Truth

“If only you knew how much it pains me, every day, having to live like this.”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t you understand? Humanity is so overrated, you’re so difficult to understand, so difficult to pretend to be. I can’t do it anymore!”
“But… you can’t give up!”
“What else am I supposed to do? I’m lost, I’ve lost everything.”
“You still have me.”
“Not for much longer. You know that, we both know that.”
“How could you say such a thing? Even if I’m not here that doesn’t mean I don’t care about you. I’ll always be here for you, you know that.”
“What do you expect me to do? I don’t want to be here without you. I don’t want to be human… without you. My humanity is so difficult to hold on to. Sometimes I forget myself… sometimes I see what I could be, and I’m a monster… but it’s beautiful. It’s a wonderful daydream.”
“So why not just become the monster? What’s stopping you?”
“You. Being with you. That’s what’s stopping me from being exactly what I don’t want to become.”
“…”
“Well, say something.”
“I don’t know what to say.”
“Yes you do, you always know what to say. Please, I need you. You’re everything I want and need and have. Without you I’m nothing, just a shell of the person I was, just a beast to prey on those who once meant something to me. I’ve killed too many times, I’ve done too much… I’m so scared.”
“I know. It’s okay, I’m here.”
“But you won’t be! You’ve chosen who you are, you chose him! And you chose that life, the life that I can never have.”
“Can you blame me?”
“… No. It’s the life I would have wanted. It’s the life I want you to have… I’m just selfish, that’s all.”
“No you’re not.”
“Yes, I am. I’m saying all these things to make you stay but you really shouldn’t be. Who am I to deny you of the things you want, just because I can’t have them anymore. I just… I just wish things would have turned out differently. I wish I had met you without being this way.”
“There’s nothing wrong with the way you are.”
“There’s everything wrong with the way I am, and you know it. I’m nothing.”
“No, that’s not true. You’re everything. You’re mine, and I…”
“Yes?”
“I… I love you.”
“I love you, too. I always have.”
“Stay with me?”
“For eternity. “