End Game - CR Prequel (Completed) 18+

Part 1

**Knock's POV**

 - Day 1 - (Six Day's before the Council show's up) 

Stranger: "Knock, can you hear me?"

Who is that?

The voice sounded familiar but it was like a hazy memory. 

Deep in the memory's of my past. 

Where am I?

I could see strange images and thoughts floating around in my head that didn't make much sense but there were other memories that were pitch black until the blackness started to melt away from them one by one. 

Almost like everything that was once hidden is now melting away to show the truth. 

I could recognize some thoughts from my past as Tul. 

There was a man who came up to me at Zee's birthday party and told me to follow him. I didn't recognize him or who he was but he seemed kind. He told me that he rigged the process into giving Zee Max's name and that I needed to be the one to end Zee's life. 

He told me that he knew max would volunteer himself if I showed up and that it was my time to die. To not worry because he could guarantee me that Max would live on. Than he told me to forget about him and to fulfill his orders, he said I was the perfect pawn for the family's demise. 

He...

It was all his plan all along...

My reincarnation, my best friends death, Max's fake death. 

All of it...

I could feel myself sinking into the darkness in my mind at the thought that all of my dark actions were instructed by someone. My pain and guilt for everything I did as Tul wasn't mine to feel. 

Feeling the wait of that realization, my memories seemed to shift again to an even darker black goo as it dripped off until I could see it as bright of day in my head. 

That can't be right...

This one was filled with Max's dad, from beginning to end and no matter how many times my brain tried to process it I wasn't able to. 

It just doesn't make sense, why would he do that?

To his own family...

Stranger: "Knock? Babe it's time to wake up, your transition is over... Please wake up..."

His voice was so gentle and caring almost like...

Wait...

Max?

How could I have forgotten what he sounded like?...

Feeling ashamed for not recognizing his voice sooner I look around in a panic. 

How do I get out of here?

I don't want to be trapped in my head anymore, let me out. 

LET ME OUT!!

Max: My eyes burned as I opened them for the first time in who knows how long as I squint to see max's worried face staring at me. "Do you know who I am?"

Knock: My throat burned almost like there was an itch I couldn't scratch. "Max?"

Max: He gives me a warm smile as it fills my heart before leaning down to kiss my forehead. "Thats right, I'm right here." He pulls away and grabs a cup from the table next to us. "Can you tell me who you are?"

Knock: It was hard to concentrate because of the wonderful thing that he was hiding in that cup, it smells so good... "W-who I am?"

Max: He was holding that cup so tightly, I really wanted to take it from him... "Yes, tell me your name and what you use to do for a living. That sort of thing, I need to make sure you can keep your sanity when your in the presence of blood."