Chapter 22

--= Rob's + POV =--

He seemed anxious enough as it was, and as soon as I pointed my arm towards the bench that was positioned perfectly, he sat himself down awkwardly and looked up at me waiting.

"What type of questions are you going to ask me?"

"The type you might not be comfortable with." As soon as the words had left my mouth the awkward expression of his face relaxed into one of worry and disappointment.

"I was afraid of that." Reaching for his hand, I sat beside him, enveloping my hand on his. 

"You'll be fine, it's not that hard, I had the same questions asked to me as well. It's just a procedure, like buying food at a cafeteria."

"Weird relation but sure, okay." A small laugh bubbling out of his mouth, I settled the urge to hug him and gave him a patient smile to show it was time to ask the questions.

"When did this first happen? The arms?" Sliding my arms towards them, and stroking the black / purple that I knew too well, he flinched away with a sorrowful expression.

"When I came back home, Sky gave me the motivation to take a bath, but as soon as I touched the water it......You know....Did a painful transformation on my arms." 

Raising them into the air for effect, I nodded, knowing that the look on my face was most likely bitter about the fact that someone so special had something taken away with this curse.

"Did you feel like you were losing control?"

"I felt like I wasn't safe, but, yeah. I lost control and killed the Doctor." His lips curled up making a sour expression, and his eyebrows sank almost to the bridge of his nose like he ate the worst lemon he ever tasted.

"Why did you go to the hospital in the first place? The Doctor only sees specific patients, emergencies, and you seem healthy enough so why were you there?"

"........."

"It's okay, you can tell me." He seemed so uncertain, and the way he ripped his gaze away from me and glared at the concrete with his fists curled it, it made me feel like something was definitely up.

"I uh...I guess you can say I popped one too many pills in a night...." A cold breeze swiping through my spine and up out of my mouth, it left me speechless.

"Ahh....I'm sorry."

"It's fine - I mean it's not but -....It's not your fault." Nodding, I knew he didn't want to stay on this topic long and continued with the questions.

"What did you do after you killed the Doctor?"

"That one's probably the easiest, I hid myself and stayed where Sky couldn't see me. I was afraid of him seeing me, afraid of me seeing him. I didn't want to see disappointment."

"Interesting." He laughed at the comment humorlessly.

"Interesting? I thought you would just jump to the next question." Turning my head to stare at him, he had a blank expression on his face with the smile that said 'Go on.'

"I'm trying to gather as much as I can, it's the only way I can help."

"Fine, fine." Waving away the subject and the tiny comment I made, he remained silent. The silence lasted for a while, but an idea popped into my mind to make him feel better.

"...You want to know something?"

"What?" He asked, clearly not amused.

"Most people with that amount of the substance on your arms? Would have already been corrupted and killed everyone in the household by now, how long have you even been holding it?"

"...It feels like forever, but I'd say between three weeks to a month or more." Whistling, he looked up at me with a confused look and once I stood up from off of the bench he followed.

"Do you want to be in our team? I could make arrangements with the group, it would help you, and you could be in my class  type."

"There are types for this?!"

"Yeah, but not many like we first thought, we go around helping other people like you, and even though the Doctor is dead I'm sure there's someone hiding with the same problem like you were."

His eyes lit up, and filled with what I think for the first time since he had this was hope, but it instantly fell away when something else he thought about popped up.

"What about Sky?"

"Ty's had him on surveillance since he ever got on the team because he had a feeling someone around him might turn into one of us, and look, he was right, we got the cute one too."

His face brightening into a red, he turned his head slightly away and with one word, he changed the dark path he was leading himself down on and turned to look up at the sky.

"Sure."


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Hey guys, so I just wanted to say that no, this is not the end but probably between next chapter or the one after is when this is going to be finished, I felt like I want to keep this one short because for a lot of my books majority of it is just fillers that a lot of people don't need. Also Important note, I will be going away for eleven days and maybe a bit more because I will be taking a cruise where there is no wifi, I'll try to update the next two by the time we leave, and if not, then who knows? We can always do it once I get back, it isn't the end of the world.

 ;) Thanks guys, and I hope you have a safe and happy day <3

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