Fault

Chapter I | Death

It was never meant to go this far.

He only wanted to scare the kids.

Jokul had made a small hail storm that made the children playing in the field, run into the trees where Hyde had been staying hidden. Once they had ran in Hyde started to chase them, nipping at their heels, making them scream out as the giant rabbit chased them.

But then it happened.

"Jokul." Hyde called from a small embankment. Only about thirty feet down. The raven haired teen walked over to the edge of the tiny cliff, a wild smile still on his face. "What is i-…" He cut himself off as he looked down and saw the small girl laying there. Hyde moved and gently nudged her with his nose, but gain no movement. "I-Is…" Hyde nodded before he could even finish his sentence. "She's dead. She must have fallen when she was running." A small whine came from the tainted winter spirit as he looked down at the life-less eyes staring at him. Accusing him of this.

It's your fault Jokul, but it's okay. You liked it, didn't you.

"N-No…" He backed up away from the cliff. "No, didn't want to hurt anyone." He told the accusing voice in his head. Hyde huffed and moved away from the body, jumping back up to where Jokul was. The pooka stood and yanked his mate close. "It was an accident. You didn't lead her over that cliff mate." The teen nodded and reached up to grip the arm fur of the other's chest. "Jokul wants to leave now. Away from staring dead eyes."

You know you liked it, Jokul.

The voice taunted him again. Jokul tried hard not to listen and gripped hold of Hyde for comfort. "Come on Frostbite, time to go." He said in a gruff voice, pulling away from him and leaning down so he could get on his back, which he did rather quickly. The young man was shaking now. The voices trying to get the better of him. He was distraught. To the point where he literally felt sick. He could hear the little girl in his head, telling him he like it over and over. When Hyde opened the rabbit hole and jumped in, the other held tightly to him.

In a matter of moments, they were back at the warren. Jokul slipped from Hyde's back and slunk away from him. The giant rabbit huffed and decided to give him a moment. Sitting down on his haunches, he waited for a call or some kind of sign to go to him.

Joookkkkuuullll~

Jokul~

The young man growled and shook his head as he made his way over to a large stone so he had something cool to lean against. "Shush you. Don't want to talk to you. D-Didn't do it on purpose. Would never do it on pur-…" A groaned came from him as he suddenly leaned over and dry heaved. There was no food in his stomach so all it did was make it cramp tightly, gaining a whimper from him as he slid down and wrapped his arms around his thin waist. It hurt.

You're a liar Jokul. Want to know why you enjoyed it so much?

The voices taunted him again and he just shook his head, in too much pain at the moment to make his voice work. He didn't want to talk to them.

You liked it because you're evil. It's in your nature to want to kill people. Why not let nature take its course? Hmm?

Erratic blue eyes went wide at the words. He grabbed his head and shook it fast. "No! You lie to Jokul! Jokul is not evil. Jokul just broken!" He yelled out to no one, gripping his hair tightly in his blackened hands. "You lie. Lies, lies, lies that sting like bees. All lies…" He whimpered as his eyes started to water and he started to rock against the boulder.

Why would we lie to you Jokul? We're only trying to help you accept who you are. You're evil. And evil people do evil things. Like murdering little girls.

Jokul had had enough, he didn't want to hear anything more. Shutting his eyes and craning his head back he screamed.

"HHHHYYYYYYYDDDDDDDEEEEE!"

The noise of his mate made the rabbit bolt to his feet and sniff him out. It wasn't hard to find him. He wasn't really hiding, hiding. Just being away from everything. Jokul was rocking hand, blackened hands gripping his knees making them black as well. The pooka made quick work to grab him, even when he tried to squirm away from him. "Come on Frostbite. It's for your own good." He muttered and finally got the straps into the loops of his jacket and yanked them rather tight. He gathered up his mate and set him into his lap, gently using his large paw to stroke the dark hair, nuzzling his nose against his cheek. "It's okay Jokul. I have ya now, mate. It's okay." He coo'ed and watched at the boy started to rock in his lap. "Hyde… Jokul not evil… right? Jokul just broken." Hyde tiled his head to the side. Voices must have been talking to him. "Aye mate. Not evil, just broken. It's all okay." He said, rubbing his paw over the other's back.

Hyde waited for Jokul to calm down. When he stopped rocking and just leaned against the pooka chest, nuzzling his face into the fur. Jokul finally spoke. "We should go away for a while. Hide somewhere before the Guardians find out what happened and come after us." Hyde didn't say anything at first, silently thinking things over. Thinking of where they would go, if they got caught how they could explain what happened. Make the other's understand. Or would they assume right away that they did it on purpose? Would they even get a word in about it?

"Hyde?"

Jokul's weak sounding voice brought him back out of his thoughts. "Can we go and hide somewhere Hyde?" He asked again as Hyde's paw came up to run over the pale skin.

"Aye Frostbite. We can hide."