Oh crowned prince,
Oh how I had failed you,
In the life before this own,
I failed to be who I was supposed to be,
And I had to pay the price,
At my deathbed I felt only your tears falling on my own hateful hand,
Even if I still smell the scent of the ink that you shattered, as I stared into clear water, as I saw the child I drove over the edge,
My own serve of neglect was never an excuse,
You were not my tool,
Not my pet,
Not my fool,
I was your blood,
And I had impaled you in cold-blood,
Bleeding from straight out of your heart,
Inks of blues and gold spill from your chest
My, what a mess.

And now I had paid the price, and I had tried to amend my faults,
And I do not remember receiving your forgiveness,
The nights of your visits right beside my bed are hazy,
Even with my final breath, even when the ashes became me,
In this life, I felt it in my soul,
Felt like I'd known you before,
Felt an underlying guilt come over me the moment we met,
The moment the man in green came into the picture, and saw with my own eyes that something had clicked,
I smiled.

And now in this moment, you need to be out,
You need to be safe,
With the man in green,
He will never betray you like I had,
Not use you like I had,
Not abandon you like I had,
I know he is better suited to be your protector,
I know very well (hard to admit, but he hadn't failed.)
But that does not mean I will let myself fail to protect you,
At least just this once (one last time)

"Leave me, go!"

As I take aim,
You grabbed my arm and with your eyes you plead,
"I can't lose you again."
And I reply
"I lost you, you did not lose me."
The man in green takes you away,
And I take my final stand.

If my death in this life is in order to make it up to you,
If I sacrifice this life so that you could live your own,
Then that's okay,
And if I meet you in my next life,
Then I will protect you with my whole life as well.

[*] Bonus part I didn't add in to the full thing because it just didn't fit

I can't bring myself to take away the thing that hurt you
(It was me)
I ponder if it's because of something from Before,
It probably was,
If I end it, I will only hurt you all more,
But sacrifice is different from suicide.

This whole piece is sort of AU-of-an-AU for another fanfic for a fandom, no I will not say which it is, just that I had to get this off my chest because one of the characters' characterization is blown to pieces but it's still good.

This whole thing also not romantic  the person who's POV is in this is an older brother who failed at his job the first time around, fucked it up in all kinds of ways, and that guilt will be on his shoulders forever even if his little brother had forgiven him, he can't forgive himself.

(No it's not FNAF, even if it sounds like it lmao)