"He's the Glitch! It's not Jonathan! It's Evan! Daithi stop!" Tyler's warning came too late.

The door opened.

Evan smiled.

Daithi's scream rang through the apartment and as he fell to the floor, a mob of Glitches lead by Brian descending onto him with teeth and claws bared. Tyler swung his fist to hit Evan who laughed and blocked it easily. He hit Tyler hard in the jaw, feeling bone crack under his fist. He stumbled backwards, tripping over the coffee table, knocking over the beer bottles on the table and landed on the floor by the couch with a cry of pain.

Sydney tried to save Daithi, firing her gun at the Glitches. The gunshots echoed in Evan's ears, hurting his head. Her effort was futile, the mob of Glitches moving towards her once they were done with Daithi.

Tyler looked up at Evan with wide eyes, trying to get away from him. He crawled on the floor, stuck between the couch and the table. A sudden pain in Evan's back made him shriek, stopping him in his tracks. He spun to face Lui who seemed just as shocked as Evan was by what he had just done.

"I knew it...I fucking knew it. Everyone should have listened to me but they didn't.." Lui cried furiously. Evan smiled as he pulled the knife from his back, dark blood dripping onto the carpet.

"Of course no one listened. Why would they listen to you? What have you ever done for them?" Evan laughed, advancing towards Lui. "Nothing but be a fucking pain in the ass. You're a little kid! Useless!"

"Shut up! That's not true." Lui shook his head, trying to block out the thoughts that Evan was trying to put in his head.

"You can say it isn't as much as you but that won't make the truth go away." Evan smiled brightly.

Blood dripped down his face.

Lui's eyes went wide.

"Your head…"

"I tried to hide the truth but I like acceptance better. This head wound glitched me...Thank you Tyler." He turned in time to hit Tyler in the face with the handle of the knife as he tried to tackle him. Lui ran at Evan who spun suddenly, stabbing the knife into Lui's chest. "You should learn to accept it too." Lui coughed, spitting blood onto the floor.

"Stop! No! No! No!" Sydney's sudden screams were loud and harsh as Glitches attacked her, ripping flesh and splattering blood. Her screams echoed in Evan's ears till they faded away with a bloody gurgle.

The Glitches then turned their attention to Lui who had fallen to his knees, choking on blood. He stared at the Glitches with wide eyes then looked back at Evan, his eyes pleading.

"Don't…" Lui gasped. Evan smiled and kicked Lui's shoulder, sending him falling backwards into the mob of Glitches. Lui screamed as he torn apart, blood turning the carpet red. It wasn't long before Lui's screams faded and his eyes began to glitch.

"Looks like it's just you and me." Evan laughed as he turned to Tyler. His nose was bleeding, a dark bruise already forming on his jaw. "You are all so gullible. You could've stopped me at the door but you really thought I was Jonathan." Evan giggled. "He's taller than me!"

Tyler didn't find anything funny about it.

He glared at Evan darkly. He knew this was the end but he wasn't going to go down without a fight.

"Did you know this whole time that you were the Glitch?" Tyler asked, his hands curling into fists. Evan shrugged.

"It's kinda like when you have a word on the tip of the tongue but you just don't know what it is. I even tricked myself! I think that's impressive."

"Do you even care about us anymore?"

"I think you have me confused with the old Evan. I'm the Glitch. I don't care. Why should I? There is nothing to care about." He smiled, his eyes glitching aggressively. Tyler shrunk back from Evan as he moved towards him, his eyes wide with fear. "Do you remember when you hacked me to bits in that maze? I sure fucking do. So what happened to that Tyler? Are you scared to fight a Glitch? Maybe you'd like to practice on that one…" Evan pointed to a Glitch that staggered through the mob.

Craig's wound was still bleeding as badly as it did the day he Glitched.

"Shut up!" Tyler yelled. "Shut up! You fucking monster! You're disgusting! You let everyone Glitch! I don't want to know what you did to Jonathan!"

"Oh come on...We all Glitch one day. You're one day just happened to come sooner than later. Like I told Lui...Acceptance is what is best for you right now. Don't fight the inevitable."

"Why did you do this to us? What did we ever do?" Tyler screamed, backing away from the Glitches that began to swarm towards him. Evan held out his hand, stopping the monsters from moving closer to him. Tyler was in awe of his power, of how in control Evan was. He had never had reason to be scared of Evan before.

He never wanted to be scared of Evan.

Now, fear overwhelmed him, making him feel sick as he stared at the monster that wore his friend's face. Tyler couldn't stop staring at the head wound on Evan's head. It was bleeding so much, the whole side of Evan's face had gone red.

It was almost as red as the jacket that was still held in Sydney's limp hand.

It was the wound that Glitched Evan when Tyler had thrown him over the railing. Evan noticed him staring and laughed.

