Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/6529855. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Underage, Graphic_Depictions_Of_Violence, Major_Character_Death Category: M/M Fandom: Septiplier_-_Fandom, Video_Blogging_RPF Relationship: Mark_Fischbach/Sean_McLoughlin, Sean_McLoughlin/Original_Male_Character (s), ChaoticMonki_|_Cryaotic/Felix_Kjellberg Character: Mark_Fischbach, Sean_McLoughlin, Original_Male_Character(s), Original Female_Character(s), Matthew_Patrick, IDK_MANY_YOUTUBERS_NAMES_SO_BEAR WITH_ME., Stephanie_Pattrick, Suzy_Berhow, Felix_Kjellberg, ChaoticMonki |_Cryaotic, Ken_Morrison, Wade_Barnes, Bob_Muyskens, Joey_Graceffa, Daniel_Preda Additional Tags: this_is_kinda_sad, Forced_Relationship, Recovery, Self-Harm, attempted suicide, Alternate_Universe_-_High_School, Demonic_Shit.., Things_Get Better, Hurt/Comfort, Bad_Bitches, slight_song_fic, IDK._This_fic_is_all over_the_place, BUNNIEZZZ, Eventual_Happy_Ending, Jealous!Mark, break-up, sorrynotsorry, Quadriplegic, Umm_woops, This_Is_Why_We_Can't_Have_Nice Things, This_is_confusing Series: Part 3 of Septiplier_Recycling_Bin_ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ Stats: Published: 2016-04-13 Completed: 2016-06-05 Chapters: 21/21 Words: 65145 ****** Never Forget You ****** by Kirby_Stilinski Summary A story full of confusion and jaw-dropping insanity. Ranging from a crazy demon-like boyfriend to a split-personality burning down a building. Mark, Jack and two of their friends try and stay alive through the heartbreaking trauma that is their lives. Can they love each other till the day they die, or will they be forgotten? (Including lyrics of Never Forget You by Zara Larsson & MNEK) Enjoy ^-^ Notes This is sad... I'm sorry. **TRIGGER WARNINGS** People WILL die. People WILL get hurt. Feels WILL be hitting you at full force. Self Harm. Attempted Suicide. Mentions of Rape Mentions of Abuse Dark Personalities Alcohol. Lots of Alcohol. Underage sex and drinking Drugs Overdosage Self hatred Self deprivation And ta wrap it up with a bow: Major Character Death... Luv ya, guys/gurls '*' ALSO. I know there r a lot of YouTubers out there so Ima add [ ] to reference if they're an OC or a Youtuber so ya ._. The first 3 mentioned are OC characters (Jassn, Ashley and Tiffany) sooo YAAA. ENJOY. Feedback is always appreciated. See the end of the work for more notes ***** Escaping ***** He doesn't care -"JACK. JACK, HOLD ON" Mark yelled, closing the truck door. He expects you to die -"Jack? Jack! C'mon stay awake." Tiffany begged, shaking his shoulder. She thinks your pathetic  -"JACK. We're here, Tiff help me get him outta the car." They should have left you to DIE  -"Sir, we're not allowed to let you past this--" -"IF YOU KEEP ME FROM THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, SO HELP M--" -"Mark, cmon." Die. Die. Die. Die. DIE! ===============================================================================   Jack woke up with a throbbing headache. He looked around and saw he was back in his room. He saw a small plushy there on his nightstand and a pile of medicine. He looked up to see movement of a girl running into the hall of his house. -"MARK, HE'S AWAKE!!" He heard someone scream. Jack heard a sound of footsteps and saw Mark and 2 others run inside along with the girl.  -"J-jack?" Mark asked, worry in his eyes -"Mark? What the fookin hell happened?" The Irishman said, sitting up. -"You tried to cut yourself to death. Nice thigh's, by the way." One of the girl's said Ashley. His best friend. -"ASH. What the fuck!" The original one in his room sneered. Tiffany. -"Well he did..." she replied, feeling ashamed. -"Jack.." Mark said. He turned his face to see Mark's eyes filled with sudden rage. "Why the hell would you do that to us?" He snapped, gritting his teeth. -"Mark.. it's okay, let me handle this..." another boy said. Jack recognized that voice. The voice he wanted to ignore. To get away from. To be FREE from. -"Sure, Jason.." Mark said, stepping away, wiping his tears. The insane attractive young man smiled at Jack. -"Hey babe.. how you feelin?" -"GET AWAY FROM ME" Jack screamed as he grabbed a needle on the nightstand and attempted to jam it in his neck. Jason caught his hand and his eyes literallu flared red. -"Jack! Calm down" Jason said, grabbing his wrist. At the touch, Jack had a flashback. He was trying to run. He fell in the hall over his shoe. Jason grabbed him by the neck and slammed him against the wall. -"You can't run, Jackaboy. You can never run from me" he growled. He flashed dangerous and frightening red eyes that give him nightmares to this day. He grabbed Jack's wrist and slammedit against the wall, pain flashing onto his hand. He grabbed him by his hair and slammed his against the wall repeatedly until blood threatened to form.  Jack froze. He stared into his eyes and Jason actually looked... normal... but it was a mask. A mask he formed for Jack to hide their relationship. Their torture.  -"I'm going to make some tea. Who wants tea? Coffee? Anybody? I'm going to make coffee. And shit. Mark, come help me." Tiffany said rapidly. She grabbed the confused Korean-American and led him down the hall. Ashley rolled her eyes before she sat on her chair and plugged in her headphones. Jason smiled evilly and whispered: -"You thought you could escape... didn't you..baby" he sneered dangerously. Jack let a tear slide down his cheek to be wiped by the monster he had to call his boyfriend.  ===============================================================================   -"What was that all about?" Mark asked. He looked at Tiffany when she grabbed the coffee machine and turned it on. -"I need you to keep your voice down. Jack had a flashback, you can tell by the way his eyes almost... stopped. He did that a few times...and I feel like it's because of Jason" she whispered. Mard nodded his head. -"Have you seen the cuts and bruises? Those weren't self-harmed. They were inflicted by somebody... and Jack never talks about Jason unless he's around." Mark recounted, he kept his voice doen as asked. -"He was drunk off his ass once and told us that he was rarely clumsy.." Tiffany informed him.  -"umm...so?" Mark wondered. -"He always told us that those bruises and cuts were from falling..." she replied. -"Jack said he wanted coffee" Jason said, walking into the kitchen. Mark and Tiffany looked casual and nodded their heads. "Anything wrong, here?" He asked.  -"Besides our best friend nearly dying? No." Tiffany said. She grabbed the mugs filled by Mark and walked with a tray back to his bedroom. -"Oh thank god!" Ashley said as she carefully pulled them in and locked the door behind them. She immediately started texting the group chat. Both confused, looked at the message.    NERDY SLUTS R US A: Jason heard my music from the other side of my room... it was on the 5th key... T: What?! R u legit, rn?! Imposs. Proof, boo. M: Hmm, I remember I joke flirted with Jack and he kissed him a few minutes later in front of me.. Ashley looked up to see Jack grabbing his phone and he looked... nervous... and scared. His loose shirt that Mark put on him after releasing him from the hospital had slid down his arm a little and revealed deepened scars. Tiffany self-consciously looked away. J: I need you guys to do me a favor.. T: I got u, fam. What is it?? M: Same ^^ J: I need one of you to throw a mug of coffee at Jason and watch what happens. And record it.. A: Yeah, but y tho .-. J: To see what led me to want to..yknow... T: I gotchu, Jackaboy *-* Tiffany turned and unlocked the door, Asgley handed her the requested object and she threw one of the coffee mugs at Jason across the hall. Mark pulled up his phone and began recording as he crouched and caught it without spilling a lot of the liquid inside, his eyes flashed a frightening red that stared at the cup immensely. They gaped at him before he dropped it and acted like he dropped it this entire time. Tiffany slammed the door closed and locked it. -"GODDAMIT, JACK." Jason yelled. Jack already stood up and carefully wobbled to the window with bedsheets in hand. Mark looked over before understanding, so he helped him tie them together while the girls held the door together.  -"LET. ME. FUCKING. IN." Jason yelled through the door as he slammed into it. -"NO." All four of them screamed. The banging stopped. Ashley and Tiffany stopped to turn when a chopping knife sliced through the door. They screamed and ran towards the boys. -"JUMP" Mark urged as he opened the window. Ashley took no shits given and leaped out, like the badass they knew she was grabbed the bedsheets and held on....until they almost let her slip and she slung into the wall of the house. -"FUCK ME IN THE ASS WITH A SPOON OW." she yelled before she slipped and screamed. Mark slowly jumped down on the bedsheet and landed near Ashley who held her shoulder.  -"I'M COMING, JACK. I'LL NEVER STOP LOOKING" Jason yelled as he kept smashing through the door. Jack was next and carefully landed in Mark's arms. As Jason burst through the door, Tiffany was halfway out when he grabbed her by the neck and tried to strangle her out the window. -"TIFFANY!!" Mark yelled. -"YOU WANT TO LEAVE, JACK?! TAKE HER BODY WITH YOU" Jason said, a maniac laugh following. He held the knife up to her throat when she heard a loud crash and Jason let go. She toppled over and fell out when Mark catched her and Jack barely saving her with him. Ashley slowly slid out the window again and landed more securely. -"Track surely prepares someone to run up stairs fast as shit." She murmured. They all looked up before looking at Mark. -"what're you looking at me for?" He asked, shyly. -"We're taking your car, hoe. Let's go" Ashley said as she began walking towards his car. The other three looked at each other before following her. Jack looked back before clinging onto Mark's muscular bicep.  -"I fucking hope he stays down." Tiffany ssid.  -"Shit. Where do we go now?" Mark asked as he started the ignition. -"Anywhere but here." Jack replied. -"Let's go the one place he'll never look." Ashley suggested.  -"School." They said in unison. ===============================================================================   They arrived at the school when the bell rang for Lunch, they quickly got out of the car and Jack tried to hide his limp.  They ran into a few people but casuallu shrugged them off. They reached the doors and walked inside to be confronted by the football team... -"Mark! Whatsup." One of the only nice ones called out, Matt. [Mark's roomate IRL] -"yeah, what're you doing with the fag and the whores of Beverly Hills." The captain called out, a bark of laughter following him and a few others. Blake. [OC] -"If having one ex boyfriend makes me a whore, that makes your girlfriend a cheap ass hooker." Ashley scoffed, and flipped her hair over her shoulder. -"Hey don't talk like that about her" he called out pointing a finger at her. -"Guys cmon. Shut the hell up" Mark said as he dragged the other 3 away from them. They reached the science building and looked for an empty room before locking themselves inside.  -"Okay. Now what the fook do we do?" Jack asked, looking around. Tiffany and Ashley hopped onto a lab table and swung their legs back & forth. -"Let's just pray he doesn't show up, for one..." Mark grumbled. -"who doesn't show up..." said two familiar voices. -"WHAT THE F--AAAGHH" Ashley yelped as she fell off the table. Mathew and Stephanie stepped out of shadows of the class and stared at them curiously. -"Oh, hey guys.." Tiffany greeted. -"I'm okay, thanks for asking, bitch" Ashley mumbled as she stood up. -"Watch your mouth, dumbshit" Stephanie said, smiling. -"Who are you guys running from?" Matpat asked.  -"Jason..." Jack whispered. Mark hugged him protectively and Stephanie nodded her head in understanding. -"May we have Mark Fischbach and Ashley Luhmbar to the front office" the intercom blared.  -"oh we're screwed." Ashley groaned. "You four, stay here..." she demanded as she grabbed Mark's wrist and dragged him out of the room. ===============================================================================   -"Mr. Parker, we appreciate your concern, but could you be more specific?" The policeman asked  -"Oh my god.. for the fourth time... we did not kidnap your freakin boyfriend. We left the house, yes. But to get away from your abusive relationship." Ashley claimed. Jason shook his tear striken face furiously. -"NO. Don't believe them!" Jason exclaimed. -"Mr. Parker...we don't have any evidence to support either claims. I'm sorry but this is not a missing person's case. Have a good day" the policeman said as he left the office, the principal in tow. When the door closed, Jason laughed before standing up. -"you can't keep him away from me. He's MINE" he snapped. Ashley slapped him across the face before threateningly pointing a finger at him. -"Touch him ever again and it'll be my life's mission to throw your ass in jail." She scorned as she opened the door, Mark flipping him off following after her own. ===============================================================================   -"And that's how you make a bomb" Stephanie said, finishing her explanation. The door opened and Jason started walking towards them when Mark ran behind and tackled him down. -"JACK, RUN!" Ashley yelled as she ran into the room. He began sprinting before collapsing, his cuts on his thighs burning in pain. "Mark, cmon!"  -"Mat! Get the principal" Mark yelled. As soon as he started running, Jason pulled out a gun and aimed it. Everyone froze. -"Don't. Even. Think about it.." he said, in a taunting voice. He began making his way to Jack when Stephanie ducked under and he fired where she just was. Matthew ran out the door safely and Tiffany grabbed the makeshift bomb off the table. -"SHOOT ME, HOE" Tiffany taunted as she ran to the window that Mark broke with a chair. Jason fired again missing immensely and got the gun kicked out of his hand by Jack. He started limping away when he grabbed him from behind. -"MARK. MARK" he yelped as Jason tried dragging him away. Tiffany threw the makeshift bomb at Jason and he instinctively caught it, letting go of Jack. The latter ran towards Mark's embrace and a fire alarm rang out. Stephanie ran towards the others and crawled out the window first. Jason angrily threw the object at a wall when it burst in sparks and a loud bang initiated people in the halls to scream. The noise was hectic and loud, causing a scene. Mark was the next one through the window and quickly Jack followed. Jason grabbed Tiffany again and she kicked back this time, knocking him over. Ashley threw a vial with a blue substance and ran toward it as it hit him. -"BURN" she screamed before he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up. -"That was water, dipshit" he said as he tossed her aside like a doll. Tiffany successfully escaped when they heard more screaming and turned to see Ashley and Matpat jumping out, a flaming, stumbling figure left in the room. They all ran towards the parking lot where some students snuck towards away from the rest of the school. They quickly got into two different cars before skidding away from their school.  -"what.. the actual..HELL...WAS THAT" Matthew said between gulps of air. Tiffany and Stephanie ended up in Matthew's car. That meant Ashley and Jack were with Mark. -"Jason Parker. Aka, Jack's psychopathic ex boyfriend." Tiffany stated. -"HOLY SHIT. HE HAD LIKE SUPER STRENGTH" Matthew declared. Tiffany got a text in the group chat.  NERDY SLUTS R US M: We're going to my house. Here's the address: Copy_Link   T: For what?  A: ^YE M: Stuff. We'll stop by the rest of yours for things and bounce. A: Gr8 plan and all, but wtf about OUR PARENTS. M: some of ours would be drunk off their asses they won't notice  T: Bruh... Tiffany looked out the window expectantly to see rain patter down and smiled. She sent Matthew the link of Mark's address, then plugged in her headphones and hit shuffle. Never Forget You started playing. She drifted asleep. =============================================================================== I will never forget you.. Tiffany woke up to screaming. You will always be by my side... She sat up in time to see the large car hitting them parallel. From da day that I met you... She screamed along with the other two passengers when they got hit again. I knew that I would love you till the day I die. They hit the brakes and watched the other car swerve straight into a ditch. And I will never want much more... They fought their natural instincts and drove away. Cause in my heart I will always be strong... Tiffany started to relax when they got a phone call. I will never forget you... -"h-hello?" Stephanie asked, shyly. And you will always be by my side -" Don't do what they say! QUIET. Meet me at the school in one hour. For every hour you don't, one of your friends die. Give me--." Till the day I die. That's when they saw a small explosion come from the school. The line went dead. ===============================================================================   Mark had his duffel bag in hand, filling it with his things upstairs while Ashley waited downstairs. She was bored. REALLY BORED. She walked around the house being her curious self when she found a box of letters insids a vent. She skillfully opened it with ease and opened to see a bunch of letters. Some cheesy, some sad and all were to a Sean. Hmm. That's funny, it's almost like they were written for... -"OH. MY. GOD" she squealed aloud. She heard footsteps rapidly down the stairs and slammed the vent with the box closed. -"what happened?" Mark asked, worriedly. -"nothing." She said, leaning against the wall casually. "Pack your chiz, Fischbach" -"done" he said, dropping his duffel bag to prove his point. -"great, My house next?" Ashley asked when a rapid knock filled the house. Jack opened the door to find 3 teenagers stumble into the room. -"THE SCHOOL. IT FUCKINF. IT. IT BLEW UP!" Matthew exclaimed, gasping for air. -"AND. AND A CAR TRIED TO HIT US" Stephanie panted. -"JASON WAS HOLDING A RANSOM ON OUR FRIENDS" Tiffany finished for them. -"woah, woah slow down. What?" Mark asked, calmly. -"WE'RE F-ING SCREWED, MARK." -"great. You two get your stuff from your houses and Tiffany and I shall walk to ours. It's only 30 minutes from here anyway. We meet back here, Jack... we'll get your stuff on our way out." Ashley planned. Everybody nodded their heads and they left, leaving Mark and Jack alone. They awkwardly stood there before Jack sat down on the couch. -"Are you okay?" Mark asked. Jack shrugged. He sat next to him and looked at him. "Jack..would you have gon through with it?" Mark asked. -"I'm not answering that question." Jack replied, looking anywhere but at the Korean-American.  -"Jack.. please?" He asked again. -"I'm not answering the fookin question, Mark." He grumbled, standing up. His wrist was caught by the red haired teenager and the irishman looked down. His eyes brimmed with tears, glasses almost askew and his red hair vibrant as ever.  -"please.." he said, barely above a whisper."I never knew what I would do without you.." he begged. Jack realized he had tears running down his face. Mark stood to wipe them away and Jack flinched. He hugged himself and stood away from Mark. -"jack, I wouldn't hurt you.." Mark said. The green haired boy shook his head. -"that's what Jason said.." he said, pleadingly. -"But I actually L.. I lo--.. Nevermind." Mark said, hopelessly. He began marching upstairz when he heard running behind him. He turned to see Jack runninf to the kitchen and looking for something jn the drawers. He shed out a knife and Mark reacted instantly by sprinting across and grabbing him from behind. Jack screamrd and Mark grabbed the knife away. -"NO. No no, please. Just once. Just let me... let me do a few" he begged. Mark put away the knife and turned around to be slapped then punched by Jack. Jack continued screaming and hitting Mark and he took all of it. Jack screamed, tears running down his face until he was a sobbing mess and was caught by Mark's arms. Mark hushed him as he wept and soon the house became quiet. Jack had fallen asleep and murmured. Random things really..until he heard his name. -"abucus... blugh... I love... love.. hehe... Mark... beautiful... strong...mark.." he mumbled. Mark looked down wide-eyed befote smiling. He kissed Jack's forehead then rose and carried him to his bed. Once there, Mark became tired as well and layed down next him, arms around him protectively. And he slept. ===============================================================================   -"TIFFANY. IT'S ONLY 2 DAYS NOT A FREAKING VACATION. WHAT'S TAKING YOU FOREVER..." Ashley groaned. No response. Again. "Okay. This hoe clEARLY cannoy answer once..." Ashley mumblrd and she tredged upstairs. She opened her room and saw Jason with a...burned looking face holding a gun to Tiffany's head. -"make... a single movement and I will--" Jason threatened before Ashley pulled another chair from behind the door and sat down. -"Ima just wait till ya finish." She said. Jason looked at het confused before Tiffany moved her arm and Jason put it down. -"STOP. Struggling before I shoot y--" Ashley threw the chair at him and took the gun while he recovered from the blow. Both girls ran down the stairs with their things as he followed not too behind. As they threw open the door, Tiffany swung her bag backward and hit him in the head where he stumbled backward before falling on the doorstep. They ran as fast as they could down the sidewalk when they saw him stand up and chase after them. -"THIS KID WON'T QUIT" Ashley mumbled as she ran faster. Soon enough he was catching up and they were losing their energy, they passed a street and stopped to catch their breaths, aware of what would come next until a car hit Jason as he touched the asphalt, spiraling acrosd the road. Tiffany yelped in surprise to see Matthew and Stephanie again. -"GET IN" they yelled, the girls willingly did so and drove away as he slowly stood up. He glared at them before limping a ways before his leg automatically healed. Oh this was going to be FUN. ===============================================================================     ***** Running and Falling ***** Chapter Summary Mark, Jack, Tiffany, Ashley, Matpat and Steph are on the run from Jason. But he has a few tricks up his sleeve to draw them out. Who knew teenagers were so cruel? Chapter Notes Idk what this has turned into. I apologize. Thx for the Kudos( ._.) Update: SOO... Idk the FULL origins of Wilford so I made up a creepy backstory of his origins. Bear with me. See the end of the chapter for more notes After almost dying for what felt like the hundredth time that day, they were driving to Jack's house when Mark realized people were talking to him. He unfocused from the world he tuned out of.  -"MARK." Jack said, more loudly. Mark snapped out of his daze and looked at him. He had a concerned look on his face when he turned to see him. -"uh, sorry. Sorta spaced out. What'd you ask?" Mark asked, looking back at the road. -"i said, I'm not going to need a lot of stuff and we need to plan a place to go to if we're actually doing this." Jack explained. Mark nodded his head. Jack sounded so.. calm. They had woken up on the floor when Mark's phone buzzed with a message from Matt about nobody being injured except a few students from the explosion. Mark stood up and helped clean himself and Jack a littlr after their episode. He felt a thought in the back of his mind. Pathetic. He'll never love you the way you'll love him. He wasn't thinking straight. He doesn't love you. Wilford.  Mark couldn't worry about him now. Not now of all times. He quickly took his meds before helping Jack clean himself before they left the house and texted the others to make their way to Jack's now. And here they were. They arrived and saw the house. Jack gasped and opened the door, Mark slammed the breaks and put it in emegency parking when he followed Jack. The window was fixed. The bedsheet a loose mess on the ground, but the window was fixed. How?  -"Mark.. the window.." Jack marveled. -"yeah.. yeah I see it."Mark repkied, staring up at it. Jack turned and began walking towards the front door when another car stopped in front of the sidewaak and the 4 passengers clambered down. -"We just HIT Jason. Oh god." Matthew confessed, morbidly. -"HE ALMOSY SHOT HER." Ashley said, dropping the gun on the driveway. -"Put that away! Oh my god." Stephanie scolded as she picked it up and put it in her bag. -"kay, grab and go. Hurry up, Loughlin", Tiffany demanded as they walked into the house. Jack weny upstairs, Mark following him and when they reached his room he closed the door and looked at Mark.  -"H-how bad is it?" Jack asked. Mark looked up and unclenched his fists. -"How bad is what?" Mark asked. -"don't play stupid, Mark. You know what blimey I'm talking about. How's Wilford" Jack asked. Mark shifted on his feet before he grabbed Jack's shoulders. -"I'm fine." He admitted. Jack nodded his head before he saw a pile of razors on a small plate. Jack began moving toward them when Mark held him back. -"please don't" Mark said with pleading eyes."you don't need them.. I'll be there.. I'll always be here, Jack" Mark pulled him back and hugged Jack. Jack hid in the crook of his neck and controlled his tears this time. -"I love you, Mark." Jack said. He looked up to see Mark look down at him with widened eyes. "I just ruined our friendship. I'm sorry."  -"no. No,  Jack.. I love you ." He confessed. Jack looked at him. They stared into each others eyes. Jack stared at his warm brown eyes as Mark looked into the icy blue stare. Mark placed his hand on Jack's cheek, the latter leaning into the touch. Jack slid his hands across his back as Mark leaned in a little more. They were only an inch apart. Their breaths ragged and careful not to ruin the atmosphere. Jack kissed first. Mark kissed back. His muscular arms pulled onto Jack tightly as the smaller teen's arms melted into him like jello. They stood there kissing back and forth until one opened their mouth to allow entrance. Their tongues slipped into each other and they pulled apart for air. Jack breathed in before letting go. He stood back awkwardly until Mark lightly pinned him against the wall to trap them in liplock again. What Felt like hours lasted minutes and soon a opened door and stuttering mess later, Jack actuallu began packing. Mark and Jack gathered the razors and flushed them ceremoniously down the toilet. They walked downstairs to meet up with the others when Tiffany giggled profusely when she saw their hands intertwined. They blushed before leaving. Jack left a letter for his parents claiming he was staying at Mark's. Mark did the same. Ashley knew her parents would be too drunk to care. Tiffany left them voicemails that she was going to stay at a friend's overnight. As they got into cars, Matpat and Steph took Tiffany as the other two took Ashley. They drove away onto the highway and went to their destination. L.A. ===============================================================================   -"SO I WANT THE DETAILS!!!" Ashley squealed as they entered the hotel room. They asked for a large bedroom and payed the price of a bedroom with two beds and a pullout couch with a bathroom. Sweet. -"I want this one" Jack groaned as he flopped onto the one closest to the window. -"i want this one" Matthew said as he dropped he and Stephanie's bags onto the other. -"COUCH BUDDIES!" The two girls squealed, clapping each other's hands. Mark sat next to Jack facing down and patted his head. -"I'll share with Jack" Mark stated. Ashley coughed and not so subtly hid the word "Hoes" in it.  -"Stop being so mean." Tiffany demanded. Ashley rolled her eyes before ceremoniously falling onto the couch, opening her phone. -"i want some fookin food." Jack grumbled as he sat up. -"You've had enough" Mark scoffed. Jack flipped him off before Mark flipped him off loosely, accidentally aiming it at Steph. Matpat flipped him off and she flipped off Matthew. Ashley happily flipped them off and Tiffany giggled. -"So is this just a huge flip-off fest?" She said, laughing. Everyone gave her a bored expression and flipped her off instead. -"oh well fuck you all of you too" she said flipping them off randomly. Everybody laughed before Jack got a phone call. He looked at his phone before freezing.  -"it's him" he said, swallowing nervously. Mark took the phone from him and answered. -"what NOW, Jason." Mark scorned at the phone. -"Mark?" Matt asked, a tone in his voice practically dripping with fear. He froze and his face changed to pure horror. -"Matt? Bud, you okay?" He asked. A small chuckle came from the other line. -"put the phone on speaker, Fischbach." Jason drawled out. He did as asked and Jason began speaking again through the small speaker. -"jackaboyy.." he said in a deadly singsong tone. "You better come back now. Or else I'll hunt down all of your acquaintances" a sharp clang came from his side of the phone. "Then your friends..." a sizzling noise, this time. "And then your families..." a scrape. "And I will torture them until you come back into my arms." Matt began screaming frantically as Jason chuckled. -"All this for SOME GUY YOU ABUSED?!" Ashley yelled. Everyone in the room turned to look at her, she was brooding in anger now. -"ash--" -"NO. HOLD THE FUCK UP. You plan on tortuing all of the people we could care about just for JACK. Little jack?! This 5'7" bag of IRISH. You want to cause so much chaos because you want JACK" she screamed. Jason laughed violently before s dark, monotone voice returned. -"He's mine. I claimed him. But he has feelings for someone else, and demons don't like that." Jason said. Ashley laughed. -"Sounds like a personal problem" she said. She hung up the phone and everyone stared at her in awe. -"plot twist. You're boyfriend is a demon" she said. Mark started breathing deeply and his face was squeezed shut. He growled deeply before he aimed to punch a wall but Jack got in the way. Mark stopped mid swing and slowly turned at everyone else. His eyes were filled with rage and a small pink mustache randoy sprouted.  -"AND MARK IS A DEMON TOO, HOLY SHIT" Tiffany yelled as she hopped onto the couch, fearfully. Steph drove her shoulder into the back of his neck and he fell. Jack was staring at him, with a shocked look. -"okay, the fuck was that."   Ashley said as she lifted Mark's head. The mustache was gone. -"shit." Matthew said. -"so now wot..." Jack asked. ===============================================================================   -"He packed his meds, he'll take them when he wakes up." Jack explained.  -"so we'll go go scout for maps and you two will stay with him?" Stephanie clarified. -"yes." Tiffany and Jack said in unison. -"great. Let's go" she said, taking Matthew's hand as they left the room. Jack sat on a chair and Tiffany on the couch. -"so.. tell me what that was about." Tiffany asked. Jack sighed and looked over at Mark. He didn't want to tell without his consent...but if he was out of control...then why should at least prepare them in case he has a break. -"Okay..." he said. She looked expectantly before Jack looked up at her. -"Mark..has a split personality. And.. his name is Wilford Warfstache. He has a pink mustache to represent it's him and he could apparently never shave it off. Anyway, he...he was like the dark side of Mark. He was rude and sarcastic and he... he.. he killed his cat one time." Jack explained. Tiffany listened intently before a deep, chuckle filled the room. -"oh.. jackaboy... that's not even the start of it" Mark said. Or so they thought it was Mark.. Wilford sat up on the bed and smiled at Tiffany. A pink mustache appeared to be there somehow.  -"Hello. You must be Tiffany" he said, holding out his hand. -"Hi.." she said as she looked at the hand offensively. -"I'm kind. I swear, no matter what they say" he replied, smiling. -"bullshit!" Jack said. Wilford rolled his eyes before looking at Tiffany. -"you must be a good person, right?" He asked. She nodded her head slowly. -"YOU HURT ME." Jack said, desperately.  -"I'm only here to protect Mark. And I did overreact. I'm sorry" Wilford replied. Jack stood up and slapped him. He took the hit and looked calmly back up. -"if Mark needs help...you know how to call for me" he said before falling back on the bed, the mustache dissappearing in the blink of an eye. -"well then.." Tiffany said, leaning back. Jack ran his hand through his green hair before Mark sat up, groaning. The rest was a blur. Jack recounted the conversation and Mark nodded taking it in. He also took his meds and Jack watched over him like a hawk. Tiffany fell asleep and woke up to see them gone. In fact, everybody was gone.  Wait...where was she? She sat up. She saw she was in a bed but in a blank room. She stood up with everything about her intact and began walking to the other end where a door was. She opened it to see darkness.  Weird. She walked into it, not knowing what to expect. A dark blue light shone down casting an eerie but playful glow. It was still dark, it was almost like a glow-in-the-dark light. She walked for a few minutes before she came to a fork. She knew Left was best was what her mother said. That, and she chose to be adventurous. Off she went. ===============================================================================   Stephanie was done with this bullshit. She has been wandering around for what felt like hours. She now lucidly remembers being kidnappes and ends up in some room and a giant abyss-related maze on the other side of a friendly looking door. Ugh. She kept venturing until she heard a scuffling noise behind her. She hurried along, and turned to see someone following her. She screamed and started jogging. She felt like she lost them after a while until she turned a corner and slammed into somebody. -"OW. FUCKING HOE" a girl yelled. Stephanie apologized and realized it was Ashley. Of course it was... -"Oh thank god. I thought it was just me" Stephanie said.  -"who's there?" She asked. Stephanie was confused. -"the hell? It's me, Ash." She said. Stephanie looked closer and realized that black tape surrounded her head. She was practically stumblind around blind. Stephanie was utterly confused. -"oh god. You smell like Stephanie. Is that Steph?" She asked, feeling around her blindly. Stephanie didn't realize she had a smell. That's when she realized she couldn't smell anything. She touched her nose to realize it too was covered in tape.  -"STEPHANIE" Ashley whined. She moved forward and carefully pulled off the tape, getting a good yelp or two from the blue hair tinted girl. -"OW." She said once finished. Ashley blinked a few times before seeing Stephanie trying to pull off her tape. She helped her and earned a scream. -"THAT HURT." She exclaimed. -"So did mine" she mumbled. They walked together for a few minutes before hearing a scream. 2 screams actually. They turned and saw a large fire figure chasing after two other people. A green haired guy with tape on his mouth and a red & purple haired girl with tape on her ears. Steph bolted it and took Ashley with her as they ran through the maze. Tiffany's screams following them. The person on fire was clearly a man. As they founf a small hole in the wall, they hid there then pulled the two figures in with them. Ashley swiped off Jack's, who screamed, while Stephanie took off Tiffany's ears'. -"HOLY SHITE WOT WAS--" Ashley clamped his mouth shut as the fiery figure ran past them.  -"k. He's gone" Tiffany whispered. They all got out of the small space and saw the fiery figure now on the ground. It was Matt from the football team. A sprinkler overhead came on and drowned the flames. He was roasted. -"OH god that smell" Steph gagged. They hurried away from the body and turned the corner to see someone floating. Wait.. how? As the 4 got nearer they saw their legs were slightly swinging.  -"umm is it just me or is this person like... possessed or something" Ashley said. They neared closer and barely saw their arms extended in a wingspan formation. They hit a tripwire that Jack luckily heard and screamed at them to stop. They did as asked, frightened when lights flashed above them.  They looked up to see a teenage boy hanged by the neck and arms, dead. His arms spread open and his white shirt written in messy black ink. GIVE ME JACK  Stephanie screamed in horror. Ashley stared in shock and Jack felt tears in his eyes. He felt like he did this. -"guys?!" A voice called out. Jack turned to see the voice and ran into his arms. Mark held Jack as he sobbed violently. -"mark... you're not gonna believe what Jason did.." Tiffany said, awestruck. Her voice devoid with emotion except fear. Ashley held Stephanie as she cried on her knees. -"no. NO MATTHEW WHY" she screamed, tears streaming down her face. Mark looked up to where Tiffany was pointing at. He couldn't believe his eyes. Matthew Pattrick was dead. Chapter End Notes CLIFFHANGERSSSSSSS Btw.. my updates will take a while since I got skl and chiz... K. Yeah. LUV YA ***** The Blank Room ***** Chapter Summary Matpat is dead. Matt is dead. And Tiffany loses her shoe. Jason holds his deadly promise as they try to escape this hell maze. But what they don't know is that one of them will have to die to escape. Chapter Notes THIS FIC IS ALL OVER THE PLACE, I'M SORRY. Grazi for the Kudos & Comments. Hint: I love cliffhangers. I SUCK AT UPDATING SOMETIMES SO YE. I plan on updating between every 2-3 days so... yeeeeeee See the end of the chapter for more notes Ashley was still clutching onto Stephanie as she sobbed through the endles corridors of the maze. Aside from the lights they encountered which shined on Matthew's dead hanging body, the entire maze was filled with only a dark blue light that filled the pitch black maze with an ominous glow. Some of their clothes glowed a little, but only slightly. As they walked on, hopelessly looking for an exit, Jack saw something in his peripheral vision. -"Oi guys.." he said, slowly staring at the wall. "Ta hell is this?" He asked. As he slowly walked toward the wall, Mark pulled him back just in time before the wall suddenly collapsed into a pile of black brick-like pieces.  -"the hell--" Mark said before a loud screeshing noise sounded around them. They covered their ears as the sound continued to ring in their ears. The source was from the walls, it seemed like. They started jogging away from their spot, but the sound followed them everywhere. It stopped suddenly and they all turned looking for what caused it to stop. Instead, the floor beneath them began trembling violently before coming to a sudden stop. -"uhmm... okay?" Ashley said. That was before the ground started crumbling beneath them. -"Run" Mark said before he sprinted off a different direction.  -"MARK, WAIT" Jack called out, following his route. The area they went through suddenly closed and the girls ran the other way. The ground crumbling behind them like some form of a pixelated video game. They stumbled and sprinted and turned corner after corner before coming to a large open area. With no exit except the one falling behind them. As they turned and stared at the ground falling, they held each other before Tiffany did the possibly dumbest thing someone would do in this situation. -"FUCK IT" she yelled as she ran and held onto their wrists for dear life into the abyss. But nothing happened. The ground was still crumbling and they were standing on a black platform. It was made to look like an abyss. It was an illusion. -"Very clever..." Jason said, clapping loudly as he walked around the corner and into the large area.   -"you hoe.." Ashley muttered. -"well. Looks like my attempts to strike fear in you worked... for a while" he explained, his voice dropping dangerously low at the end. He walked around them like a predator taunting its prey. -"well. Congrats. You scared the living shit outta us. Now let us go." Stephanie snapped. Jason laughed. -"oh sweetheart you really are bittersweet. By the way, how's Matthew doing?" He taunted. Stephanie lunged at him before he stepped to the side and she tackle nothing. She fell on the floor and he kicked her twice before the other two ran at him. He pulled out a knife and slashed at Ashley's arm and weakly kicked Tiffany down. -"let's...play, bitches." He snarled. ===============================================================================   Jack and Mark were relieved. The ground stopped crumbling. But they were just as lost as before. The entrance closed behind Jack and he stopped to stare before he heard Mark jogging back.  They stood there in silence before Jack realized they lost the girls. Jason cut them off from the girls. Jason who is chasing him. It's all his fault, Jack felt. He saw Mark staring at him but he couldn't help but give a sad smile. -"I'm sorry" Jack murmured. He looked at Mark sadly. -"For what? For this? This wasn't your fault, Jack--" -"Of course it was. If I just... stayed with him. We wouldn't be in this. He promised to let me go once Senior Year was over. I just had to last one more year" Jack blurted. His voice breaking at the end.  -"no. Please don't say that.." Mark said as he walked over, he touched Jack's wrist and he flinched and recoiled. "J-jack.." he said hopelessly. -"I don't deserve you. I'm a freak. I'm pathetic.. why couldn't you just let me die.." Jack said, dolefully.  -"because Jack.. I--" -"You can't love me." Jack stated. He slowly stood against the wall, tears forming. "You shouldn't" he said, voice barely a whisper. -"Jack... I will always love you. I loved you since we were kids. Ever since you said your name to the class full of assholes we call classmates in 8th grade, I fell in love. I love everything about you." Mark confessed, practically begging. He walked closer and Jack didn't move away this time. "You love video games, you love pizza and you're obsessed with metal bands and stupid pop-rock songs. You joined a band and you were fuckinf amazing. I loved all the music you played, and I was just... I was outcasted for a while but then people actually saw me and I became some popular kid and you became the outcast. Everytime others talked crap about you I would turn it down or defend you. I have always been hopelessly in love. The way you talk and are so energetic makes me happy. Your attitude towards things is what makes my day sometimes and I can't help but feel angry at anybody that would hurt you. When I realized Jason was hurting you... I practically punched my locker so hard that it dented.. and to see how much of a real monster he is.. I-I just don't want you with him ever, Jack." Mark said, tears falling down his face as he held Jack's hands firmly now. Jack looked up at his eyes. Even in this ominous darkness, he could still see Mark's brown eyes. Mark dropped his head low and he stood back, the Irishman immediately missing the contact. -"you.. probably weren't..expecting that.. huh..", Mark said as he twiddled his thumbs. He turned around to walk away when Jack grabbed his wrist and spun him until they crashed their lips together. Jack laid his hands profusedly all over Mark's body. Mark was surprised by the action before he kissed back. Mark lifted him off his feet and Jack wrapped them around the red-haired boy. They spun around giggling and kissing before settling down. -"i never answered ya, y'know" Jack said after a few minutes of silence. They were on the ground, leaninf against the wall and they had their fingers laced together.  -"about?" Mark asked. -"if... If I woulda gon through with it..." Jack replied. Mark said nothing but turn his head to him. -"yes... I would have. B-but now... Now I just want to be with you" Jack said, in tears. Mark shushed him and pulled him closer as he sobbed into his shoulder, his shirt getting wet. -"it's okay.. I'll always be here" Mark said, rubbing his back. "I'd never leave you.." Jack's sobs led him to shake into Mark before loud scresms came from an unknown direction. They slowly stood up when it stopped. They looked around to see what it was before the wall right next to them blasted open. They turned to see two people. -"YOU.. FUCKING... BITCH" Ashley yelled, standing from the pile of rubber before throwing a block at somebody on the other side. The other person was Stephanie who groaned before rolling off the pile of blocks. -"holy shite what was that?" Jack asked looking at the hole in the wall. He noticed Tiffany and Ashley were taking on Jason. Who was...shirtless....and mad... huh... -"NOW!" Tiffany exclaimed as she and Ashley ran at Jason, he seemed prepared for the attack until they both did a double-take then as Ashley flipped him from under his legs, Tiffany slammed him into the floor. -"ouch!" Mark said, in understanding. Jason growled before he smacked Tiffany across the face and she fell. Ashley backhanded him twice, spun, kicked him backwards before backhanding him again and spitting in his face. Jason was angry now. He charged at her before Mark ran past and tackled him instead. -"MARK" Jack yelled as he hoped through the rubble and towards the fight. Jason freed from Mark's grip before he ran through an opening on the other side of the open area. -"Get ready for the blank room" he snarled at them beforr leaving.  -"Blank room?" Stephanie asked before a large trapdoor opened and took an awakening Tiffany down into it. -"MARK" Jack yelled as he held onto him. Ashley tried pulling Jack up too before Stephanie yelled to watch out. Large styrofoam spikes fell from the roof that may not hurt, but at the height that it fell from caused Ashley to lose her balance and topple over with the other two. Stephanie tried to save herself by running to where Jason went through when a body fell right on the entrance. Matthew  She screamed as she cowered backward, falling into the trapdoor. And then the world went black as she slammed into a thick substance. ===============================================================================   Tiffany woke up third. She sat up where she was... it was a gooey material and she did not like it. She moved around and realized she wasn't the only one stuck here. She saw Ashley and Jack struggling to get someone else out of it... Mark. Tiffany groaned a little before they snapped their attention to her. -"TIFF. Oh my god. I thought you died!" She cried out.  -"so did I.." she mumbled. She remembered getting bitch slapped by Jason... and then waking up... and falling.. great. -"move over here." She beckoned. Tiffany did as asked and as she did, Ashley grabbed her wrists and lifted her out quite easily. "Good. Now help us get this sleeping bafoon out of it."  Tiffany stumbled over to where Jack was when she saw a sleeping Mark, laying limply on the edge. They all held together before counting down and pulling him up, with a struggle.  They looked around and it appeared to copy a sewer system, it was everything but that. The walls consisted of the same material as the ones in the maze, and the substance was so weird. They looked both ways only to see a dim light at the end of a tunnel.  -"Hey guys.. look over there" Tiffany said, pointing to the direction of the light. They turned and smiled before Mark woke up, groaning. -"morning, Fischbach." Ashley snickered. Tiffany lightly smacked her arm and she rolled her eyes.  -"Woah... where are we?" Mark asked, dazed by the tunel. -"welcome to hell, would you like a room for one?" Ashley mimicked in a southern accent.  -"Oh shush, you." Tiffany scolded. -"should we go to it?" Mark asked. He was scratching his neck and Jack stared.. admiring this man. Fucking Kill Yourself, Jack. The voice said. Mark's voice. I never loved you. You're pathetic. You're disgusting. I saved you to pity you longer. Go die. Ugly. Hideous. Worthless. You're life is useless. Go fucking kill yourself, Sean William McLoughlin. Jack saw Mark saying his name. Jack was falling. Tiffany had a worried expression on her face. He smiled.. because they cared.. they really cared... didn't they? No. They hate you. Fag. But they cared enough to defend him. He smiled again. No. Jack finally focused clearly.. his breathing out of place... his name being called out multiple times. -"JACK. Holy shit. This is my fault. Oh my god I killed him because I act like a bitch. Oh my god I think he cracked. Oh no. JACK. Holy shit, he knows I kid around. Right? Please tell me he does. Oh god if he has a panic attack because of me I'll never forgive myself. Jack? JACK." Ashley prattled on, clutching at her chest and purple/blue stained hair in worry. -"I'm fine. Ash..I'm *cough* fine. I'm fine" Jack said, reassuring her. -"oh thank god." Mark exhaled. He slowly lifted them up as Ashley stared at him in worry. -"let's go..." Ashley mumbled, biting her nail. They began walking down the tunnel, it was very strange. The walls looked almost plastic but also real.. -"guys...my shoe..." tiffany said, staring at her feet offensively. They almost reached the curve that led to the light when they heard a strangled voice. -"h-h-h-help m-m-m-me" it said. More similar to a girl.. they turned and looked around until Jack spotted the origin of the voice. -"Guys where the fuck did my shoe go..." tiffany said. It was Stephanie. They quickly began to lift her out of the strange substance they woke up in which left no trace of it and it's glittery color on them at all. She breathed clearer after a while before Mark helped her walk with them. -"guys....What did Jason say about a--" Ashley began saying as they reached the source of light. -"Blank Room" they said in unison. Upon them layed a large white room with a twisted illusion for a hallway. -"perfect" Mark muttered. They had no other option but to enter it, the spiral design making them sway uncontrollably. They heard three other voices. -"the hell...?" Tiffany said before they walked into another grand white room. They spotted the three people hanging on the walls. The bright red from the blood dripping in a slightly horrifying artistic fashion. -"FELIX" Jack yelped as he walked to one of the bodies on the wall. -"ryan..." Mark gasped, walking slowly in a trance. -"who's that hoe..." Ashley said, pointing to an unrecognized person. -"oh my god. First my shoe and now this..." Tiffany grumbled.  All three victims were slashed apart. Large red cuts on their bodies. Shirts almost hanging loosely and their lower halves a red mess. Jack backed away and covered his mouth holding in the bile he felt rising up. Mark clenched his fists before punching the wall with a force that smashed through it. Je breathed in deeply and turned around to see everyone's shocked faces. -"I'm going to fucking kill him" He growled, jaw clenched tightly. -"get in line." Stephanie snapped. They all left the room and entered a new one... it had more bodies. Mark recognized his brother and mother hanging upside down, their throats slashed. -"HOLY FUCK. JESUS CHRIST" Ashley exclaimed as she covered her mouth.  -"No.. NO" Mark yelled as he tried to run to them but was hit with Plexiglass. He rammed into the wall repeatedly until he weakly hit is with his fist and fell to the ground in tears. -"What sick person would do this just for A GUY" Stephanie yelled. Jack walked over and touched Mark's shoulder as he sobbed. The rest of the trip was filled with tears and agonizing screams seeing their loved ones brutally murdered. Ashley took pictures for evidence later on. Once they reached the end, they saw a ladder that led upwards. They just saw things they could never look back at. The people they cared about..dead.. slashed... Mark opened the latch at the top and they entered a panel room. One in which they saw Jason, smirking. -"glad to see you've made it" he said. Jack laughed and walked towards him. -"We really fot them...didn't we, babe" Jack said as he kissed Jason. Mark stood there confused. -"bitch what?" Ashley said. Jack rolled his eyes and pulled out a gun and shot her. He shot Tiffany and then Stephanie before looking at him.  -"you thought I really loved you? Haha, in your dreams...Markimoo" he said before shooting him. Mark fell and gasped for air, he looked up at Jack who smiled. -"have a nice nap.." he said before the world went black. =============================================================================== Mark woke up to being dragged out of a strange substance. He coughed a couple times before looking up. -"morning, Fischbach" Ashley snickered. Tiffany lightly smacked her and rolled her eyes. -"holy shit.. you're here. You're all here.." he gasped.  -"uh.. yes?" Ashley replied. -"W-where's Stephanie" Mark asked. -"uhh...good question?" Ashley replied, looking around. Tiffany walked ahead for a bit before she yelled back at them. -"OVER HERE" she notified. They quickly stumbled and jogged over to help her out. They all stood clean as day, once again by that strange gooey but not sticku substance. They turned the curve before confronting the spiraling hallway. -"oh god.." Mark murmured as he walked down with the rest. Jack clutched onto his arm and when they entered the room... it wasn't what he expected. But much worse. There were TV screens reflecting people. And not just people. But their families. Each screen on a different part of the house. Ashley's in her room and the living room, Tiffany in her room, the twins and their parents and the living room. Stephanie's was on all her siblings and her parents and herself. Three screens were off and all said Terminated Subject. Matthew... The last screens were of Jack and Mark. Both their homes and their families. Mark stared shocked and a loud chuckle came around. They saw Jason at the other entryway. -"Ah.. live TV, gotta love it" he said. Jack ran at him and instesd of attacking, Jack hugged him. Oh god.. -"I'll come back. I swear. Just leave us alone. Leave them alone. Please.." Jack begged. Jason sighed. -"fiiine.. but if you promise not to leave me" he threatened.  -"i promise you.." Jack said. But then a gunshot rang out. They all jumped and Jason had a gun to Jack's head, Jack was whimpering.. but if that gunshot didn't come from them... from where did it-- -"LET HIM GO." Stephanie snapped. She had a gun in her hands.  -"steph.." Ashley warned. -"Shoot me and I will kill him then hit this button that will blow us all up." He warned.  -"to hell with it" she said as she turned her aim at Mark. -"WOAH. STEPHANIE--" Tiffany exclaimed. -"SHUT UP. Mark... remember that ring Matthew gave you as a joke" Stephanie asked. Mark remembered... he told Stephanie to duck and Mark caught a ring with a duck on it. Theu laughed for hours.. -"yeah.. why?" Mark asked. -"do it." She said. Mark looked at her for a minute before she closed one eye to aim and it clicked. Duck She shot the gun and Jason groaned as it hit him in the shoulder. The side of the TV screen was strong enough to reflect the bullet. Clever. Jack turned around and slammed a razor into his leg before running to the others. -"Go fuck yourself" Ashley said as they ran past him. They passed several corridors with more cameras on people and the school. They reached the end where a ladder was and they climbed up. They all ended up in some room. A panel room to be exact. Mark turned to take in his surroundings. A water tank was placed in the corner. He grabbed it before launching it at the panel which crushed some things. Tiffany rolled her eyes and uncapped it, spillinf water over everything. The windoe in front of them revealed the entire place to suddenly burst into sparks and they wooped in celebration. -"AY. I FOUND AN EXIT" Jack yelled at them. They ran towards it and climbed up a flight of stairs before opening a door into the night. It was cold out and they realized they were at some factory. They ran out to find a way ouy and conveniently saw a gate. They rushed towards it when Jason stood in front of it, leg bleeding and gun in hand. -"I'm taking you with me, Jack" he said, angrily. -"NEVER" Jack yelled. He stared at him. -"i am DONE. with you Jason. I am fucking done." Jack yelled. -"Well I'm not" he said. He aimed the gun at Jack and it all happened in a blur.  Someone jumped in front of him, they fell. Jack fell instinctively and three gunshots rang out. Another person fell. Two people were fighting, one with a gun and the other without. After struggling for a while, the person with the gun aimed it at them before a cop car pulled up. Two more gunshots. The person went down. Jack was dizzy and heard someone calling his name. He fainted. Only four people of six were in the ambulance car... Chapter End Notes PLOT TWIST Sorry ._. Luv ya. ***** N. O. Spells NO. And You Are A Dumb F-ing Hoe ***** Chapter Summary The aftermath of escaping is told from Ashley's point of view Who knew Senior students could have such a colorful language? Chapter Notes This is probably the funniest chapter I've ever written because Ashley is a bitch and sorta funny. That's my opinion '-' if ya guys want me to tone it down, I will. HOPE YA LIKE IT SO FARRR See the end of the chapter for more notes Screaming.   That's what she remembers.   -"ma'am we need you to answer our question" the officer said. Ashley couldn't. She stared blankly at the table. She felt tears in her eyes. -"The stress is... overwhelming her. She'll answer in an hour or two." The nurse said. The officer sighed before nodding his hesd and leaving. Felix patted her shoulder snd the nurse closed the door. Ashley let out a breath she was holding. -"It's been a week." Felix said as he sat down on the chair next to her bed. -"Jason Parker" Ashley said. He looked up. -"what?" -"Jason P-parker. He did it. He shot Mark. He shot my friend. H-he shot Mark." She whispered. ===============================================================================   Ashley was afraid. When Jason shot his gun, Mark jumped no in front of Jack. Like a fucking idiot. He fell to the ground and Jack fell with him, holding his head in his lap. I yelled at Jason before he turned his gun at me and fired once. It hit my leg. Barely at the edge of my thigh. A second gunshot....from Stephanie. She remembered the gun. It was the one Jasin tried to shoot Tiffany with just the other day. She dropped it on the driveway and Stephanie picked it up. It hit Jason in the shoulder. Again. A third gunshot from him hit Stephanie. She fell.. her body falling before she hit the ground, her hair falling in front if her face and the gun flying out of her hand.  Tiffany being the ratchet hoe for a best friend that she is, fought with Jason. They struggled and cursed at each other before he backed away and the car's headlights came into view.  A door opened and two gunshots rang out. One hittinf Jason in the leg and the other in the back. Dead. I fell to my knees and stared for a while. Tiffany was yelling Jack's name and soon enough the paramedics arrived. They got us into the ambulance and confirmed two dead. I was too spaced out to see who was the other, besides Jason. We reafhed the hospitsl and I was thrown on a gurney. Tiffany kept screaming Mark's name. =============================================================================== I had surgery. Paid by the state to get answers to the murders. Thank god.  I was asleep the first two days in the hospital. Then I refused to eat. Then I Refused to speak to the police. But right before I was checked out, I gave my story. It checked out with the other "patients". Felix visisted me often. It was nice. Tiffany visited me too. But every single time I asked for Mark or Steph or Jack...they changed the subject. I was walking down the hallway when I saw Felix walk out of a room with Cry. They held hands. But I was confused. Whose room? -"Ashley.." -"Who's room?" I asked. He sighed.  -"Jack's" he replied. -"who--" I began before I cut myself off. "Who died.." I asked. He gave me a sad look before a voice behind me spoke. -"not me" they said. The voice was dry. But light.  I turned around slowly and looked up to see the same welcoming eyes that I got used to. They were warm...welcoming...but they had bags under their eyes. Their hair was a mess but it nicely suited them.  -"You now know who." Felix said. Ashley nodded as she looked at the living person. -"it's great to see you breathing." Stephanie said. Ashley sighed. -"Yeah.. you too." Ashley replied. ===============================================================================   She woke up. -"STEPHANIE" she yelled. Felix yelped in surprise before giving her a sad look. -"Oh Ash.." he said. Tears fell down her face. It's been a month. They went back to school and they had a memorial service for Jason and Stephanie. Mark was still in the hospital. Jack was released but he chose not to go to school since so many people stared. She couldn't blame him or them. Tiffany was her usual self and always defended them. One day, Ashley had enough. -"Hey! It's the chick that saved Markimoo!" Someone shouted when they walked into school. Mark was released the day before and though he couldn't play because of his shoulder still healing, he stuck with the team and his new friends. -"yeah yeah. She gets it" Ashley snapped. -"woah. Chill bro." One of them said. The other nodded in agreement before she turned around and walked towards them. -"you don't fucking KNOW what we went through so shut the fuck up." She sneered. They cowered back before turning around and she breathed frustratedly. -"Ashley, it's fine--" Tiffany began saying before the other girl lifted her hand. -"no. It isn't." She said. She quickly wiped away a tear from forming. Tiffany sighed.  -"HEY FAGGOT" someone shouted before a loud slam was heard. They were the only ones left in the Senior hallways, they assumed. They turned the corner and saw some new kid- asshole- slam Jack into a locker. -"Bro what the fook" he said. -"What? Just cause you survive some shooting is going to cover up the fact that you're a little fag? You stupid freaks should burn in hell" he snapped, slamming his head into a locker. -"HEY. BACK OFF" Tiffany yelled as she ran at him. He turned around and smacked her into a locker. Ashley was shocked. -"back off, princess" he snapped. Ashley laughed as she walked down the hall. Everyone stared at her. -"oh my god. That was hilarious! Jesus, what are you a Tyrant?" She exclaimed, laughing. The boy was confused. -"Listen here... don't touch my friends ever again before I slap you so hard you get a concussion. K? Kay." She said. He snickered. -"you think you're tough?" He said, puffing out his chest. -"Ha. No." She said. -"what'd you say, whore?" He asked.  -"N. O. Spells NO" she said as she circled around him. "And you are... a DUMB FUCKING HOE" she yelled as she spun and kicked him square in the jaw. He fell backward before slamming into a locker and passing out. -"ouch.." Jack said as he stood up. -"ASHLEY. OH MY GOD" Tiffany exclaimed. She ran over and checked for his pulse. -"he's fine.." Ashley replied. -"He better be." She grumble as she stood up. Jack hugged them both tightly. The gesture taking them back before they hugged him back. He murmured a Thank You as he let go. They walked with him to his next class and when they entered the teacher gave them a stubborn look. -"For a Straight A student, you seem to get to class tardy often" Ms. Jones said. -"yeah yeah. Long day" Ashley murmured as she sat in her desk. The lesson was getting boring and after an hour of this, she stood up and walked ouy with the rest of the class when the bell rang. Only one more class. Oh god. With Mark... And the football team... And with Jack... Faaaaaakkkk ===============================================================================   -"Hey! She's the one who did it" the guy yelled as she and Jack walked into class. -"oh great." She murmured. A few football memebers stood up but before they did Mark stood in front of them with a smile on his face. -"Hey Babe" he said as he wrapped an arm around Jack's waist and kissed him. The football tean stared in shock. -"W-wait. So... are you like... Bisexual?" Someone asked. -"oh great. ANOTHER fag" the guy yelled out. -"HOE. FIGHT MEE" Ashley screamed as she tackled him.  -"ALRIGHT. THAT'S ENOUGH!" Their teacher yelled. Ashley clambered off him and sat in her assigned desk. -"First week of school and you're causing trouble in my class? I won't have it. Go to the office, Marcus" [OC] Mr. Maron [CptnSparklez] said. -"whatever" he grumbled as he stood up and left. -"Ha. Bye!" Ashley said in an over friendly voice. -"Ashley. Shut up and stop instigating your classmates." He said. She nodded her head. The lesson went on. The class was Technology Production and Jack loved making music in this class. Mark did video games. Ashley did music videos... so they all worked together for their new project. -"AND LASERS." Jack exclaimed. -"no no! You've got it all wrong!" Mark called back. -"I GOT A SONG!" Ashley said. -"What?" The boys said in unison. -"This one." She said as she hit play. I used to be so happy But without you here I feel so alone.. -" I like the beat." Mark said halfway through the song. They listened until it ended and Jack gave a small round of applause. -"i dig it." He said. -"good. Now stop arguing and pick how to make this shit. I'll figure how to put it all together." she said. They did as asked and began working. Once the final bell rang, they logged out of their computers and gathered their stuff to leave the library. -"Bye, Hoe." Ashley said to the girl working at the front desk for extra credits. -"Later, Ash." Suzy Barlow said. They walkrd out of the school and they decided to go to Mark's for food and a sleepover. ===============================================================================  -"Let's just say that Jack got a little carried away..." Tiffany said over the phone. Felic was currently patting Jack's back as he threw up in Mark's bathroom again. Ashley was running through the house frantically, looking for candles and Febreeze cans that can get rid of the smell of alcohol. -"what do you mean 'got a little carried away" Mark askrd suspiciously over the phone. -"Just-- MY GOD ASHLEY. STOP FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS AND HELP ME OUT HERE - - um. Sorry. Can you just bring all the food and drinks we asked." Tiffany said as calmly as she could on the phone. -"AND FEBREEZE. TELL HIM TO GET FBREE-- AAGGH" Ashley tried to say before slipping on spilt over Tequila on the bathroom floor.  -"and Febreeze." Tiffany said, pinching the bridge of her nose. -"what exactly did you guys do.." Mark prattled. -"You'll find out.." Tiffany grumbled. She hung up and heard the front foor open...then close. -"Felix?" A voice called up. -"up here!!" Ashley shrieked as she cleaned up the mess on the bathroom floor. Cry clambered up the stairs before seeing the scene before him. -"Before you say anything.." Ashley began yo say. "It was your boyfriend's fault" she finished. -"NO. Don't you--. Babe I swear." Felix said pleadingly to his masked boyfriend. -"What happened..." he asked, calmly. -"Felix brought plenty of alcohol and we were watching a movie when Ashley recommends we play a drinking game and Felix helped set it up. Ten minutes into it, Jack is in tears and locked himself in the bathroom when he smashed a bottle of..." -"Tequila." Ashley notified. -"...right.. Tequila. And he tried to cut himself and then drank his sorrows away. That was an hour ago before we sent Mark for snacks and yeah." Tiffany explained. -"huh." Cry said. He took off his jacket and helped clean up. Felix gave Jack a shower, (much to Cry's dismay) and then they all quickly bandaged Jack before laying him asleep on Mark's bed. -"I'm back." Mark grumbled as he walked into his house. His parents were on a cruise and he had the house to himself for the rest of the week. After the whole events from Jason, his parents were worried sick and Thomas, his oldet brother, helped take them on a cruise to quit their worrying. -"FUCK." Someone cussed. Most likely Ashley. He walked upstairs to see them all laying not-so casually on his bed. On something.. He hesrd a groan and realized it was someone. -"where's Jack?" He asked. -"ASLEEP" -"Eating" -"Gone". Mark eyes them suspiciously. -"down here.." a muffled voice said. Ashley elbowed backward when a sharp yell was heard. -"Godammit" she mumbled as they all rolled off of Jack. His legs and arms were bandaged with gauze and band-aids. Mark was thankful he set down the bags or else he would have dropped them. -"what did YOU DO" Mark yelled. He saw Ashley gasping for air and realized he slammed her against the wall and was holding her by her throst. He let go in fear and she fell onto her knees, gasping. -"I'm sorry." He whispered. The memory of being choked reminded her of Jason. She stood up and began walking away. Mark and Tiffany chased after her. -"ASH. I didn't mean to. I-i'm sorry!" Mark yelled. She slammed the bathroom door shut and layed there. She didn't answer their calls or screams. She just layed there. Afraid Jason would hurt her. She fell asleep. ===============================================================================  Ashley woke up and wondered where she was. She panicked for a second before realizing she was in Mark's bathroom. They must have found a way to open the door since she had a blanket dropped over her. She stood up and opened the door quietly to see the state the others were in. Mark had his arms protectively over Jack. They were spooning. Tiffany was on Mark's small couch, her hair in a messy bun. Felix and Cry were on the floor, a small blanket on Cry and Felix was shivering a little. Ashley gave Felix her blanket and she smiled a little seeing he stopped shivering. She went downstairs and started to eat an applr when she heard scuttling behind her. -"Ashley?" Mark said. She whipped her head around and saw him standing in an offensive positon, but quickly slumpimg his posture and standing normally. -"You scared me" they said in unison. Mark chuckled before walking towards her. -"I'm sorry." He whispered as he stood a few feet from her. -"You honestly should be" she said in a whisper. "But even after all the drama... I'll always be your friend." -"Thank you.." he said. He took a few steps as he hugged her. She sighed and returned the hug. She heard a sniffle. -"I'm just.. God I just don't want to see Jack hurt.. ever. He explained to me after you locked yourself in the bathroom what happened.a-and I can't help but just...worry. y'know." He said between silent sobs -"he's my best friend too.." she said simply. -"i love him. I would die for him." Mark whispered. She patted his back and hugged him until he let go. -"you tired?" She asked. He shaked his head. She smiled before leading him to the couch and they talked. About everything. Her family problems, his own. Jack. Tiffany. ..Jason too... and even about their newly found friendship. They soon fell asleep on the couch. They woke up the next morning and they had an acknowledging smile to each other. That night they shared. Mark kissed Jack good morning and Ashley smiled to herself.  But when she turned to flip a pancake, she saw Tiffany reach up at the cabinet and her short-sleeved PJ shirt slid down a little. A series of scars were revealrd momentarily. Ashley gasped. She grabbed her arm and Tiffany was surprised and laughed at what was wrong. -"why do you have cuts on your shoulders.." Ashley said, not caring of the others in the kitchen. Tiffany looked at her wide eyed. Nobody moved. It was dead silent. Mark dropped his cup. Jack covered his mouth in shock.. Felix and Cry stared wide-eyed. Ashley dropped the spatula. Tiffany held her shoulders as they stared. -"I'm sorry" was all she said. Ashley enveloped her in a hug. Followed by Felix and Cry. Then Jack. And finally Mark. Tiffany sniffed at it. Ashley whispered so that everyone could hear. -"Please don't cut...or die... or leave us.. any of you... please.." she said. They all hugged tighter. -"I said I'd never forget you.." Mark sang. -"i said I'd always be by your side.." Jack continued. -"since the day that I met you." Ashley whispered. -"i said I'd love you till the day I die." Felix replied. -" and I can't help but feel alone.. and through my heart I will always be strong..." they sang. -"i said I'd never forget you.." Cry continued. -"and that you'd always be by my side..." Mark sang.   Silence...   Slow silence..   -"till the day I die..." Tiffany finished.    And they meant it. Chapter End Notes *tour guide voice* And to your left is called Feelings. HERE YA GO *wrecks cart into Feels Land* ***** Talent and Malice ***** Chapter Summary The Talent Show is here! Mark, Jack and Ashley reveal their music video meanwhile Tiffany breaks our hearts with a sad song. and half of the football team is a bunch of assholes. Class of 2K16, ladies and gentlemen. Update: The songs used here were Never Forget You by MNEK and Zara Larsson [In casenyou haven't figured out what half this fic was about.. ] And Stone Cold by Demi Lovato. ENJOY!!! Chapter Notes If ya want me to improve something or throw in some celevs and other YouTubers then recommend them and I'll get to it! Glad yall thirsty young adults luv this fic. HERE'S SOME SMUT FOR YA!! Kudos & Comments are gladly taken and noticed ;P See the end of the chapter for more notes -"C'mon! The talent show is amazing..." Mark pleaded. -"Yeah... it's fun to watch some hoe twerk as best as she can before her ass falls off the stage along with her reputation and dignity." Ashley sneered as she hanged another shirt.  -"You have hideous clothes, by the way." Tiffany added. -"See?! I Ain't the only one!" Felix exclaimed. -"i think he's hot as fok" Jack piped in. Mark smiled before leaning down at kissing Jack who was sprawled out on the American's bed while the owner of said bed was propped on his elbows. -"I'm doing the talent show." Tiffany mumbled. -"SAME FAM!" Felix said as he got out from under the bed.  -"OH MY GOD. THIS MUST LOOK HOT AS FUCK ON YOU" Ashley yelled. She held a red flannel and Mark blushed. -"it's my lucky flannel" he said. -"Ew. Cowboy boots? What is this, Hart of Dixie?" Tiffany mumbled. -"AY. I fookin love that show." Jack called out. -"*Cough!*HOE*cough*" Ashley said. Jack rolled his eyes. -"SKINNY JEANS?!" Ashley suddenly exclaimed. -"SKINNY JEANS!!" Tiffany shouted. The girls giggled and jumped around laughing holding the article of clothing. -"why did I agree to this" he mumbled. -"cause we're the baddest bitches on the planet" they said as they tossed him the flannel and jeans. -"that. And because Jack recommended it." Felix pointed out. -"Oh shush. Yall thots would be lost without us." Ashley said. -"If I'm a thot then that makes you a cheap hooker." Mark said. He Laughed a little before he realized nobody else laughed. He realized nobody ever roasted Ashley like that. She stared at him before cracking a smile. -"I like that one.." she said. "We're keeping him around.." she said as she jogged downstairs as the oven dinged. -"DAM RIGHT" Jack yelled. They laughed. ===============================================================================  -"Good Morning, Class." Mr. Maron said as they all settled down the next morning. "I hope you all emailed your videos to me because it's time to decide who will present theirs at the talent show." Three people groaned and slammed their heads on the desk. Mark stiffled a laugh. -"And surprisingly... your winners are.." he said, looking at a graded paper which had their idea and concept written on it. "Mark, Ashley and Jack." He said. -"WHAT." Ashley squealed, jaw dropping. -"YES." Mark shouted, getting high fives from his teammates. -"Wait...really?" Jack asked, confused. -"Congratulations, you three."he said, smiling. -"yay." Ashley said with dull enthusiasm. -"So. You can work on other class work and such while I grade these papers. Free Period." He said. The class whooped before they started mingling with each other. -"kay. Ima go and watch Tiffany stutter repeatedly in the music studios. Wanna come?" She asked Jack. He nodded and smiled as he began packing his things. -"Hey, wanna watch me practice for a bit?" Mark asked Jack, wiggling his eyebrows. -"haha. Back off, boy toy. We have someone to help with the talent show." Ashley said. -"whatever you say, Ma'lady." Mark replied in a fake bow. -"dork." Jack snickered, flicking Mark's nose. -"Nerd." He said, pulling his chin to kiss him. -"Gays. GAYS EVERYWHERE. OH MY LORD" Ashley shouted dramatically as she walked out of the class. The boys laughed before heading seperate ways. Jack jogged to catch up with Ashley before they turned and walked into the Auditorium. Where Tiffany did not hear them walk in. -" --SOMETIMES IT LASTS BUT SOMETIMES it hurts you insteeaadd..." She finished, with Cry at the piano. -"Aww fok. We missed it!" The irishman groaned. -"Yeah.. sorry..." Tiffany replied, shrugging shyly. -"Nah, it's okay. I bet it was good. What is it?" Ashley asked. -" ... but with her own lyrics added in.." Cry answered for her. -"oh my god. Boo-hoo. So original" Jennifer [OC] said. She clapped unemotionally and they rolled their eyes. -"shut up." Ashley said. -"hmm. No thanks." She replied as she shoo'ed Cry and Tiffany away. They flipped her off before leaving and closing the Auditorium behind them. Pop music started playing after a while. -"Ew. Of course she'd do dancing." Ashley grumbled. -"she's kinda good at it.." Tiffany said in awe. -"she's your competition. Don't flirt with the enemy" Ashley warned. ===============================================================================   A BIG WHOPPING WEEK LATER... and came the day before the talent show.   -"Done." Mark said as he hit Done on the computer. -"So your sure?" Jack asked. -"yes. It's alright" Mark replied as he wrapped his arms around Jack's waist. -" I can't believe you're actually doing this." He giggled. -"neither can I. But I do know that I love you enough to go to the same university as you." The Red haired boy said. They laughed a little before kissing. Sweet. Slow. Passionate. They smiled. ...then their phones buzzed. NERDY SLUTS R US T: Mark...why did I just see the football players filling paint buckets into the confetti fans in the theatre?? M: Uhm... idk?? When tho? T: like... 5 sec. ago. Mark frowned. That was weird. Why would they be doing that, Mark wondered. Probably to prank somebody. -"Mark.. h-have... you ever been with another guy?" Jack asked, catiously. Mark looked at him with sympathy in his eyes and he led them to Jack's bed. -"Jack, are you sure you want to talk about this?" Mark asked. Jack fidgeted with his hands before looking at him. -"yea". Mark sighed deeply before running a hand through his hair. -"i tried to date this one guy... but he just wanted to fuck all the time so.. that's it. Other than him, all the other girls I've told you about." Mark replied. Jack nodded his head slowly before grabbing his wrist. -"He used to hit me.." Jack said. Tears beginning to form in his eyes. -"What? Oh." Mark said, realizing what he said. -"he hit me... and he would.. he-he would just smack me and throw me against tha wall. He made me pathetic.. weak. He made me his bitch..a-and I was too afraid to do anything about it!" -"Jack. Jack." Mark said, trying to get him to stop reminiscing the horrible memories. -"He called me a whore too. He said I would probably sleep with any guy that had a dick. But I wasn't! I-i swear. Mark?" Jack said, looking at him. Mark wad staring at him with love in his eyes but with clemched fists. -"You. Are not a whore... you are the most exciting and independent person I have ever met." Mark said. He grabbed the side of Jack's face lightly and he pulled him in for a fiery kiss. They kissed slowly and deeply before it became heated. Their tongues battling for dominance in each other's mouths. Jack balled up some of Mark's shirt in his hand. Mark made a needy noise in the back of his throat which sent signals straight to Jack's newly awakened member. -"m-mark.." Jack murmured, breaking the kiss. -"Yeah?" The American asked. -"I'm afraid he'll come back... please tell me he won't... I don't want him to- to fokin own me." He said, tears falling. -"i would never." Mark said. He kissed him again, but this time, Jack fell against the bed and Mark was leaning over him. -"Make me yours, Mark. Rid me of him. Please.. I-i'll let ya own me as long as I'm not his anymore." The Irishman pleaded.  -"Jack--" Mark said in a sad tone. -"Please... if you truly love me..please." Jack said. Mark looked down at him. The man he fell in love with. He really did. He looked so beautiful... -"No..." Mark said, finally. -"Mark--" -"no. Jack.. he plagued your mind making you think your his property...but you never were... if I make love to you, it means I love you. With all my heart." Mark said, endearingly. Jack gasped at the words. He pulled down Mark and kissed him. Soon enough it was heated all over again. Mark grinded down against Jack. Mark placed his hand on Jack's thigh and looked up at him. His icy blue eyes stared back before he nodded his head in accept. Mark slid up Jack's shirt as he gave him loving kisses. He lingered his kisses on the cuts on his stomach. As much as Jack would have hated it, it reassured him instead that Mark really did love everything about him.. Mark reached down his happy trail while unbuttoning his jeans and sliding them down to his thighs. Mark breathed hotly over the bulging object. Mark slowly brought down his underwear and smirked. -"Mark..." Jack moaned as Mark licked a stride up his length from the base to the head. Mark wrapped his lips around him before bobbing up and down. Jack was big, no doubt. Jack involuntarily bucked his hips and Mark took it. He slid down all the way until he felt the small hairs touch his nose. Mark swiped his tongue a few times before letting go of it with a wet pop.  -"Fuck me,  Mark.. please." He groaned. Mark let out a predatory growl and flipped Jack over. After they struggled (immensely) to take each other's clothes off, Jack was opening himself in front of Mark and all he could do was watch. He nearly came at the sight when Jack threw in a fourth finger before Mark opened and rolled on the condom with a good amount of lube. He positioned himself correctly when he saw Jack's eyes. -"I want tah see ya when you fok me" he said as he flipped himself over. Mark's heart was touched but his cock was eager. Mark slid in a little bit when he heard him gasp. Mark slid out and in slowly..controlling his lust. -"m-mark!" He moaned as Mark slid in halfway. Mark heightened the pace a little. And Jack dragged his nails across Mark's torso.  -"Was Jason ever this big? HUH?" Mark shouted. He didn't realize what he said until he felt Jack freeze underneath him. -"no... he wasn't.. because you're much bigger, Fischbach" Jack purred in a dangerously sexy tone. Mark lost it. He began slamming into Jack with his entire body and each time he hit Jack's sweet spot. He said a string of Irish curses as Mark hit him there every time and Mark was moaning along with him. Jack threw his legs over Mark's shoulders and he slammed back into him at the same time. Their skin now wet with lust and sweat slapping against each other. Mark was getting close and he could see Jack was too since his eyes rolled to the back of his head in deep pleasure. -"m-m-m-mark. I-i'm close!" He shouted. Mark sped up as much as he could. Jack's moaned out Mark's name loudly as he reached his climax. Thick white ropes shot from his cock so greatly that they reached his chin. He kept spurting violently until he ceased. Mark slid out and threw off the condom in time to cum all over Jack. He shook with each spurt of his semen hitting his lover's body. He fell on top of Jack, a small squish eliciting. He smiled lazily as he felt Jack moan one last time. -"oh. God. Oh I'm so sorry." Mark said as he realised what he just did. -"it's alright, markimoo... I bet ya just luved seeing me draped in your cum." Jack murmured, smiling. "Property or not.. I'll always be yours.." -"I Love You, Sean.." Mark said sweetly. -"i Love You, Mark." He replied. The two layed there before heading to the shower where they stood in each other's space and kissing for what could have beeb an eternity. Mark leaned his forehead on Jack's and smiled happily. ===============================================================================   -"OH MY GOD!!!" Tiffany shouted at the end of the day. Jack and Mark looked at her like she was crazy as she whispered in Ashley's ear, who's eyes widened along a smile. -"Hey Jack." She said. Jack looked at her before she whispered for both of them to hear: -"Your left some on the hem of your shirt". Jack froze and looked down to where-- Yup. Some cum was left there. He yelped in surprise before Mark handed him his football jersey. -"Talent Show!! Woooo" Tiffany exclaimed as she ran into the parking lot.  Jack changed shirts in Mark's car while Ashley and Tiffany drove off to the group's new 'hideout'. When they showed up, the girls had a small campfire going on. They talked and laughed and enjoyed themselves. They ate S'mores and shitty campfire songs with, of course, beer.  -"Guys this was hehehe. Funn" Tiffany said.  -"Okay. Ima take Humpty Dumpty over here before she goes off and hugs a bear." Ashley stated as she helped Tiffany stand up. -"yeah. I guess we'll get going too. I'll bring the car" Mark said as he placed a kiss on Jack's cheek. Ashley and Jack put out the the fire then she dragged her to the car. -"Hehe. Ashh.. shhh. ASSHHLEEEEEE" she slurred -"oh my lord. What." Ashley said, as she opened the car door. -"Do ya know my.. hehehe. Scars on my shoulders?" She asked. Ashley froze.  -" y-yes.. why?" Ashley asked, confused and worried about the change of topic. -"Have ya looked at tha.. tha.. HAHAHAHAH. The name??" She said, laughing hysterically in the middle of her sentence. Ashley knew it was wrong to be nosy..but she was curious and Tiffany said there was a name. Not just cuts... but a name... Ashley nervously peeled down the collar of her shirt and she gasped. Wilford Warfstache -"oh my god. Wilford?! Who the fuck is Wilford!" She exclaimed. Tiffany giggled in reply. Ashley heard a few twigs snap behind her. "Tiff who the hell is--" Tiffany fell asleep. Ashley rolled her eyes before closing the door and getting in the car, turning on the engine and driving off. Mark was hiding behind a tree. WILFORD was behind that?! He thought to himself. He's officially scared. He better take those pills when he gets home. He ran back to the camp to get Jack then drive home. ===============================================================================  -"I said I'm feeling. UNTOUCHABLE. UNTOUCHABLE I SAID NO TO THE AH TO THE NO NO NO." The girl finished singing with a dramatic finishing dance pose. Ashley rolled her eyes. -"Sluts." Ashley grumbled under her breath. -"try and beat that, nerd." Jennifer sneered as she passed Tiffany. -"FOK YOUR SELFIE" Jack called out. Mark laughed. -"And next on stage is the winning Senior video for my class. So..enjoy" Mr.Maron said as a closing statement. A small round of applause followed after. -"oh shit." Ashley said as they walked out on stage. -"Hi, I'm Mark--" -"WOOOOO" the football team cheered. -"Hey I'm Jack...." he said. A loud round of applause ensued. -"..Sup.. I'm--" -"A WHORE?!" someone yelled. People laughed. Ashley bit her tongue and smiled.  The video started playing once the gym began to turn dark with the lights dimming... Four small lights on a black screen. Red. Green. Purple. Blue. I used to be so happy but without you here I feel so aloone...  The small dots stretched into lines. I watched you as you left but I can never seem to let you go... The lines morphed into full-body sillhouettes of people. Cause one upon a time you were my everything... It's clear to see that time hasn't changed a thing. The body's turn and take running positions. It's buried deep inside me but I feel like there's something you should know... oh.. The people start running calmly, passing by illusions of different colors. I will never forget you... I will always be by your side... The people start running a little faster. From the day that I met you... I knew that I would love you till the day I die. And I know that I haven't asked much more, cause in my heart I will always be stroong.  I will never forget you.. You said you'd always be by my side. Till The Day I Die. *begin techno dance pop* The people start running faster, stumbling and jumping over objects in the process. A large white figure looms behind them before engulfing them completely. Till the day I die. The screen turns entirely white, now a figure with red hair stands. Till the day I diie. The figure begins free falling backwards down a "building" with multi-colored art. It lands into a splash of paint, in which a Purple haired figure rises. Mmm nah.. Funny how we both end here but everything seems alriiight... ii..  This new figure walks casually past a large array of televisions. I wonder what will happen if we went back and put up a fiiight. aaiii. Cause once upon a time you were my everything. It's clear to see that time hasn't changed a tHIINNG ohhh. The figure trip onto the floor when the world flips and elicits a green haired figure. It begans running from a pitch black figure behind it. So thought in this world do you think could ever take you off my miiiind. T- take you off my miiinmndd. I will never forget you... I will always by by your side.. The figure jumps off a large height, the change of scenery so quick that it changes figure to another to a Blue haired figure eho lands on a box that releases artistic designs and complex drawings. From the day that I met you.. I knew that I would love you till the day I die. The figure runs for a while before confronting the other three figures. And I know that I haven't asked much more, cause in my heart I will akways be stroong. I will never forget you. Never forget yoouu. I said I'd always be by your side, till the day I diie. The figures start spiraling through an abyss filled with more art designs and graphics thrown in throughout the decades. Feelin it. Loving it. Everything that we dooo.. And all along, I knew I had, something special with you.. But sometimes you just got to know, That these things fall through...  But I'm still tired, I can't hide my connection with youu. The figures begin running and swimming through the art and expanding the screen's view of vision to reveal an "ocean of art". Feelin it. Loving it. Everything that we dooo.. All along, I knew I had, Something special with yoouu. And sometimes you just got to know, That these things fall through.. But I'm still tired, I can't hide my connection yooouuuu I said I'd never forget you... I said I'd always be by your side. (Be by my siiide) From the day that I met you... I knew that I would love you to the day I die... A series of silhouettes flash on screen with different structure and hairstyle flip rapidly. And I can never ask for much more.. (no moooree) Caude in my heart I will always be stroong. (AlwaysBeStrong!) I will never forget you. (Never forget youuu) You said you'd always be by my side. Till The Day I Die. *more techno pop music* OH NOOOOOOOOtill the day I die. Till the day I die. Till the day I die.  Till the day I die (oooh. No oh yeah. OHH OHH OHH OHHH. OOOH OOH OHHHH.) I said I'd never, I'd never... I'd never forget youu. I would never forget you. (I would never,  never NEVER, NEVER,  NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER I said I'D NEVER FORGET YOOU) till the day I die.. till the day I die.. (OOO-HOOO) Till the day I Diiiee... The gym was very quiet. Ashley fidgeted with her nails the entire time.  Then people started clapping in awe once it finished. Some were cheering, a few shaking their heads, others clapping. -"thank you" Mark said with a fake bow. They walked off stage to their seats next to Cry and Felix. -"holy fuck I was nervous." Ashley said as she sat down. -"that was amazing." Felix said.  -"i know." Jack replied with a wink. -"ANNNNDD your final act of the day is a senior who clearly couldn't make it to Hollywood on time so she's singing it here. Give it up for.. Tiffanny...." the announcer said. As he walked off the stage, a dramatic white light shone down on Tiffany...who wore a pair of jeans and a light blue shirt. -"WOOOOOO" Mark shouted.  -"hoe, really..." Ashley said as she gave Mark a stern look. Before cracking into a smile. -"admit it, you can't hate me." He said with a grin. She rolled her eyes, still smiling. -"Stone..Cold... Stone..cold.. You see me standing here but I'm dying on the floor.. Stone...Cold... Stone..Cold... Maybe if I don't cry I won't feel anymore.  Stone cold.. BAAAAbbyy... God knows I've tried to feel happy for youuu. Know that I amm... EVEN if I don't undersstaaaanndd. I'll take the pain... if you give me the Truuutthh.. Me And My Heart... We'll make it throouggghh. If haaAAAAPPYY IS HEEERRRR... I'm happy for you..." she sang. The rest of the performance was strong. Ashley was sitting there in amaze. Mark and Jack held hands as they watched. Cry was playing the piano amazingly even with some background music playing. Tiffany's voice was echoeing through the gym loudly. Her eyes closed as she held the microphone softly. -"Don't want to be stone... cold... Stone.. cold... I WISH I COULD LEAVE THIS BUT HERE'S MY GOODBYYEEE. OH I'M HAPPY FOR YOU. KNOOOW THAT I AM.  EVEN IF I CAAAAANTTTT UNDERSTAAAANNDD iiiIIFFF HAPPY IS HEEERRRR. iiiiFFF HAPPY IS HEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I'm happy for you.." she finished. Nobody said anything. Ashley didn't realize she was crying until she stood up and clapprd frantically. Mark,  Jack and Fekix followed. Soon enough the whoke school did so as well. Tiffany smiled shyly before walking off stage with Cry.  -"That was amazing!" -"who the hell was that..." -"OH MY GOD I CRIED, WHAT ABOUT YOU?!" -"And she's a senior?" -"I FUCKING LOVE DEMU LOVATO, HOLY SHIT" These were things Tiffsny heard as she passed by many of the students getting to her seat. -"good job." Her best friend said. She smiled. The Talent Show was over...   Chapter End Notes HOLY SHIT. That was kinda long. Hope ya liked it tho!!! BTW, Do yall want a happy ending, a bittersweet ending or a fluffy sad ending... Comment Below :) ***** All Angels Must Fall ***** Chapter Summary Mark ran out of pills, Ashley and Tiffany are hit by social ridicule and rejection and Jack has nightmares. Just when things started getting better... Graduation Day is only weeks away, but will they make it? FIND OUT, NEXT ON-- Oh who the hell am I kidding...just read this chapter.. Chapter Notes So everythings was going good and I figured why don't I just screw them over again. Enjoy!! See the end of the chapter for more notes -"IHop?" Ashley suggested. -"I'm more of a full meal kinda guy.." Jack replied. -"they have omelettes and shit..." Ashley said. -"Mark. We have to go to IHop" Jack said, gripping his arm. Mark sighed before nodding his head and the other three cheered in victory. Ashley turned the car into the specified parking lot and turned the car off. As they got out, Mark suddenly started holding his head and leaning onto her car. -"Mark? Are you oka--"   Silence. Mark looked up,  the sudden headache dissappearing.  -"Markimoo" Wilford said, snapping his fingers in his face. Mark glared at him. -"What the hell did you do to her!" Mark yelled as he pinned him down, his arm weakly on his neck, on the ground. -"Who? Tiffany?" Wilford asked, offended. -"YES TIFFANY. Don't you dare play dumb with me, Warfstache." Mark snapped, his blood boiling in sudden anger. -"A warning. I marked all of them! ButForGoodReason!" he said, squealing at the end rapidly when Mark raised his other fist.  -"why." He practically growled. -"i can remove it! I'll just erase it..." Wilford said. -"Yes. Do so.." Mark said as he lifted himself and Wilford up. -"ooh. Someone hasn't been taking their pills, have they?" Wilford said, giggling. "Does that mean I can come out and plaayy?" -"NO. And if you do, don't you dare come near any of my friends.." Mark snapped. -"Blah Blah Blah, I love Jack. Jack loves me. I get it, I swear I won't." Wilford said, smiling sincerely. -"Not just Jack, dumbass" Mark said. -"Yes... I know, imbecile." The pink mustache man said, rolling his eyes. -"now what do you want." He said, crossing his arms over his chest.  -"Mark, have you been working out? You look buffer." Wilford commented. -"shut the hell up and tell me--" -"OKAY. Jesus. Tell Tiffany to move her ass once she wins." He said. -"what? What is that supposed to--" -"Aww dang nabbit. see ya later, Markimoo!" Wilford said suddenly. Mark woke up.  -"Is he on his period? I bet he's on his period.." Ashley mumbled as she loomed over him. -"no, dumbshit. When people faint suddenly it's a sign of pregnancy.." Tiffany rebuted. -"holy shite he woke up. MARK" Jack exlcaimed as he hugged him. -"HE LIVES! PURRRAAAYYYYSSEEE JESUS!" Ashley shouted as she dramatically threw her arms in the air. -"yes I'm alive. Ow." Mark groaned as he rubbed the back of his head. He wondered what Wilford meant before he woke up. -"Well... while this Irish hoe stayed with you, people gave us dirty looks and went to get us a seat. It's been a while... that waitress said it'd be like... fifteen minutes.." Ashley noted, as she helped Mark up on his feet. -"how long was I out?" Mark asked. -"Ten minutes." The three said in unison. -"fuck me.." he groaned. -"is that an offer?" Jack said with a wink. -"Gag. Anywhore, let's see if our table's ready or not." Ashley stated, they began walking to the restaurant when they heard Mark fall behind them. -"oh for foks sake!" Jack groaned as he lifted him up. A pink mustache suddenly was on his face. -"oh Jesus christ..." Tiffany mumbled. -"HIYA" Wilford greeted. -"the fuck..." Ashley marveled as she poked the mustache. -"Hey. Hands off the mustache." He said, swatting her hand away. -"What in the hell did you do with, Mark you blimey bastard" Jack sneered. -"nothing. He's sitting nice and comfy inside our brain. So, pancakes?" ===============================================================================   The waitress eyed Mar-- Wilford's -- mustache when she dropped off their orders. -"oh thank god. I was starving" he said, as he patted his stomach. "Damn, Mark did workout." He said as he studied his arms. -"Kay. Let's go" Ashley said as they rose from the table and left. Wilford fell when they reached the car. -"OH MY GOD. REALLY." Tiffany shouted. Mark stood up soon after with a pile of pink hair on the asphalt. -"ow." He mumbled as he stood up. -"Welcome back! I had to pay for Wilford's food while you were gone, hoe." Ashley mumbled as she got into the car. Jack studied Mark's head when they were in the car for any bumps or bruises from falling so much. -"you look fine.." Jack said after a while. -"Thanks, you look very fine yourself, babe." Mark said in a deep voice in his ear. Oh how that voice did things to Jack. -"I can feel the angst from here" Tiffany not so successfully whispered to the driver. They laughed while the boys blushed. -"say, would you mind if I gave him a blowjob from back here?" Jack said. -"oh sure!" Ashley said. -"wait really.." Mark and Tiffany said in a shocked tone. -"NO dumbass. Geez, lock your cocks and wait for when we drop your ratchet asses off at your house" she said as she glared at them threw the rearview mirror. -"i don't know.. my dick is feeling... wild at the moment" Jack whispered hotly in Mark's ear as he rubbed his inner thigh. Mark shivered and held in a moan. -"OH MY GOD. WE ARE NOT DEAF" Tiffany shouted in disgust. Jack laughed and Mark sat up, hiding his sudden excitement. ===============================================================================   Jack had fallen asleep after he and Mark.. um.. attended to their needs. ;D But he woke up somewhere else... He looked at his surroundings and realized he was back.. in the maze. Jack began panicking as he stood up, he whipped his head around when he heard laughter behind him. The same laughter that made him bubble up inside for the past few years. But it was menacing and not welcoming. He heard a girl's laugh. A laugh he all too well recognized that laughed at her own insults and those of others. He turned yo find the source but saw a wall. The scared Irishman began walking down a random direction. He met a door as he turned the corner, so he gradually opened it. He was in freefall. His screams were pointless as he fell off a large building. He heard gasps and screams around him, and he woke up somewhere else when he hit the ground. Mark's room.  Jack felt himself up to reassure he was alive. Once he was sure, he sighed in relief. He heard giggling on the other side of the door, Jack being the nosy bitch he is opened the door cautiously and immediately regretted it. Felix and Mark were kissing. -"oh Mark. Hehe. Oh... it's him " Felix said,  giving Jack a disgusted look.  -"oh my god. Go away, Jack." Mark complained. He and Felix continued giggling and kissing and Jack couldn't move. No, he literally couldn't move. What the fuck is happening... he thought to himself. -"UGH. FUCKING LEAVE" Felix shouted as he kicked at him. Except he didn't kick at Jack, he kicked at the chair that suddenly appeared under him. Jack fell and felt a noose around his neck. His airway being restricted. He gasped for air, his eyes beginning to water. Mark and Felix laughed at him as he slowly died. Jack couldn't breathe, then his body went limp. Jack woke up again, but instead...in a box of some sort. It was closed. He looked around before trying to throw open the box. He couldn't, but someone was talking. He listened intently. -"and as we say goodbye to a friend..son...brother.. and student.. we shall say our sweet goodbyes to Sean William McLoughlin." a man said. No. This couldn't be happening. Jack desperately began trying to open the door open. He panicked and was feeling claustrophobic. Suddenly it flew open and his mother stared down at him. -"Burn In Hell, Sean" she said as she dropped flowers and a candle. The candle lit him on fire and he began screaming, feeling heat spread through his body. Everyone he knew suddenly loomed over the coffin and laughed maniacally. Jack screamed and cried as everyone threw more fire or fuel. Jack screamed but there was nothing now. Now, he was in a large pink and red room with soft cushions and mini fridges. -"JACKABOY!" Wilford greeted as he hugged him. -"ow. THE FOK"Jack yelled as he stumbled backward into a chair. -"Hehe. Sorry, I get overexcited" he said, blushing. -"W-why am I here?" Jack asked, nervously. -"Oh! I saved you from your nightmare." He said, beaming proudly with his hands on his hips.. his shirt a tad bit tight on his arms and chest, making him look very muscular.. his jaw-- Get ahold of yourself, Jack. This is his evil personality... I'm not THAT evil... Wilford was staring at him in curiosity. -"h-how the hell did you--" -"I'm in your subconscious. Of course I can hear your thoughts, dumbshit" Wilford said as if explaining the most simple thing in the world. -"Fully Noted." Jack mumbled. -"ah. Time to wakey, wakey!!" The pink haired man cheered as he hugged Jack. Jack hugged back before he opened his eyds and was back in his own room. -"Jack!" Mark shouted as he gripped his shoulders. -"W-wat. WAT" he said, frantically. -"oh god...thank the lord.. you scared me there for a second, babe" he said, smiling a little. Jack smiled before realizing they were both naked... and his parents were bound to be home any-- -"SEEEAAANNN. I'm hoome!!" His mother said from downstairs. -"Hide." They said in unison. Mark grabbed as many of his clothes as he could before looking around Jack's room. -"sean?" His mother asked as she clambered upstairs. -"Coming!" Jack said as he quickly threw on his PJ's. Mark hid in the closet where he quietly put on his underwear. -"Sean, I bought you some Beef Jerky!" She said as she opened the door, Jack was laying on his messy bed with his laptop on his lap, currently turning on...but she didn't need to know that. -"oh. Great, I'll just uhh...eat it in a bit." He said, smiling. -"are you alright?" She asked as she walked in. "Oh my heavens! Wot could that smell be? Blimey, open a window, Sean." She exclaimed as she scrunched up her nose. Mark was watching from the closet slits silently but his foot ached, and he moved onto the other foot and knocked over a small pile of books. He cursed himself mentally. -"the hell? What in the bloody goof was--" -"GAAHH!!" Jack shouted as he purposefully slammed the window. She jumped and turned her attention back to her son.  -" Oh! Sean... you know what I say about watching the latches. Lock them before you let go!" She scolded. -"sorry ma.." he said as he did what was asked. -"geez. I won't be here foreva, y'know. You'll be in college and--" she prattled as she walked out of his room. Jack let out a breath he didn't know he was holding in. -"fuck. I'm sorry" Mark mumbled as he stepped out of the closet. He put on the rest of his clothes and pecked Jack. -"it's alright. Plus... I had so much fun with you" Jack said, smirking as he pulled his neck for a kiss. -"...And Sean why didn't you-- HOLY MARY OF THE PRAIRIE WAT THE FAK!!" Jack's mother shrieked  -"MA!" Jack shouted as he facepalmed. -"Hi,  Mrs. McLoughlin..." mark said sheepishly as he stuffed his hands in his pockets, blushing profusely. -"O. SEAN!! I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE GAY" she exclaimed, clapping once in joy. -"What.." the boys deadpanned as they stared at her slack jawed. -"oh Mark! Glad to have you in the fam--" she said, stopping herself. "I won't jump to conclusions because that's what scared off Jenny's boy.." she murmured as she walked out of the room, closing the door with a wink. ===============================================================================   -"Oh my lord. No way!" Tiffany said, laughing. -"yeah.. I know.. it was awkward.." Mark mumbled as he shyly rubbed the back of his neck. Ashley was covering her mouth afraid of spitting her milkshake all over their table. Once swallowed she stiffled a laugh. -"Oh fok you. As if you two haven't been in that situation." Jack called out, throwing a fry at them. -"umm. One. We are not lesbos. Two. I've been single since Felix tried to screw Marzia and I at the same time in the 8th grade. Three. My parents think I'm lesbo since I haven't brought home a guy that isn't gay." Tiffany explained as she ate a fry. -"Oh c'mon! I'm not that obvious.." Jack exclaimed, offended. -"yeah.. you are.." Ashley said, patting his hand. -"i always thought you were lesbo.." Mark said, slightly confused. -"Would a lesbian do this?" She asked as she slid her leg up Mark's thigh. He yelped and smacked her foot away. She giggled. -"hands off" Jack said, eyeing her jokingly. -"believe me, after what you told us.. I think everyone knows you two are a thing if the entire neighborhood heard that 'erotic moan'" Tiffany said, laughing. Jack blushed a deep red. The four of them laughed. ===============================================================================  When they showed up at school on time, Tiffany had to excuse herself to the bathroom, she departed from the group and said she'd meet Ashley in her next class. When she finished her shit (literally. Ew.) She was about to open the stall when she heard Jennifer and her squadron of whores walk in. -"OH my god! You did not!" One of them shrieked. -"yup. All it took was a few words of convincing and some paint buckets. Now... if she wins, she'll get Stone Cold from embarassment. Stupid idiot." Jennifer said, swooning over her own idea. -"You are, like, such a bitch..." another said.. "I TOTES LUV IT!" she said. The girls laughed. -"ugh, what about that hoe...Ashley?"  -"hehe... I got that well and taken care of.. she'll definitely remember the video.." Jennifer said, her voice laced with revenge. The bell rang and the girls all shuffled out.  Oh no... Tiffany thought. She ran out the restroom to warn Ashley. ===============================================================================   -"Ladies and gentlemen if we could please make our way to the gymnasium, that would be great." the director of the school said over the intercom. -"psst. Ash!" Tiffany whispered as she held her back from the rest of their class. -"what?" Ashley asked. Tiffany recounted everything she heard in the bathroom and Ashley had shaking hands at the end. -"no.. no she can't post that videom S-SHE CAN'T" Ashley said. -"what video?What did you do?" Tiffany asked, holding her wrist. -"NOT ME, dumbass. YOU! They filmed you when you got drunk as hell!" Ashley exclaimed. Tiffany's eyes widened. -"oh my--" -"C'mon! We have to stop this bullshit from happening" Ashley said as they ran to the gym. When they reached their destination, Mark flanked them to sit by him as they did. When they sat down, both girls couldn't stop fidgeting. After what felt like hours and hours of talking, the principal finally made his big announcement. -"and now... your winner for best performance is..." he said dramatically opening an envelope. They're hearts stopped. -"Tiffany Lopez!!" He said, clapping. Tiffany slowly went up on stage and received the certificate for some expensive ass restaurant. Then a video popped up behind her. -"WOOOO Who's ready to get crunk as fuuucckkkk!!!!!" Ashley yelled on the video. Thank God she was wearing a mask.mm but everyone knew who that was. -"OH MY GOD YOU SLUT!" Jennifer said behind the camera  -"DAM RIGHT I AM!!!" She shouted back, laughing. The video resumed for another two minutes before it shut off. Everyone laughed. Laughed at Ashley. Ashley suddenly stood up and began walking away when she heard the football players.  -"LOOK AT THAT WHORE, RUN." -"AWW, GONNA RUN TO MOMMY?!" -"CAREFUK, DON'T DRINK A LIQUOR STORE WHILE YOU'RE AT IT!"  Ashley hid her tears as she walked out of the gym.  Mark was mad at his friends.. his teammates.. fucking assholes...  But at that moment he remembered what Wilford said. He realized what he was talking about, he stood from his chair and shouted at Tiffany. -"MOVE!" he called out. But it was too late as five buckets of differently colored paint fell on her.. the crowd went silent..then erupted in laughter again. Tiffany.. was.. horrified.. Jack ran up on stage and helped her walk off, her silent and shaky sobs trailing behind her. -"OH LOOK. ANOTHER GIRL, SLUT-SHAMED" Jennifer yelled. More laughter.  Mark was mortified. ===============================================================================   It's been a week... Graduation Day is in a few weeks... and the school couldn't stop talking about the video and the paint buckets. Ashley and Tiffany kept their heads down most of the days.. Mark and Jack defended them since they couldn't. But one day.. it all changed. -"Ashley, come get your paper. And make sure you don't pass an STD to one of your classmates in the process" their teacher said. The class bursted in laughter and mocking her. Ashley grabbed the paper and instead of sitting in her desk, she grabbed her stuff and walked out. Mark had enough. -"OH FUCKS SAKE SHUT UP." He shouted. The laughter died down. -"mr. Fischbach, that type of--" -"Before you talk to me about vulgar language, just know you made one of your students cry because she was ridiculed in front of the ENTIRE. DAMN. SCHOOL." Mark shouted. The class stared at him. -"no. Fuck this, peace" he said as he walked out, the teacher calling out at him. He tried to look for Ashley but failed. He eventually settled on not being able to find her and went to Jack's class instead. -"oh! Nice of you to pop in, Mark." Their teacher, Ms. Jones, greeted him. He smiked and sat next to the empty seats Jack talked endlessly about. -"hey.. what're ya doin here?" Jack whispered. Mark held his hand and his smile faltered. -"our science teacher was being a bitch so I left trying to look for Ash." He replied. Jack nodded his head before turninf back to his assignment. Mark took that time to do some other assignments from his classes and the bell rang. The students all shuffled out of class and to lunch. Jack and Mark tried the cafeteria but got nowhere. They gave up and began walking to the front doors when they saw a large crowd outside. -"the fok?" Jack wondered aloud as he sped up a little. He felt a small rush of dread. But why?  When the boys reached outside, they noticed it started raining lightly, but it would soon turn bad. They looked at what everyone was staring at which was the fucking sky and realized it wasn't the sky.. it was the roof of the school. Ashley stood at the edge, looking down ay her classmates-- No. Her enemies. Her haters... her friends.. -"ASHLEY!!" Tiffany shouted. Jack did the only thing he could think of: run to save her. Jack ran inside the school shoveling past annoyed students and followed the flights of stairs. Please don't jump, please don't  jump. Ohh.. please please please don't jump! Jack felt like he was never going to make it when he passed through another door which had him on the roof. The rain was really getting serious now and he could feel his green hair getting wet now. -"Ashley!" He shouted. Ashley turned and saw Jack, her blue/purple hair soaked. -"NO. Don't come near me, Jack. Please.." she said as she edged closer to falling. -"ASHLEY.. DON'T DO THIS." Jack yelled. -"Do a backflip!" someone shouted down at the parking lot. -"See? They want me to!" She pleaded. -"ASHLEY!" He shouted again. -"WHAT" she shouted back, tears falling down her face like a river. "IT'S BEEN A WEEK. A FUCKING WEEK OF EVERYONE CALLING ME A SLUT. AND A WHORE. AND USELESS TRASH." -"BUT YOU'RE NOT" Jack replied. He stepped forward a little. -"JACK. S-STAY BACM" she said. "I-i will jump!" She said. -"ASHLEY!!! NO!!" Tiffany and Mark shouted from the crowd. Jennifer had a sick sense of irony, she started playing on her Dr. Dre pill speaker Stone Cold by Demi Lovato. -"Please.. let me jump, Jack." She said, pain in her eyes. Her shird and jackey clung to her skin now, thanks to the rain. Jack's hair now a wet green mess atop his head. Jack took a tentative step forward. -"JACK!" she yelled, threateningly. -"Ash.. please.." I was your Amber but now she's your Shade of Gold! -"ASHLEY PLEASE DON'T JUMP!" Mr. Maron yelled. -"See? Theze people care for you!" Jack said, trying a smile. -"no... no they don't..." she said, smiling sadly. God knows I tried to feel... HAPPY FOR YOU.. KNOW that I aammm... -"please..." Jack said, tears sliding down his cheeks. -"oh Jack..." I WISH I COULD LEAVE THIS BUT HERE'S MY GOODBYYYYEEEEEE -"goodbye.." she said, as she turned. -"ASHLEY NOOOO!!!" they yelled. Jennifer's smile faded from her face. Holy shit... Mark ran towards Mr. Maron, who was holding his arms out to catch her. Tiffany's heart stopped as she screamed. Students gasped, some bitch ass hoe laughed, and others screamed. IIFFFF HAPPY IS HEEEERRRRR IFFF HAPPY IS HEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR I'm happy for you.. Ashley was falling... and a loud thud echoed through the parking lot along with people's screams and gasps. Jack was on his knees, looming over where she just was. Her friendship bracelet on the ground. He gingerly picked it up. J_+_T_+_A_=_BFF's Jack clutched onto it. He couldn't tell if it was rain or tears on his face.. he couldn't care less. Everybody suddenly got a text from Felix, since a lot of the students knew him from his parties and such. Some Angels Die, Other Will Fly, But You Cut Off Her Wings, And Now We Can See, The Dread Hidden Behind That Of A Silent Cry. The Event Of Our Girl Happened In A Whurl. So Now We Must Stand Tall To See That All Angels Must Fall. Tiffany layed on her knees, looking straight at where Mark and Mr. Maron were on the ground. A tear slid down her face. Chapter End Notes CLIFFHANGERRR. LITERALLY. Anywhore... I'm glad you guys/gurls like this!! Probs one or two more chapters to go Or more. Ehhh. ***** Rose ***** Chapter Summary Tiffany dissappeared. Jack has to find her. But when Wilford morphs into a real-life twin of Mark, and Jack fears of a new personality, they realize that they love each other more than words could describe. Chapter Notes SOOOOOOO This chapter will deal with a lot of heavy stuff... Good luck. So I'm planning a happy ending but since I already began planning for my next chapter... shit... can.. go wrong... oh welp ENJOY!! See the end of the chapter for more notes M I S S I N G Tiffany Lopez; 18 years old Red streaked hair Purple converse Light Blue Jacket If found, drop her off at Los Angeles Academy For The Arts and Sciences Jack sighed. This was probably the millionth poster he's posted.   -" It;s okay, we'll find her..." Mark said, patting his back. -" I don't need you worrying as much as I am..." Jack said, sighing. He looked down at the rest of the posters in his hands. He was getting a little bit sad but he just wanted to find his friend. His best friend. -" You know it's been a week" Mark reminded him. Again. Jack nodded his head.  The events after Ashley's jump left a bitter taste at the school. There were countless bullshit altars around the school for her. Jack knew half of these people didn't even know her, they only called her slut, whore, bitch. None of them would care about her in about a month. They had a sweet memorial for her in the gym. Most of the members of the football didn't show up at school for a long time. Jennifer was becoming depressed, everyone could tell since she was being solemn with her group of friends and her messy looks at school proved it. Mark, being the kind-hearted soul he is, befriended her and tried to help her through it. Much to Jack's dismay. -"I'm not doing it.." Jack whispered as they walked back Mark's car. -" Jack, she would want you to--" -" I dream about it. okay, Mark! I close my eyes and suddenly i'm back on tha fookin roof watching her turn and fall. I wake up drenched in sweat and I feel like it's rain. I haven't slept for more than an hour or two before screaming her name as I wake up." Jack snapped. He sat in the passenger seat, holding in tears as they drove. Mark gripped the steering wheel a little too tightly before he turned to look at Jack. -"I know." was all he said. Jack scoffed, his arms over his chest when suddenly Mark turned the car down an unfamiliar street. -"Mark--" -"Shut the hell up.. please.. you'll see soon why." Mark scorned. Jack physically flinched at his words. Mark stared at the road ahead with anger in his eyes. Jack coiled to the door in fear. He was getting scared. Mark ran a red light, even if there were no cars around. Mark never ran red lights. Ever. -"M-mark?" Jack asked, concern in his voice. -"What." he snapped. Jack looked down. He said nothing in return. Jack looked out the window and realized that they were now entering a forest. Jack didn't recognize this place but it was eerie... and creepy... and dark. The woods looked like something out of a horror movie. -"Mark where are we--" -"You'll see, Jack!" -"NO. Tell me, please. M-mark you're scaring me." Jack said, feeling his gut twist in fear. -"Oh. Y'-you're scared? AHAHAHA" he said, laughing maniacally. Jack was really scared. He turned to open the door, considering jumping out when Mark locked it. Jack effotlessly tried pulling the handle. He looked at Mark who now had a crazed expression on his face. His grin a little too wide and his eyes wide, searching for something. Mark turned a sharp right and they drove into a random dirt road. After a while, they reached a small cabin. Oh my god, I'm going to die here. Jack thought. Mark got out then opened the door on Jack's side. Jack did no movement to get out before Mark dragged him out. -"M-mark! You're my should-- OW" he shouted. Mark flung him on the porch. Jack scuttled backward when he saw Mark suddenly pick up an ax on the ground. -" wanna play a game, Jackaboy?" he asked. Jack shook his head and threw himself up the last step when he heard a chunk noise behind him. He turned and saw the large object just where he was. Jack stood and tried to open the door. Locked. -"Oh..jack.." he said behind him. He placed the axe against the wall outside. He pinned the frightened teenager against the door, his mouth next to his ear. " I put the fun...in funeral.." he murmured. Jack squirmed helplessly and felt his hand grab his waist tightly. -"M-mark.." he pleaded. -"the laughter..in manslaughter" he grumbled, his other hand hooking on Jack's waistband from behind. " and the hot.. in psychotic" he said before trying to pull down his jeans. Jack screamed and kicked backwards uselessly. He suddenly felt like he was back in Jason's house. Being pinned to the wall where he was raped countless times. -"M-MARK! N-NO, MARK PLE-- MMPH" he tried to call out before Mark covered his mouth. Jack felt Mark's erection on his underwear. His hand grabbed his briefs when suddenly he stopped. Jack was crying now and he couldn't stop screaming in his hand when Mark backed away suddenly. Jack turned around and pushed Mark down, the latter falling down the steps. Mark quickly buttoned his pants and looked at Jack with tears in his eyes...a face of... shock? Terror? Fear? -"J-jack.." he said, a sob strangling out his throat. Jack was feeling angry when suddenly..he realized something. That wasn't Mark... -"W-w-who was t-t-that?" Jack asked, his voice shaking in fear. Mark held a hand to his own mouth and he screamed in tears. Jack ran down and hugged him, caressing his back as Mark shook violently with every sob. He kept murmuring apologies to Jack. Jack held him for a long time on the steps of the cabin. It began getting dark and Mark was still crying as he turned off his car and opened the cabin door. Jack was surprised because it actually looked kinda comfy. Mark showed Jack the bedroom and told him to sleep there.. Mark slept on the couch.  -"ASHLEY NO! NO NO !NO NO NO> OH God noo!!" Jack screamed, eyes with tears as he woke up from another nightmare. Mark ran in wearing only a pair of boxer briefs and hugged Jack. They layed there and Mark calmed him until Jack fell asleep with Mark murmuring sweet nothings. They both slept in peace for the first time in a week. ===============================================================================  They spent a weekend at the cabin. Jack went venturing out on his own a lot. Mark stood behind at the cabin and had to mentally check himself and all his personalities. From the looks of it, he just gained a new one. I call him Dark! Wilford said eagerly in his mind. Mark sighed. He loved him as much as he hated him. One day, Mark had fixed the house up as they were leaving. Jack said he was going for a walk and Mark was taking a nap. That's when all hell broke loose. ===============================================================================   -"TOP OF DA MORNIN TO YA--" Jack began to shout as he entered the door. He stopped mid sentence when he saw the house a wrecked mess. Blood staining and floors and things broken on the ground. "M-mark?" Jack called out nervously.  -"ohh Jackaboyyy" Mark's voice came from the hall. His tone was the same one from when they arrived.. -"oh fok" The irishman said as he turned and ran for the car. Jack pulled on the door realizing it was locked. He turned and saw Mark's face with splattered blood, cuts littering his arms. Mark had a bloody knife in his hand and he was smiling wickedly. -"let's finish what we started" he said. He slammed the knife into the wood of the porch and he ran at Jack. Jack moved from his spot and tried to run, but the football player simply tackled him down on the dirt and grass. -"M-mark! Wake up!" Jack pleaded. Dark pulled down Jack's jeans with ease and had him pinned down. Jack wasn't flexable enough to hit Dark backward and he was feeling tears in his eyes. -"Oh don't you worry. I'll make him watch you beg under me, Jackaboy" he said, voice laced with poison. Jack was screaming at him to stop. Dark spit into Jack and slid in all the way. Jack screamed and tried to get away but hopelessly got nowhere. Dark pounded into Jack and he screamed. Nobody could hear him out here. Nobody. Dark came inside Jack and Jack came involuntarily on the grass. Dark smiled approvingly before giving Jack a small kiss to his cheek. Jack couldn't speak. He was in tears. Dark pulled out and cleaned them before he pulled a stumbling Jack to the porch. -"god... as tight as you were. You have to suffer anyway" Dark said, he grabbed the knife and swung down, slicing through Jack's jeans and leaving a slightly long cut on his thigh. Jack didn't scream. He couldn't. A large body slammed into Dark and they tumbled off the porch. Jack stared lifelessly at the ceiling of the porch. He didn't bother turning around to see the fading conversation in his ears. He saw two people staring down at him suddenly. Two Mark's. One with a pink mustache and another with his familar black stubble along his face  tinted with blood... He winced in pain as he was lifted up and tossed in the backseat. Then he fall asleep. ===============================================================================  Wilford literally just morphed into another body. He looked around and realized they were at Mark's old cabin. He shuffled out of bed and walked around. He began making breakfast. I think Jack is like.. walking around or something he thought to himself. He began chopping a pepper when he saw movement in his perioheral vision. He smiked and waved at Mark. But Mark was smirking...dangerously. -"and who are you?" He asked, his voice was the same...but with a creepy tone to it. This, he assumed, could be Dark. Dark charged at him and Wilford knew this guy was business. He slashed the knife wildly and cut his arms. He groaned at the pain then slammed his head into a wall. Wilford started running when he felt a sharp object hit his shoulder. He fell and was pinned by Dark. -"THE HELL--" -"Shh.. sh sh sh... shh..." he whispered. He cut Wilford and slashed the knife all.over his body, blood staining and floor and walls. Wilford tried getting away twice, knocking over lamps and chairs. Dark had him knocked out in the bedroom. When he woke up, his wounds started healing. Like...super healing. It was a weird tingling sensation. Wilford walked around and saw Dark on the porch with Jack under him. Oh shit. Wilford tackled him off the porch and punched hin twice before Dark's menacing gaze slipped away and a pair of frightened ones showed up.  -"evening." Wilford grumbled as he helped Mark stand up. He explained everything about him before they heard quiet sobs on the porch. Mark ran to Jack and he touched his arm which was stained in blood, Wilford quickly helped pick him up and throw him into the car. Wilford instinctively grabbed the baby wipes from under the seat and cleaned them all off in the car. They arrived at Mark's house and thankful his parents have not come home yet.  And now they sat in chairs waiting for Jack to wake up. -"so.. when did you--" -"What did Dark do to Jack.." Wilford asked. Mark lost it. He began crying. He fell on the floor and he scooted to his bed where he hugged Jack. He cried loud for what felt like an hour or so...before he sat up on the floor and looked at Wilford who had an arm around his shoulder. -"H-he.. raped Jack...and he forced me to watch. A-and he cut him..." Mark said. Jack began to wake up and he groaned as he held his head lightly. -"I got here as soon as possible!" Felix shouted as he ran up the stairs. The front door closed and then another set of footsteps was heard.  -"hi.." Cry said as he stood behind Felix at the door. Jack smiled a little and then turned to see the boy with pink and yellow clothing and the other with casual jeans and a tank top.  -"oh my--" -"I'm so sorry.. you have to understand that it wasn't--" -"OH MY GOD. SHUT UP." Wilford said. He shooed out Felix and Cry then closed the door behind them. -"I'm so sorry... I-i didn't--" mark began to say as he held Jack's hand. -"i had an orgasm.." he whispered. " I didn't want to...but I did. M-Mark... please don't let anybody else touch me like you do.." Jack whispered, hugging Mark. They had sikent tears running down their faces and they whispered their own confessions and love for each other. Then Wilford rushed in. -"g-guys.. umm.. so.. I didn't know.. but um.. somebody's here to see you." He said quickly. He stood aside as Felix and Cry walked in.  -"I heard from Felix.. and saw the posters all over town.." she said. Her streaks were fading to a bright purple in her light brown hair. It was cut. She had multiple wrist bands and they noticed a few band-aids under them.  -"Tiffany.." Jack gasped. She walked over and hugged him. Mark stood aside and smiled. ===============================================================================   They went to the hospital to get Jack checked for STD's the next day. They were walking around when Tiffany stops and talks to the receptionist. -"c'mon.." she says as she leads them deeper into the hospital rather than out of it. They take an elevator, Mark asks where they're going but she ignores him. They reach the desired floor and she stops in front of a room. She walks right in, Mark and Jack confused follow her. The first thing they see is roses. Lots and lots of roses. Roses on the nightstand, the ground and even on the bed posts. There are a lot of roses scattered around the bed and opened cards. They see a hand holding a bright purple card that says Tiffany on it. Jack hugs Mark when they see who it is. Mark feels his knees give in and has to rely on Jack to hold him up. The patient wakes up from their slumber and looks up to smile. -"Hey Mark" she says. Mark walks over and feels a tear slide down his face for like.. the thousandth time that day. Jack held Mark's hand as she held Mark's. They saw one of the bouquets on her nightstand was from Mr. Maron. -"How ya doin, Ash?" Jack asks, his voice hoarse. -"not dead.. thanks to you.." she says, smiling. Jack hands her their friendship bracelet. She wipes a tear from her face at the sight.  -"thank you.." she says. "Thank you so much..."  -"it's like you said.." Mark mentioned, his lips in a light smirk. "We would never forget you.." Chapter End Notes YAY! Aren't ya glad Ashley's not dead? Or Tiffany?! ONLY TWO MORE CHAPTERS!!! ***** Graduation Day ***** Chapter Summary Graduation Day. They get their diplomas, they celebrate... what could go wrong? Well... all it takes is a storm. Chapter Notes The story was going good and I was like Nahh, ima just fuk them up right about now...   But..i promised a happy ending. And that's what yall hoes getting. See the end of the chapter for more notes Jack looked up. He looked around him and saw so many people... suffering... crying... in pain... he looked back down at the love of his life in his arms... dead...eyes staring coldly at the sky above them. Jack closed his eyelids. Mark was dead...and then a large tree fell on top of Jack, crushing them both...together.. ===============================================================================   Jack woke up. He screamed a little and woke up Mark. Who was perfectly fine. He shot up and raised his fist ready to punch a threat. Jack clung onto him. -"woah. What's wrong?" he asked, feeling Jack sigh in relief. -"i had a nightmare... that ya... died..",he said slowly. -"you can't get rid of me that easily.." Mark said, grinning. -"I'm gonna sleep on the couch now." Jack said, jokingly. -"nooo come back.",he said, ticking Jack back onto the bed. They just finished their last exam and left home early, they were tired and fell asleep around noon. They woke up around 3. -"i love you.. you know that right?" Mark said as he and Jack shared small kisses between each other. -"of course.. and I-i love you..." Jack said, burying his face in Mark's chest. He heard the heartbeat of the American go eratic for a second and he giggled. Mark wrapped his arms around Jack and kissed his head. -"they've been dormant ever since I got rid of Dark.." Mark commented. Ashley was updated soon after the hospital what had happened to the both of them and immediately tried getting checked out. She failed, but was able to get out a few days layer in which they tried an exorcism on Mark which kinda helped. Aside from Tiffany fainting when a dark cloud was thrown up by Mark, the plan had gone smoothly. Who knew the internet was so...right about things they never knew could have existed. -"good." Was all Jack said. He lifted his head up and kissed Mark's chin. The latter of the two smiled before kissing Jack again. A knock was at the door before it opened, a familiar face popped in. -"Hey.. guys.." she said shyly. Ashley walked over and sat down on the chair on the far side of Mark's room. -"Hey. Hoe." Jack replied. Ashley smiled a little before she ran slowly to the bed and hopped on, making it bounce the inhabitants at the moment. -"i can't believe we're going to Graduate" Ashley marveled as she layed back and stared at the ceiling. -"Where do you plan for college?" Mark asked. Jack winced a little.. he remembered he hasn't told Mark his plan.. -"Yale. I got accepted, surprisingly. Can't wait to study Law there.." Ashley replied. -"what about you, babe?" Mark asked. Jack's eyes widened. -"i uhh... umm.. I was actually going ta.. uh.. followyouarounduntilyoumarryme" Jack mumbled at the end. -"what?" Mark asked. Ashley laughed. -"i said I was going ta go wherever ya go.. I mean.. if that's not a--" -"DUDE YES,  BITCH" Tiffany squealed at the door. -"oh thank god." Ashley mumbled as she sat on her elbows. -"what?" Jack asked, coiling into Marks side, shyly. -" Well... we planned on all sharing a four-person dorm.." Tiffany explained.  -"But Ashley--" -"'But'-- No. If I don't go to Yale, that's fine. I'll get accepted the next year" she said, shrugging. -"so? What do you say, Jackaboy?" Mark asked. Jack thought about it before nodding his head. They all cheered and wooped. ===============================================================================  -"CAN YOU NOT." Ashley shrieked as Tiffany stole her shoe again. -"it matches MY earings AND my cap design." Tiffany demanded. -"no no no, that matches MY hair colors and MY nails." Ashley stated. -"suck to suck, boo" Tiffany replied as she tried on the flat. -"UGGGHHH" Ashley shouted as she searched her closet again. -"ooooh. Keep these, I'll take the purple heels" Tiffany said.  -"Thank You." Ashley said as she handed her the desired heels. Mark walked in wearing his gown and tie. He was fidgeting. -"i don't like this tie." He mumbled. He readjusted the tie for the hundredth time already and still wasn't liking it.  -"Well duh. Who wears a blue tie with a burgundy gown?" Ashley said. -"Who dyes their hair red with blue streaks?" He calls back. She opens her mouth to say something but closes it again in a prim tight lipped smile. -"just.. change your tie.." she says as she turns around and curses him infinitely in her head. -"BAAAAAABBBEE" Felix shouts from the bathroom. -"I'M CHANGING." Cry shouts back from behind the bathtub curtain. Once finished, he slid it open and Felix fake swooned. -"I am in love with a masked God." He said as he pulled him in for a kiss, lifting the mask. Jack smiled and finished his tie in the mirror. He smiled to himself before he looked down at his wrist. Still scarred and some light red lines. -"don't hate your body, Sean." Mark said the night before.  -"Why do you love me?" Jack asked, tears sliding down his face as the razor blade he found was hovering over his leg. -"because you're beautiful...I love everythinf about you.. you're amazing and funny and smart. My question is why do you love me?" Mark asked. Jack sighed. He was done. He dropped the razor blade and unlocked the door. Mark didn't cry, on the inside he did, but he was just happy Jack controlled himself and only did 3 small cuts. One on his thigh and two on his wrist.  -"I'm sorry.. you have to put up with me" Jack said in the bathtub. Mark had made a small bath for them and Jack was leaning against Mark, red tinting the water lightly from Jack's cuts. -"I'm sorry I wasn't there before.." Mark replied. Jack sighed. They layed there for most of that night. Before drying up and sleeping.. Jack smiled at the memory. He felt a pair of arms sliding around his waist and he jumped at the warm feeling. -"Hey there..." Mark said, kissing his cheek. -"Hi." Jack replied, leaning into Mark's cute stubble.  -"do my tie again?" Mark said. Jack groaned before he turned and kissed him as he undid his tie. Jack was done loosening it before he pulled it off Mark's neck with his teeth. Mark blushed red at the sight. -"you'll get more of this.." Jack whispered hotly in his ear, he teased a ghostly brush against Mark's sudden peaking interest. "...later."  Jack went to pick a tie and left Mark a stuttering mess. Jack giggled before doing a simple pink and yellow polka dot tie. -"I...approve.." Wilford said leaning on the bathroom door. He was eating an apple and wearing a tank top. His pink mustache vibrant as ever. They all turned to hear Felix moan as Cry bit his earlobe and then fell into the bathtub. He groaned painfully. The others laughed. ===============================================================================  -"Mark Fischbach". Clapping. Mark stood from his seat on the football field to retrieve his diploma, Ashley commented the entire ride to the ceremony how unrealistically obsurd his tie was but she finally stopped and commented how it fit him well. That was a plus. Many people later... -"Felix Kjellberg". He dramatically bowed when he reached his diploma. Everyone laughed and snickered. -"Sean McLoughlin". They clapped and he grabbed his diploma, smile splitting his face. He did it. He finally did it. -"Ashley Luhmbar". Silence.  There was dead silence before Mark, Jack and Tiffany clapped. A few joined in but a few gave her upset, pitiful and sympathetic stares. She received her diplima awkwardly and even the principal gave her a sympathetic look. She nodded solemnly before making her way back down the stage. They announced the others, Tiffany included who got a large round of applause. They finished and before they knew it, they threw their caps in the air. They laughed, clapped, kissed. It was amazing. Then the gust of wind blew threw. They all looked around and saw the skies were getting darker by the minutem they all shuffled to their cars or inside the building for the special slideshow. Mark had a bad feeling about this. He shook it off. ===============================================================================  They had memorial slides for Stephanie, Matt, Matthew and Jason. The class clapped for them sadly before they turned on the lights then they began eating some food. They were all talking and mingling and laughing. Enjoying their time. The lights flickered a little but not enough to scare people. Mark was getting ready to leave when they saw the front doors open and some policemen walked in, soaking wet. -"ahem. Ladies  and Gentlemen! Uh, yes. We're here to sadly inform you that there is a storm coming. If you're leaving this area, do so now. But this building is one of the safe locations in the city so.. please be aware if people come in. Alright, stay safe" they said before leaving. Mark intertwined his fingers with Jack, which caused many football players to acknowledge the Irishman a bit more. They were leaving before they heard their name called and saw Tiffany, Felix, Cry and Ashley running towards them. -"we're heading out too" They said as they followed. The rain was hard and they had to push past the wind to make it to the parking lot. Once they were both safely in their cars, the radio blared. -"This is a message to all East Los Angeles residents. Stay in your homes or find the nearest safe spot to hide under the storm. It will pass by, for there is a hurricane passing by the Hawaii Islands and East Coast. This is a Class- 3 Hurricane, do not panic. The storm will be gone by tonight." the announcer said. -"Well shit.." Ashley mumbled from the back seat. They were driving to their neighborhood when they saw a large tree swinging around. -"ah crap. Let's take a detour" Mark said as he put the car in reverse. -"what? Mark.. it's alright, that tree has been there since.. like the dawn of fookin time. It's fine" Jack said, chuckling. -"nahh, I'm not risking scratching the car." Mark said. Jack shrugged and went to his phone and saw a WeatherMap alert. -"woahh... for a cyclone that small, it's doing quite some damage" Tiffany said, looking at her own phone. It's true. Jack was staring at the small circled clouded area near the coast. Then the car stopped. -"what happened..." Ashley said. Looking at Mark. -"aw shit. I forgot to fill it with gas. I was going to on our way back but the storm and all... shit." He mumbled. They sat there for a moment before Tiffany dialed a number. -"Wilford? AYYYE. Yeah, I figured. Mhmm. True. I know! Anyway, can you do us a favor and grab the two gas tanks in my closet. Yeah.. ..yeah those! Great, ya found them. Bring them to... past the cat lady's house. Yeah.. I'm sure they're fine. She doesn't mind them runninf around her house. Okay. Aight, thanks bye" she said before hanging up.  -"You have gas tanks in your closet?" Mark asked, turning in his seat to give her a questioning eyebrow.  -"you don't" She, Jack and Ashley asked in unison. -"the fuck? No!" He said, rolling his eyes. They were watchinf the rain get faster and harder, the wind blowing a loose mailbox off its hinges, mail flyinf everywhere to soon be smacked down by the rain. Then Wilford slammed the window which made everyone scream. He had an umbrella but he was wet. -"Fill her up?" He asked through the window. Jack nodded his head while Mark and Ashley flipped him off.  Once Wildford finished, he got into the car and smiled adorably at them. -"hi." He said, giggling a little. -"thanks.." Tiffany said, high-fiving him. -"I got chu, fam." He saidm she laughed and they started the car back up drove around until they started reaching Tiffany's house...then they saw a tree fall behind them. They got out of the car and ran inside her house. They shook off some of the rain like dogs before heading upstairs to her room. The door downstairs opened and Felix and Cry made their way upstairs.  -"I'm going to take a bath." Mark said, standing up and patting the newcomers' shoulders. He closed the bathroom door as they all settled into the pile of sweatshirts and sweatpants, pickinf their own before laying down on the large pillow fort. Then the lights went out. ===============================================================================   Tiffany explained to Mark where to find candles before she made her way to the basement to look at the fuse box. No way she was turninf in emergency lights yet. She closed it making sure nothinf fried before making her wsy upstairs. The raing gettinf harder each time. Soon enough, the house shook a few times, small groans and moans. But nothing serious. Until the front door's wibdow smashed open. They went to look and saw a car's side-light in the ground in front of the door. Then the living room windows exploded in shards of glass and rain as a street sign slammed in. They shouted and ran upstairs, where they saw a tree slowly falling into Tiffany's window. Felix was looking for his phone under her bed. -"FELIX MOVE!" she yelled. she ran after him but Cry made it before her and pulled him away, his phone triumphantly in his hand. The tree smashed through her window and the wall. Cry was caught in the branches.  -"CRY!!" Felix yelled, but Ashley dragged him backwards.  -"he'll be fine! We just have to get to the--" Ashley shouted over the roaring wind before another tree smashed into the wall in the small hallway, taking her and Felix tumbling down the stairs.  