Bethany Richards (hard_edge) wrote in low_tide, @ 2009-12-27 01:32:00 |
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No More Nice Bethany
It should have been elementary, should have been easy to figure out, but this new world had turned her around until Bethany could no longer tell what was and wasn’t, it had taken the reality of the moment such as it was for Bethany to latch onto a part of herself that had been caged, shackled by confusion and lost in doubt.
All it had taken was for her fingers to curl around the woman’s neck, blunt tips of nails digging into skin leaving traces of crescent shaped moons behind, and the desperate scramble for air for Bethany to realise that it wasn’t a matter of biding her time.
It was about seizing the day, putting an end to all of this and shutting the girl's mouth once and for all. She'd barely even blinked as the girl had finally slipped, disregarding her plea filled eyes in favour of squeezing the last remnants of life from her. It was too easy, it always was, especially as she had no attachment to the girl.
She’d betrayed her other self and that in itself was enough for this - betrayal had always brought death before, why should now be any different?
Bethany waited until she was sure she could no longer feel the telltale essence of life in the body and then released her grip, stepping back just in time for the weight of her old friend to miss her feet. “It’s nothing personal,” Bethany remarked to the now cooling body, pausing to run that sentence past herself again, shaking her head a second later. “Actually it kind of is.”
She regarded the corpse and rose to her feet, brushing a hand over the traitorous cat that had once belonged to her friend, but was now making up to her because she was there. Bethany had lied her way into the apartment and then taken her friend’s life from her, determined to make it look like a disappearance. People disappeared all the time - went missing - it was very easy to make somebody vanish and Beth? She had a world of experience in it.
“Time to make you vanish.”
It was the start of a new life, one that Bethany Richards could be proud of.