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Chapter 16: Vengeance
Bunny hung up, right after having called the ambulance. The action seemed to snap Jack out of his shook and seething rage. After a closer look, Jack narrowed his eyes in suspicion something was horribly off about how Bunny acted. He seemed far too calm for someone who had just hit somebody with their car. Jack's eyes shit up in pure shock and disbelief "wait… is he… smiling?" as if on cue, Bunny burst out laughing before he calmed himself. He started stroking Tooth's cheek, while wearing a twisted smile "that's what you get for having rejected me!" Jack's eyes widen even further in disbelief, horror and pure rage at Bunny's words. "What… you planned this?" he screamed at Bunny in pure rage and grief. He wanted so badly to just freeze that MONSTER solid right then and there, but he held himself back for now.
The sun had almost set before the sirens could be heard approaching from the distance, causing Bunny to once again put on a fake mask of horror, panic and guilt in order to avoid unnecessary suspicion of this 'accident'. The medics got to work while the police dealt with Bunny, who after taking Bunny's statement let him leave for now while they investigated the case. Jack snuck a glance over at the medics, who just declared his beloved Tooth dead and was now putting her into the body bag. He swallowed up his grief and rage, determined to learn the truth so he followed Bunny. He snuck into Bunny's home and followed him upstairs. However, when he entered Bunny's room he stopped dead in his track.
Bunny's room was covered in hundreds' of pictures… all of Tooth. An entire wall had been dedicated to a mural of her smiling. Bunny's yelling snapped him back to reality. "You really should have listened to me. Nobody, I repeat NOBODY rejects me and gets away with it!" Bunny took a deep breath, in an attempt to calm himself down. Speaking in a soft, longing voice, "I loved you from the moment I laid my eyes on you. You were the most wonderful and beautiful person I had every laid my eyes upon." He paused, his expression darkening "but your heart belonged to someone else, didn't it…" he let out a bitter laugh "of all the people in the world you had to fall for, it had to be a goddamn BLIND FREAK! Just the very sight of that damn freak was utterly disgusting, but I had to be at least somewhat nice to him or you wouldn't even spare me as much as a single glance."
Bunny's expression softened once again "when that freak died… It was the happiest day of my life! I thought I could finally get you to notice my love for you…. I was so kind to you, I supported you, let you cry on my shoulder… gave you time to grieve before finally asking you out and you REJECT ME! You even had the audacity to PUNCH ME! YELL AT ME!" he punched a nearby wall in frustration, panting as he tried to calm down his rage. He now looked towards the large mural before walking up to it, caressing the cheek with a dark and bitter expression. "If I can't have you… no one shall."
Jack, who had been standing there listing to Bunny's rant, were now seething in pure rage. "YOU… MONSTER!" the temperature of the room dropped rapidly, causing Bunny to look around in confusion of why it suddenly became freezing in his room. Jack iced over the door handle mechanism, affectingly locking him in. Jack looked at Bunny with dark and twisted smile "how about you and I have some fun…"
Jack dropped the even further, the raw power of his rage caused the light bulbs to shatter, leaving the room almost pitch black and Bunny to let out a startled squeak in fear. Jack smirked and walked up behind Bunny sending an icy chill down his spine, causing him to flinch away and move towards the window. Frost started to spread across the glass making Bunny look at the window. Jack then used his finger to write on the frost, "I've been watching you!"
Bunny jumped away from the window, eyes wide in panic and fear, unable to look away. Voice cracking in fear "who's there?" Jack re-frosted the window and wrote "Jack". Jack couldn't help but smirk at Bunny's horrified expression. He frosted the window again, writing, "Confess what you've done!" Bunny regained his composure, snorting while his voice took a slightly amused tone "or what? You can't do anything! You're just a ghost."
