Side Note : This is it, guys. This is the end, and not the pretty kind with fucking Jonah Hill and James fapful Franco. This is the end of Heads Will Roll and no I am not sobbing quietly into my One Direction pillow right now.
I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for reading and reviewing this story, because you're all the reason why I write and look forwards to hopping on and cooking something up (yes I just made a witch/Halloween joke just go with it haha Adam Sandler sorry). At the end, I'll be thanking you all individually, so please stay tuned for that :) I hope you like this last chapter that I will probably epically fail at, and that Heads Will Roll will be a story you'll come back to every Halloween.
But who knows- maybe I'll make a new story for next year ;D
Also the song I mention when the two get to Ethan's is like my favorite song right now and I love it to death, so if you've never heard it, please listen to it? Please? For me :3?
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Despite what had happened that night, and his promise to hate every single moment of it, Ethan was sad when Sarah's party ended. The celebration had ended at ten and slowly everyone leaked out of her house, grinning with flushed cheeks and racing hearts, thanking the hostess and asking her to throw another party for Christmas, maybe, or New Years. Sarah grinned at them and promised to come up with another one soon, and everyone left happy.
Benny and Ethan were the last to scuttle over to the front door, reluctant to leave, but at the same time unable to wait to get out of their costumes and settled down for a night of movies.
She smiled warmly at them when they finally stood in front of her, looking exhausted and alive.
"You guys were great tonight." she told them sincerely. "Thank you so much."
Benny laughed. "It's not like it's something we're not used to. We save the town nearly every week."
"But this time it was different." Sarah looked at him with a pointed eyebrow raise, and as Benny swallowed down her scorn she pulled Ethan into a tight hug.
"Thanks." she whispered into his ear, and Ethan grinned because two years ago he would have killed for a moment like this.
"We'll be back at it by the middle of November- I guarantee it."
Sarah agreed that they probably would as she pulled Benny into a hug as well, looking smaller in her Neo cosplay than she had before. She looked like a regular teenage girl who had a group of tightly knit friends who also happened to be a vampire who kicked supernatural ass and Ethan wondered when he felt sorry for Sarah. She had everything someone else would kill for and she wanted the one thing she couldn't have. He didn't pity her but the pure ecstasy he'd felt since icing Monica weakened slightly. He had heard her talking to Erica earlier on, after finishing the task at hand, and remembered her saying that she wish her vampirism was just a costume she could take off and put away in a box until the next year.
Benny's warm hand on his neck pulled him away from the tornado of thoughts raging through his head, and blinking, he looked up at Benny's softly smiling face.
"Ready to go, E?"
Ethan nodded, grabbing his staff from the cornered couch. "Yeah. I'm beat."
They said their final goodbyes before exiting Sarah's large, comfortable house, Erica shouting 'Don't do anything I wouldn't do!' after them as the door swung shut.
Ethan and Benny laughed together, because they were pretty sure they'd done everything Erica hadn't.
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When arriving at the Morgan's house, Samantha was gone with Ross and Jane as she said they would be. They were taking Jane out to go trick-or-treating, and then were staying at their Aunt Rebecca's house that night when finished, so Ethan and Benny had the whole house to themselves.
But Ethan had promised to call her as soon as they got home, and after telling Benny that he could go ahead and take a shower, he dialed his mom's number on his cell and watched Benny as he made his way upstairs.
"Hey, Ethan." Samantha chirped into the phone. "How was Sarah's?"
Another flash of Benny's gored face and the obscene amount of dancing they'd done went through Ethan's head again, and he shuddered back the candy creeping back up his throat.
"It was fun. We mainly just danced and hung out with Sarah, Erica and Rory."
"That's good." his mother replied, shifting on the other line. "Have fun watching movies with Benny. And I assume you'll just be watching movies, correct?"
Ethan choked on air and felt his neck burning bright red at his mother's implying thought, the knowledge that Benny was currently getting into the shower doing nothing to help him.
"Yes, mom."
"Good. I'll see you tomorrow around two."
"Alright, love you mom."
"Love you too, Ethan."
Ethan let out the groan he had been holding in after he'd ended the call, scrubbing a hand through his tangled hair. They weren't that obvious, were they?
Well, no matter the reasoning behind Samantha's suspicion, Ethan told himself that he was a teenager who lived to break promises and left it at that as he made his way upstairs.
