How To Kill The Girl You Love1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFYcQbe3s0
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.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmdg7qP7kr
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.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoUMBYIM4u
I'm seeing her live for the last time. This would be the last. The last time I'd ever allow myself to feel. 1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdaGlSO6bY
"Trace," she whimpers. "Why?"1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNPXNeIpb4
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. 1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LCQP9RVwv
I kiss her with all the passion that will ever be in me.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFpdWiF18U
I kiss her with all the love I had denied myself, and the love that I'll never feel.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5NbLZnIOp
I kiss her with the last emotions that I'll allow myself to have.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Dxl2PkYwC
I kiss her.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7PCigZ6Mz
And she slowly fades away. The strength in her body gives out. Her body falls back, as I let my grip loosen over her.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5apRArmkrX
'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.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8dLMD6X9W
I open my mouth to speak, but he shushes me. "You don't need to say anything, Trace," he sighs. "She's collateral damage."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygIleNkIM2
She was collateral damage.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUmqfSJ0Ex
Someone that got in my way.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfnSvOhd7g
Someone that shouldn't have, but she did.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20vBFoisRu
Someone I wasn't supposed to feel for.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoAR5iFD2D
She was collateral damage.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rZPqrLncK
A collateral damage to my heart.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIIoliUblr
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.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZfUezgSaX
My hope pulls me north.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvvDGRP6Xg
My beliefs to the west, and at times to the east.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgrUA1wH7p
And what I do, takes me to the deepest pit of the south.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb124YiKtlB
They're equally powerful, and I'm torn between these directions till it threatens to rip my body apart.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXpHaUumCA
I sigh. At the least, a ripped body would ease the pain I feel near my chest.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvx7ik4R33
"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."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVqrZfkDGhQ
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."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmOI0wTQFj
He scoffs. "Trace, anyone who can't soul-shift is collateral damage."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKcRclTRGB
I cringe. 1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0C6xEGvngu
"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."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSC8JoUd1P
"Seb-"1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraIcDCVOPt
"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."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaFBVUtgJG
"I'm not a whiny loser," I retort.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnChL77pnrV
"And you say that with a whine," Seb counteracts. "Get over it, Trace. You're the Anchor, you lead us to victory."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNvuhW3Yof
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.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP70pOCJIpT
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. 1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJA4Gz6F5i
"Trace," Seb pleads, his eyes in sync with the tone of his voice, "we need you."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJqMNtN8Pj
I hesitate. The sincerity in his eyes demands me to say yes. But-1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HEz6ClyLm
No buts, I had put my feelings aside once before and worked for my people. I could do it again.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5ySApYK9T
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.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9LIY0AKYR
"Trace, please," he begs, "Your people need you, princess."1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGL1k5mgYth
And it was I, who killed her.1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjvDy61Jlo
a/n: my idea of a supervillian is executed in a way more dramatic way than i expected. 1042Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pK6EXczVI
