Chapter 14
F*ck it Eclipse! Where are you this time?! If you're going to backstab me again, I swear I will mess with Luna so bad until she CRIES!"shouted Amethyst as he wondered around the pizzeria.
The location was different from the one Vincent worked at. This one had one main party room, consisting of a stage and several tables, a kitchen and several back doors leading to safe rooms. This was a time when the security cameras were still in semi-good condition, y'know, the type that doesn't have static.
"Come and find me!"said Eclipse in her annoyingly childish voice. Amethyst groaned at her petty little mind games and stalked off to find her, anger in every line of his body.
"C'mon! I don't have time for this! The kids are going to come and torment me in less than 3 minuets and I need you to stave them off!" Amethyst groaned, scanning the sides of the corridors.
"Peek-a-boo! I see you!"screeched Eclipse suddenly. Amethyst jumped at her unexpectedness. He growled at her before shaking his head and stalking off. Eclipse laughed at his anger and followed him.
"So, do you still want me to help you?"asked Eclipse. Amethyst looked at her pityingly. "If I was to pick now, I'd prefer if you stayed as far as you can" Eclipse gave a high squeak of a laugh and threw her arms around him. "C'mon, let me help you, all I want in return is for you to let me take over a dream or 2!" Amethyst gagged at this before pushing her off. Eclipse did her best pouty-face before continuing to follow his every step. Amethyst grumbled at Eclipse's annoying tailing.
-Reality-
Vincent stirred in his sleep. His face was contorted in worry and fear as he tossed about, sweating buckets whiling doing so. He moaned as he saw things that he wasn't suppose to. The same couldn't be said for Luna as she was sleeping soundly with a peaceful expression.
-Dream-
"Keep it down!"shouted Amethyst as Mark held a knife to his throat. Mark cocked his head to one side, not understanding while still wearing his maniacal expression of pure malicious glee. "Vincent's going to wake up, which means everything is going to fly out the window and into the incinerator!"Carlisle snorted at this before hitting Amethyst over the head. The impact propelled his head forward into the knife, which drew blood. Amethyst sighed and shook his head, "You're cleaning this right?" Eclipse peeked in from the doorframe and giggled at the sight. Amethyst, about to be slaughtered again, literally held at knife point, arguing about who's going to clean up the blood. "You are silly; did you expect someone else to do it? Besides, it's your turn to clean the blood, I was there scrubbing for 2 hours last time!"Amethyst sighed at Eclipse lack of pity and made a mental note to do something to Luna when Vincent wakes up.
"Y'know Amethyst, I wanted to ask you something. Last nightmare, you were acting strange. You usually aren't that scared of us, and you were….."Mark hesitated; thinking back to when Amethyst said out of the blue "I forgive you". Amethyst chuckled. "That wasn't me, that was Vincent. Dunno what he's doing to himself out there, but he managed to take my place inside your nightmare"Mark's eyes twitched at this piece of information. He casually leaned forward to swipe at Amethyst again with the already-bloodied knife when he paused suddenly. Amethyst glanced at him, a puzzled expression on his face."What's the matter? Had enough fun?" Mark glared at him, but surprisingly lowered the knife. Alexis looked up from his position on the floor, a fearful expression on his face. Amethyst looked at his with a bemused expression; he still couldn't get over the fact that in the nightmare, everyone was an opposite of their usual personalities. "W-What's the matter?!"he choked out, wincing at his own voice. Amethyst looked away in disgust, "What a loser"he muttered. Carlisle whipped his head around to face him. He promptly stabbed a syringe into him and watched as Amethyst's eyes rolled upwards and fell onto the floor. Carlisle turned away smugly and faced Mark, comforting Alexis at the same time. Even with their personalities swapped, their affection for each other hasn't changed.
"What happened?" asked Carlisle. Mark turned towards Carlisle, a frightened expression on his face. "Do you remember when we…..did something to…Vincent?" Alexis looked up in horror, and confusion. "I thought his name was Amethyst?" Mark shook his head, furious with himself for not noticing the difference in personalities. "No…That was Vincent, not Amethyst….." Carlisle gasped at this, "How?" he asked in barely a whisper. "I don't know, Amethyst would know" mumbled Mark. "Then ask him" said Carlisle offhandedly. He unthinkingly gave Alexis a syringe of adrenalin which Alexis shied away from, whimpering slightly. Carlisle rolled his eyes at his nervous stance before stabbing it into Amethysts' unconscious form mercilessly and casually. His eyes shot open as his heart rate accelerated. "I told you not to do that!"he hissed. Carlisle tsked at his discomfort before moving aside for Mark to interrogate him. Interrogate was an accurate term for what Mark was doing. Very stereotypical, with him cuffing Amethyst's hands behind him and to the wall; threatening all that's left of Amethyst's hollow existence; and getting nowhere.
-Reality-
Vincent was stirring very badly now, his hands claws at his side. "No…..stop…..not her…..what happened to you?!" he mumbled unsettlingly. His eyes were shut tight, trying to block out the nightmare even though he wasn't seeing anything. He groaned a useless sound.
-Dream-
"This is getting us nowhere, is it?"asked Carlisle. Mark glared at him, wishing that he'd say something useful instead of criticizing him. Amethyst laughed weakly at their ineffective tactics. He coughed out a bit of blood, which spattered onto the already-blood-encrusted floor. He gasped for air for a second before tilting his head up to smirk arrogantly at him, a triumphant light in his half-closed eyes. Carlisle glared at him and walked over to hold him in a lethal chokehold. Amethyst had lost too much blood to struggle as his vision blacken, and his stance relaxed. His eyes slowly closed as he smiled creepily at Eclipse, who was grinning back with a smile that would put the Cheshire cat to shame.
Vincent shot awake, his alarm beeping 7. He slowly sat up, rubbing his head which was still dazed from the nightmare. He glanced around, and saw Luna; curled into a ball. He smiled at her, she was really adorable this way, and got up carefully (as to not wake her) and went to make breakfast.
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