shoulder.
"What are you saying?" He yelled, looking up at his patient brother with anger and fear.
"You have to end her misery."
"No," he whispered as he looked back at his lover, but he knew that it was true as she was gasping for a steady breath and silently screaming in pain as she would move a muscle. "Carol..."
"I love you, Offender," she said with a sad smile as blood was beginning to drip down her mouth. "I'll always be with you."
He gently kissed her lovingly on the forehead and whispered, "I love you, too. Sleep well, my love." He gently laid her on the ground, placed a trembling hand over her blue eyes as he gently turned her head to the side, then quickly snapped it. He stood up as his whole body was shaking, then walked away from his brother, past the other two, and head to the pond. He pulled out a cigarette from his pocket along with a lighter, placed it in his lips, and lit it. He placed the lighter away, pulled down his fedora and sank to the grass beside a tree with his knees for his chest. If he had eyes, he would cry, but instead, he just removed the cigarette, and squeezed in his bare hand. It burnt, but he didn't care. His heart was screaming and bleeding. He then threw his arm over his head and just whimpered.
Memories of her flooded his head from the day they met, to the smile on her face and their laughs. To that passionate night, to the fear of betrayal. The one that he ever loved and the one that ever loved him, was gone. Forever.
"Offender?"
"Came to tell me that I deserve this?" He snapped venomously. "That I deserve to lose her?"
"Why must you expect the worst?" Slender asked softly as he approached him.
Offender didn't answer. That was all he knew in his life. The worst. Carol brought in the best.
"Trender and Splendor are going to bury her along with the rest of the bodies, then we must leave this area."
Offender swallowed as thought entered his drowning mind. "You told me if I turned traitor, you said that you were going to give a swift death. Why didn't you kill me? I nearly had us all killed. I trusted a human. I-" he couldn't go on. Maybe Slender was still going to kill him, just when he least expect it. His heart was aching and to be killed as a traitor was the last thing he needs. He just wanted to know so he wouldn't have to worry.
"I would never kill my own brother, Offender. Not unless I had no choice whither it was life or death. You did not threaten nor tried to kill us. It was the agents and you fell in love. You could finally be happy. Offender. I do want you to fear being a traitor. No one blames you nor Carol. We blame fate."
Offender took a deep breath, listening to his brother's words, then he looked up at him with heartache and a thin smile. "Thank you, brother."
The funeral for Carol Williams was a aching moment for Offender as he placed a bouquet of roses over her grave that had a rose bush as a headstone. Since he could no longer give her love or flowers, he gave her all of the roses and a safe place in his heart. He gave his final good-byes as the four of them were getting ready to leave and search a new home. He promised her that he would come see her whenever he could. If he could, but he took a single rose from the bush and placed it in his coat pocket for one last memory.
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