How To Kill The Girl You Love1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ScL1FEsQX
I try to pull out the knife from her abdomen as carefully as I can, but instead it twists and turns even by the slowest of movements. I watch her grimace, her panting, her fear, her gasp, and the look of betrayal that I'll carry with me for the rest of my existence. Her grasp on my shoulder slowly loosens, the look of deceit never leaving mine and her back limping backwards.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31Pt7MFGsH
I hold her waist, and debate whether to let myself have a small moment of weakness. A small moment of weakness for the rest of eternity. I look into her dying eyes, those beautiful green eyes that I couldn't stop staring at, those hypnotizing green eyes that captivated my very soul the moment I laid my eyes on her, those very green eyes now dying away. Breath by breath, she's losing life.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Dq3zhK7d6
I'm seeing her live for the last time. This would be the last. The last time I'd ever allow myself to feel. 1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAba0uEtHc
"Trace," she whimpers. "Why?"1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KxJwBBo7C
I bring her face close to mine and I kiss her. The betrayal she felt doesn't come in the way as she kisses me back with her last burst of energy. 1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPzJtuET7c
I kiss her with all the passion that will ever be in me.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHIT0FxZl2
I kiss her with all the love I had denied myself, and the love that I'll never feel.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwM6fjS0bs
I kiss her with the last emotions that I'll allow myself to have.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVd8Rw0BJ7U
I kiss her.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJgjfSVAEn
And she slowly fades away. The strength in her body gives out. Her body falls back, as I let my grip loosen over her.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNZ35LcpY1
'We hurt the ones we love, Trace,' Seb whispers behind me, as he takes away my knife and wipes it off in a single swipe of the white cloth. There's blood there. My darling Julia's blood.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRHvcvjTpD
I open my mouth to speak, but he shushes me. "You don't need to say anything, Trace," he sighs. "She's collateral damage."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PlOxFJl2e
She was collateral damage.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisrzjAgpCb
Someone that got in my way.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKeUOsnQNy
Someone that shouldn't have, but she did.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWPsadNy7r
Someone I wasn't supposed to feel for.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAZaaKaucD
She was collateral damage.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQk0jBt6vL
A collateral damage to my heart.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEB2Grzx7S
I think that what I choose to believe in, what I hope to be, and what I actually do are all three contrasting poles pulling me to three different directions.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUE7H29uU0F
My hope pulls me north.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuxkiX0Zop
My beliefs to the west, and at times to the east.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXFSuR6jr2
And what I do, takes me to the deepest pit of the south.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQy7pvGuzG
They're equally powerful, and I'm torn between these directions till it threatens to rip my body apart.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YkfzLVV5M
I sigh. At the least, a ripped body would ease the pain I feel near my chest.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ccuWlaWP0
"Don't be such a wuss, Trace," Seb clicks his finger in front of my eyes, grabbing whatever attention I have left. "It was just another kill."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3flWNbfKn
Instinct tells me to grab him by his neck, and squeeze it until his face turned blue. Loyalty and common sense stops me from doing so. "She's not an 'it.' She has a name, Seb."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡle4KeMFDpU
He scoffs. "Trace, anyone who can't soul-shift is collateral damage."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJm49OLJy73
I cringe. 1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZa8EsgEwf
"Take your body for example," he continues, his tone teaching, "it's not yours. You killed the one who inhabited it, and hence, that soul was collateral damage."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrr6UH14A5
"Seb-"1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8sCLfEJIW
"You can't have any weaknesses as the Anchor," he sighs. "You're supposed to be the bad-ass supervillian who takes away life at whim. Not some whiny loser pining for a dead girl."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5sy23uvf7
"I'm not a whiny loser," I retort.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLOuWqKuqa
"And you say that with a whine," Seb counteracts. "Get over it, Trace. You're the Anchor, you lead us to victory."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8xP04mk4A
I sigh. Being an Anchor, I should feel no remorse towards anyone. Especially the humans. They took away our freedom, they took our lives, they stole our homes. And yet, here I was mourning over the loss of one stupid female human I had accidentally given my heart to.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3QKcxOAPE
It was tough tormenting the humans already. It was tough burning them in stakes. It was tough to behead the innocent. It was tough to destroy their homes and unleash hell on earth. It was tough. I did not need grief stopping me back. 1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjy9Kds0BMt
"Trace," Seb pleads, his eyes in sync with the tone of his voice, "we need you."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9TYSpQzcq
I hesitate. The sincerity in his eyes demands me to say yes. But-1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgl5j2x5tr
No buts, I had put my feelings aside once before and worked for my people. I could do it again.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYI0IWeEFq
For the sake of my people, for the sake of our existence, for the sake of the soulshifter's honor and dignity and for the sake of revenge, I had to accept the fact that my dearest Julia was dead.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeyRLmzKsM
"Trace, please," he begs, "Your people need you, princess."1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguhvtFtzXf
And it was I, who killed her.1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXGOU5j5fw
a/n: my idea of a supervillian is executed in a way more dramatic way than i expected. 1098Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPePLNcwV7
