most people wanted to live a long life, die of old age, surrounded by those who love them. family, friends, lovers, neighbors. clerks from the grocery stores they frequented, classmates they attended school with decades ago. everyone in the world wanted to be loved, remembered for the good things they did when they were alive. all normal things to wish for, all ordinary ideals to crave. from a young age, michael had been shown that he'd never have any of those things. his family had turned on him as soon as his baby sister had been born, neglect taking hold of his shoulders and leading him to a path darker than any child should walk on. no one of sane mind would approach him to become friends, and his neighbors had been scared enough of him to double check that they locked their doors at night. as for lovers, well - the only one he had ever known was sitting across from him again, and he wouldn't kid himself with thinking she'd still be there when he died. that meant, the only memories anyone would ever have of michael myers are the headlines calling him pure evil. no understanding of why he turned out this way, because he refused to tell such a drawn out story. not that anyone would believe him now, anyway.
cindy talked and he listened. it had been like that for a long time, longer than they had loved each other. she hadn't changed much, stream of consciousness leaving her with hope that any anxieties might exit with the words she spoke, though that never seemed to happen. he could answer her questions easily - there is no okay in here, there is only drifting, only silence, only feeling like a fish trapped in a too small tank while eyes stare at you from every glass corner. he blamed his family for the way that he had turned out, but no excuse was good enough for the thoughts he'd had throughout his life, gruesome and altogether violent. but she asked him not to, so he wouldn't. but he did watch her. listen to her. waited until she was done, until she decided it was a mistake to see him, and then he spoke again, voice somewhat hoarse.
'we're never the ones doing the leaving, are we,' it was less of a question, more of a statement. a fact. neglected, forgotten, used and thrown away. their lives were vastly different, neither of them were stupid enough to think otherwise, but they were fundamentally the same. michael half expected cindy to stand, to finally leave, walk away from him for the last time. when she didn't, he thought she might understand a fraction of why he'd done everything that he had thus far. 'i have answers, but not the ones you're looking for. i can't ease whatever lingering pain you still have, cindy,' name was said with hesitation, feeling somehow foreign and all too familiar on his tongue. 'i'm not the one who called. and they'll use you again and again to try to get more information out of me,' eyes glanced at the two way glass, knowing his doctor was on the other side watching them. when they landed on cindy again, they were unrecognizably soft. 'but we don't leave. even if you go now, i'll still always be there,' finger lifted to point at cindy's chest, at her heart, before he went quiet.