"Nik, I can't be your friend anymore. You've twisted yourself into somethin' i don't recognise, and you don't deserve me anymore.'' It couldn't be Nigel, alive, /alive/, but yet, there he was. There he was after fifty years, but the love in his eyes was replaced by cold disappointment and terrible sorrow. An Abnormal was haunting the Sanctuary; taking the form of those loved most.
SEND MY MUSE ANONS PRETENDING TO BE SOMEONE THEY CARE ABOUT. THE TWIST: MAKE THESE ANONS AS HEARTBREAKING, DISAPPOINTING, OR ANGER-INDUCING AS POSSIBLE.
Pretend to give them bad news, pretend to break up with them, pretend to make an upsetting confession - as long as it hurts, it’s fair game.
He couldn’t believe his eyes at first. When he had looked up from his half empty third––or fourth, or fifth––bottle of wine, there had been Nigel.
Standing in the middle of the room. Standing there as though he had every right to be. As though he hadn’t been dead and buried for decades.
And yet, as soon as that strange yet all too familiar shade had begun to speak, Nikola wished he had never appeared at all.
“You… You don’t mean that,” he says, his voice far too quiet to be that of Nikola Tesla. with his penchant for being loud and snarky and indifferent as to what anyone thinks of him. Anyone except this man standing before him.
“Nigel, I…” Scrambling to his feet, he takes a step forward, only for Nigel to step back, and is that disgust in his eyes? The very thought is enough to shatter the already broken remains of Nikola’s heart and he swallows hard, blinking to clear his suddenly misty vision.
“You have to understand, Nigel, please. I wasn’t the same after you… after you left. Everything was wrong and I was by myself and I––” And yet, how weak can he be? Sniffling before this man who would return only to judge him, as the others do. How dare he! How dare he treat him so coldly, to treat him with such derision, when this is his fault!
“And––And I was by myself again! After you s w o r e to me you would never leave me again and you did! You left and all of the others hated me and I was alone and––and…”
Yet, just as quickly as his anger has swelled, it ebbs, then falls away entirely, leaving slender shoulders slumped, leaving the normally upbeat vampire looking completely and utterly defeated, hopeless.
Gaze dropping to the floor, he eases himself down once more, long, skinny limbs fold in on themselves as he draws them close, as though by doing so he might protect himself from the condemnation of his once-friend.
“You left me after you promised… you p r o m i s e d …”
Only the sound of retreating footsteps fill the room. After all, some pain can only be expressed through the utter despair found in the most lonely of silences…