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Chapter 13

Firefly

“ W here is she!” I roar as Havoc strolls into my cell, her amused grin bright and wide.

“Come now bug, the game is just starting.”

“What game?” I growl, fighting the chains.

She leans toward me as I lunge towards her, but she moves away too quickly, taunting me. “Silly bug, knows Havoc doesn’t like touches. Tsk tsk. Now come, the game will start. Behave or dolly will suffer.” She raises a key, grinning as she slowly approaches me. “Be a good bug.” She unlocks and removes my chains as I fight back every fiber of my being to strangle her, but Havoc knows I won’t do anything until I see Blue and know she’s alright. So why set me free?

Something was happening but I don’t know what. Havoc came in hours ago, creations rushing after her, dragging Blue from her cell. They said nothing, simply obeying some orders and left as Havoc simply watched, whistling the entire time. I have no idea where they took her but the searing pain I felt in my eye terrifies me.

“Fuck your game! Where is Blue?” Havoc stops retreating and spins to look at me.

“Dolly is the final piece. The game can now be won. Come on!” She urges. What game? Dread fills me at what I’m about to walk into. What have Havoc and the Spinster done to Blue?

I follow Havoc from the cell and all the way to the study, trying not to shiver as I see the Spinster sitting by the fire. My eyes widen as I watch her. She’s absently stroking... yellow hair?

“B-blue!” I cry out as I see my sweet girl. She’s bound and beaten, her head forced on the Spinster’s lap as the bitch continues to stroke her hair like she’s some sort of pet. Blue lets out weak cries and I see the cause behind the mysterious pain.

“What did you do!” I roar to mask my cry. Her eyes—she’s missing her black eye.

“No need to shout,” the Spinster hisses while lazily picking up a glass jar and shaking the content. Blue’s black button eye clings around and it’s enough to make me want to vomit.

“Don’t you like it when their eyes are in jars? On display to see you?” She grins sharply.

“Blue, baby it’s okay,” I don’t know if I’m saying this for my benefit or hers at this point. “I-I can fix this alright. You know I can.” I want to fall to my knees at the sight of her, my heart cracking from it all.

“Dolly saw too much,” Havoc beams while skipping over to the other chair. “Dolly was warned about the colors. Drawn to?—”

“You took her fucking eye!” I scream as I grip Havoc by her shirt, bearing down on her with such rage. “I’m going to kill you.” Havoc’s grin drops and her human eye dilates. She grips my throat, pulling my hand from her, her own strength surprising me.

“Havoc,” the Spinster states coolly. “Enough.”

Havoc releases me as I raise a brow, “No leash huh?” I taunt, causing her to snarl at me.

The Spinster removes Blue from her lap as she stands up. Blue falls to the ground and I try to rush to her, but Havoc blocks me.

“Bug is here to play with spider lady, not dolly.”

“Fuck you both,” I spit out, causing the Spinster to chuckle softly.

“You always were one for the colorful vocabulary. It’s always been the thing I’ve found least attractive about you.”

“Oh, well excuse the fuck out of me.” My voice is barely able to stay strong. All I can see is her, slipping into my bed, pinning me down and forcing herself on top of me. As if reading my mind, the Spinster reveals her cruel smile while striding closer to me. She stops in front of me, her button eyes looking me up and down.

“You know I could see you,” her split tongue runs over her teeth. “Every time. Every thrust, every pant, every release that you put on in front of my buttons, I saw them all. So you can play the victim all you want Boogeyman , but I watched you relieve yourself to my thoughts. I’ve watched you as you fucked my creations. You say I repulse you, that you could never love me, and yet,” she motions to Blue who is weakly trying to stand. “You seem to have a fascination for the things I create.”

“Blue might’ve come from your hands,” I snarl, getting into her face. “But she is everything you’re not. She’s smart, kind, caring, beautiful—plus I actually like fucking her.”

“Ha!” She laughs while shoving me back into Havoc’s iron-like grip. “This,” she grips Blue by her hair. “This is what you call beautiful? A pile of scraps? She was meant to be shipped out to a second hand store with the humans. She was trash I needed to get rid of as I couldn’t even rely on her to be a toy! She has failed every task given to her, including getting killed by you in Nightmare!” She toys with Blue’s loose hair as she struggled to free herself. “I shouldn’t be surprised though, of course my two biggest failures would find comfort in each other. I guess you could say, you two have mommy issues.”

“Fuck you,” Blue wheezes as she grabs the Spinster’s wrist and drags her nails down it. The Spinster hisses in pain and shoves Blue off, before yanking free the chain that was hanging from around her neck and between her breasts. The Spinster forcefully lifts and shoves Blue onto the table as I fight against Havoc’s hold, trying to help her.

“I’m going to kill you Havoc, do you understand me!” I bark as Havoc laughs, enjoying this way too much.

“Hush bug! Watch the show!” She cheers. The Spinster grips something at the end of her chain, palming what appears to be a silver stitch remover.

No .

