Love Me Dead

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Fan walked his way to the hotel, migraine pounding in his head and looking paler then a ghost. Once he opened the door, he saw absolute chaos.

"Test tube I know you're worried about him CALM DOWN"

"I swear to god oj, tell me how I'm meant to be calm. Because he's missing, and you and I both know about the danger out there. PLUS-" She tried to remain calm, fan walked up and tapped her on the shoulder

"Hold on fan"

She went back to explaining before turning back to fan
"Wait- FAN?! oh my god, where were you!?"

Fan winced at the loud noise, but his heart jumped at her concern
"Ah, quiet down.."

Test Tube took a deep breath
"Okay, where were you?"

"The cliff?"

"Oh- man I knew I should've looked there.. are you okay? You look pale."

"Hm? Oh, yea I think I'm fine?"
As test tube looked in his eyes with concern, he felt his face heat up

"Hm.. ok.. just tell someone next time, you had everyone worried"

"Pretty sure It was just you Test Tube." Oj chimed in

Test tube glared at oj
"... Anyways. Fan, something.. unexpected.. happened at the Lab."

Fans eyes widened
"Well what are we waiting for, let's go!" His own voice pounded through his head, worsening his headache

Test tube grabbed fans hand and dragged him off, fan felt his heart flutter as he realized they were still holding hands when they arrived at the entrance to test tubes lab.

Test tube let go of his hand
"Are you ready?"

Fan tensed up, but still nodded
"yea?" He said anxiously

"Bye bye fan!" Lightbulb waved, next to paintbrush

Fan shook his head quickly to wipe his mind and pressed forward.
Test tube typed in the code and fan screamed his lungs out as he was sucked up into the lab, and as always, he landed super gracefully, and by that I actually meant that he landed on his face. Fan quickly got up and looked around to see nothing out of place

"So.. what's the problem?"

"It's better for me to just show you."
Fan followed test tube to the rat cage they hooked the energy shots up to. a silk cloth was tossed messily on top of it. As test tube  uncovered the cage two things became clear.

one was the rat had escaped, no trace it was even there. not even a destroyed cage. The other was the rats counterpart, who lived in the same cage it did.

The counterpart lied on the ground, a clean line going down it's stomach exposing it's insides, and that wasn't even the most gruesome part. it's organs weren't there.

"What.. happened?" Fan said, his voice shaky

"That's the thing fan, I don't know.. all footage in this room was wiped when I checked."
Test tubes seriousness got fan out of focus

".. what do we do now?"

"I guess I already wrote down the results, so.. we need new subjects.."

"Oh- damn, that's gonna take a while.." 
Fan tried thinking of ways to help

Test tube nodded
"Maybe we should put a pause on this, at least until we get more test subjects."
He didn't want her to pause it.

"Well.. uh, what should we do though?"
Fan just wanted more time to hang out with her

"Go home, I guess? There isn't much we can do without a subject"

Fan had a terrible idea in that moment. his heart fluttered at the thought of him being so important and crucial to something test tube was clearly passionate about.

"I could do it"

"Do what?" Test tube replied in a confused tone

"I could be your test subject!"
His tone bordered the line of manic and loving

"What?! Fan, you don't-"

"But I do! I want- no I NEED to help you tt."

Test tube let out an exhausted sigh
"I don't want to hurt you, just.. I can't fan."

"I'd do anything you need, I can't just sit back and be useless, I-"

"Fan. You aren't useless.. just, I don't need you as a subject"

"What am I meant to do?"

"Find her more subjects flatface!"
Lightbulb shouted in her usual unrealistically cherry tone

" Sta-"
Test tube interrupted herself, seemingly contemplating what she was about to say
"That's your choice, not mine"
Test tube said In a matter-of-fact tone
(Fun fact she was meant to say "stay by my side" but I figured that'd be a bit TOO ooc :p)

Fan looked at test tube, confused as to what he could do.. other than find new subjects for her
"Okay, uh.. sorry."

"You're fine, fan"

"I guess I'm gonna go then lo- uh bye!" Fan stuttered, almost accidentally telling her he liked her

"Ah- okay, bye?"

They waved at each other, and once fan had exited her lab his demeanor went a bit more obsessive than before.
All the fanboy could think about was test tube, and more importantly, how to get more subjects for her.

Meanwhile test tube sat at her desk racking her mind on what happened. It's like something in fan had snapped, did he take something? Was he sick? She looked through her experiment shelf, making sure everything was there. But once she got to the shelf fan had previously put his stolen things, she noticed something about a certain potion she had made. She turned the bottle towards her, and that's when it hit her.

She gave him the potion.. now she would look for the antidote, but this was a prototype, she had lost it.  The potion strengthens emotion, from love to obsession, sadness to depression, irritated to enraged.
Fan was in grave danger, and test tube needed a new antidote.

Back to the fanboy, he had been scrolling down a website for free animals and there he saw a really cute dog and immediately he scheduled to pick it up tomorrow, along with the new tank of guinea pig for test tube to use as subjects.

"Fan, I just had an idea!"
Lightbulb shouted

"Oh? What is it?"

"Well, y'know.. lab rats aren't people, and test tubular wants to make stuff for people!"

Fan chuckled at the nickname
"Well, there isn't much we can do"

"Indefinite island"
Paintbrush walked in behind lightbulb

"What?" Fan said, confused as to what they were insinuating

"Nobody would notice if, say.. blueberry? went missing"

"No.. they wouldn't. But test tube would. And I know she wouldn't test on them."

"Change her mind, it'll be worth it. You'd finally be useful for her"

Fan shook his head quickly and put some music on, deciding that the conversation he was having. Could just resume tomorrow, for tonight, he just needed to clear his mind.

(Sorry for taking so long! I've been working on some other stuff, so the updates might slow down a bit)