I clutch my wound, a massive gash across my chest which drains ink as I look back at K. My dear sibling. The person who means the most to me. Thanksgiving is here. I have to get up. I have to confront them now. It's now or never. Although, I know it's pointless. K is gone. K won't listen to me but...

I hear one of my sisters, "it's OK Leo. It's gonna be OK."

I sigh and ask, to see if there's any point, "can I even change your mind?"

K shakes their head.

I don't know what I feel now. I feel something snap. I feel my mind become clouded as I realize K is gone. That my sibling is gone and I can't change the world. I can't even save my sibling. I begin to cry as my mind shatters.

They took them from me.

Their parents tainted their child.

I have no reason to live.

I am weak.

I am worthless.

I will die as a nobody.

This series will be forgotten.

I couldn't even save them.

The world will forever be Hell.

Kill.

Kill!

KILL!

No masks.

I have no masks now. I have no face. My siblings they cry out to me. I hear my characters, my friends, screaming, desperate to break through the barrier of ink but it's pointless. It's all pointless! Pointless pointless pointless!

Further my sanity breaks as I see my facades take shape. Leo, Gen, and Edgar all help me to my feet. I have no mask. I have no face.

I close my eyes and I see the ruin that is my future. Alone, lost, starving, dead and forgotten. Fine. It's fine. I'm not worth enough to justify being remembered. I face K.

"Leo?" K asks.

No more words. No more hope. No more truth. I choose a lie.

I don't hesitate, tears streaming down my face, I strike K's mask, taking it.

"Leo what the Hell!?!" K demands.

"Stop," I demand with no mouth to speak, "this world is a Hell not worth living in. I can't even save you, the one closest to me, but what do you care? You don't. Look, I'm not sure how long I'll survive. Maybe saving you would've delayed it. Maybe I would've ended it because I would've had no reason to proceed with you safe. I don't know, but my dear sibling, know that until you commit your sin, I'm here for you. Not that you care. Goodbye."

I banish K from my world. Apparations of their parents loom over me. I screech, "you!"

I remember. Their father. Their father did this to them. They took K away from me. It's not worth fighting. I ignore the apparations and lower the barrier.

"Leo," I place my hand on his shoulder.

He screams at me turning around, "I am not Leo! I am a husk! Nothing more!"

"Leo stop," Abby and Armored block the way to the door, "you're in no state the face The Beast right now. You have to rest. It'll be OK. Just-"

"Stop lying to me!" Leo, he says he's a husk but I'm calling him Leo, screams, clutching his head, "stop it! It's not going to be OK! It's not going to get better! I don't have a future! I don't have value! Everyone stop lying to me!"

It's clear Leo is taking about us and those we represent.

"K is gone!" Leo's breakdown is full force now, I see despair and defeat in his eyes, "I won't do this anymore!"

Leo tackles the duo and opens the door. The Beast greets him in full form.

"Shall we?" The Beast smiles.

Leo shakes the Beast's hand, "you win. OK? You win. I can't. I can't do it. Take me to Wonderland."

"Leo!" Sour exclaims.

"Dammit no!" Wolf dashes forward, but is to late and the two dissapper into a bright light from the door.

"No," Sour reaches out as we all realize he just took his masks too.

"What do we do!?!" Wolf demands.

"We go after him," I reply, "we go into Wonderland."

"Let's do this," Breaker smiles, "and no matter what happens in there, I love you. We all do."

"As to you guys," I smile, "come on. We have a writer to save."

We enter the door. Unaware of what the Wonderland we've just learned about is. Unaware of what awaits us, yet, we proceed, to Wonderland...

I'm in Wonderland now. I just sorta curl up into a ball and start crying. My dear sibling. Someone I'd trust with my life. Why? Why them? Haven't I lost enough? K, my dear sibling, gone. Everything and everyone I love slipping away, I have returned to this place. This place is so much better. Here, I don't have to save K. I've abandoned reality, and honestly, I don't care. I don't care anymore. K, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I failed you. I never did repay you for saving my life. I really am a leech.

With my last apology to K, I get up, dry my tears and take a deep breath of the cold Auttum air. It's beautiful. So beautiful. Now, enough waiting. I'm gonna go enjoy this fantasy world.

See you in Wonderland, readers...

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