Ending A

In the few moments that it took to close the space between the two of them, Devi had time enough to consider walking past him, to never look back, and to just return to her apartment and close her mind off from memories of this night. But to do that would mean death, whether mentally or physically, whether to Nny or herself. And even if she succeeded in forgetting Johnny and returning to her life, she knew that she didn't want to. Not really.

She did not hold him or kiss him as someone else might have. To do so might have re-opened old scars, or shown that some wounds were still bleeding. Instead, she took his hands in her own, gently but with complete finality.

The gesture made sense. It was, after all, his hands that would need the most healing.

Ending B

She never even looked behind her as she pivoted on her heel and walked away. Nny had known that she wouldn't. How could she? He had no right to ask this of her, and they both knew it. But he did not know how close she had come to letting go of her terror and walking towards him. How close he had come to his happy ending.

Even if he had known, it the facts still remained. She had chosen to leave, and he would honor her decision.

They never met again, so there was no way that Devi would ever know that Nny picked up the two knives that he had tossed onto the ground. There was no way that he would ever know how she found Sickness's screws in her pocket when she arrived home, or how for days afterwards her paintings always ended up as portraits of a certain man with navy-blue hair in a black trench coat.

Or how many times she picked up the phone and almost called him, only to drop it for fear of what would answer on the other end.

Ending C

Little Todd Casil (known to all, even the doctors in the asylum, as Squee), could never tell how he felt when the Scary Neighbor Man broke him out of the psyche ward. When he asked S.N.M., he simply replied with a confusing speech, the gist being that these places were stupid, and they never really help anybody.

When Todd told the S.N.M. that he wasn't really crazy, he nodded and said, "I know, but I stopped by your house, and there was a note saying that your parents are gone for the next fifty years, and I can't leave a little Squee like you home alone."

For a second, Todd considered telling him that he was fine last time his parents were gone, but Shmee advised him against it, and, when it didn't involve inflicting pain on others, Todd generally took his bear's advice.

"Um, where are we going?" He eventually piped up, when it was clear that they were not returning to his neighbor's house.

"Where I stay nowadays. I probably should've asked Devi first, but I'm certain she won't mind!"

For some reason he'd never, ever be able to explain, Todd was starting to look forward to this.

A/N: I guess that Ending C could be a sequel to Ending A, but it didn't feel that way when I wrote it. Ending A sort of felt more like Devi and Nny could go either way after that night. Ending C was a more solidified happy ending. No, I do not plan on continuing the story now. You can pick the ending you like best, or which one you think is most likely to happen.

My belief on the subject is that all three happened, each one in a separate reality (you know, a parallel universe sort of thing). The strings of fate can split whenever and wherever they please.

Since a lot of you were interested in seeing the picture and MV I mentioned last time, I'll put the links up on my profile.