April 24, 2022

MailMan wakes up. Joshua wakes up and giggles, "Did you dream?"

"Yeah! Did you?" MailMan asks.

"Yeah, I did!" Joshua replies.

"What did you dream of?" MailMan asks.

"I dreamed of being really powerful and I was protecting you." Joshua answers.

"I dreamed that I told you a secret and had to tear every fiber of your being apart and light it on fire while taking the ashes to the highest tree I could find to feed it to vultures and cleaning my prints from your house and leaving forever." MailMan smiles. Joshua shakes with fear and just nods and shakily smiles. "Good thing it's just a dream for now huh?" MailMan says. Joshua is still shaking and nods again. "Are you cold joshy?" MailMan asks.

Joshua shakes his head and is slowly calming himself down. "N-no I'm n-not uhm cold."

"You sound like you're in a blizzard! Here let me go make you some warm food." Mailman gets up and goes to the kitchen. Joshua quickly pulls his phone out and tweets.

Mailman enters with a plate of fresh cookies. Joshua quickly throws his phone down. MailMan holds out the plate to Joshua. "I hope these will warm you up."

"Thank you dear, what do you think of the static people?" Joshua takes the plate.

"What do you mean?" MailMan sits down next to Joshua.

"Like what do you think of like Eggory or people like that." Joshua asks.

"...You should try out those cookies." MailMan offers.

"No, I'm tired of not knowing who these fucking static people are." Joshua reaches a hand up to MailMan's head to give scritches.

Mailman’s face turns red as he tries to back away. "S-stop."

Joshua moves closer keeping his hand on MailMan's head. "Who are the static people?"

"t-the uhhthe, which one??" MailMan’s smile shakes some as he tries to pull his hands away.

Joshua bats MailMan's hands away with his free hands and keeps scritching, "Eggory as they call him."

"Ann-anold friennd." MailMan locks up.

"Are there more people like him?" Joshua asks.

"Yy-yeah" MailMan starts to look worried behind the blush.

"Do you know them?" Joshua asks.

"Onn-only thee ones we worked withh" MailMan replies.

"What were their names?" Joshua asks

"Jjoshyplease.." MailMan starts to look scared.

"Is something wrong hmm? Worried that you won't have anything to hide from me anymore?" Joshua says with confidence.

"E-eurrus, Jjack, Harll-harlow, and Rrose," MailMan replies.

"Thank you, was it that fucking hard?" Joshua asks.

"I-i dont hhave a -a choice now" a tear runs down MailMan face.

"A choice about what?" Joshua asks.

"I-I'm sorry jjoshua" MailMan begins crying.

"What are you going to do?" Joshua asks.

"I-Ihave to kill yyou..I-I shouldhavekknownn known better..is-shiuld have, have left you to be ssafe," MailMan is starting to hyperventilate.

"You don't have to kill me, what?" Joshua says, confused.

"I-I have tto..R-rose was right..II'm a fool ffor thinkingg this could everr work.." MailMan still locked up from the scratching

Joshua stops scratching him. "What do you mean?" Mailman reaches a hand to Joshua's throat and throws him with great force at the broken table. Joshua fucking slams against the table and a couple of his bones break as he screams out in pain.

"WHY, FUCKING WHY?" Josh yells. MailMan gets up and searches in his messenger bag still with tears on his face. Joshua tries to reach inside his lab coat for his gun but his arm is fucking broken and he yells in pain and stops trying.

MailMan gets out a bag of m and ms, "Joshua, I'm sorry but I think you need this now."

Joshua is shaking with fear and pain as he looks at MailMan, "N-no I don't, I don't want t-them."

"You know better than that" MailMan kneels down and holds out an m and m in front of him. "It’s either this or things get worse." Joshua barely gets to his feet as he tries to stumble to the kitchen. MailMan sighs as he gets up and watches. "What is it? A last meal?" Joshua stumbles into the kitchen and opens a drawer and grabs a knife from the drawer. Mailman follows and watches, as he sees the knife he shakes his head. Joshua points the knife at MailMan while shaking and wincing in pain.

"I'll uhm I'll fucking do it," Joshua says.

MailMan isn’t smiling as he watches him with a somber look. "Joshy...please I dont want this to get worse.”

"I won't let you kill me, I didn't let you in the Mail truck and I won't let you now." Joshua stabs MailMan in the chest while shaking and wincing. It sprays some blood and Mailman winces, but he stays up and grabs Joshua’s gun. Joshua stumbles back and slashes at MailMan's arm with the gun. Mailman's arm cuts as he winces and fires the gun at his chest.

Joshua gets shot in the chest and stumbles back as he hits the wall. "Fuck...you....you fucking shot me."

MailMan looks sad as he watches. "This was never what I wanted..we were supposed to be happy.."

Joshua slides down the wall and drops the knife, "I guess........curiosity killed the.....cat..” Mailman walks over and kneels by him as he picks up the knife. Joshua coughs up some blood as he looks up at MailMan, "can I.....kiss you one last time?" Mailman frowns as he goes to give him a kiss. He rips the knife through Joshua's throat as he pulls away. Joshua gargles on his own blood as he holds his throat and he musters a slight smile as he looks at MailMan and manages to utter his final words.

"I do dream dear, but not of you anymore," Joshua's eyes close as he dies from blood loss, his entire body goes limp.

MailMan looks away as his eyes water more. He clenches the knife as his breathing picks up some. Someone takes a photo, but leaves the flash off to be respectful. MailMan looks down at his hands, holding the knife and the gun as they shake, more tears falling as he drops both weapons. His breathing stutters as he grips his chest where he was stabbed at. He looks over at Joshua and searches his lab coat for the tube of gel and finds it. He takes out the gel and unscrews it as he applies it to his own arm.

His wound heals but he feels the searing pain of getting stabbed again as it closes. MailMan shuts his eyes from the pain and goes to apply the gel to his own chest wound. That wound heals just the same. He takes some deep breaths after the pain and stands up. He stares at Joshua's face quietly for a moment before heading to the living room.