"You did this to me, Tyler! If anyone gets the blame for all this...I think it should be you!" Evan giggled. "I'm just doing what comes natural to me at the moment. I have nothing left to be good for. Neither do you. I don't think you've have anything to be good for...since Craig glitched." Tyler couldn't bring himself to look at Craig. He looked away from Evan, towards the window and the balcony railing.

He wondered if he could end this.

"What do you want me to do then? Let your fucking monsters destroy me? Let you destroy me?" Tyler cried.

"Either or...It's your choice. This world disgusts me. Either you can stick around to see it destroyed...or not. At least you have a choice. The others didn't. You know...I've always liked you, Tyler. You have always been brave when we couldn't be. Or at least...You tried to be. You always said what was on your mind. I appreciate that...But deep down...I think you are weak. I think you are scared. I think you are scared of showing your despair. So you treated us all like we were nothing but toys you could throw around. Even if you hadn't have thrown me over the railing, you still would have Glitched me and we would still have ended up here. We were always going to end here." Evan sighed, leaning against the glass window.

Blood smeared on the glass.

Tyler's eyes drifted down to the beer bottles that had spilled, the amber liquid dripping to the carpet. Tyler looked back up at Evan who was looking out over the city and the neon lights. "We are always going to end here...No matter what we did."

Glass suddenly shattered on Evan's head, blood and glass hitting the window.

Evan shrieked, the painful noise startling Tyler and the other Glitches. Evan shoved Tyler hard, flipping him over the couch. As Evan lunged at him, Tyler drove the broken bottle into Evan's chest, dark blood dripping onto Tyler's face.

Letting out another shriek, Evan grabbed Tyler's collar and dragged him to his feet. He smashed Tyler's head against the thick glass.

Tyler gasped in pain.

His vision blurred.

He struggled against Evan who smashed his head on the glass again. A crack formed on the window. "You've made your choice. You wanna be a monster, don't you? You want to fight...to taste blood!" Evan laughed and hit Tyler's head again against the glass. "I'll turn you into a monster!" Tyler shook his head, looking at Evan with dark eyes.

"No...No...I don't want to destroy anyone...Just you." Tyler suddenly kneed him hard in the stomach, throwing the Glitch off him. He grabbed the fallen broken bottle, and swung at Evan who ducked.

He grabbed Tyler's wrist and twisted.

The sickening snapping sound echoed in Evan's ears.

Tyler screamed in pain, falling against the cracked glass.

"I told you, Tyler! You can't destroy me!" Evan laughed, picking up the broken bottle. "You just have to accept that!" Evan smiled and suddenly lunged forward to stab the glass through Tyler's throat. With his still good hand, Tyler grabbed onto Evan's collar, suddenly swinging him around.

He narrowly missed the glass shard.

Tyler smashed the Glitch through the glass, the window shattering into a thousand pieces.

They fell onto the balcony as glass rained down on them, reflecting the neon purple glow. Tyler didn't have time to recover, grabbing onto Evan's collar and dragged him to his feet.

"We're gonna finish this how it fucking started…" Tyler gasped, tears of pain welling in his eyes.

Evan laughed.

"There is no end to this! There is no end to this suffering!" Evan screamed. Tyler shook his head.

"I'm so sorry that this happened to you, Evan. I'm so sorry we did this. I'm so sorry that we never appreciated our existence." Tears fell from Tyler's eyes as he looked into his friend's glitching eyes. "Maybe something good will come from this...Maybe people will learn...not to treat their existence...their friends...like nothing. Of course you became such a cruel monster...You are a result of us…" Tyler closed his eyes, looking over the railing. Evan stared at him then slowly followed his gaze. The old him had wondered if that had been the way out of his world and back to his own.

That world was heaven, an unreachable thing. It wasn't real. Throwing him over the railing would do nothing. "I'm sorry, Evan."

Tyler held onto Evan's collar tightly as he ran towards the railing, dragging Evan with him.

Then he jumped.

Tyler fell over the railing, pulling Evan down with him.

The air whipped around them.

Neon lights flew past them.

Above Evan, the dark night sky, stained orange with the lights of the city began to fade. He heard a scream echoing in his ears as he realised it was himself screaming as he flailed his arms out, desperate to grab onto anything.

A sickening crack suddenly sent a shock of pain through him.

Darkness settled over him.

"Evan?"

"I think he fell asleep."

"Vanoss?"

"Are you still there?"

Evan's eyes snapped open.

He was sitting in his office chair, his controller on the floor where he had dropped it.

There were no neon lights.

There was no pain.

He wasn't falling.

The terrible world was locked away behind a screen.

"I'm...I'm here." Evan said softly. "I just...fell asleep for a moment there...Sorry." He laughed. Of course it was a dream. A horrible nightmare. They say that playing too many games gives you nightmares. He should have known that. Yet something seemed wrong to him. He had believed that dream. He had believed it so much that he thought that this world couldn't be real. Yet here he was, back where he had started.

Is this heaven?

"Do you wanna keep playing?" Jonathan asked. Evan smiled.

"Yes."

His eyes glitched.