Tiffany,Wilford and Jack made it to the basement and looked at the stairs to see if Felix and Ashley followrd them. Jack bounded up the stairs, Tiffany began following him when a large tear came from above and the sofa slammed into Jack, throwing him off of her view from downstairs. -"JACK!" she yelled, but then the basement door was slammed shut and the other two were engulfed in complete darkness. ===============================================================================   Mark was listening to music on his headphones while taking his bath. He heard some shouts and bangs.. but he asssmed they were fighting or something...that was before he saw a tree branch crash through the small window above him. He covered his head and the candles blew out. -"woa! Guys?" He called out. No noise but wind and rain. Mark drained the tub and dried himself before putting on some sweats and going around shirtless. He opened the bathroom door and was confronted by a large tree ripping a hole through the hallway. He looked around and tried to crawl under it. He saw Ashley leaning against the wall and Felix KO'd at the bottom of the stairs. -"woah.. what happened?!" He shouted. Where was Jack? -"Mother nature gave Hurricane Laquidha over here her damn period and now it's expanded to a Class-4!" Ashley shouted. Mark made his way downstairs and helped lean Felix into a sitting position on the stairs. He and Ashley walked around the broken house before they saw the sofa on the wall, a small slim pale hand on the ground. Mark ran toward the couch and pushed it away to reveal Jack. He was gasping in relief and hugged Mark.  -"HOLY FOOK. WHAT IS THIS" he shouted. They saw a large plant pot in front of the basement door, they moved it aside to find Wilford and Tiffany ankle deep in water. -"Oh thank god. We closed the leak but we thought we were going to have to open it to avoid Carbon Monoxide poisoning" she said. They started moving upstairs and were now sitting in the ruined living room... Then the wall was torn off easily and the rain poured in.  -"OH MY GOD. A CAT!!" Wilford yelled as he ran out. -"CHRIST, WILFORD NO!" Jack shouted as he chased after him. Mark chased Jack, Ashley chased Wilford and Tiffany chased them. Wilford had the cat in his arms and started running back when a car started flipping towards them. It suddenly burst into flames and then exploded. They were all blown backwards. Tiffany was on the ground screaming at them, she was scared. Cry had found Felix on the stairs, he wasn't waking up though. Ashley was propelled backwards and fell into the grass, she tried to grab Mark but failed. The storm was getting worse. The rain pouring on them. The wind painfully strong. Jack was thrown backwards and somebody rolled next to him.  Mark was thrown backwards too, but one of his lens from his glasses was jammed into his left arm. He Took it out and held his arm to stop the blood. Jack scrambled up and saw Wilford laying face down beside him. He turned Wilford over, there was shrapnel from the car's windows in his neck. Blood slowly seeped out. The wounds healed slowly and pushed the glass out, but he kept gasping. Wilford had a small tree branch jammed in his chest. Jack held Wilford in his arms. His pink mustache turning a dull grey. -"j-jack" he sputtered. Jack felt hot tears on his face as he looked at Wilford.  -"oh god.. W-wilford.. I'm sorry. Oh shit, he muttered between small gasps. -"it's fine.. b-but...until Mark f-finds me again in his subconscious d-do me a favor.." he said. Jack leaned closer to his mouth. -"never forget me..." he said. "And protect Mark.. a-at all costs.." he gasped. Jack nodded his jead vigorously. -"i will never forget you.." Jack said. -"till the day I- i - I..." Wilford tried to finish but he stared at the sky, face with a small friendly smile.. -"...die..." Jack finished for him. Jack looked up at the sky. The storm. The storm that killed Wilford. A friend. His friend. Jack screamed at the sky... The rain began slowing down after a few minutes. Jack held Wilford there until he started fading away. Literally. And then Jack was covered in a pile of pink dust. Mark clutched at his heart and head severely before passing out. Now all Mark had to do was find him.. he hoped he was alive. Cry was crying. For Felix. Felix was in a coma... and Wilford had died physically. Mark tried searching for him. Jack did nothing. He didn't eat..he didn't leave his room for quite a while. It was all because of some storm. A Storm on Graduation Day... Chapter End Notes Well... Then...   That... Was... Umm... Well... Um... So about that happy ending... ***** Bunnies ***** Chapter Summary Mark thinks he found Wilford, Jack likes to go away to fix himself, Ashley helps Felix recover with Cry, And Tiffany loses her shoe again. Their high school years may have ended but their wounds still need to heal. Chapter Notes NOT THE LAST CHAPTER. IDFK. I FELL IN LUV WITH THIS STORY. WOO. Thx for the comments & Kudos, I never really expected for people to love this fic that much.. Huh.... ENJOY, DARLINGS!!! :* See the end of the chapter for more notes Jack loved hiking.  Mark loved thinking deeply. Ashley fangirled Felix and Cry. Tiffany hates losing her shoe. They were at Felix's cabin, a grand cabin in a small beautifully secluded forest. They're spending the summer here. They were happy.  Felix was in a comma for a whole month, when he woke up the doctor recommended he go to be with nature to recover in a calm environment. So that's exactly what they all did. ===============================================================================   -"SET.. HUT!" Mark shouted as he aimed who to throw the football to. Jack walked around his arms randomly in the air, not caring if he got the ball or not. Felix was running frantically in front of Ashley. Cry was waving his arms wildly in front of Mark. Mark threw it to Felix but Ashley tripped him with ease and caught it, running towards Mark. Mark prepared a tackled stance when Ashley jumped and slammed into him.  -"WOAH. OW." Mark yelled as she laughed, lazily straddling his hips. -"AYE. That's my man!" Jack yelled as he fake-charged at her. She laughed and lasted next to him. Jack glared at her questioningly before he planted a kiss on Mark which led to them being deep in a kiss, rolling on the ground. -"If you stay like that, you might swallow his face whole." Ashley said. Mark pulled away before winking at Ashley, much to her and Jack's dismay.  -"back off." Jack said, jokingly as he caressed Mark's face. -"i don't know... he seems tempting" she replied. They laughed for awhile before hearing Tiffany from the porch. -"LEMONADE, YOU THIRSTY SLUTS" she shouted as she placed a small tray of the beverage on a small table. They all ran excitedly to it and she scoffed. She walked back inside and came out with a warm tray of cookies. -"eat." She commanded. They didn't have to be told twice.  As she walked back inside, she felt someone walk behind her. She turned to see Jack following her and she smiled. -"want to help?" She asked. He nodded before fake marching behind her. She giggled. -"what're we makin'?" He asked. His red baseball cap slanted backwards and his fading green hair on his forehead lazily. -"Lasagna." She said as she pulled out many ingredients from a shopping bag. Jack clapped erratically like a child. She shook her head but smiled.  Mark was in he and Jack's room, looking for a clesner shirt since this one was covered in grass and dirt stains. He threw it into the laundry hamper and looked around. He figured he'd wear one of Jack's since he knew how much Jack loved it. They were in a good place, Mark felt. There was a lot of silence after the storm, Mark felt it more looking for Wilford as hard as he could. But no sign found of his personality could be found. He felt when Wilford died and swore to hope he never felt that again. He was going through one of Jack's duffel bags when he suddenly feels a container. He pulls it out and sees it's a small box of some sort. He shakes it and hears a few rattling sounds of metal. He opens the box and drops it once he sees the contents. Blades. Razor blades. A few used, a few clean.Where the hell did he get those?! Mark thought to himself. His hands were shaking and he felt a sudden anger hit him. He grabbed the box and trudged downstairs. He dropped the box, the razor blades clattering a little, on the table in the kitchen. Jack and Tiffany were laughing before they turn and see what the sudden slam was. Jack's eyes go wide before looking at Mark's furious stare. -"Mark... let me--" -"No, Jack." Mark said, lifting his hand to interrupt him. "You said you would stop. But you didn't. You lied to me.. why would you lie to m--" -"Because I have my reasons..." Jack said, in confidence. He gave Mark a dead look before Mark laughed. -"reasons, huh?" He said, dragging his hand on his face in frustration. "Yeah? Well why don't you share with us. Hmm?" -"Mark, I really don't think--" -"Share with the group, Jack." Mark said, eyeing him. -"uhm.. Mark.." Ashley said as she, Cry and Felix stood in the entrance to the kitchen. -"no. Jack, share. With. The group."  -"mark... you're making a scene--" Jack began to say, voice hardening. -"SHARE WITH THE GROUP, SEAN." Mark shouted. -"BECAUSE WILFORD DIED IN MAH FOKIN ARMS. HE DIED. HE FOOKIN DIED." Jack yelled. The kitchen was silent. -"And that gives you a GODDAM REASON TO CUT YOURS---" -"YES, BECAUSE I AM THE FOOKIN REASON MATTHEW DIED. STEPHANIE DIED. ASHLEY ALMOST DIED. WILFORD DIED. AND I FEEL LIKE IT IS ALL MY FAULT" Jack shouted. -"okay, we need to breathe--" -"BUT IT WASN'T. SO WHY DO YOU HURT YOURSELF--" -"HOW DO YA KNOW, MARK?! HUH?! ALL YA ARE IS A GODDAM FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO DOESN'T GIVE TWO SHITES ABOUT HIS FRIENDS!" -"That. Is not true and you know it" Mark snapped. -"you're right, Mark. And ya know what else isn't fokin true?" Jack snarled. He came up to Mark and and dropped the bracelet he gave him in front of his face. "When you said you loved me."  Ashley felt Jack push her shoulder as he walked out of the cabin, the screen door slamming closed. It was dead silent. -"well then.." Cry said. -"Mark... he didn't mean it--" Ashley began to say before he ran upstairs with the box in hand and slammed the door shut. Mark didn't want to feel the pain he did when Wilford died.. and he didn't... ...because this was ×100 worse... ===============================================================================   The voices came back. The irrational ones. The harsh ones. The sad ones..   You're fucking pathetic, Jack. Kill yourself. Nobody will miss you, not even good ol' Markimoo. Disappointment. Worthless. Pathetic. Useless. Go die. Die  Die  Die die die die. DIE.! Jack held his head as he screamed for them to stop. They did. Jack stood up and took a deep shaky breath. He wanted to cut so so badly.. but he already broke his promise to Mark and he left his razors at the cabin. He didn't know where he was. He had gone stomping off to a randon path and he was now on a path he had taken before. He willingly hiked up, thinking about what just happened. He didn't believe what he said. It was so unreal and not him. He was worried about Mark.. about his friends worrying about him. Jack felt tears form but he tried to hold them in. He loved Mark and Mark loved him. Right? Right. He didn't know why he said that.  He felt his phone buzz and saw a text. He opened it. NERDY SLUTS R US **Ashcloud57_has_added_Pewdiepie_to_the_chat** **Ashcloud57_has_added_CryaoticIsAmazing_to_the_chat** A: Bitch where u at tho *painted fingernail emoji* T: For fucks sake Jack. Come back. Plz?! C: Yes. Get your ass back here b4 a bear eats u alive. F: Nice... im sure u convinced him even more. Dumbshit. M: Sean.. please... Jack stared at Mark's message. He sighed. He couldn't do anymore damage to Mark. He couldn't. T: if your ratchet ass dont get back in time I will play on full volume on my beats pill Don't Let Me Down by the fucking Chainsmokers. Jack laughed. He gave in to temptation and made his way down when he heard a few twigs snap in the distance. He froze. He turned his hesd slowly and saw a large bush rustling frantically. Jack was prepared to run but was confronted with an army of bunnies running into the clearing. Jack stared at them. He crouched down and one of them nibbled weakly at his wrist where one of his cuts was. He gasped in awe. Jack stood up and realized it was getting dark, he made his way doen the path and heard restless thumps behind him. He turned and saw a large amount of bunnies following him. He tested his theory by running ahead and hiding behind a tree. The bunnies followed. He giggled and soon made it back to the cabin with an army of bunnies behind him. ===============================================================================   -"OH MY GOD. SHUT UP" Ashley shouted, smacking Tiffany's arm. -"Well?! It could be! This is some Until Dawn shit." She mumbled. Felix rolled his eyes at her. They heard the front door open and they all rushed to the hallway to see Jack standing there all happy...and an array of bunnies running into the house. -"NO." Cry yelped as he hid in the pantry. The bunnies all ran up the stairs with Jack. -"What.. the..." Felix began to say. -"at least he isn't dead.." Tiffany said. Ashley was staring slack-jawed at what happened. -"i need tea. And vodka. I need a shot of vodka in some iced tea." She grumbled as she walked to the kitchen in awe. Jack reached he and Mark's room. He hesitated before opening the door to find Mark staring at the box of razors on the ground. The bunnies all rushed in and hopped onto Jack's bed. Mark was startled and Jack ran into him, hugging him. Mark hugged back immediately. -"i love you." Mark mumbled in his shoulder. -"Mark. I know.. I always will." Jack replied. -"god I fucking love you. I do. I will love you to the moon and back, Jack. I love you so much and I will never leave your side ever. I love you" Marm rambled. Jack cut him off with a kiss. It was warm.. slow.. filled with emotion. Jack felt a bunny nudging his foot. Jack broke away and smiled as he looked down. -"where did you get the--" -"Just shut the fok up and enjoy your new roomates." Jack said, giggling. Ashley walked into the room and a small bunney leaped into her arms.  -"Oh. Hi there.." she said, she set the bunny down and carefully sat on Jack's bed. -"so... Felix is doing better. He doesn't have nightmared anymore. The doctor said that once his meds are gone, they're done. He's clean. And Cry keeps sending me angsty signals and I see Felix hopping around being himself and it's almost as if he's either teasing Cry or wearing some dam Chastity belt around cause Cry is so... frustrated every morning." Ashley informed them. They laughed. The bunny found its way into her lap and she cooed it. Jack and Mark fell asleep and Ashley closed the door as she watched the bunnies leap between beds and rest on them. She giggled. ===============================================================================   -"Where the FUCK ARE MY SHOES." Tiffany shouted. Mark groaned. He slowly sat up, his glasses askew and his hair a mess. He looked over at Jack's bed and saw him covered in bunnies. These bunnies were fucking magical because they never made a mess and always went out of the house to use the bathroom. And they loved Jack. A few of them were assigned to the rest. They had a day dedicated to painting them. Mark painted his red with pink streaks around its body. The pink in memory of Wilford... but he was getting closer. He felt it. Ashley's was a mess of bright and dark blue. Tiffany's was a lavender color and Felix painted his a stark yellow. Cry painted his black. It was creepy. And Jack's favorite, who he named Sam, was bright green. They had to leave the cabin in a couple of days and Jack was afraid of leaving the bunnies, but they built a large dog house for them to stay during the seasons. They promised to be back in the winter. But the bunnies loved taking Tiffany's shoes. More specifically, her slippers and sneakers. -"ASSSHHHLEEEYYYY" Tiffany groaned as she pounded on the bathroom door, where Ashley loudly hummed. "CRYSTAL TOOK MY SLIPPERS AGAIN!" -"Hey! Will you shut the fuck up and let me sing. Goddamn!" Ashley responded. Mark stood up and cracked his back before shuffling towards the door, careful not to wake any of the residents in their room. -"Have you seen my--" Tiffany said before looking down and seeing them placed in front of Mark's door. "Are you fucking kidding me." She Said. She groaned before slipping them on and walking downstairs. Mark chuckled as he closed the door behind him and followed her.  The smell of waffles filled the air. He scratched his stubble and smiled. -"Good morning.." Cry said kissing Felix's cheek as he flipped a pancake. "daddy" he whispered. Mark's eyes widened along with a grin, Felix stuttered embarrassingly and Tiffany gagged on her coffee.  -"Gays. GAYS EVERYWHERE. THE WORLD IS ENDING..!" Tiffany shouted as she ran down a small hallwy into the washing room. Mark and Cry laughed. Cry had added bunny ears to his mask which was adorable. His bunny who he called A-D (which stood for Angel of Death, he assumed the bunnies were here to kill them but they grew on him) was hopping around in the living room with Ashley's bunny. They heard footsteps on the stairs and then saw Jack with a sour look on his face.  -"coffee, Jackaboy?" Mark asked, handing him a mug. Jack grumbled in agreement. -"aww. Who's not a morning person?" Cry said in a babyish voice. -"fok yourself, Cry." Jack mumbled. He took a sip of the steaming liquid and smiled devoid of emotion. -"TOP OF THE MORNIN TO YA LADDIES!" Ashley yelled as she walked down the stairs in pajamas and a towel on her head. -"aye that's MY thing" Jack said, glaring daggers at her. -"boo, you whore.." she said as she took an Oreo from it's packet on the table. Felix laughed before announcing the waffles were ready. They all greedily took a few (Mark took three and Tiffany swung her fork at him but missed) waffles and they all ate on the table. Asks for the syrup, Nutella, peanut butter, jelly, butter and (for some reason..) mint spread. They all ate happily and Felix was proud of himself. -"Oh no..." Ashley suddenly said. She ran out of her chair and towards the back porch and rapidly opened a bag of rabbit food and poured it into the large tray before the bunnies all huddled around and ate. She sighed in relief and sat down at her seat again, everyone laughing. -"oh. Haha. I get it. " she said, rolling her eyes.  The group laughed and ate their waffles in a calm peace. ===============================================================================   They left the cabin the next week. They were all packing their things, Jack having to say a hard goodbye to the bunnies as they all hopped back to the forest. Mark and Felix still thought that was creepy and if they were high the entire time or something. Nope. Still real. Ashley was double-checking the house for anything they might have missed the entire time they had spent packing that day and came out of the cabin with a thumbs-up. They had a lot of great memories and a few bad. But they were nonetheless happy. As they made their way back to L.A., they had all started to book their rooms and dorms and resolving all their preparations for college on their laptops. Mark, Jack and Ashley were going to UCLA. Tiffany might go to Stanford but in spite of recent events is trying to get accepted into UCLA. Cry and Felix were going to take half of the year off then go with the others so that Felix could recover more. They were all pretty happy with where they turned out. =============================================================================== **2 Years Later** -" Maarrkkk" Jack shouted from the balcony on the stage.  -"Where for art thou, Jackaboy?!" he shouted sweetly. The pair laughed at their attempts before the auditorium's door opened. -"Good evening, Sluts" Ashley said as she walked in, Felix in tow. They greeted her as they walked on stage and helped Jack off the balcony. They were going to lunch with Cry and Tiffany. Unfortunately, Tiffany hadn't been able to get accepted into UCLA and went off to Stanford to become a star pupil in the music department. She got accepted into UCLA the year after and she politely declined. They visited her often and she was glad to see them. It wasn't until they were completing their second year of College that she left Stanford for UCLA, much to her professors' dismays. Ashley was majoring in film production, Tiffany in music production, Mark in engineering and photography, and Jack in photography. Felix had a hobby on YouTube and became one of the most successful YouTuber ever. Cry had joined the YouTube ship and became famous as "Pewdiepie's boyfriend". -"Oh Thank God you two could make it" Tiffany said as she flagged Cry over to their table. The group of friends all sat down and talked and laughed. -" May I take your order?" a tall man asked. -"Wade?" Tiffany asked suddenly. The man looked up from his pad and smiled. -"Tiffany?!" he asked in response. The two giggled. -"Bish what?" Ashley whispered to Mark. He just shrugged. -"Oh god, sorry. This is my good friend Wade. He and I practically ruled the music department in Stanford. Speaking of, why the hell are you here?" she asked, excitedly. Jack grew on the guy immediately. Wade took their order before coming back and sitting in the booth next to them. He and Jack talked about video games and music and their shoulders were touching. And so were their legs. Everytime Jack leaned back laughing, Wade held his arm to pull him back. Mark controlled his urge to just hug Jack and keep him away from this "Wade" guy. -"oh god. I have to get back to work." He said as he waved good bye, Jack's hand lingered on hi as they dramatically said goodbye. Mark was screaming. Internally. And he kept a calm expression. -"Mark... is someone jealous?" Ashley said when Jack went to the bathroom before their food almost came out. -"What? Me? Never." He said quickly. She stiffled a laugh. -"Wot we talkin about?" Jack asked as he slid into the booth. -"nothing." Mark and Ashley said quickly. -"hey, if you want to come over and play games, we totally can" Wade said as he cleaned the booth beside them.  -"yeah! I'd like that" Jack said, smiling. Mark clenched his fists under the table. -"okay, here's my number." Wade said, scribbling it on a napkin. He gave it to Jack and gave him a friendly smile. Mark swears he saw him wink. And Jack returned it. -"did you just see that?" Mark grumbled under his breath at Ashley. -"Yes. I watched their every movements and nothinf happened." Ashley said. -"they winked at each other." He said. Ashley laughed. -"no they didn't." Ashley said.  -"Yeah, that's just your jealous mind telling you that." Wilford said in Mark's mind. Mark gasped. He found him. -"Guys..." Mark said, smiling. They all turned to look at him and he whispered to them. -"Wilford's still alive" he said with a giant smile. Chapter End Notes Happy Endings!!yayyy Comment if you want somethinf changed or fixed. Other than that, see ya next chapter. ***** My Final Goodbye ***** Chapter Summary Felix and Cry go through a rough patch, Tiffany suffers from Stress And Mark becomes jealously paranoid. Time for feels! Chapter Notes This chapter gets deep... and I mean..DEEP. like... #PlotTwist am I right? Right? Hmm. Good luck. THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS AND KUDOS. LUV YA See the end of the chapter for more notes Mark was not jealous. Honestly, he wasn't. -"Mark are ye sure yer okay?" Jack asked in concern as he drove them to Wade's apartment. Wade and Jack have been hanging out weekly. They skyped a lot too and Mark was starting to get a little bit annoyed. One time he heard Jack and Wade laughing so hard that Jack fell off the couch. Mark had made Jack laugh..just...not that hard.... Jack also talks about going for a walk with Wade and god knows how many times Mark has tried to make hin go out and exercise and he rarely does. Mark and Jack shared a dorm and Wade's house was only a 15 minute drive/ 40 minute walk off campus.  They pulled up at the parking lot and got out, they ringed the box and the gate opened. Once they knocked on the door, he threw it open and was smiling widely. -"c'mon in! I've been dying to play with you two." Wade said, welcoming them into his rather well space apartment. Jack giggled like a teenager and Mark sighed. Okay.. maybe Mark was a little bit jealous. ===============================================================================   -"Kiss me?" Jack asked suddenly in the middle of the game. Mark was about to slap the fuck out of Wade before realizing Jack was talking to him. -"huh? Oh. Sure, babe" he said as he kissed Jack for good luck on the boss battle. Mark may or may have not let the kiss last a little longer and purposefully used some tongue. He totally didn't make it last for 10 seconds instead of 2. Maybe. -"dam. I wish my girl was here.." Wade said, grumbling but smiling.  Wait. What. -"oh ya! Tell us about 'er" Jack said as he started the battle. Wait...Wade wasn't... -"OH GOD MARK!" he suddenly exclaimed laughing. "Your face says it all!" He said, laughing even harder. -"W-what?" Mark asked, blushing. -"oh god.. oh.. whew. Haha. Yeah, no. I'm not gay Mark. Jack, he is a keeper. He might be the jealous type" Wade said, chuckling. Jack laughed a little. -"ye, no. That time I said Wade and I were going for drinks, I came back home purposefully late and lookin messy as hell ta see how'd you'd react." Jack explained, laughing at the memory with Wade. Mark remembered that night all too well. -"oh.. right..that night.." Mark said suddenly embarassed.  -"I think that was the hottest and roughest fuck ya've ever given me, Markimoo" he drawled. Wade spit some of his beer on the couch as he burst out laughing. Mark was bright red, probably camouflaging into his hair, as he sunk into the couch in shame and fear.  -"WADE. I'M HOOOMMEE" a man suddenly said,  rounding the corner into a living room. -"oh... You must be Bob!" Jack said.  -"who?" Mark asked as he stared at the towering man. -"my secret gay lover." Wade said with a wink. -"You wish, dumbshit." He said as he quickly sprinted past the TV not to mess up Jack.  Jack had finally beaten the True Heroine. He sighed in relief and Mark smiled at his reaction. =============================================================================== -"okay whores.. let's start from the beginning... again.." Ashley said. The other young adults began shuffling around and moving things around the stage.stag -"HOW'S MY LITTLE ASHLEY" Someone yelled from the top of the auditorium. Ashley rolled her eyes before turning to look at said person with a small grin appearing om her face. -"WHAT, KEN!"[CinnamonToastKen] Ashley said as she waved. -"DATE ME?" He shouted, laughing. -"Let me think about it!" She shouted back. Ken has been after Ashley for quite a while... Ever since she was made the director of the short film the students were asked to work on, he has been head over heels for her. He always asked her out and she politely turns him down each time. But now that he realizes she isn't interested he always does it jokingly. Unless he's drunk. They've become good friends. -"Where are we on the 9th scene?" He asked as he made his way down the stairs. -"halfway there.." she said, smiling a little. He nodded his head before tucking his hands in his pockets shyly. -"want lunch after this?" She asked him. He smiled before nodding a little. She giggled and they turned to the students thatvwere prepared. -"READY.. AND ACTION!" ===============================================================================   -"Tiffany?" A voice asked. She felt someone shake her shoulder. She groaned a little. -" Tiffany... please... w-wake up" the voice said again. Tiffany looked up and swiped a hand across her face slowly and rubbed her eyes. She must have fallen asleep. Again. She's been recently dealing with so much. Ashley wants her to sing a song for the film, she has to edit her friend's work, she signed up to go to a local High School and convince them about going to UCLA AND she has loads of homework.  -"F-felix?" She asked, looking up groggily. His hair dishevelled and his eyes puffy. "Were you crying?"  -"c-cry thinks I'm cheating on him.. But I'm not. I swear I'm--" Felix rambled breaking into tears  -"shh.. sh.. it's okay.." Tiffany mumbled as she hugged him. She kept trying to calm his crying before laying him down to sleep on the couch. Once she was sure he stopped fussing, she stoop and began making her way to her room before the front door opened and closed. -"TIFFANY!!" Cry shouted from the doorway. Tiffany sighed tiredly before turning around to confront the other boy. She saw Cry's mask shattered and a large dried cut on his forehead near his eyebrow. -"Oh my god! What happened?!" She exclaimdd, now fully awake. He sobbed a little before hugginf her  -"I-I accused Felix of ch-cheating on me a-and he s-slammed my head into.. into a wall.." he said between sobs, physically shaking in fear.  -"Cry... " Felix said at the entryway.  -"Are you freaking kidding me?!" Tiffany shouted. -"i-i'm so so--" -"BITCH YOU SHOULD BE!" Tiffany yelled, cutting him off.  -"YOU WERE CHEATING ON ME!!" Cry yelled at Felix.  -"NO I WASN'T!" Felix shouted, tears in his eyes. -"THEN WHO DID YOU SEND YOUR DICK TO?!" Cry asked. Felix was silent.  -"are you..kidding me.." Tiffany snarled. She pushed Felix backward, but he still stood om his feet. -"Tiffany.. Listen..." he began to say. -"no. You listen to me, Kjellberg." She gave him another push. -"Answer my FUCKING QUESTION!!" Cry yelled, face covered in tears. -"YOU. NEED TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE HELL.." another push. "WHAT YOU WERE DOING." Another Push. "CHEATING ON YOUR BOYFRIEND!!!" she screamed as she Gave him another shove, Felix was filled with sudden frustration that he shoved Tiffany back harder than necessary. He meant to shove her shoulders. Instead. He shoved her right shoder and his other hand threw her face backward. She stumbled before tripping on her feet and falling into Cry. The two fell with a thud, Cry's head smacking onto the cold tiles. -"o-oh my god.. I-i didn't" -"get out.." she whispered. -"Tiffany I--" -"SHE SAID GET OUT, YOU CHEATING BASTARD" Cry shouted, petting the back of his head. Felix was in tears before walking to the door quickly, as he turned the knob Cry shouted in the kitchen: "I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU EVER AGAIN". Felix closed the door. If they never wanted to see him again, that's what they'll get. Tiffany slowly stood up, caressing her hip carefully. Cry holding his head. -"are you okay?" She asked. He shook his head and went to her freezer to pull out two bags of frozen peas for the both of them. Tiffany led Cry to her room where he sobbed uncontrollably and she tried to do her homework. After a while, he stopped and kept murmuring "I miss him" and "I should have forgiven him". She sighed. -"Cry...do you want to rekindle things with him?" She asked, cautiously. He looked up at her staring at, her eyebrows in a concerned form. He nodded his head and she gave a brief smile.  -"then that's what we'll do. C'mon" she said as she put on some slippers and a coat.  ===============================================================================   Jack was driving he and Mark back to the dorms when they got a random series of texts. Mark told Jack to keep his eyes on the road and checked the messages. 4 Missed Calls; Pewds (2), AshCloud (1), Tiffany (1) 12 Text Messages; Nerdy Sluts R Us (6), Pewds (3), AshCloud (2), Wade (1) Mark furrowed his eyebrows. He opened the text from Wade saying they had a great time saying they should meet up again, Ashley's were repeated Where Are You?'s.. But Felix's were strange.. PEWDS Mark I'm so sorry Please forgive me after this Tell Jack I said bye This concerned him. He opened the next array of texts. NERDY SLUTS R US F: Babe.. I'm so sorry about that. But I didn't do anything.. I swear... you can check my phone if you want when I'm gone... A: Lmao, bitch wat? *laughing emoji* T: Felix? What're r u talking about?? C: Felix? Felix where r u?! I'm coming. I'm sorry. I believe u. Plz I believe u! F: I love you, Cry. All of you, take care. A: GUYS I JUST SAW FELIX WALK OUT OF THE SCIENCE BUILDING WITH A LARGE ROPE. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?! -"Jack, we need to hurry." Mark suddenly said. -"wot? Why?" He asked. -"Felix is... probably doing something he might regret." Mark replied, fear trailing his voice. The car sped up a little and as they fot out of the car, Mark rushed to the dorms. -"MARK. what's going on?!" He shouted following after his boyfriend. They reached the front doors along with Ashley and they ran up the stairs as quickly as possible. "Can someone... explain.. wot in the hell.. is going on?" Jack said between pants. -"felix might be killing himself" Ashley said as she threw open the door on his floor. They rushed across the hall seeing Tiffany and Cry opening the other door leading to the stairs on the other side of the hall. Mark threw open their door before shouting Felix's name. As Jack and the rest entered the room they saw Mark on his knees staring at the body swinging on the rope. Ashley shrieked in fear and covere her mouth between screams. Tiffany froze in shock. There was a video slowly uploading to Pewds' channel. It read My Final Goodbye  Cry walked over to his room, trying to act calm. Nobody followed him, recovering from Felix's sudden death. Jack heard a click come from wher he went. Jack could remember a click like that from anywhere. A click he heard familiarly when Jason came close to killing one of them. -"CRY NOO!!" Jack shouted. But it was too late. A loud gunshot ringed in the small dorm. Other people in neighboring dorms opened and ran into the room to see the commotion. Mark was sobbing silently, Jack was crumpling next to hom, Ashley was crying on Tiffany's shoulders. They couldn't have. They couldn't have just lost both their friends. They couldn't have. They. Just. Couldn't Have.  Chapter End Notes So... that happy ending might take a while.. Other than that, I didn't really like the way this chapter was written... I was disappointed with how it went and it seemed a little shorter than other chapters but.. yeah.. Well... Hmm... Um... Luhv u guys/gals? <3 ***** Razor Blades and Broken Hearts ***** Chapter Summary Felix and Cry have a funeral, Tiffany succumbs to old habits, And your favorite trouble-maker returns!!! That and not everything goes as planned. Chapter Notes SO. After that PLOT TWIST. I figured Ima just start gettinf close to ending this fic. I luv it so much. I do. But let's get a happy ending before I get carried away and kill everybody else. See the end of the chapter for more notes Tears. That's all Jack felt. In the morning after hugging Mark. At night waking up from a nightmare. At lunch realizing he had nobody to laugh ridiculously with. In bed knowing he had to go to their funerals. Tears. Jack was accustomed to them. Tears. Did he love them? No. Could he learn to love them? No. Could Mark learn to love him? Who knows. Jack started cutting again. Mark was so sad he said he won't love Jack until Jack loves himself. That hurt. He knew Mark didn't mean it. Deep down. So here Jack was, cuttinf ueslessly at his leg. Drunk off his ass. When he heard Mark shouting at him and then taking him to a hospital. Huh. The irony. This is where his story began... and this is where he'll end it. Jack swallowed the small handful of pills before falling asleep to a rapid beeping of his monitor. Sweet Dreams, Jackaboy. Sweet Dreams. ===============================================================================   Mark was sitting there with Ashley on the other side of Jack's bed. They couldn't believe he tried to overdose. They already lost two friends. They wouldn't handle losing another. -"m-mark?" Jack moaned. Mark's head snapped up snd he clutched onto Jack's hand. -"Jack? Oh my god,  Jack. Why would you--" -"Please don't let me do that again. Please.. chain me to a fooking chair if you have to.. just.. please don't let me." He said, sobbing. Mark nodded and kissed Jack's knuckles. Ashley smiked before departing from the room. Mark updated Jack on what he's missed the past week. Jack listened intently. Jack and Mark kissed longingly before Mark had to unfortunately leave. Mark slept in the chairs outside again. Ashley went to wash his clothes and bring him a new pair. As Mark began to fall asleep, he heard the door open and saw Jack standing with his IV stroller. -"Jack? What're you doing. you're not supposed to--" -"Sleep in here.. please.. I left a note saying I gave my consent.." Jack whispered scared. Mark nodded and followed him in, carefully layinf himself and Jack onto the bed.  -"I wasn't thinking.. I just figured nobody wanted my ugly Irish arse anymore.. everybody has been leavin me" Jack said, sadly. -"no Jack. I love you. Ashley, Tiffany...Wade..." Mark said. "I Love you to the bone. I've loved you for so long. If you died... I'd take the courage and do w- what Cry did..." Mark said. "I'd die with you..." -"mark--" -"I love you, Sean." He whispered, kissing his forehead. -"I love you, Mark.." he whispered. their hesrtbeats beating against each other. Mark fell asleep without any nightmares and neither did Jack. For the first time in Two weeks.... They woke up the next morning and were greeted by Jack's mother and siblings. In the meantime, Mark went ahead to the university and took a shower. After cleaning himself, Wade and Bob insisted on buying he and Jack's family breakfast. So they did. Mark and Jack ate some bagels and orange juice while Bob, Wade and the McLoughlin's all went for breakfast. -"This is kinda nice.." Jack admitted. He set down his cup of juice. -"yeah.." Mark said smiling. Jack was getting some color back in his face. His green hair becoming a fading mess. Mark pushed away the hospital chair and a hand latched onto his wrist. -"M-mark?" He asked. -"yeah?"  -"c-could I.. i dont know.. maybe..talk to Wilford.. privately?" He added quickly. Mark smiled and nodded his head. Mark focused on Wilford. His voice, his actions. Him as a whole. Then Mark felt a mustache rapidly growing under his nose and diving into a deep slumber consciously.  -"Jack!" Wilford said, head snapping up and startling Jack. -"oh..hi.." he said, shyly. -"are you okay? Jack. JAAACCKK" he whined. -"yes. Fokin hell. Yes." He said, laughing a little. -"Oh. Thank. God." Wilford said in relief. He clapped Jack's hand a little before sitting up straight. "So, what's up?" -"I-uh.. I need Mark to...to.. uhh.." -"'To, to uh...' What?" Wilford asked. Jack took a deep breath before exhaling it out shakily. -"I uh.. need you to get Mark away. For a while. C-can you help me how?" Jack asked. -"i have an idea.. for how long?" Wilford asked.  -"a.. a month or so.." Jack said shyly. Wilford nodded his head slowly. -"i have a way. But you won't like it." He said. Jack nodded his head rapidly and listened in. ===============================================================================   -"Mark?" Jack said from his bed. Mark stood up and walked toward him, but Jack was looking away from him and at the window instead.  -"yeah, babe?" Marr asked, placing a hand next to his. Jack recoiled his hand a bit. Mark looked down at the gesture in confusion. -"I- i need to tell you something.." the Irishman said. He turned to look at Mark, a serious expression on his face. Mark looked at him eagerly. -"Sure.. uh. What is it?" Mark asked, nervously. -"I'm with Wade now." He said, closing his eyes. -"wait..what?" Mark asked. Jack opened his eyes and stared at the red haired man's eyes.  -"I've been cheating on you with Wade.." he said, a lot more louder. Mark's heart shattered to pieces at those seven words. -"J-jack.." Mark began to say before Wade came in and held Jack's hand. He smiled weakly. -"sorry.." was all Wade said, shrugging. Mark stared at the two of them. Tears filling his eyes. -"B-but--" -"I don't love you anymore." Jack stated. Mark was staring at him a little longer before Jack turned his face to Wade and smiled, holding his hand tighter. Mark clemched his fists and turned without a word. Jack and Wade called out his name but he kept walking. As he kept walking, he felt every step growing slower. He felt his heart ache more and more.  He doesn't love you, Mark. You're disgusting. You were never good enough. It's about damn time he dropped your bitch ass Mark was sitting in his car now. He switched gears before going in reverse and driving away from the hospital. Not caring where he drove. He just drove. And drove. And drove. Not looking back.  Meanwhile at the hospital, Jack was shaking in fear. Wade let go of his hand right when Mark left. Wade apologized and Jack gave him a quick thank you. His family gave him sympathetic smiles after his actions. He knew it was going to hurt Mark more than him, but Jack was keen on fixinf himself for Mark. He had to.  Jack was released from the hospital a few days later, he immediately went to a rehab center by choice. He got better there for a few weeks. Then he took care of himself at the dorm. Mark had never come back for his things. Jack and Ashley did all of Mark's homework since they had him for a few classes. Wade and Bob helped. They rarely saw Tiffany, but she was wearing sweatshirts and long sleeves more often than usual. Mark left their group chat and they hadn't heard anything from him. After a month, they finally called him to come back. Jack explained the plan on the phone, but it went straight to voicemail. After a few more weeks, they began getting concerned. He wasn't answering anybody. Jack even called his mother and she said he wasn't answering her either. They began trying to track his phone but it was a dead end since it was probably shut off or the battery died.  Tiffany was avoiding the group a lot. She didn't eat and she was getting really skinny. Like...really skinny. They took her to her favaourite pizza joint near the campus and she only drank water. They were becoming concerned about her as well. Jack tried calling Mark again at the two-month-mark. No answer. Jack was afraid he died. Or got incarcerated. Or worse. He was becoming frightful of the situations. Until suddenly, they saw his car in the dorm parking lot.  -"wait.. isn't that his car?" Wade said randomly in between their battle of wits. They all turned to see Mark's car. Except it was covered in different forms of colored powder. They all looked at each other with the same dawning conclusion before they all sprinted across the lot to the dorms. They ran up the stairs until they reached Jack's dorm. They threw open the door to see Mark suddenly there. In front of the couch. With a small duffel bag in hand.  -"Mark!" Ashley exclaimed as she hugged him. He smiled and hugged her back. Tiffany followed, as did Bob. Mark even pulled Wade in for a hug. But as Jack hugged Mark, his heart suddenly crumpled at what Mark whispered next: -"I hate you." Mark whispered. ===============================================================================   Tiffany was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. They found out nearly a week after Mark's visit. Stress was the cause. They forced Tiffany to reduce half of her voluntary activities and projects to help her. Jack had gone to her and stayed in her dorm a lot. Wade and Bob were worried since Mark was not saying anything about it. Mark became good friends with Wade again but he rarely spoke to Jack. This reached it's sad tipping point at dinner. -"So, what're you getting Jack?" Bob asked.  -"Uh... I might get tha fried chicken. Not feeling hungry." Jack said, quieter than usual. -"oh.. alright.. What about you Mark?"  -"same as Jack. But I ate a couple hours ago so.." Mark shrugged. "Jack are you sure you're okay?" Mark asked, placing a hand on Jack's shoulder. Everybody saw Jack flinch violently when Mark softly place his hand there.  -"p-please don't touch me there.." Jack whispered. Ashley placed her hand on Jack's arm when he flinched again. She quickly rolled up his sleeve and saw near black bruises on his arms. Everyone stared gawk-eyed at them. -"I'm not feeling hungry anymore." Jack said. Mark didn't move out of the booth when Jack tried. -"Mark. Please move.." he said. Mark shaked his head and Jack suddenly glared at him. -"I'm going to do what ya did best and disappear without a trace, Mark. Move." He snapped. Mark's eyes flashed a hurt sense to them. He moved as Jack shoved past him. Ashley glared at Mark who hunched his back. -"I'll go talk to him." Ashley said. Mark moced out again but soon joined her. They apologized for the drama and said they'll be back shortly to Bob, Wade and Tiffany. As they walked outside to follow the man in the blue jacket, they saw a group of guys pin him against the wall behind the restaurant. -"Hey faggot." One of them sneered. -"Where do you think you going?" Another said.  -"get out of my way, guys." Jack said. They laughed and shoved him agaisnt the wall hard where he gasped in pain. ashley held Mark back praying they don't make a scene.  -"you aint got nobody to protect you again! Not your boytoy, Fischbach. Not your friends. And not ittie bitty Felix" they taunted. The all laughed at the end and both Mark and Ashley had it.  -"HEY!" Mark called out. Jack's eyes widened at them. They laughed and snickered. One of them pulled out a knife. -"c'mere pretty boy" one of them sneered. Mark swung at him before feeling the e blade slash against his arm. He hissed in pain and was kicked to the ground next to Jack. -"Hey darlin'" one said, smirking at Ashley. She swung her hand and smacke him across the face. He turned his head back before swinging his fist which he wistfully dodged. She spun and kicked him with the heel of her foot backwards. The one with the knife charged at her, she dodged him and pulles out a small lipstick that she uncapped. They laughed at her before she swung the small cosmetic and it smeered on of their mouths. He cougjed and sputted and she punched him in the gut. He swung his fist and hit her against the temple where she stumbled backward slightly. She laughed. -"my tuurrnnn" she said sweetly. She kicked her leg up and kicked him square in the jaw where he was KO'd. She turned at swiped her lipstick at the guy and it hit his eye. He groaned in pain and she took his knife, throwing it awat weekly. He aimed to hit Ashley in surprise as she turned around when Wilford caught it mid swipe. -"don't touch them. Ever." He said as he easily broke the poor guy's wrist. The guy crumpled and fell. She hugged him and he hugged back. But then the mustache fell and Mark was back. His nose bleeding a little.  -"W-why did you do that?" Jack asked silently as he leaned against the wall. -"Because we care." Mark said. Ashley smiled at them. -"No you don't..." Jack said. Mark sighed  -"Jack.. I'll probably always hate you deep down for doing that to me. I was hurt. I chose to disappear and it did me some good. I was happy. And when I got that message.. I was angry...and happy... I'm so proud of you for puttinf yourself first... but why couldn't you just let me help too?" Mark said. Jack was staring at him. He looked down at the ground saying nothing in shame. Ashley led them to the restaurant again where they arrived and saw their food ordered. Ashley quickly summarized what happened. Wade stared at her in awe. -"With just lipstick?!" He asked in bewilderment.  She nodded her head. They ate their food then got the check and left. As they walked back to their dorms and said goodnights to each other. Jack went with Mark back to their dorm. Jacc shivered a little and wrapped his arms around him as they walked up the stairs. They entered the dorm and were about to retire to seperate rooms when Jack walked into Mark's. -"to answer your question fron earlier.." Jack said suddenly. Mark put down his book and looked at Jack expectantly. -"it's because someone I used to know said they would help me...and..instead they made it worse and I didn't want that happening to me again.." Jack said shyly. Mark nodded his head. -"I wouldn't do that to you, Jack.." Mark said sincerely and lovingly. Jack crawled across Mark's small bed and layed his head on Mark's chest. Mark held him as they fell asleep like they used to. Mark kissed his head and Jack smiled. As he drifted off to sleep, Mark's heart was slowly repairing. -"you wouldn't do that... but Jason did.." Jack whispered. And then Jack fell asleep. Chapter End Notes Woops. Anywhore, Comment below if you want me to start wraaping it up or continuing the story and hopefully not kill off anybody else? LUV YA, FAM. LUV YA. ***** Till The Day I Die ***** Chapter Summary Some people say that movie stars burn bright, it might just be true. Jack has a dream that feels so real. Could he stop the forecoming? Or will he watch his friends fall. I LOVE CHEESY SUMMARIES. They're just to DIE for! *bdm-tss* [i know this is late on it's update but shhh. Read, my child.] Chapter Notes THX FOR THE KUDOS AND COMMENTS Btw, I have never been to UCLA or seen the campus so bear with me! **WARNING** Smut. Af. Bc sweg. And bc we all kno you angsty children have been waiting for it ; ) And. Maybe. MajorCharacterDeath ._. See the end of the chapter for more notes -"JACK!!" she screamed on the burning stage. Jack was slowly standing up. She was laying on the stage. Mark was leading people through the exit. The other girl was on the balcony, screaming in agony as the floor beneath her began crumbling slowly. -"JACK PLEASE. PLEAAASSEEE!!!" They shouted as the balcony suddenly collapsed and the stage lights crashed in a fiery blaze on the stage.  -"NOOOOO-- ===============================================================================   --OOOOOO!!!" Jack shouted, jolting awake from his sleep. -"Babe! Babe. It's okay. It's okay. You're with me now. It's okay... it is okay.." Mark whispered, holding Jack. Jack clutched onto Mark's arm desperately. He felt tears spilling down his cheek. He wiped them away as best as he could. He felt Mark hug him tightly and then he finally relaxed. He looked over and saw Mark's computer near the edge of the bed, open on a word program. He smiled weakly at Mark's late night homework assignment. -"Sorry.." Jack said, suddenly. Mark shool his head and placed a kiss on his forehead. -"don't ever be sorry for things you can't control. Like random nightmares." Mark stated. Jack nodded his head wearily.  They had been together again for a while now. After Jack's sudden remembrance of Jason, Mark stuck to his side. Mark and Jack dated a few times again before Mark officially forgave him. Jack was so happy about it. Jack took therapy before finally putting that to an end.  -"Want to tell me what it was about?" Mark asked, untangling each other from their grips. -"oh.. something stupid.. some stage was on fire and.. Ashley and Tiffany almost died.." Jack said, quietly.  -"Woah. Freaky." Mark said. They sat there for a while before Jack grabbed Mark's laptop. the American stared at Jack. He was typing things in before he gave Mark back the device. He type half of his essay and fixed it. Mark marveled at it before turning and kissing Jack. They giggled a little before Mark pressed in a little more. Jack opened his mouth, accepting Mark's tongue to add in the mix. Their kiss was slow and breathy. Jack took it up a notch and leaned backward against the bed, Mark looming over his smaller frame. Mark grinded down once, Jack now fully aware of his member being excited. Jack gave Mark a gentle push with his hand on his chest. Mark looked down, hair falling down a little like a curtain. Jack slowly took off his shirt, Mark's muscular arms on both sides of Jack's head. Mark followed suit and then Jack pulled him down for more. Their mouths battling for a more heated kiss. -"M-mark.." Jack gasped as the mentioned man suddenly began kissing down Jack's neck. Jack squirmed under his touch, hands drifting across the bedsheets. They found their way to Mark's shoulders where he pressed him closer and wrapped his legs limply around the buffer man's hips, bringing him down more. Mark made some frictiom between his shorts and Jack's pyjama pants. Mark sucked on the Irishman's jugular, before lightly biting it. Lapping over the darkening skin lightly. Mark leaned straight up and looked down at Jack. The dark bruises littering his body, (thankfully) fading away. Mark suddenly realized he made a hickey on Jack's neck and was afraid Jack would think he hurt him. -"oh. God. You're bruises-- Oh shit. I forgot. I didn't mean to--" -"Mark.. stop. Please.. I wouldn't mind a few bites and hickeys here and there..." Jack said caringly. Mark looked hesitant at first before Jack brought him down and whispered in his ear. -"Marking me as yours is something I've dreamed of for a while..." Jack murmured. He bit Mark's ear lightly, sending the signals directly to their excited friends. Mark slid down slowly and began making small kisses along his neck and down to his chest. Jack's back arched at the touch and Mark smiled. He licked lightly at his nipplr which caused Jack to yelp and grab Mark's hair. The tug made Mark ecstatic and he quickly bit onto Jack's nipple. A moan came in response.  -"Mark.. keep this up a-and-- oooohhh Fok.." Jack moaned as Mark grinded their hips again.  -"What was that, Jackaboy?" Mark asked in the deep voice that he remembered Jack loved.  -"Fff ookkk. I'll be done sooner than ya if- if. Oh Maarrkkk" Jack moaned out his name rolling his R's in his accent that made Mark go insane. He slid down leaving a few Mark's before reaching Jack's happy trail. He smelled Jack's skin right above his waistband which consisted of soap and chocolate. Mark smiled and pulled down the pants slowly, the very visible bulge almost tearing through the fabric. Mark purposefully breathe hard against it, receiving three little jumps. He snickered and looked up at Jack, completely broken.  -"Fok.." was all Jack said. He looked down and nearly exploded at seeing Mark drag down his boxers with his teeth, his cock slapping him loudly once released. "Don't be shy, Mark." Jack said with a voice he didn't even recognize. Mark smirked at his sexy talk and trailed his tongue along his long shaft. He reached the head swirled his tongue around the precum. Jack shivered at the feeling and pullednon Jack's hair. Mark swooped down and took all eight inches doen swiftly. Jack marveled at the sight and then Mark rose, making a loud pop. A satisfying smile across his face. -"Not bad.. but we both know I'm bigger.." Mark said, smirking at Jack. -"Oh for FOKS SAKE. If you leave me like this just to compare our fookin dicks I will leave you without sex for a decade." Jack exclaimed. Mark knew he wasn't serious but he didn't want to risk it. He went down and began pumping with his hand the bottom and sucking the top. Jack moaned out words in his native language that turned Mark on even more. Mark sped up his speed and felt Jack tugginf at his hair endlessly. He felt a sharp tug and rose his head to see Jack exhaling a deel breath he was holding in. -"i am not.. going out.. too soon.." he murmured. Mark flipped Jack on the bed slowly before he pulled off the pyjama pants off entirely. Jack rose his body up and was on his hands and knees. -"Good little slut." Mark muttered. Jack whined. Mark knew he had no filtee when it came to getting down to the hanky hanky, stanky panky...but he couldn't care less at the moment. He found lube and poured an even amount on his fingers before teasing Jack, who hissed at the feeling of the cold substance on his hole. Mark circled around before throwing in one finger. Jack eased through the pain of the small burn as Mark slid in. Mark slid around and Jack felt so high on the feeling. Sooner than expected, Mark slid in a second finger and scissored him open a little. Jack gasped at the feeling and involuntarily clenched. Mark opened hos fingers harder and Jack moaned. As Marl threw in a third, Jack gasped when he curled his fingers then hitting that sweet spot. -"you like that, baby?" He asked in a heated tone. Jack nodded his head quickly and then whined at the sudden loss of contact when Mark pulled out all three fingers. He gave himself some lube as he dropped his boxers and workout shorts before slipping in. Jack gasped at the feeling. -"You like this?" Mark growled. Jack moaned out in response, Mark leaned down and gave him a sloppy kiss before leaning next to his ear. "Cause I'm not even halway through.." Mark said in that deep baritone voice. Jack made a deep whining noise in his throat. Mark slammed all the way in and made Jack shout in pleasure. Jack has had sex with Mark plenty, but this time it was so much more than that. Mark went in slow and steady, making Jack try throwing himself back on him. Mark smirked before picking up the pace. Each thrust making Jack gasp or curse softly. Mark leaned down and kissed Jack, who wrapprd his arms around his neck. Mark lifted Jack off the bed efortlessly, the latter jumping onto Mark's hard-on. Mark was grunting and moaning at the sensation. His cock going deep inside Jack, Jack's own dick sliding against his abs creating friction for him and the sound of their soft moans and skin smacking against each other making Mark savor this moment.  -"'M close, Mark.. 'm so closee.." Jack moaned out. Mark took control and began thrusting into Jack fiercely. The younger man moaning at the sudden change of pace making sweet music to the other's ears. Suddenly, the irishman came onto their chests violently. Both shouting each other's names as the other followed soon after. They fell over each other on the bed. Mark smiled a little before slowly picking Jack up. They clambered toward the shower where they stood. Jack and Mark washed each other. They shared kisses and sweet nothings, then they slid under the covers, Mark's essay long gone on his laptop on the floor. They slept together, Mark spooning Jack closely as if he was afraid he would run away again. ===============================================================================   -"You two legit need to get enougg sleep sometimes-- WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. JESUS CHRIST MAY HE FORBID OUR SOULS. OH MY GOD. I CAN'T UNSEE THAT. THE WORLD IS CLOUDED AND DARKENED--!!!" Ashleu said, walking into the room, pulling at the bedsheets then shouting away. -"I need to record her to make an alarm on my phone..." Jack said as he slowly sat up. Mark's morning wood was slowly deflating and he sat up with Jack, hair a large bright red/orange mess.  -"COME GET SOME BAGELS, YA NASTIES" Ashley shouted from the small living room. They chuckled before finding their clothes strewn on the floor. They walked in simultaneously where Tiffsny raised a suspicious eyebrow at them and Ashley stared at the wall opposing them. -"are they naked." Ashley asked. -"Yes. Don't look. Oh my lord, Penises! Penises everywhere!!" Tiffany exclaimed in faux drama. Ashley turned around and flipped her hair, eyeing them down before smirking. -"so who's the top?" She asked. -"ASHLEY, OH MY GOD." Tiffany exclaimed, smacking her arm. The other girl laughed at her remark and the boys blushed. They sat down and grabbed a few bagels from the bag.  -"did you do the essay for Ms. Jacobs?" Mark asked Ashley. She groaned. -"fuck. No. It's due during Tiffany's class so I can type it in Calc if it gets boring." She said. Tiffany rolled her eyes at them.  -"For the girl who gets her health at an all-time high, you sure know how to procrastinate" she remarked. Ashley scoffed. -"i haven't been gotten below a C since I got here. Suck a dick." Ashley replied, smiling to herself. -"careful, they might think of it as an offer rather than a statement." Tiffsny false whispered. Jack threw an empty cream cheese packet at her and she giggled.  ===============================================================================  They had gotten tickets to go see Tiffany and Ashley's big performance. Jack was putting on a simple button shirt and a best, but Mark was going with a classy shirt and tie with casual dress pants. Jack died at the sight. -"You've been quite a while Jack..." Mark said, looking over to him as they walked through the campus. Their hands intertwined and Jack's shoulders hunched up from the soft but sharp cold. Mark was walking casually. The night air casting a friendly feelong for them. -"it's cold as shite." He murmured. Mark barked out a sweet laugh and Jack smiled. He loved Mark's deep but pleasant laugh. They kept walking and saw plenty of other people walking down to the large auditorium. As they walked in, they handed in their tickets to the men and women inside the ticket booth. They found their seatd and sat down looking at the large red curtain. -"this better be a damn good show." A guy grumbled beside them. Jack rolled his eyes. There was distinct mumbling amd casual talking around them as the seats began to fill up. As the lights began to dim around them, a guy with a small scruff came up on stage. -"evening, children of the corn." He said. People laughed. "In case you haven't seen me around campus from my good looks and terrible jokes. I'm Ken Morrison." He said, a few people laughed at that. He smiled a little before going on and speaking about what the night would bring and then waaked backstage. The lights dimmed even more to cast them in a dark but present glow. The curtain slowly parted away and revealed three people surrounding a girl on the floor. -"we have to get rid of this body.." ===============================================================================   Mark and Jack watche in fascination at the play. It was all about misfortuned teenagers who hit someone with their car and have to live with the constant paranoia. It was empowering. Apparently, Ashley was the girl who got hit by the car but reappears countless times to "haunt" her friends. Tiffany was playinf the only sane girl in the group who freaks out randomly right when everyone else is calming down. It was kind of funny. -"We could burn the body!" One of the actors shouted. Ken. -"yes! I read online that it'll make their spirit go away!" Tiffany exclaimed on stage.  -"alright alright. We'll get the torches, you go make sure nobody's at the park where we buried her." Another actor, playing the paranoid jock. They all split up and the curtain drew together again for a scene change. It reopened a minute or two later to reveal the "woods in the park". They were digging up Ashleys supposedly and then Ken brought in a torch with actual fire. -"is that even allowed?" Jack asked suddenly. Mark shrugged but was still entranced with the show in front of them. They "lit" Ashley's body on fire and they all stood together watching her spirit drift away. She appeared on the stage and said some cheesy line about freeing her mind from her body. Then the curtains drew together and the show ended. The audience applauded and began began shuffling out slowly. As Mark stood up, stretched and wrapped his fingers into Jack's, everyone heard screaming coming from behind the curtain. Jack saw small slow movements under the curtain and looked closer to see. Then he realized it wasn't people, but fire catching on the hem of the red curtain. -"SOMEBODY HELP!!!" someone shouted. Mark was in panic mode and begab leading he and Jack down the aisle and towards the stage. They saw water anf fire extinguishers appear and they felt at ease. As they turned around, however, the curtain suddenly came crashing down, catching fire all over again. -"JACK." Tiffany shouted as she was trapped under one of the rods of the curtain on her leg. Jack was about to reach out when a karge light fell down and smashed right beside Tiffany, causing the fire to burn brighter and higher. She started screaming for help. Jack turned around to get Mark to help him with Tiffany but he was running down the center aisle to lead people out of here. Jack turned back to look at the other actors coughing and running away. Ashley and Ken were lowring the balcony but the fire spread underneath them, where one of the props began to catch fire on the balcony. -"SOMEBODY HELP!!!" Ken shouted again. Ashley was frantically pulling the cords to lift the balcony but it reached it's highest point. She and Ken held onto each other as the flames flicked dangerously beneath them. Tiffany was still shouting. Jack remembered his dream and started to run for the stage when he saw the flames getting closer to her. With the sudden adrenaline, he lifted the bar as much as he could to let Tiffany slide out. -"holy fuck. Jack, thank you so--" -"Jak? JACK!!" Ashley shouted. Jack began running towards the balcony when a light fell and crashed onto his head. Tiffany began screaming his name, Mark succesfully got everyone out of the building and was running back in to see most of the stage in flames. He even saw some of the ceiling catching on fire. Then the entire stage, with lights, steel rods and all, came crashing down along with some of the ceiling. Mark shouted their names but was met with flames spewing around the front row seats. Then the balcony crashed over Tiffany and Jack.  Chapter End Notes I warned you I'd get carried away. How do you think of it so farrr?? '-' ***** Burn 'Em Down ***** Chapter Summary When the bass drops... apparently so does the auditorium. Major Character Death Self-Deprivation Chapter Notes Wilford is such a nice person.... Or is he. '-' *cough* *sobbing* I had to... I'm so sorry... See the end of the chapter for more notes Ashley slowly woke up, feeling pain on most of her body. She turned her head and saw Jack a few feet away from her. She coughed a little as she sat up. There was burned debri all around her. She saw a few flickering flames in the distance beside her. She tried to sit up but felt an large weight on her leg. She turned abruptly and saw a large piece od the balcony was dangerously pressing into her skin, almost enough to penetrate if she dragged it against the white metal. She winced in pain as she tried to reposition herself without injuring her leg. -"Sir, we cannot get through that much debri containing that many wires and electrical outlets. It's dangerous--" -"But they're in there! I swear!" Someone shouted above the other's voice. -"Sir, have you checked the--" -"YEs. For the love of anythinf holy I did check the goddam crowd. And I saw them get crushed and buried beneath that debris! They're in there! I know it...I just know it.." the voixe said. Mark..that's who it was. -"Fine. We'll check." The other man said. Mark gave him praise and Ashley was grateful. She slowly took note of her surroundings. She heard someone stirr and groan in pain. -"h-hello?" He called out. Was it Ken? -"K-ken? I-is that you?" Ashley asked, blindly. The voice groaned and she heard small shifting of movements. -"o-oh god.." Ashley heard. She triednto search where the voice was cominf from but he had no clue to where it was. -"N-no. But.. I see a load of blood a-and I can't find my.. where's my--? Ah shit. I lost my headset!" The voice said. Ashley muttered in frustration about how screwed she was.  -"I-is that Ashley?" The voice asked. -"yeah.. who are you?" She tempted, deciding best to get to know the person before assing for help. -"my name is Issa.. [Twaimz Asf].. but they call me Twaimz..." he muttered. Ashley recognized the person now. He was the alternate to helping her direct the play.  -"Issa! Hi. Uh, do you know elwhere Tiffany o-or Ken is?" She asked. She heard Jack stirr beside her. -"No." Was all she got for a reply. She cursed under her breath. She heard lots of running suddenly. -"I heard someone! Let's search boys!" A gruff voice shouted. Then there were multiple running footsteps departing from where she heard them outside of the covered and ash stained debri. She tried to look through small crevices but saw nothing excepy a few spared red seats. She looked up and felt a pang of something in her stomach. She saw the ceiling almost bent, slowly but surely crumbling little by little. Then lots of loose wires sparking silently and weakly, the light holder was dangerously low, probably six feet above her head. She saw Jack start to sit up, and he groaned before taking notice of what was around him. -"Ashley?! Is that--" -"BOSS, WE CAN'T FIND A WAY IN. WE'LL NEED TO WRECK IT!" Someone shouted farther away. -"DO WHAT YOU MUST BUT KEEP THOSE SURVIVORS SURVIVIN'!" The gruff voice called back. -"THERE'S THREE OF US, SO FAR!" Issa shouted. Then they heard clanging and scuffling. -"how the fookin shite did we end up--" -"Jack, don't...move...your foot." Ashley warned, wide-eyed. Jack looked at his foot and it was literally trapped under a small steel bar, which held up some of the balcony, which help up some of the wires and cables right above them. If he moved his foot, this entire section of debris would come falling down like sand. -"christ.." he gasped. He tried his best not to move his foot. -"help steer this dam bar off my leg, wouldja?" She asked. He nodded hos head and very slowly inched towards her, careful not to move his foot all too much. He finally made it and used all his muscle strength, and by the judge of the veins and muscles showing on his torn sleeves, he gotten the bar to bend slightly away from her leg. She let out a breath of relief and Jack hasped for air, clearly holding it in during the process. He looked down at his bloodied arms and pant legs. He sighed. Ashley looked around and almost had a heart attack at seeing something she didn't before: a small hand underneath lots of metal and cable debris off the side. ===============================================================================   If you just weren't so persistent on going to the dam show. He's dead because of you, Mark. Dead. He won't love you if he makes it out alive. He won't. They'll never forgive you. All ya do is bring bad luck, Mark. That's all you've ever done. Just wait till the day he cuts himself to death, then that'll be your fault. The voices grew louder in Mark's head. He began panicking a little. He was sitting on a bench a little ways far from the auditorium. No news yet.  Mark you're fucking pathetic.  Kill yourself, Fischbach. Save everyone the pain of hearing and seeing you again. Nobody loves you. Hey, imbecile. Remember Jason? Yeah, that's your fault. You're a burden to your family. Your friends. To Jack. Pathetic waste of space.  Ugly Fag. Pussy. Sissy McGee. Worthless. Whore. Asian. Dumbass. Fucker. Bitch Ass Hoe. Mark was breathing harshly. Maybe he was all those things.. He's dead because of you, Mark. HE'S DEAD! 'Mark..?' That last voice... that was Jack's... 'you left me to die, Mark.. why wuld ya do that? I thought you loved me.' Mark felt his airway tighten. 'I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME'  And Mark woke up. He was laying on the bench. His neck hot and sweaty, the night still dark and cold. He turned to see most of the crowds of people gone from the auditorium but a few lingered.  He sighed in relief. He walked towards the auditorium and was confronted with firefighters runninf around frantically -"we found surviviors!" A worker shouted as he ran past the group of students. Everyome clapped and sighed in relief. Mark was staring happily at where they just came from. But suddenly, Mark was met with a sudden growing headache. He stumbled backward a little and a randim student walked over and touched his shoulder. -"hey.. are you okay?" She asked worriedly. A man with a pink mustache looked up at her and smiled. -"Yeah...I'm fine.." Wilford said smiling all too brightly. He walked around to the back of the building and slid into one of the doors that led inside. He walked and hid past the firemen and carefully made his way to the stage and large amounts of debris.  -"helllooo??" He asked in a singsong voice. "Is Anybody there?", he asked. -"Hello?!" Someone shouted back. He smiled. He walked over to the noise and found a young man trapped under large amounts of debris. "Oh thank God! These fireguys have been tryinf to get me out and it's getting hard. And as they left to get more shit I wiggle myself out. C-can you help?" Ken asked. -"sure!" Wilford replied, all too happily. As he walked over casually to Ken, he stood in front of the debris and began to help him out when before he almost popped out, he stopped. -"dude! Almost there, just-- one.. more.. hmmph! Ah. Thanks man..." Ken said as he tugged himself out. He slowly got off the stage and dusted himself, checking for injuries when he felt something strike the back of his head. -"Ow! Dude what was--" another strike to his jaw. He groaned in pain before feeling countless hits on his shoulder and back. Ken swung freely and Wilford caight his fist. -"woah! Calm down.. it's just me." He Said sincerely. -"someone just hit me!" Ken exclaimed, touching his shoulder gingerly. -"I know.." Wilford said. He swung his fist and hit him, throwing him off his feet and slamming the back of his neck onto the edge of the stage. A sad crack followed.  Ken layed limply on the ground, body leaning against the stage. Wilford got a few pieces of torn up wood and threw them over him. He found a large plank with fire on it im which he threw onto Ken. Wilford walled around taking his time to find a loose cable nearby and took it, pulling at it, before smashing it into the side of the stage and letting it spark to life and begin to light Ken on fire. He walked away, dusting off his hands with small renounce claps. He jumped onto the stage and began to climb his way through the debris. ===============================================================================  Ashley was sitting there, feeling sorry for herself and praying those damn Firemen would hurry up when they saw fire through a dmall crevice in the debris on the outside. -"ooh bitch, what's that." Issa said. Jack shrugged looking througg the small gap. Then they heard clanking and movement to their right. -"Woah. Wot?" Jack wondered as they looked around. Ashley points out a small shadow of a man climbing over another gap in the jorrid debris. They don't see it even thougg she swears she did. -"maybe it's a fireman?" Issa asked. Then some of the already tattered roof collapsed in a shower os dust and small stones as Wilford fell through. -"Wilford Warfstache to save the day." He beamed, hands on his hips. -"oh thank god!" Jack exclaimed. -"isn't that Mark? When did you get the pink mustache?" Issa asked. Wilford (shockingly) helped lift some of the balcony high enough for Ashley to let her leg slip out. Jack sighed in content and slipped out his foot, much of the debris crashing down where Ashley's foot just was. They were all dusting themseleves as Ashley crawled over to the hand, where she saw light pink nails painted. -"oh no.. Oh no no!" She muttered as she fell backwards, horror striking her face. Jack looked over at the hand and let his head drop down in sadness. -"Oh god. Is that--"  -"Oh god.. I think so.." Wilford said, in sympathy. They all sat there letting sorrow take over them before seeing the hand twitch twice. -"wha- sh-she's alive! GUYS SHE'S ALIVE!" Jack shouted. They all snapped their heads up to see the hand flexing it's finfers and hearing a steady groan from the other side of the debris.  -"Tiffany?!" Ashley exlcaimed nervously. They got a groan and a mumbled 'what in the sam hill' for a reply.  -"Oh thank GOD!" Issa said, exasperated. He wiped at his forehead in relief and sat down. But Wilford's sympathetic expression long fone replaced by sudden anger. -"oh for FUCKS SAKE." He shouted. Jack and Ashley's smiles wavered as they turned to look at Wilford. -"is something wrong--" -"YES. None of you cane fuckint DIE! Goddam!" He exclaimed, frustrated by the situation. -"what are you--"? Wilford did you-" -"Yes. I planned the entire thing. I texted Felix repeatedly and tricked him into sending nudes to a burn phone, then he died and Cry being the stupid baby he is died. Two birds with one stone!" Wilford said a little maniacally. "T- then, I got teachers to recommend Tiffsny and the stress was oh so much! Boo- hoo! So she almost died from being malnutritioned but NOOOoooo. You idiots saved her!" He scolded. Jack was quickly searching for a small object around him as Wilford rambled frustratedly. -"Are you fooking serio--" -"AND THEN, when you're bitch ass lied to him, I got Mark to drink his heart out and try to jump off a ckiff, BUT YOU SENT A FUCMING VOICEMAIL TELLING HIM EVERYTHING?!" He said, angry. "AND NOW. I tried to kill everyone, but being the goddam hero Mark always is, saved everyone.." he sneered. Then he chuckled darkly. "Or... at least he tried... to save everyone... now. He'll get to watch you all die." Wilford advanced towards them before Jack drove a small piece of glass into his leg. He shouted in pain as he scuttled past him, only to have his ankle stomped on by the standing man.  -"I knew we shouldn't have TRUSTED YOU!!" Ashley shouted as she slammed into him. He laughed before swinging her off him and into Issa. They both groanrd in pain as Wilford stalked towards them. Tiffany slowly gaining full consciousness saw them fighting and scratching and kicking. She slowly sat in her small space but looked up to see the moon shining down on her. Slowly but surely, she started slimbimg up the large gap of debris. -"Why. Can't. You. All. DIE!" Wilford shouted as he kicked mercilessly at Jack's closed figure. Jack threw his legs out and managed to knock Wilford off balance. He fell and slammed his head on the balcony whrre he fell. Jack slowly wobbled over to Issa and Ashley when they saw a large piece of metal and roof fall between them. They looked up, coughing from the sudden dust and ash clouds, to see Tiffany standing there, holding her arm, injured. She motioned with her good arm and they simply began climbing up the small ramp of metal and roof. Issa helped them both up and they scowered around more pieces of debris until they saw more slants of roof piled over each other which led out of the auditorium. They began climving weakly up those when they hesrd the Firemen cheering them on as they entered the building, with now pointless gear. As they made it to the roof the took in large gulps of air, freed from the clouded ash and dust. They smiled to each other, but then Ashley felt a hand pull her backward. She stumbled and fell backwards, rolling down to the edge they just climbed up from on the largely and slanted broken roof of the auditorium. She caught herself rifht before falling off the edge.  -"ASHLE--!" Issa shouted before being held by the throat and eassly tossed aside, rollinf towards the girl. He layed, coughing, beside Ashley on the edge of the large hole of the roof. -"Wilford! S-stop!" Jack pleaded as said man began stalking towards the remaining two, drying blood on the side of his head.  -"You know what they say, Jackaboy!" He said, laughing all too crazy as he walked towards the green and purple haired students. "If you want something done.." he said as he shoved Jack sideways. "You do it yourself." he growled. He grabbed Tiffany's injured wrist and twisted it, causing a screaming reaction from her. He grabbed her tattered shirt and began moving them closer to the edge of the building. People took noticed and gasped, the moon being so bright in the sky it showed shadow figures up on the roof instead of distinct people. -"Have a nice fall" he said, letting go of her and giving her a light shove. She gasped as she felt herself tip backwards. Jack grabbed Wilford's shoulder and with all his might threw him, sprawling backwards and caught Tiffany's flailing good arm. He caught her and used more of his strength to pull her back into a straight position. She stumbled into him and they toppled over each other. Then Ashley gave Wilford a clean kick on his stomach. He grabbed her foot and yanked her, gradually making her lose her balance. He clambered over her and smacked her. Tiffany stood up reluctantly and shoved Wilford off. -"Tiffany.." Jack said as he sat up, but Wilford already had her again and was carrying her by her shirt once again to the edge of the hole. Issa charged but he stook out his fist in which the smaller boy ran into on accident. Wilford let go and Tiffany fell. -"TIFFANY!!" Issa shouted. Ashley was staring at his mischievous and evil smile before seeing a hand grab his ankle and he looked down, fear hitting him. -"you're coming down with me.!" She said as she threw Wilford off balance and he fell, now he was dangling on the edge. Tiffany lifted herself as best she could with Issa's help. She looked down and saw the pink mustache suddenly gone. -"n-no. P-please!" Mark pleaded. She looked down at him in pity. She noddeddher head slowly and let out a sob in short relief that Wilford was gone. She feel to her knees awhile Ashley and Jack struggled lifting him up. The five sat there comprehending the events. Then...the roof began rumbling. Lighy, then roughly. Mark graabed Jack's wrist and launched himself far to telhe edge of the building. Issa threw himself after them and Tiffany clutched onto Ashley's arm as the rood began collapsing. Asskey hung there, over lots of dangerous and rocky debris.  -"Tiff.. you're going to fall." Ashley said, desperately. -"w-what?! No! I won't let you go!" Tiffany exclaimed. -"Tiffany. Let me go.." Ashley replied, smiling a little. Tiffany was hopelessly holding on, not daring letting go of Ashley. She was smiling at her and Ashley looked down before looking back up. -"GIRLS! CMON!!" Mark shouted as he sat on the edge with the other boys. The firemen had a trampoline ready at the base of the auditorium, the moonlight making it glow pearly white.  -"Tiffany...go live your life..." -"W-we promised!" She cried out loud. "We'd love each other till the day we die! All of us!" Tiffany sobbed. -"I've got a lot of loose ends I should tie up, Tiff. And sometimes.." Ashley explained, tesrs fillinf her eyes. "..sometimes we gotta burn a few bridges down." Tiffany was still holding on as tight as she could eith her injured and good arms.  -"GIRLS!" Jack shouted as Issa jumped first -"Burn them down for me, Tiffany. Burn 'em down.." she said, smiling. Tiffany held on as she was realizing she wasn't going to hold on much longer. She let out a breathy sob. -"I have never asked for much more.." Ashley sang, dearly. Tiffany laughed a little. -"and in m-my heart I will always be strong.." the other girl continued.  -"i will never forget you.." they sang together, tuninf out the desperate pleas and yells from Mark as he was the last to jump down.  -"Tiffany? What're you.. No. OH GOD NOO!!!" He shouted. -"and you said you'd always be by my side..." they sang. Tiffany held on for dear life as he slipped her shoes off and let her body weight slide off the edge of the roof, down with her best and closest friend. -"till the day I d--" Loud echoes of bodies tumbling was heard through the empty auditorium. And then there was silence. Chapter End Notes I CRIED WRITING THIS. OH MY GODM WHAT HAVE I DONE ╮(╯•╰)/ ~┴┴ ***** Keyword? She Was. ***** Chapter Summary A Funeral. A Kiss. A Hoe. There's also a bunny involved to make you cry some more.   Read it, Luv it, Cry about it. Chapter Notes So I LEGITIMATELY DID A COIN FLIP TO SEE WHO'D DIE. I'M SORRY. I LUV YU ALL. See the end of the chapter for more notes -"Would you do her Eulogy?" Jack asked. Mark was at his side, holding his hand. Mark had two stiched near his temple and on his leg. Jack had ankle tights for his sprained ankle, three stitches on his arm and a large piece of gauze or something on his chest, shown by the V-neck he was wearing. The girl sighed and looked down at the cast on her arm, felt the pain on her shoulder and the bandages covering her other arm and her legs. She nodded her head slowly. It's been a month since the "tragic fire". Bullshit. Wilford caused this. Mark practically ate his dam pills to keep Wilford at bay. The guys were doing fine but she was here. Paralyzed from the waist down. But only for a short while, accordinf to the damn doctors. She had nightmares seeing her best friend dying over and over. It was like fucking Until Dawn where they tumbled like the twins and then landed limply and unconsciously on the cold ground. But she survived. Why her? Ashley layed there, looking at her, remaining, friends.  -"i guess.. this is some bitter irony..." Ashley said. -"it's not your fault--" -"of course it is. If I just hadn't been quick enough, I could have made it to the edge and followed after you guys then we'd both be alive. But she's getting cremated and I'll be sitting in a wheelchair for the next two to three months. Fucking spectacular, aren't I?" She sneered. Jack held her wrist. She inhaled deeply before relaxing. -"we miss you too." Jack said. She looked down at Jack's wrists. White and faded scars. Good. But Mark's wrists were badly cut, violently too. Jack noticed her staring and he looked at Mark who was sadly looking between the two. -"i know...I just... I blame myself." Mark said. "I should've seen it sooner." He said, solemnly. Jack gave him a kiss on the cheek and got a small blush and smile in return. -"We saw Ken's memorial walk today on campus." Jack said. Ashley sighed, feeling tears begin to form. Ken died, apparently burned to death. By Wilford no doubt, but they said he was caught on fire by wooden debris and loose wires. Ken had the balls to ask out Ashley for real before the play. She said yes. -"for fucks sake. We've lost so many people. Ken, Tiff, Jason, Mat, Steph." Ashley said, sadly.  -"Felix and Cry.." Mark added. -"yeah..." she said. Jack nodded his head and they sat in a respective silence for their dead friends. Then Suzy walked in, carrying a decent sized tray of food. -"eat up, girl." Suzy said, placing it in front of her with the pull out tray table. Ashley clicked the remote which helped her sit up a bit more and she shifted her position, =============================================================================== wincing in pain a little. "And I got you two, some damn pretzels." She saidc tossing them two bags. She walked out, Mark laughing a little. -"Yeah. She's better than most nurses." Ashley said, looking at Jack who was staring at the bag of pretzels in his lap in awe and hunger. -"So....when do we pull you out of this hellhole?" Mark asked, placing his hand on her bed. -"HEARD THAT!" Suzy shouted as she passed by the room carrying varying clipboards.  -"soon. Probably a few more weeks, according to Suzy and Dr. Avidan." Ashley replied, shrugging. They stay there for a while, talking about things she might've missed but soon departed to get to class. She sighed and looked out the window, seeing clouds rolling in. She finished her food and took her pills, then layed back and tried to rest. ===============================================================================   -"that was a success, dontcha think?" Ken asked her. She scoffed. -"Obviously. Idirected it." Ashley said, flipping her hair dramatically. -"oh. Of course.." Ken replied giving a fake bow. She stiffled a giggle. They clambered up the small ladder behind the scene board and turned to face it on the balcony, beginning to take decorations off. -"oh my!" Someone shouted behind the curtain. -"pfft. Some hoe probably lost her mascara." Ashley said. Ken gave her an unamused look before they heard people shouting and running, both on their side of the curtain and the other. -"what in the hell.." Ken murmured as he turned and froze. -"ugh! Ken, give me a boost to lift off this petal--. Ken..." Ashley said annoyed as she turned to see him looking pale-faced behind her. She turned around to see what got him distracted and her jaw dropped. The curtain was on fire, it began a large fast stripe up one of the sides and hit the lights. Ashley squealed as she saw some of them swinging on it's metal stand. She looked down and saw many people trying to put it out but then the entire curtain came crashing down, trapping Tiffany's leg. She shouted in abrupt pain and a light came crashing down beside her. Ashley saw a few more lights practically hanging by a thread and she was shouting for help, spotting Jack. Said man began bounding up the side steps, but another light was dangerously swinging. She shouted at him but saw Ken trying to escaped when suddenly, she felt it. The heat of the fire catching onto the decor below the balcony. Ashley screamed with Ken as the balcony suddenly fell, falling onto Jack and Tiffany, but missing by a near foot. She slammed her head into the ground, feeling her eyes beginning to droop. She saw Ken, who must've tried jumpinf mid-crash, tumbling past more ceiling equipment that crashed. Then she heard cracking and booming as the roof began to collapse over them. She turned to see Tiffany crawling as strong as she could before she saw rubble crumble and crash over her. Ashley blacked out. ===============================================================================   Ashley. She sat up in the hospital bed, confused.  Ashley. She heard her name. -"Hello? Who's there." She demanded. Ash-Ash-Ashley. -"T-tiffany?" The girl asked, voice cracking a little. Why would you let me die, Ashley. Why would you do that?! -"n-no!" She said, tears forming in her eyes. "I wouldn't do that to you!" I THOUGHT WE WERE BEST FRIENDS! -"We were! We are! W-we still are." She said, whispering the last part. If I die... you're coming down with me!!! Ashley felt a hand grab hers and pull her off the bed. She was in a free-fall, the hand no longer holding her. She fell into a large pile and rolled down, back slamming and head colliding into the cold floor. She turned her head and saw a pile of bodies. Ken. Steph. Matthew. Jason. Felix. Cry. Jack. Mark. Tiffany. Her parents. Her teachers. -"OH MY-- GOD!" Ashley shrieked as she painfully scooted backwards. She felt her back hit something and looked up to see a giant Wilford. -"Some of you just never learn..." he said with a sigh. He picked her up easily before flinging her toward a curtain that was on fire. She Fell down hard on her back and looked up to the curtains on fire. Looks Like We Already Forgot You Ashley stared in horror before feeling hands wraps around her arms and dragging her backwards. -"no! NO STOP! STOP!" she shouted. Mark and Jack were carrying her, not respondong before lifting her and throwing her down another free-falling abyss. A scream left in her wake. ===============================================================================   -"--Sweetheart, wake up!" Her mother suddenly shouted, clutching her shoulders with a frightenend expression on her face.  -"m-mom?" Ashley asked before hugging her tightly. -"so that's Evelyn.." her father said at the door to Mark, Jack and Wade. -"Dad?"she asked, voice wrecked with a wet sob forming.  -"Hi sweetie.." he said smiling at her. She clutched at the bedsheets tightly and rubbed her skin mindlessly against the edge of it, directly on her wrists. -"We need to talk to her about uhm. School and what the teachers were offering to do for her..uhm..disability." Jack suddenly cut in. Her mother looked confused, asking why they needed the room. -"Well..um. you see.. they want her to make the decision..not anybody else. So we're afraid that you might impact the decision or somethinf.." Mark said, joining Jack. -"well, we can sit and be quiet." Her father said. Evelyn nodded her head and stood by her husband. Jack suddenly quietly panicked but then looked at Ashley. -"so the wheelchair has to be--" -"They're making her GO TO SCHOOL?!" She suddenly exclaimed. -"okay, nevermind. We'll wait out here." He said, taking her and leading them outside closing the door. Mark let out a breath and crossed over to Ashley and held her wrists. -"wait what? Guys what's going --" -"Don't do it. Don't. Just.. fight the urge. Think about the ocean. Or something that keeps you calm.." Mark said, pleadingly. Ashley was confused before Jack suddenly rolled his eyes. -"don't cut, Ash. That's all we ask. I went down that road and.. I almost lost the love of meh life." Jack said, smiling at Mark whole-heartedly. -"and I'm ..recovering.. and I don't want to lose anybody else.." Mark added. Ashley retracted her wrists and nodded her head.  -"but seriously, they said the wheelchair better not break in tha middle of yer trips around campus or else they could be charged. So we had to switch some of yer schedule just so one of us, yer fokin knights in shinin' armor, can keep ya in sights at all times." Jack notified her. Then her parents walked back in. -"Jackson, we have to tell her." Evelyn said, clutchinf his hand. -"fine... Ashley... I just.. baby we want you to know.. that--" -"We've gone to groups that have helped us with our drinking habits.." Evelyn cut in, beaming. -"You're parents are alcoholics?" Mark asked. -"Were. We were alcoholics." Jackson cut in, smiling. -"oh thank the lord.." Ashley said. -"Aaalright! Guess who stole you the newest wheelchair!" Suzy said as she walked in wheeling said chair. -"Oh, who's this?" Evelyn asked. -"My friend..she's helped me out." Ashley replied, smiling at Suzy.  -"Oh. What type of friend?" Jackson asked, giving a not-so subtle eyebroe at Ashley.  -"see this? I'm married." Suzy said waving her ring around. -"oh congrats." Mark said, appreciating it. "Where'd you get it?" -"Arin got it for me at that jewelry store after Rodeo Drive." She said as she helped Ashley swing her immobile legs onto one side of the bed.  -"oh. That's a pretty great store.. next to the ice cream shop, right?" Jack said, trying to make conversation. -"Exactly." She replied, smiling at them. Mark and Suzy helped Ashley get settles into the chair and she immediately got comfortable. -"I can die in this. Oh my god." Ashley gasped. "Did you check it out under my name?" -"christ, that's what I forgot! B R B!!" She exclaimed as she bolted out of the room. Everyone laughed. ===============================================================================   -"MARK!" Jack shouted as he carefully folded the omelette.  -"WAT" he shouted back. He heard those familiar footsteps coming behind him before feeling a pair of arms wrap around his waist and a scruffy stubble scratch his neck slightly. -"glad to see yer hungry." Jack said, chuckling. -"'m not hungry. Just love your food." Mark mumbled. Jack giggled as Mark began kissing his neck. -"oh... maarrk.. mark. Mark." Jack demanded. He stopped."not while I'm at tha fokin s-stoovvee" he moaned. Mark gave him a small hickey above his collarbone.  -"You know ya love it. I just wanted to leave one more." Mark said as he strode away to put on a shirt. -"As if ye haven't already!" Jack called back at him, smiling fondly of the night before. They situated themselves to a familiar routine. Wake up, Mark goes to class, Jack stays and does anything, they visit Ashley, go eat lunch, come back and play games (or with each other ;D), visit again then Jack goes to his two classes and Mark goes to his after the Irishman's. Return, kiss, sleep. Repeat. -"Don't forget! Today's the 10th!" Mark shouted. Jack nodded his head before realizing what he said. It was the 10th. The 10th of December. The day Ashlry gets to come back. "Did you forget?!" -"SHUT UP, MATE." Jack shouted, embarassed by the truth. "How'd you remember?"  -"your calendar at your desk. By the way, what's this little box.." Mark said. Jack froze and bolted to their bedroom, ignoring the omelette. -"Mark please don't open the--" Jack began to warn before he entered the room and was too late. Mark was staring down at it with wide eyes and then he closed it and put it back, turninf his eyes to Jack. -"you said you'd stop--" -"I did. I have. I have...but I keep them there just.. j-just in case." Jack mumbled.  -"just in case? Jack.. you can't keep doing this.. if you do then I'll--" -"Leave me?" Jack asked. Mark looked at him in bewilderment.  -"what? No! I'd join you." Mark said. Jack's heart beat quickened. Did he hesr what Mark just said correctly? -"mark.. you're not serious. Are ye?" He asked, praying he was wrong. -"yes. I am. For every one you do.. I'll add one too." Mark stated, walking towards Jack. -"mark I haven't even... Mark I'm fine--" -"Do you love me?" Mark asked, suddenly. -"wha... Makr of course I love you." Jack said, offended. -"what's my favorite color?" He asked. -"Green!" -"favorite animal?" -"Me.." Jack said, trying for a joke. Mark cupped Jack's face slightly. -"d-do you think I love you?" Mark asked, bottom lip threatening to tremble. Honestly, Jack didn't even know. Did he? -"are you saying ye don't?" Jack asked, scared for his next answer. Mark kissed him slowly and calmly before looking at his eyes again. -"would I kiss you like this if I didn't?" He asked in a whisper. Jack shook his head absentmindedly and placed his arms around Mark's waist and pulled him in closer until their lips connected again. Mark slowly slid his hands of the greee haired man's face and down to his back. They held each other as their kiss remained smooth and passionate. They broke apart for air, taking small short breaths to not ruin the bubble they've trapped themselves in. -"I Love You." Mark said, looking into the calming stormy, ice blue eyes that Mark came to fall in love with. -"and I Love You" Jack replied, his arms beginning to slip off his waist.  -"Something's burning.." Mark said as Jack kissed him again. Then he was gone in a flash as he went to the kitchen and shouted a strinf of Irish curses. Mark chuckled and covered the box under the small set of papers he found them under.  -"BREAKFAST IS PAST READY!" Jack suddenly shouted from the kitchen. Mark was smiling as he walked into the small kitchen to see an omelette with toast on one plate and a very burnt omelette on the other. -"i get the good one." Mark said, staring at him with a stiffled laugh. -"oi! I cooked this shit, I get the good one." Jack countered as he washed the pan. -"yeah but you just admitted to loving me" Mark said, smirking. Jack put down the pan slowly and turned to look at Mark with an evik smug expression. -"yeah but ye didn't last ten minutes in the bedroom the other night." Jack said. Mark blushed a deep shade of red and stuttered on his words. -"y-yeah? Well y-you're just a.. a-a.. a fucking Irish bag of dicks." Mark tried to say. Jack laughed at his attempts and kissed his cheek. -"fine, I'll eat tha burnt one ye blubberin hoe." Jack said as he sat down. Mark stared at his omelette offensively as his face was still red from the sweet.. hot.. memory of Jack's mouth around his--- -"Mark.." Jack said, snapping him out of his thoughts. Mark realized he had a smirk on his face as he stared at him omelette. -"sorry, what?" -"I said, are ye guna eat tha omelette... or seduce it.." Jack said smiling at him. -"of course. Babe, we need to talk. You see, I've beeb cheating on you with this omelette.." Mark said, a sly grin forming. -"Eat tha fokin Omelette, Fischbach!" He exclaimed in a fit of giggles. ===============================================================================  They had been walking through the charcoal black gates of the cemetery. Ashley's mother steering her wheelchair behind Mark and Jack. They all took their seats (well..except..Ashley...um..*cough*) and she slowly wheeled herself next to the casket, to save herself the time when they called her up for the eulogy later. As everyone took their seats, she saw a pair of unisex twins standing beside a lady at the front row. -"is tifwany coming bac, mama?" One of them asked. She shook her head and broke into a small silent set of sobs. Ashley felt remorseful.  -"and let us stand..." the priest said. Everyone did as asked. They gave a Hail Mary and sat down, they heard him spesk about her, how she's accomplished so much in her "unfortunately short life". Ashley felt like throwing up at least four times the entire speech. He then went on about God and his plan for her even if she hadn't gone to church during her time at UCLA, but also how we will always remember her in our hearts. Then as Ashley dozed off thinking about memeories of her, people stared at her expectantly. She suddenly snapped out of her daze realizing he stopped talking so she cleared her throat.  -"i uh.. I guess I'm doing her Eulogy.." she started. Tiffany's presumable father glared hateful daggers at her from the statement. "I just.. I'm sorry. I've been hospitalized for nearly two months now and I couldn't exactly write anything down. So I'm going to 'speak my heart out' as they say. "I never asked for much. She and I have basically been attached to the hip for as long as I can remember. We were like the quiet kids in class. Always. But then.. well.. High School." Ashley said, keeping her voice from quivering. A small chuckle came from the last part. "We've had each other's backs for so long. I couldn't have asked for more.. m-more of a best friend.." she said, a sharp sigh coming out instead of a sob. -"She was my best friend. I just wish she couldn't have died so.. so freaking soon. She was too young..t-too strong to just.. die. I honestly wish it was me instead of her.." she sad, a sob coming out. She straightened her back against the chair and wiped her face carefully.  -"Thank You." her mother mouthed to her giving a sincere smile.  -"'it doesn't matter if you're the happiest person... or an unfortunate weeper.. a powerful beast. Or a terrifying creature. We're all equal in the eyes of the reaper'" Ashley said. "Quoted from Tumblr." She added with a smile. A Small chuckle came from the attendants. -"our daughter always talked about you. Thank you for this.." her father said as they began walking out of the cemetery. "She was always looking at you as a sister.. at least an older one.." he said, holding one of the twins' hands. Ashley was being pushed by Jack and he patted her shoulder. -"Keyword? She was.." Ashley said as she looked at the casket being lowered behind them. She was helped into the car and the wheelchair folded into the trunk. Mark buckled his seat belt and looked at her staring at the dark clouds looming over but no rain coming from them. -"To the dorms?" Jack asked, expectantly. She nodded her head and Mark started up the car. Ashley stared bacc at the cemetery and saw a small purple bunny hiding in a torn up boot next to the sidewalk. It chased after them as a tear slid down her face. Chapter End Notes Okay. There's just tears everywhere. Who tf knows if we can recover from this and get a happy ending. ***** Slice & Chop ***** Chapter Summary Jack has to go to Ireland for his sister's newborn child as he and Mark deal with the distance in similar ways... Ashley faces the struggles being a quadrapegic and Mark tries his best to help. Guess who else I added to this fic, bitches. Chapter Notes Sadly, we're almost at the end. A few more chapters. Kudos & Comments are appreciated! BTW, sorry if my schedule has been a tad bit off but my updates are every 2-3 days. Exams are rifht around the corner so... bleh.. Enjoy! See the end of the chapter for more notes -"Come baaack to me!" Mark whined over the phone. Jack chuckled. -"only a few more weeks, love. I promise." He replied. Mark pouted and they exchanged their 'I Love You's and hung up. Mark layed in his bed at peace, smiling. -"god you're so gay sometimes..." Ashley said, sitting at the doorway. -"I FUCKING MISS HIM!!!" he shouted as he stuffed his face in a pillow. -"aww... it's okay Markimoo..." Ashley said as she rolled into the room. She stopped next to his bed and patted his arm. -"wugh caj hmm mmph hmm..." he mumbled. -"Use your words, Fischbach."  -"why can't he stay with me.." he said, rising the pillow of his face by an inch so she could hear him. -"He's still yours.. he's just with his family..." Ashley said, waving her wrist as if it was the most obvious statement of the year. -"god I fucking love him.." Mark said, sitting up. -"Clearly..." she mumbled. -"what? You can't blame me..." he shot back. -"well, your dumbass found a way to call him twice a day and you always snapchat him so... I think you're getting a little clingy." -"I'm not clingy.." he said stubbornly "I'm just looking out for Jack.." she rolled her eyes. -"Reminding you that you thought for a while that Wade was a complete hunk and secretly banging your 5'8" pot of gold for a boyfriend..." Ashley commented, giving him a sly glare. -"Well I was wrong..." Mark said as he opened up Tumblr on his phone. -"uhh, yeah. Obviously." Ashley replied. -"WHO THE FUCK IS THIS?!" Mark shouted as he showed her a picture on Jack's Tumblr. It was of a girl kissing his cheek, with a small smile and Jack winking st the camera. It was a selfie. -"Relax.. that's Signe.." Ashley said. -"Signe? Like Signe Hansen? As in the same Signe Hansen he fell in love with Sophomore Year?!" Mark exclaimed beginning to panic. -"oh my GOD, you overdramatic bitch. She's MARRIED." She said, exasperated by Mark's overreacting attitude. -"wait really..?" Mark wondered aloud. Ashley threw her arms in the air limply and begin turning when he called out for her. -"no no no, pleaseee sttaaaayyyy." He begged. She rolled her eyes and turned around giving him a glaring expression. -"...Fiiinee.." she groaned when he started giving her puppy eyes. He gave her a dopy smile and she mentally kicked herself. This was going to be... interesting... ===============================================================================  One bottle of whiskey, two ice cream tubs and a Nicholas Sparks marathon later, Mark finally fell asleep. Ashley was sitting in her chair watching, yet another, heartbreaking scene in the movie when she heard the soft snores of the other man ring quietly through the sad silence. She snapped out of her daze from the screen and wiped away the tears beginning to form as she turned her attention to him. She giggled. His arm protectively around the empty bottle, drool starting to slip out of his mouth which was slightly open from his arm pushing half of his face up, glasses askew. His legs pushed together under him all while laying against the bacc of the couch and leaning into the small armrest. She sighed and slowly paused the movie as she reached for the remote next to her. She rolled toward him and, violently, pulled the bottle from his clutches, his face going into a small frown before easing back up again. She grinned at him before turning off the TV and began to roll away. She looked out one of the windows and stared at a few people having sprinting competitions outside of the dorms. She sighed as she stared at their legs.  She looked around her surroundings realizing it was just her and a sleeping Mark. With shaky arms, she slowly tried to lift herself out of the wheelchair. She tried putting as much of her weight onto legs hoping it would spark something. Anything.  -"c'mon... you can do it, Legs. Fucking work.." she said to herself. She tried again and suddenly found herself near standing. She gasped happily and thought she felt something in her legs, but it was nothing. She's tried this for a while. But nothing. She hasn't gotten anything and she's felt so... broken. She felt her eyes begin to water and then lost her balance. Her knees seemed to buckle and she fell. She fell with a small yelp. She started to feel herself crying, she sobbed lightly as she layed on the floor. She tried dragging her body across the floor and reach for anything. She grabbed a small table and tried lifting herself but ended up tipping it, a small lamp fallinf and rollinf onto her back and crashing on the floor. She panicked and slammed her hand down, and jammed it into a piece of the glass lamp. She screamed and heard Mark suddenly bolt upright on the couch. She sobbed uncontrollably on the ground. -"who's there?" He asked as he stood up. He reached and turned on the light on the wall. He gasped at what he saw. "Holy shit! Ashley, are you okay?" He asked as he kneeled next to her. She kept sobbing and shook her head. Mark didn't exactly know what to do until he saw blood starting to run against the hardwood floors. He quickly and absentmindedly went to the kitchen and got washcloths with water to wipe away the blood. -"w-where does it hurt? Ashley? Where does it hurt.." he askes, worriedly. She slowly lifted her hand and Mark immediately took note of the shard in her hand. He started to try taking it out and earned a small yelp from her. -"just.. FUCKING PULL IT OUT.!!" she shouted with a wet sob following. His hands shook violently as he did so. He slowly pulled out the shard that was merely half an inch long and a centimeter thick. He dropped the bloody piece onto the floor and started to stare at it then at his wrists. It was like a hunger. A desire.. to feel the sharp pain when he swiped a few times across his fragile skin-- -"Ashley.. how did this h-happen..." he asked, trying to keep it  She shook her head. -"i-i wanted to stand, Mark. I just want to stand..." she said in a sob. "I- i just want to walk.. and run.. and stand.. and be able to get to places without rolling a fucking wheelchair with me. I don't want to sit here for the rest of my life! I can't. I just.. can't.." she explained. Mark shushed her as he helped her sit up, careful not to jam any more shards of the lamp into them. Mark slowly helped her sit back on her chair but she demanded to lay on the couch instead. Mark nodded his head and carried her bridal style to the couch. There, she slept. =============================================================================== -"Morning, Sweetheart!" Mark said into the camera. Ashley slowly stirred and opened her eyes, rubbing them lightly. She yawned and stretched a little before cracking her back. She sat up against the armrest of Mark's couch and looked around to see him in the small kitchen with the laptop on the counter.  -"Marrrk!! I miss you sho much.." Jack said, drunkly over Skype. Mark scrunched up his nose. -"Did you Skype call me while drunk?" He asked. He heard a muffled noise in return. Ashley looked around the living room again and found her wheelchair a few feet away. She carefully reached out and grabbed the wheel and spun it as hard as she could so it could move towards her. She succeeded -"Maarrrkk! My ol' friends tried to get me with somebodyElseAndISaidNo.." he mumbled rapidly. "Coz Ay fookin love ya, mate. I luv everything avout ye. Yer hair.. yer eyes... yer.. hehe... yer fokin laugh... just yu in general, Marrk.i love ya..." Jack continued, slurring some of his words and his accent leaking through each word.  -"haha... I love you too, Jackaboy.." Mark said, blushing a little.  -"SEÁN!!! Get in bed ROIGHT THIS SECOND OR I'LL THROW YER SKUNK ASS OUT OF THAT BATHROOM BEFORE I BREAK DOWN THE DOOR, EH?" a woman's voice shouted in the background. Mark hid a giggle and Jack groaned. -"MA!! I'M TALKING TO MAARRRKKK!!!" he shouted back. -"MARK?! YE MEAN YER FANCY LADDIE FROM THE AMERICAS?!" -"ooohh!!! Sean when will we meet this laddie!" another woman's voice belowed. Jack groaned.  -"mark.. I'll call ye later.." he said. Mark barked out a laugh. "Mark.. d-do ye love me?" Jack suddenly asked as Mark's mouse hovered over the end call button. -"of course, Jack. Why wouldn't I?" mark asked suddenly worried.  -"because Jason didn't ... I don't want another Jason.. I want Mark.. I want Mark Fischbach.. I want you.. hehe..m I love you.." Jack slurred before hanging up. Mark sat there in a fused silence of shock and endearment.  -"Fuck!" Ashley exclaimed as she failed to hop onto her chair and instead pushed it bacc and hits her head a little on one of the armrests of it. -"ash! Holy shit, don't do that.." Mark softly scolded as he rushed over and helped her sit up. She rolled her eyes and thanked him for the help. "Are you okay..?"  -"yeah.. last night was... ugh. Let's not talk about it for today." She said, sighing. Mark nodded his head and slowly stood up as he made sure she was alright. She rolled behind him as he entered the kitchen and went away chopping shit.  There was pity brewing on her face as she watched Mark become entranced with chopping the vegetables. The way the juice slowly trickled out of each chop. Maybe your arm would be fun to cut up. Yeah.. chop chop chop, Markimoo. Chop away... Chop that fucking bell pepper the same way you almost chopped off your wrist. Slice, chop. Slice, chop. Slice, chop. SLICE AND CHOP, FISHBACH, SLICE AND CHO-- -"Mark...?" Ashley asked, scared. Mark realized he was no longer chopping the pepper but instead cutting at the edge thinly, small little cuts made into it onstead of chopping through it. -"I'm so scared..." he suddenly said, voice light and afraid. "I'm afraid I'll relapse, Ash. I can't relapse... I don't want to relapse..." Oh but you do -"Mark.. it's okay.." she said, carefully taking the knife out of his hand. Cut away, Mark. Each time you cut your skin is another block you chop off yoilur friend's hearts. Slice and Chop. -"I'm afraid..." he said again. His voice growing stronger. "But I shouldn't be. I can't be. I'm afraid but I'm holding together as kong as possible." -"Good... yeah, that's good. You're doing good, Mark. You're doing good..." she said. He took a deep breath and felt himself stay under control. He continued chopping untol he finished. ===============================================================================   -"now ye know nat ta drink away yer pain, eh?" His brother sneered and clapped him on the back before disappearing. -"jaysus Jack! Why couldn't ye at least had the bravery to control yerself?" His mother scolded from the bathroom door.  -"i know Ma..." Jack said before heaving into the porcelain bowl again. -"yer dam tootin ya do.." she said before stomping off for another warm towelette. -"CAN I HAVE SOME HOT CHOCOLATE MA?" he shouted after her leave. -"NO. UNTIL YE KEEP THE GODDAM JUICE ON YER SYSTEM, THEN YE CAN JAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT. THAT ISN'T A FOKIN PINT!" She sweared. Jack sat there feeling guilty. He turned to see one of his adopted nephews, already 15 walking towards him. -"Uncle Jack?" He asked, cautiously. -"yeah..?" Jack wondered aloud. -"What's depression?" He asked. Jack froze at the question. He looked up from the toilet bowl and flushed it. He took in a small breath. -"why?" He decided on asking.  -"there's this girl I like and she's been.. well... depressed..." he replied, feeling a little shy. -"depression is... it's like.. a drowning feeling. It's not just being sad. In fact, it's not at all like being sad. It's worse. Ye've never faced more pain in yer life than from what the source of depression is. It eats at you. Slowly it makes you feel bitter and cold but then it evolves to not talking and being curt and envious. It couldn't even match tha pain for bein... bein amputated. Sure it hurts... but what comes after? That's the real struggle. Ye can't breayhe when you're drowning. So when yere depressed... ye cant breath. Then ye feel questions filling yer mind. Should I do this? Why would I do that? This shouldn't be possible? Why do I need to be here? Why are you talking to me? Shite like that. Then ye get deeper and.. a-and sadder questions. Should I feel pain to relieve my own? W-whats it like tah cut... do I deserve to be alive....who would miss me...? And ye just keep bringin yourself down. Just farthar down. And suddenly, you're not just drowning... yer drowning in an abyss. Ye can't see anythin! You're drowning snd ye can't tell when you'll make it to the surface. And ye just keep wanting to push but those questions come back and bring you down. They're like anchors. And suddenly--" -"You've drowned?" The boy asked, sitting on the floor next to Jack. Jack had tears in his eyes and looked up at him. "When you drown.. you've killed yourself?"  -"no.. when ye've drowned... ye've hit rock bottom. Realizing ye'll never make it back up and losing hope is when you've killed yerself." Jack corrected. The boy nodded his head in understanding. -"is that what Depression is...?" He suddenly asked. -"no.. that's only the first stage...the next one is--" -"Dying." His older sister said, looking down at him sadly. "Or at least trying to. C'mon, Sam. let's get suppah.." she said as she helped the boy leave the bathroom. Jack stared at the toilet with sad dismay and she patted his back, leaning down slightly consideirng she was pregnant. -"I'm sorry you had to go through that Jack.." she whispered. -"I'm sorry I've neva told ye" he replied. -"Jack... we're here for you no matta what." She stated.  -"go eat ya supper... ma's waiting.." Jack replied, giving her a sympathetic smile. She returned it and left. Jack was left there throwing up snd sadness filling him.  ===============================================================================   -"Group calls." Mark said.  -"no." She said immediately -"oh CMON!!! EVERYONE LOVES--" -"Yeah well I don't." She said. Mark scoffed. -"hoe.." he muttered. -"Cunt." -"whore." -"asshat" -"communist!" -"What?" -"wait what.." -"..." -"so group calls?" -"Sure..." she said eyeing him suspiciously. He grinned and walked off to his class while she kept rolling herself to the dining hall. She reached the desired building and took a smell to realize that this is her heaven. Food. -"oh my god. I used to have a friend that was ina a bad accideny once and they're in s wheelchair too. Are you okay?" A random girl said, walking up to her. -"oh uhm.. I'm sorry? A-and I'm fine.. thanks." Ashley replied, confused. A group of guyd wslked up to her snd stopped. They all placed their hands on their knees and hunched over to be eye level to her. -"hey..are you okay?" One of them asked. Ashley was personally offended. Why the hell did they just hunch over for? To be eye level with her? This idiot should just talk to her and she can lean back and look up for a few seconds. God is this why paralized people prefer being secluded more often?! -"you're one of the girls that fell off the roof right? Yeah.. we're Ken's friends. He reslly liked the chick that died. Ashley was her name?" Another guy spoke. She flared her nostrils and rolled past them. fucking douchebags. She rolled past the tables and she was becoming more and more pissed by the second. -"isn't that..?" -"oh my god.. that poor thing.." -"shh. She's coming over here!" -"Isn't that that one chick who almost died.." -"Oh look! It's Ashley something. Y'know, that girl during the play when it.." -"oh my god... what happened to her?" Ashley was beyond pissed when she got to the Chick•Fil•A stand and was given a sympathetic smile from the worker when he handed her what she ordered. As she sauntered off to a secluded corner, she started taking out the contents from the cheap plastic bag and was glad she had some peace and quiet. -"Don't let them bother you. If you think they're being  dramatic, I'm worse..." a male's voice said. Ashley sighed and clenched her fists. -"Listen, hoe. I don't need your goddamn pity--" she began to sneer as she looked up at the source and stopped in her tracks. She looked up to see a man around her age or so in a wheelchair as well, his wrist amputated leaving only a stump instead of a right hand, he had fairly well fitting glasses, spiked and frosted hair, a left eyepath covering one eye and one of his legs was a prosthetic.  -"yeah. I know." He said, smiling a little. either those teeth are fake as hell or they're naturally straight as a board, Ashley thought to herself. -"s-sorry.." she said, snapping her gaze away and becominf suddenly interested in her Buffalo Sauce container. -"Haha, no it's alright. it's fine really." He replied, voice light and playful. He suddenly stook out his hand over the table. "Name's Joey. Joey Graceffa.." he said. Ashley looked up and followed the gesture, shaking it slowly. -"Ashley..." she said. -"Ashley what?" He asked, a spark in his eye. -"Just Ashley... at least for now.." she said. He smiled.  -"alright "Just Ashley.." he replied. A boy suddenly sat next to them and he smiled at her.  -"Oh sorry. This is my boyfriend." He said. Ashley's IQ dropped all the way down as she mentally facepalmed herself. His voice was near stereotypical gay. Of course that's where she remembered it. He signed to her Hello, Nice To Meet You. -"Chronic or Accidental?" She asked. Joey turned to look at her as his boyfriend smiled and signed Car Accident. She nodded her head. -"you know.. sign language?" He asked. -"yeah.." she said a little shy.  -"nice. I learned. We were in a car accident and he went mute. I had unfortunately gotten hit by the car and it cost me an arm and leg." He said with a wink at the end. The other man stiffled a laugh, a small light but visible scar ran roughly and unsymmetrically ran up half of his neck. -"oh I'm sorry. I uh.. um.. well.. you probably Know by now." she said, mumbling a little. -"i don't, actually. Give me the deets" he said, suddenly interested. Ashley hesitated before nodding her head. -"uh.. I was in the auditorium..burning.. and I fell down the ceiling." She said, sadness filling her mind. -"oh god. Oh if you ever need a friend--" -"My paralysis is.. temporary..." she added. -"oh! Well look at that. So is mine.. just... for another month or so. I take physical therapy." He said. She smiled. -"same." She replied. And that's how she made friends with a quadriplegic and a deaf man. Chapter End Notes YAAASSSS QUEEN. WE BE GETTIN TO THAT HAPPY ENDING REAL QUICK, BOO. LUV YALL   Anyway, That giant section fron Jack's POV was really.. hard. I mean.. like I know some people mifht disagree with me and say "You don't fucking know what depression is. It's nothing like that" and okay. Fine. I get it. I was just referring from my own and my friends' experiences. Depression really is a hard thing to touch base on. I just wsnt everyone to know that you're not alone. We ARE here for you. I honestly can't thank enough my friendd that have helped me. And I'm really glad to know that I can express some of that sadness into this fic that so many people love and left Kudos on. I'm just like Wow. People actually like something I did. I want to thank all of you for loving it and support anybody dealing w/ depression. Luv yu all <3 ***** Her Story | Pt. 1; Emily ***** Chapter Summary Ashley finds archives of Tiffany's old rehab videos and uncovers a shocking discovery of her past. Meanwhile, Mark's disappearance takes a toll on the group and reveals something they didn't expect. Cheesy summaries *sigh* Time to let the heads and tears roll down Drama Avenue. Chapter Notes I MIGHT GO FOR 20 CHAPTERS BUT YALL DECIDE. Kudos & Comments are appreciated! See the end of the chapter for more notes Present Day . . . -"JACK! FOR FUCKS SAKE JACK WAIT!!" Ashley shouted. Jack ignored her shouts and ran straight for the small cabin.  -"JACK!" Joey called out for him. Jack finslly reached the door snd threw it open. -"Mark?! Baby where are y--" he didn't finish his sentence because he was suddenly hit with a breath taking punch to the gut. -"I'm sorry, Jack." Mark said standing above him. -"JACK WAIIITT!!!" Ashley shouted again. But the front door was slammed shut and the four car passengers scrambled out of the car in a hurry to save Jack. =============================================================================== 72 Hours Ago . . . -"Hoe.. stop.. worrying." Joey commanded. Ashley was ignoring his protests and kept twiddling her thumbs.  -"Ms. Luhmbar?" A woman asked as she entered the room. -"yes?" Ashley asked. Joey stood up and awaited the news carefully.  It's been two months since they met and immediately were attached to the hip. Or... at least attached by the wheels..? Idk. Anyway, they were together all the time. And Mark didn't really mind either. He liked Joey and Daniel. Jack came home with heart-shattering pictured of his new baby nephew that made everyone stare at forever. Unfortunately, Jack had to pry them out of his hands for them back in which involved many death threats from Mark and Ashley. She was finally able to recover from his short-term paralysis and now they awaited Ashley's results. -"i think.. you've achieved all your tests' requirements... but.." she said suddenly, frowning at the clipboard. Ashley's heart pounsed wildly in her chest. -"Is she...like...okay?" Joey asked, concerned. -"Well... you see, you're back is nearly fully healed but your just not recovering as fast now. Have you been taking your vitamins and prescribed pills?" -"shit.. that's what I keep forgetting..." Ashley muttered loud enough for them to hear.  -"hmm. Well we can take you off the wheelchair in about a week, but we need someone to monitor your progress in healing when you start taking your medication again." She advised. Ashley nodded her head. -"I can do it--" Joey began to say with a light in his eyes. -"Unfortunately we need a roomate or someone who's classes are similar to hers." -"well.. we have three of four classes together." Joey stated. She nodded her head and scribbled something down on her clipboard. -"alrighty then. And a roomate? Didn't you say you had... Mark, was his name? As a roomate.." she said. Ashley sighed.  -"yeah but uh.. he's been.. missing a few days. We haven't seen him. We can do Jack though." Ashley mentioned. The doctor gave her a small smile. -"oh I'm sorry.. and yes, that'll work." She said. They filled a lot of paperwork about it and soon they were leaving, Ashley taking her time walking. -"god it feels so weird... Ashley said as she walked." Joey laughed. She was reaching the car as they folded the chair and put it in the backset when she got a call from Jack. -"Heeyy" she greeted. -"DID YOU DO THE THING?!" He exclaimed. -"sorta kinda no. See you at the dorm. I'm bringing pizza." She replied and quickly hung up. They got in the car and Joey excitedly drove off. -"OH MY GOD!!! Isn't this exciting?!" he asked. Ashley laughed at his ecstatic attitude. -"you're much happier than I am.." she said. He scoffed. -"UH, YEAH!" he exclaimed. They drove to a local Domino's and boufht two large pizzas and drove back to campus. As they entered the parking lot, Ashley saw large commotion outaide the boys dorm.  -"Wait what's happening?" She asked. Joey placed the wheelchair behind her and forced her to sit, then piled both pizza boxes on her arms. She couldn't hold these while reclibing them on the damn armrests so she had to carry them for the time being. -"let's go, bitch." He said excitedly as he pushed her along. She heard voices and music and then it became quiet and Ashley legitimately thought the world was about to end. -"Okay, stand up, grandma." He said. She did as asked and heard him fold the wheelchair and gave her his arm to lead them up the stairs. She carefully balanced the boxes as she walked on the flight of stairs, her back and knees burning from the new physical activity. -"Wait. Why did we get two pizza boxes if there's only four of us--" -"SURPRISE!!!" A group of people shouted. Ashley was glad she had boxes covering her face because she was rolling her eyes severely. -"For fucks sake, Jack." She muttered. Joey took the boxes from her hands and she saw a large group of her helpful classmated there in Jack's dorm, owner of said dorm beaming proudly. -"yeah. I know, you hate surprise parties but it's because your off that rollinf deathtrap!" Joey exclaimrd as he came back empty handed to the door. Joey do not be an ass. You were on that rolling deathtrap for twice as long as her. Daniel signed furiously. Joey rolled his eyes. -"okay, MOM" he said. Daniel, Ashley had come to realize, was so good at lip reading that he didn't need many people to sign unless he needed clarification and they were talking a little too fast. But he's dating Joey so they must have talked twice as fast than that for Daniel not to understand. -"Can I eat now." Ashley said. Jack laughed and showed her to the kitchen where there were stockpiles of food. Heaven. -"Any sign of Mark?" Jack asked. She shook her head. He asked for her to search a few hospital rooms in case he was there, but no luck -"Jack.. I'm sure he's fine.." Ashley said, trying to be hopeful. -"no. This isn't him. He always answers me. Always." Jack replied sternly as he left her to indulge the food people brought and made for her. She gave a tight lipped smile before he left snd turned to see the kitchen. She figured she might as well do a few of these dishes before she eats, why not? ===============================================================================   -"CLEAN IT OUT!!" Jack shouted again for the fourth time. Ashley and Daniel groaned and then heard the front door close. They had Calculus next but not till 4:00. It was 11:30. -"we might as well..." Ashley mumbled. Daniel nodded his head and they stood up. They sauntered over to Tiffany's room and slowly opened the door. Ashley nervously walked in and looked around her room. It was neat, thank god. But her desk was a mess. I do the closet, bed, and drawers. Good luck with that mountain. Daniel signed to her and patted her shoulder. She stood there in shocked awe and cussed at him. She groaned and began her endless job of sorting through papers and shit. She sat down on her oh-so comfy chair, then sat straight and began to go through the papers. She created a little color coded idea for herself borrowing her sticky notes. Green mesnt Student Debt. Red meant Late Assignments. Blue meant Due Assignments. Yellow meant Early Assignments. Purple was song lyrics and play scripts. And finally, Black meant Other. She had six neat stacked piles and was content with herself before turning to look at Daniel's progress. Apparently, he boxed a lot of things and left her closet clean with a few spare dresses (probably offered for her), drawers closed and hopefully cleaned and there were a lot of boxes that were presumably under the bed.  Check these out. he signed to her realizing she lost her attention on her work. She stood up and walked over before sitting down next to him and saw two boxes labeled Old Videos and Rehab Recordings. -"should we open them?" She asked. Daniel was staring at them and realized he wasn't looking at her. "Well if you won't, I will" she said as she grabbed the first box and tore open the tape. Daniel's eyes widened and she sighed. She went to her room which used to be Jack's and grabbed her laptop, as she returned she noticed Daniel took out four cassets and a large teddy bear which must have filled the boxes. She slid onto the bed and they sat against her headboard and put in one disk first. It loaded for a while after hitting play on the application and then it flashed to a small blue room. -"Patient 1738, Tiffany Lopez" a man's voice said. Then Tiffany shuffled in and they immediately noticed a few things about her. She was skinny, a lot younger, her normal hazel hair was loose and she seemed abnormally pale. -"So tell us.. what was the cause of your disorder, ma'am?" The man asked. No reply. -"miss we need you to cooperate in order for this to work..." She still didn't answer, she was twiddling her thumbs excessively and rapidly in her lap and she was staring at them. Ashley realized that this was probably around 8th Grade year, that was when she didn't go to school for nearly two momths periodically and she had an obsession with twiddling her thumbs whenever she was nervous. -"Miss Lopez, you have been diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, am I correct?" he asked. She stopped and looked up past the camera.  -"Y-yes.." she replied, her voice light and tween-ish.  -"Care to explain to me, why?" She looked at him nervously befpre taking a deep breath and fixinf her posture. -"i used to be fat last year and people played a prank on me. They used to call me a Whale. So I naturally believed them even though I untruthfully belived them. I used to think of myself as okay but I realized that I was fat. So I stafted losing weight and soon I lost nearly 20 pounds." That was true. Ashley remembered as clear as day when that happened. She lost so much weight that Spring Break that people didn't believe it. So they blamed her for- - "Liposuction. They said I used liposuction and I couldn't have lost all that weight because 'Tiffany the Whale' couldn't have possibly lost that much weight in a matter of a week and a half. So I looked online how to lose more weight. And I turned to--" -"Bulimia? Yes, that's in your file as well." The man said, interrupting her. She nodded her head slowly, her eyebrows knit together and her mouth tight- lipped. -"So ever since, you have--" -"*sigh* Cut twenty four times, don't even bother checkinf because the scars are almost faded, tried killing myself and asked my sister to take my place and--" -"wait.. what sister?" The man suddenly asked. Tiffany looked up at him, alerted and had her eyes widened almost comically. She said nothing. He kept asking hee the same question, even rephrased differently and she didn't answer. Then a tiny alarm rang and the video ended. The fuck was that? Daniel signed to her. Ashley shrugged and lifted the other disk to him questioningly. He nodded his head frantically and they played the next one. ===============================================================================  Jack slowly stepped out of his class and was greeted by the sweet smell of rain. He took in a deep breath as he walked out and was suddenly transported back to Ireland. He would stand there near his cabin in the woods,  taking in the fresh smell of rain. He would go to a small meadow in the woods and would turn up his head at the sky to feel the raindrops slide against his face, he would be wearing his blue zip-up jacket since the rain was light, but if ut got heavy he had a poncho in his back pocket just in case. He smiled at the memory of Ireland, and he felt a tad bit homesick even though he came back a few weeks ago...  His phone rang. -"J-jack?!" Ashley exclaimed.  -"Ashley? What is it..?" Jack asked, hearing her dread filled voice. -"get your ass to the dorm. NOW!" Wait.. why? What was the matter. Then she hung up. He began making his walk across campus in the small sprinkling rain. As he walked towards the large area of the vast campus across a small road, he heard a horn honk once amd Jack bounded backward to avoid it. As he saw the car pass by, he thought he saw Mark driving but instead was confronted by some random man. Jack watched the car drive away and he felt his heart ache at the thought of where the American would be... As Jack made it to their building, he saw Joey parking right outside and running into the front doors. Jack followed him and began panicking wondering what was the problem with the two. He began going through the worst case scenarios in hos head as he waited endlessly for the elevatpr to reach their floor.  Ashley and Daniel were surrounded by notes and papers and.. textbooks? -"Oh thank god. Oh my god. Okay, we have so much to talk about" Ashley said as she stood up from the pile tblhat she was currently sitting in on the couch. -"Foks sake Ashley I said to clean out her room not to make a huge fookin mess here!" Jack complained realizing there was no harm done to the pair. -"No. Jack. You see, we did clean it out and found these videos of her in rehab and she was like.. sick. And. God it's hard to explain. But we've been doinf research and taking notes and--" -"What in the hell was in the videos? The DaVinci Code?" Joey asked, concern and frustration on his face. Daniel groaned and signed to him frantically. She might have a twin sister...   =============================================================================== -"Miss Lopez.. we are running out of time for this session and I am asking you one more time. What sister?" The man behind the camera asked her. Young Tiffany shook her head and shrank farther into the couch. A loud sigh was heard followed by the ringing of an alarm then the screen went black. They took out the third disk and placed it beside the others in the holder. Joey and Jack were staring at the screen with awe before turning to look at the other two who were jumping from anxiety.  -"so we did some extra research and found that many anorexic patients are found to be holding suicidal thoughts and that a few actually do it. They die. And we thouggt this was the case with Tiffany but that was before--" We saw the last video... Joey commented translated for Daniel. Jack nodded his head absentmindedly. -"And this.. is when things get interesting" Ashley said as she hit play on the fourth disk that Daniel slipped into the computer.   -"Patient 1738.. Tiffany Lopez.." the man sighed with regret and tiredness. They saw a young Tiffany shuffle into view of the camera and she was looking... better... He hair was braided beside her shoulder, her cheels had some color in them, she looked a little bit more lean than skinny and she looked... happy... -"Now Miss Lopez... how long has it been since our last treatment?" He asked.  -"Uh... nearly a month.." she replied, looking into the distance to remember before turning her head and smiling at him. -"Uh-huh. And do you remember what the main topics were from our last.. sessions?" He asked. Tiffany shook her head with her lips pursed.  -"well. You were diagnosed with Anorexia nervosa and have also been diagnosed with prolonged depression and self-harm. " he stated. Tiffany suddenly remembered and nodded her head a lot.  -"yeah. Now I remember " she said with a smile. -"so... I have two questions left from our last session and the first is: Who can help you get past your Anorexia?" The man asked. Tiffany gave him a look before smoothing out her jeans and taking a breath. -"Well... I have recently had my friend Ashley to help. She's a really nice person and she's been there for me for a while now. She's been helpinge get through it....and.. yeah. That's pretty much it. My family has been glad I've stopped.." she informed the man. They heard an "mhmm mhmm" from behind the camera which was presumably this random man.  -"that's good" he said, "and the last question was: What sister were you referring to?" Tiffany grew silent before clearing her throat and looking up at him. -"well I guess it's time I Tell you, huh?" She said, her sweet voice filled with sudden anxiety. He replied with an "mhmm" and Tiffany began: -"I was born on March twenty fourth (24th), 1998. And...so was my sister.. Emily. She and I were both born healthy at the moment and we were taken home a couple weeks later. Then.. out house burned down and neither of my parents saved her. This was when I was two... and I had saved her. " she said. "My parents had a funeral and eveything but she was too scared to say anything. Then it was filed in the report that she died. End of story, right?" -"Right...?" Joey said worriedly as he turned to look at them. Daniel shook his head and pointed at the screen again. -"wrong. I figured I could play it as a game of some sort and keep her hidden in my room. My parents thouggt I had imaginary friends since I talked and played 'by myself' all the time.." Tiffany explained. -"But it was Emily..." -"Exactly. But one thing led to another and she and I started playing hide and seek. One day, she thouggt it'd be funny to hide in our parents' room and my mom found her thinking it was me. Emily went along with it until I started looking for her and my mom fainted from seeing both of us. Then I told her the entire story and she was in.. well.. tears. She was glad to have us back but realized we couldn't live like this. So she kept Emily home and everutime I came bacc from school I tried teachinf her everything I learned each day. It worked...until.. well.. Until I began self-conscious about myself." Tiffany said. She was looking casual and kept her voice storng and steady.  -"around.. 8th grade year, correct?" The man suddenly cut in. She nodded her head. -"correct. Anyway, she became suspicious and I didn't go to school one day so she went for me. It seemed have worked since no strange texts or anything came from my friends so I let her. She went to school for me for about a month and then she... she became more self-conscious than me. I went back to school eventually and realized she made a name for herself. 'Fat Whale'. And I didn't know what it was about but since she made that name I tried gettinf rid of it but by not going to school or sports I gained lots of weight and I kept the name. I blamed her once and she got mad and admitted I was as fat as whale... so that's when I began losing weight and it became worse and worse and I just... I just wanted her to go to school  for me and endure the pain instead of me.." Tiffany explains, her voice cracking at rhe end. She fanned herself to stop the tears. "And then she suddenly began getting skinnier and skinnier and more unhealthy by the minute and she just.. she..-she.." -"She what, Miss Lopez?" -"SHE KILLED HERSELF!" Tiffany shouted as she burst into tears. The man sighed and suddenly the door to the office opened. -"Hi dad! Oh. Sorry.. oh why are you crying? Don't be sad.." a little boy said as he walked over and hugged Tiffany. -"Ken Morrison., please wait outside.." the man demanded. Ken. With his little hair and soft expression. This was Young Ken. That means his father was Tiffany's psychologist?! What?! -"Gee sorry." He mumbled before leaving. Tiffsny laughed.  -"so now you know what sister.." she said. "Thank you Dr. Morrison.. for helping me.. though these rough times.." she said before a familiar alarm rang and then the video was shut off with one last smile from Tiffany. ===============================================================================   -"Is she gonna be okay?" Joey asked as he waited outside the bathroom door. Jack shrugged. -"she just found out that two of her closest friends sorta knee each other. Give her some time. -"I WAS SUMMONED." A loud voice rang through the dorm. -"Issa?" Joey asked and saw his head pop into view. -"JOEEEYYYYY" he greeted as he walked in style towards them. They hugged rather awkwardly before Issa tried the doorknob. Locked. "Ashley, boo? It's me.."  -"go away.." she said, sniffling. -"gurl you best open up this goddam door before I bust it open." He replied, cheekily.  -"no..." she mumbled. -"open da door, bish..." he replied sassily. Jack heard a shufflinf before the lock turned and the door slowly opened. Her eyes red and puffy from crying. "Aww boo. Look at chu! Girl we gotta get you cleaned up." He said as he washed a towelette in the sink. Jack walked in and hugged her, Joey hugging them together.  -"thank you.." she whispered as they helped wash her face and rid her of her sadness. =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Mark suddenly awoke. His hesd throbbing. He took in his surroundings and sat up on a.. couch... He looked around and saw a man walked up to the couch. -"well well well.. how was your slumber?" An all too familar voice said. Mark suddenly bolted up snd ran straight for a random door. Thankfully, it led outside but was confronted by another familar face.  -"Hey there.. how you feeling, Markimoo?" He asked, darkly. Mark quickly pulled out and his phone and speed-dialed Jack. The man stalked toward him and Mark was hit by a large force on the back of his head. He fell to the ground his phone clattering beside his hand. One of the men picked it up and hung up, pocketing it. -"Shit, what if they find us?" Dark asked. -"hmph. Then we wait.. and they'll be in for a real treat.." Wilford chuckled, darkly. They lifted Mark and slowly brought him into the cabin again as he slowly passed out.   To Be Continued . . . Chapter End Notes C L I F F H A N G E R Z! ! ! BTW, comment down below what you want to see for the ending! I'm gonna start plotting for it now than never. AND Comment if u want this to be a 20 chapter fic or if I just wrap it up in one neat chapter. ***** Her Story | Pt. 2; Wilford ***** Chapter Summary Jack and the gang locate and try to save Mark's life, but to save a life they might have to lose a life. Time for the fight scenes and feels, bitches. Chapter Notes Exams are this week so my next update will be in probably 4-6 days unfortunately... BUT, Summer is coming and I'll be updating as how I used to, frequently. Don't worry!   Enjoy. See the end of the chapter for more notes Present Day . . . -"MAAARRRKKK!!!" Ashley shouted as she stood up from the sea of bunnies. She was stumbling througg the bunnies, careful not to hurt one when she saw them. On the edge of a goddam cliff. God, could this moment be anymore cliché?! -"Ashley!! Don't do it!" He shouted back. She ignored him and ran a straight beeline towards them. She knows she shouldn't be sprinting full force but she could care less about her medical condition at the moment. -"They always say time slows down when you go fast!" Wilford cackled as he aimed the gun instead at her. He shot once and it hit a tree next to her. He reloaded quickly before she and Mark tackled him simultaneously. As they all tumbled near the edge of the cliff, Ashley suddenly remembered the night of the Auditorium and she quickly stood up and kicked one of the men looking like Mark and watched them fall down the steep hill. Jack suddenly shouted and hurled his fist, slamming into her temple and her vision went black. ===============================================================================   24 Hours Earlier . . . They were putting away and recycling the notes and other stuff flooding the living room away when they heard Jack's phone ring. -"who dat be?" Issa asked. -"i don't know.." Jack said as he walked over to the kitchen and picked it up. "It's Mark" he said as he looked up, eyes widened. -"ANSWER!" they exclaimed in unison. Jack slid the screen and put the phone on speaker. -"--you feeling Markimoo?" Someone said, distantly. Everyone crowded around the phone when suddenly they hesrd a thump and a clatter. Then shuffling and the call ended. -"bitch what..." Joey said.  -"What was that?" Ashley asked. Is he in trouble? Daniel signed. -"Oh god.." Jack said as he had an array of worst-case scenarios fill his mind. -"I'm sure he's fine..." was all Issa said. They all had a moment of silence before they decided to get back to cleaning the living room.  ===============================================================================   It's been nearly over a week since Mark's phone call and Jack has been on high alert since then. Always checking his phone for texts or missed calls. Eventually he stopped checking his phone too often and instead began investigating. With the help of Bob and Wade, he tried finding the signal of the call and asked them to help trace it back. After countless hours searching and tracking, they found it came from an old forest on the outskirts of town.  -"Welp. Time to start looking." Ashley said as she stopped the car. They drove into a random dirt road and followed it, looking for a building or something. -"So does anybody know exactly where we're going?" Issa asked in the backseat next to Joey and Daniel. -"no. Nobody knows...." Jack sighed as he kept staring out the window of the car. -"don't worry...we'll find him." Ashley said to the Irishman, even though she had her own doubts as much as him. As they drove through the large expanse of the forest, they looked out the rolled down windows for any sign that there was a cabin... or a resort.. pretty much anything. Ashley decided to suddenly play Never Forget You on the radio which released some tension in the car. They stopped and ate some of their prepared lunch, that Joey resisted to eat too soon, inside of the car. Then they went on. Music played through the speakers of the car, their conversations pointless or not amusing enough to last long or to reach the others interest.  -"woah woah. What's that?!" Joey suddenly exclaimed. Ashley slowed the car to a stop and went in reverse. As Joey said stop tjey all held a breath to see what it was. -"Nothing..?" Issa said. -"no no! I saw something, there was like a person!" He exlcaimed. -"please don't fok with us of all times, Joey." Jack said,  looking frantically out the left side of the car. They heard a loud THWIP as an arrow embedded itself into Ashley's door. She shrieked as they all jumped at the sudden breaking of silence. Ashley reached over and plucked off the arrow that had made a small hole in her jeep. -"this bitch..." she said. They heard a small whistle and another one hit the ground bside the car. She quickly switched gears and began leaving a cloud of dust as she hit the gas pedal. As they drove away for a good 30 minutes with panicking, Jack continued staring out the window praying for any sign or indication saying Mark was alive. He began remembering about the good memories they used to have and felt a nagging at the back of his mind. He felt like he could see Mark standing before him...but soon realized there actually was Mark standing in the road aiming a crossbow at them. -"Arrow!" Was the only thing Jack shouted before Ashley swerved the car out of the path. They started screaming as the jeep made its way through a blinding path of broken and loose tree branches before Ashley slammed the brakes causing everyone to lurch forward dangerously, they had stopped in the middle of a secluded dirt road. -"what the fuck!" Joey shouted.  -"I SAW--" -"Yeah! We fucking got it!" Ashley shouted at Jack as she had her hand clutching her chest in attempts to calm her erratic heartbeat.  -"babe you okay?" Joey asked Daniel, who was laying on the floor beside their feet. He nodded his head and sat up, fixing his beanie.  -"guys..? What the hellis that?" Issa asled as he pointed to the creepy, ominous looking dirt road to the left of them. Jack turned eith the rest and immediately recognized the set of trees that surrounded the cabin where Dark.. had.. almost raped him.. Bam! -"Guys..."Joey cautioned. THUNK -"What the hell was that?" Issa asked in a high-pitched manner, as if on the brink of tears. crunch crunch THWAP -"OhHellToThaNo BITCH. BYE." Ashley exclaimed as she changed gears again and swerved the car to the left and drove awat down the dirt road. Joey was shouting countless Go Go Go Go!'s to her as they drove away. They were all on edge watching carefully when another arrow shoots across the backseat and flies out the other window. Everyone started shouting and screaming as Ashley drove faster, when suddenly... they saw a cabin. -"HIT THE BRAKshff.!!" Issa shouted before getting slammed into the back of Jack's seat. Past the small trees, they saw Mark laying on the porch, mouth- taped and bruises and scars on his face as.. a familiar Mark wearing a pink and yellow plaid shirt slung him across his shoulder and walked into the cabin, a hooded Mark with a crossbow running behind the cabin. Jack threw open his door and ran through the driveway. -"JACK! FOR FUCKS SAKE JACK WAIT!!" Ashley shouted. Jack ignored her shouts and ran straight for the small cabin.  -"JACK!" Joey called out for him. Jack finally reached the door and threw it open. -"Mark?! Baby, where are y--" he didn't finish his sentence because he was suddenly hit with a breath taking punch to the gut. -"I'm sorry, Jack." Wilford said standing above him. -"JACK, WAIIITT!!!" Ashley shouted again. But the front door was slammed shut and the four car passengers scrambled out of the car in a hurry to save Jack. =============================================================================== -"Jaaaaaaccckk!!!" Ashley screamed as she used her shoulder to crash through the door... but instead slammed her body into Wilford who opened the door to see the sudden noise. -"Wait isn't that--" Joey began to say before Dark shot an arrow at him, missing his foot by an inch. -"FUCK!!"Issa screamed as he ran into the cabin, hurtling over the other two. He ran blindly through the cabin until he was suddenly in a bathroom. He froze for a second before quickly closing the door and locking it.  Wait... he suddenly thought to himself before seeing an arrow slice through the wood inches from his nose. Meanwhile, Wilford threw off Ashley from on top of him and had her falling onto her ass near the edge of the steps. -"Oh.. hell... no.." Ashley mumbled as she stood up before Wilford punched her gut and she reeled forward. -"Oh honey.." he said sweetly. "You shouldn't have come to a place like this.." he continued, darkly. -"FUCK YOURSELF!!" Joey Shouted as he slammed a random chair on the porch onto Wilford. He stumbled slightly before staring at Joey and punching him in the nose.  -"Idiot." Wilford mumbled as he pushed Ashley softly and she rolled down the stairs with an 'ow' as a reply. -"DARK! Where's the other one?" He called out into the cabin. -"hiding like a bitch in this goddam bathroom." Dark replied. -"WHO YOU CALLIN' A BITCH?!" Issa shouted from the bathroom. "IT'S YO THOT ASS THAT CAN'T BREAK THROUGH THIS DAMN DOOR." Dark growled lowly before slamming into it and causing a satisfying crack. He kept ramming into it and Issa was running out of options. So he did the logical thing you would do in a bathroom: turn on the fucking faucet in the bathtub. Ashley and Joey slowly stood up outside as Daniel stormed inside carrying a gun in hand. -"b-babe? No.. w-wait." Joey warned as he followed. -"Who's. The Bitch. Now!" Dark exclaimed with each thrust before breaking through the door. Issa threw a basket full of soaps at Dark before stomping over him to escape the bathroom but only to be caught by Wilford's giant grasp. He lifted him off his feet by the throat before a gunshot rang in the room and Wilford dropped Issa. He turned to see Daniel threateningly aiming it at him. Daniel shook his head at the pink-haired man. Wilford took slow shuffles towards him. Daniel aimed it at his face, hands shaking slightly before realizing he had placed his hand over the gun. -"don't play with firearms, child." Wilford said as he twisted the gun from his grasp. Issa drove a broken toothbrush into Wilford's shoulder in an attempt to distract him but he tripped after trying to run past Wilford who was holding in a shout. -"hmmmmm. You guys REALLY know how to push buttons.. don't ya?" He asked menacingly as he stalked towards them after pulling out the bloody toothbrush. His body looming over Joey was the last thing Daniel saw before he felt a pair of hands wrap around his head and all hell broke loose. =============================================================================== Mark noticed Jack was in the corner of the room, back against the wall and asleep when he awoke. He had nothing tied or chained to him at all either.  -"jack..?" Mark asked. No reply.  Mark was sitting against a cold wall on his side of.. what seemed to be the basement of the cabin. He looked around and saw the two large wood pillars on his left, Jack was directly on the opposite side of the room of Mark, the latter having an old rope tightly tied onto his wrists. Mark saw an old pickaxe near him and painfully scuffled toward it. He tried rubbing the rope on the point and eventually made the threads start breaking apart slowly in which Mark tried biting.  Once free, he began to slide up the wall to try and stand up, his back and legs being in an inferior amount of pain.  -"jack? C'mon.. jack..." Mark mumbled as he weakly walked over to Jack. He shook him once or twice before lightly patting his face. "Sean.. please... wake up.." he asked again. He shook him a good amount of times before sighing and leaning in to kiss his forehead. As a tear slowly formed in his eye, he felt his neck getting warm. He looked down to see Jack's eyes fluttering open slightly and his breath on his chin now. -"Mark?" He asked, his accent getting the best of him with the roll of his R.  -"Jack? Jack! Jack. Oh thank god.. oh I'm ss glad you're awake.." Mark said as he kissed and hugged Jack a bit too tightly. Jack groaned at the sudden bear hug he was embraced in, feeling pain in his back a little. Mark looked at him in the eyes and wiped off a little bit of dried blood from Jack's nose before giving him his trademark grin. -"Can You Stand?" Mark asked. Jack nodded his head and slowly helped Mark as he seemed to scrunch his face in apparent pain. -"Are ye al--" -"Don't worry about me." Mark cut him off. "I'll be fine as long as you are.." he replied.  -"OW. CUNT!" they heard a girl scream upstairs. They looked at each other before Jack helped Mark up the stairs to see the chaos happening. Which was.. shocking, nonetheless.  Ashley held half of a shattered lamp in one of her hands, running towards Wilford. Daniel was scrambling for a gun beside Dark's feet, who's eyes were red and he was shooting arrows at a sideways table in which Issa and Joey occasionally popped up and wildly threw soap at Dark. -"BURN, ASSBUTT!!" Ashley shouted as she threw the lamp at Wilford then lifted her leg to kick him backward to create twice as much of an impact. Ashley unsteadily landed on her other leg and stumbled into a wall beside them.  -"HELP!" Joey shouted as he threw a Lavender bar which was stopped by an arrow Dark shot. Daniel grabbed the gun and did a backward roll away from him. The bathroom was flooding with water. Jack quickly ran over and turned off the faucet. Wilford slowly stood up and smacked Ashley onto the ground before walking over and stepping on Daniel's ankle. He tried to scream but no noise came out. Wilford kicked him in the groin twice before Ashley jumped on top of Wilford, legs around his stomach and arms on his neck. He stumbled backward slightly before letting himself fall backwards, Ashley getting crushed by his weight as she layed under him. Wilford stood up again and was met by Mark's fist meeting his jaw. Issa threw another soap bar at Dark when he suddenly ran out of arrows, most of them embedded onto the wall behind them of the table they were hiding behind. -"Time to playy!" He said as he barrel-rolled towards the table before Daniel shot Dark's leg. A loud shout ensuef and Daniel stood up, making a beeline for the front door. Dark grabbed an arrow that was on the table and quickly loaded it, ignoring the pain in his leg. He aimed steadily before shooting it, his target quickly falling. Joey and Issa stood up from behind the table and made their way for the entrance as well. Wilford had his forearm against Mark's throat against the wall and Jack had quickly slammed his foot into Dark's face as he ran by. Ashley was standing up, seeing Mark's face turn purple when she jammed a piece of glass into Wilford's calf. He groaned in pain before throwing his leg back and barely missing her. She grabbed an arrow that Dark had in hand and she was running behind Wilford when he turned and grabbed her instead. He led her to the bathroom where he threw her into the bathtub. He held her by her shoulders, submerged under the water where she flailed wildly before she suddenly stopped struggling. Wilford waited a few seconds before feeling satisfied when she sprang from the water and headbutted him. He fell backward and she sprinted past him, grabbinf Mark's arm as they went for their only exit.  They an arrow smashed into one of the headlights of Mark's car. Daniel was starting up her jeep, Jack was currently in Mark's car. She jumped in with Mark into his own car as they both started the cars. Her jeep was slowly pulling out of the small driveway when it suddenly... stopped. -"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Joey screamed. "YOU RAN OUTTA GAS!!" Jack stared wide- eyed realizing that the jeep was out of gas, blocking their way of escape. They all got out of the cars in time to see the other two doppelgangers standing in the cabin's door way looking angry beyond hell.  -"shite." Jack said as he grabbed Mark and they ran for a random direction, through the woods they navigated their way until they saw a clearing... but instead was the edge of a cliff. "Fok fok fok, shite shite." Jack mumbled as they reached the edge. Mark's knees gave out and he brought them both down. They were kneeling againsy the edge when they heard dark laughter behind them. Wilford was approaching. -"i didn't want to do this.. I didn't...",Wilford said looking unsatisfied with them. -"g-get away from us." Mark said. -"Oh little Markimoo... I just wanted to free all your personalities" he said with a serious expression. "But they made things difficult.." he mumbled. -"what?" Jack asked. -"yeah, I know. We just wanted to be free! We could at least live at the cabin or something... but you kept resisting." Wilford said. He helped them stand up which confused the both of them before Wilford continued speaking. "You don't know what it's like, Mark. Laying around.. waiting for you to let us out on accident or something.. but you kept us trapped. It was like a cage we couldn't escape... and we all wanted out. We just wanted out." Wilford explained, looking slightly sad. -"Wilford...I'm sorry..",Mark replied, looking sympathetic. -"We just need to put a bullet near your heart. That's it. Just.. one more.." Wilford said as he raised a gun to him. Jack was becominf defensive before Mark held Jack's hand and nodded his head. -"if this.. if this is a trick... You have to let Jack kill you." Mark replied, seriously. Wilford nodded his head. ===============================================================================   As Mark and Jack ran one direction, Ashley did the smartest thing she could think of: get into the damn car. She quickly turned back on the ignition as Dark limped towards them with plenty of arrows when she suddenly hit the gas and drove straight toward him. He barely dodged as she hit the brakes and ran out the car. She followed Joey as he ran, holding Daniel's hand as he did so. Issa was running beside Ashley as they heard and saw arrows miss them all swiftly. They suddenly reached a small meadow as tried hiding in the tall grass as they heard his footsteps gettinf louder. He shot two arrows close to their heads when a sudden loud rumbling came about. It got louder and louder, like a stampede of people. And Suddenly they heard small whining and the thumping got louder. Ashley turned to see an enormous sea of bunnies crash behind their side of the meadow and run past them. Many Jumped or ran over them and some even made Dark trip and fall. He was suddenly covered by a sea of bunnies and they took this as their cue to run away. They looked back and saw Dark shoot arrows randomly before he stopped struggling and began standing up. They ran deeper with this enormous group of hunnies and immediately recognized green, red, purple and black bunnies leading them.  -"what the actual fuck..." Joey said.  -"Just run!" Ashley shouted as they all ran with them back towards the cabin. Issa got to the cars first and tried the ignition once more before the jeep sprung back to life with one last attempt.  -"IT WORKED!!" he shouted. Daniel and Joey immediately jumped in and Ashley announced she had to look for the others boys. -"Oh my god. Fine. But hurry the fuck up why don't you." Issa said before turning off the car. The four colored bunnies hopped in through the windows earning a squeal from Joey.  Ashley began running for a good few minutes when an arrow missed her head by a foot and turned to see Dark, covered in tiny bruises. -"where ya gonna run now?" he taunted. The bunnies were slowly turning around the cabin and coming back at them. She focused her attention on him for a second before throwing her hands up. -"shoot me." She said. -"what?" -"Shoot. Me." She replied. Dark gave her a strange look before shrugging and aiming his crossvow at her anyway. He shot an arrow at her and she ducked quickly right before he hit the trigger. She ran behind a tree and grabbed an old broken bramch before turning the tree and swinging it to smack Dark in the chest. He fell suddenly. The rumbling grew louder and the branches of the old tree she hid behind trembled when one suddenly fell and knocked him out cold. Ashley sighed in relief before she lost her balance from the bunnies sudden running past her. She heard distinct voices over the bunnies and sprung back into life.  -"MAAARRRKKK!!!" Ashley shouted as she stood up from the sea of bunnies. She was stumbling througg the bunnies, careful not to hurt one when she saw them. On the edge of a goddam cliff. God, could this moment be anymore cliché?! -"Ashley!! Don't do it!" He shouted back. She ignored him and ran a straight beeline towards them. She knows she shouldn't be sprinting full force but she could care less about her medical condition at the moment. -"They always say time slows down when you go fast!" Wilford cackled as he aimed the gun instead at her. He shot once and it hit a tree next to her. He reloaded quickly before she and Mark tackled him simultaneously. Mark tackled Wilford for protection though Ashley did it as offense. As they all tumbled near the edge of the cliff, Ashley suddenly remembered the night of the Auditorium and she quickly stood up, shaking off the cold feeling and kicked one of the men looking like Mark and watched them fall down the steep hill. Jack suddenly shouted and hurled his fist, slamming into her temple and she stumbled backwards. Jack punched her again in a screaming rage and she smacked her head into a rock. Her vision went black.  Jack was screaming and crying Mark's name as he fell to his knees beside Ashley. He didn't even bother looking back to see which Mark fell. The one that fell rolled down before smacking into a rock and dying.  The other Mark was on the edge of the cliff, groaning in pain at the impact the tackle did on him. =============================================================================== -"He's dead.." They said in unison.  Jack had dragged along Ashley and the remaining man with them back to the cabin. Ashley woke up once they reached the cabin. Issa was looking dreadful and in tears when they approached.  -"who?" Ashley asked. Issa pointed to the car. Ashley gasped. -"stupid ass shot him.. hit him right in the neck... right in the.. the fucking neck. And now the other hasn't stopped crying. We have to go. Now." Issa said, voice shaking. Jack wordlessly carried the other man into their car. They gasped at seeing him, his neck dry of blood now. They all carried him and buried him beside the cabin. Then they left. It was tearful. And sad. But quick...   They had no choice. They left Dark there and chained him in the basement. Wilford was lying at the bottom of a canyon. They thankfully didn't have any serious PTSD from that day. But they had nightmares occasionally. Especially Joey as he watched Daniel get shot through the neck. Blood all over the backseat. He remebered it vividly. Too vividly. Some people need their story to be told. Wilford told his before he fell to his death. -"Ashley..." Mark said. Again. Ashley looked at him on the car ride back. -"i get it. You fucking hate me. Jack told me what happened and I Didn't know. So fuck off." She snapped before covering her face as she cried, again. -"no.. no.. I want to thank you.. Thank you..." he said before falling back asslep.... Jack was driving silently before he led a few tears escape. He shut his eyes tightly wishing it was all just a dream when suddenly.... ===============================================================================   ...Jack woke up. Never Forget You  on the radio, driving througg the forest and everyone casually listening or talking a little. -"Turn Around." He said as he sat up in his seat on high alert. Ashley looked at him wildly before they suddenly heard a loud: THWIP  And an arrow embedded itself into the side of Ashley's jeep. Chapter End Notes OH MY GOD THAT WAS INTENSE. Thx for stickinf with me through this long ass journry w/ me though!!! Kudos & Comments appreciated. ***** If Only... ***** Chapter Summary Jack saves a heartbreaking moment for everybody. Ashley further investigates about Emily with Daniel and Joey's help. Chapter Notes EHHHHH Enjoy. See the end of the chapter for more notes Jack saved them. He saved all of them. Jack had successfully explained his dream/premonition to them in the car and saved everybody. They turned around and as much as it hurt Jack that Mark was still there, he knee he'd come back at least.  And so he did. Wilford and Dark released two more personalities with voodoo or some shit and they're currently living at the cabin. They dropped off Mark outside the dorms, bruised and battered, where people outside had to call an ambulance. The nurses practically knew their names since they had been there frequently, jesus christ. Mark made an easy recovery and no longer took his pills knowing he wouldn't need them anymore. Life went on. -"MAAARRRKKK" Ashley heard Jack moan in the bedroom. Ashley turned up the volume on her speakers in her bedroom praying she wouldn't hear them. As much fun as it was living with them.... hearing them bang 24/7 was not fun. Literally. She was enjoying a game of Life with her own friends when they walked in practically eating each other down their throats to the bedroom. Let's just say that it was the last time, they all agreed unanimously, that Ashley hosted game night. On top of that (PUN), Ashley always had to let them borrow make-up to cover their hickeys. one time, Mark had a record of twelve. TWELVE FUCKING HICKEYS. -"I pray to god they're using protection" Joey said as he walked into her room And shut the door.  -"i hear them... like.. every. Single. week." Ashley said as Daniel walked in looking equallu surprised. They must have a healthy sex life  Daniel signed. Ashley threw a pillow at him. He pulled out the contents in a tiny grocery bag that contained all sorts of sweets. From Pop-Tarts, to Little Debbie products. -"alright, whores. Let's begin." She said as she gave them each a small mirror. And so they began. ===============================================================================   -"NO! MY POP-TART BRA IS WAYYYY HOTTER" Joey shouted. -"no.. MY Pop-Tart bra IS BETTER! " Ashley shouted back. These were the two sentences Mark and Jack heard as they opened her door. Ashley currently had Pop-Tarts skillfully shaping her boobs and Joey had two sets of Pop-Tarts somehow melted together over two sides of his chest. Daniel had chocolate for lipstick as he layed back on the bed which was covered in sweets. -"what in the--" -"WHO'S BRA IS BETTER?!" Joey exclaimed at the two.  -"Ashley's" they said in unison, shrugging. -"HA!" -"FUCK YOURSELF." Joey said as he ripped off the string holding the pop tart mutants up. Ashley quickly put on a shirt then removed the 'bra' from underneath then smiled at them. -"have fun banging for the second time tonight?" She asked. -"sorry. Sorry. We'll stop...",Mark said, shyly. He rubbed the back of his neck where he had... many.. hickeys. -"Damn right you will. Friggin hoe." She said, scoffing. -"So we're gonna go get chinese food. Don't make a mess in the kitchen." Mark said at the doorway before walking out of her room to get his wallet, coat and keys. Then, he and Jack were off to the restaurant.  As they drove, they hummed to some old pop song and looked out at the bright lights of the city before Jack turned down the music all the way. -"Mark, do ye love me?" Jack asked. Mark turned to look at Jack for a second and realized he was being serious. -"of course i do. What isn't there to love about you?" Mark replied. Jack sighed and continued looking out the window. "Jack, why do you ask?"  -"I've just been... doubting myself. I feel like I'm just going to wake up back in.. back in Jason's arms. Back in High School and that this is all just a dream." Jack explained. He looked up at Mark who's eyebrow were now up and worried. -"Jack.. this thing that we have," Mark said as he moved his right hand to enlace his fingers with Jack's. "This here? This is true love. Nothing more. Nothing less." Mark said. Jack stared at their hands as Mark brought them to kiss Jack's knuckles. -"I love ye, Mark. To the moon and back." Jack said. "Thank you.. for everything." -"No, Jack. Thankyou for loving me back. I don't understand why such a great...beautiful... dashing.. hot and Irish guy would ever have me back.." Mark confessed. He kissed Jack's hand again before letting them to to take a turn into the parking lot. Jack blushed furiously at his compliments. "I would Never forget you, Jack. Never. I would always be by your side." Mark added as he turned off the car. -"are ye sure?" Jack suddenly asked. Mark looked at hin pleadingly. -"yes. I will always love you. Till the day I die." Mark said. Jack nodded his head and then neither moved, outside of the restaurant. They sat in the car for a while, Mark looking at the restaurant in front and Jack looking at his lap. They both turned to look at each other with soft expressions before Jack held Mark's neck and crashed their lips together. Mark was tangling his fingers in the bright green hair, Jack was sliding his hands to hold Mark's jaw in place. Mark had seperated first as he unbuckled his seat belt and leaned over to kiss him more comfortably. Mark leaned over and pressed Jack up against his side of the door and their tongues slipping into each other's mouths like the last piece of a puzzle. After what felt like hours was only minutes before breaking apart for air. Mark's hot breath hitting Jack's lips in which he kissed one last time before leaning back and opening the car door. Jack was still sitting there before Mark laughed at his frozen face. He slowly got out of the car amd linked his fingers with Mark's as they walked in to get  five boxes of take-out chinese. ===============================================================================   As promised, Mark and Jack refrained their sexual activities at night and instead prepared for their second exams of the year before Christmas Break. Ashley was... ecstatic. She adored holidays. This included forcing the boys to buy a small tree that fit the dorm room, she bought small stockings and plastered in glittery glue their names on them, then she filled the entire living room and kitchen with Christmas decor. Mark and Jack unfortunately had to walk in and get a blast of red and green shining all around them one day in which they insisted she took down half of the bright lights she strung around.  -"BY THE WAY, I asked someone to help me bake shit!" She said as she walked past them making out on the couch. -"what? Who?" Mark asked, much to Jack's displease of seperating their liplock. -"I'M HOOOMMEE!!" Issa shouted as he walked into the dorm.  -"oh." Mark said as he was suddenly pulled back into Jack's embrace. -"aww. Yall are O-T-P!" Issa said in adoration before making his way to the kitchen. -"kay bitch, let's bake some goddam christmas cheer into this place!" A random girl said as she walked in carrying machinery that was supposedly for said baking. -"OH MY GOD!!! LAQUONDA?!" Ashley asked. The dark skinned girl smiled and dropped the things on the counter. -"Ashley girl! C'mere you fat ugly bitch!" She said as they hugged and bounced on their feet squealing.  -"take it to the room, Jesus christ.." Wade said as he walked in wearing an ugly Christmas sweater. Bob followed in after and waved at them awkwardly. -"Wanna take this to the room?" Mark asked Jack in a deep sexy manner. -"DON'T YOU DARE BANG WHILE WE HAVE OUR FRIENDS HERE." Ashley warned. They laughed as they ran into the bedroom.  -"You hear those men bangin' all the time?" Laquonda asked. -"Used to. They stopped, thank the heavens." Ashley replied.  Mark lifted Jack by his waist to the bedroom and he kicked yhe door vlosed behind him as he kissed Jacl lovingly against the door. Jack had his legs wrapped around Mark's waist and his arms draped loosely on his neck. After breaking apart their kiss, they held their forehead together and Jack slowly slid off into a standing position.  -" WE CAN FEEL THE ANGST FROM HERE!" Ashley suddenly shouted from the kitchen. Issa laughed. Jack slammed his hand into the wall repeatedly and fake moaned. Mark busted into laughter and Jack smiled. He loved his laugh. Mark began keeling backwards and Jack tried holding him from falling but instead collapsed along with him. The two were laughing for a while before Mark wiped a tear and hummed contently at Jack laying on top of him, fiddling with the collar of his shirt. -"you okay?" Mark asked, looking down at Jack. The latter lifted his head, green hair clouding one of his eyes and he nodded his head with a smile. Mark pushed away the stranded hair back with the rest and Jack buried his face into Mark's chest. Jack rose his head again that had tinted pink on his cheeks. Mark chuckled a little before kissing the top of his head and soon falling asleep. ===============================================================================   -"excuse me, uhh, I'm looking for Dr. Morrison?" Ashley asked the woman at the desk. -"He's currently in surgery.. but the procedure started about twelve minutes early so he'll come out any minute now if there were no complications and he'll have his class with the interns about.. forty minutes after that. Would you like to wait? I can page him if you like."  the woman stated, while flipping through a few clipboards.  -"uhm. Sure." Ashley said. The woman nodded her head and pulled out her pager. Joey and Ashley began walking back to the waiting area where Daniel was currently sitting. -"hey.. you okay?" Joey asks when he came back. Daniel smiled and nodded his head before intertwining their fingers. Ashley was sitting up with her attention at its peak as she waited for the doctor to finish surgery. After plenty of minutes of waiting, she began losing hope. She was now sitting lazily on the chair next to Joey who reclined his head against Daniel's shoulder.  -"Okay. I'm pretty sure he's the one who died in surgery." Ashley said as she slowly stood up and stretched. Joey sighed and rubbed a hand through his face as he stood up with her and helping Daniel stand as well.  -"Nobody died, thankfully." A man behind them said. Ashley flinched and spun so fast she staggered as she lost some balance.  -"Um.. are you Dr. Morrison?" Joey asked. The man smiled and nodded his head.  -" you must be the ones Melissa asked me to talk to?" He asked. Ashley nodded her head. "And what is it you'd like to speak about?" Ashley listened to his voice and noticed the familiar voice that they heard from behind the camera. She took deep breath and straightened her posture. -"yes, I'd like to ask you about a friend of mine.. you may have treated her?" Ashley asked. Dr. Morrison looked at his hands deep in thought when he shook his head slowly. -"hmm can you be more specific?" He asked. Ashley nodded her head. -"her name was Tiffany Lopez. She was subject 1738?" Ashley stated. Dr. Morrison's eyes widened at the name and stuffed his hands in his pockets.  -"i figured this day would come...." he said. He skowly beckoned them to follow him and soon enough ended up in his office. "Let us begin." He said. ===============================================================================  -"bunnies..." Joey repeated for the third time. -"yes, bunnies." Dr. Morrison replied for the third time. -"so basically... you're saying that Emily's spirit animal according to the entry Emily put in the diary they shared...was--" Ashley said -"Bunnies..." Joey repeated, finishing her statement. -"Yes. So if what you said was true about these bunnies chasing you all around and being so in love with your friend Jack and Tiffany... then.. it's strangely presumable to say that her spirit can be involved with these bunnies' attitude." Dr. Morrison explained. -"Did Emily happen to take her shoes a lot?" Ashley asked. Dr. Morrison turned to her with a grin. -"why yes, it was in one of Tiffany's entries. Why?" He asked. Ashley grew a smile on her lips. -"no reason.." she replied. Dr. Morrison went on asking what else they knew about it and they answered willingly. Sadly for Ashley, the meeting ended so soon. As they left his office, his pager buzzed to life. -"sorry, I have to go to a class for the interns. Today, is the analogy of the heart. Exciting stuff, well thank you for stopping by and I wish you the best of luck." He said. Then he stopped walking and instead turned to Ashley. -"two final questions: what was your name again?" He asked.  -"umm Ashley. Ashley Luhmbar" she replied. He nodded his head. -"i recognized the name.. you performed alongside my son, didn't you?" He asked. Ashley's eyes widened.  -"y-yes.. um. Yes.. I did.." she said. He smiled and pulled from his back pocket a small box and a note.  -"and as for that other question, why did you all refer to Tiffany with past tense pronouns?" He asked. Ashley's face dropped a little. -"she uh.. she's dead now, Dr." She replied. Dr. Morrison's smile wavered. -"oh... well.. I wish you all the best",he said and hurriedly walked away. As he left, Ashley, Joey and Daniel stood there in utter silence. She opened her hand and looked at the small velvety box and the note, which said: Reminder: propose to your girlfriend,Ashley  Ashley opened the box and saw a beautiful diamond ring.. she walked up ahead to find Dr. Morrison but she couldn't. She looked down at the box and smiled. She put on the ring and Joey gave her a sad look. -"Who was his son?" Joey asked. Ashley toyed with the ring on the ride back. She crumpled up the paper in hid it inside the box. -"My boyfriend..." she said, vouce cracking a little. If only she saw the signs... If Only.... Chapter End Notes Boom. Plot Twist. Time for dat happy ending, ladies and gentlehoes. ***** Mashed Potatoes, Stolen Files & Sweet Smiles ***** Chapter Summary Mark has a surprise, It's Christmas Eve, Ashley uncovers the last clue that led to Emily's demise. Chapter Notes TWO MORE CHAPTERS. AAAHHH. Enjoy this one! See the end of the chapter for more notes Blueberries. Sean 'Jack' McLoughlin discovered her weakness. Blueberries. -"I SAID NO." she shouted. Jack cackled evilly snd dropped the can of blueberries into the muffin mix. -"NOOOOO" she said before falling to the ground and fake crying. -"it's just blueberries, LaLa." Mark said from the stove. -"i hate blueberries. I'll have any berries but those berries" Laquonda said. Ashley picked her off the ground and fixed her christmas hat. -"Christmas is tomorrow. be happy." Ashley said.  -"why can't we have Crandberry's like every other normal american group of washway teens?" Issa asked. -"Cause not everybody here is American!" Jack exclaimed. -"i GOT THE MEATS!" Joey shouted in a deep voice.  -"okay, Arby's, hurry up and throw it in here to thaw." Mark said. Joey laughed and did as asked.  The group was (attempting on) making a Christmas Dinner for themselves. Christmas Eve being the current day, trees flooding from underneath their tree, and Ashley practically a very ecstatic drill sergeant. Jack and Lala (Laquonda) were currently making desserts, Mark and Joey were making the main meal, Issa and Daniel helped anybody out and Ashley was on drinks and decorations.  -"I'm allergic to blueberries..." Laquonda mumbled. Jack rolled his eyes and threw a blueberry at her cheek. She flinched and turned to look at him with a serious expression. "The fuck was that for?" -"if ye were reslly allergic, ye would've panicked by now." Jack replied giving her a bittersweet smile. She fake fainted and Jack laughed. Ashley sighed. -"ugh this bitch." Ashley said as she helped her up again. Mark was cutting potatoes and Joey was failing at cutting the tomatoes. "Oh my god, let me help" Ashley said, hip bumping Joey aside. She quickly cut the tomatoe and then tossed it into the food processor and Joey just atared at her viciously. -"go buy some red wine, why don't you." Joey taunted before repeating the gesture and began cutting carrots. Ashley scoffed and walked out of the kitchen, she grabbed Daniel's arm and led him to the door. -"WE'RE GOING OUT. BYE BITCHES",she shouted as Daniel rapidly signed SOS, I'm being kidnapped. -"well bye.." Mark said as the door already closed. He resumed with the potatoes when he felt arms wrap around his waist and he jumped a little. He smiled gratefully not bothering to look at the person.  -"Hey boo..." a deeo girly voice said. Mark whipped his head around and saw Laquonda laughing her ass off and Jack laughing just as hard. Mark blushed a deep red and furiously cut the potatoe in his hand, resulting in cutting his finger. He cussed and held his finger as he rushed to the bathroom. Once there, he turned on the water and let his finger run under it for a while before wrapping it in a towel and wiping off someof the blood. He searched through the cabinets and found a Band-Aid box in which he opened it and put one on. Jack walked in at the moment and Mark wanted to be mad at him but instead felt defeated. -"you okaayy?" Jack asked innocently. -"fuck yourself." Mark replied. Jack laughed at that and Mark tried to look away. Jack reached for his chin and lifted it towards him. -"Seriously, ye okay?" Jack asked. Mark nodded his head. -"hey how do you feel about... snow..." Mark asked out of the blue. -"nothing wrong with it. Why?" Jack asked.  -"well.. nevermind." Mark said, dismissing his response. -" no, tell me." Jack insisted. -"no. Go bake a cake or something" Mark retorted as he stood up. Jack wrapped his arms around Mark's neck and whispered hotly in his ear: -"I'd rather bake you underneath me... as you scream my name like the other night when I grabbed your--" -"Jack, now is not the time." Mark said as he felt a jolt course through his body. -"i feel like right now is the time.." Jack said in his ear again. Jack slid his leg up Mark's leg and Mark almost fell into it before realizing they had guests in kitchen.  -"Jack...you'll have to wait till tonight." Mark said. Jack groaned,  frustrated. -"Fine. But don't expect me to bottom" Jack rebutted at him. Mark smirked and grabbed Jack's ass quickly. -"You enjoy feeling me inside you, don't lie." Mark whispered in a deep tone which sent shivers through Jack.  -"OH MY GOD WHEN WILL HE DO IT?!" Laquonda asked excitedly. -"what's happening?" Mark asked as they rejoined the other two. Issa quickly turned back around and shut off his phone. -"Nothing. At all. Lala, shut up about it." Issa said quickly. -"Sure. Okay. Oh my god! I would want that when I get.. um.. asked.." she said, trying to keep it low-key.  -"want what?" Jack asked. -"Nothing." the other three said in unison. Jack narrowed his eyes. -"mhmm" he mumbled before returning to the batter and mixing it.  What could Mark be hiding? Is he going to break up with me? Is it a surprise? Is it a bottle of whiskey? Is it two bottles of whiskey? Jack thought to himself as he continued mixing the batter.  ===============================================================================   -"isn't this breaking and entering?!" Joey hissed at Ashley.  -"ugh, for fucks sake. No. I said it's not Breaking and Entering if we just enter.. hoenstly..." she mumbled. -"ugh you idiot, that's not what it really means." Joey whispered. If there are red lasers pointing in every direction I will run for the car and leave you guys here Daniel signed to them furiously. Ashley sighed and looked through another cabinet. She kept going through the folders before finding her target. -"aha!" She exclaimed in silent victory. -"great. Unless it's nuclear launch codes, why else are we here?" Joey whispered. Ashley opened the file and turned on the lamp on Dr. Morrison's desk for better lighting than that of the window. -"it's Tiffany and Emily's case. There's just somethinf missing that ties this all together." Ashley explained. -"are you serious? What could it be?" Joey asked, annoyed.  there's a car Daniel signed but neither noticed. -"Not what. Who. Who exactly was the person that drove Emily to becoming more anorexic than Tiffany?" Ashley asked. Joey pursed his lips. -"it could be anyone from her class... at the time..." Joey replied as he understood where she was goinf with this. They searched through a few papers before finding a roster of her classmates. -"okay. So basically, according to the journal which is right here" Ashley said pointing to the small book beside them, "Emily's last entry ended with 'Thanks a lot JP, you fucked me up to the point of killing myself. I hope you get possessed or some dumb shit and burn in hell'" Ashley read off the page. Joey nodded his head. -"so who's JP?" Joey asked. -"Hmm. There are three possibilites that can fall under that. There's Jane Pamela Richardson--" -"but wasn't she like good friends with Tiffany in elementary or something?" Joey asked. -"exactly, so it can't be her..." Someone is coming Daniel signed but neither looked up. -"there's Jackson Paulson" Ashley said. -"yeah but he was pulled out at the beginning of the year, see?" Joey pointed out. Ashley nodded her head. "So the person who presumably did this was--" -"Oh my god.. it can't be... oh my god no...." Ashley said in shock as she stepped away from the papers. She looked at them in sudden horror. Daniel slammed his hands on the desk and pointed to the door. They looked up finally and heard footsteps coming down the hall. Ashley took a picture and quickly put awaa everything. She slid the folder back into it's cabinet and they quickly crowded behind the door. The door slowly pushed open slightly and Dr. Morrison himself walked in with a small suitcase. He slowly opened it as he turned to sit in his desk, when a few papers fell out. He cursed and bent down to pick them up and the three took that as their cue to leave. He lifted his head and looked above his desk. -"jesus christ, working too much really does make you hear things" he mumbled. ===============================================================================   -'WE BROUGHT WINE!" Joey shouted as he carried two bags with several wine. Lala clapped her hands and Issa fake exasperated. -"Thank god. I was about to die without food." Mark said as he stood up from the couch. Ashley laughed and they began pulling out the things to finish the meal.  After another hour of hard work, they finally got things on the expanded table (which is just another table put next to their small one) and began digging in. Ashley looked at everyone like a proud mother as Mark faked an orgasm biting into his mashe potatoes. -"oh my god" Jack said as he tried the roast. "Ye never get anything like this back in Ireland." He sakd. -"oh, bullshit." Lala said. A round of laughter sounded from the others. They ate, drank and laughed for nearly two hours before they filled themselves up with food. Then Issa clapped his hands excessively. -"PRESENTS!" he squealed. -"oh my god. Why." Jack said as he threw his head back.  -"because it's the christmas spirit. Now fucking move your ass to the living room before you ruin the moment." Lala snapped. Jack looked at her wide-eyed and she smiled sweetly. "Please? " she added. They all moved to the living room and Issa grabbed a set of presents first.  -"okay, so here's yours. And yours. And yours.. and your bitch ass... and yours." He said as he handed them their gifts. Joey and Daniel opened their shared gift and found a couple's bracelet. Laquonda had an ugly sweater with their faces on it. Ashley got a gift card to Starbucks. Jack got a blanket and Mark got a tank top. -"My turn. Mine are the candy cane wrapped ones." Ashley said. Everyone looked st her and she sighed. "Fiiiine" she said as she crawled over snd handed everyonr their presents. Jack got another blanket and Mark a sweater. Joey got a phone case. Daniel got an aux cord. Issa got the new Ariana Grande album and Laquonda got a Ken doll. -"gurl what's this for?" She asked.  -"you said you wsnted a boyfriend so.." Ashley said. Laquonda sent hee death glares as everyone else laughed. After everyone handed out their presents there was one more left under the tree that Mark was reaching for. -"What's that?" Jack asked. Mark shrugged. -"it says To: Jack " Mark read. Jack looked st it confused before gingerly looking at it. It was small and neatly wrapped.  -"Why does that look like a--" Joey began to say before Issa clamped a hand over his mouth. Jack opened it sloely and revealed a soft texture to the package. Jack fully unwrapped it and it was a small velvety box. Jack chuckled. -"if their earings, I'm going to kill whoever gave them to me" Jack said. Jack slowly opened the box and it revealed a small emerald ring. Jack stared. -"oh my god it's happening!" Lala squealed. Issa smacked her foot. -"what is this? Who gave this to m--" Jack began to say before looking up from the ring and seeing Mark kneeling in front of him on the couch. -"Sean..." Mark said. -"oh no.." he whispered. -"...I-I've been in love with you for as long as I can remember... and I want you to be mine. Please. I will never forget you.. and you will always be by my side. From the day that I met yo, I knew that I would love you till the day I die. And I know I haven't asked for much more but in my heart I will always be strong. I will never forget you. And i'll always be by your side, till the day I die." Mark said. Jack was staring at him as the other stared at him lovingly. Jack looked down at the ring and smiled.  -"y-yes. Oh god yes. Yes!" He exclaimed in sudden joy. Mark's smile shined through as he cupped Jack's face to kiss him. -"WOO! GAYS EVERYWHERE!" Lala and Ashley shouted as they softly clinked wine cups together. Issa rolled his eyes.  -"Oh. Crap, Jack can I talk to you and Mark for a sec?" Ashley said later on right before they all went to bed. -"sure." Jack replied as he and Mark followed her to.. Tiffany's old room. When they reached there, Ashley began scrolling through her phone.  -"okay so I saw through some old files, don't ask how, about Emily and Tiffany's case." Ashley said. -"Ashley.. ugh. If this is what helps you find closurd then that's alright. We're here for you but don't stress yourself out too much about it--" Mark began to say. -"no no no, this is about one last thing that didn't make sense. Who was the person who caused Emily to almost die? See, it was bugging me because apparently Emily started the whole 'Fat Whale' thing and she became anorexic fasted than Tiffany and then killed herself. So... who made her drive to the point in suicide? So we looked through some files..." Ashley explained as she went through her photo gallery and obtained the picture. -"SOMEONE'S KNOCKING AT THE DOOR!!!" Laquonda shouted from the kitchen where she washed dishes. -"Answer it! We'll be right there!" Mark shouted back. -"and we found out who it was by process of elimination because there was someone called JP in Emily's journal and we didn't exactly know who it was since we had three possibilites--" -"Jack! Your friend's here!" Laquonda shouted. -"--so we took off one of their friends and then some kid who got pulled out and you'll never believe who it is.." Ashley finished saying. Mark looked at the picture on the phone along with Jack. -"well who is it?" Jack asked Ashley. -"Oh my god, Jack. You're friend is here. Don't be rude and say Hi, apparently you guys were all friends in High School?" Laquonda said popping in through the door then walking away.  Mark, Jack and Ashley had confused faces before walking down the small hall and into the living room. -"wait so who was it?" Mark asked Ashley again as they saw a rather fit and tall figure with blonde hair, with his back to then greeting the others. -"Jason?" Jack asked. Mark and Ashley whipped their heads up st the person... and there, standing in the flesh himself was-- -"Hi, remember me? I'm Jason, --" he said. His eyes slightly flashing a little red. -"Jason Parker..." Ashley and he said in unison.  Mark froze and intertwined his fingers with Jack for dear life. Chapter End Notes ONE LAST PLOT TWIST BEFORE THE FINAL CHAPTER!!!!!   So I'm going to make the next one really intense and shiz.. so.. enjoy...   Kudos & Comments appreciated. ***** Missing pt. 1 | Jason Parker ***** Chapter Summary In a battle mostly against time, Mark and his friends pull all the strings in their pockets to save Jack from the psycho that started the domino effect of horror and insanity since their Senior Year in High School. Finale :D Chapter Notes WOOO! Okay. So Thank you guys so much for wanting to read this weird, crazy fic. I know it's been one hell of a ride. So I'm kinda glad that it's over. Lmao. Nonetheless, thank you for reading and Kudos and comments. If you want, check out my other fics currently held in the Septiplier Recycling Bin series.   **FINAL TRIGGER WARNINGS** Abuse Implied Torture Methods Minor Gore Implied Overdosage Murder Public Display of Gore Psychological Taunting Implied Rape Major Character Death See the end of the chapter for more notes He slowly looked up and heard a ringing in his ears. A voice was screaming his name. He slowly lifted his head up. Jack?!  Guys he's over here! He recognized the voice... But from where? I Love You, till the day I die.. Another voice he recognized. Where were all these voices coming from? Jack? Is that you..? Another voice.  Jack.             Jack       Jack             Jack               Jack                   Jack                         Jack -"Jack?" A voice said, snapping their fingers in his face. He cackled lightly. "Good morning... beautiful" he said as he forced a kiss on Jack's lips. -"g-get a-awaa from m-m-me." Jack said, in a raspy, weak and dry voice. -"no darling...  I just want to be inside of you..." Jason said in a sardonic fashion. He leaned into Jack's ear with his hand on his thigh. "Correction. I need to be inside of you." He said. -"no. NO NO!" Jack shouted as he felt Jason tug off his jeans. Jack couldn't do anything though. He was chained to bolts in the ground and he was basically a rag doll at the moment. -"yes. Yes!" Jason countered as he successfully took off Jack's jeans. He felt his boxers be pushed down. And at that moment with no protection or warning, Jason slammed in ripping another scream from Jack, both knowing it might never be heard. ===============================================================================   -"He hits like a bitch..." Laquonda said for the fifth time that night, her arms crossed in front of her as she stared out the window.  -"Yes.. we get it Lala..." Issa said as he held the icepack to his forehead. After Jack tried smacking Jaosn, he smiled his dazzling smile before slamming his elbow into his head, then backhanding the others with strong force and finally throwing Mark off the dorm's balcony from their floor. Jason threw Jack over his shoulder and took the large ramp that led to the 3rd floor of the dorms as he carried Jack and.. well basically kidnapped him. Mark had landed on the pavement and was unconscious for a while.  They had to drag his ass up, told people who stared that he was just drunk and then closed the door. Needless to say, their Christmas Eve ended on a sour ass note. -"We need to find him." Mark tried to say before not getting two feet away from the couch and collapsing after waking up. -"no. You need to rest and we need to try and not have an aneurysm from the headaches we're all sporting." Ashley demanded. They all sat down on the sofas and sat with disbelief and sudden anger.  Jason showing up was a big surprise. And I mean, Big. -"I thought he died..." Mark said after a while.  -"so did I..." Ashley said, shaking her head in disbelief. -"Jack or that guy...whats his face?" Joey asked, holding a pea bag to the right side of his face with his right prosthetic hand. "At least he didn't punch my left eye.." Joey said before laughing a little. Hilarious, Daniel signed at him. Joey winked at him with his remaining eye.  ===============================================================================   Christmas morning wasn't filled with cheer and gifts. It was filled with planning and panic. The group began plotting and discussing where Jason could have taken Jack. -"No. That makes no sense! His childhood home? What is this, Taken 4?" Ashley exclaimed.  Hey, I love that series, he signed, narrowing his eyes at her.  -"Okay. So that's a no to their parents' houses..." Mark said as he made another set of large red X's on the city map.  -"maybe... the basement of a house?" Joey asked.  -"Totally! And maybe he has Jessie Pinkman and a meth lab too." Issa said, smacking his arm.  -"Maybe they took a trip to Jamaica? Why are we thinkinf or bad places?" Laquonda cut in, sounding annoyed. Everyone turned to look at her with bitter expressions. -"we are talking about the guy that killed four of our old friends, led Jack to almost killing himself and started our whole mess of chaos..." Mark snapped.  -"Okay. Fine. How about the old airport?" She asked. -"Airport?" Mark asked.  -"Yeah, it was abandoned like... six years ago--" -"Nah, too big and shady..." Ashley said. Mark took note of that and crossed out the airport. Maybe he's just gone. Maybe they don't want to be found, Daniel signed. Everyone turned to look at him. -"I will not stop looking for my future husband.. I will never not stop looking for him. Jack left Jason for a reason. He left--" -"Because he'd rather be with you?" Joey asked him, narrowing his eyes for a second. -"..yes." Mark replied. The two had a staring contest for a while and Laquonda kept moving her eyes between them like an intense tennis match. "You of all people know what it's like to almost lose somebody..." Mark said. -"No. He.." Joey replied as he wrapped his arm and prosthetic wrist around Daniel's waist. "..knows what it's like to almost lose somebody."  -"It cost him an arm and a leg to keep loving Daniel.." Ashley said, repeating one of the first things Joey said when they met.  -"Yeah.." Joey said, smiling at her.  -"Okay." Issa said smacking his hand on the table, ending the sweet and intense moment, "Let's get some help. Shall we?" he asked. -"nice thinking, Einstein. From who?" Laquonda asked him. At that, he paused for a few seconds. Then Mark's eyes lit up. -"what is it?" Ashley asked him. -"I know exactly the people we can call." Mark said, smirking. Ashley cocked her head in confusion before realizing who he meant. -"no." She said. -"Yeah.." Mark replied, pulling out his phone. -"No." -"Yes." -"NO." Mark put the phone on speaker. -"Hey, buddy. Can you do us a favor?" Mark asked. Ashley fumed at Mark. ===============================================================================   -"Mmm Morning babe..." Jason said as he woke up. Jack quit his shivering the moment he felt Jason stir awake.  Jack made no attempt in moving. He just layed there, Jason's morning wood suddenly peaking interest in Jack's cold behind. Jason hummed softly as he scooted back closer and his dick suddenly pressing up against his ass cheek. Jack kept his frightened whimper stuck in his throst to avoid showing Jason his present fear.  -"How are you feeling.. cupcake" Jason whisperes in his ear. Jack squeezed his eyes shut and let a tear slide down. Jason continued their spooning position before Jack felt his hand ghosting up his side.  Normally, Jack wound find that movement teasing and hot... coming from Mark. Or any other man. But at the moment, Jack felt like he was being touched by a pedo, a creep... a monster. -"Jack.. last night was amazing.. you're so.. hot..." he whispered in his ear. Jack felt Jason's erection crooking itself next to his battered and mistreated hole. Jack felt like a whore. Like he betrayed his partner. His Mark.  -"Y-y-yeah..." Jack said with an unsteady voice. Jason kissed the back of his neck. -"You really think so..? Better than.. Mark?" Jason asked. His voice trickled into Jack's ears and ringing them back and forth.  -"Y-yes. S-so much bett'r..." Jack lied, tears beginninf to flow from his eyes. Jasom hummed. -"Are you sure..? You better not be lying. Cause children who lie.. get punished." he whispered in a deadly tone. Jack let out a fearful whimper. -"N-no. Yer fine." Jack replied. -"Hm... I don't believe you.." Jason growled as he stood sat up. -"W-what?" Jack asked. Before taking notice of what was happening, he felt a sudden searing pain on the side of his face. -"Such a bad.. bad... boy.." Jason said, with a fake frown. He brought his hand down and punched Jack on his hip. Jack shouted in pain. Jason forced Jack to sit up and grabbed a set of keys lost by hinds strewn pants and unlocked the shackles Jack was bound to. "Get your ass up, faggot." Jason sneered. Jack did as asked and Jason demanded he picked up his pants from where they were thrown on the floor. As Jack bent over to grab them, he felt a sharp sting on his rear. -"God I love your ass..." Jason said. Jack put on his pants quickly and cowered against the wall. -"W-what are ye going t' do t'me..." Jack whispered, feared for his life. -"I'm going to have a lot.. of fun. You? Not so much." Jason replied before turninf around with a whip. Jack's eyes widened and he bolted for the door only to hear the crack of the whip and he crumbled down in front of his only exit with a small scream. ===============================================================================   -"HONEY, I'M HOOMEE.." A sardonic, familiar voice shouted as he entered dorm.  -"WOAH WHAT?!" Issa shouted.  -"Yup. That's him... or.. them.." Ashley explained.  -"But there's--" -"Three of them..." Joey said in awe.  -"Sadly..." Mark said. -"Hiya Mark." The other said, smiling at him.  -"Nice eyeliner." Ashey scoffed. -"Thanks, we found it in some dead girl's purse." Dark replied. Joey gulped. Wilford approached Mark and hugged him. -"It's been too long." Wilford said with all sincerity. -"Thank the heavens." Ashley snapped silently. -"Jesus, you don't have to be salty around me.." Wilford said, feeling a little hurt. -"Well you didn't have to burn down a goddam auditorium. You didn't have to hurt us. You didn't HAVE TO BE THE GODDAM REASON MY BEST FRIEND IS DEAD, YOU ASSHOLE!" Ashley shouted as she weakly smacked Wilford's bulk arm. -"I'm sorry, okay?" He said, guilty and hurt. -"She didn't have to die.." Ashley repeated as she began crying  -"Okay, we'll get her settled down and yall hoes can talk to.. Mark Two and Three about the plan." Laquonda said as she and Daniel led Ashley to her room. The rest gathered around the kitchen table. -"I'm Dark, by the way" Dark said as he held his hand out to Issa who shook it. "My hands are laced with poison ivy, by the way." Issa recoiled his hand and stared at it in fear. -"He's joking..right.." Mark said. Dark laughed a little.  -"Obviously.." he replied. -"And I'm Wilford" Wilford said sticking out his hand to Joey then to Issa.  -"What's your hand got? LSD's?" -"no. Just blood." Mark replied. -"Fuck yourself." Wilford retorted. -"Nah, he's got Jackaboy to do that for him." Dark said. "Speaking of, where is that green hairball anyway?" Looking around with his head. -"Missing. More specifically, kidnapped. By Jason." Mark informed them. -"Jason? But isn't he--" -"Dead?" Ashley suddenly said as she walked back looking a lot calmer. "Yeah, we assumed that too. Apparently, the evil are hard to kill." She said, giving a quick glance to Wilford only Mark could catch. -"So the plan is..?" Wilford asked. -"We find out his location, first. Then we find a way to get him out safely." Joey replied. -"What about Jason?" Mark asked. Suddenly, the dorm room was opened and came in a girl sleek black hair, combat boots and a leather matchinf outfit from a torn tank, leather jacket and pants. -"We kill his bitch ass." She said. Her voice sounded familiar as did her face. Too familiar in fact... -"Excuse me, who in the hell are you?" Issa asked sassily. The girl smirked and Ashley immediately placed her. Aside from the different facial structure, her nose eyes and mouth were exactly like-- -"You may have known my sister. She's dead now, unfortunately." She peace signed them. "My name's Emily." ===============================================================================   -"THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN SHE'S ALIVE TOO?! Idiota, que es el dia de los muertos o que?" Dark exclaimed from English to.. Spanish?  -"Same.." Laquonda replied as she rubbed her temples. -"Yeah. Still here." She said, rollinf her eyes. -"How are you alive??" Ashley asked. -"Great Question!" Emily replied as she stood up from the couch. "After the whole Anorexia Phase, our mother caught onto it and had demanded what was the problem. She tried talking to us but then told us to lie. She basically faked my death. Then I was locked away in my childhood home for god knows how long." Emily explained. "Then, my sister suddenly goes to different forms of therapy awhile I sit at home fixing my Anorexia my own way. But one day.. Tiffany loses it and she tries to kill herself . I felt terrible and I locked refused to find out what happened. After she entered High School, I was shipped to a boarding school far away under the name Emily Grant. Shockingly, I fit right in and flew threw High School with flying colors. But I finally obtained Tiffany's number by learning how to hack really well. And apparently shit went down..." Emily explained.  She went on about how she reunited with Tiffany and then how Tiffany told her everythinf that happened. As she spoke, Ashley tried taking notes of everything she said, Mark was listening as intently as Joey and Daniel, Issa and Laquonda searched for Ibuprofen bottles, Dark sharpened his knives, and Wilford was fidgeting with his bowtie every now and then. -".. And then I find out she's dead. I go around and buckle on some cameras on this group of bunnies I basically trained since I love bunnies and bunnies are my life." Emily said. -"woah woah woah... what do you mean you trained bunnies. Like... did these bunnies live in.. the wild?" Ashley asked. -"Yeah. Oh my god it was crazy. so I found them trapped in these small cages and little houses at this cabin from the.. Beef Jerky? Carribbean Jerk? Kennel? I forgot their name--" -"Kjellberg's?" Mark spoke up. -"Yeah, exactly." She said. -"Yeah, we painted and... kept.. those. bunnies.." Ashley said awkwardly. -"okay.. anyway I found them there one time when I was on a jog at this cabin I lived in for a while and then I freed them and they really like the smell of blueberries..." Emily said. "I remember since I had blueberry perfume, don't ask. I had weird hobbies."  -"So you sent that bunny to the funeral?" Ashley asked. -"you mean Tiffany's?  Yeah. My parents said it was too risky to show up. So.. so I got plastic surgery. But I kept a few things so my parentz could at least recognize me. Then I applied here." Emily finished. There was intense silence around the room when she finished.  -"So All this time, you've been--" -"Tracking down Jason and my sister's friends. Jason came to UCLA and he's been stalking you guys. Legit. He had cameras all over this dorm, that was until Joey and Issa came. Jason clearly was not expecting that sudden friendship since he had them in his Calculus class." Emily explained. That's where I remember him! Daniel signed and snapped his fingers. Joey nodded his head as he remembered as well. -"so Jaosn took them down but then he became roomies with the guy next door and he set up camp the day Christmas Break hit. And now we're here. I'm down to fucking take him down for trying to kill my sister and screwing me over and drivinf me to create a new goddam identity for myself since the seventh grade." Emily said, suddenly defensive. -"Revenge is exactly what we'll get" Dark suddenly said. Everyone turned to look at him. He was inspecting Mark's computer and the map they had. -"Hey, how did you get in my--" -"When your password is associated with your boyfriend, in this case Jackaboy<3, it's quite easy to access your laptop. That and I had a knack of remembering your passwords whenever I woke up." Dark said. -"Your Password Is Jackaboy heart emoji?" Wilford asked. -"Shut up, Mr. SexyPinkOveralls" Mark replied. -"That was one site..." Wilford pointed out.  -"Suuuuree" Dark taunted, rolling his eyes and smirking. "Anyways, I pinpointed Jack's location simply on facial recognition software. Did you know some places left their cameras shut off and not dismantled? Pfft, the nerve of some people." Dark mumbled. -"That's great! Where the hell is he?" Emily asked, hopping over the couch. -"an abandoned airport." Dark said. -"What." Mark and Ashley deadpanned.  -"HA! You hoes THOUGHT I was wrong. Ya THOUGHT!" Laquonda cheered. she spun around and bowed dramatically. "Who called it?" She asked. -"Shut Up, LaLa." Ashley snapped, rolling her eyes. Laquonda held her expression before Ashley sighed and she and Mark whispered: "You did.." -"Okay. Now how do we storm the castle?" Issa asked. -"Great question." Dark And Emily said simultaneously. -"Guns or knives?" He asked her. -"Obviously knives. Who am I? The FBI?" She asked, scoffing. Dark smiled as she walked away. -"Ooh Dark has a crush." Wilford teased. Dark whipped out a knife and placed it against his throat. -"Shut your mouth, SexyPinkOveralls." Dark warned. Wilford groaned. -"It was one freaking time!" ===============================================================================    Jack was sittinf there when he heard the footsteps. Okay, Jack. Remember the steps. Kiss, Swipe, Punch, Kick, Sprint. Easy enough, right Jack? Kiss. Swipe. Punch. Kick. Sprint. Good. Kiss. the footsteps got closer. Swipe. He heard the keys rattling. Punch. He heard the familiar click. Kick. The door swung open. Sprint. -"Hey, babe" Jason greeted. He had a tray in his hands and set it down. Orange Chicken. "How you doin?" He asked. Jack stood up with great difficulty and wrapped his hands around Jason's neck. -"I came to terms that you'll never let me go. I've beee scheming against you since you left this morning and I just want out. But that won't happen." Jack said with a hoarse voice. Jason looked at him before smiling. -"now you're getting it, babe. There you go." Jason replied. -"So kiss me." Jack said as he leaned in and closed the space between their lips. Just think it's Mark, just think it's Mark. Just think it's-- Swipe. Jack slid his hand to Jason's hip and he unhooked the keys with ease. Ever since Jason took off his own cuffs after a proper beating, Jack practiced unhooking them from his jeans for a long time. Now he unhooked them easily and then came the next step. What was the next step? Oh yeah, Punch. Jack swung his fist and it conencted with Jason's jaw. Jason stumbled away a little. -"Oh you little--" FOR FUCK'S SAKE, MCLOUGHLIN. THOSE SOCCER PRACTICES WERE NOT FOR NOTHING. Kick! Jack swung his less pained leg and kicked Jassn backward, right in the chest. Jack stumbled into the wall before regaining posture. Now would be a great time to sprint, dumbshit. And with that, Jack ran as best and fast as he could througg the slightly ajar door. Jack threw it open and ran down the kong hallway. He reached another set of doors and quickly found a random key to unlock one of the locks. Jack luckily got it and went on with the second of the three. This one he struggled on more as he went througg four keys. He turned back to see the door slowly swinging open as Jaosn stumbled out angrily. Jack frantically went through more keys until he unlocked the last lock and he threw open the door. He stumbled out to see a large enpty area with a few papers strewn across and graffiti markinf the ground snd walls. Jack ran again and found a broken escalator. He clambered up it before he hit the last step which shook violently. Jack lost his balance and fell backward into the arms of his kidnapper  -"Aww babe. I thought you were finally getting it. You can never escape me.." he said before knocking Jack out. ===============================================================================  -"Dam Ashley, back at it again with the breaaing and entering." Joey mumbled as Ashley crawled through the broken window. -"Joey! It's an abondoned aiport!" She hissed at him quietly. -"be quiet, both of you." Wilford scolded as he was next to go in. They has drove to nearly half a mile from the airport then walked the rest of the way there. Dark, Emily and Wilford carried large duffle bags with assorted weapons. Once they all entered inside the airport, they dropped the bags and began sorting them out. -"Mute Boy gets three daggers.." Dark said as he handed Daniel three pouches to strap onto his jean loops. "Gay Cyborg over here gets a gun and a ninja star.." Dark said handing Joey his weapons. -"Here, I got you two whistles." Emily said as she handed Laquonda and Issa each a whistle. -"For what? Is Jason a werewolf or something?" Issa asked sarcastically. -"Dear Lord, I hope not. It's to summon the bunnies. They're in my car, but I rolled the windows down so they can hop out easily." Emily replied. -"Friendly.." Laquonda muttered as she inspected the whistle. "What else do we get?" -"Two knives for each of you and these..." Emily said as she pulled out small little box things. -"What's that?" Issa asked. -"These are bombs." Emily replied. -"We're trying to save Jack, not kill us all.." Mark said. -"they're for Jason--" -"No. I'm killing Jason." Mark cut in. "Of all people, it's going to be me..." -"We'll have to see who gets there first" Emily said with a wink. -"And you two get guns, daggers and we're settled." Dark said as he placed goggles attop his red tipped hair. -"What's in your hand?" Wilford asked. Dark smiled and raised the long weapon. -"Flamethrower." He and Ashley said simultaneously. -"Pfft." Emily scoffed. "Crossbow for life" she said as she raised said weapon. -"All of you are hoes" Wilford said as he raised a farming Hoe. Everyone gave him an unamused look. -"Why in the hell do you have a damn Hoe for a weapon?" Laquonda asked, absurdly. Wilford smirk before the hoe was suddenly crashing into the tile right in front of Laquonda's feet. -"Anymore questions?" He asked as he easily unsheathed it from the ground. Everyone shook their heads. -"Perfect. Let's move." Wilford said as they began walking through the empty airport. Their footsteps echeoing through the empty building, the sound could have drawn attention. Especially from Emily and Laquonda's boots with heels on them. -"Wait.. is that what I think it is?" Ashley asked. They all turned their attention on one of the edges of a frozen escalator and saw a real human heart plopped on it. Everyone recoiled instantly.  -"Is that a-a--!" -"Heart.." Dark said with an amused smirk. "Perfect organ to keep drug addicts away..."  -"S-speaking of drug addicts..." Joey said, referring to the body sitting on one of the escalators, slumped against the next step. It had a hand loosely clutching a needle against it's neck, they're chest bloody some of their guts threatening to fall out. Flies buzzed around the body. -"H-holy fuck. Christ..." Issa exclaimed as he held his mouth in horror. -"Damn... he is hardcore.." Dark said, still amused. -"No, he's just a murderer.." Emily replied. Dark looked at her and winked. -"So.. we're assuming Jack's on one of the three levels of this godforsaken airport?" Ashley asked, keeping her vomit down. Wilford nodded his head, brows furrowed at the heart and the body. -"Next Floor, ladies and gentlemen..." Dark said in a flight attendant voice. They all said a silent prayer as they began walking up the escalator. As they passed, Ashley noticed the person was wearing a small white coat. And a small gold pin tag was on the floor shining lightly from the sunlight covered by the large expanse of a dark and cloudy sky outside flooding through the large windows. She took a look closer and gasped seeing the name: Dr. Morrison   ===============================================================================   -"P-p-please... s-s-stop..." Jack begged as he attempted crawling away. Jason laughed and pulled him by his ankles again then whipped his back again. Jack let out another cry and shout at the pain flooding his back. -"Not until you learn, baby. Not. Until. Gou Learn!" Jason cooed before cracking the whip against his back with each ending word. -"P-please.. I'm so sorryyYY!" Jack cried before getting whipped again. -"Jack... Jack, Jack, Jack.." Jason said disapprovingly the way a parent would to a child. "You've been a very very vad boy. And you gave me a bruise. Master doesn't get bruises... his faggot does. Remember?" Jason prattled. Jack let out a whimper when Jason kissed his cheek. Jason's hand pressed down onto his gashes and Jack cried out.  -"I-it hurts.. please stop.." Jack whispered. -"Oh does that hurt? Oh I'm sorry baby.... but LOVE fucking HURTS." Jason growled out at he dug his fingers into Jack's gashes on his back causing Jack to scream in pain before passing out. ===============================================================================   The day was ticking by. They searched through most of the building by the time the clock hit six, the sky was darkening twice as much from the cloudy sky.  -"He's not here.." Joey said, sadly and tiredly. -"No.. he has to be.." Emily said, not surrendering anytime soon. -"We've searched this whole place and found nothing..." Mark said as well. -"no he has to be here. We CANNOT give up!" Emily shouted, smacking her hands on the wall beside her. They had all gathered on the second floor and began throwing out ideas of where he could be before they gave up. Suddenly, a gunshot rang through the empty airport and barely missed Emily's head. They all looked for the origin of the gunshot and saw Jason standing in front of a double set of doors leading to a boarding gate. He had a smug expression and he reloaded his gun. -"Evenint, darlings.." he said. Everyone raised their weapons and Issa palmer at his whistle hidden underneath his shirt. -"Aw, c'mon. Eight against one? Now that's not fair.." Jason fake whined before Mark fired a bullet that missed Jason. He grinned evilly. "Time to play.." he said as he pulled out from behind him a fucking grenade launcher. -"Haha, bitch no." Issa exclaimed as he swiftly threw the knife, burying intself into Jason's shoulder. He winced in pain before shooting at Issa's direction. -"Move!" Wilford shouted as he shoved him away and everyone else scattered. Mark and Joey hid behind a steel railing, Ashley scattered away withh Laquonda, Dark and Emily hid on the escalator and Issa and Wilford layed sprawled out on the ground in the open. Daniel was running up a set of escalators that led to the third floor. Wilford scrambled up on his feet and flicked a ninja star which Jason deflected with the barrel of the gun. Issa ran towards Daniel's direction. -"Come out and play, ya pussies!" Jason taunted. Ashley shouted as she flung a suitcase with all her might at Jason... and landed six feet away from him. Ashley stood there completely vulnerable and Jason laughed. -"It's always the dumb ones that die fir--" he began to say before the suitcase exploded and threw Jason off his feet, spiraling to the double doors he came from. He slammed into them before landing on his ass, groaning. Laquonda blew her whistle along with Issa hiding behind a different set of escalators. Jason stood up looking furious when a suitcase fell and crashed on top of him. He crumbled to the ground then stood up.  -"You think you can take me down? Ha. Never." he growled out, the last part in an inhuman voice.  -"Catch!" Emily said as she threw a grenade at him. Jason caught it with ease before throwing it in the air and blowing up the balcony above them. Daniel fell down and collapsed somewhere with the debris. Everyone took close cover when they saw Jason get up from underneath the suddee rubbld completely unscathed. -"Play time's over kids." he said in that inhuman voice before all hell broke loose.  Chapter End Notes So it was supeeerer long so I cut it halfway and ye. Two Part Ending! Hope ye all enjoyed! Kudos & Comments appreciated. ***** Missing pt. 2 | Unexpected Traitor + Epilogue ***** Chapter Summary In a final fight for survival, Mark and his friends fight against Jason and an unexpected traitor within the group. And there's an Epilogue! But who survives to make it? •.• Chapter Notes THANK YOU! To everyone/anyone who made it this far. Thanks for the comments and kudos! I honestly hope you enjoyed this disaster for a fanfiction! And I'll see yu all..... See the end of the chapter for more notes When Jack woke up, it was to a girl screaming. Jack slowly and quite painfully sat up against the wall he was laying against. Jack looked down at his tattered jeans and ripped to shreds shirt. Jack used the wall to try and support him but to no avail as he fell back down, pain practically inhabiting his body. Jack heads loud gunshotz and crashing and explosions right outside the door.  Could his friends be here? He prayed they were. As Jack tried again to stand, he very weakly stood up, his back hurting the most. Jack clung to the wall for a second before feeling hinself almost tolerating the pain before he walked toward the unlocked door. Jack grabbed the whip from where it was hanging on the wall and pushed througg the first set of doors. Now the noises were louder and he heard distinct shouts and mors gunshots. Jack clung more closely to the wall and as he pushed open the last set of doors, he saw large debris in his way. Jack groaned frustratedly as he looked for a side path in which he saw Daniel laying against a wall, holding his bleeding leg. Jack walked over slowly and saw that the skin was cut through dangerously. Jack? Oh fuck right now I wish I had a voice to tell the others. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine for the next three hours before my condition gets critical. Go! Daniel signed frantically. As much as Jack didn't catch most of it, he nodded his head and gave Daniel the remaining, but useful, remains of his shirt. Daniel smiled thankfully as he used it to stop some of the bleeding. Jack walked away in pain and Daniel wanted to shout at the large gashes on Jack's back.  As Jack made his way past the debris, he suddenly saw two figures rush past him with guns and shooting blindly at others down the escalators. Where in the hell am I? An Airport? Jack asked himself as he looked around. Jack wobbled near the escalators and gasped at the sight before him. ===============================================================================   -"WE'RE TOTALLY SCREWED!!" Ashley shouted as she somersaulted behind a sign next to Mark. -"Shit. We're fine. I swear." Mark said as he tried looking over where Jason was shooting a raoid fire weapon.  -"YOU CAN'T HIIIDE" Jason shouted before laughing insanely and shooting blindly. The bullets ricochet off some of the titanium bars and almost hit them.  Ashley was leaning against the small set of chairs they were hiding behind when she saw it. An unloaded grenade. Ashley quickly scampered toward it and grabbed it. She held it in her hand and Mark gave her a nervous glance. -"you know how to use that thing?" Mark asked, sweat shininf on his forehead through the darkening airport. They have officially reached nighttime. The dark ckouds thunderings outside and rain beginning to sprinkle on the building's roof, echoeing occasionally when no bullets were fired. -"Yeah, you just pop off the ring and done!" Ashley replied as doing as she said. She held it in her hand and Mark looked at her wide-eyed. -"Throw it. Shit, Ashley. Throw it!" He hissed. She froze and stared at it. Then she reacted all at once and tossed it, it exploded in mid-air near Jason in which he was pushed with such force into the floor. As he fell, Mark took that opportunity to use his shitty ass pistol to fire blindly in his direction, hitting him once in the leg. Jason hissed at the sudden pain as Mark and Ashley hid behind the escalators, next to Dark and Emily.  Dark nodded his head at Mark in greeting and Emily rose to shoot a few more times, but realizing he had changed his location.  -"The fuck is that?!" Jason suddenly shouted. Everyone stopped breathing. They heard it too. Soft.. but firm rumbling. Like that similae to a stampede of small.. creatures.. -"My little warriors.." Emily mumbled and chuckled. "Took you guys long enough." She rose and pulled from her back pocket a red flare and dragged it across the barrel of her gun. It suddenly lit up and she threw it in the air before catching it and hurling it at a set of chairs. Jason shouted as the light blinded him. -"Bunnies?" Jack said aloud at the top of the escalators. Mark whipped his head and around and he felt his heart stop. Jack still looked beautiful past the bruised face and body. Mark was rising slowly when a bullet caught him off guard and hit his shoulder. Mark went down with a grunt and clutched at his now wounded shoulder. Then, as predicted, a large.. a very large Tundra of bunnies stormed in, jumping through the large broken windows. Ashley prayed none of them stepped on the glass. They all ran towards Jason and the others. Jason let off a few bullets but missing before he ran out of ammunition. He cursed himself before going down with a shout as the bunnies piled over him. They saw a few bunnies squeal as they were thrown but landed and quickly ran back.  -"Bunnies..." Laquonda said, chuckling. -"Bunnies indeed" Issa said, eyeing them suspiciously. Everyone came out of their hiding spots as they walked over to the bunny pile when a series of gunshots rang out and eifht bunnies suddebly flopped lifelessly from the pile. -"No!" Emily gasped a she ran at them. Jason rose from the pile and quickly ran away from  them, outside. The group quickly at his heels. Jason had made it outside where it began to pour.  -"You can't stop me.." Jason said, laughing. Emily kicked him and he fell, she pulled out her gun and shot his shoulder. Jason was still laughing and she had tears in her eyes. -"Emily! Stop!" Ashley shouted through the rain. -"He is the reason my sister went through hell! This ass is goinf to pay for hurting her! What abour your other friends?! Matthew? Stephanie? Felix? What about them? Huh?!" Emily shouted back. They had all stopped and were a couple feet away.  -"Emily..m he deserves justice. Not death." Mark began to warn. -"Fuck justice. He was going to get death penalty anyway." Emily sneered as she aimed the gun at his forehead. He laughed. -"You think I'm stupid? I brought back-upmm" Jason said, laughing as he rested himself on his elbows. "More specifically, you brought my back-up."  Suddenly, they heard a shout and Laquonda was runninf for the group. A bullet was shot and hit her leg, causing her to collapse. Issa was walking behind her, the gun steadily in his hand. He raised it up and Ashley's jaw dropped. -"That's right, bitches." He said, smirking. -"And the funniest thing is, you idiots still haven't found what you were here for!" Jason said, laugging harder. -"I'M RIGHT HERE YE BAG O' DICKS" Jack Shouted as he shot a bullet at Jason's other leg. He gasped as blood was starting to slip out his mouth. Jack painfully walked overm -"Not so fast, Jack!" Issa warned as he raised his gun.  -"You're not going to shoot him.." Emily warned. Issa smirked. -"No, but I'd rather shoot you." He said, turninf the gun on her.  -"NOOO!!" Dark shouted as one bullet shot and he jumped in front of Emily. It hit him in the chest as he went down. Dark layed there and Emily looked down at him in shock. -"W-what?!" She shouted as she looked at him. -"Aww, you two can kiss in hell." Issa said as he shot again and hit Emily. She fell down, her gun slipping from her hand. As she fell down, she landed next to Dark. He looked at her with a sad smile and he mouthed a 'I Love You' to her. She smiled a little. Their hands scrambled between them to meet in the middle. They held their hands together. Emily's eyes became lifeless first before Dark suddenly began disappearing and reentering Mark's mind. Issa kept the gun steady before Ashley lost it. -"You...fucking.. ASS." She shouted as she pulled out her gun and shot Issa's leg. He shouted as he fell. "YOU KILLED TIFFANY'S GODDAM SISTER. YOU LIED TO US. TO ME!!" she shouted as she shot his leg again. More shouting on his part. "YOU KILLED DARK. YOU KILLED HIM, AFTER HE WAS FINALLY FREE!!". Another shot. More screaming. Mark reached for her but she elbowed him back. "So YOU can be the one that ROTS. IN. HELL" she sneered as she shot Issa directly in the head, blood beinf washed away from the rain. Jack was advancing on her slowly and wrapped his arms around her. Her unsafe fury was slowly settling down. Nobody noticed Jason was slowly crawling away until Laquonda blew her whistle wildly. The bunnies ran througg rhe rain and stopeed Jason. As they walked over to him, Mark looked down at Jason with a smile. -"Next time, stay dead." Mark said as he put a bullet in his head, ending their nightmare. ===============================================================================   ~Epilogue~ After their horrible experience at the abandoned airport, Jack, Daniel and Mark had gone to the hospital to recover from their wounds. After nearly two months in recovery, the group had finished with their Third year of college. They had all agreed to go to Felix's cabin where they had a secret Funeral for Emily, Issa and the bunnies. Jack's wounds had scars that made Jack wake up from a nightmare every night. They left the bunnies to roam free but always return to Felix's cabin for a home. Laquonda eventually had been over her paranoia of someone breaking into her room and she moved to South Africa where she helped the African children get a better education. She always wrote to Ashley who responded delightedly. Mark and Jack held off their wedding for a while until Jack's PTSD would be less of a threat to his health. Mark and Jack adopted a child and named her Amelia. Mark eventually, with the help of Wilford, freed Dark from the depths of his mind. Dark spent his time saving wildlife and caring for them in the sake of Emily. Wilford and he lived at the cabin and had made peace with the world. Mark, Jack and Ashley would visit them twice a month. Jack and Mark planned their wedding to be after college, so they waited another whole year. Ashley was sad to see that Wilford had taken care of Dr. Morrison's death in a more reasonable manner in which the Obituaries described his death as a Heart Attack. Ashley went to Ken and Tiffany's graves every week, Mondays. She never really took off Ken's ring for her, and she had a hard time going back to the dating world. Wade and Bob had remained friends with them, Wade and Ashley always bonded over stupid story-plot games and they eventually became really close.  Mark and Jack found a way to balance taking care of their daughter with Ashley and Joey throughout their last year. They graduated from UCLA that Spring. Joey and Daniel went on with being stars in L.A. They adopted a daughter they named Mackenzie. Mark, Jack and Ashley all moved together to a small town in Wyoming where they raised Amelia. Ashley found a man she was happy with, his name was Jordan [Cptn Sparklezzz]. She and him bonded instantly. Wade visited often whenever he could, Bob became the creayor and designer for a video game company.  Joey and Daniel became a famous couple. Ashley became known as Captain Sparklez's girlfriend and she did videos with him frequently.  And that led to the present day... =============================================================================== -"God I'm so nervous..." Jack mumbled againas he fixed his tie for the seventh time that evening. -"Same.." Ashley replied as she shaked her wrists to release some tension. -"It isn't too late to run away, y'know." Laquonda said as she downed her cup of champagne. Ashley smacked her arm. -"Hoe. Why." Ashley reprimanded. -"Maybe I should? Should I?" Jack asked, dread replacing his anxiety. -"Jack..it's fine. It's normal wedding jitters..." Ashley said, rubbing his arms. She smiled at him reassuringly and he smiled back, weakly. ===============================================================================   -"Fuck, I can't do this." Mark said as he ran his hand through his vibrant red hair. Wade glanced at Joey nervously. -"Yes you can. Don't be stupid." Wade said, clapping his arm before wrapping his arm around Mark's shoulders. "You are a warrior." -"Okay, what.. no.. that was not what I was going for.." Jordan said as he held Mark's arm in his. -"Just pretend like it's your mom." Joey said, shrugging.  -"What about me?" His mother asked as she promptly entered the small tent. -"Hi mom.." Mark said, sming at her anxiously. -"Oh.. Mark.. I was nervous for my wedding too. Don't worry." She said as she shooed the boys away from Mark and they stood behind her. "It's normal.. it's just a sign that--" ===============================================================================   "-- you're growing up. And ye're hitting anotha mikestone in yer life, eh? No need to worry. Just go out and don't be yer daddy when he slurred his viws coz he was drunk off 'is arse" Jack's mother said, gigglinf at the memory. She placed her hand on Jack's shoulder. "Now you go marry--" =============================================================================== -"--that beautiful Irishman you're about to call your husband." She said with finality. Mark sighed in relief. ===============================================================================   -"Thanks Ma.." Jack said as he hugged her. She pinched his cheek lightly before turning and leaving the tent. Daniel, Ashley and Laquonda smiled at him. -"What she said." Laquonda said as she smiled. Jack smoothed out the tiny crinkle in his bright green tie. He looked at his toxic green hair once more before nodding in approval at it. ===============================================================================   Laquonda and Wade walked down the aisle first, a confident stride from both of them, their tall height towering over the audience. They parted and took their places aside the altar.  Joey and Daniel strode out next, both looking dashing as ever. They took their place beside the altar and by Laquonda and Wade. Ashley and Jordan were next. As thsy strode out, Jordan quickly swiped his thumb across Ashley's mouth as she stuffed chocolate right before she walked out. She giggled and blushed embarassingly before they took their places.  Both had agreed as they planned the wedding that Jack would be escorted since he was proposed to. (That and we all know he'd bottom Af. I mean, for real. *cough* anyways..) Mark suddenly stepped onto the altar and then the cliché music began. Everyone rose in their seats and looked down at the aisle. Jack's eldest brother escorted Jack down the aisle in a slow, calming pace. Jack saw Amelia giving him the thumbs up, his and Mark's families crying in joy. When he reached the steps to the altar, he was let go and joined hands with Mark. During the time the man spoke, Mark and Jack reflected on their lives. How they used to be best friends.. when Jack fell into depression... when Mark almost lost him... When Jason almost killed them... when they lost their friends. Then before they knew it, came the vows. Jack did his first. -"uh.. Mark. I have a small poem as a vow. So. Here goes nothing." Jack said nervously. the crowd chuckled. -" You are my sunshine... My only sunshine... You make me happy... When skies are gray..."  Mark began to tear up a little. His sweet chocolate brown eyes. -"You are my sunshine... My favorite sunshine... You've been my only... Since our first dayy..."  Mark squeezed Jack's hands together. Jack continued. -"You are my sunshine... My only sunshine... So would my only.. Sunshine... Please stay..?" Jack finished. The crowd clapped and Mark wiped away a tear. He chuckled before smiling at Jack. -"Funny coincidence, I have a singing vow too.. *ahem*" Mark said as he prepared his voice. -"I will never forget you.. you would always be by my side.." Jack's heart melted. Ashley held her breath and Laquonda stood there mesmerized by his voice. -"from the day that I met you.. I knew that I would love you till the day I die..." Jack remembered the memory like it was just yesterday. Their stupid Talent Show video. -"and I know I haven't asked for much more... Cause in our hearts we will always be strong.." Jack felt tears forming. -"I will never forget you... And you would always be by my side. Till the day I die..." Mark sang. Jack smiled and the crowd clapped. The man announced the moment they have all been waiting for. -"You may kiss.. the groom.." Mark cupped Jack's face as he kissed him and everyone cheered and clapped and Aww'd.  Mark and Jack walked down the aisle with people cheering and throwing flower petals at them. Everyone on the altar and Amelia had all followed them down the aisle of the tent and they walked out, taking in the fresh air.  They got in a car with a cheesy "Just Married" sign. They waited for all of them to pile in before Mark started the engine and Jack held his hand, their gold bands touching slightly. -"You remembered our song?" Jack asked. -"Yeah you remembered?" Ashley asked. Jordan was holding her hand. Laquonda and Amelia were sitting next to them and the other boys sat in the back. -"Of course. And I meant it. we promised we would never forget each other." Mark said as he started the car. -"yeah.." Ashley said as she kissed Jordan's cheek, leaning back into her seat.  -"I'll never forget you, Mark Fischbach." Jack said as he kissed his cheek. Mark smiled and lifted their hands as he kissed Jack's hand, keeping his eyes focused on the long drive to Felix's cabin back in California where Dark and Wilford were waiting with Emily's bunnies. -"And I'll never forget you, Sean McLoughlin-Fischbach." Mark replied. -"I'm still cute tho.." Ashley interjected. They laughed. Maybe everything might turn out gret after all... Till the day they die.. ~The End~   Chapter End Notes ...in the next Fanfiction!   Buh bye!!! (☆^O^☆) ヽ(*・ω・)ノ End Notes Hope ya liked it so farrrr FEEDBACK IS ALWAYS OPEN Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!