Jeremy's dreams were...strange. He saw the events of the prior evening unfold, and he felt satisfaction from watching life drain out of Dustin Kropp.

He got satisfaction knowing that killing Dustin automatically put Michael in a safer position, which was good.

Jeremy woke up in the middle of the night, looking over at his beautiful boyfriend. He began caressing his soft, caramel face gently, smiling.

"I'll protect you my love. And I'll make sure everybody knows you're mine." Jeremy whispered, wrapping his arms around Michael and bringing him closer, gently kissing him, and loving how his lips still tasted of nineties sodas. Just another quirk of dating Michael Mell.

Jeremy fell back asleep, and his dreams became more enthralling. He heard Dustin scream in pain as he jabbed a saw into his arms and chopped them off.

"I shoulda done that." Jeremy thought in his unconscious state of mind. He wanted to protect Michael as much as he could. He wanted Michael to be safe...to be his.

The next day, Michael headed out to spend it with his moms. Jeremy decided he'd do some work on his little torture chamber if he planned on keeping Michael safe.

He planned it out on his computer, making a list of things he'd have to save up for.

"Let's see, you need to hide the bodies...furnace. Burning them is great. You need a way to keep them safely restrained as well...Ooh a few metal clasps to the wall wouldn't hurt. Maybe get some lights as well, so they can see the blood. Couple of buckets...shelves, cabinets...Like a small little work area. Yeah!" Jeremy told himself as he rapidly typed, smiling with content at the list.

He decided to order everything and have it shipped to he abandoned house. He'd take it inside and work on it during Michael's trip out of town, which came up near the end of September.

Jeremy realized he needed a way to keep Michael from catching on.

"I could always drug him, he gets high every week anyways so he'd never notice. I could sneak it into his meals or drinks...But I gotta figure out what to use." Jeremy eventually settled on just sneaking the drugs into Michael's food and hiding the smell with other food. Michael's nose wasn't the best anyways.

After planning out everything, Jeremy turned his laptop off and shoved it into his backpack so Michael couldn't find the list...granted Michael didn't know Jeremy's password, even though it was literally just "I<3Micha" and had only been that for a few days now.

It was getting late. Michael should've been home. Jeremy got a text and seen Michael messaged him.

Micha: Hey Jere I made some new friends and had to drive them home.

Micha: They're our age! I'll send you a pic

Michael had sent a photo of two boys. One was short, sandy blonde, freckles, blue eyes, and a baby blue striped polo. The other was quite contrasting, long brown hair that fell in his face, a black hoodie, and his eyes were blue with brown in them.

Micha: They're cool, you should meet them. They go to Middleborough!

Jerm: Okay. Tell me next time u plan on staying out a lil late okay?

Micha: Ok. Love u Jeremy

Jerm: I love you too Micha

Jeremy observed the photo thoroughly. He'd seen the two before. In fact he'd talked to the blonde one at one point and found out they were pretty similar.

Of course, they're keeping Jeremy from his Michael, so they're going to be punished.

Jeremy pulled Google Docs up on his phone and made a list. He pulled a yearbook out of his backpack and searched for them, smiling when he found them.

List of people who keep me from MY Micha

#1-Evan Hansen
#2- Connor Murphy
Add more when needed.

Jeremy decided he'd put Dustin's and on top to think back to his first murder.

List of people who keep me from MY Micha

#1- Dustin Kropp(dead)
#2- Evan Hansen(alive)
#3- Connor Murphy(alive)
Add more when needed

Jeremy smiled as he saved the document and turned his phone off. He shoved the yearbook back in his bag and waited for his boyfriend to return.

Eventually Michael came home and Jeremy was enthralled with happiness. His Micha was back where he belonged.

"So how was the day with your family?" Jeremy asked and Michael began rambling about it. It made Jeremy smile to see his love so happy...until he began talking about Hot Topic and Tree Boy.

Jeremy pretended to be happy and interested but these two kept him away from Michael for an hour. That hour was rightfully his. And he was going to get it back.

When Michael was done rambling, he was calmly laying at the end of the couch. Jeremy cuddled beside him, his hand on Michael's heart and his head laying against his shoulder.

"I love you Micha. You know that, right?" He mumbled and Michael used his free hand to mess up Jeremy's hair.

"Of course I know that. I love you too Jerm." Michael softly brought Jeremy in and kissed him, and Jeremy's face heated up as it usually did.

"I love you more." Jeremy teased and Michael giggled.

"Nah I love you more." Michael knew where this would go. He always lost these competitions.

"No I love you more."

"I love you more than Bob Marley." Michael laughed out and Jeremy decided he'd take his bait.

"Fine...I love you more than the entire universe."

"Wow. That's a lot."

"Told you I love you more." Jeremy giggled out and he nuzzled himself even closer to Michael, the natural body heat coming from the taller male making it easy to fall asleep.

Jeremy's eyes flickered a bit before he finally passed out, and Michael passed out with him.

In Jeremy's sleep, he imagined what it would be like killing his next victims...He thought about doing it at once, and realized that would be fun. Extremely fun.

Especially watching Connor cry over Evan. Oh that would be extremely fun. Maybe he'd hurt them both before killing them. Yeah he'd torture the everlasting hell out of them.

And he'd smile while doing it.

Knowing it was keeping him with his Michael. That's all that mattered.