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Ben's Note of Sheer Awesome: You know, with my speech later today and just this weird feel in the air, I think today has something in store for me. I'm not sure if it's good, bad, or ugly, but if it's any of those things, let's pray it has something to do with cheese. Or, if you're not religious, meditate and pray to science. I don't believe in science, but hey, whatever works for you guys.

Pickles: I congratulate you on catching up! Sorry if I was a bit rude in my author's note a few chapters back. Stressful times call for stressful note. I hope you like the story so far!

Prompt 75: Darkness

(Sven)

Sven didn't like people touching him. The only person he allowed to touch him was Maddie, and let's face it, even that contact was limited. So when Neb's friend touched his face, he nearly had a mental breakdown.

"No, no, no! No touchy… no… touchy…" Sven said woozily and his vision faded into darkness. When he opened his eyes, he and Alistair were standing in what appeared to be a cave that glowed red but appeared to have a thick darkness in the air.

"Looks like whatever Neb's friend did worked," Alistair commented.

"I don't like c-c-c-c-caves," Sven muttered in fear.

"Do you like anything?"

"Maddie?"

"Eh, good enough," Alistair shrugged. He looked around the cave for a moment. "I didn't think Kitty's subconscious would be a cave. Eh, I guess a lot of things about Kitty should surprise me."

Sven, too, looked around the cave for a moment. After that moment, he screamed. "Gah! Bad memories, bad memories!" he said, banging his head against the wall.

"Sven! Knock it off!" Alistair said, grabbing Sven and pulling him back.

"No touchy!" he said, quickly yanking away from Alistair. "This is a b-b-b-b-b-bad cave! No, no, no, no, no! Peeta's cave… nope! I can't h-h-h-h-handle it!"

Sven, without any warning, bolted from Alistair down one way of the cave. Alistair called to the blue haired boy, but Sven refused to listen. He needed out of this cave. And he needed out of it fast.

Dear Sven… come back to apologize?

Sven froze. No… no, it couldn't be. He… he…

Well guess what Sven? APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED! KILL HIM!

(Alistair)

"Maddie's so going to kill me," Alistair grumbled. After Sven had run off, Alistair figured it was probably best they split up. Sven, once he calmed down, would focus on the wraiths. This way, Alistair could focus on Kitty and the person responsible for making her like this.

Alistair was currently walking in the opposite direction Sven had run off in. He looked around the cave for any signs of activity, only to come up with nothing. Alistair quickened his pace, not wanting his girlfriend to suffer any more than she already was.

After another minute of walking, he sighed in relief. A girl wearing Kitty's cloths with his back to him was walking quickly down the cave. "Kitty!" he called to her.

However, as the girl turned, Alistair soon realized that it wasn't Kitty. This girl, who looked like Kitty, was covered in blood. When she saw Alistair, she screamed in frustration. "NO! NOT YOU TOO!" she screamed.

"You… you must be Dark Kitty!" Alistair said.

"Yeah… and you know what? This perfect day is turning into a complete nightmare!" Dark Kitty screamed. She then paused and looked at Alistair. "Hang on… you're Kitty's boyfriend…"

"And?" Alistair asked flatly.

An evil smile appeared on Dark Kitty's face. "I only need to take one more thing from her and she goes poof," she said evilly. "So… I'm going to kill you."

(Sven)

"STOP!" Sven screamed. The whispers that had started instantly stopped. "I d-d-d-d-don't know w-w-w-w-why you're here… b-b-b-b-but I'm not scared of you! Ok, maybe I am a little bit… but I don't want to be!"

HA! You not afraid? YOU'RE A COWARD! YOU ALWAYS WERE ONE!

Sven flinched a little. "M-m-m-m-maybe I am a little afraid of everything," Sven muttered. "Maybe I am j-j-j-j-j-just a chicken. B-b-b-b-but… I'm not a-a-a-a-alone. I n-n-n-n-never w-w-w-w-was alone."

Pfft, and who would care about a #$% like you?

"Maddie," Sven said firmly. "I know I d-d-d-d-don't offer a lot… I know she has t-t-t-to s-s-s-support me m-m-m-m-m-more than I support her… b-b-b-b-but… she loves me."

…

"You d-d-d-don't know love… you l-l-l-l-lied to me… I m-m-m-m-m-might have been your m-m-m-m-m-m-mind-slave once… b-b-b-b-b-but I'm not anymore. I'm my own p-p-p-p-p-p-person… and you d-d-d-d-don't control me! Or Kitty!"

… Very well.

The whispers began again… only to vanish. Sven nervously looked around to see that the darkness had cleared, revealing the cave in front of him. A person floated in the center of the cave, someone Sven had hoped never to see again.

"Be warned Sven," the ghost of Peeta said. "I helped you once. I will never do it again."

Sven nodded in fear as Peeta vanished. With the wraiths gone… Sven simply fell on his back and shut his eyes. "M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Maddie… I n-n-n-n-need you…" he muttered.

(Kitty)

The screaming stopped.

That was like a flood of relief on Kitty as she scrambled down what appeared to be a giant cave. As the screaming disappeared, Kitty fell forward in the shock of not hearing the burdened screams. A tear of relief fell from her eye.

"Thank you…" she whispered.

"… I'm going to kill you!"

Kitty pushed herself to her feet. She recognized Dark Kitty's voice… and she was going to kill someone. Kitty stumbled forward toward her voice. She flung herself forward as she saw Dark Kitty charged her.

"No!"

"NO!"

"Yes."

Kitty's eyes widened. As Dark Kitty charged whoever was behind her, someone had walked into the area. He was a tall man as he slid over in-between Dark Kitty and Kitty herself. Kitty stared at the man with wide eyes.

"D-d-d-dad?"

BN: This chapter was to establish Dark Kitty's need to rid of everything in Kitty's life that makes her happy. Slender, her teleportation, Alistair, all of them needed to go. Dark Kitty even damaged Kitty's trust of herself with the suicide attempt to further help her own evil plans. Dark Kitty is a part of Kitty, and I want to make that clear as you read this story. Thing is, Dark Kitty's a sentient part of Kitty's subconscious, which makes it all the scarier. Another thing this chapter was meant to do is set up the Sven/Maddie story I have planned after this one is completed. Just as a hint.

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