Jack the Ripper: Muse has been attacked by something that obviously has no sense of mercy. They are beaten, bloody, and left for dead someplace abandoned. Lasts until someone comes to the rescue... Or finishes the job.
The day was going really bad for him.
The atrocity of his students’ submitted assignments had plagued his weekend, and when he had finally arrived back into his apartment a note from his ‘husband’ was left addressed to him, stating that he was returning to his homeland. And of course he would have taken the key with him, nothing less expected from Arthur.
And now he lay broken, bloody, dying on the cold hard ground, with no one around, the pain in his side throbbing with every short gasp he managed to swallow.
Jack the Ripper. He almost laughed at the irony, given that his ‘husband’ had also gone by that name once. Although he had known that it would never be permanent — Arthur had definitely made it clear on more than one occasion, but Jolly was, for the first time in his dreary life, smitten and decided to hope for the best.
And he supposed this was the best he could hope for. At least now he knew where he stood in the Nation’s heart.
Violet hues, now that his shades were gone, were exposed to the rapidly darkening sky, the rumbles of thunder sounded in a distance. It was as though at that moment, the sky cried for him, for his pathetic life, drops of rain pelting relentlessly upon his body, cold and numb from everything.
Maybe we can meet somewhere, it had been the words Jolly clung onto, the hope that they would actually be able to meet again. He had been ready to drop everything to leave, to go to where Arthur was. To be by his side, as he rightfully should have.
Loving sucks, Mondo, Jolly thought to himself as his bloody lips cracked a wry smile, staring unfocused towards the skies. He had finally found a new ‘world’, and now he was all alone again. And it hurt him in a way more than anything would.
Okay, maybe not as bad as the pain in his side right now but still.
His throat then constricted, causing the raven to cough as he choked on his own blood, the thick liquid gurgling in his throat before it trickled down the side of corners of his lips.
This is it then. He had imagined living a long life by taking the Elixer of Youth, only dying of old age when he was ready. He hadn’t counted that he would actually die in a fight, and honestly the killer was sloppy but Jolly was simply too tired, to heartbroken to actually fight. Maybe on a subconscious level, he was ready to die.
A dark chuckle bubbled from within his chest, only to be followed by more strangled coughs that wrecked his body. Amethyst orbs darkened into onyx as his vision blurred, faded, the dark setting in from the corners of his vision.
“S-sorry," the word itself was an effort, and even so it came out as the barest of whispers, drowned away by the noise of pouring rain and piercing thunders. With the one word heavy with his regret, lids fluttered, falling shut as they shielded the purples from the cruelty, the ugliness of the world.
May we meet again someday, where the skies are clearer and the sun shines brighter.