The air in the room lowered quite a bit as Nephis passive stare at Sunny turned into a vicious glare. Sunny had crossed the line, no matter how much Nephis knew he was right that wasn't something he should have said to her.
Reaching over to him, Nephis grabbed Sunny by the collar roughly before speaking. Although her tone was calm, her eyes possessed a raging flame of fury that Sunny could see all too well. The sight of Nephis anger only served as fuel towards the gigantic grin that appeared across Sunny's face.
"Don't compare me to those scum, I'm nothing like them!" Nephis hissed, her grip on his collar tightening as Sunny placed a hand on her shoulder. His eyes looked innocent as he tilted his head to the side ever so slightly. The next words that came out of his mouth threw Nephis focus off track, quelling all anger that she has managed to muster.
"Is that a command? Master Nephis."
He strained the last part of his sentence to emphasise her dominance over him. Upon hearing it, Nephis expression stiffened as Sunny roughly shoved her backwards. He dusted off his shirt before laughing in her face hysterically once more. "If it isn't a command my dear master, then let me ask you this! What makes you so different than the men you intend to kill?"
Pausing, Sunny made his way towards Nephis, crouching so their eyes were level. Nephis didn't see the cold calculating eyes of a killer, she saw the madness of a butcher who had spent his life drowned in the blood of his enemies in the cold eyes of the man she had fallen in love with.
However, her pride would not allow her to leave the question unanswered. She met his resolve with equal figure and spoke in a tone that none would be able to deny.
"I was forced to do what I did out of necessity, it was because I was too weak! And I'm sorry, I'm sorry for being weak and taking the cowards way out. But them! They had strength, they did what they did out of greed!"
A smile plastered itself on Sunny's face once more as he outstretched an arm. He gently ran his hand through Nephis hair before doing something that would leave her shocked for the rest of the evening. Grabbing her chin, he pulled her in and kissed her.
The kiss was passionate, it lasted nearly ten minutes before Sunny pulled backwards. Wiping the saliva off his lips he slowly shook his head as his smile grew once more "And here I thought I'd feel something."
Hearing those words tore a hole through Nephis heart, he hadn't done it out of suppressed love for her. But only to see if there were any remaining embers of what they once shared within his soul. Before she could reply, Sunny took a step back and began speaking once more.
"And you can stop lying to me, I taught you how to do it so well anyway. You didn't leave me behind out of necessity, you did it because it was easier! You wouldn't have died if you stayed with me, look! Even a wretched decrepit cockroach like myself can survive in there, so why couldn't we!"
Emotion finally bubbled onto Sunny's face as his smile never wavered. Tears bit at the corners of his eyes before he grabbed Nephis roughly by the shirt "If I could survive, why couldn't we! Why wasn't I enough for you? Why wasn't I enough to make you stay!?"
Shoving her backwards, Sunny stormed past her and made his way back into the guest room. What had merely been an option was now a certainty. If he stayed in her home any longer Sunny was quite sure he was going to become the culprit of her death much sooner than he needed to.
Slamming the door behind himself, Sunny laid his head on the bed and slept. He wasn't even sure if nightmare has the strength to defend against the terrors that were coming to plague him as he slept, yet he was prepared to face them all the same.
Nephis was left alone downstairs, her hand shaking my raised to her lips as she traced her hands across them. The feeling of Sunny's lips pressed against them burned into her mind as tears cascaded from her eyes. Thoughts tried but failed in their valiant attempt to form themselves in her mind as Nephis simply walked out the house and left.
She wasn't quite sure where she was going, she didn't know. But Nephis was sure she needed someone right now, and the person she could rely on the most was always Cassie. The other had been forsaken by her after all. Reaching for her communicator, she clumsily scrolled around before sliding down on Cassie's name.
Nephis hands shook as she attempted to press the button, however some invisible force stopped her from doing so. After a while, she managed to win the battle against her psyche and call Cassie. The cold winds beat against her skin but were far too warm to ever pose her even a mild threat watched the communicator ring.
Before Nephis could break down onto the cold concrete that surrounded her estate, Cassie's voice rung through the phone marking her reply. "I need to see you, right now." Said Nephis, Cassie didn't say much aside from immediately relaying her location to Nephis. And so, Nephis quickly made her way to the building.
A mask of indifference had become Nephis most valuable tool, and it continued to prove its worth as Nephis face remained as still as a statue on her way there. With practiced ease she flashed smiles at attendants before walking up the stairs with such composure one would think it was practiced.
Finally, she pushed open the door to Cassie's room. There was a crater in the wall, the size of a fist. Cracks stretched across the room like a series of spiderwebs as Cassie remained seated on her bed with a bruise marked on her cheek. Her neck had dried blood on it, likely a small wound that had healed naturally. Regardless, Nephis blurred across the room and allowed her flames to wash over Cassie, healing her bruises in a matter of moments.
"What happened here?" Nephis asked, concern riddled across her face as she stared into Cassie's exposed eyes for the first time in a while. She could tell Cassie had been crying, the puffy red patches below her eyes giving her an obvious indicator towards it.
"Sunny came to say hello. He had a few questions for me." Cassie replied evenly, Nephis grit her teeth at the mention of his name. She needed to find out what had happened before she had the right to express herself, she owed Cassie that much.
"What did he want to know?" She asked tentatively, Cassie's eyes watered once more. Her lip trembling as her body began to shake violently at the question, she continued to stare at Nephis who sat next to her with an unwavering gaze.
"He wanted to know why I chose you over him."