There was already steam billowing out from the crack in the bathroom door when Ethan got to the top of the stairs, and smiling to himself, he went into his room to take his costume off and set his phone down. Though he loved his costume to death, there was nothing more liberating than taking off the lot of tight fabric and flowing capes, and his neck was almost sore from the amount of pressure his helmet had put on it.
Maybe he could weedle Benny into giving him a neck massage.
Benny was singing when Ethan crept stealthily into the bathroom, mist hanging in the air like a raincloud and his boyfriend's velvety voice warming the room even more so. It sounded like a love song, one Ethan had never heard before, but it was lovely so he refrained from pointing out that Valentine's Day was still four months away.
Ethan bit his lip to refrain from laughing when finally getting into the shower behind Benny, which of whom had piled nearly a whole bottle of shampoo on top of his head in order to style his wild hair into a mohawk. He looked like Mordecai from Regular Show, waving his hands around with the bottle in his hands and his hips shaking.
"Excuse me, Elvis." was the only form of greeting he gave before wiggling in between the jet of water and Benny, tipping his head back into the warm spray.
Benny scoffed, wiping a bubble away from his forehead as it sank towards his eyes. "Excuse yourself, because that was not Elvis. I was singing Royals by Lorde, E."
Ethan snorted. "You're such a hipster, I swear."
"I've never worn booty shorts or waist-length shorts in my life, so I'm not sure what you're talking about."
"You don't have to dress like Lana Del Ray to be a hipster, Benny."
Ethan grabbed the bottle of shampoo out of Benny's hand and squirted some into his palm before giving it back, grinning widely at his friend's cutely unremorseful pout.
"It's a good song," he muttered in a last attempt to prove himself, but Ethan honestly could care less.
"Sing it for me, then." he insisted. "I've never heard it before."
"I can't."
"Why?"
Benny bit his lip. "You give me stage fright."
"Bullshit." Ethan murmured, but instead of insisting his friend go on, he hooked his slippery hands around Benny's slippery sides and pulled him in for a slippery kiss.
The taller of the two made an undignified noise in his mouth and pressed him back against the wall of the shower, and in under ten seconds Ethan's head was swimming due to the mixture of boiling hot and freezing cold. It felt as though half of him was on fire, and the other had been dunked into the ocean during December, the combination of the two was slowly turning his brain to mush.
Benny's large, roaming hands were the main source of the scorching heat slowly picking up all over Ethan's lithe body, and little by little the chills from the night began to melt away and his fright slipped away as if it had never been there in the first place.
"I told my mom," Ethan sighed, kissing Benny again. "That we were watching movies."
"We are. Just not at this moment."
"I'm lying to her." he hinted, but when Benny just kissed him harder and quoted Footloose by calling Ethan his rebel child, Ethan could have cared less what Samantha assumed they were doing.
He tangled his nimble fingers into Benny's sudsy hair and held onto him for all that it was worth. And when he found out that Benny was still wearing his prosthetic Vulcan ears, there in the shower, he made a very high pitched sound that made Benny both want to laugh until he cried and groan until his sexual frustration was no longer existent.
So he did a little of both, Ethan right behind him.
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They were on their second Halloween-themed film, Halloweentown, having picked a nice one after watching Michael Myers' classic horror film with the same name of holiday, when Ethan finally brought it up.
"I didn't get to the basement in time to see what Monica turned into to mess with you." he whispered into Benny's neck, where he was currently cuddled up to. Benny tensed up immediately, and Ethan rubbed his thumb over Benny's side. "It wasn't real, whatever she put you through."
Benny nodded silently, and his grip on Ethan tightened subconsciously. The shorter boy was the only one of the pair who noticed.
"I just really don't want to talk about it." Benny said back just as quietly, and Ethan nodded.
Benny thought that that was going to be the end of the discussion, but then Ethan took in a breath and said, "She took me back to freshman year, that day you got bitten by a zombie." and Benny felt guilty for clamming up.
Ethan shuffled closer, something Benny thought was impossible because they were basically folded into each other like a damn origami swan, and let out the gust of air he had just taken in. "I felt the same fear I'd felt back then, unable to save you. It was awful."
"I'm fine, though." Benny assured him, spider-like hands strumming up and down Ethan's back like strings on a harp. "I was fine then and I'll be fine for the rest of my life. I've gotten lucky this far- I can't see much else threatening my existence."
Ethan smiled tightly. "Maybe. Let's not jinx it, 'kay?"
That was the end of the conversation on Ethan's half, and Benny, unready to bring up his half of the horror, simply pressed a warm kiss to Ethan's hair and relaxed back against the pillows again as Marny took off in a cab on the screen.
