Aquata Cove Ch. 98

"Shut up, Chloe..."

"Shit, what did she get you with??" She throws the drained syringe into the trash bin, and picks up Jessica's purse. She empties it out the contents of mints, a tiny bible, make-up, and then sees a glass bottle with clear fluid in it. She plucks it up to check it out "... Ah, I can't make out the words." She returns to Adam, and pulls one of his eyelids open to look at his pupil, "... Eh, you're gonna be fine."

"Hhh... Hhh... Hhh..." Little do they know, Adam's antibodies are quickly eating away at the harmful vaccine -- much like Merrick's immunity to outside chemicals, his body is using the water in his blood to breakdown the drug that was injected into him. Adam opens and closes his left hand a few times, regaining the feeling. "Agghh... Fffuck..."

"Oh, quit bitching. I've gotten hurt more trying to use the microwave."

"Fine, alright, just give me a minute..."

"Ugh, you're fine, Fag-Bag." Chloe rolls her eyes, "Just get cleaned up and get ready for the next act."

"Just, leave me alone, Chloe." Adam tells her, almost wanting to cry, but knows he's only going to get ridiculed for it.

"Awww... Pain in the ass finally getting you down?" Chloe taunted with her arms crossed, "You want me to get you a dick to suck on to feel better?"

"Whatever! Ok?! Just fuck off already!" Adam shouted, "Just leave me alone, alright?! I'm not in the mood to play around! Just go on and tell everyone I fucking went home or something, I don't care!" He bows his head down as he leans his arms on his knees, waiting for his bitchy coworker to leave.

Then, he hears a plastic crinkling sound. He turns curiously, and sees Chloe pulling out a rainbow colored penis lollipop out of its wrapper. Adam gives her an estranged look as she brandishes it a little, "This was supposed to be your wedding gift -- You and Merrick were supposed to share. Hah, I mean, Rajani had to beg me to spend at least $5 on you, buuut," Adam can't help but scoff in his tears, "You need something to take the edge off."

"GhhHhHhHh." Adam sniffed and scoffed at her as his eyes get wet, "I hate you, you stupid bitch."

"Tsch, aww" Chloe smirks as she glances at the turning penis-pop, "I hate you too, you little shit." Adam takes the pop reluctantly as she sits next to him, "Thaaaat's it, get it all down, I know you get more than that." She says as she pushes his hand slowly to make the cock candy go down into his mouth, almost making him gag a little.

"~Hush little gay boy, don't say a word~" She sings, making Adam snicker, "~Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird ~And if that bird don't sing, Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring~ And if that diamond ring's made of glass... Um... ~Mama's gonna kick that jeweler's ass~"

Adam snickers as he pulls the multicolored dick out of his mouth, "Chloe, those aren't the words."

"~Hush little gay boy, let Mama sing~" She hymn there gritted teeth, "~You really don't know a goddamn thing~" She forces that candy penis back into his mouth. Adam laughs and sniffles as he takes it back in.

---Now---

"N-No, Adam, I swear!" Jessica stammers in terror as she backed away, "I swear, it wasn't supposed to happen like that!"

"Yeah, you were supposed to drug me and then have your way with me, right?"

"No! You were supposed to save yourself from your sinful lifestyle!" She almost shouted, "But against everything, you refuse to see that what you do is completely wrong! God has punished you for your path, and you still refuse to even-"

In a flash, Merrick is suddenly right in front of her. Jessica gasps as Merrick glares right up at her, before his arm cranks around him. His arm then whips out, and strikes her head! In one move, he knocks her right on her back onto the sand.

"Merrick, wait, stop! Stop for a moment!" Adam calls out as Merrick grabs the scruff of her blouse.

"Tell me what you did to him!" He demanded, "Tell me right now!" Then, a rush of harsh hot sand hits into Merrick's eyes! "AHH! Ssshit!" He scrambles with his eyes blinded with the sand, before he felt Jessica kick him in the chest, "Kkhhh!"

"HhhHHhhH!" Jessica pushes him off before she thrashes around, and sprints away.

"JESSICA!" Adam yells as he goes to Merrick, "Babe, are you ok??"

"This is nothing." Merrick quickly rubs his eyes to clear out the sand, glaring at her back with red and moist eyes, "She's not getting away!"

"Merrick, wait a minute!" Before Adam could get anywhere, Merrick races forth, "Dammit!"

"HHHhhhHHHhhHHHhhhH!" Jessica pants hysterically as she runs as fast as she can, hearing the blonde male coming after her. She stumbles forward but keeps running to try and escape this violent man!

"Dammiiiit!" Merrick seethed as he runs as fast as he can. This woman is fast, she's losing him. He pushes his legs harder as he dashes at her, his eyes locked onto her, before they catch a very vague detail under the docks.

