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Tears pouring down his cheeks like a depressed waterfall, Luhan grasped the revolver as tightly as he could in his violently shaking right hand. He aimed it directly at the side of his head and...

Bang!

Red gore burst from the wound like a crimson fountain. The pain in Luhan's head would have been unbearable if not for the fact that he knew he deserved it. He couldn't move. He couldn't see. The bullet was buried deep inside his brain. But he didn’t die. He wanted to die - he longed for death to take him away right there and then - but he didn't. Life held no meaning anymore.

Sehun watched, also in tears, as his boyfriend writhed on the floor in pure agony. All he could do was sit and watch and wait for the pain to go away; he knew that without proper medical care it could take hours, and Yixing wasn’t around to heal him. He felt absolutely pathetic. He couldn’t touch him, help him up, or take the gun away. He didn’t even know where he was – it wasn’t Earth, it was another world… Heaven, perhaps? Who knew?

After a while Luhan reached for the gun again. “Luhan… No. Please stop.” Sehun whispered to no-one in particular. Then Luhan stopped moving. Was he dead? No, vampires couldn’t die – not like that, anyway. He wasn’t trying to commit suicide – he didn’t deserve that privilege – at that moment he just wanted to punish himself for what he’d done. He wanted to punish himself for hurting Sehun.

He lay there, sobbing on the floor, before reaching for the revolver again and pulling the trigger once more. He repeated that action over and over, pausing only when pain grew too much and he needed to stop. But he never truly stopped completely. He had run away once they escaped from the building they’d been held in by Sehun’s mother, so he expected never to be disturbed.

Sehun kept watching, without stopping crying, until he was eventually joined by Luhan when the vampire was torn apart and consumed by a pack of rabid wolves. The two soul mates are together now, in The Other Side. That’s all they ever really wanted.