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Lewis drove the van to the cave where they were called to investigate people going missing. Arthur couldn’t remember who called them to investigate not like it matters to him, he’s still the third wheel in Vivi and Lewis’s relationship. Is he a little depressed? Maybe. Is he lonely? Fuck if he knows but he sure feels like it. Oh Vivi’s going over the case again just to remind them. Arthur half pays attention while he inspects an amulet some woman gave him while they were in town, it had a pentacle in the middle and it looked to be amethyst with the pentacle being silver, the amulet was on a simple black string. Arthur doesn’t know what to make of it but the woman told him it was “for his protection”.
He sighs as the van pulls to a stop and he puts the amulet on and hides it under his shirt. Hopefully the amulet will help him stop being the target for the ghosts. Arthur doubts it. He gets out of the van as do Lewis and Vivi, Lewis drove and Vivi sat in the front as usual with Mystery being in between the both of them. Wow. Arthur is such a third wheel.
“Why are we using a torch instead of a flashlight?” Lewis asks Vivi and Arthur is confused about it himself “Because that way there won’t be any ghost interfering with our light source while we investigate the cave! Now the client said that that a few people have gone missing here over the past few weeks…”
Arthur feels like he should be paying attention to what Vivi is saying but it feels like it takes too much energy and effort to pay attention so he nods occasionally pretending to pay attention hopefully Vivi won’t notice.
As they grab their equipment and head into the cave they soon hit a fork in the road. “Let’s split up! We’ll cover more ground that way!” Vivi exclaimed as Lewis nods “I’ll go with Arthur you and Mystery take the other path” Lewis says. Wait. What. That’s not how it usually goes…. “Right!” Vivi says with determination and shifts her torch to her right hand “come on Mystery!” She says to the dog as she pets his head and Mystery barks happily. Vivi heads towards the path going down with Mystery “I guess we’re going the other way” Arthur says finally and walks infront of Lewis catching the taller man off guard as he does. Don’t get him wrong, Arthur is still scared out of his mind but he feels safer already with the amulet.
“You okay Arthur?” Lewis tries to talk to him “I’m good. Scared but good.” He says in response. The two men chat about stuff like video games and work trying to keep a calm atmosphere and it works kind of. Arthur can still feel his anxiety spike.
Soon they come to where the path ends and at the end of said path there’s a pit. Arthur takes a few deep breaths in and out. He’s failed to realize that Lewis had stopped walking quite some time ago and is standing oddly still. Arthur looks over the edge of the path and into the pit, there’s stalagmites at the bottom of it. Arthur doesn’t want to think of what would happen if he tripped and fell over the ledge and hit the bottom of the cave…. He just did. He just thought about it and he regretted the thought the moment it entered his brain.
“L-L-Lewis?! Let’s! Uh, Let’s get back to Vivi and Mystery….” He sputtered not wanting to be anywhere near the caves pit any longer than he has too. He keeps getting intrusive thoughts about jumping. “Lewis?” Arthur questions and turns around.
He’s met with a large hand around his neck and his oxygen being cut off slowly suffocating not being able to breathe. “L-L…eeew….issss??” He questioned not being able to breathe. Lewis smirks slyly as walks towards the edge of the cliff holding Arthur in the air. Arthur was trying to make head and tails as to why Lewis was choking him and…..
There’s a scream. He looks up at Lewis. Up? Oh he’s falling. He sees Vivi’s horrified face as he falls and he looks up at Lewis who has a wicked grin on his face. He threw him. He picked him up and threw him! Him! His best friend wanted to kill him he was so annoyed with him! That hurts, that hurts so much Arthur feels a few tears roll down his face.
Arthur hits the ground with a sickening crack and blood drips down the stalagmite. Oh my god he’s gonna die isn’t he?