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Ethan was woken out of a dead sleep at around three in the morning, and for a moment he was incredibly confused, blinking into the blackness in a daze.
But then Benny sighed quietly next to him and shifted slightly, almost restlessly, and Ethan had just cracked open his lips to ask what was wrong with his boyfriend, when Benny beat him to the punch.
"I saw you, in the basement." Benny told him quietly, and Ethan was suddenly aware of the fact that Benny thought he was still asleep, so he closed his mouth and steadied his breath out again. "When Monica finally tracked me down."
He felt Benny's fingers tickle over his hand and wait there for a moment, before settling down and laying over his. He fought the urge to open his hand up and hold onto Benny's for dear life.
"It was a nightmare I've been having since you almost fell out of that tree in eighth grade. I always walk into your room only to find you huddled into yourself by the window, looking down onto the lawn. You're always wearing a black jacket and you always tell me how lonely you are, how sick of life you've gotten. I try to talk some sense into you but you always pretend I'm not even there, and then..."
Benny took a moment to collect him, sniffling slightly next to him, and Ethan's chest felt as though someone were sitting on it.
"Then you pull out a knife, a silver one, and you say it'd just be easier if you were dead. I always walk forwards to stop you but a wall stops me from getting near you, and then I have to watch you smile like it's all not a damn thing to me before shoving the knife right into your heart. I only get to move when you're almost dead, and all you say to me is that you're happier dying than you ever were living. And then the light leaves your eyes and I wake up, and there are always so many tears in my eyes that I can't even tell if I'm looking at the ceiling or the ground."
Ethan felt Benny curl closer, burying his nose into Ethan's freshly washed hair.
"I just don't want to lose you, E. You and Grandma are all I've got."
Ignoring his gasp of shock, Ethan shifted until he was pressed up against Benny with no space in between them, legs tangled and his face hidden in Benny's rising and falling chest.
"I'm right here," Ethan mumbled into his Captain America shirt. "And I promise you that I'm not going anywhere."
Benny didn't have the energy to be angry at him for listening into his monologue and instead just curled farther around the other most important person to him, their words soothing away his pain and their scent pushing away the budding tears.
When they finally fell asleep again, Ethan and Benny looked like a pair of earbuds from all of their tangled limbs but they were happy and safe and that was all that mattered.
They didn't have any nightmares that night.
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That ending was pretty A++ compared to others I've written so yays :D I'm sad it's over but the journey was fun and now I can get back to writing All That Glitters cause sHIT.
And now, it's time to thank you beautiful people of fanfiction and the MBAV fandom and the lovers of the gay. I'll go in order of those who commented first and work my way out:
Bethan Forever: Hot damn girl you reviewed every single one of my chapters and wrote like a whole paragraph flipping shit. Let's be besties, 'kay? You're awesome. You're also really funny and just holy crap your reviews made my life because they were amusing and exciting :D I love you! All my Bethan stories are here on out dedicated to you because you're a golden flower child.
TeamEthanMorgan: Same goes for you, who also reviewed every single chapter! You liked the openness of the boys and gOD YES THANKS FOREVER. I really wanted to write a story where they almost gave everyone cavities and I'm glad you all for that :D You're funny as hell and fasijdk let's be besties too, okay? Super!
funkybananas47: Honey, first off your penname is hella fabulous, please don't ever change it because that's literally the best thing I've ever heard. You reviewed a ton and I cried all the time because you said I was funny and usually I'm the only one who thinks I'm remotely witty so thanks forever :"D Let's frolic around a field together
MisreadSoul: Just the fact that you know what ATWT is and have attempted watching it makes you a flawless moose so anyone who says otherwise can gtfo. I, sadly, have only watched like 200 hundred bits of the Luke&Noah story but I abandoned it after awhile and when I tried to watch it again, just... It was too much. But thanks for reading and reviewing and being bootiful.
TrampledRose: Bbe thanks so much :"3 Your penname is also a piece of art and please don't change it because I love roses and gdabshjknl. I'm glad you liked the story and hope this last chapter didn't disappoint!
Dominus Trinus 13: I'm sorry that I probably like ripped your soul out of your nose with my sucky updating and chapters, so I'm sorry deary XD But your reviews were like giving me KitKats tenfold so thanks so much for everything!
And to the guests and others who reviewed a couple of times: You are all fabulous too and I would be nowhere without you!
Have a great Halloween guys and I'll see you when I finally update All That Glitters!
TheKoganKid xxx
