Chapter 41

After about fifteen minutes of waiting the Nep sisters returned to my room. This time with pancakes for lunch, or breakfast in my case.

But the one thing that really caught me off guard with this is that Neptune kept her word. She's actually wearing a nurse's outfit. Which raises the question… why does she have one of those?

There are some advantages to being taken care of but this is emasculating on my part. I should be taking care of Nepgear not the other way around.

"Open up sleepy head!" Neptune takes a fork with butter and syrup covered pancakes and holds it up to my mouth. The smell is really intoxicating, but as I said before, I'm not hungry right now.

"I'm not that hungry Neptune. And isn't it a little late for breakfast?"

Neptune gives off one of her adorkable smiles before giving me some weird or just plain stupid logic.

"It's never too late for breakfast."

"She's right you know." Maurice calls out from the living room.

Another question of mine is why did he let Neptune in dressed like that? I can understand Nepgear, she still looks normal compared to her sister. This is going to be a long day I can already tell.

"Why did you let her in?"

"She gave me pancakes" Well that makes sense. Maurice is one of those people who will do anything for a bite to eat. I cook mostly because I know what he likes.

Neptune looks at me again this time with a deviant glee about her. It's clear she wants me to eat them at all costs. They were made by Nepgear after all, not having them would be like spitting in her face.

Sigh, I give up… my mouth opens up and Neptune puts the small piece of breakfast in. My mouth closes on the fork and she pulls it back out.

The overall taste of it isn't bad. In fact, I like it more than I ever would've dreamed. Nepgear has officially restored my faith and love in a balanced breakfast to start the day. No matter what time it is when you wake up.

They melt in my mouth, the butter and the syrup compliment each other on the batter treat. Nepgear's treat has the right amount of milk and other ingredients to make them fluffy, but not too fluffy.

My face can't escape a look of pure bliss, and surprisingly Neptune catches on to it. Her eyes change to a new style somehow and her smile goes to an I told you so expression.

I finish swallowing before I talk to Neptune. "Ok… you were right."

"Yay!"

Jeez keep it down Neptune. We live in an area where others are close by. And that cheer was loud enough to make my ears bleed.

Neptune takes up another forkful of the magically delicious pancakes and holds it up to my mouth. I open it to object to her feeding me, but Neptune had other plans.

"*Mpf!*"

When my mouth opened she lunged the fork in and made me chew. After a few chews it goes down my throat smoothly like the first one. And again, it tastes like a little slice of heaven.

Neptune holds back her urge to laugh uncontrollable at my change in demeanor. Nepgear on the other hand looks like she wants to scold her older sister a little bit.

I don't think she'll ever muster up the courage to say anything. It's about time I show Neptune that I'm not in enough pain to be taken care of.

*Bop!*

Yeah that's right, I bopped her on the head once. She drops the plate in her lap and covers the spot where I hit her with both of her hands.

She almost looks like she's about to cry because of what I did. Huh, must've retained some of my violence from the other night.

"Ow! Hey buster, what was that for?"

I raise an eyebrow at her question. "I told you I wasn't hungry, and I can feed myself."

That may have come off as a tad strong. I really didn't mean for it to sound like that, I've just got a lot on my mind right now.

From the guilt of how primal I was, to still being shaken up by last nights dream. I just have a low tolerance for things today. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to tell someone about these dreams.

I could tell Nepgear, but I'm afraid of how she'd react. It's a losing situation on both sides of the coin this time.

"Um… that was a bit… uncalled for." Nepgear calls out in worry.

"I'm… sorry Neptune. There's just a lot on my plate right now."

Neptune looks down at the plate on her lap before looking at me again. "I'll say, you've only gobbled down a fourth of it."

That's not what I meant but alright. At least she's got her peppy attitude back and in little time at all. I'm impressed at myself actually.

"Look, I'll eat it later. For now I'm just going to take a nap. You two can stay here if you want."

Neptune looks to Nepgear before deciding what to do. Both of them shrug their shoulders after coming up with an answer. Neptune goes first.

"You said it yourself, you can take care of yourself. I'll just be going back to my place then."

"I'll be staying here, I'm sure your brother could use the company anyway."

So Neptune will be leaving and Nepgear will be staying? This just further solidifies their completely different personalities even more. Nepgear being caring and Neptune being lazy.

Ok, that's not completely true, Neptune can be a very caring individual if you get to know her well enough. I guess my words truly sank into her heart.

