Zero sighed. He could feel himself on the edge of something, but he didn't think that it will be over for him in a while. Iris was screaming in his head, giving him a dull headache. His eyes were closed, completely failing to block out Reaper become a whimpering mess across the room.
Reaper herself was mumbling words Zero couldn't decipher. He tried using a translator, but he couldn't access it or any of his other non essential functions. He was stuck in the madness of his own mind. Zero sighed and sat up opening his eyes. Iris was right in front of him, her garden green eyes staring back at him, staring through him. Her voice droned out and left a high pulsing note ringing along his head as he felt himself teetering.
"Monster…" Iris whispered in his ear as he fell into the pit of insanity.
X stood asleep against the wall, waiting. He jumped when he heard the banging and animalistic sobbing. The voice was masculine and within a second he heard the sound of someone being dragged kicking and screaming away from the door.
Reaper limped away from where she had dragged Zero and sat down next to Zero. Her hair and his was sticking to her.
"X, Wann wird drei Tage vorbei sein?" She asked in a small voice.
"...What?" X asked, energy reserves way too low to translate.
"When will the three days be over?" She translated. Zero groaned and curled into himself.
"a few more hours. You're almost there." He whispered loudly. She grunted in response and decided to try to sleep the rest of the way, but that wasn't going to be fun.
She was running, barefoot and scarred. Her clothes were in tatters and her scar going down her face had freshly reopened. It was snowing, icy and cold. Her lips were blue, but there was no other sign of frostbite. Clouds of air were puffing out of her lungs as she struggled to keep going. Her fear of Isoc was keeping her going. She was suddenly stopped. A hand grabbed her wrist and she spun around and looked at the opposing figure.
He had purple markings going down his face, his blond hair falling into his face and his dull red eyes gleamed darkly at her.
"Hey! Hold up." He sailed out, causing her to flinch. She pulled away from him and he released her wrist, just so she wouldn't hurt herself.
"Hey. Stop. How can you utterly betray me if I don't help you." He said in a sweet gentle voice.
Zero looked over at her, her breath erratic. Her Silver hair losing its shine and she was making her hands bleed from digging her hands into her palm. Zero blinked, not quite recognising her for a moment. Iris laughed in his ear.
"Is this how you treat your loved ones?" Iris asked, calm. "They stand with you, keep you from doing something stupid, then you leave them, forgotten, and in need of you."
Zero growled and army crawled towards Reaper. Her brows were furrowed and she was crying softly in her sleep. Zero watched her, his eyes glued to a scar on her neck. Zero looked at her hands and saw blood pooling around her palm and wrists. Zero opened her hand and wiped away the blood crusting over her hands.
Reaper was chained to the ceiling, pain was completely rushing throughout her body. A small knife was buried into her back.
Bass was still taunting her across the room.
"You deserved this."
"traitor"
"When will you betray Zero?"
She began shaking on the cement floor Zero's eyes snapped up to look at her face. Tears trickled down her cheeks and she was just sobbing, broken.
Blood flowed from her palms down her arms. She let out a pitiful whimper. Her hair was getting redder from her the blood.
Her breathing calmed down as she relaxed. Zero blinked and felt her pulsed fall into dangerous territory. He panicked and began to shake her awake. She opened her eyes with a sharp gasp.
Zero gently put his forehead on her stomach and sighed with relief as her pulse returned.
"Z?" She whispered into the air. Zero picked her up and carried her to a the furthest corner in the room, holding her close to him.
"your heart almost stopped." He mumbled into her shoulder. She sighed and leaned back into him.
"Well you don't seem surprised that you almost died." Bass sneered into her ear, causing her to flinch suddenly. Zero was trying to focus on her, ignoring Iris.
"Hey, focus on me. Ignore everything else" Zero said, using a calm voice. She looked at him and her eyes were glazed over and unfocused.
"It hurts, Z. I can't even sleep to get away from it." She mumbled as she pulled him closer to her. She played with his hair just trying to turn around.
"...When I worked with Isoc, I used to run. I didn't want to be a maverick, or a killer." She mumbled, and Zero kissed her forehead, knowing that she was just blabbering. "Bass found me running one winter, and took me to a safe house. Kept me safe, for a couple weeks, anyway. Then Isoc tracked me down and…." She broke down, choking on the grief and pain. Zero kissed her cheek and cradled her head, just letting her vent and hummed.
"I figured." Zero said quietly into her ear. "He's cruel and angry when people leave. Of course he would do something like that"
X sighed as the timer counted down closer to Zero. They could make it, they would make it. All he had to do was wait, and that bit would be easy, because his eyes were drooping closed...