FICTITIOUSCRIM

(a part 2 to my hcs about how they murder you- inspired by shyawaysweetheart’s comment <3)

Includes: Toby, Ben, Jeff, Tim, Brian, Jack ♡

♡ Toby ♡

He's grown accustomed to ghosts taunting him in the face of every wall he punches a fist into. You terrorize him like the others- his mother, his sister- joining a trifecta that undoes that of the father, son, and holy spirit.

He sees you in his sleep, looking as torn up and bloody as the day he left you, and wakes up screaming, shaking in a way that only you could ever fix. He vows to tear himself and the world around him apart for failing you. He busts up his knuckles, sets fire to trees, and ruins anything else that ever reminded him of your beauty. He is, after all, the one who deserves it.

♡ Ben ♡

Chances are, if Ben fell for you, only to watch you suffer until your final breath, you return as a vengeful spirit. You're a leaking faucet, forcing him to confront his fears. You're the sparks flying from busted wires, ruining any chance he gets of enjoying a night in front of his PC.

But he tortures himself in your name, too. You're the whisper in his ears each time he doesn't feel good enough to stand next to the others. You're the ice-cold water he splashes on his face every morning when he can't seem to forget the way your eyes shone. You're the gasping breaths in every nightmare he has about being pulled beneath crashing waves by a siren that looks exactly like you. You are guilt personified, eating him alive inside and out.

♡ Jeff ♡

You’re the final nail in his coffin of apathy. You haunt him in a way that even the others notice, like a demon possessing him to re-carve the smile into his skin, like a hypnotist making him stare into an open flame as though compensating for the pain he put you through. He deludes himself into thinking this makes you equal. He knows deep down that it never will be.

He stops killing for a while too. Hates the way girls scream almost as brutallly as you did that night. Hates the way guys fight back the way you never did. All of his energy drains on days laying in bed, smoking away the memory of you, tears clouding his vision when he realises he can’t.

♡ Tim ♡

You haunt him like every cliché he once rolled his eyes at. Your spirit creaks in the floorboards at night. It pushes windows open and sends the sound of your laughter ringing through his ears whenever he claims he hasn’t thought about you in days. He smells your perfume in every room, swears that hair tie wasn’t in his truck last night- but he knows if he tells anyone he’ll just be met with sad eyes and sympathy smiles.

It drives him crazy though. You drive him crazy, just like you did when you were alive. He paces his room, straining to find any semblance of you in the air. On missions, his efficiency weakens, and he finds himself in trouble with the Operator more than ever. You tear down his pride and leave him as a shell of a man, and he can do nothing but let it happen.

♡ Brian ♡

You haunt him like a lover haunts a hospital. You’re everywhere- in his clothes, in his mannerisms, in his routine, and he loves you too much to scrub you away. He knows he had to kill you, but that doesn’t mean he’s willing to give you up. He thinks of you every time he sees or hears something lovely: birds singing in the morning, church bells, freshly cut ribbon or white teeth smiles. 

You are eternal and beautiful in his mind, and he will think of you as he rots, day in, day out, doing nothing to cease the pain and move on. That is how you haunt him, and the thing that makes Brian different is that he likes to be haunted by you. He likes that you follow him around wherever he goes, and likes how you probably always will.

♡ Jack ♡

Jack’s a weird one. You don’t haunt him in the natural way. He doesn’t spring awake at night, shaking and screaming like Toby, nor does he drown himself in guilt like Ben. No, you come to him in much more meticulous ways. After he killed you and mauled your flesh like it was his final meal on death row, he loses whatever was left of his humanity in a search to find something that tastes just as good as you.

It’s a frenzy- a supercut from a horror movie each time he leaves the mansion. Bodies pile up as he shreds through them, his hunger growing each time he discards them as disgusting. Anything but you is. He wastes his life a slave to his own hunger, losing his mind more and more with every failed attempt to satisfy it.

includes: Toby, Ben, Jeff, Tim, Brian, Jack ♡

♡ Toby ♡

Swears it’s all out of love. He wants to keep you as safe as possible, round the clock. He isn’t supposed to know your address, your place of work, your car registration number- he just does. He becomes addicted to new shreds of information on you, like you’re his favourite show and each new piece is a brand new episode he cant look away from.

He’ll climb up trees to stare in your bedroom window, watching you sleep for hours and imagining all the ways he could get away with crawling through your window and lying like a dog at the foot of your bed.

If he’s taking time to memorise your routines, he means no harm, really. He’s fallen for you, and he was never taught how to act normal in a situation like that.

♡ Ben ♡

Absolutely shameless about stalking you, to the point it borders on disgusting. Has cameras on your house, in your bedroom, in your car, in your workplace, anywhere you might just walk into. There’s a tab open on his computer that he can flick to and just watch you go about your day. He’ll sit while he’s waiting on a game to load, mindlessly watching you cook dinner for yourself.

He’s completely perverted about it too. Will angle cameras so he can stare down your shirt and watch while you get dressed. Gets off on the fact that you have no idea it’s happening.

Contacts you on occasion. He’ll text you from an unknown number just for kicks as he watches you confused, trying to decipher where it’s come from. He’s a technological mastermind, and in terms nof stalking, his game is miles above the others.

♡ Jeff ♡

He is not a stalker. Lets be real. If he falls in love with you, its gonna be an absolute slow burn. He thinks he’s too good to waste time following around someone else.

Saying that, he coincidentally appears in your area more times than he needs to be. He’ll brush it off, knowing no one has the guts to ask him why exactly, he’s been spotted near the same house six times in one week. He lies to himself, more than anything.

If he’s feeling really agitated about your whereabouts, he might tell Ben to work some of his magic and show him where you are. By this point, he’s obsessed with you to the point that even a ten second headstart won’t do a thing to save you.

♡ Tim ♡

He completely deludes himself into thinking this is for the greater good. Even if you have nothing to do with the Operator, he tricks his mind into thinking that if he leaves you unattended for more than a few days, you’ll get tracked down and targeted by him.

He blends in well with his surroundings. If you’re a regular at a certain coffee shop, he’ll coincidentally be sitting at the window table everytime you walk in. He’s the stranger sitting across from you on the bus, and the guy in the store standing next to you, idly browsing the drinks section.

Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night for water, and you swear you see a shadow standing in your backyard. It’s fleeting though- disappears when you rub your eyes. He never makes his presence known to you.

♡ Brian ♡

He’s a lot more cryptic about it than you think he’d be. Sure, his main priorities are remaining anonymous, but that doesn’t mean he can’t treat you every now and then.

He has all your routes mapped out, and uses this knowledge for benevolence more than anything. On icy mornings, expect to find the path you take to work has been completely cleared. On sunny mornings, expect to open your front door to see a fresh bottle of lemonade- a gift from a neighbour- waiting for you.

He never means to hurt you. He just thinks you’re precious, living in the world as innocent and naive as you do. He likes it when you look relieved at a gesture he’s sent your way. He hates that he’s such a lover, but it’s carved into his bones.

♡ Jack ♡

Probably the best, and most terrifying stalker to have. He’s extremely tactical, being an expert at breaking and entering, and lacks humanity more than any of the others, which is terrifying if you ever wake up at the wrong time.

He invites himself into your house to watch you sleep. He feeds on your energy. He’s starving for you, how can you blame him? Even being around you, watching your chest rise and fall is the sweetest of tortures and the foot of his addiction.