Shiena felt no pain at all, the painful burning sensation was gone when she woke up. In fact, she felt nothing, she no longer felt her body. She was paralyzed and numb, she could barely move, even if she wasn't tied up. The brunette opened her eyes. She was still in the motel's room, lying on the bed. Midori was sat on a chair beside her.
"Sorry, Shiena-san, I didn't know that this poison was so painful. I gave you a powerful drug that make you stop feeling pain, but it seemed to also paralyzed your body"
She poisoned her? That reminded to Shiena what happened to her when Hitsugi poisoned her. The brunette tried to talk, but her face was also numb. Shiena put all her forces to say something.
"Why…are you…doing this? What Otoya…did to you? I want to…know…everything…" managed to say the brunette.
The green haired girl rose up and sat on the bed's corner.
"Sure, we can talk pending Takechi-san. What do you want to know?" asked Midori.
"You're…different from me…from everyone in our organisation"
Midori remembered that Shiena didn't know about her defection.
"You're right, I'm not like you guys. I never been bullied" answered the green haired girl.
If her face wasn't almost entirely paralyzed, Shiena would have a shocked expression.
"You probably wonder why I'm in this organisation, don't you? Well, there was a girl, one of my classmates, who was bullied. I don't know why, but this situation pissed me off, so I killed all the bullies. This is how Collective Dismissal got an interest toward me"
The brunette tried to talk, but her voice was too down to be heard. Midori approached from Shiena to be able to hear what she wanted to say.
"The…fire…your…parents" this is the only thing that Shiena could say.
"The fire? Oh, it's seemed that you investigated on me, I'm flattered. Yes, my parents died into a fire, officially it was an accident that burned our house. But hey, let me tell you a secret, Shiena-san…it was my, I voluntary killed my parents!" laughed Midori.
Even in her condition, the brunette's eyes could express some fear. The green haired girl unzipped her jacket, showing to Shiena her burn scars.
"Because of those burns on my body, everyone thought that it was because of the fire, so no one suspected me. But in fact, these scars have nothing to do with this incident. My father was an asshole, his favorite pastime was to burn me with his cigarettes or torturing me with matches. My mother was as guilty as him, she never did something to help me. So when they were asleep, I burned them, because they deserved to die"
The green haired girl approached even more from Shiena, enough to be on top of the brunette.
"I had to see a lot of psychologists, and they all said the same thing about me, that I was probably a sociopath, someone who can't have feelings for others. They are right, feelings isn't something that I can't feel easily. But they also are wrong, I have feelings, but I don't know what feeling exactly I feel. Remembered the girl I spoke to you, my classmate? Well, I'm pretty sure that I felt something toward her"
"Felt…?" whispered Shiena, noticed that Midori talked about her classmate at the past tense.
"Yes, felt, because she's dead now, thanks to your girlfriend"
The brunette remained silent and emotionless because of the drug that Midori gave her, but her eyes began to be wet, like she was about to cry.
"She knew that I was the one who killed the bullies who harassed her. You know what she told me? That it was wrong to kill, no matter the reason. But she wasn't mad after me, or scared of me. She was a nice girl with a pure personality. On day, she called me because she had something important to tell me, face to face. I was busy this day, I had an assassination for our organisation, so I went to her house the day after. When I arrived to her house, there had a lot of cops. Her body was on a stretcher, inside of a black bag. I understood few days later that she was killed by the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper of the 21st Century. I'll never know what she wanted to say to me, and I'll never know what I truly felt for this girl, and this is all because of Takechi Otoya!"
Tears began to come from Shiena's eyes, rolling on her cheeks.
"Why are you crying, Shiena-san? Do you cry because of what happened to this girl? Or maybe you cry for me? Is it because you understand now who's really Takechi-san? How strange it is to cry. I could understand to cry when you felt pain. Even when this girl died, I didn't cry. How strange. Hum, I suppose that I'm really a heartless person, a sociopath" said Midori. "Well, according to what I said to Takechi-san, I'm supposed to torture you, rape you, and slice your throat. But what would be the point if you can't feel anything?" "And this crazy teacher told me, with a knife under my throat, to not kill her student" thought the green haired girl.
The door suddenly opened in a violent way. Otoya entered into the motel's room, with an urge to kill. Midori began to smirk, she wasn't scare at all about the serial killer.
"You took your time as always, Takechi-san! I see that you saw my message"
Seeing her worst enemy on top of her girlfriend was too much to be bearable. Otoya approached from the green haired girl, with the intention to kill her. But Midori put a knife under Shiena's throat, forcing Otoya to stay back.
"I deadly poisoned Shiena-san, she'll die in few minutes. If you want that I give you the antidote, you better do what I say to you"
Resignedly, Otoya didn't move, an expression of fear on her face.
"What do you want from me?" asked the serial killer, who couldn't hide her anger.
Suddenly, Shiena began to utter weak scream from pain, what worried her girlfriend.
