Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 161. Resuscitating

Henry’s POV

"No. I swore an oath." The old man blurted out.

"Mhm, and I want you to be true to it. I want you to save this child with me. Or do you want to wake him up and ask him to slit his throat?" Moreover, even if we managed to outsmart the child into doing something that went so far against nature, if he did so without deciding for himself, it’d be questionable if it would even work. The first time I had killed myself while possessed, my forehead had hurt like hell, and so it was each time I did it, just that it was getting less and less painful.

If my time in school hadn’t failed me, the part of the brain where decisions were made is sitting at the forehead. I think expelling the shadow has something to do with activating this area.

The doctor shook his head and hesitated.

"Well, I can kill him myself. If I suffocate him, then resuscitate him, it should work, right? How does it work again? It’s pressing the chest to the rhythm of that song..." I hummed the song for him. I knew how to do it the right way, but I would be busy taking on the shadow, so I needed someone else to bring the child back, preferably a doctor.

If this kid died, I had to come up with something because Kenny won’t take it well. Then it would have been better if he had died in that hellhole, rather than frightening my master so much.

"He is so young..." The doctor became teary-eyed, and I hummed.

"Then we should make sure he survives the possession. You have seen it with your own eyes." I want a cigarette, but Kenny isn’t awake, and he is mad at me.

Though it isn’t as bad as it would be if I had kissed him in our world, without the corpses and the horrors in here.

Still, isn’t this a good sign? I thought he would kill me directly, at least shoot his gun at me like last time, but instead, he not only did nothing; he even kissed me back to get the opportunity to headbutt me nearly into unconsciousness.

For a homophobic guy, that was already a miracle. This shows that he not only acknowledges the sexual orientation that I was forced to establish in front of him, which is the truth, but it also showed that I had grown on him.

If one of his other friends had kissed him, I think he would have beaten them to hell and back, maybe distanced himself if they proclaimed feelings for him, but he would never have forsaken the friendship because of that.

Now I was at least of the same importance to him as his friends were. If we had met outside, if we had never had my sister’s death between us, I would probably hang out with him and his group, drinking and joking around, spending time together and playing. The thought makes me really happy, though I would prefer to hang out with Kenny alone, like we are doing now most of the time, especially since we had a task that brought us closer, like slitting our throats in each other’s presence.

However, I wouldn’t want him to do it again after the last time, when he trembled as if he were having one of his seizures, calling for me in a whisper to wake him up, repeating my name over and over. He didn’t call for his other friends or his grandma, but for me when he was scared to death by the visions the shadows showed him. Doesn’t that make me more important to him than anyone?

And... none of his friends had ever kissed him, French style and with tongue...

It was so different from kissing a girl, and yet it was so damn... good.

Ripping myself out of my thoughts, I walked to the door and found Athena bringing the cleaned knife and the taser. I nodded at her and let her inside the room before going to the child and taking the blanket that covered him. Then I sealed the child’s nose and mouth, pressing it down so he would suffocate.

"Now?" The doctor again covered his mouth and took a few steps back, though he didn’t try to stop me.

"Now." I confirmed. The only way I had come up with was to suffocate the child because every other method would be too risky.

If I stabbed him, he would bleed out; if I broke his neck, there would be no need to resuscitate him again. I watched as the small body tried to struggle without opening its eyes, unsure if it was the child’s body or the shadow attempting to fight against death.

I continued to watch, chanting in my mind, ’You have to live’, hoping he would hear me and come back without any issues.

Eventually, after a stretching, endless time, the kid’s body stilled.

You have to live.

The little boy’s eyes snapped open, his eyes turned black, resembling a demon, before they closed again, and a smoky figure exited the body. I wanted to try something else as well, if the opportunity presented itself. Wrapping my right hand in the dark fog, I attempted to grab the shadow that had emerged, and to my utter surprise, I was able to do so.

"START THE RESCUE!" I yelled at the doctor, who was still looking on in horror at what he was witnessing. A distorted noise came from the shadow before it weakened. The moment I thought I could kill the shadow without slitting my throat, it entered me.

*****

"Where are you going already?" I asked in a whining tone, nuzzling my master’s neck while he cursed at the tie he was putting on.

"Why are you so utterly unable to tie a tie?" I laughed at him and squeezed him closer to my body before looking at the mirror across from us. My black suit contrasted with Kenny’s white one as I knotted his tie from behind.

"I don’t have the fucking patience for this shit," Kenny cursed again while watching me.

"Should you talk like this on your big day?" I kissed his cheek, and he pushed my head away.

"Should my best man behave this gay?" He asked with a smirk.

"What do you mean?" Furrowing my brows, I looked at the door that opened. Athena walked inside wearing a white wedding dress that made her and her big belly even fatter than she already was.

"How is the baby?" Kenny pushed me away and kissed the bride before he whispered something to her belly.

"It’s unlucky to see the bride before the wedding," I said, trying not to let the bitterness overtake me.

My master would leave me, and it was her fault, as well as the fault of the seed inside her.

His seed.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I became.

"And shouldn’t she be a lesbian?" I asked, and the pair froze; Kenny turned to me, furious. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"What did you just say, you fucker?"

"What do you mean? She told me herself." Before I finished, he had already thrown a punch at me.

We fought until I pushed him away, and he landed on the floor, unmoving. Athena screamed, and I laughed.

"Stop joking around."

No way this is real.

You can’t die.

"WAKE UP, KENNY!" I screamed when electricity shocked my body.

I opened my eyes and saw Athena. There was clear fear on her face, and I realized that I was in the midst of choking her.

I was back; she wasn’t pregnant, and the kid on the bed was still being resurrected by the doctor.

Now I had to rid myself of the shadow possessing me once and for all. I let go of Athena and grabbed the knife she held in her hand, slitting my throat.