Far off, as Jessica is almost at the damp shadows of the docks, Merrick can make out the tail of a white serpent.

"BELINDA!!" He roars, "STOP HER!!" He sees the tail retract behind the rocks.

"HHHhhHHHHhhhHHH!" Jessica breathes uncontrollably as she goes, horrified out of her mind, "Someone, HELP ME!" She calls out, "I'm being attacked! Help!!" She runs around a huge wood post, "I NEED-"

All of a sudden, she feels somebody yank her arm to the side, "AKK!" She's whipped around, and shoved into a nearby rock. Her breath highlights her voice as she looks at a tanned woman with pink hair and a loose-fitting blouse.

"Who are you?! What is going on??" She asked out loud.

"Let me go! He's going to kill me!!" Jessica cries out. Merrick pants as he catches up, stepping up beside Belinda as Jessica is restrained.

"There you are!" Merrick growls. He takes a few steps as his throat begins to rattle threateningly.

"Everyone stop!!" Adam shouts out as he stomps exasperatedly besides Merrick. He pants as he tugs Merrick back before he can hurt her more, "I remember everything now, Jessica!"

"Adam, please, don't let yourself do this!" Jessica begs. Belinda hardens her grip on her as she looks at this mad woman's face. Her aura is flaring inside-out. Is her mind even intact?

"How are you even still here?! With what you did to me, you should be put in jail!"

"Because God wants us to be together! And He knows I can't be with you if I were to be locked away."

"Ugghhh! Can I kill her now?!" Merrick asked, "I'm sick of listening to her nonsense! And I can't just walk away about finding out what she did!"

"Merrick, just chill out for a moment!" Adam turns to him, gripping his shoulder, "Look, I remember what she's done, and I can just call the police. It's fine, Merrick."

"Adam..." Belinda says as her eyes widen.

"No it's not! I don't want to give the humans a chance to let her walk free like they almost did with your attackers!"

"What?"

"Adam." Belinda speaks up.

"Hold a minute, Belinda. Merrick, what are you talking about?"

"The police caught two of the men who assaulted you, and a judge almost let them go! I don't EVER want the possibility of that happening again!"

"Look, just tell me later, Merrick! This isn't how I want this to end."

"Adam!" Belinda persisted, not taking her eyes off of Jessica.

"I don't care, Adam! If what you say is true, there's no way I'm going to-"

"Adam!!!"

"What??"

"What??" They said simultaneously.

"It was her," Belinda reports as her purple eyes spiral inside of Jessica's mind, "Adam, it was her all along! She made them do it to you!"

"Wait, what are you saying??" Adam walks around. He sees Belinda's eyes pulsing with a low light as she keeps her eyes locked on Jessica's. Those eyes...

"Stop! You don't know what you're saying!" Jessica struggles, "Let me go! NOW! LET ME GO!"

"No..." Merrick immediately realizes exactly what Belinda is doing.

"She held the paint! She wanted you to be hers by force, she made those men hurt you!" Belinda shakes as her grasp falters as she shuffles through the insanity inside of Jessica's aura, "She was there! She covered her own face while she painted your clothing!"

Merrick's entire being becomes numb as he hears those words.

"She's lying!" Jessica cried, "I didn't do anything, I sweeaarrrrrr!"

"Are you fucking serious??" Adam asked Belinda as he holds her arm.

"I can see. I can see everything in her eyes. The guilt, the desire, the rejection, the drive, she was determined -- she IS determined! She wants you completely. She wants you to be hers! She wanted you to see your consequences as she believes! She believes herself to be righteous in her vi-"

"STTOOOP!!" Jessica shrieks, "Pleeaase stop, stooop!"

"Jessica..." Adam mutters in disbelief. Jessica sniffs and sobs as Belinda keeps her pinned, "Jessica, is this true?? How... Why would you do that?"

"Hhnnhh... It was for your own good..." Jessica wept, "You wouldn't listen to me... You won't let me save you... If you keep doing this, Adam, you're going to be put in hell... I don't want you to go to hell..."

"So you tried to kill me?!"

"No! No, I never wanted you dead!" Jessica cries, "I love you, I only wanted you to see what being a homosexual is going to do to you... I never meant for you to get so hurt..."

"BULLSHIT!!" Adam shouted, "You freaking poisoned me, you know that?! The paint got into my body and I almost died! Those men were breaking me over and over, what part of that is supposed to make me love you?!"

"It wasn't supposed to be like this!" Jessica cried, "My uncle had to undergo his trial the same as you did..." Adam gasped silently as he looks at her delusional smile, "It worked for him... It worked for him, and it can work for you too!"

