I don't know why but something wouldn't let me stay unconscious. I unfortunately woke back up but to my surprise, Jeff wasn't 'eating me'. No, he was guarding me. But from what? I let my eyes adjust the find Thaddeus and Jeff literally fighting. Fisty cuffs! Hands on combat whatever you want to call it. I could feel the hole in my neck and I just wished I was dead. Jeff's just going to kill me eventually... It wasn't until I focused hard did I realise my hearing was fading in and out.
"He hates you!" I recalled Thad saying
"No...-e never would!"
"He loves me!" My eyes snapped to Thad. Did I really just hear him say that? The boy who bullied me so much when I was... younger? Back in the old days? He was the reason I was running, the reason I was abducted! He hates me... I hate him...
The two must have been fighting for some time as I started to notice claw marks, their sweat drenched clothes and blood... lots of blood. I tried speaking up but I couldn't. My body burned.
Jeff swung hard, knocking Thaddeus to the ground. He fell with a loud thud.
"Nick is mine... I never want to hurt him and now that I know how it's felt for him I..." Jeff took a deep breath and turned to me. I felt so scared, "I'm going to make us bo-... forever. Unfortunately immortal."
I cursed in my mind as my hearing chose to fade out then. What happened next scared me the most. Jeff grabbed me harshly - unintentionally - and dragged his claws downs my body as if he knew what he was doing. He moved his hands to my face and carved a shape much like an alchemist's circle on my cheek, under my eye. It was only small but by the never ending pain and time it took to complete, I could tell it was detailed. He did the same to himself. He lifted me up to his cheek and pressed the two marks together. The intense pain made me squeeze my eyes shut, finally becoming unconscious.
I woke up at Jeff's house, in his bed. I felt different. I took a deep breath and it struck me. I was still a human. I sat up fast, rubbing at my neck, no hole. There was a knock at the door.
"You up, babe?" Jeff's chipper tone called.
I nodded only to realise he can't see it, "Yeah... I'm up"
The not-so-blonde entered the room smiling, soon fading as he saw me staring "Wh-what?"
"What happened to your hair?" I asked, it was blonde as usual but there was a small brown patch. He just laughed. I stared at him a little while longer, that type of brown seemed so familiar. Jeff rolled his eyes and pulled out his phone, flicking his longer than normal fringe away. I saw the alchemist's circle. My eyes widened and I went to touch my cheek, realising my own hair was long enough to cover it. He aimed his phone at me and snapped a picture, placing the technology in my hand. I looked at the image, my eyes just as wide as before. I had a blonde patch of hair like he did brown.
"We're a part of each other" Jeff exclaimed after I had time to look at myself in the mirror. I also noticed one of my eyes and Jeff's eyes were different. One of them were a blueish grey like mine and the other green like his, "We... we're kind of immortal too"
"Oh... where are your family?" I asked, noticing no one was around.
"Nick... that fight was fifty years ago... my family are dead." Jeff muttered, "But, while you were out and recovering... Tyler! Mason!"
I looked at Jeff confused as two identical twin boys came running to him.
"I thought we could have a family of our own" He whispered, I realised they looked a lot like Jeff, "I created them..."
My eyes filled with tears and I realised, I needed to thank Thad. if he hadn't chased me that day, I would never have become a monster... I'd have never found Jeff.