“Where is it,” the Spinster hums, her button eyes roaming over Blue. “Where is the thread that binds you two, hmm?” Her needle-like fingers search Blue’s body as she kicks , the Spinster pins her leg down. “Ahhh...” She smirks as she lifts the tattered hem of Blue’s dress, revealing my name. “You always were a leg man.” Her sinister grin grows, a soft laugh escaping her dead lips before placing her tool over my stitch and cutting the F of my name.

“No!” I scream as Blue sobs, thrashing around, a sudden pain in my own thigh.

She continues to slide the sharp edge of the tool under the thread, snipping the letters as Blue and I both cry out in pain.

“Please! Stop, Spin—Creator!” I pant out, causing her to stop her movements before she can finish. She pulls her remover from Blue’s leg and walks over to me.

“Ohhhh... .” She purrs as her tongue runs over my jaw causing bile to run up my throat. “I bet that one stung didn’t it?” Stepping back she considers me before reaching in her pocket. My eyes fall to the red dice in her hand. My dice.

“Shall we play a game?” She whispers, leaning in real close.

“No,” I breathe out, startling us both.

“No?” She laughs in shock. “Since when do you not want to play a game?”

“If it involves Blue, I’m not playing.” I grit out. She laughs and shakes her head.

“Hmmm… interesting, very well.” She releases a sigh as she drops the dice on the ground, causing them to roll toward my feet. “Havoc, he doesn’t want to play so I guess, I win and we kill them both.”

“Wait, what? Stop! No!” I grip Havoc by the neck and flip her over me, her body moving in such a way it dislocates my shoulder in the process. “God damn cocksucker!” I grind while glaring at the Spinster.

“Stop. Not her.” I beg.

“Hmmm... yes, her. In fact, I’m going to kill her first, in front of you.” She turns to grab Blue, but I grab the dice and run to the Spinster.

“Okay! Okay! I’m here, okay. See?” I look at Blue, holding my dice, hoping she can feel how sorry I am, how much I love her. “Okay, I’ll play.” Havoc cheers as the Spinster smiles.

“Havoc told you bug would play.” I swallow my growl as the Spinster watches me.

“Odd, you win and the two of you can be together forever,” the Spinster smirks. “Even, I win and you’re both dead. And snake eyes,” her buttons flicker as her black brow raises. “You roll snake eyes and you belong to me, forever. You are mine, and she is banished to the Nightmare to be hunted for eternity just as you were.”

“Firefly,” Blue whispers my name and I want to cry. Taking a breath, I hold my hand out, desperate to save her.

“Deal.” I state. The Spinster takes my hand in hers and we’re locked—neither able to break the hold until the dice roll our fate. “But know this,” I growl, “No matter the outcome of this game, I will never love you.”

I throw the dice and listen as the sharp corners hit the ground and I pray, for the first time in forever, not for an odd or even. No, I want snake eyes. She may think I’m stupid, but I see right through her tainted words. It’s the only option that the words can’t be misconstrued; Blue lives if I roll snake eyes. I’ll never see her again, but she lives and that’s all I want.

“Eight!” Havoc squeals and my heart sinks. The Spinster cocks her head to one side as her smile is one of fondness.

No .

“What a shame. I’ll miss our games,” she whispers, running her free hand along the side of my cheek. “But all good things must come to an end.”

“Bug loses!!!! Dolly will be in all the pieces!”

I stare at the Spinster as I reach my hand up to her face. The unfamiliar physical contact shocks her as I release my hand from hers and place it on the other side, holding her within my grasp. “I will too, but fair is fair,” I croak out as I pull her to my mouth, her hard lips pressing against mine. “You made a mistake,” I whisper into her mouth.

“What?” She gasped softly, yearning for more of me.

“You should’ve killed me when I first ran away.”

The second I feel her relax I rip the chain from her neck, and in one fluid motion, I ram the stitch remover fiercely through her throat. Her garbled gasps are a fucking symphony as I stare into her pitch black button eyes, smiling as I rip my hand out. She falls to her knees, her black blood pouring from the wound, staining her alabaster skin. I grab her inky hair, her arms flailing about trying to escape me as I rip out one of her button eyes, tossing it across the floor. Havoc begins to shriek and cry out in despair, clawing at her head.

“An eye for an eye,” I groaned. “No one touches my girl.”

She cries out, screaming and croaking. “Cheater!”

I lean down to look in her remaining eye. “I’m the Boogeyman, I don’t play fair.” I rip her other eye out, ignoring Havoc’s screams as the Spinster falls to the floor, her hands wrapping around my feet as she begs for her life.

“I made you,” she sobs. “You can’t do this to me!”

“Watch me,” I raise my foot over her head. “Oh wait,” I look down at her eyeless face. “You can’t.” My foot slams into her skull, the bone crunching beneath my boot as I stomp her life away, unleashing centuries of anger and trauma, snuffing it all out within seconds. My chest heaves as I compose myself and try to control my breathing and I make my way to Blue. I have to get her out of here. The Spinster is dead but that still leaves us with another opponent.

Havoc and her fucking Nightmare.