"You're fucking sick..." Adam's voice shook as he took a step back, "Oh my God, I can't even... Fuck." Adam looks at her with terrified disbelief.

"Adam, please... Please, I-"

"Ah!" Belinda jumps and staggers back, almost tripping as something akin to the core of a glacier rushes on her arm, looking to see Merrick's aura has become a tempest of intangible ice shards so turbulent -- he just put his hand gently on her shoulder, and it feels exactly like frostbite! She watches while holding where Merrick touched her while he grabs Jessica's neck as his voice rattles with sheer, unadulterated hatred.

"GLK!" Jessica gags as his hand grips her neck harshly.

"Merrick, Merrick NO!" Adam gasped. He takes a step, but Belinda coils her arms around his torso, "Belinda, let go!"

"Don't go to him!" Belinda said as she pulls Adam back, "He can't see anything but her! He's going to..."

"You... You..." Merrick grips her neck and her arm harshly, squeezing them as he slowly crushes her voice box.

"Ellkkk!" Jessica's face darkens as he chokes her.

"Just like last time... When he was near death, and you threw me to the floor when I could not even stand..." His eyes lose all light as darkness of rage and bloodthrist purge his very being. Jessica's mind goes numb with horror as those eyes pierce at her, as if to threaten to crush her out of existence if he looks at her for much longer.

"Words cannot even begin to describe just how much you need to die." Merrick whirled around, and threw her to the sand! Jessica coughs in pain as she tries to get up, her teeth crunching on a few grains of sand as she tries to escape. The back of her shirt was seized, and she found herself flying back onto the rock!

"GAH-aahhhh!" She howls in pain as she takes several deep breaths, unable to breathe for several seconds. Jessica stands up, throwing a weak slap towards Merrick. He merely grabs her wrist, and SLAMS he fist into her forearm! "AAEEHH!"

He grips her shirt and her hair as he pierces into her eyes, "In your world... Men are prohibited from harming women, right?? RIGHT?!" He jerks her harshly, making Jessica gasp and whimper, "Well in MY world, everyone pays their toll DESPITE their gender. Let me show you YOUR penalty!" Jessica screams before Merrick then seizes her mouth, and jams his knuckles into her side, hearing something crack within.

"Merrick, STOP!" Adam orders. Merrick doesn't hear him as he continues his attack. Adam gasps as he watches his lover force Jessica onto the sand, and hammers his knuckles down onto her knee, "MERRICK!"

"I will put you into your hell." Merrick seethed as Jessica squirms against his grip, "Moment by moment, you will live out everything you have done to him." His voice is so dark and savage. Jessica cries into his hand as she tries to push it off of her, too petrified to really put any sort of strength into anything.

Merrick whips his arm up, and SLAPS her face to the side. He gets up, forcing her on her feet, winds his arm back again, and slams his fast into her again, making her toss back by sheer force. In a whip of a movement, Merrick dashes around, and strikes her with lightning-fast precision. He swipes a kick to her leg, and chops his arm right into her shoulder, and makes her crash into the sand again.

"AHAGHGHaahhh!" Jessica sobs and pants hysterically as she tries to run away, before slipping falling down pitifully again. "AH-haaah!" Her leg nearly cripples her as she stumbles forward, before she feels Merrick's hands grab her. She feels herself forced into a large dock beam, scraping her face with the barnacles and black bivalves stuck onto the dock, her face suffering from several shallow gashes.

"MERRICK!" Adam shouted, "Belinda, pl-" Before he can finish his sentence, Belinda is already racing to them. Adam shakes as he stands, hardly able to breathe while watching this tragic and horrifying spectacle. He sees glimpses of Merrick's face... That feral, anger-filled face... "No... Merrick..." His heart feels a chilled burn as he sees all that untamed fury consume him. Just like when he lost his mind at the Agency...

"HHH-EENNHH!" Merrick picks up Jessica, and throws her again to one of the beams supporting the docks.

"AGGHH! Ahhoohhh... Agghhh..." Jessica flops onto the sand and surf, blood seeping from rips of her clothing. She cries loudly as every inch of her body stings and aches dramatically along with harsh scrapes all over her exposed skin and face. This man is possessed! He's really going to kill her!

"Merrick! Stop, stop, stop!" Belinda steps in front of him, staring up into his darkened eyes, "That's... That is enough." She feels a wave of intense fear as he looks at her with those inhuman eyes... Eyes that hold no soul that can see only prey and agony. His cold, sheer wrath feels like a frigid bonfire that will freeze away all feeling if touched. "She has paid her punishment. Let her go."

"You dare defend her?" Merrick's voice shakes as his aura flares with blackened rage, "Stay out of this, Latolcus!"

