Creatures of habit [Tag: Ethan]
Aug 25, 2020 15:57:16 GMT
Post by Dorian F. Blund on Aug 25, 2020 15:57:16 GMT
Dorian woke up with a certain feeling of… emptiness. Another game, another death; this time more than ever before. Once again, he’d come out of it alive, and the more often that happened, the more genuinely surprised he was. Did Mrs Baker not hate him? Did she not want him dead? He would have expected her to get rid of him first after his first failure, yet… not only had he not been killed, he hadn’t even been injured. Even Katherine came out of it alive, the one person he cared about most. No punishment for him whatsoever.
It was… puzzling.
The man shook his head before slowly getting out of bed. There was a warm body next to him, but he didn’t turn to look at them right away, instead trying to organize his thoughts. It was disturbing, how used to seeing people die in front of him he’d become; it wasn’t anyone he was close to, for once, so he didn’t care. Had this place changed him, or was he simply selfish, not finding the strength in him to emote unless it personally affected him?
Dorian glanced at last to the body, and was surprised when he recognized him. That hadn’t happened in a while, waking up next to someone he knew, but he was happy to see it was Ethan. He thought to wake him up, but decided against it: he needed a few minutes for himself after this. Slowly, he made his way to the bathroom, and, without bothering to close the door, turned the shower on, happily found out there was running water (this room was one of the bad ones, that much he could tell), and ran his now wet palms against his face.
In one of those motions, he found himself in front of the mirror, and looked at himself for a second, before a thought suddenly came to him.
I’m getting married. To Katherine.
…
Dorian stared himself down for a few minutes, before turning off the water. Everything had happened so quickly, he hadn’t bothered to think… But they were. She had picked him, and they’d both made it out alive. The rules were clear.