The Epic Story of Xoe Chapter 6: My Valentine's Last Breath, a hamtaro fanfic

Chapter 6: My Valentine's Last Breath (Song by Unfinished Thought)

"So, you want to help me kill someone, Jeff?"

"Yes, I do."

Xoe nodded. "Alright."

It was the middle of the night. Xoe and Jeff stood on a bridge in the park that overlooked a rocky river. The bridge was fifteen feet over the river.

"Who's going to meet us here, Xoe?"

"Jack."

"I remember him. Gah, I hate him..."

"Me, too."

A few minutes later, Jack arrived. He smiled falsely. "Hey! What did you want to tell me, Xoe?"

"I wanted to tell you that...uh...climb up onto the railing of the bridge with us, Jack." Xoe got up on the bridge. Jack got up and sat next to her.

"Now?"

"I just wanted to say that Jeff and I hate you and you're going to die." Xoe pulled her knife out of her belt and stabbed him in the stomach. Jack threw up blood all over himself. Jeff then pushed him off of the rail and into the river.

"Great work," Xoe congradulated. "Now how much do you want me to repay you for helping me?"

"Oh, you don't have to repay me... You just have to do me a favor."

"Alright, say it."

"Go out with me."

Xoe paused. "...Alright. I will."

Jeff hugged her. "Thank you, my mysterious beautiful girl!"

"Call me that again, and I cut off your balls."

"...Okay..." Jeff let go of her and stepped back.

"I'm not one to love all over someone," Xoe explained. "Plus I won't go all out and do everything for you. You have to do a lot of that crap by yourself."

"...Okay." Jeff sighed.

::You Were Sleeping::

::In The Evening::

::I Was Thinking::

::Less Than Perfect::

Xoe went into the bar she met Ben in with Jeff later that night. Barely anyone was there though. Ben caught her eye as he walked over.

"Hey, Miss Xoe!" he greeted.

"Hey, Ben, this is Jeff. He just made me become his girlfriend because I had to repay him for helping me kill someone."

"What did you do to the guy that you killed?"

"You know that bridge down there? I got him to sit on the rail with me, and then I put my knife into his stomach and Jeff pushed him off into the river. I think he got impaled on one of the rocks."

Ben nodded slowly. "Alrighty then..."

Jeff nodded off as he walked away to get a beer. He left Xoe and Ben talking for a good while.

Do you like this guy? a voice asked her.

Yeah, I do..., Xoe thought. ...I think.

::Remember::

::You're Dreaming::

"So that Jeff guy made you go out with him?" Ben asked.

"Yeah, unfortunately."

"Very unfortunate." He sighed. "I was going to ask you if you wanted to be mine because I like your personality type."

Xoe paused. "...You do?"

"Yeah, it simply amazes me."

"My personality?"

"Yes, how you can kill so relentlessly... So beautifully challenging with the tweaks of emotion..."

"Wow, you like making poems too?"

"Yes, you do too?"

"I LOVE poems! They express the very best of myself..." Xoe sighed. "I like you, but I don't really like Jeff. It's just that he said he liked my killing process, but you do too... But you write poems and are more interested in the beauty of the mind than in the beauty of the body."

"Yes..."

Xoe looked into his eyes. "You want my number, don't you?"

"Yeah..."

She grabbed a cocktail napkin and a pen. Xoe wrote down her number and gave it to Ben. He held onto it tightly as if it were his life and she had just given it to him. Xoe kept looking into his eyes with her mesmerizingly cold blue eyes.

"Such a beautiful mind does not need to look through metal into the world."

"Wow, you are a great poet..." Xoe's eyes melted with rapture. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and kissed her.

::Deserving::

::Of A Comeback::

::Can We Throw Back?::

::Can You Feel That?::

"What's goin' on over here?" Jeff inquired as he walked back over.

Ben took back his arms. "Oh, nothing."

Jeff knew what was happening. "Well, I'm going home now. "I'll see you guys tomorrow, right?" He kissed Xoe on the cheek as he passed by her.

"Gah, I can't stand him," Xoe whispered.

"Me neither, and I haven't really even talked to him before," Ben muttered.

::Look On You::

::Down On You::

Xoe was leaving the bar now. She walked into her apartment just at the moment when her phone rang. Xoe walked over and answered, "Hello, this is Xoe."

"Miss Xoe Revie, make it over to the hospital quick. Something went wrong with the oxygen tank that your friend was breathing through. She wants you there, and she might not make it through the night," an operator remarked.

Xoe hung up the phone and grabbed Charlie's car keys. She ran out the door and jumped into the car. It would not start, though.

"Damn, it's outta gas," Xoe whispered. She got out of the car and began running towards the hospital on the other side of town.

When she got there, Xoe was too late. She walked into the hospital room to find the nurses and doctors whispering things in low murmurs. Roxie's carcass had a blank expression on her face. Tears began to flow down Xoe's face as she screamed.

"THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN!" Xoe sobbed as she ran over to the hospital bed. "WAKE UP, ROXIE! YOU CAN'T DIE ON ME! NOOO!!!"

"You're two minutes too late, Xoe," a nurse whispered.

"NOOO!!! ROXIE! WAKE UP!!!" Xoe collapsed onto the hospital bed and cried. "YOU CAN'T DIE ON ME! I WON'T LET YOU!!!"

"C'mon, Xoe, let's go." The nurse was close to tears as she grabbed onto Xoe's arm. "She's not here anymore. Something went wrong with the oxygen tank."

"IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Xoe screamed. "IF YOU HAD BEEN MORE CAREFUL, THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED!" Xoe continued to sob heavily. The doctors and nurses backed out of the room.

::Disappointment::

::Sequential::

::Surrounding::

"I promised myself I'd never let you die, Roxie," Xoe whispered after a few minutes. "I promised I'd always die before you did. I never kept that promise..."

::You Promised::

"Are you serious, Xoe?" Ben whispered through the phone.

Xoe wrapped the blanket she was under closer to her. "Yes."

"Are you gonna be alright?"

"Yes, I will."

"You're lying to me."

More tears fell down Xoe's cheeks. "Yes, I am."

"I'm coming over there to check on you... Alrighty?"

"Akay." Xoe hung up the phone. It was later that night. She stood up off of her bed and threw the blanket down on the floor. Her dress was beginning to turn a dark blue with all of the blood and tears in it.

A few minutes later, Ben knocked on the door. Xoe let him into her apartment.

"Wow, pretty nice place you got here...," Ben whispered as he glanced at the row of knives on the table in the kitchen part.

"I suppose," Xoe whispered.

"I suppose you should try to get out of here. Let's go on a walk."

"Akay."

Xoe and Ben walked out of her apartment. They walked along the path of the park behind the high school.

"I hope everything starts to get better for you," Ben whispered.

"I hope so, too. No one more important needs to get killed. I'm really surprised I didn't hunt down the person who fooled with that oxygen..."

"Don't get too naive. Some kind of chemical change could have occured and spoiled it... Anyway, I'm still here, and I don't plan to leave you."

Xoe smiled. "I know."

::Sub Urban::

::Medication::

::Synthetic::

::Temptation::

"Ben, I've only known you really for a night, but I have a feeling I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you."

"Or the rest of my life." Ben laughed.

"Yes, maybe," a voice said.

Xoe stopped. "Did you hear that, Ben?"

"Hear what?" Ben glanced around.

Suddenly there was the sound of gunshots. Xoe looked beside her to find Ben slumped over on the ground. Crimson was pouring from him.

"NO, NOT YOU, BEN!" Xoe screamed. She glanced around. "Come out, whoever you are!"

No one came out. Xoe's eyes filled with tears. "I'LL KILL YOU NEXT!" She dropped onto her knees beside Ben and got her cellphone out of her belt. Xoe called 911 and got an ambulance. Ben was carried away on a stretcher, but she knew that he was not going to make it.

Once they got to the hospital, Ben was rushed into the emergency room. The doctors and nurses tried everything they could, but he was gone forever.

"I'm very sorry about this, Xoe," a nurse apologized. "Two deaths in a row tonight for you."

Xoe's eyes filled with tears. "And they were the only ones in my life that mattered now." She turned around and walked away out of the hospital.

::I Love You::

::You're Bleeding::

::I Regret This::

::I Was Dying To Know::

::If Anyone::

::I Was Dying To Know::

Xoe stayed around her apartment for the next few days. Jeff had tried calling her to see what was wrong, but she hadn't answered the phone for him. He left about eight messages a day.

"Xoe, I'm really worried... I wanna know what happened."

"Xoe, answer your phone. You're upset over something, and I need to know."

"Xoe, c'mon. You know you want to talk to me about what's been going on."

Finally she answered the phone. "Hello."

"Xoe! What happened?"

"Shouldn't you know?"

"...No."

"You know Ben loved me and I loved him."

"Yes, I did."

"You shot him a few nights ago."

"DO WHAT?"

"We were walking in the park and you came out of nowhere and shot him."

"But, Xoe, I was at home..."

"No, you weren't."

::To My Father::

::I'm Sorry::

::I Never::

"If I had done it, I wouldn't be calling you. Besides, if I did, you made me do it in the first place."

"How so?"

"You liked him better than me."

"You couldn't figure that out? You didn't remember that at graduation I told you not to bother me again?"

"Yes, I did."

"Then why are you complaining?"

"I'm not, I'm fighting."

"Fight as much as you want, but I'm going to kill you anyway, whether you did or not."

"But-"

Xoe hung up the phone. She wrenched her knife out of her belt and walked out the door.

::You Made Me::

Xoe came to Jeff's apartment down the road and kicked it open. Jeff jumped up from his kitchen table and saw her.

"I PROMISE I DIDN'T KILL HIM!" Jeff shouted.

"I promised I would kill you anyway," Xoe whispered as she kicked the door closed.

Jeff backed up against the wall. "Please, Xoe..."

Xoe pointed to the table. "Stand up on it."

"What-"

"STAND UP ON IT!" Xoe shouted.

Jeff gulped as he stood up on the table. She handcuffed his paws behind his back. Xoe then stood up on the table and put a black cloth bag over his head. She brought a rope out from her belt and tied one end to a beam at the ceiling. Xoe then made a noose out of the other end and put Jeff's head in it. She then pushed him off the table and hung him.

Xoe heard the crack in his neck as it dislocated his head. She laughed psychotically as she walked out of his apartment.

::Gravitation::

::Controlling::

::My Anger::

::Don't Leave Me::

Xoe returned to her apartment. She had now killed twelve people in three weeks' time. Xoe lied back onto her bed and wondered about what would happen next.

::I Regret This::

::I Will Always Hurt You::

::I Was Dying To Know::

::If Anyone::

::I Was Dying To Know::

"I wonder who I'll kill next," Xoe whispered. "My world is falling apart now... What if Jeff really wasn't the one who killed Ben? Oh wellys..."