HT100 Flash Fic Challenge #17: Fate: Soon

[mazephoenix]

What if Keller let Toby offer his life to Vern in exchange for his family's safety.
Rating: R for a very, very sad tale.


”He went easily,” said Vern. “I’ll leave his family alone now.”
“Will you?” asked Keller.
“A promise is a promise. Should have fucked him first, but there was no time.”
Keller’s face twisted. There was a shank in his pocket.
“Useless fucking prag’s dead. You can come back to us,” said Vern.
“Maybe,” said Keller.
“It’ll be like old times, before he did that number on your head.”’
No, it wouldn’t. Was it possible to feel so much pain and be alive?’”
“You and me and James will rule this fucking place.”’
Keller thought of putting up with that dumbfuck, and shivered.
No more Toby, no more life.
He took out the shank and ran it through Vern’s black heart.
“Why?” asked Vern, choking on his bile.
“You know why,” said Keller and watched him die with some satisfaction.
“Beecher,” said Keller to the corpse. “Toby.”
That was why, because he hadn’t saved Toby.
Because he loved Toby, and would never stop.
That was his fate.
He went to confess to murdering Vern so he could go to Death Row faster.
He’d see Toby in heaven or hell.
Soon.