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Sapphire was in pain. It wasn’t physical but it was beyond anything he had ever felt. The agony of losing someone you had valued so dearly.
A child.
He ran through the woods, not even feeling the thorns as he ran. Every second his body screamed at him to go back, that she needed him.
She needed him…?
He quickly shook that feeling off as he ran.
It didn’t matter. Nothing matters anymore. His body still seemed to scream at him for Candy Apple but he ignored it.
He had to find Pure Vanilla.
He had to fix this.
Hours? Minutes? Seconds? He didn’t know but after some time he found him, gathered with Gingerbrave and the others. The kids were asleep by now and Pure Vanilla seemed to be relaxing by himself. They had escaped later on, after his awakening but Sapphire hadn't found Candy until then.
He almost wanted to scream at him for being so happy with those kids while murdering one.
Maybe not directly but he helped and that was more than enough.
He ran to Vanilla, almost getting hit by him in the process as he grabbed his sleeves, staining them with jam.
He could only let out something between a scream and cry as he almost fell to his knees. Still gripping his shirt he finally seemed to collect his words.
“C-candy…I…you…h-hurt my-” he stampered out before letting out a small sob again.
“I, what?! Sapphire?” he said in a whispered shout as not to wake the kids.He was about to shoo him off before realizing he was covered in jam. Vanilla’s breath hitched as he stared in horror.
“T-take me to her…” he said, still in shock like this was all some fever dream or a nightmare.
Almost as if a switch had been flipped, Sapphire ran and ran while dragging Vanilla along. He stumbled at the sudden pulling but didn’t argue. He had seen people act like this in his line of work. He knew it was never good. The thorns he stepped around, Sapphire stepped on. It was as if he couldn’t feel the pain.
It was as if something else was more painful.
After a few minutes they reached her and Sapphire immediately hugged her close like she was going to disappear. He ended up staining his clothes with even more jam as he held her tightly. Eventually, he gently showed her to Vanilla in a state of fear and dissociation.
Vanilla was mortified to say the least.
She was covered in injuries and gashes, though only half were from the kids and technically him. The rest were from the spire falling, wild cakehounds, and failed attempts at getting help. The more he looked, the more he saw. There were so many. He couldn’t believe she was alive- wait.
He gently kneeled down as he gently checked her pulse with something between fear and anger on Sapphire’s face. Sapphire watched in horror as he got a small shaky nod of ‘no’ from Vanilla.
‘No.’
‘No?!’
He thought as he let out a sob clutching her closer to his chest. He didn’t even look up at Vanilla as the blood dripped down from Candy and his clothes.
He just sobbed and screamed, eventually yelling at him as Vanilla just looked gently back at him.
He let Sapphire yell for an hour or so before finally getting him up. He still refused to let go of her but that was enough for Vanilla.
He couldn’t even imagine what was going through Sapphire’s head. It took him a few more seconds before it clicked.
Sapphire had always been with her since he met the two. Shadow Milk clearly hadn’t raised either of them which meant-
Fuck, he just killed his kid.