Disclaimer: I own nothing but Neb, Sven, and Dark Kitty.
Ben's Note of Sheer Awesome: Again, more mixed reactions. Here's the thing about Neb. People have problems with killing the author. Listen: I'm the author. I can kill off whoever I want and have it make sense. Neb died, sure, tragic, but the thing about Neb is this: the only way he could have died is if he let himself get killed. I'll let you speculate on what I mean, but in general, in this universe, the author can die, because authors exist. (Brooke exists, doesn't she? Why can't Neb?)
Funny story. So my redid prompts, the ones we've been following for a while… as it turns out, I did my math wrong. I thought I had narrowed it down to 101 prompts… I narrowed the prompts down a little too well. I narrowed them down to 91 prompts. So, I added ten more prompts into the series. There are still only two more arcs after this, but they are now much, much longer. Also, the last arc takes place in the far future, so all my stories I have planned will all take place before it. I'll say it again later, but I thought I'd mention it now too.
Rainbow Swirl: Again, I can do whatever I want. If I want to arrest Kitty, I'll arrest Kitty. (Sorry… tired, annoyed, ate way too many cheesepuffs, and I'm just… grr. Sorry if I'm taking it all out on you.)
Prompt 79: Uncalled For
(Maddie)
"What do you mean I can't visit her?!" Maddie demanded. She was standing outside of a door somewhere in the catacombs. Deuce had informed her where Kitty was being held and Neb filled in the lines from the author stage.
"Sorry… Headmistress Bloodgood and Mr. Rotter said specifically only Kitty and her boyfriend are allowed in there," Frankie said awkwardly. "Um… sorry I can't be more help than that."
Maddie screamed in frustration, practically tearing her own hair out. "Come on! I can't just sit aside! I need to help these guys!"
Frankie gave her a sad smile. "I'm sorry, but I can't help you," she said.
Geez, she's better in canon. She's adorable in canon.
"Neb!" Maddie hissed in a voice low enough that Frankie couldn't hear. "Lizzie is your… was your girlfriend! Being disembodied means you can find other women adorable? No, it doesn't!"
Sorry, being dead doesn't really sit well with me. Well, I'm not dead dead. I'm still writing this story, right? Also, Lizzie's not adorable. She's a beautiful young women that I can't believe is mine. Speaking of Lizzie, ask Frankie where Lizzie is.
"If you won't let me in to see Kitty and Alistair, can you tell me where Lizzie is?" Maddie asked Frankie.
"Oh, she went to the morgue. Travel a little down this corridor and go down. You'll know it when you see it," Frankie said.
"Why is Lizzie in the morgue?" Maddie whispered as she made her way away from Frankie.
Probably admiring my drop dead gorgeous dead body.
"Really? Puns?"
Hey, I'm dead. I can make as many death puns as I want and get away with it.
(Alistair)
Alistair was kind of ticked off, but managed to keep himself calm. Kitty worriedly sat next to him as Mr. Rotter paced back and forth across the room. It was a dark room with a table sitting between the couple and Mr. Rotter. Alistair bore his eyes into the teacher, not leaving him for a second. "Why is Kitty here?" Alistair finally asked.
"Why else? She murdered two people," Mr. Rotter growled.
"You have no evidence she killed Neb!" Alistair said. "Plus, she didn't even kill Slender! That was the March Hare!"
"Wrong!" Mr. Rotter said, slamming his hands on the table. Kitty flinched but Alistair didn't dare move. "We have evidence that Miss Cheshire killed both victims and desired bloodlust on both of them."
"Now that's uncalled for!" Alistair said, leaping to his feet. "Kitty wouldn't dare want her father dead! Nor Neb! Although, Neb did kind of deserve it sometimes, but Kitty wouldn't kill him out of hate!"
"I hear you defending her more than her defending herself," Mr. Rotter snipped. "Why is that?"
