#looking at how you used to live hurts! doesn't it! spirito!

[pizzamassacred]

Oh, he recognizes that voice. How could he not. The thing grinning so wide in the depths of him snickers before more words are pushed into Maurice's head.

You LOVE saying that, don't you? It comes so easily. Telling the world to fuck off. Thinking you can stand alone against it all. Like you're some sort of badass able to hang on despite everything life throws at you... is that really how you think? Or are you aware that you're just a turtle hiding in his shell, refusing to ever come out? Because you think that's the best way to survive?

Spirito leers, his hand squeezing a little harder before he lets go at last.

People like you would make me sick to my stomach, if I still had one that worked.

A voice intruding in Maurice's brain only compounded the chaos within his own cranium, his body twisting and thrashing against the other's grip in an attempt to break it.

" FUCK OFF! " he howled at — ALL OF THIS. Because it was BULLSHIT, fuckin' BULLSHIT, nothing was wrong with him at all but EVERYTHING was wrong he couldn't even trust his own BRAIN —