"It seems that the drug lost her effect, she'll die in a terrible pain" said Midori.
"You bitch! Give me that dammit antidote, I'll do everything you want but please, spare Shiena!" begged Otoya.
"How funny, you asked me to spare Shiena-san? You would never spare someone if another person asked it. So why should I spare the one you loved, if you would never did this? You deserve to suffer, to know the pain of losing someone you love!"
"Shiena don't deserve this! She had nothing to do with all the horrible things I did, she's a good person. Her only crime was to fall in love with a monster like me!"
"All your victims didn't deserve to die either, especially not in such a horrible way!" shouted Midori.
Otoya fell on her knees, hearing Shiena's screamed from pain. She never felt like this before, the screams from pain of someone else never tormented her like this.
"I already know it!" screamed Otoya. "I'm the only one who deserves to die!"
Surprisingly, the serial killer began to cry. She was crying because she was unable to save the girl she loved, forced to hear her scream from agony. She also cried because she just understood the severity of all the horrible murders she had done. She knew that a lot of people crying like her when they lost someone they loved because of her. She didn't really regret it, but she felt a little bit guilty.
"I made Jack the Ripper of the 21st Century!" laughed Midori. "Wait, Takechi-san is able to cry for someone else, but I can't do this. Is that means that…I'm worse than her? No, I won't accepted this, I'll reveal her true self!" she thought. "This is exactly the expression I wanted to see on your face, Takechi-san. The pure despair"
Midori approached from Otoya, a grin on her face. She knelt in front of the serial killer, showing her a syringe.
"What it is? Is it…the antidote?" asked Otoya.
"No, this is the same poison I gave to Shiena-san"
Without warning, Midori grabbed the serial killer's arm and injected to her the deadly poison. Otoya fell on the floor, beginning to feel an intense pain. The green haired girl went out of her pocket a little flask, filled with a pinkish liquid.
"This is the antidote" said Midori, emotionless. "I only have one, and to suppress all the poison, you need to drink it all"
Midori gave the antidote to Otoya and recoiled from her.
"What are you going to do, Takechi-san? Take the antidote for yourself? Give it to Shiena-san? Whatever your decision is, one of you will die"
Otoya writhed in pain on the floor, a burning sensation in her arm. This pain was unbearable, the serial killer couldn't concentrate because of the pain.
"Come on, Takechi-san, show me who you truly are! Let your dear girlfriend die and save your own life, this is the selfish monster you are!"
Midori was right, she was a selfish monster, so why should she die in order to save Shiena? Without the brunette, she could come back to her old life as a serial killer. It was far more easy for Otoya to live like that. Love was a too much complicated feeling for someone like her. Without Shiena, she could kill like before, she won't have to worry about someone else anymore.
But she couldn't drink the antidote. The idea of letting Shiena die was unthinkable, especially if she have to live her entire life without her. Her love for the brunette had filled her empty heart, no murder could filled it like Shiena did. Now that she tasted the true love, now that she loved someone else, now that she was loved by this person, Otoya could never come back to her old life. If she had to live without her loved one, then life had no value to her.
Hardly, Otoya rose up and approached from Shiena. She climbed on the bed, the antidote in her hand.
"What are you doing, Takechi-san!? Don't tell me that you're going to sacrifice your own life for someone else? This is so unlike you!" shouted Midori, surprised and annoyed.
The serial killer opened the flask.
"I killed thirty people, and want to at least save someone in my life, and if this person is Shiena, than I don't care if I have to die for!"
"Stop saying those kinds of things, this is out of character!"
Otoya pressed the flask on Shiena's lips, but the brunette protested.
"Don't…you'll…die" managed to say her girlfriend.
"Don't say silly things and take the antidote!" shouted Otoya, forcing the flask into the brunette's mouth. "Drink it all, swallow everything, and don't spit it!"
She didn't have the choice, Shiena swallowed the entire antidote until the last drop. Midori couldn't believe what she just saw. Otoya, alias Jack the Ripper of the 21st Century, gave up her own life in order to save someone else life. Even a horrible person like her could do something as honorable as sacrifice her life for someone she loved. The green haired girl couldn't accept this, this isn't the Takechi Otoya she knew, she was convinced that the serial killer would let Shiena die in order to survive. It wasn't what she had planned. Midori couldn't bear to have been wrong.
"You'll die Takechi-san! Even if you sacrifice yourself, I won't forgive you, I'll never forgive someone like you! Disappear from this world for good, you dammit monster!" shouted Midori, before she ran away from the motel's room.
Yup, Midori is a bitch, and a crazy one, but she was necessary for Otoya's development. and she's right on one thing: this was f*cking OOC for Otoya to sacrifice herself in order to save Shiena's life (The Otoya from AnR would never do such a thing, but you know what? This is a fanfiction so I don't care xD)
So who will die? Am I enough cruel to kill Otoya? Or I'll finally kill this dammit green bitch?