TW: Wow.. More Clone Stuff. ANGST, Loss

Xephos' thoughts during the Clone Labs episode of Yoglabs

My mind races, then skids to a halt, like a fat hamster running on a wheel. His clone's screams echo again inside my head, and I see him, the real him, the Honeydew I know like the back of my hand.

And then, suddenly, he sighs.

"You will never remember any of this," I say, but I'm screaming within. Please, God, no.

My hands twitch and I long to reach for him as he wades through the knee-deep water of the shattered chamber. My heart aches and pounds and throbs against my chest as he steps closer, closer, closer. Internally I cry out "Honeydew, you stupid bastard, I love you, I love you, I love you" but no words dare to escape my thin lips.

He takes the final, fatal steps into the machine and speaks, but the words are lost to me until I relive the moment later. He closes himself in, and the waterlike substance freezes around his body. I step toward the chamber and give the glass a tap, one last farewell to an old friend. I leave the room behind, tears dribbling down my cheeks. "I love you," I whisper, the words lost to the empty facility surrounding me.

Somehow, I think, he must know.

Credit to Explosions on Ao3