Population Zero
forcefully and so did his rage.
    "He doesn't understand. He's going to tell the police. What am I going to do? What the fuck am I going to do?"
    He punched himself in the head several times as he continued to yell and curse.
    "Fuck! Fuck! What did I do? What the fuck is wrong with me?"
    He walked into the adjoining bathroom, looked at himself in the mirror, and once again doubted his sanity. There were a few smears of blood on his face from where he must have forgotten and touched it with his bloody hands. His clothes were matted with Terrence's blood and his hands and fingernails were caked with it. He looked like a murderer, a madman. He peeled off his clothes and climbed into the shower. The warm spray splashed onto his chest.
    Todd stood there, staring at the tiled wall, trying to collect his thoughts.
    I've got to kill him.
    It was a simple sobering thought.
    I can't let him go now. I've got so much more to do. He'll ruin everything.
    Todd stepped out of the shower and turned it off. He began to shiver as the cool conditioned air hit his warm skin. He didn't bother to put any clothes on. There was no need to ruin anymore clothes with Terrence's blood. He walked back into the living room and into the kitchen. Terrence was awake again. He took one look at Todd and began to thrash and shake his head. Todd wondered for a second why he was reacting so violently. He didn't have any weapons on him yet. Then he remembered that he was naked. He looked down at himself and realized to his own embarrassment that he had an erection.
    God, this guy must think I'm some kind of pervert.
    "Don't worry; I'm not going to fuck you. I'm straight."
    Terrence continued to shake his head back and forth staring at Todd's erect cock like it was the barrel of a gun.
    "Oh Jesus, are you serious? Calm down. I'm not going to do anything to you. I'm straight! I'm not gay! Oh, fuck it."
    Todd stepped over Terrence, noting that the man was probably getting an unwanted glimpse of his asshole and nut sack as he reached across the kitchen counter for the carving knife in the knife rack. He picked it up and looked at it. It was about seven inches long with a serrated edge. Just the thought of using that knife to saw through the big guy's flesh made Todd's stomach do a little flip. He was still straddling him and so the guy was still freaking out at the sight of Todd's naked genitalia. Todd stepped his other leg over him and put the knife back into the rack. There was no way he could have used that thing. Instead, he picked up the cleaver.
    Nice and quick.
    Terrence had somehow managed to loosen up the tape around his mouth with all the thrashing around he'd been doing.
    "Heeeeelp! Don't fucking come near me. Don't you fucking touch me, you sick ass crazy motherfucker!"
    Todd brought the cleaver down on Terrence's throat. The blade cut through the big man's esophagus and lodged in his cervical vertebrae. Terrence's body began to tremble and shake. Blood sprayed from the wound in his neck and bubbled up from his mouth. A gurgling, whistling, wheezing sound came from the gash in the big guy's lacerated throat. The chords in his neck bulged as if he were trying to scream. It had not been the quick cut Todd had been expecting. He had hoped to behead him.
    It took a bit of effort to dislodge the cleaver from Terrence's neck. There was a sickening wet ripping and cracking sound as Todd yanked the blade free in an explosion of bright red arterial blood erupting from the big man's jugular and carotid arteries which had both been severed. Todd turned his head as his stomach finally betrayed him and he regurgitated onto the plastic, depositing the vegetarian burrito he'd had for lunch into the pool of blood.
    Oh, God. This is fucking horrible. Oh, my God. I can't believe I killed the guy. It had to be done. I had no choice. It had to be done.
    Terrence was still making those gurgling sounds. His eyes were completely dilated and his lips were moving as if he were trying

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