Interactive Fiction

Holy freaking crap, I haven't been on here in forever and that's so sad. Well, hopefully I can be on here more this week since it is Sprrriiinnng Brreeaakk!! And my Birrtthhddayyy! And that was a little dramatic...

So far, I am starting my break off by getting over the flu. What a rockin' start.
So far today, I have slept until 2:30pm, re-read some of Harry Potter 7, and figured out which summer classes I will be taking. Other than that, today is Saturday and I am not going to be doing much, seeing as how I'm still sick.

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I ran down the alleyway in the dead of night, following Robert as he chased another mortal victim. I couldn’t bear to see him conforming to Marcus’s ways. He was allowing Marcus to rule his life, allowing him to control his every move. I wasn’t even sure my Robert was in there anymore. He seemed to have disappeared completely, leaving a bloodthirsty vampire in his place.

“Robert! Stop!” I yelled after him.

The human kept running, but he wasn’t fast enough. Robert leapt on him, throwing him down on the dirty pavement, and pinned him to the ground as he bared his teeth above his throat.

The human squirmed in protest, begging to be let go, to be free to live. They hated this war as much as I did, but possibly even more.

Marcus lowered his mouth to the man’s throat. Before he bit into the thin skin, he stopped. Slowly he let go of the man and got to his feet. The man continued to lay on the ground, stunned and not knowing what to do.

“Go,” Robert growled, but the man did not move. “I said go!”

With fear in his eyes, the man got to his feet slowly and then ran away quickly, leaving Robert where he was in the alley.

I approached him cautiously, wondering whether his decision was to turn on me instead. I closed the distance between us, stopping about ten feet away.

“I don’t want to fight you Robert.” I said as my voice shook. At that moment, memories came flooding back to me. I remembered Robert helping me when my dad left. He never left my side and I never had to apologize when I cried on his shirt, drenching it with my salty tears. Robert was always there for me when I needed him the most, and this is what made me hesitate. I spoke the truth, I didn’t want to fight him, but I would if it were necessary to ensure my safe return to Evan. He needed me if no one else did.

“I’ve killed many mortals,” Robert said as he stared at the pavement with his back to me. “I’ve killed without regret and without guilt.”

I didn’t say anything. What was I supposed to say?

“What I’ve done, it makes me feel like a criminal. The agony is consuming me. How am I supposed to live with this knowledge, with this anger and treachery?” Robert said.

“Robert, it will be okay. We can help you, just join our side and everything will right itself. You’ll see, I promise. None of it matters now. The only thing that matters is that you’re sorry.” I said.

He turned to face me and ran the distance between us, putting his face barely an inch from mine. “You think it doesn’t matter now? Well it does. It’s always going to matter, for as long as I am alive it will matter. I need to remedy this once and for all. I never wanted this to happen, please help me out of it.”

I backed away from him, the closeness of his face catching me off guard. It had been so long since I had even spoken to him, much less been this close. “No, what are you saying? You can’t possibly think I would … no! I won’t do it, even if you beg!” Tears began to run down my face.

“Don’t tell me no, Andria, tell me yes. Please help me by ending it. Quicken my end; deliver me from all of this.”

“No! This is ridiculous. This is not the answer! I can’t do it and I won’t do it!” I screamed at him. I hoped my anger would be enough, I hoped my tears would make him realize how stupid he was being and tell him how much I cared.

“I can’t continue to live this way, and this is the only way. Don’t say you can’t do it! Just do it, get it over with!” He screamed back, tears running down his face as well.

“No,” I said. I had no more fight left in me, but I knew this was not something I could ever bring myself to do. I could not kill him even if he was a monster now and not my best friend.

“I love you, Andria.” He said.

I stared at him in utter disbelief and a loss for words. Before I could think of any way to respond, he turned his back to me and took off running the length of the alleyway.

“Robert!” I screamed, but he ignored me. I didn’t know where he was going, but I knew it would not be anywhere good.

As soon as he exited the alley, he turned left and disappeared from my view. I took off after him, planning to stop whatever he was about to do. When I was free of the alley, I looked to my left. Robert was there, running straight for a group of humans. As the humans saw his approach, they stood their ground, knowing that with minimal casualties and maybe a death or two, they could take down a single vampire.

When Robert got to them, he hit the first one in the face and then the others attacked him without hesitation.

“Robert, no.” I said to myself.

As they continued to attack him, he gave himself up to their forces by his own free will. I stood there as they sliced him to bits with their many different sharp blades and weapons. They did not hesitate as I did, but welcomed a vampire death automatically.

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Now, what if Andria had given into Robert's wish for death? What if she had delivered him in that alleyway? Would he have stopped her at the last minute? Would she have cried after?

What if you could decide her actions? Would you want to? If so, what would you make her do?

I have this final project thing for my computer class and I'm going to do a piece of interactive fiction. I'm probably going to use a chapter out of Beautiful Disruption and just add in several different alternative solutions. What do you guys think?