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Felix collapses to the ground from exhaustion, he didn't know if it was an emotional or physical response, all he knew was that he was done with what he had done. And the drunken haze he desperately needed disappeared along with Edd and Molly.
Behind him, he hears the sound of a clap. He turns around quickly, finding William Afton, of all people, standing perfectly straight, clapping slowly, smile far too wide and insane. Felix realizes he had nowhere to hide, his suit stained red from the combination of blood. Two mounds of dirt lay next to each other with a rabbit in between them, and if that wasn't obvious enough, the shovel lying next to him might be.
"Ahh! Felix! Its so nice to see you here!", William says, almost huskily, voice hoarser than the last time he'd seen him. "Gotta hand it to you honestly, didn't think you'd have the balls to do that", he glances behind him and Felix stands up, stumbling a bit.
"H-how much have you seen-"
"Oh every pleasurable second, almost made me orgasm", William says jokingly and Felix contemplated hitting him with the shovel to solve his problems, "No, don't even think about it", the taller of the two walks over to where he was, picks up the shovel and looks at him, "Don't worry, I wont tell a soul", he wipes of a little bit of dirt that had landed on Felix's lips and sighed, "Actually, I wanted to ask if I could borrow this... stupid me, always forgetting".
Felix raises an eyebrow at that, still disoriented, "Sorry?".
William regards him with a smile and leaves Felix rooted to the spot for a minute, before returning, hauling a black garbage bag that made Felix gag. Something dripped out of it, and there was an absolutely god awful smell eminating from it.
"W-what is-".
"I'm sure you know", William says, swinging the bag infront of him. He was right, he did know, he wish he didn't.
"Y-you're fucking insane", Felix lets out, which probably isn't wise considering William is the one holding the shovel here. The man turns to him, eyes glazing over with excitement, "Insane? Me?", he glances at the graves again, "Look at you! Look at what you've done!".
"I didn't mean to!", tears now fell from Felix's eyes which made William laugh manically, "You didn't mean to!? to what? bury them and hide the truth? Face it Felix, you're just as bad as me, if not worse!", laughter rings in his ears and he winces, shaking his head as if fanning away the truth. William looks at him empathetically and drops the bag, he opens his arms and gestures, "Come here".
Felix just stares, eyes transfixed on William's chest before thrusting himself in the tiny space between his arms. He feels fingers gently carding through his hair, "its alright", William coos, almost mockingly if Felix thinks about it hard enough, "that's how I started too, except no one was around to comfort me", Felix knew what that implied but couldn't bring himself to let go of what was probably the last bit of comfort he's going to be experiencing in the foreseable future, no matter how fake this was.
"Wait here", William lets go of him and Felix finds himself missing the warmth from the other man, "I'll bury this and then you're going to come with me".
The shorter of the two stared at William, confused, "Where?".
"You're not planning on going back to your house, are you?", William's left brow rose. When he doesn't answer, he proceeds to dig a hole right next to Edd and Molly's graves. Felix wanted to have the courage to tell him to dig somewhere else, far away from Jack's two children so they won't witness this bastardization William had done.
But he's always been a coward, always been and always will be.
So he wordlessly stares, watching dirt after dirt pile on top of each other, some even flying close to his (already soiled) shoes. Before William drops the plastic bag into the makeshift grave, he spoke again, "After I'm done with this, you're coming with me", the trash bag lands with a fwumph and he proceeds to cover it with dirt , " We're gonna ride your car all the way to the hospital", Felix watches as William bashes the sharp end of the shovel into his forehead, causing it to bleed, " tell 'em it was an accident and we got in a crash , get those wounds bandaged up.. then, you're going to quit your ownership of Bon's burgers and work for my company."
Felix looks at him, dumbfounded, "What a-about Jack?", he says, and hits himself internally, he's not seriously considering this is he?
A couple moments of silence before "I'll take care of that", William wipes his hands on a white towel, staining it a dark shade of red before tucking it back into his pocket and picking up the shovel. Felix's stomach twisted, he wasn't sure he wanted to know what William meant by that statement, so he does not ask.
He walks towards Felix and slings an arm around his shoulder ,"Let's go, this forest is giving me the creeps", William walks forward, forcing Felix to move his legs and follow him.
His rational side was screaming at him to get away from this man he'd only met due to competition, to go back to his bestfriend and confess everything, to be locked up in jail for his crimes, to push down the homosexual tendenices he'd have whenever this man was around him.
William notices Felix slow his pace and glances down at him fondly, and without hesitation, he gently places a kiss on his head, causing Felix to look up and they wordlessly stare at each other before resuming their walk towards Felix's beat up car.
Oh god he was so fucked.