Duke could barely breathe. That was a trouble. He could feel the gremlin man tugging on the others, trying to pull them free too.
It was never going to end. This was going to go on forever. The gremlin man would drain him dry and torture Haven with more troubles and send Duke after them again and again and again. Until Duke was as dead as the rest of the Crockers.
For a moment, just a moment, Duke knew that was the answer. When Crocker’s died their troubles went too. The gremlin man couldn’t pull them from a corpse. All Duke had to do was die. As bloodlessly as possible.
No.
He let go of Lucifer and Octavia to clamp his hands over his eyes. As the next trouble slipped out, he felt it slip right back in, absorbed through his skin. The gremlin man pulled harder, the troubles trying to squirm free around Duke’s fingers, and he pressed his hands harder against his face, curling in against Lucifer and hissing through his teeth as he held himself together, troubles and all.
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Re: Trap! Confrontation! Battle! Deeeeath!
Date: 2025-01-27 06:17 pm (UTC)It was never going to end. This was going to go on forever. The gremlin man would drain him dry and torture Haven with more troubles and send Duke after them again and again and again. Until Duke was as dead as the rest of the Crockers.
For a moment, just a moment, Duke knew that was the answer. When Crocker’s died their troubles went too. The gremlin man couldn’t pull them from a corpse. All Duke had to do was die. As bloodlessly as possible.
No.
He let go of Lucifer and Octavia to clamp his hands over his eyes. As the next trouble slipped out, he felt it slip right back in, absorbed through his skin. The gremlin man pulled harder, the troubles trying to squirm free around Duke’s fingers, and he pressed his hands harder against his face, curling in against Lucifer and hissing through his teeth as he held himself together, troubles and all.