A prompt-ish thing from Orange Purse
Oneshot
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You always said you'd protect me. You'd always protect me from the monsters. The monsters hiding under the bed, in the closet, in the forest, in the barn, in the darkness. Even when they came for me you said you'd protect me, you'd hide me from them, you'd keep me safe.
You promised.
And then you said we should seek them out. We should find them, reveal them to the world, we'd be heroes. If we could open a portal to the ghost zone we'd be forever remembered. Proof of life after death. Proof of alternate universes. Proof that physics could be used to take the spiritual and bring it under control.
I went along with it. I wanted to be a hero. I didn't want to be afraid anymore. I went along with you because you promised that no matter what happened, whether we failed or succeeded or anything in between, that you would protect me. That we'd be there for each other no matter what.
Confound it all, Jack, you promised!
And yet...
And yet when the time came and the portal blew and I was left standing there with my face on fire and my eyes aglow...
You always said you'd protect me from the monsters. That even if they caught me you'd save me.
Save me now, Jack. Please.
But I know you won't. I know it. Because I saw the look on your face. The utter horror in your eyes when I became the very monster we sought.
You promised. And then you broke that promise. And now, Jack, I can never forgive you.
I hate you.