I thought for a mont. My life was pretty ssed up right now when it ca to tilines, but 7 years ago I would have been 17... maybe 18 years old? I closed my eyes as my lips curled into a snarl of disgust. Luckily for , my neighbor seed to be staring off into space as he told his story.
"You were so beautiful," he breathed, reaching out with his hands into the air in front of him like he could touch the he was picturing in his head. "Your black hair was like the finest of silks as it swayed gently in the breeze. I rember you using your pen to push it back behind your ear before your supervisor yelled at you for having your hair down at a cri scene. I wanted to kill that bastard for speaking to you like that."
I tried to rember the situation he was talking about, but it took a few minutes before I could rember it. And he was right. My ntor was a bastard that just because he was twice my age thought that he knew twice what I did. But if I rember that kill properly, it was a really ssy one. Absolutely no finesse to it. In fact, I think that I even labeled the killer as being a sociopath because of the way he killed the woman and just dumped her body.
It was more of a cri of passion than a well thought out kill. He didn’t even rember to clean up the sen on her stomach afterwards.
As I said, ssy.
"After that, I found out who you were, where you lived, everything about you. I didn’t care that you were too young for according to society’s standards. I knew you were mine and that was all that mattered."
I tuned him out after a while. I didn’t need to know exactly how he managed to find , or even how young I was when he ’fell in love’ with . The only thing that mattered was getting my armor activated, getting off of this bed, and ripping his head off. Because let’s face it. He wasn’t coming out of this situation alive.
And if this was his kill site, then no one would even think to look for him here. He would have already made sure of that.
I stretched my neck side to side, hearing the popping and the cracks of my bones. I don’t even want to think about how he managed to get us from our condo building in the middle of a busy sector to... wherever we were now. Raising my shoulder I tried to rotate it as much as I could in an attempt to work out the knots in my upper back.
So people were so inconsiderate when they were kidnapping you. The least they could do was tie to a chair or sothing. Laying flat like this was just too uncomfortable.
A series of clicks, snarls, and growls ca out of nowhere cutting my neighbor, whose na I still didn’t know, off from whatever mory he was reliving. He stood up quickly and looked around. And based on the evidence in front of , I really didn’t want to know what he was going on about to make him that excited.
"What was that?!?" he demanded walking over to the window, he pushed the red checkered curtain aside and looked outside.
"No idea," I replied aning it. I an, it sounded like Saaja, but that couldn’t be possible. We were on Earth and as far away from the Saalistaja as we could possibly be.
"Analysing blood was what it said," said Jun Li his voice low and subdued. "i Xing, it is speaking in Saaja," he confird, "I think it was your armor activating."
There was another series of clicks and roars, and my neighbor grabbed the shotgun that he had resting by the door and stord out of the room.
"Bloodlines confird, rging with owner," continued Jun Li, translating the clicks and growls.
"Oh no," I growled in response. "I will not be hooking up with any sort of system."
"Not a system," replied Jun Li in a soothing voice. "The armor is not sentient. From what I can tell, this is how the armor syncs to you, ensuring that you are the only one that can use it."
"Not a system?" I repeated. Because honestly, I didn’t want anything to do with systems. I had Jun Li and that was more than enough.
Wait a mont... how was my armor activated into pairing with ?!? "Don’t tell it was my fucking blood," I growled when I realized that I probably sared my blood onto the choker when I was trying to stretch my neck and shoulders.
"Fine," replied Jun Li sounding prim and proper, "I will not tell you that it was your blood that activated it."
"You were the one that said very clearly that my blood would not activate the armor, because, and I quote; ’it would be useless in battle. Any ti soone else’s blood ca in contact with it, it would change owners’ end quote," I growled. I spent months learning a language that I still had no idea how to speak or read when all I needed to do was get kidnapped by a serial killer and bleed on the fucking thing.
However, when there were no more clicks, roars, growls, or snarls I cald down. At least Jun Li was the only one in my head.
"You should try activating it," suggested Jun Li, unhelpfully.
"You know what?!? You are right, why didn’t I think about that before? Let just raise my arm to touch the side of the collar. Oh, wait... that’s right, I’m tied to a fucking bed!" I growled, starting to lose my temper. Taking a deep breath, I cald myself back down.
"Well, no need to be so bitchy about it," sniffed Jun Li.
"Who the fuck are you talking to?!?" demanded my neighbor as he ca storming back into the room that I was currently in.
"Myself," I said sarcastically. "Who the hell do you think I am talking to? The invisible man inside the room?"
The man standing over with a shotgun looked around the room as if there really was an invisible man sowhere.
"Now, be a dear and untie from the bed."
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