Shinigami-cat: Okay then... I OWN NOTHING!

Welcome to paranoia PART 3

Francis shifted nervously in his seat. 'I need to get more garbage bags... And a wheel barrow... That's the only way I can move them... Then I'll use the old track to get to the far side of the Lake and I'll dump the bodies in there... I can't leave them for too long or someone will find them I just know it!' He gulped and began to shiver. 'That's right... I can't leave them alone... I have to, I have go back and get to them. Someone will find them if I'm not there!'

Suddenly Gilbert hit Francis in the face with a book. "Hey Francis what up? You seem out of it."

Francis smiled. "I'm fine... Just a little tired."

Antonio grinned. "Well you should have gone to sleep earlier... Or maybe you shouldn't tire yourself so much? What were you doing before you went to sleep?"

Francis gulped and looked down at his feet. "I... I was cleaning up some stuff... Chores you know?"

Gilbert sighed and rocked back in his chair. "Well you shouldn't stress out so much... Well class ends in a minute. What game do you think we'll be playing today?"

"Alfred and Matthew brought their water guns." Said Antonio. "Perhaps we'll be doing that today?"

The bell rang and everyone filled out of the room, except the usual club members. "So what are we going to do today?" Asked Arthur.

Francis sighed and stood up. "Sorry but I can't join in the club activities today... I have some chores that need to be taken care of..."

Alfred pouted. "Okay fine... Anyone else backing out today?"

Lovino sighed. "Our stupid Grandfather wants Feli and I home after school. Lord knows why."

"I have homework to finish." Said Ludwig.

Matthew whispered something into Alfred's ear. Alfred sighed. "Fine... Club meeting's cancelled. Everyone go home." Everyone quickly moved out of the room leaving Antonio, Arthur and Gilbert in the room.

Gilbert pouted. "Damn... Can't believe it got cancelled... Just when Opa let me off the hook too. Not awesome."

Antonio sighed. "I'm worried about Francis... He's been acting weird all day... Have you noticed Arthur?"

Arthur shrugged and grabbed his bag. "I guess... Now that you mention it he's been spacing out a lot and he's been a bit jumpy."

"I know." Said Gilbert. "All the chores his dad's making him do are stressing him out so he's been off lately."

Antonio nodded. "That must be it. We should do something for him..." Suddenly Antonio's eyes lit up. "I know! Francis loves going down to the tip and finding treasure! All three of us will go down and find something and Francis will pick the best one!"

"What the hell?" Asked Arthur. "What do you mean all three of us?"

Antonio pouted. "Well... On TV there are usually three people in a contest..."

Arthur sighed. "Fine... Let's just get this over with..."

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Francis grunted as he hacked off the last body part. It was very difficult to do but he was finally done. He put down the axe and went to grab some garbage bags and some masking tape. He began to stuff the body parts into the bags and taped them up.

"No one will know." He whispered. "No one will ever know... They can't. They can't know... I'll have to wash my clothes in bleach... When this is done I can forget all about it and everything will be back to normal. Right?"

He began to tremble but he pushed himself to keep doing what he was doing. Soon all the body parts were wrapped up and ready to be taken away. He sighed and wiped the sweat off his forehead. 'I'm almost done... Almost done... Just one more thing and it'll be over... I'll never have to think about it again. I can-'

"Francis?" Trembled a voice. Francis turned around and shook in terror. Standing behind him were Antonio, Arthur and Gilbert. "What is all this?" Asked Antonio.

"What have you done?" Asked Gilbert in terror.

"How many people did you kill?" Asked Arthur in shock.

Francis looked down at the bodies and back to his friends and smiled. "Bodies... Two to be exact..." He jumped up onto the roof of the combi van and beamed. "Okay everyone! Gather around and I'll tell you all a story! I call it Francis's amazing adventure! It all started a few days ago... You all remember Elizaveta right? Well..."

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"...So that's it..." Said Francis. "I was about to try and move the bodies down to the Lake... But as you can see there are a lot of bags." Francis looked down at them. Their faces were displaying every emotion from amazement to horror.

"DAMN IT FRANCIS!" Cried Arthur. "WHAT THE HELL? WHY DID YOU TELL ANY ONE?"

Francis tilted his head to the side. "What you have done?"

"Well..." Said Arthur. "I would have... um..."

"Exactly." Said Francis sadly. "You couldn't have done anything..."

"But we could have helped you!" Said Gilbert.

