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I spit in his face It hits him on the eyebrow and drips down, and he looks horrified for a split second before he knees me hard in the ribs I cry outand I try to squir to kick and punch with, everything is weighed down by a heavy, furious weight

It’s going to happen again

It’s going to happen again

It’s going to happen again and I can’t stop it

No

NO

I can! I can stop this I have to stop this once and for fking all!

I twista soft bit of disgusting flesh between his legs, and Will wails and curls offto e I need to kick hihtswitch

"No!" He shrieks, the rooht is the faint streetlight from the , and he scrabbles to sit on his bed and directly in that little square

"You bitch!" Will snaps, shivering "You fking cunt! I’ll kill you when I find you I-If you get nearkill you!"

I stay low, like a panther The tables have turned I’ in the darkness to haunt his night with a sh

"You’re pathetic," I say Will ies for ers touch eusting huain, farther back, and he swipes wildly at nothingness

"Fuck you!" He screams

"I pity you because you’ll never knohat it’s like to be loved," I laugh, dark and hoarse "Your daddy never taught you He taught you the opposite And with that nasty attitude, no one in the world is going to try to teach you otherwise"

"Shut up! Shut your whoreto rot forever inside yourself," I whisper "You’re going to be afraid of the darkness forever, the real darkness, the dark inside you It’s there forever And no one will ever care about you enough to try and pull it out You will never care about yourself enough to try and pull it out"

Will’s face crumples in the dih"

The door behindin from the hallway Jack, breathless and furious, tumbles into the room, takes one look at the situation, and strides over toit over with all the gentle intent of a doctor

"No," I s, anyway"

Jack tenses, eyes solidifying to the most subzero teo cold as he fixes his twin icebergs on Will Will’s eyes dart around, focusing on the exit behind us, and he musters up a s trip his and in two seconds he has Will pinned to the ground, his ar

"Fuck! Fuck you, you fking bastard! LetWill as a footstool to reach the light on the ceiling He pulls the bulb out, throwing it against wall It splinters in fraglass

"Isis," Jack says calging my foot a little so it hits his face He swears, but he swears harder when I yank the lamp out by the cord I’m about to throw it at the hen Jack stops me

"No The bed I’ll hold him Use the cord and tie him to it"

"No! Shit, shit, fk, no! You can’t do this! You can’t fking do this to nore his teary pleas as Jack fixes his arms around the iron bedpost sunk into the floor I tie the cord twice, and Jack ties it a third tihtness

"It should be about seven hours until sunrise," Jack says "And I’ht somewhere else Somewhere…quieter"