The Visit

Waking Up

Anti woke back up to the searing pain in his leg. Fook that shit hurt. Whatever he fooking deserved it anyway. He opened his eyes just to get blinded by the light. He groaned.

"Ah Anti ve are finally up. It vas about time you slept for an entire day." Anti groaned again at the doctor's words "You know Edvard told me about the cutting. I am sorry ve vere not there for you." Anti could hear the pity in his voice. What a fooking joke. The septics were probably happy he cut Chase would even be ecstatic. Not like he didn't deserve it for what he did. Stealing, murder, making people go insane  he did it all just so the septics could see the monster they wanted

"It doesn't matter doc I just heal anyway. Demon remember?" Henrik shook his head at Anti's excuse

"Anti zhis is a serious matter! You may be able to fool ze others but I remember you. Ve vere friends. It does not matter if you heal because you are a demon. You never should feel that way mein friend." Anti actually felt nice for a second before pushing the feeling away. He kept telling himself Henrik was convinced he needed to push Anti away he could do it again. What was the point of letting people in when they can just discard you. Hell he was surprised he even let Dark get close. Damn Dark deserved better. He might be a manipulative asshole but he truly cared for the Ipliers.

"Is Dark ok?" Anti asked quietly

"He vill be fine. Demon remember?" Anti chuckled at his joke. "He did have a collapsed lung but zhat is nothing to him." Guilt built in Anti's chest. Yes the physical pain would be nothing to Dark but the emotional pain it would never end. Demons were made that way. It made sense demons had to understand humans and how to make them hurt. Physical pain sucks but it is nowhere near as bad as the torment that comes from psychological pain.

"Can you get him for me?" He needed to see him to apologize. He knew it wouldn't fix it but that was the least he could do.

"Of course he is vight next door." Henrik went to open the door to Anti's room he left the room and opened the next door.

"Zhat asshole!" Anti laughed at the German's outburst

"What's wrong doc?" Anti asked even though he knew

"It is no wonder Edvard is so pissed! He better not be back in his office working!" Anti chuckled again. Of course Dark would never give himself any time to rest when there was work to do. He really was like Mark in that aspect even if he would never admit it. "Marvin good you keep an eye on Anti if Dr.Iplier can't get him to stay in bed the great Doctor Schneeplestien will!" Marvin glanced at the Doctor before he left in his rant. Marvin shrugged and went into Anti's room.

"So ..... how you doing?" Marvin asked

"Fine." Anti didn't want to do this but he was worried about his feline friends. Usually he and Erik would go but he knew Dark would be glued to him. "You like animals right?" Marvin nodded "Can you help Eric? He has some cats he feeds I sometimes help him." Anti looked skeptically at his brother. It seemed like his eyes lit up when he asked that. It had to be because he liked cats right?

"Of course man! Who knows maybe you will see one of them soon?" Anti gave Marvin a weird look. Was he trying to insinuate something? Whatever he was probably just seeing things. "Oh I should go get Jack he was worried sick!" Marvin quickly got up and rushed out. Ha like that asshole cared. It is his fooking fault! Without him none of this would've happened. He just wouldn't have existed. Some might be scared at that thought but he felt relief. Why didn't Jack just erase him? He definitely fucked up enough to deserve it

"Hey Anti!" Speak of the devil "I am so sorry. I never realized what you were going through. It is all my fault." Anti watched as the grown man started to cry "I promise you I will be there for you. Just tell me if there is anything I can do."

"Ha you know what you can do? Why don't you just start from scratch? Your precious little puppet was broken. Always has been." He could feel the glitches getting worse "You know what? It doesn't even fooking matter anymore. Just leave me alone." Anti turned over in the bed leaving Jack standing with his mouth agape. After a minute Jack finally spoke up.

"You are right I did make you broken." Anti could feel the pain in him at Jack's words "but that is because you are me. Even more than the others. You know every emotion, every fear, all the hate I have. Yet you were supposed to hate me just like I did at the time, but instead you were like me and you hated yourself the most. I wanted you to kill me when you slit my throat. I didn't have the courage and I thought my fans would be ok if I was murdered. They wouldn't feel so abandoned if I did it myself. That's why you went after Dark wasn't it? You couldn't do it yourself so you tried to get a scape goat like I did with you." Anti was silently crying. He was right and he hated Jack for being right. Despite what he tells himself that it was to get more power he was hoping Dark would kill him. He just wanted it all to end. "I am always here for you despite what I put you through." Fooking asshole making him feel shit. He heard Jack sigh and leave. Maybe Jack wasn't so bad. Not that he would admit it out loud. Definitely still an asshole though.