Disclaimer: Do I even have to say it? I dun't own JtHM, Squee, Jhonen...

Warnings: Do you even need to be told? Augh. If you're this far, you don't need the warnings...

I dedicate this chapter to all the people to ever reviewed me! You guys are the best! *hugs everybody* I'm proud to present the final chapter of Midnight Insense.

~Chapter 13~ (lucky number 13! I MADE IT!)

With a worried face replacing the angered one, Nny aimed the gun at the horned devil child.
"Johnny. I thought you'd never get here!" Pepito grinned, waving a hand over Squee's chest, leaving a swelling burn mark where his fingers traveled. The near death boy under his fingertips winced, breathing heavily.
"Stop touching him you bastard!" Nny shot at the devil who dodged it agilely. He growled lowly and prepared to aim the gun again.
"You best stop. You don't want anything BAD to happen... do you?" Squee then let out a scream that could wake the dead, a blood red aura forming around him. Tears streamed down his cheeks in severe pain. Pepito laughed heartedly as Johnny ran toward the boy.
"Squee!" Nny tried to touch him but as he tried to penetrate the red glow surrounding Squee, flames attacked his hands, burning him lightly. "Demon! Make this stop, damnit!"
"Ahh... no." Pepito shrugged as Squee let out an agonizingly long scream. Without thinking, Nny tried to grab the naked boy away from the burning aura. He hissed as the aura's fire bit at his skin, leaving reddish welts.
"I can't stand this!" Nny yelled at Pepito, picking Squee up into his arms and holding him close, the burning pain searing through his whole body. Nny fell to his knees, clinging to Squee who writhed in his arms. The pain slowly subsided and Nny collapsed backwards, still holding his beloved Squee.
"I've never... Why? Do you really love him THAT much that you'd risk yourself to just TRY and save him? Like you COULD... I... I don't understand." Pepito lowered his hand, the red glow in the room decreasing and held his head in contemplation.
"Pe... pi... to..." A small voice managed out.
"Todd? You're still alive? Wow." Pepito's eyebrow perked up, half expecting him to be dead after that attack.
"Nny... he loves me... And I love him... I would... done th' same..." Squee winced as he crawled out from Nny's embrace.
"How the fuck are you able to move?!?!" Pepito backed up slowly.
"When Nny held me, I felt a strange power resonating within him. It was something I've never felt before. Nny's a very special person, my lover or not. He has a gift within him and even if it is for killing or whatever, I still love him as a whole, not just the outer shell. I love Johnny." Squee bent down, retrieving the gun that Nny had dropped and aimed it at Pepito's horned head. "You... you are evil."
"I'm so... sor... no... I'm NOT sorry!" Pepito's body then glowed a strange blackish color, hate resonated through him and a destructive plot coursed through his veins. Then, unbeknownst to even himself, ebony colored wings sprouted from Pepito's upper back. Dark red streaks appeared along the bony structure of the demonic wings. Blood spilled down his back where the gigantic wings protruded and his normally stubby horns grew long and curled behind his ears like that of his father. Pepito's red eyes insinuated with a dark desire for death. Squee stared in awe as Pepito then fell to his knees, breathing heavily.
"Look Todd. Look at what you've done." A deeper, more husky voice traveled out of Pepito's mouth as he pounded the ground, leaving large indents. He grasped at his neck as he heard his new voice.
"Pepito? I don't know what to say..." Squee stepped back further, hovering near his fallen lover.
"You made me turn into a demon..." Pepito glared at the boy he loved and his eyes grew a darker, more bloody red. Tears streamed from the demons eyes as he sat back on his heels and cocked his head to one side in exhaustion.
"I didn't do that, Pepito." Squee glared, waving the gun about.
"Shut up." Pepito breathed deeply as he wavered and stood, gasping for air. "Just shut UP!" Pepito screamed as fire flew from his fingertips. Pillars of flames engulfed the room and Squee ducked down, covering his unconscious lover with his own naked body.
Without warning, a burning circle engulfed the couple, trapping them.
"You've ruined me..." An invisible force tied itself around Squee's thin neck and raised him into the air, away from Nny. Squee struggled to free himself from the clear string around his throat but to no avail.
"You will die." Pepito's invisible rope substance tightened around his neck, cutting off his air supply.