"How?" Snapped Francis. "This was the only way everything could have worked out! I... I had to kill them."

"No you didn't!" Cried Arthur. "If you had told us about this we might not have been able to help that much... But at least we could have helped you make a better future for yourself! Instead of living the life of a criminal!"

Francis sighed and shook his head. "There's no place for me here anymore... I am a criminal. Please take care of my father for me... Tell him I didn't disappear. I just ran away..."

"No." Arthur growled pulled himself up onto the combi van and was face to face with Francis. "Francis you made a mistake and a bloody stupid one at that... but we are your friends and we don't want you to go to jail over something this stupid!"

Francis shook his head and laughed. "Friends? I don't need friends where I'm going! I'm going to be on the run for the rest of my life! I don't need anyone! I'm happy!"

"If that's true than why are you crying?" Asked Arthur.

Francis smirked. "Crying? Is that the best you can do?"

Arthur reached out and wiped away a tear that was flowing from Francis's eyes. "No Francis... You really are crying."

Francis blinked and touched his face. He was indeed crying. Now that he knew that he let all his emotions pour out with them. All his pain, suffering and hatred left his body in the form of his tears. "I... I'm sorry..." He sobbed. "I... I..."

Arthur smiled and put his hand on Francis's shoulder. "It's okay Francis... You don't have to say anything. Don't worry we'll help you."

"That's right." Said Antonio as he climbed up too. "We'll help you Francis. We won't let them send you to jail."

Gilbert climbed up and smirked. "You're too awesome for jail Francis. We'll help you hid the bodies."

"And when we're done..." Said Arthur. "We'll forget all about this and everything will go back to how it was before."

"Thank you." Choked Francis. "Thank you all so much..." He reached out and hugged Arthur. Antonio and Gilbert joined in and they made a silent promise to never speak of the bodies again once they were buried.

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A few minutes later Gilbert was pushing a wheel barrow full of dismembered body parts along an old path in the bushlands. Antonio was walking beside him whistling happily while Francis and Arthur were standing back a little and were talking. "I'm sorry." Said Francis. "I didn't want to get anyone involved."

Arthur sighed. "It's fine Francis... Well it isn't... But you had no choice right? If you didn't kill her she would have killed you. You had no choice."

Francis smiled. "Thank you for understanding Arthur... You're a good friend..."

Arthur shrugged. "Hey it's fine. It was self-defence... well the first one was anyway... Not sure about the second."

Francis shrugged. "I had to protect my Father. If my father found out... Who knows what he would say... or do for that matter? I'm guessing he would send me off to a clinic in the city or something... Or he would actually send me to jail." He looked down at his feet and sighed. "Either one isn't good... He's already lost Mama, Monica's mama and Monica herself... If he lost me he might just loose himself..."

Arthur rolled his eyes. "You aren't going to jail Francis... and you sure as hell aren't being sent away. We won't let that happen... How much further Gilbert?"

"We'll get there when we get there!" Snapped Gilbert. "Cut me some slack here! I'm pushing dead weight!" Eventually they got to the dump sight. It was an old mine. Gilbert sighed and stretched his arms. "This one will do. It's really far away and it's on Beilschmidt land so no one will ever come here."

Antonio nodded and started to unload the body bags. There were so many but they kept working until all the body parts were gone. Hidden deep within the mine.

Francis sighed and leaned against a tree. 'How could I? How could I let them drag themselves into my mess? I know I can trust Antonio and Gilbert... But what about Arthur? I hardly know him! He could tell the police everything.' Francis shook his head. 'NO! I can't think that way... I can't... If I do... What will I have left?'

"Okay we're done." Said Gilbert.

"Thanks everyone..." Said Francis. "You didn't have to... You shouldn't have gotten involved in this... I'm sorry..."

Arthur sighed. "We said it was fine you git. Just go home and forget about it. This never happened. Hey Francis... You should go home and have a nap."

Francis smiled. "You know you guys you were all right."

"About what?" Asked Gilbert.

"All this time the only person I was fooling was myself... I kept trying to convince myself what I was doing was right even though I knew deep down it was wrong. If you hadn't have come here today and I had to go through this alone... It probably would have killed me." Francis turned and waved goodbye.

When he was out of ear shot Gilbert sighed. "If you say something's true for long enough people will start to believe it."

Antonio nodded. "We have to forget about this day. If we say it never happened than it never did."

"We have to forget about it." Said Arthur. "If not for our sake but for Francis... He's suffered enough today."

TBC

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