How To Kill The Girl You Love883Please respect copyright.PENANAeGXXbywzCS
I try to pull out the knife from her abdomen as carefully as I can, but instead it twists and turns even by the slowest of movements. I watch her grimace, her panting, her fear, her gasp, and the look of betrayal that I'll carry with me for the rest of my existence. Her grasp on my shoulder slowly loosens, the look of deceit never leaving mine and her back limping backwards.883Please respect copyright.PENANAh9FRTbyGQg
I hold her waist, and debate whether to let myself have a small moment of weakness. A small moment of weakness for the rest of eternity. I look into her dying eyes, those beautiful green eyes that I couldn't stop staring at, those hypnotizing green eyes that captivated my very soul the moment I laid my eyes on her, those very green eyes now dying away. Breath by breath, she's losing life.883Please respect copyright.PENANABQiqwZSwnL
I'm seeing her live for the last time. This would be the last. The last time I'd ever allow myself to feel. 883Please respect copyright.PENANANtcqN9sjne
"Trace," she whimpers. "Why?"883Please respect copyright.PENANAS8wJjxoIC8
I bring her face close to mine and I kiss her. The betrayal she felt doesn't come in the way as she kisses me back with her last burst of energy. 883Please respect copyright.PENANA1huXV7UWRV
I kiss her with all the passion that will ever be in me.883Please respect copyright.PENANAAGcF6lLtrP
I kiss her with all the love I had denied myself, and the love that I'll never feel.883Please respect copyright.PENANA0l1UC3rdOm
I kiss her with the last emotions that I'll allow myself to have.883Please respect copyright.PENANAMaACpGlpn4
I kiss her.883Please respect copyright.PENANAPB0NnUqGoj
And she slowly fades away. The strength in her body gives out. Her body falls back, as I let my grip loosen over her.883Please respect copyright.PENANAXlmJwwlWOV
'We hurt the ones we love, Trace,' Seb whispers behind me, as he takes away my knife and wipes it off in a single swipe of the white cloth. There's blood there. My darling Julia's blood.883Please respect copyright.PENANAbYzQqeMJQl
I open my mouth to speak, but he shushes me. "You don't need to say anything, Trace," he sighs. "She's collateral damage."883Please respect copyright.PENANAGtpebQcrc8
She was collateral damage.883Please respect copyright.PENANAOctgb2qtSx
Someone that got in my way.883Please respect copyright.PENANAZ0vE7gNMPY
Someone that shouldn't have, but she did.883Please respect copyright.PENANAcK9w89BT0E
Someone I wasn't supposed to feel for.883Please respect copyright.PENANA2URlCWPXGX
She was collateral damage.883Please respect copyright.PENANAhJyX09x90j
A collateral damage to my heart.883Please respect copyright.PENANAbVd69p4Gk2
I think that what I choose to believe in, what I hope to be, and what I actually do are all three contrasting poles pulling me to three different directions.883Please respect copyright.PENANA582pbKoSk3
My hope pulls me north.883Please respect copyright.PENANA77UJ2jf04M
My beliefs to the west, and at times to the east.883Please respect copyright.PENANAxDPbXgXvJU
And what I do, takes me to the deepest pit of the south.883Please respect copyright.PENANAznfiFEYrm5
They're equally powerful, and I'm torn between these directions till it threatens to rip my body apart.883Please respect copyright.PENANAlX5FyuyLJY
I sigh. At the least, a ripped body would ease the pain I feel near my chest.883Please respect copyright.PENANAUDmK5vtl4F
"Don't be such a wuss, Trace," Seb clicks his finger in front of my eyes, grabbing whatever attention I have left. "It was just another kill."883Please respect copyright.PENANAI3WHpJ6L7c
Instinct tells me to grab him by his neck, and squeeze it until his face turned blue. Loyalty and common sense stops me from doing so. "She's not an 'it.' She has a name, Seb."883Please respect copyright.PENANARtCYeS7jAa
He scoffs. "Trace, anyone who can't soul-shift is collateral damage."883Please respect copyright.PENANAIDt570DqgY
I cringe. 883Please respect copyright.PENANA0JoS8JJieo
"Take your body for example," he continues, his tone teaching, "it's not yours. You killed the one who inhabited it, and hence, that soul was collateral damage."883Please respect copyright.PENANAusCTSUUAZd
"Seb-"883Please respect copyright.PENANAmCLBBTkND9
"You can't have any weaknesses as the Anchor," he sighs. "You're supposed to be the bad-ass supervillian who takes away life at whim. Not some whiny loser pining for a dead girl."883Please respect copyright.PENANAwWnEK4f8xq
"I'm not a whiny loser," I retort.883Please respect copyright.PENANAVplxyCgTpD
"And you say that with a whine," Seb counteracts. "Get over it, Trace. You're the Anchor, you lead us to victory."883Please respect copyright.PENANAe5F3esfoLo
I sigh. Being an Anchor, I should feel no remorse towards anyone. Especially the humans. They took away our freedom, they took our lives, they stole our homes. And yet, here I was mourning over the loss of one stupid female human I had accidentally given my heart to.883Please respect copyright.PENANA4LTcEbhqM6
It was tough tormenting the humans already. It was tough burning them in stakes. It was tough to behead the innocent. It was tough to destroy their homes and unleash hell on earth. It was tough. I did not need grief stopping me back. 883Please respect copyright.PENANA0HDNemsFUD
"Trace," Seb pleads, his eyes in sync with the tone of his voice, "we need you."883Please respect copyright.PENANALf2SbOGQaF
I hesitate. The sincerity in his eyes demands me to say yes. But-883Please respect copyright.PENANAtJQNsCUOzT
No buts, I had put my feelings aside once before and worked for my people. I could do it again.883Please respect copyright.PENANATJbvj2fib1
For the sake of my people, for the sake of our existence, for the sake of the soulshifter's honor and dignity and for the sake of revenge, I had to accept the fact that my dearest Julia was dead.883Please respect copyright.PENANARXgXiCnI3Y
"Trace, please," he begs, "Your people need you, princess."883Please respect copyright.PENANAYofOboMfZU
And it was I, who killed her.883Please respect copyright.PENANAm39mRNHK9A
a/n: my idea of a supervillian is executed in a way more dramatic way than i expected. 883Please respect copyright.PENANAOmJdS1Edo4