I Made Us Strong

"I don't even recognise you any more. You're nothing of what I was. I stare and stare but fail to see even the remotest resemblance of the man that used to stand before me. All those years spent on self pity and disappointment. Feeling sorry for myself at the sad and pathetic man that stared back at me each time I gazed into this mirror; this mirror that has bared witness to the change in me."

"And what of me? For those same years I have stared back upon you, and I have been disgusted. Disgusted at the shell of humanity that you were. You were weak. We were weak. It has taken years to get to where we are now. Look at what we have become."

"I have become everything I never wanted to be. Everything I ever hated in men; in life."

"You have become strong. A force to be reckoned with. You are now a man."

"I am a monster! You have made me a monster."

"I have made you better. Made us better. Better than the others. No longer do they mock or taunt us. We don't hide any more or shy away. We have taken back our life."

"By taking theirs?"

"By paying back debts long over due. You know as well as I that they had it coming."

"But not this, surely not this?"

"We all die. Each and every one of us. Even you and I will eventually cease to be."

"We don't deserve to live."

"Shut up! Can you hear yourself and your pitiful self loathing? You're pathetic! Be a man for Gods sake!"

"I am a man."

"You are nothing more than a puppet. My puppet and you know it. I'm in charge and slowly the weak, snivelling wimp in you is fading away. Soon it shall be gone all together."

"I won't let you hurt anyone else. Not tonight."

"You fool. It's already too late."

"What?"

"Look at your hands."

"Wha...but...the blood?"

"You've already done it. You don't even remember doing it do you? You don't recall slicing her throat and watching her writhe upon the ground. Blood spewing from her. You don't remember laughing at her as she stared up at you, the fear so evident in her eyes. You don't remember any of it, do you?"

"No."

"That's because I'm taking over. I am the stronger side of you. Me!"

"The blood?"

"Face it, I'm winning. I'm not going to allow us to be the victim any longer."

"What do we do now? She makes three. Three! We're never gonna get away with this! They'll catch us."

"No they won't."

"But the blood, it's everywhere. Her body is right there!"

"No one is going to catch you, trust me."

"Trust you! This is all your fault."

"But the knife is in your hand remember. Her blood is on you."

"What do we do?"

"We do what we did with the other two; go get the saw."

"Yes...of course."