"Merrick, please! I don't want to do this..." Her hand whitens as her fingers begin to sharpen and glimmer darkly, priming her mystical poison. If he's not going to stop, she will have to paralyze him. Belinda knows those eyes all too well -- she once wore them when her false mother... That Noita, when she confessed she lied to Belinda her entire life.

This is the abyssal gaze of a starving killer. "You have done enough!"

"Never. It will NEVER be enough! She's not getting away with what she did! And nobody is going to stop me from giving what she deserves!" Merrick takes her shoulder, and throws her to the side.

"ACkksss!" Belinda hisses as she tumbles at least 5 feet away from him by sheer force, but rolls with the momentum. She whips around, and glides right back up to him. Merrick is interrupted in his next attack as Belinda's white-scaled arms grab him.

"STOP! I can't let you do this! Don't do what I did!!"

"Fucking blood thief!" Merrick snarls as he seized one of her arms, "For the last time, we are NOTHING alike!!" He seethes as her ring and index fingers turn into a pair of organic syringes.

"Forgive me then." She stabs into his arm in an attempt to stun further movement.

"GHHH! Get out of my WAY, LATOLCUS!!!" Merrick grabs her wrist, nearly crushing it and turns a half-circle as he harshly throws her into one of the beams. The poison injected into his arm doesn't even distract him for a second.

"AHH!" Belinda grunts as the impact stuns her body, shaking as she pants, "Merrick... Don't do this..."

Merrick strides in the water towards Jessica, who is trying to crawl weakly away from him, sobbing in pain and terror as she can hear him coming. She gasps as his fingers dig into her hair, before her face is forced into the sea! She thrashes and struggles as she accidently swallows a splash of ocean down her throat.

"You proclaim your GOD to be someone who preaches about love, peace, and tolerance!" He yanks her back, making her gasp and choke for air from the water, "TELL ME! Just what is so righteous about beating a man to the point of death and destroying his memories?! And then abusing his body for your own selfish and filthy delusions?! Does your JESUS say you have the right to break people like that?! DOES HE?!" He forces her head back into the water, making Jessica suffocate in the shore again.

"You claim righteousness... But your soul is blacker than the crushing depths of the sea..." Merrick's hand then goes up and takes his scale necklace, "And I will take you-"

Then, he feels someone pull him up. Jessica breaks from the shore, gagging and vomiting the salt water she held in her stomach.

"RGGH!" Merrick struggles as he is forced back away from Jessica, growling savagely as he tries to throw off whoever is pulling him, "Let GO! Take your hands off! I'm not letting her leave!!"

"Merrick, stop! STOP!"

"FFFFUCK! Let me go!!" He's knocked backward, staggering before someone steps around him, seizing his arms. Merrick knocks an arm away, and moves the other up to strike down. "Hhh!" He stops mid swing when he sees who pulled him off of Jessica.

"ENOUGH!" Adam shouted at him as he took Merrick's raised arm. Merrick seethes as he grits his teeth at him, his muscles tensing as he looks into Adam's face. He almost struck him down... He was going to take him out. "We don't DO this! This ISN'T what I want! I NEVER want you to do this!!"

"She killed you..." Merrick growled, "She had you sickened and bashed. She killed you so she could steal you."

"I don't care, Merrick!" Adam tells him, "She doesn't matter! I am never going with her! I don't care what she did to me, I'm horrified at what she's done to YOU!"

"Ghh..." Merrick growled as his vision starts to change. The searing wrath slowly leaves his range of sight with Adam standing before him, gripping his shoulders, "Not this again..."

"What?"

"I have to finish her..." Merrick's throat suddenly feels partially solid as he feels his chest shudder, "She doesn't deserve to live... Don't let me walk away from this." His fists shake as Adam holds him there.

"Merrick, no." Adam calmly continues, "I don't want you to kill her... This, this isn't you." He puts his hands on Merrick's face, "This isn't the boy I love, you're killing HIM, and it's making me sick..." He tells him with injured passion, "You promised me you'd never do this again." Merrick's face softens as his anger turns to anguish. Merrick starts to sniff while his chin starts to tense on and off. "Don't do this just when I got you back. I don't want you to be with a murderer... I want to be with you the way we are."

"She took you, Adam... She took you away from me..." Merrick's voice shakes as his arms hang on either side, "She made you disappear." Merrick's eyes rim with tears, "I was never going to see you again. You died, and I didn't protect you. I wasn't there, and I lost everything." His voice cracks as a drop falls from his eye.

"I know, Merrick. I know..." Adam eases up his grip, "But it's over, ok? It's over. This needs to stop. If you kill her, I'm only going to lose you again. Are you really going to make me go through that again?" Merrick sniffles as he bows his head. Adam pulls him in as Merrick tries to keep himself from sobbing. "It's going to be ok..."