Author's Note: Thank you guys for the support and stuff! Means a lot to me! Thank you!

2D quietly left the room while Noodle was sound asleep. He walked down the stairs to find Murdoc leaning against the kitchen counter drinking a bottle of rum. 2D walked past him and opened the fridge trying to find some sort of substance to help settle down the guilt in his stomach besides the couple of pills he just downed.

"You're lucky ya' know."

2D glanced at Murdoc.

"I could've told her. I could've said somethin' about yo' lit'le secret right then an' there."

2D shot Murdoc a look of hatred.

"Look Mudz, she doesn't need to know..."

"So what does she think is the truth? When she asked what ya' messed up wit' me? Wha' did ya' say?"

"'Ow do yew know 'bout tha'?"

"Ya' don' really know 'ow to whisper."

2D looked at Murdoc shamefully.

"Yew're gonna kill me..."

"Was it somethin' tha' stupid?"

"I tol' 'er we shagged a few times an' I broke ih' off."

"You wha'?! I tol' you I'm not gay an' to keep tha' a secret!"

"Yeh...well tha' wot I said to 'er."

Murdoc suddenly lunged at 2D's throat grasping it with all his might.

"YA' IDIOT! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY THAT?"

"MURDOC STOP."

Noodle yelled as she ran in prying his fingers off of the younger man's neck.
2D was gulping air as he rubbed his neck.

"Toochi...are you ok?"

"Ya' ungrateful bastard! I 'ope she leaves your sorry arse!"

Murdoc stormed out of the kitchen as Noodle bend over to tend to 2D.
Truthfully 2D wished she would leave him now too...before she finds out the truth.

Noodle had been sitting in the living room for hours on end.
Waiting.
What had she been waiting for?
She had no clue.
All she knew was she had nothing to be doing at this time.
So why not wait?
2D had left for work early this morning.
She usually stays in bed, but this morning she got up with him.
He only left about 2 hours ago.
2 hours down, 8 more to go.
She stared at the clock as it tardily moved it's arrows.
She could be patient.
She was good at using her alone time wisely...
but how come she was sitting here like a puppy getting ready for its master to come home?
She uttered a small noise of frustration as she turned over and clicked the remote control.

"I see ya' happen to look awful bored."

Noodle made an expression caused by the hindrance that'd just entered the room.
Her gaze refused to leave the TV.

"What do you want Murdoc."

Murdoc mockingly shivered.

"Wow, so cold to ya' Uncle Mudzy, ey?"

"I'm still not happy with you for trying to strangle 2D."

"Look gurly, Ih'm tryin' to help ya' out! THAT WAS A FAVOUR."

"Help me do what?"

"Help save ya'!"

"I can save myself."

"You can't jus' save yo'self from somethin' ya' don' even know abou'!"

There seemed to be a large and inconvenient pause after he said that.
Noodle finally looked at him, her eyes having a deadly mixture of anger, disgust, and a slight bit of helplessness.

"Did the dullard even tell ya'?"

"Tell me what? He told me about you two..."

"No, no, no. Abou' his other li'l secret?"

Noodle shook her head as Murdoc gave her a wicked smile.

"Not a damn clue? Not even a small hin-"

"If you're going to not tell me then why are we talking about it?"

Murdoc looked at her seriously for a second, but his seriousness transformed into a smile that was wider and twice as wicked as his last smile.

"Noodle..."

"Yes?"

She held her breath and clenched her fists slightly.

"The dullard's been cheatin' on you."

It seemed almost as if she stopped breathing and her lungs collapsed.
Her heart dropped into the pit of her stomach.
She was going to be sick.

"That's a lie."

"No i's true. I know for a fact."

Her eyes started to sting.

"How long?"

"I dun really know 'ow long... maybe a month or two e's been seein' 'er? I jus' know who with."

"And that would be?"

"Well none other than Paula Cracker. Ya' know..our old guitarist? Yeh. A couple of weeks ago 'e ran into 'er in the middle of a bar. She was quite surprised she saw 'im and tol' 'im to call 'er. Knowin' the dullard an' 'is feelin's fo' the ex e' really did call 'er."

Noodle's sudden sadness and depression grew into anger. Deep anger.

"Well...when does he have time? He goes to work at 7 gets off at 6 and sleeps with me at night."

Murdoc gave a deep demented chuckle.

"Poor naive Noodle. Tha' idiot tol' ya' he got off at 6? He gets 'ome at 6! He get off work at 5! The 'ouse is a 10 minute walk from tha' place an' we don' have a car!"

Silence fell upon them. The tension and heartbreak in the air was so thick you could grab it.

"I'm going out for a walk."

