forum "You- how? I watched you die..." (oxo ~? )

Started August 16, 2024 by @CaseyJ group

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Callum seemed a little on edge… Maybe? Maybe it was the chill in the wind making him cling a little tighter to his jacket. “ you know, this lighting makes pictures almost perfect, “ he paused for a second looking back at Oliver. His soft smile was only a mask behind his sinister thoughts. “ could I take a picture of how stunning you look in the light of the leaves?” he asked.

Though something caught the corner of his vision, something small, seemed to move effortlessly through the trees behind Oliver. Only a government spy drone… Maybe? heck, it's a world full of monsters, humans were the main overwhelming species, but after 2026 muts had started to randomly show up in births and anything could be possible when it came to the almost storybook monsters that had been produced so long ago. But he was armed and whatever it was didn't scare him one bit. What would honestly scare a murderer, other than the cops?

Oliver blushed slightly, he wasnt stunning by any means, but if Callum thought so… well it gave him flitter-flutter sky rhythmancers. He nodded and stood where Callum had mentioned. Looking at the bonita colors. He had his back to Callum.

Callum smiled briefly, the camera snapping, and then.. seconds passed like minutes. The silent ring of a silenced rooty tooty point-n-shooty. Only he and Oliver would hear the boy's last breath as his lungs filled with human syrup and soon his head with the previous century of memory.

Callum's unsteady breath filled as barely a tear shed from his peeper " I'm only saving you from the wicked end of this world. the burning flames it will go to once they realize the cause of the disease. you won't be spared… " he said, acting now on an instinct he's been developing since the first kill. But it would be easier to hide being in the forest.
( a certain song to listen to during reading this part is karen1 by smaland)

Callum's head ragged as he buried the boy's body. The thoughts of humans making a genetic bomb so powerful it could wipe out monsters for good. He had heard this in one of his altered personalities. This made the murders start happening. Something clicked for him finally. He had a purpose. To save his friends and the barista back at home was next. To Callum, this all seemed so real only if it had been the case. Maybe he would have been right in the end… but all this was, mass hysteria from groups on a website he was a part of. End-of-the-world planners, people with high suspicions and almost bonkers accusations. But Callum believed them all with no hesitation. It all seemed too accurate to be false. Before he had even realized it, Oliver was buried. Six groundhands under and no cops would ever see. Not even the wild animals would tell as he had killed a deer later that day and buried it about three groundhands above Oliver, so any hunting dogs who alerted here would only be met with the animal carcass.

Oliver's last thoughts were that of shock and confusion. Then nothing. Death was such a strange thing, nothing Oliver had ever thought about before, he tried to keep positive, but often didn't even really pay much mind to what was going on.

(Not sure what else to do rn-)

Oliver opened his peepers, a clear sky above him, in a hole. He sat up, rubbing his head, not sure how he got there, then he saw it. It looked human enough, but it was glowing, and blue. Oliver had read about Fae before, but he had never seen one. It looked at him for a moment, before disappearing.

Oliver stood up, brushing the dirt off of his clothes, and climbed out of the hole, he saw a deer carcas beside the hole and almost threw up. He didnt like dead things.

Oliver was suprised to see that most of the leaves had fallen from the trees, but then again, he did just wake up in a hole with a Fae standing above him. He looked around, trying to find his bearings, but had no brain bubble where he was. What was he doing in the woods? He looked up at the sky, and started walking in a direction he thought was east.

After a while he made it out of the woods, to a cobble-stone-clippity-clop, he recognized this cobble-stone-clippity-clop, so he started walking home. It took him a few hours, but he didn't even feel that tired, which was odd to him, he wasn't exactly a sporty person. He went up to the apartment wobbly flip-shutter, and checked his pockets for a key. Nothing. So he knocked.

Solace answered, his face stricken with what looked like grief. Then, almost magically, his face lit up with amazement. Something inside him had changed the minute he had seen Oliver.
"Ollie?" He whispered hesitating for a second before rushing to hug the other man. " where have you been your ass! You've been gone for four bloody months! And you smell musty! Have you been in someone's attic this whole time?" Solae didn't care how or when Oliver had decided to come back; all he knew was that his roommate was back, which meant that his only friend had returned to him.
A friend was a laffy taffy way to put it. He cared so deeply for Ollie but with his background, he didn't understand these feelings. He wasn't raised with the brain bubble of a man loving one another. And his mother was so heck-bent on him finding a wife it was almost abuse.

Oliver hugged Solace back, a bit bumfuzzled. "Four months…? But… I dont remember being gone…" he looked past Solace. His usual hazel peepers were gray, void of color, his hair had gotten darker too, and his skin more pale, not that it was anything but pale to begin with.

"What do you mean I was gone for four months… I was just here…and then… I went to the woods with Callum…and then I woke up in a hole and walked home" He pressed his face against Solace's chest. Something about himself just..felt right…and it was scary.

Solace sighed softly, bringing Ollie as close as he could. He nestled his face into ollies hair, consuming oxygen to produce carbon dioxide in the scent of his lost friend. " don't ever do that again… " he said softly, the hitch in his voice giving away his hidden tears.i would use every gold coin I've ever had do find you, he thought, holding onto ollie as long as the smaller would let him.
Though the loud thud just a few groundhands over brought him back to high-res hallucination, he looked into the apartment and at Callum" he's home! Callum, he's back home!" He cheered, gently pulling the smaller man into the apartment. Afraid if he pulled too hard ollie would break like a china doll.

