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The darkness was overshadowing the light, like the display of an aftermath of some horrific event that was foreshadowed so early on in which no one could have avoided.

The window was locked, as he presumed. He couldn’t even see the writing of his name.

Gavin sucked in a breath, observing of what he could not see at all, and what he could only see- pitch black. No sign of life in your apartment.

Gavin slowly lowers himself back on the ground after making sure nobody was around to see him use his Evol. Everything was eerily quiet, like the world was at a pause in time.

He thought to himself that it wouldn't be unusual for you to be out buying snacks at a nearby convenience store, nor would you be in the office working over-time be anything out of the ordinary.

So he again takes out his phone to give you a ring. Just to let you know that he's safe, that he's okay, and wants to desperately see you right now. And hold you.

He reaches the favourites on his contact list and presses your name next to his favourite photo of you smiling on his phone.

Gavin would always want to give you a call or at least a message everyday to check in how you were doing, but would be too afraid that he would be disturbing you or your time to yourself. Hopefully right now, he would be able to reach you, and you would reply.

Gavin brings the phone up next to his cheek, envisioning you there with him, and how safe he feels when he was with you.

"Hey, it's me.

(Hello, I'm unable to take your call at the moment. Please leave a message after the beep, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.)

When did your phone turn into an answering machine?

Are you busy?

Hope I'm not disturbing you.

I promised you before that I'd return as soon as possible.

Now I've finished up everything I had to do....

Have you been alright these few days?

If something comes up, be sure to tell me about it.

Oh yeah, I was calling in the first place to warn you, try not to leave for the house for the time being.

Especially don't go near the central quarantine zone.

Although I'm still unclear about the actual circumstances, it seems something incredibly awful has happened.

STF messages say...

They say...

There was a girl that was... killed.

So Eli clammed up... didn't want to tell me the specifics.

...

I was too slow...

I'm sorry."

The phone in Gavin's hand drops.

His breathing begins to quicken again, with eyes wide and stunned.

Not caring about anything else, he runs back into your apartment building again, almost punching the lift for being so slow.

Slow.

That was what he was feeling. The horror and shock that hasn't fully sunken itself in his heart for him to fully comprehend- but mostly it was the self-deprecation weighing on his whole body, submerging himself down further into the black hole of guilt and agony.

He promised- he had promised that he would protect you, that he would do anything to keep you safe and away from all evil. You had promised him the same.

Gavin, instead of busting down the door with all his might like he thought he would, crumbles in front of it, holding only the door knob for support so that he doesn't go melting through the floor. He couldn’t bring himself to do it. He just couldn’t.

Another woman in his life, gone.

MC: "I've always chased after your silhouette & I was never afraid. Because I know you'll always be there waiting for me. Victor, if you really disappear...I'll be with you. We'll both be forgotten by the world."

[MC Inner Monologue]: Victor, once we have crossed countless dimensions & futures & embraced each other. If everything has to disappear with time, like dust into the wind... Fortunately, we still have our final promise.