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---Cross' POV----

It's been two days since X forcefully ripped mine and Chara's soul apart to make separate halves for each of us. My chest still hurts horribly, and the feeling of having half my soul missing is so unnerving it's making me feel ill. It's almost as if half of me has been torn away, leaving half of me empty.

Chara seems to be taking it worse than I have. He's been throwing up everywhere, his system not accepting the change from a ghost to a physical form. His body keeps trying to reject his soul, but X injected him with something that prevents his soul from freeing itself and coming back to me.

It's almost as if he enjoys watching us suffer. Wait, who am I kidding? Of course he enjoys watching us suffering. That's his favourite thing in the whole world to do. Most people are exited to get home from work, get out of school, go off with friends or see their lovers. But the thing that X takes most pleasure in, the thing that he looks forwards to most is torturing people he thinks deserve it.

Yesterday he tried to see what our soul's pain tolerances would be now that they were separated. He had us screaming for mercy in minutes, falling to the floor as we begged him to stop the pain.

He definitely enjoys it whenever he hurts us enough to do that. The sadistic side of him brakes out fully. He simply grins, shaking his head as if to say 'Sorry boys, I don't understand what you're saying'.

I dread to think of what he could do to us today. I'm terrified that he'll take my child's soul. It's so weak and fragile at the moment from all of the torture X has done to me that it's constantly shaking, looking as if it's about to shatter. I've tried everything to help it, using up any of the little energy I have left to try and feed it. But I know what's coming is inevitable. The soul is dying...and soon it will shatter completely. I just hope it's not done by X...

"Cross..."

I glanced over to my side blinking as Chara came into focus. "Yeah?"

Chara shakily got to his feet before stumbling over to me, tripping over his feet at the last bit so that he was sent flying to the ground, collapsing and going limp by my side.

"You okay?" I asked, gently brushing the white hair out of his face with a shaking hand as he looked up at me.

"No..." He mumbled, groaning as he forced himself to sit up. "I feel like today's the day..."

I immediately stiffened at his words, narrowing my eyes. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, today is the day he'll finally get bored of this pointless torturing and k-kill us..."

"You think so?" I mumbled, protectively placing a hand on my chest over where my soul is. The baby soul was steadily getting worse, its condition deteriorating by the hour. Soon enough it will start to crack...

"He's coming."

Both of us tensed up as the sound of footsteps coming towards us rang out, loud and purposeful.

"W-We're fucked..." Chara stuttered, backing up with me into the wall.

I nodded noting how my whole body had started shaking from the thoughts of what he could do to us that were currently invading my mind.

"W-We'll protect each other, okay?" Chara whispered, swallowing as he glared at the door that our worst fear would soon walk through.

"O-Okay..." I said, desperately trying to calm myself down as the sound of the password pad being typed into rang out, making both of us flinch.

The door swung open suddenly, and for a moment I thought back to when Nightmare, the kids and I watched a horror movie together. There was this one scene where some woman's foot was trapped and she couldn't get it free. Some murderer was chasing her and before she could escape the killer had slowly swung open the door, laughing hysterically as they ran forwards and brutally bludgeoned her to death. This was similar, but in a way, even scarier.

The door opened suddenly and X walked in, grinning as he chuckled softly. His eyes instantly landed on me, and I froze, already close to breaking down.

"Crossy~" He cooed, stepping closer to me. "I'm going to need to...borrow you for a minute or two~"

I shook my head quickly, hugging myself as I pressed back further against the wall. The sound of my fragile soul beating rapidly was so loud that it made my head start to hurt. If he comes one step closer I'll full on break down onto a sobbing mess.

X frowned, starting to walk over to us. "Now now Crossy, I'm asking nicely." He hissed the last bit, his eyes burning with hatred towards me.

I whimpered, wishing that I could just melt into the wall and disappear. "S-Stay away from me!"

X shook his head, reaching his hand out in front of him so that I was yanked forwards suddenly with magic into his grip.

I instantly broke down, thrashing and kicking as he aggressively shoved me down to my knees as magic bound me in place. "S-Stop! P-Please!" I called desperately, tears already starting to stream down my face.

"Leave him alone!" Chara yelled, hissing as he ran at X, succeeding in slamming his foot into X rib cage before he was thrown into the wall with magic.

"Chara!" I cried, watching in horror as his body jolted before hitting the floor and going limp.

"Nice guy act is over now." X hissed, grabbing my chin and forcing me to look at me. "I'm going to take what I want from you. No matter how much you scream. No matter how much you beg."

I panicked, shaking my head as X forcefully summoned my soul, his eyes widening hungrily as he looked at my poor fragile child's soul. It was cracked in a corner, all the stress I've been taking slowly killing it. "D-DON'T TOUCH IT!"

X chuckled, forcing the magic down on me so forcefully that I'm certain a few cracked. "Now then, what did I say a few seconds ago Crossy?"

"N-NO! ANYTHING BUT THIS!" I screamed, doing everything I could to escape his magic as I watched him gently cup his hands around the small soul, gently tugging it away from my soul and into my hands.

Immediately it started fading. It's pathetic life source, aka my soul, was the only thing keeping it alive. And now he's taken it away.

"P-PLEASE X!" I sobbed, watching as he slowly curled his fingers round the soul. "I-I'LL DO ANYTHING! ANYTHING! J-JUST P-PLEASE DON'T!"

X looked at me, his expression showing noting but sadism and excitement. "Oh Crossy. I wish I didn't have to do this, I really do. But in every fairytale story, someone has to play the roll of a monster~"

Now if this had been a proper fairytale book Nightmare would have suddenly burst through the door and killed X where he stood before saving me and the baby. We could go back to the mansion, never go back to the guys again and just live as a happy family of seven, soon to be eight.

But this wasn't my proper fairytale story.

X let out a demonic laugh before closing his hand completely, grinning at the sound of my poor child's soul shattering.

I screamed, feeling the pain far more than I expected to.

X laughed, letting me free of the magic as he stood up, my child's magic quickly flowing into him.

I sobbed into my hands, unable to breathe properly. My child...my innocent unborn child that hadn't even been given a proper chance had just been murdered. Murdered in front of me.

X cackled, watching gleefully as his body solidified him more, all the glitches and fizzes fading. "It's a shame your child's soul wasn't stronger Cross. I still need another one."

"YOU MONSTER!" I screamed, flinging myself at him.

X rolled his eyes, simply delivering a blow to my ribs. Several snaps rang out.

I collapsed to the floor, screaming at him as I choked on my own tears. I begged for this all to be some horrible dream. A dream that Nightmare would soon wake me up from. Soon enough I'll wake up in his arms, warm and safe.

But I didn't wake up. And Nightmare didn't come for me.

I was left a sobbing mess, hugging myself tightly as I thought of my poor dead child I never even got to name.

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I DIDN'T WANT TO WRITE THIS I SWEAAARRRRRR

I RECONSIDERED

BUT MY SISTER FORCED ME

BLAME HER!

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I cried writing that T^T

-Jess-