"Have fun! An' by the way, I'm not gay. Never been with a man...or at least...never with 2D. Then again, 'e did mention me shaggin' him a few times while drunk...whatever."

Noodle walked out of the front door and down the street.
She didn't know where she was going.
All she knew was she needed to get out of there.
She broke out into a jog. A sprint. A full out run.
She was running full speed, no looking back.
Tears threatening her eyes to let them enter into the atmosphere.
She couldn't cry.
Not in the street.
Not in the middle of nowhere...
but then again she could.
Her whole body seemed to collapse.
She never got physically exhausted, but this time was different.
This time her emotions were fighting against her too.
She usually shut down her emotions in these situations.
Places where she needed to retreat or escape.
Her emotions wouldn't allow it this time.
There she was.
Sobbing like a child on the street near the park.
Then again, didn't everyone still think of her as a child anyways?
She begged for everyone to treat her like an adult when in fact she was a child playing dress up.
Noodle will always be a child.
Nobody will ever take her seriously.
That's why 2D cheated on her.
She weakly pulled herself back up.
She was stronger than this.
She wasn't any type of damsel in distress.
She'd saved herself her whole life, and she let 2D get in her way.
She let him soften her.
She needed to stop waiting on his every command and become the independent person she used to be.

"Um excuse me... are you alright?"

Noodle looked up to see a tall young man staring at her.

"I'm fine."

The young man nervously cleared his throat.

"I saw you while in the park. You seemed to be having a hard day. Seeing a young beautiful lady like you cryin' like that...I thought you might've needed help."

"Oh..well I'm fine."

Noodle looked up into his eyes.
They were electrifying blue and seemed to pierce into her own eyes.
His face was lightly graced with freckles and his hair was a bright sandy brown, almost red.
He smiled at her.
It was funny because she hadn't seen a whole and clean smile in a long time.
2D and Murdoc smiles were very different.
2D had no two front teeth and Murdoc never brushed his sharp claws for teeth.
She cringed.
2D.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

The young man stood there awkwardly then opened his mouth one last time to speak.

"Look, it seems like you're upset. I know it's terrible timing but...can I have your number? I can't just let a gorgeous girl like you get away."

"Uh...sure."

Noodle grabbed his phone and gave him her number.

"Ok...uhm...bye!"

The young man skipped off.
Although that brief conversation got her to forget about 2D, he crawled back into her mind.
If he was sorry before about everything, he's going to have to work harder than ever before to gain her back.
As of this moment she wanted nothing to do with 2D.
How could she respect a cheater?

2D came home to emptiness.
Usually Noodle was watching the telly or he could hear her talking to Russel on the roof.
He couldn't even hear Murdoc's broadcasting.

"Noodle? Noodle luv a' yew 'ome?"

"She's gone dullard."

2D snapped around to see Murdoc leaning on a nearby door frame.

"Where is she?"

"I dunno. I know she's pretty brassed off."

"An' why is tha'?"

Murdoc deeply chuckled. It sent fear down 2D's spine causing his to slightly shiver.

"She knows about Paula now."

2D stood there and seemed almost emotionless.

"W-wot? Well...'ow did she find ou'?"

"I told 'er. Ya' can't sneak aroun' an cheat on Noodle an' expect me to not say somethin'."

2D nodded his head slowly.
His dark eyes seemed to become more hollow and cold. Even angry.
Murdoc laughed a little to himself.
He hadn't seen Noodle become as angry as she was in a very long time.
Now he got to see 2D more angry than he'd ever been before.
As Murdoc's laughter became audible 2D lunged at his throat.

"WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK YA' THINK YA' DOIN'?!"

"I'M SICK OF YEW MURDOC! YEW DISGUSTING ARSE!"

2D's fist crashed straight into Murdoc's right eye.
Murdoc punched 2D in the gut knocking him to the floor.

"YA' ONLY TRYIN' TO FIGHT ME BECAUSE YA' MAD AT YO'SELF DULLARD!"

2D tried to pick himself back up but Murdoc shoved him back down and kicked him in the gut.
Over and over. More times than either could count.
2D continuously tried to get back up...even fight back.
Murdoc's boots dug into 2D's sides, legs, stomach, and even got his face.
Murdoc picked 2D up by his shirt collar and punched him in the face multiple times.
He could feel skin breaking and tearing beneath his knuckles.
2D threw punches at Murdoc, they were a lot less effective than Murdoc's hits.
Blood was pooling around the area.
Murdoc dropped 2D onto the ground and realized he was standing in the younger man's blood.

