Snake heard the door's lock click.

'What. . .'

He had only a split second to notice that Jund's eyes were bright purple before an arm swung around his neck.

"Cry?" Snake tried to say calmly while attempting to move the arm.

'Why don't we do this the easy way?'

'You have no control over me.'

'Not yet, at least.'

"Cry, let go."

Cry's grip tightened, pulling him back as Jund started walking forward. Snake gripped the arms around his neck hard enough to leave bruises, and pulled. A gasp of air entered his lungs briefly, only to be knocked back out as Jund leaped at him.

The three of them fell to the ground, barely avoiding the corner of the bed. Cry's pained yelp rang right in Snake's ear through the wrestling.

'Shit, he's hurt.'

'Then give up, he doesn't have to get hurt worse.'

Snake rolled and pushed back, sending him and Jund over near the computer. Snake managed to pin him to the ground easily, his hands wrapping around Jund's neck. Snake held a tight grip, but Jund's nails were starting to claw at his arms.

'Fine, we'll do this the hard way if you want to fight so badly.'

'No, I-'

Snake heard the desk chair move from behind him and pulled his arm away just in time to block it from hitting his face. The hit knocked him away from Jund, whose neck was starting to turn purple and his hands now had traces of blood on them. Snake's eyes darted to Cry, who was in much worse shape. Some of his bandages had bled through and blood was going down Cry's face.

'I guess you must like to hurt them. I'll keep that in mind.'

Snake ignored the incessant voice in his head and swallowed the lump in his throat. He stood up and braced his arms forward as Cry charged and rammed Snake into the door. The sound of the slam was so loud, he was surprised the door hadn't broken off the hinges. Cry's hands wrapped around Snake's neck.

"Alright, come on, this doesn't have to be difficult."

It was Cry's voice, but it didn't sound like him.

"Cry, I don't want to hurt-" '-yes, you do-' "Shut up." 'Never.'

Snake struggled against the door, trying to reach up and grab Cry's arms. Jund had finally recovered and made his way over to pin Snake's hands. It was becoming impossible to breathe.

"Just go to sleep, Snake." Jund calmly said as Cry's hands started tightening even further. The edges of Snake's vision were darkening.

'I. . . have to take them out one at a time. But which one first?'

'Why not kill them both?'

Snake swung a leg out to knock Cry down easily and grabbed Jund by the neck to throw him aside.

"Stay. In. The Corner." Snake ordered. Jund got up to lunge at Snake but with a swift kick to the stomach, Snake knocked him back down. "Stay."

When it looked like Jund was going to listen, Snake walked over to the pile of Cry on the floor.

"Snake, I. . . i-it hurts. Everywhere." Cry's sincere voice wavered slightly with a chuckle.

"I know, just hold still."

'You did that.'

One loud footstep and Snake swung around to clothesline Jund, knocking him back to the floor.

'He's not going to quit.'

"Snake. We are going to hurt you." Cry said quietly as Snake gently lifted the injured man up onto the bed.

"It's ok Cry, I'll think of something."

Another step. This time a punch to the chest sent Jund bouncing off the wall and down to his knees. Snake counted his blessings that he didn't hear a snap of any of Jund's ribs.

"Fucking coward. Get over here and fight the healthy one why don't you."

'He's never going to quit.'

Snake went to the dresser on the other side of the room and started rummaging through each drawer he found some of Cry's ties. The door clicked and Snake turned around just fast enough to see Jund's back exit the room.

"Shit."

'It's ok, you can still try and kill the one on the bed.'

'You can't make me do shit, so stop talking.'

'Just unlocking your inner thoughts. For all you know, I could be your deep conscious.'

"Bullshit."

Snake walked back over to Cry, noting the uneven breathing. Snake pulled Cry up to his chest to pull back the covers of the bed and laid him back down. Cry's breathing hitched slightly when he looked at Snake's arms. Snake looked down to see that from his upper arms to his wrists were long red streaks with small drops of blood from Jund's blunt finger nails.

'Jund doesn't even have long nails. . .'

'You should have killed him.'

"Snake, what d-"

"Just go to sleep, you need it." Snake cut him off. "I'm sorry but, just so you don't try to, uh, kill anyone. I'm just going to tie you to the bed. Then I'll go get Jund." Cry nodded sleepily.

Snake tied Cry's feet together with a tie and then used another to tie his hands together. He took care to lay the flat side against his skin so incase the virus woke him up, it wouldn't do too much damage. Snake used a couple more ties to tie his hands to the headboard so that Cry could move a little, but he wouldn't be able to get away from the bed.

"Try to rest. When I come back, I'll check your bandages." Snake covered Cry with the blankets and took a second to make sure he looked comfortable.

'He must be really banged up. He fell asleep instantly.'

'Yea, guess it's time to go catch Zippy now'

Snake grumbled at the inner voice and walked through the door, closing it behind him. He could already hear Red and Russ arguing.

"Red, come on babe, we are leaving right now."

"Please tell me why!"

"Please be quiet. I'll explain later, I just have a bad feeling."

Snake rushed through the hall to see Russ pulling Red towards the front door.

"Where are you two-?"

"We are going back to my place. Please hurry up Red, we are leaving." Russ frantically tried to grab all of the couple's things.

"Snake, I don't know what's wrong with him." Red sounded a bit frazzled herself. "I'll stay with Russ and try to calm him down. Take care of Cry and Scott, ok?"

"Yea, about that actually,"

"Sorry Snake, Red and I have to leave. Now."

"I'm so sorry Snake, call me if you need any help! Take care." Red called out as she was yanked out the front door.

'That was not good'

'First time you've been stabbed in the back tonight.'

'First?'

'Guess who's back.'

A dish went sailing past Snake's head, smashing against the door and shattering completely. Snake whipped around to look back towards the kitchen, only to see Jund standing there with a crooked smile.

Snake cautiously put his hands forward, ready to stop Jund from doing anything stupid.

'Maybe he's reasonable. . .'

Jund reached to the side and pulled a knife out of the knife block sitting on the counter.

'He's not.'

'Of course it's a carving knife.'

'Well he can't kill you with a butter knife, well, actually. . .'

Jund let out a laugh that sent Snake's nerves on end.

"Come on, nerd. Let's fight this out."

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Feedback is greatly appreciated. Again, I have no idea what I am doing with this. Well, I do but I don't. I'm sorry for any mistakes of any sort. Thank-you!

School is going to be starting again so hopefully I'll get some sort of order back in my life. Either that or it's going to cripple me for a few months again. I do not need brain surgery but this damn concussion is still being a lil bitch. Irritability is strong.