Prompt: "Au where Break has to kill Gil because Gil's completely lost to the Baskerville side and is about to fuck up the world with Raven" (from Ro)
Rating: T
Warnings: Mentions of death, for sure. Mild violence? Not really even.
Ro likes things that are painful.
Really, it's sort of funny—
—this isn't the person he thought he'd be having to kill.
Those flames are dangerous, to be sure, but he knows all too well this man's weaknesses—he's fought with him too many times, all in good fun of course, for him to slip up now even if he can't see a thing and his gut is wrenching in the most awful of ways before he even thinks to summon Mad Hatter. Gilbert wears out fast from using it—he's not very practiced with the thing, either, and those small blessings are all he can count on here.
How awful, he finds himself thinking, chuckling into the blackness—he's let that color eat away his own mind as well, let himself truly intend to kill a person he truly thought he understood. Maybe it's exactly because he understood that he has to do this—he has to destroy him, before that understanding is gone completely. That's his nature, after all.
Ah, but it hurts—as he's diving between those black wings, relying on his own power to clear a path (he can do this, he's the only one who can do this, he can destroy anything he can deny this man's very existence), it's not the heat of the flames which is burning through him. It's something hateful, something already broken—it's disgusting, he's disgusting.
One strike—that's what he needs, and it's all that he'll probably manage before he falls. But this is his pupil, this is his mistake—
—the blade's at his neck, and he laughs, a dry and cracked sound, breaking as it leaves his throat, breaking as he apologizes for the last time.