SADDEST WORM EVER

❝ Didn’t I say the world was cruel? ❞

❝ Let your life be a dream. ❞

❝ You can never trust a monster. ❞

❝ Blood is cheap. ❞

❝ In you is a world of promise. ❞

❝ I can’t feel nothing at all. ❞

❝ Tell me, why do you hide your pretty face? ❞ 

❝ All you have to do is pull the trigger. ❞

❝ Pray he never comes knocking at your door. ❞

❝ Why are my genetics such a bitch? ❞

❝ I’m the monster, I’m the villain. ❞

❝ It’s my job to steal and rob. ❞ ❝ Daddy’s girl’s a fucking monster! ❞

❝ You could have died! You… you scared me to death! ❞

❝ It’s a thankless job, but somebody’s got to do it. ❞

❝ You break my friggin’ heart. ❞

❝ I am not a murderer. ❞

❝ What is this? You disgust me. ❞

❝ I am only living out a lie! ❞

❝ “Accidents” don’t end in murder. ❞

❝ She needs a little help with the agony. ❞

❝ Would you change who you are, if you could? ❞

❝ Commence your groveling! ❞

❝ I thought I’d seen a ghost. ❞

❝ It’s too painful. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wonder why they need me at all. ❞

❝ Remember who you are. ❞

❝ How self-absorbed people can be! ❞

❝ No one is around who might rescue you. ❞

❝ You missed your medicine. ❞

❝ I’m the smartest and the toughest. ❞

❝ Sorry to be so theatrical. ❞

❝ I’m infected. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wonder why we all don’t move on! ❞

❝ You want the world for nothing. ❞

❝ No one wants a thankless job. ❞

❝ Someone’s gonna hang if i don’t get my coffee! ❞

❝ Your designer heart still beats with common blood. ❞

❝ I guess I’ll take it to my death! ❞

❝ Look what I’ve become. ❞

❝ What’s this? Rat piss? ❞

❝ All these years have come and gone. ❞

❝ You never were a man of many words. ❞

❝ Why relive that moment? ❞

❝ Oh, I have hated and loved you. ❞

❝ I’m afraid… I’m afraid it’s terminal. ❞

❝ You’re not men, you’re creatures. I’m embarrassed by you. ❞

❝ There are things in life that we do best to leave alone. ❞

❝ I’m sweeter than sixteen! ❞

❝ We have both been kept in bondage. ❞

❝ I’ve always longed for true affection, but you compared me to a corpse. ❞

❝ This is your fault! I asked you to help me. ❞

❝ It’s gonna be a bloodbath. ❞

❝ Didn’t you say you were infected? ❞

❝ I don’t think that I can be fixed. ❞

❝ You never should have left me. I would have given you the world. ❞

❝ It’s nice to see young talent blooming. ❞

❝ I will shoot you in the face! ❞

❝ A sheltered rose needs a little room to bloom. ❞

❝ Stay with the dead. I’m joining the living. ❞

❝ You’re gonna be alright now, that’s all that matters. ❞

❝ I can go out with a bang! ❞

❝ How much of it’s genetics? How much of it is fate? ❞

❝ These eyes can do more than see. ❞

❝ I will not be betrayed. ❞

❝ You gonna start applauding? ❞

❝ Happiness is not a warm scalpel. ❞

❝ Now I can drink whatever I want! ❞

❝ It’s all part of the show. ❞

❝ You’re no better than they are! ❞

❝ I’ve made my peace. ❞

❝ You could learn from all my failures. ❞

❝ I’d be lost if I were to lose you, I will stop at nothing to keep you safe. ❞

❝ Didn’t you say that you’d protect me? ❞

❝ I hate you. Go and die. ❞

❝ I look like a crime scene. ❞

❝ Thanks for the disease! ❞

❝ A tale befitting any opera. ❞

❝ Nothing ever lasts in this world. ❞

❝ You’ve got to fight through it. ❞

❝ I will find a hole and fuck it! ❞

❝ I’m not supposed to talk to strangers. ❞

❝ Gold, it makes the world go round. ❞

❝ Let the monster rise! ❞

❝ It’s too late for me. ❞

❝ I’m the cause of all your sickness. ❞

❝ I’m dying, you idiots. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wanted to cry when the people on TV were not quite the way we were. ❞

"Clearly you aren't too bothered by it," Iago points out, watching his tail flick irritably. They have the urge to start batting at it like a cat. "Seeing how you're here talking about her still."

They draw their knees up to their chest, draping one arm over the top of them while the other flicks feather-light at his tail. "Besides, I don't want to give her flowers. You said she wouldn't like flowers."

“  I  said  she  probably  wouldn't  want  them  from  me.  ”  That  is  a  very  important  distinction.  Maybe  Shadowheart  does  like  flowers,  but  that  doesn't  mean  she'd  appreciate  it  if  they were given  to  her  by  a  disgusting  freak.

Puck  leans  into  their  touch  despite  his  grumpiness.  There  are  few  feelings  better  than  that  of  Iago's  chilly  hands  on  a  warm  day. So few that he can't even think of what they would be.

He  blushes  again,  glad  that  he  faces  the  other  direction.  “  Not  long.  I've  only  seen  her  twice.  ”  More  than  he  can  say  about  most  others,  though.

“  She  smells  nice.  ”

A  wince.  Is  that  a  weird  thing  to  say  ?

He's  quick  to  add,  “  I  don't  know  much  about  her,  either.  I  think  that's  on  purpose.  She's,  um  ...  c-  cagey  ?  ”

That's  the  word,  right  ?

"You always have a funny look on your face," they say back, frowning at his finger poking into a pink cheek. They consider biting it when he grins.

They don't blink when he looks into their eyes, and they mirror his angle, resting their head beside his, comfortable and content to just sit here with him. They know why he stares like that, they do the same. Loneliness and oddness and whatever else made the day sloughs off their shoulders the longer they sit next to him, until they feel a comfortable sort of sleepiness take its place. They consider trying to take a cat nap right here when he speaks again.

        IF   PUCK   NOTICES   Iago's  fear,  he  doesn't  show  it.  They  try  to  cover  up  their  feelings,  so  he  does,  too.  Though  he  can  only  ever  bury  one  emotion  at  a  time,  always  overflowing  with  a  thousand  others.  The  hurt  gets  smothered,  but  the  guilt  continues  to  rise.

As  an  unspoken  apology,  he  stops  poking  them  &  laces  their  pinky  fingers  together  instead.  “  Yeah,  because  you  smell.  ”

That's  not  true.  He  knows  who  is  more  likely  of  the  two  of  them  to  smell,  &  that's  why  he  says  it.  Puck  never  genuinely  insults  them.

But  then  they  insult  him  in  turn,  &  he  huffs,  dropping  his  hand  from  theirs.  His  face  scrunches  up  so  that  he  unwittingly  proves  their  first  point.

        “  And  you're  mean.  ”  He  turns  onto  his  other  side  so  that  his  back  faces  them,  arms  crossed  over  his  chest. It is a common move he makes, pretending to give them some kind of silent treatment. He always runs his mouth, though.

        “  Maybe  you  should get her flowers,  ”  he  mutters half-heartedly, grumpy but not angry.  “  You already have sooo much in common ...  ”

The 'so much in common' being terrorizing Puck Darlington.