Title: Mistaken Identity Part 1
Pairing: Willie Loomis/Maggie Evans
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Theme: #9 Dash
'I can't let him hurt her...after Maggie it surely won't stop - there'll be Vicki, David, and then that Burke Devlin. God, I wish I wasn't such a cowardly rat..."
Groaning, Willie continued to creep alongside the Evans' cottage, his heart pounding like a boxing glove within his chest as he envisioned Maggie's expression when he'd tell her.
'She'll laugh at me' he thought, miserably shaking his head. 'Maybe I can't do this...no, I've got to. Better she laugh at me than die!'
With this thought as the main drive behind his actions, Willie approached the glass double doors to Maggie's bedroom and placed his hands upon either knob, his flesh prickling the moment he overheard a twig snap from behind.
'What the...?'
"HALT! Take another step and we'll shoot!"
Panicking, Willie abandoned the task at hand and took off for his car as fast as his gangly legs would carry him, the sound of bullets whizzing past his speeding form causing his mouth to run dry as he felt a sharp stab of pain in his back.
And then another, and another, and ano-
Collapsing, Willie coughed up globules of plasma, rivulets of scarlet dribbling past his lips and down his chin as he cast his blurry gaze up toward the stars and moon above.
"Sorry, Maggie...I...I tried" he wheezed, unshed tears forming along his lashes as he allowed his head to drop down languidly against the earth, his essence faint and fleeting as he slipped away into the unknown.
To be continued…