Terror filled Squee's mind as his breathing stopped and oxygen stopped filling his lungs. Evil laughter filled the room as Pepito roared with delight before tossing him aside, ready to 'play' with him some more before disposing of him once and for all. Little did he see Nny stir and rub his head. Pepito also didn't happen to see the pure rage in Nny's eyes as he toyed with the near death boy in the corner of the dark room. He also failed to notice Nny's shocked expression when he caught a glimpse of the stick of insense that he had carried this whole way.
"Midnight..." Nny smirked as he dug in his pockets quickly, bringing out a small box of matched and lighting the small stick. Nny slowly willed himself to stand and prepared to fight for Squee's life.
"Little Todd. If you resist, even MORE pain will befall you!" Pepito chuckled, showing long white fangs. Squee froze as he saw Nny stand and run at the demon, holding only a stick of insense.
"What?" Pepito read Squee's unmoving face and looked over his shoulder quickly, just in time to see Johnny, the one who wasn't supposed to even find them, rushing at him with a flaming stick of insense.
"AAAUUUGGGHHHRRRRRR!!!!" Pepito screeched in agony as the burning stick of insense was impaled into his eye.
"Nny! Look out!!" Squee cried out but a second too late for Pepito had swiveled around and was preparing to ram his bloody claws into Nny's lower chest. "NO! Nny!"
A deafening silence filled the room as Pepito realized his frame of action. Squee laid impaled and breathless at the end of his hand, blood draining from his fragile, paling body.
"Squee..." Pepito withdrew his claws and Squee fell to his knees. Nny stood gaping as Squee's lifeless body crumpled to the floor, the blood flow not slowing. Nny joined him on the floor, holding him carefully.
"Nny... It hurts..." Squee coughed, clinging to his gaping wound.
"Shhh... Please Squee, don't die. You can't die. I love you too much. Please..."
"I forgive you... for killing all... those people... I don't care... Ahhh... Nny... Ca- can..." Squee inhaled sharply, the blood starting to slow.
"What Squee?" Emotionally painful tears sprang to Nny's eyes.
"Can you... kiss me... one... last... time?" The older male nodded as he realized Squee wouldn't make it from a wound this deep. Nny bent over the frail body, kissing Squee lightly, not caring about the trickle of blood that had dripped from his chin.
"I... love... you..." Squee choked out as their final kiss ended.
"I love you too Squee..." Squee managed a smile as his eyes clouded over and his breath slowed then stopped. Nny choked back a sob as he embraced Squee's lifeless body. He laid Squee's 'shell on earth' in a peaceful-like manor and stood shakingly.
"You killed him."
"I didn't! It was an accident!"
"You fucking killed him!"
"No! I--"
"You fucking piece of shit."
"..." Blood dripped down from his closed eye as he glanced at the gun now pointed at him. Nny shook his head before aiming for the final time and firing the gun with the last bullet. The silver metal made it's mark and imbedded itself in the demon's chest. A final scream imited from the demonic Pepito as blood spilled out of the gaping wound in his chest.
"I loved hi--" Pepito's red eyes then went black and rolled back into it's owner's head. Pepito's body grew instantly cold and he slumped forward in a puddle of his ice cold blood.
"Fucker." Was all that Nny said before slumping forward and sobbing, still holding Squee's favorite scent, Midnight Insense. Death only begins at the end. Where love starts, death takes control. This was the way it was meant to be...

The End

Ending notes: Oooh... interesting twist ne? Well... *sobs* I didn't WANT to kill him! I SWEAR! It just happened... I thought it was more fitting than having a happy ending... ^_^;; So sorry... Squee is actually my favorite character besides from Nny, of course... so that was really hard for me to do. But it worked out... sorta... Oh, and I decided that Pepito was never really gonna kill Squee... but did anyways. That made it sad. And it showed that not everything has a happy ending... _O;;

I know! I know! You're probably all going "What?! You can't end it like that!!! YOU BARBARIAN! What happens to Nny? And Squee's parents?! And Se–or Diablo?! HIS SON DIED! etc etc" Well... So sorry to disappoint you, but there will be no more chapters to explain these things. Life went on, in a matter of speaking... T.T;; Erm... I'm sane ya know...

I thank everybody for sticking wif me and stuff straight thru till the end. *_* I hope you all enjoyed Midnight Insense as much as I did! ^.^ Ta ta until the next fic! ^_~

~Mizu out~