"Later alligator…" Neptune walks out of my room and leaves the apartment shortly afterwards. Now it's just me and Nepgear alone in my room.

"I'll just be in the other room… if you need anything… don't be afraid to ask."

"Ok… thank you."

Nepgear nods to me before leaving my room and closing the door behind her. It's great to know that I've got someone who cares about me so much. And I promise to do the same if she's ever feeling like this.

The thought of going to sleep scares me a little. So far today the pieces have been arranged for another one of those dreams.

Maybe they're a night time thing, I don't know how they work fully. All I can do is hope that it doesn't happen right now. I'd hate to see what Nepgear would think.

No guts no glory I guess, my eyes close and I drift off to sleep.

"haa… haa… haa…" Uni's holding on to her last breaths as the metal stake pierces her neck.

Oh no, one of these dreams happened again in the same day. I'm not sure if I can take the mental strain of two of these things in such a short amount of time.

Uni goes limp, falling off the stake herself with the power of gravity. Her body lands on my feet, but the external force makes me kick her off like she was a tin can.

"Hahaha, this is more entertaining than I thought it would be!" The even more sick and twisted form of Andrew calls out.

He's just treating this like it's some sort of game isn't he? That mine and their lives are just something to play with. I don't think I even have pity for this dream version of him anymore.

"The young ones are next on the chopping block. Go and deliver them judgment!"

My feet start moving again, this time towards Rom and Ram. If he's trying to make me feel like I'm in a bottomless hole he already accomplished that when I killed Nepgear.

Looking into their eyes, they have the most basic emotion in them. Fear… that's all I see in them right now. And I can't do anything to stop this madness. I'm going to have to watch to young girls die at my hands now.

I've never wanted to die more, whether it be dream me, or real me. These dreams feel so real, so anything I do in here makes me feel like crap on the outside world.

Stopping right before I get to them again, or as the puppet strings made me do, I look into their eyes once more. Ram stares blankly into nothingness, while Rom won't even open her eyes.

This is sick, it's more appalling than any serial killer or hate crime out there. Two young and innocent girls are about to die because some jackass wants to make a point.

I didn't think he'd ever stoop so low as that.

"Please… spare them… they don't deserve this."

Andrew puts a hand on his chin before making his decision. From his grimace, I think it's safe to say he has no intention of stopping.

"Sorry, they're all going to die eventually, I'm just speeding up the process."

With another one of his hand raises, a second metal stake forms in my left hand. Probably so I can kill them both at once. If anything it's the most humane thing he's done yet. They both won't have to suffer each others loss.

Raising his hand again, my arms go up in the same manner that they've done before. He swipes his arm down, signaling my arms to do the same. Before I see the blood, I wake up abruptly.

"AH!"

Like earlier today, I shoot up screaming out of my slumber. Again with the cold sweat on my body as well as my pillowcase and sheets being dampened.

And again with tears running down my face. The dream is so real I guess that I can cry in real life from them.

As before, my heart rate is incredibly faster than what it should be. To the point where I need to hold my chest and do a lot of deep breaths just to feel normal again.

My door flies open and Nepgear runs in with an expression of concern on her face. She must've heard my scream and became scared by the sound.

She steps back at the sight of me, this time she can see my tear tracks and sweat covered body before I can wipe it all up. I was really hoping she wouldn't see me like this, not yet at least.

"Is… everything alright?"

I can't hide this anymore, I have to tell what's been going on and how I feel because of it. If I don't, it might come back to bite me in the ass later.

"No… it's far from alright."

A few more tears roll down my face as I say that. Nepgear's expression doesn't change for the better either. I think I just made things worse by doing that.

These dreams scared me already, and in turn I'm scaring her right now. I don't want to see this anymore, I have to clear things up.

"Nepgear… I need to tell you something… important."

Nepgear nods a little before walking over and sitting at the foot of my bed. The expression on her face hasn't changed in the slightest either. I'm hoping by the end of all of this I'll feel a little more sound.

"Promise me something first… don't tell anyone else about this."

"O-ok, I won't."

"Ok, here it goes…"

A/N: Man what a cliffhanger right there. Who knows what will happen at this point. It's anyone's game right now.

I still want to know what everyone thinks about the story up to this point. If you've never left a review then I would really like to hear what you have to say. The same goes for ideas, which this idea was pitched in by godofmaddness43, thanks man and keep reading.

But until then, see you in the next update.