Chapter twelve:
Near makes it to Matt's room and stands just outside of the door. He feels hesitant for a moment wondering if he really should be doing this. He closes his eyes taking in a deep breath mentally telling himself that he can do this. He raises his hand up to knock on the door only for it to slightly creak open. He blinks in surprise upon this happening. He places his hand on the door palm flat against it. He begins to push it open even more. "Matt?" He questions softly not really wanting to startle the other. He also doesn't want to reveal who he really is to anyone else who may recognize him. He pauses once the door has fully swung open however. He has found no one inside of the room. He does note however that what Matt was working on seems to still be turned on. He moves further into the room glancing around himself. "Hello? Matt?" He tries just in case the other is just hiding somewhere. He frowns when there is no response from the other. He moves further inside and glances down as something on a screen catches his attention.
On that screen is the location of something causing the angel to glance around to the other screens wanting to know what Matt is tracking.
Near's eyes land upon some more information causing his eyes to widen. "Oh no. No no no no no! Oh dear, please don't tell me he's gone after that man!" He turns around quickly dashes away out of the room hurrying down the hall. He makes it outside and heads towards where the signal was being picked up from. "Please." He pleads to himself. "Oh please please please let him be okay." He makes it to where he needs to be slowing himself down to a stop. His eyes widening as he sees that one of his best friends, Matt, is facing down the murderer. He finds his body frozen in place as the memories of his murder flash before his eyes. In terror he falls down to a crouch hands up gripping his hair as he lets a horror filled scream.
The two demons stop what they are doing and spin around hearing the scream.
"Was that…?" A wonders out loud taking a step or two forward.
"Near!" B gasps and dashes off in the direction that they had heard the scream.
A is following closely behind his demon boyfriend.
The two of them keep themselves invisible but spread their wings to fly off in the direction that the scream came from.
They are quickly joined by the two angels as they all fly along in the direction.
Mello is left behind in their dust as they fly faster than he can run. He keeps going trying to push himself to go faster than he already is going. He also notices that almost everyone seems to be looking over their way in worry. He quickly tries to think of what to do figuring that the others probably shouldn't see whatever is going on. He stops running and turns to them. He notices that as his eyes scan over them they all turn away going back to their day. He checks if the teachers are coming and so far he doesn't see any. He hopes that it means that they were too far away to hear said scream. He turns away and continues running heading to catch up with the others.
Back with Matt, the murderer and Near, Matt has turned to look to where Near is with wide eyes upon hearing him scream like that.
"Near!" Matt calls out to his friend as the murderer turns to look as well to see the other crouching head down. He hurries over to his friend falling to his knees next to him.
"Near…" The murderer mummers to himself then as Matt manages to get the angel to look up to meet his eyes, the man's eyes widen. "You?" His eyes soon narrow in anger and rage. "You." He begins stalking towards the two friends reaching around behind himself grabbing something that had been tucked inside of his pants in the butt area. He points his weapon in their direction as the two haven't noticed him moving closer yet. "I killed you once before and I'll do it again if I have to." He mumbles to himself as he continues to grow closer. "I've always wondered if you could really kill what is already dead." He raises the knife causing a gleam to be shown catching Matt's eye.
Matt turns to look to him and his eyes widen as they land upon the weapon. "No!" He cries out quickly lunging forward putting himself between his dear friend and the murderer.
Near's own eyes widen at the sight as his friend is stabbed by the man that had taken his life. His eyes look a little shaky as right now all he can do is stare in pure horror at Matt.
The knife has been stabbed into the red heads neck.
Said red head is frozen on the spot eyes, that are looking down, slightly wide in pain. After a moment or so his eyes slowly look up to meet with stormy grey eyes.
Near's gaze becomes blurred as tears rise up to his eyes. He can feel said tears drip down his cheeks as they fall from his stormy grey eyes.
Matt attempts to reach up towards his friend though said hand is shaky. His movements slowed as his limbs are starting to feel rather heavy. "N-N-" He tries to speak however the words would not come to him as they sound more like gurgles than actual words. He falls forward as his body goes limp. He lands on the ground eyes closed, they closed as he fell, and the knife slides out of his neck. He lands with a dull thud his head slightly leaning against Near.
At this point Near is shaking quite badly as even more tears stream down his face. His face twitches from the sadness of the scene in front of him. He sniffles a little as his bottom lip trembles. "Matt!" He cries out finally finding words. He throws himself over the body of his friend face against said friends back. He is sobbing and crying. His shoulders are trembling harshly with each sob.
"Now it's your turn. Sweet boy." A creepy smile comes to play upon the murderer's face as he raises the knife upwards once more getting ready to strike.