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I felt broken that day, as though I were shattering into small, unfixable pieces, splintering like glass on a hardwood floor. I was crumbling from the inside out and I wished, hoped, dreamed, and prayed for it all to be over.
My prayers went unanswered that day and I was left to watch as my best friend crumpled to the ground a pool of blood growing underneath her.
Life was cruel, far more cruel than I could ever have imagined.
Heaven is on the way
You can feel the hate
but I guess you never will
I'm on a roll again
and I want an end
'cause I feel you creeping in
-Breakdown, Breaking Benjamin
-Flashback-
I heard a muffled sob as I collapsed on the ground next to my friend's body. "Bastard." I exclaimed. "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, and I hope you die." I exclaimed looking down at the blood pouring out of Carly's body.
"I was going to kill them both." Garrison remarked, unfazed by my exclamations. "But Robin can still be of use to me, I figure she will make could leverage against her uncle if nothing else. So, I settled for Carly, here, instead."
I grabbed a jacket lying on the floor and pressed it against Carly's wound with as much force as I could muster.
"Ah, ah, we can't have you saving her, that would destroy the entire purpose of this lesson." Garrison cautioned reaching down and seizing me by the arm attempting to pull me up. I shook him off and he leveled his gun on Robin. "I don't want to kill her, I could use her yet, but I will do it if you do not get up."
I slowly rose to my feat dropping the jacket I had been using to place pressure on Carly's wound. Robin promptly dropped to her knees next to the girl she had never gotten along with and took my place attempting to stop the bleeding.
"Are you attempting to be funny, Miss Scorpio?" Garrison asked. "Because I'm not laughing."
"Neither am I." Robin said defiantly glaring at the shooter and reminding me of her parents.
"I could kill you." He remarked mildly.
"You won't." Robin said sounding far more sure than she actually was.
"No, I won't." Garrison agreed. "You are as they say my ace in the hole."
"What do you want?" I demanded. "You've killed or released almost everyone here, what more can you possible want from us. Just leave us alone. Let us go. You've made your fucking point." I exclaimed. "Just let us go."
"I'm afraid, Miss Corinthos, that the party as they say has just barely begun."
I eyed him warily waiting for his next move, I had a feeling it would be a big one.
"I am in charge here, and I believe that you have yet to grasp that fact." Garrison continued. "I control each of your pathetic existences, I decide who lives and who dies, at any moment I can kill every person here or I could let them go. It all depends on my choices, do you understand that? Do you?"
"Has anyone ever told you that you're a megalomaniac?" I asked pleasantly.
"You begin to enter dangerous territory, Miss Corinthos." He cautioned. "You may want to learn to check that tongue of yours before you get yourself into a situation which you cannot so easily extricate yourself from."
"Perhaps." I agreed. "But, perhaps not."
He laughed then, I'm still not sure what he found so amusing, but then he was completely deranged which made his sense of humor rather different than most people's.
"I think you will understand one day, Miss Corinthos." He said after a pause. "You will see my point of view, and then you will understand."
"I will not." I said fiercely. "I will never understand how you could be such a monster, how anyone could be such a monster."
"You know that you will understand one day, and that is what scares you, because you know that I'm right, deep down, you know it's true." Garrison continued his voice taking on a velvet quality. "One day you will understand."
"I hate you."
"I can live with that." Garrison said with a shrug. "But will you be able to live with yourself when this is all over?"
End Flashback
He was wrong in some ways, right in others. I still think he's a monster, I still think he was utterly and completely insane.
But he was right about one thing, now that this is all over, I cannot live with myself. The guilt of surviving when so many didn't eats away at me everyday. Life hardly seems worth living after that.
What I found in this town
I'm heading for a breakdown
What's that sound, it's so loud
I'm heading for a breakdown
- Breakdown, Breaking Benjamin
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