BB decided to punch the DA in the chest before he realized that he had been caught and wouldn't make it. One thing crossed through his mind; he found himself thinking of Lia. I never told Alexandria about the world she helped build. Should I? She never saw a child of her own so maybe she would be horrified at the sight of such a creature. Should I even feel bad? For all I know, she would've been over the moon when she found out. Oh well, all she has left is Scott. Now, I'm slowly losing consciousness on a bathroom floor. Alexandria is probably going to be over in a few hours. I failed.
"Just go to sleep. Nobody is going to have to hear the noises of your pain or your suffering. I'm helping you."
"You did this to yourself. A second chance. Anything to keep it. How selfish."
Sugar was in the room with them. BB knew he was hallucinating, and he knew that no matter what he did in his life he was simply going to die with a guilty conscience.
"ODETTA! Save me!"
I'm so pathetic. Giving all of myself to another in a time like this is so pathetic. If I could change something in my life, it would be to never have stepped into the TODD. BB found himself shedding a tear as Sugar smiled over him. All of BB's other victims had come forward and smiled up at him.
"Just hearing your pain is so, beautiful. Like a symphony!"
"What in the [redacted] is that?"
"Salvation."
The grip on BB's neck lessened and he quickly scurried away as the door opened to Mistress who jumped out and proceeded to slam the DA all around the bathroom before eventually, she was done and dragged BB back.
"Thanks, I believe that I owe you a favor for future endeavors."
"No need. I know that you'd do the same for me and would never have done something like what he did."
BB went to his room in the ODETTA and sat there looking up at the ceiling. The room was more like a prison cell as it had been there for the sake of keeping BB and place and in setup. BB had seen Sears and Scott's rooms. Those two had made their rooms around a certain time. Sears from his time in Vietnam and Scott from his time in the bathroom.
"Right..."
A tear came to BB's eye. He was a fake person. Someone who put on his mask every morning just as easily as his clothes and he took it off so seamlessly that you would think of it as easy to do as a mask. He realized that when he sat in ODETTA. It's for the plan. Don't lie to yourself. I'm a monster.
"You look sad, and sadder than usual."
Sears had walked towards BB after the group left the bowling alley. BB was so shell shocked that he completely forgot about the likes of Alexandria. His face was cut, and his left eye was swollen shut. He was pretty sure that if he had run his hands through his long hair, he would find some glass shards, and he still had bruises on his neck.
"I've been doing some thinking."
"Really? Aren't you always doing that?"
"You were in Vietnam, right?"
Sears's face tightened as he remembered the world of which he saw.
"Why do you ask?"
"Did you ever try to settle down once you got out?"
"Yeah. I became a steel worker. But there was just this... this rot inside me. I wanted to fight. No, I needed it. My life just couldn't function without it. Then, a mercenary group showed up in need of a leader."
BB never met Sears's gaze. His face was pointed towards the ground with nothing but emptiness. He was a coward who failed.
"Do you know of BTK?"
"Didn't he kill those families in that one Kansas town?"
"Yeah."
"What does he have to do with Vietnam?"
BB had felt the heat of everything on his shoulders. All of his life was just sitting there. All of his unlife was sitting there.
"He killed people and then spent the next twenty-five years of his life as a family man. Such a crazy person. But I might see that in myself. A bad person who throws on a mask for some time and then pulls it off."
After Sears left the conversation, Scott came by and BB had remembered Alexandria and what other acts of barbarity the DA was going to be doing.
"Hey sailor."
"I need to go back."