"Because, I don't know, I'm her boyfriend," Alistair said flatly. "Besides, she's in shock. She's like this, and quite honestly, I don't blame her."
Mr. Rotter sneered… only for a smirk to appear on his face. "Fine then. Here's the evidence," Mr. Rotter said, pulling out a book. "This book was delivered by Neb himself years before today. It records the past, present, and has details of the future engraved into it and it self-updates. I've marked two pages you just have to see."
Mr. Rotter pushed the book across the table. Alistair grabbed it and opened to the marked pages, which so happened to be right next to each other. The top of the page was labeled Deceased/Reincarnated. Alistair went down the list until he found Slender and Neb.
Name: Slender Man
Universe: Monster High
Death: Elevator
Murderer: Kitty Cheshire/March Hare
Reason: March Hare out of revenge. Kitty Cheshire because of sheer hatred.
Article Updated: 100 years ago
Reincarnated: Yes
Name: Neb Author
Universe: Unknown
Death: Shot
Murderer: Kitty Cheshire
Reason: Because she wanted to.
Article Updated: Yesterday
"This doesn't make any sense," Alistair said. "Sure, Neb's does, but Slender wasn't killed a hundred years ago, so this book is a sham."
"As I said, this book contains future events as well as past ones," Mr. Rotter said. "Slender hasn't been around a hundred years… but that article has. It knew he was going to die. And when I heard Slender had had a child with a Cheshire, I knew his fate was doomed."
(Lizzie)
"You stupid… stupid… stupid…" Lizzie muttered, tears falling from her eyes as she clung to Neb's dead body. Neb was resting on a gurney, still dressed in his bloodied cloths. According to some of the students, Neb had clearly stated if he ever died, he was under no circumstances to be undressed. So, Lizzie didn't care as she cried tears into his now dried blood.
"Lizzie?" came a hesitant voice. Lizzie recognized it as Maddie's, but didn't respond. "Are you…"
"Don't you dare ask me if I'm ok!" Lizzie practically screamed.
"I wasn't… going to," Maddie said awkwardly. "Lizzie… are you…are you so certain Neb is dead?"
Lizzie didn't know what came over her. She didn't remember leaving Neb's corpse at all. All she remembered was ending up pinning Maddie against a wall, rage in her mind. "OF COURSE HE'S DEAD!" she screamed at her. "I WOULD KNOW IF HE WERE ALIVE! HE'S MY BOYFRIEND MADDIE! HE'S… He's… he's…"
Lizzie couldn't take and burst out sobbing again, falling to the floor. Neb was her life… a part of her. She couldn't… she couldn't live without him… even if she said she wished she did sometimes…
Maddie calmly wrapped her hands around Lizzie. "Lizzie… he's moved on," she said to her. "You need to too. He doesn't want you to beat yourself up over this. It's not your fault he's dead."
Lizzie sobbed again… then paused. "Y-y-y-y-you're right," she sniffled, wiping her tears away. "It's not my fault." Anger grew on her face. "It's Kitty's."
BN: Nice choice of words Maddie. That's exactly what I wanted to happen. No, seriously, it was. No sarcasm here, nope. Lizzie's supposed to be angry. You'll see why soon enough… Anyway, this chapter was basically setting up why Kitty was looked at weird by Mr. Rotter. He knew Slender was going to die since he was born. Once he realized that it was going to be his own daughter, Mr. Rotter basically wanted to, in case she ever showed up, arrest Kitty for his murder. Sure, Slender's alive now because he reincarnated, but to Mr. Rotter, Kitty still killed him. Same with Neb, to a lesser extent. Also, we both know Dark Kitty killed Neb… but the book can't distinguish it. Dark Kitty is a part of Kitty. Therefore, everything she does falls onto Kitty's shoulders. It's unfair, but the harsh reality of what some real life people have to go through. Sometimes, we do things that we didn't do, but we did, thus, it's our fault. Kind of sad, but what can we do?
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