"Go ahead. Kill me. I deserve ih'. I did wha' I said I wouldn'. I 'urt Noodle. The one person tha' cares 'bout me I 'urt. Tha' whole fing wit' Paula was dumb an' I broke ih' off today...but wha' does ih' matter? T'e damage is done. So jus' kill me Murdoc befo' I do ih' fo' yew."

Murdoc looked down at 2D. He felt angry and upset with him, but at the same time he felt a small amount of guilt for beating him so badly.
He looked down at 2D who was wallowing in his own blood. Pitiful.
Murdoc left 2D and strolled over to the kitchen.
He grabbed a bottle of Vodka and drank it.
The strong stinging sent down his throat made his body grow in warmth.
At the very second it seemed to kill all of his guilt.
He strolled back over to 2D casually and leaned against the door again.

"I'm not gonna kill ya! Like I said, ya' need to be mad at yo'self for startin' all this. Grow some balls, belt up, an' go after 'er. Stop cryin' like a li'l nancy boy. Or just be a coward an' go kill yo'self. I honestly don' care what you do."

Murdoc walked forward and grabbed 2D's hair and pulled back roughly to get a good look at his face.
Cuts and bruises were everywhere.

"I fuckin' 'ate yew."

2D spat angrily at Murdoc.

"I'm not too fond of ya' either ya' fuckin' poof."

Murdoc shoved his head back down and started to retreat back to his studio when he heard 2D's soft voice.

"I was gonna tell 'er ya know...I don' know why yew 'ad to go an' tell 'er first. I guess yew jus' enjoy seein' me suffer. I shoul' know betta' by now."

Murdoc took a deep swig of his vodka and continued to walk into his studio, pretending like he didn't hear a damn thing.
2D picked himself up off the ground.
His whole body was shocked with pain.
He went into the kitchen and wet a towel.
After mostly cleaning the dried blood off of himself he cleaned the sink to get the blood out.
He then immediately left.
He knew he had to find Noodle, and if he couldn't find her he'd be out all night trying.

A couple of hours later Noodle came home.
Emotionally drained.
All she could see on her way in was blood.
Blood everywhere and tracing out of the doorway.
She knew it could be 2D's, but she was too tired to react.
All she could think was she wasn't going to be the one to clean it up.
"Well is 2D alright?" Noodle thought to herself.
She shrugged the panic off.
It wasn't like her to blow off 2D's pain, but he'd blown hers off.
It's almost as if she'd become emotionless.
She went straight upstairs.
She opened his bedroom door to find it empty.
Perfect.
She wanted to sleep in his room tonight.
She just didn't want him there.
She shut and locked the door behind her.
Her head was pounding so hard she felt as if it would break her skull.
At this very second she didn't want to feel anything at all.
She looked over at his nightstand and saw his pills lying there.
She knew his dose was much larger than the average human, but if it killed her she didn't mind.
All she cared about was comfort.
Noodle popped one pill into her mouth and crawled into his bed.
She quickly drifted into a deep drug induced sleep.

Suddenly she opened her eyes.
Everything around her was vivid.
She woke up to find 2D, fully dressed in his clothes from the day before, laying there next to her.
How did he get inside? She locked the door!
She looked at him with frustration and shook him.
Nothing. Not a single move.

"2D. Stuart. Wake up now."

Nothing still.
Noodle shook him furiously as her eyes caught sight of his pill bottle.
It was completely empty.
Not a single pill left over.
She looked down to realize 2D's skin was cold and pale.
He was slightly foaming at the mouth and completely passed out.

"2D? Toochi! WAKE UP. PLEASE!"

Noodle grew angry. Angry with herself for being so helpless. Angry at him for doing this. Leaving her.
She reached for the phone and swiftly dialed 911.

"911 what's your emergency?"

"Yes, we have a suicide attempt. An overdose. HURRY."

She slammed the phone onto the dock as she jumped on top of 2D giving him mouth to mouth.
She didn't know how to revive someone from an overdose.
That was the best she could think of.

"MURDOC! RUSSEL! ANYONE!"

Murdoc came sprinting in.

"Wha' do ya'-"

Murdoc stopped dead in his tracks to find Noodle on top of the unconscious man.

"He's taken all of his pills...h-he tried to take his own life..."

Noodle sobbed into 2D's chest.
She knew it was too late.
There was no pulse.
He was gone.

"The dullard didn' 'ave to do this to ya'..."

Noodle messily sobbed even harder.

She didn't know what to do, or what even caused this.
He told her just the night before she was his reason to live.
If that was the case why did he kill himself?
He cheated on her, then commit suicide...the selfish bastard.

"H-h-how could he do this right next to me?! HOW COULD HE DO THIS AT ALL?!"