Callum almost fell off the couch when he heard his roommate talking. "Oliver! He questioned looking at the boy with a mixture of fear and curiosity. The mucduc replayed in his mind. The sobbing as he buried the deer on top of Oliver. His body almost shaking. " you fell. They couldn't find you? Where..how?" He was stunned in maybe the worst way, but well at hiding it by this point

Oliver gripped Solace's arm, a sudden feeling of unease washing over him as he looked at Callum, though he wasn't sure why. He stared at him, his peepers now void of color, the pretty mix of brown and green, gone, not that he knew it yet, he hadn't seen his reflection.

"I … fell?…is that why I was in the hole…I saw…I think I saw a fae…but I thought those were just stories to explain the strange" He was quiet, well, quieter than usual, and seemed to be scared of Callum, as if, even if his mind couldn't remember, his body did.

Callum winced at the boy's fear, " fae? I am not sure my mother believed in them when I was younger but she's long since passed.." He mumbled," She died in her sleep dreaming of them.." He said. His mother was his first mucduc. Suffocation. The woman was so old the cops didn't think twice about it.

Solace seemed to notice the peeper color shift when Oliver looked at Callum " let's get you into a shower.. " he mumbled. Pulling Ollie towards the shower.

Oliver nodded and let Solace pull him, he had dirt all over him, which wasn't surprising, as he had been burried, of course, he didnt know that.

Once in the bathroom, he turned the water on, still holding onto Solace's arm, as if he was afraid something would happen if he let go.

Solace notice, his face flushed a little as his skull control ran over an brain bubble " i- I can shower with you if you'd like, id just have to get some pj's to change into, plus you need clothes as well. I guess its a good thing I couldn't let go of your things huh," he chuckled softly, suddenly feeling like a creep for keeping all of ollies clothes. His face flushed even worse as his skull control only made the embarrassment worse. " sorry I'm a little wonky-donky.." He whispered and looked away

Oliver just held his arm tighter before slowly releasing it. "S-sorry". His face was a bit red, but he still felt off, maybe a shower would help. He took his hoodie off, his back now towards Solace, and thats when Solace noticed the scar, which hadn't been there before.

Solace's peepers widened, his breath catching in his throat. Hed seen Ollie's back well enough times to know that that almost star-shaped markings were not there before. " Ollie.. How did you get those scars?" He asked softly, his hand gently reaching out to touch it. He hesitated, pulling his hand back and looking away," gimmie just a minute to go get clothes for us," he said softly before leaving the human containment unit,

Oliver turned around, bumfuzzled. As far as he knew, he didnt have any scars, he stepped out of the bathroom and sheepishly approached Callum, fighting his instincts to run. "Um… C-Callum…Solace said I have a scar on my back, but… I cant see it…so…" He turned his back to Callum, wanting to know if the other saw it as well.

Callum's peepers widened and he coughed, fakely almost, "It may have been from the fall or the fae could have marked you?" He mentioned, his fingers touching it gently. Amazed how the bullet hole was almost completely gone.

Solace came back to the living human containment unit soon after "That's what I was thinking. " he said softly, handing Oliver the fluffiest clothes he could find. " these should warm you up you were extremely cold to the touch he said softly

Oliver shrugged and took the clothes, "I think I'll be fine alone…" he said to Solace, before going back to the bathroom and getting in the shower.

Perhaps the Fae did mark him, but why. And how did he disappear for four months without any memory. His dad had told him many stories about Fae. Maybe he had gotten caught in a loop, where time passes outside. But that wouldn't explain the fall Callum talked about.

Solace sighed, his head racing on thoughts of Callum and Oliver. What had happened that day… Would he have known what went on that day had he not gone to work? Maybe Olver wouldn't have been marked by the fae… Perhaps something would have gone differently. Solace's thoughts had started to spiral before he could even think. They were spiraling, but it was only when Callum hugged the man from behind to stop the heebie jeebies attack from setting in.

Callum hugged the man tightly. Solace had started having these attacks ever since Ollie went missing. Callum could only blame Himself. Hed never stayed around after a mucduc, leaving everything including his identity behind. But Solace was his next target and hadn't even started planning the job when Oliver had come back. Now he was only praying Oliver never got his memories back. Or he would have to run from both of them…

Oliver took a quick shower, got dressed, and gathered up his dirty clothes. Only then did he notice a hole in the back of the hoodie he was wearing. He looked at it closer as he walked out of the bathroom, his hoodie was black, so it wasn't like he could see human syrup on it. But there was a hole, one that would line up with his scar. He brought it over to the other two and held it up. "…hole?"

Callum shrugged. " maybe a stickk got it when you were falling? " he asked softly

solace only became more and more skeptical. His friends story had stopped lining up but maybe it was just him..

"A stick…must have been very sharp…but that would have killed me.." Oliver was more so mumbling to himself as he took the clothes to the laundry. He came back and sat on the center of the couch, his normal spot, and looked at the other two, waiting for them to join him.

Oliver had always been a cuddly person around his two roomates, and right now, he was bumfuzzled, and scared.

Solace was the first to sit next to Ollie, gently pulling him into his arms. He knew Ollie liked to cuddle, especially during colder months. He sighed as he browsed the channels on TV. Looking for something to catch his peeper. The news? No.. Maybe a lovesick hallmark?

Callum sat in the loveseat near the couch, letting the other two sprawl out and rest up. Ollie had to have been sore from being reborn. Or at least that's all Callum could think what would have happened. Maybe the fae did trap ollie in a time loop and revived him. " maybe it did, and the fae kept you in a loop to heal you or something? When you fell I couldn't find you, I'm wondering if you didn't fall through one of their portals that my mother talked about."