Downfall

"You misunderstand. I'm here to punish you." I said calmly. "You broke my trust, burned my house down, threatened my family and my friends. You also broke my heart, Jessica." Her face dropped then she pushed the blade closer to Chloe's face.

"No. You can't punish me...you...we aren't together anymore right?"

"Well, no. But I still have authority over you. All those pictures, videos, all that infrastructure you constructed to worship me. I am your God." Her eyes got even wider and she started to sweat. "I think you forgot your place, my sweet acolyte. That. Is why I want to punish you. For thinking yourself above me."

"But you...you said that I was your girlfriend you said that! And then you broke up with me and you...you hurt me and you fucked me in the dirt."

"You gave yourself to me completely. Was that not true? Was that a lie from the beginning? Or did you give yourself to the idea of me? Either way, you deserve a punishment. I am here to deliver it. Put the knife down. NOW!"

She shook and shivered and then reaffirmed her grip on the knife. "That's not...no. I will not submit to your punishment, I reject your authority over me."

"Then allow me to prove it." I reached into my pocket and time felt like it slowed down around me. I grabbed the knife that her mother had thrown at me and I pulled it out and in one fluid motion, as if my muscles were all in a hive mind with one another, with the perfect strength and speed, I flung the blade forward and I heard it hit flesh.

"OW!" Jessica squealed in pain as the blade hit her in the hand and **** her to drop the knife. Blood tricked down her arm and she was panting in a raspy voice. "YOU PRICK!" I was rushing her while she was distracted and I pulled Chloe out of the way as she swung the blade she had picked up with the other hand.

I ducked quickly and narrowly avoided the first swing but then she doubled back and drove it down toward me. I rolled over before it hit, marveling at my new reflexes. She came back over me but I **** my feet up into her stomach and they connected, hard. She fell back onto the concrete, grasping her stomach and fighting to catch her breath.

"It all could've been so simple! Just remember your place and serve your man. No, you had to ruin it didn't you? You know those little thoughts you plant in peoples' heads? That they're trash or they're a slut? The truth is, if you were important in the SLIGHEST then I would've noticed you from the beginning. But I didn't did I. Nobody did." Jessica was crying now, sitting up against the concrete barrier of the parking lot. Panting and looking up to me.

"You're right. You're right I ruined this. I forgot your power over me and I ruined everything. FUCK! I'm...I know it doesn't mean anything now....I'm sorry." She whimpered.

"You know the worst part of it? The very worst part of it? You had me. You totally had me. The mind games and the dungeon and the sex, you had me all to yourself. I LOVED YOU! I really did. I came up here, hoping you would give me any sign, any indication that you could be fixed. You sit there apologizing out of your whore mouth, nothing but lies." I was crying now. She was on her knees now underneath me, like how it began in Cartwright's room two long days ago.

I kneeled down. "I miss you. That girl in Cartwright. That innocent girl who rescued me from her grasp. I loved that girl so much." My neck tingled again and I moved out of the way just as she swung with another blade that was in her heeled boot. I felt a pain across my face and the warmth of blood on my cheek. "That girl never existed at all." I stood up and she lunged at me.

"You fucker! Get on your knees, get on your KNEES! I will break your mind into so many little pieces and I will make you KILL YOUR FAMILY, just for a chance of SEEING my pussy again." I rolled over and jumped up to my feet and took my knife and figured out where her body was gonna be and I shoved the blade forward. Sure enough, she jumped over at me just in time to meet my swing. I felt warm wet and sticky blood immediately and she fell on the concrete next to me, whimpering weakly. I backed away and then looked at her. I hit her in the side and not in the lungs.

"Chloe call an ambulance, now!" I got down next to Jessica. "Holy shit. Holy shit. I'm so sorry. Jess holy shit. Just sit still, just keep breathing you're fine." I held her in my arm as she looked up at me.

"No." I looked around at Chloe who was folding her arms.

"No? She's...dying call an ambulance."

"What, so she can recover and make our lives hell some more? No, end it. Or I will." Chloe was grabbing the knife that had been at her neck but I shook my head, remembering what universe I was in.

"No. No, it's fine. I'll do it. You're right." I took the knife out of her side and then looked down at her. "See you in Hell, bitch." I shoved it deep into her abdomen and up toward her heart. She gasped once and then fell out of my arm onto the concrete, a dark pool spreading across the surface. I took a deep breath as I looked down. "Holy shit." I almost laughed. "What do I do now?"

"Let's get the fuck out of here!" Chloe said laughing. She pulled my arm to the car and I drove us out of the mall parking lot and back home.