The window frosted again with the words "wrong!" was the only warning he had before finding himself surrounded by icy sharp icicles appearing in an instant out of thin air… nearly impaling him from every angle. Even moving a single muscle could be lethal. Bunny saw the window freeze again "care to revise your last statement?" Bunny knew he was in serious trouble, but his stubbornness and pride wouldn't allow him to yield. Bunny frowned in defiance "no!" Bunny felt another chill down his spine, almost causing him to flinch. "Suit yourself then, stay like that then." Bunny's eyes widened in horror at the implication of the new words on the window "WAIT! Are you going to leave me here, LIKE THIS?"
"Consider yourself lucky, MURDERER!" was Jack's last words on the window before opening Bunny's window taking flight into the night sky, "Wind! Take me to Tooth." The wind did as he requested, sensing Jack's need to give his final goodbye. At the morgue Jack waited outside until the autopsy had been completed before sneaking inside. He dropped on his knees upon the sight of his beloved Tooth on the metal examination table. He broke into tears as the held in grief took its full effect.
After a while, he got back on his feet and walked over to Tooth. He reached out to touch her, momentarily forgetting he couldn't touch her. However, much to his surprise, his hand connected instead of passing through. His expression softened as he gently began to stroke her cheek and hair, tears silently streaming down his cheeks as he did. He had missed the feeling of her soft skin so terribly and thus despite his grief he wore a soft smile, which quickly faded as he knew it would be the last time he ever did.
It wasn't long after before the staff reentered the room, seemingly there to clean it. Jack resorted to floating in order to avoid being walked through. Upon the entry of Tooth's father 30 minutes, Jack reluctantly took this as his cue to leave. He left the hospital, looking at it back at it with a sad expression, before calling out for the wind to get away from here as fast as possible.
He rode the wind and perched himself on top of the town library, the tallest building in town. He sat there, just gazing at the stars. A lone tear rolled down his cheek "goodbye Tooth!" He sat there on the roof, immersing himself in his memory of her, until daybreak. He sighed to himself and reluctantly left his perch and flew back to Bunny's room.
Inside the room, Bunny was still standing where Jack had left him several hours prior. Bunny was cover in cuts, some light and some deep. He was clearly struggling to stand up, it was only the knowledge of his certain death if he did not remain standing that now kept him up. His voice was strained from all his desperate pleas for his release. Jack, despite his rage and hatred for the guy, didn't want him dead. All this senseless killing would achieve absolutely nothing but grief and hatred, a never ending cycle.
He sighed to himself, looking at Bunny he reluctantly frosted over the window and wrote "had enough?" Bunny having heard the frost, stared at the window in both relief and unspoken plea "please, I'll do anything" Jack stumped his staff on the floor, causing a pulse that shattered the icy-spears. Bunny instantly fell to his knees in pure exhaustion, muttering quiet 'thank you's' which only served to anger Jack further. "This isn't forgiveness! No, I'll never forgive you. However, as much as I would love to kill you myself you don't deserve that mercy. No, you'll rot in jail for what you've done." Bunny's eyes widened as he read the message, reluctantly nodding in agreement.
"I'll leave an anonymous tip for the police to find. However, I'll leave you with a choice." Bunny looked at the message in confusion and fear. "wha… what choice?" he managed to squeak out, making Jack smirk in satisfaction. "You'll confess your crime and go to jail or don't and I'll make your life a living hell. Either way you are going to jail, but the choice of how hellish your stay will be, is yours to make."
Jack didn't stay to hear his answer, knowing his answer already. He wrote a letter to the police with the supplies he had taken while he was in Bunny's room. After finishing the letter, he left it on the desk of one of the detectives' desks, staying only long enough to make certain it was read before leaving. Judging from the detectives face, Bunny wasn't going to get away with this, confession or not.
A/N: Sorry for taking so long to upload this chapter, but i couldn't seem to be satisfied by it had to rewrite it several times before i finally got it as i wanted.
i honestly think i went to easy on Bunny, but lets be honest while Jack may hate him... he isn't a killer. besides letting him live and go to jail is afterall a fate worse in death in my opinion.
anyways, i'll be back soon with another update... don't worry wont be as long a wait as this has been.