This War of Mine: Apocalypse:
Season 2
Next chapter of my crossover story, enjoy.
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Episode 8 Part 1
Niko sighed sadly as he looked down at Eli's corpse. He was disappointed it had come to this, and saddened. But it had to be done. Shaking his head he cleaned off his knife and sheathed it again. Then with a shaky breath, he turned back towards the farm house, and then stopped. It seemed Eli had indeed woken the others with his shouting, for there they all stood, outside, watching him closely. He bit his lip, this wasn't exactly something he'd wanted the others to see, him killing another human being. Especially not the kids. Luckily it seemed the others seemed to be thinking along those same lines as him there. Katia and Grozdan were blocking Kalina's view while Zlata held Sergei back and Cveta did the same with Lydia. He looked around the others carefully, noting their expressions, tense, wary, waiting. Finally he spotted Arica, nodding to him reassuringly as she stepped closer, she was the closest to him out of all those outside at the moment, mere feet away. Then his gaze landed on Mara, who was shielding Misha from seeing, on the porch by the door, next to Anton. There was a look of great anxiety on Mara's face, far greater than the others and he recalled her fears for herself and Misha, what Eli might have done to them. Something had just now been averted.
Shaking his head he stepped forwards.
"He's...he's dead, it's over now." He said, speaking mainly to Mara. "I just, I wish it didn't have to come to this, but I hope we all understand why it had to be done and that it's not something we want to have happen again."
They all nodded gravely and Niko sighed again, considering his next words carefully.
"You guys all need to understand, especially you kids." He said at last, startling the four children as he said the last pat. "This wasn't like killing Walkers. He was a human, no matter how he acted and that is something that I hope none of the rest of you have to experience."
He suppressed a shudder, still trying to, for as long as possible, stave off the effects of killing a human, at least until he was alone.
"Niko...It wasn't easy, you don't have to be so strong." Arica said softly. "We get it, it had to have affected you. We want you to understand, we're all in this together. You may have carried out the act, but we're all culpable, we all agreed it needed to happen."
The others nodded and a few murmured in agreement.
Mara shuddered. "What matters now is, it's over. We'll be...safe from him at least."
"I know it's asking a lot after all this but please, let us go back inside, let us all get some rest, hmm?" Anton suggested.
Niko managed a tight smile at that, it sounded like a good plan to him.
However as he began to step closer he saw Arica freeze, the others did the same and gasped. Before he could react, Arica drew her gun and aimed at him, no, past him. He turned just as Arica fired and also froze in horror as Arica's bullet hit between the eyes and the suddenly revived Eli, now a Walker, fell back, definitely dead this time. But what struck him at once about that was the fact Eli revived as a Walker, as something had been missing, something that should have made it impossible for him to become a Walker.
There was no bite.
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