There was blood on her hands.

She didn't know what had happened but there was blood on her hands.

Just a few minutes ago she had been sitting together in her room together with Kira who cracked their stupid jokes while they were watching some TV show. For some reason her best friend seemed to be incredibly amused by how the angels and demon were portrayed even though she hasn't been sure why exactly. Maybe that was just how Kira is.

They had fun. Until Kira suddenly looked around in a concerned manner and as soon as she had asked what was going they had turned around to her, smiled and quickly said: "I'm gonna have to check something outside."

He didn't come back.

At first Hope hadn't been that concerned. Kira was a guy that would always do what they felt like when he felt like it but after some time she went outside.

She didn't expect to see puddles of blood on the floor.

She also hadn't been expecting those leading up to the body of her best friend, leaning against a tree.

Now. They were alive. She tried to stop the bleeding. Everything went so fast and then she felt a hand on hers.

"Hope. You have to go."

"What? Are you completely crazy? I'm not just going to leave you here! I mean what even happened did you— ", she stopped when Kira started to cough up blood. "No. no. no."

"My brother wasn't quite happy with how I did my work, I guess.", they tried to laugh but the laugh was quickly going over into a quiet cry.

"Your...brother?"

"You know, it's hard to live in a family where you're the bad guy when you try to help people.", he put on a small smile and slowly took her hand. "You know... I fought for love. Instead of power. I fought for you."

"...what?"

"I told them what I thought. They can kill me if I want to. But I will never bow before a king who gets his power from the life he's ending.", for a second they tried to pretend like he wasn't in this situation. "You opened my eyes, Hope. You, your mom...", they were quiet for a second. "Dani. You are the one's who convinced me that we were wrong.", his hand went limb.

"Kira?"

They didn't answer.

"Kira! You stay awake, you hear me?! Don't you dare to die on me! Please! Come on!", she started to sob while sitting next to his body.

She didn't realize it but her cries, her pain shook the fabric of reality, almost tore it apart and suddenly...

Kira found himself lying on the floor.

Not in the woods anymore. They had no idea where they were.

All they could see was...black...an endless dark room.

As he slowly stood up they heard a distorted voice behind them.

"Great. Another one of you. You're meant to be asleep."