Noodle became furious as she shook his body.

"YOU ARSE! HOW...WHY?!"

Murdoc came behind her and held her.
He quickly noticed a piece of paper laying there next to the empty pill bottle.
He grabbed it quickly and read through it as fast as he could.
Russel opened her window quickly like he always did when he heard Noodle distressed.

"What happened? Why are the cops here? I really do hate not ever knowing what's going on."

"Russel...Russel he...h-"

Noodle broke down once more.
All these emotions coursing inside her and pumping through her veins.
She didn't understand how she felt.
It was such a mixture.
Sadness, depression, anger, regret.
No emotion in her was positive.
A team from the ambulance outside came in.

"Ma'am we need you to let him go in order to-"

"but I can't...I can't let him go...I can't...he needs me!"

She hated feeling so dependent on someone.
She hated feeling this much emotion.
She hated that 2D was most likely dead.
She hated it all.

"Ma'am you need to let go so we can possibly save him."

"but...h-he...he needs me..."

Murdoc held her softly.

"Shhhh...you have to let him go."

Noodle buried her face into his chest and softly cried.

"Murdoc what happened?"

Murdoc swallowed hard. He couldn't help but feel partially guilty for all of this.

"2D...he...took all of his pills."

Russel seemed to be at a loss for words.

"On accident?"

"No. He left a note... It says..."

Murdoc cleared his throat trying to keep down all form of emotion.

"Dear Noodle, I'm sorry. Everything is my fault. I was tired of always making you unhappy and holding everyone back. You're young and you deserve the best you can get. Murdoc said it himself all the time. I'm a worthless idiot...and a coward now. A coward because I cheated on you and instead of trying to make things better I took my own life. Tell Russel and Murdoc to keep you safe. Don't worry about me. I love you."

Murdoc coughed awkwardly as he held back tears.

"He commit suicide."

Silence fell over Russel.
He wanted to say so much, but not right now.
Not while Noodle was like this.
Noodle seemed to lose all control at that point.
Her eyes seemed to be blinded with anger and rage.
Her stomach had been weighted down with depression as she realized what she just saw.
The one man she loved took his own life.
She pushed Murdoc away and walked into 2D's bathroom.
She furiously dug through his cabinets as she found another bottle of his pills.
She clutched the top of the pill bottle and dumped half of it into her hands.
Murdoc walked in as Noodle was throwing it into her mouth.

"You aren't leavin' us again!"
Murdoc walked forward and hugged Noodle from behind gently.
This was the most sensitive she's seen him her whole life.

"Please love..."

Noodle spit the pills into the sink.

"I just...I don't know what I could do...how dare he tell me to not worry about him! How...h-"

"Noodle. It'll be okay."

She turned, hugged Murdoc, and cried more.
All she could think of was how he looked the very last time she'd seen him alive.
He was very melancholy at the time. His deep black voids stared into her soul as he said his last words.
I love you.

Noodle woke up in a cold sweat.

It was morning time and the door to the room was being pushed and banged on repeatedly.
Noodle hopped up and unlocked the door quickly to find 2D bust in.

"Noodle! I was out all night lookin' fo' yew an' when I cam 'ome yew were screamin' again. Even worse than las' time. Yew called me...I don' wanna hear yew screamin' in tha' much pain an' I jus'..."

2D broke down crying.
Tears threatened to overwhelm Noodle but she knew she couldn't cry.
Not now.

"I'm such a fuckin' idiot. I'm so sorry..."

"You should be."

2D raised his head.
Noodle looked over 2D's face which was decorated with scars and bruises.

"What happened to you yesterday? Was that your blood everywhere?"

2D nodded and looked up at her.

"But I deserved it. All of it."

"Did Murdoc do this to you?"

"Yeh'...but I went after 'im firs'."

"Why?"

2D bowed his head shamefully.

"Because e' told yew abou' Paula before I coul'."

Noodle's rage grew once more.

"How could you sit there and lie to me like you did?"

"I don' know...I regret ih' so much. Noodle yew have no idea how much I wanna take ih' back."

"You told me a lie that hurt so badly...and the truth was just as bad as the lie...if not worse. Probably worse because you lied to me...then again the pain is worse because they're both true. How could you lie in the face of someone you love?"

2D got on his knees.

"Noodle I know you won't right now but it's still worth a try...but will you please forgive me? I's awl I need. I will do anyfink jus'...please..."

The phone started to ring abruptly.

"I have to get that."

Noodle walked away leaving 2D there to wallow in self pity.
This time he messed up. There was no need for her to pity him...despite her fears that seemed to creep out into her dreams. She knew there was a possibility of it actually becoming reality.