Life's Lessons [SockyTM]

Parallax09 · Subject: Re: Life's Lessons [SockyTM] Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:51 pm

I gazed upon my son’s face. “Who’s to say if I leave to let you dress I won’t return to find your corps upon this bed?” I sat beside young Joshua and rubbed his head. “I know you learned a very hard lesson today son, however it’s one we much all learn… there was only one woman in the world who would have never betrayed you or me, even if her own life depended upon it and that my son was your mother.” I sighed at the bittersweet memories of my darling. My hues trailed back to my son’s figure before I smiled encouragingly. “Your uncle Kasha is a man you can trust too… he’s a good man.” I gazed at a picture of the four of us before Joshua’s birth caused the death of my love.

Often times Kasha and I would stay up late and discuss how I could have protected her if Joshua was never born. She would have despised me if I killed him, she would have harmed herself if we reversed this horrible mess since she hadn’t the heart to harm me. Kasha performed one of his many experiments, and to my relief he was wrong. He had only been wrong once, and it was about her love for me… Kasha would sometimes tell me if it weren’t for Joshua I would still have her here in my arms today and I knew it was true. We would discuss further the blame of her demise and eventually the blame was upon me for not wearing a condom. For wanting to express my love for her in a physical way. For marrying her. For getting down on one knee and proposing. For dating. For secretly liking. For writing love notes and tossing pebbles at her window late at night. For being human.

I looked to my son and saw her face in his. He had her eyes, her gentle features… he had my dorky build from when I was a teenager… my awkward steps, my chin and nose… “Uncle Kasha and I don’t want you to go and harm yourself Joshua… it is your birthday after all and we have a very special party planned for you downstairs… and, tomorrow you get to go on your first real mission with me. We are to assassinate the ambassador of Germany.

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Soсĸy™ · Subject: Re: Life's Lessons [SockyTM] Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:14 am

His head pulsed. His hands trembled. Their blood was still speckled over his face, his favorite jacket… She gave him this jacket. She… how dare she!? Joshie quickly ripped her so called gift off and tossed it aside before ripping his shirt off fallowed by his pants. He tossed each of the items into the fire place before him before entering the large shower room.

He scrubbed his skin raw trying to forget everything. Kasha was right, he didn’t need anyone… but if he was so right why did it feel so wrong? He was so confused. He didn’t understand anything… his father! Why did his father hold him there and force him to endure such pain? It had to be to teach him a lesson. Joshie sighed and plugged the tub before sitting down. He pushed the screw down so water came from the faucet instead of the shower head. He closed his eyes and let the tub fill up around him while losing himself in his thoughts. His girlfriend… he was certain she was different, he was certain Kasha was wrong about her.

He sank below the water’s surface and let the liquid run through his hair. His muscles relaxed as he played out the images in his head. Their faces… their cries for his help… her cries when she was told to kill him… Instantly he gagged on the water and sat up coughing while bringing both hands to his throat, cupping the cut between his forefingers and his thumbs. He breathed heavily and hung his neck low while letting his tears fall. Tears were the ultimate sign of being weak. He hadn’t let this weakness reveal itself since he was in the first grade, but now he just couldn’t help it. He rubbed his eyes and swallowed roughly before taking the shampoo. He scrubbed his hair clean before taking the loofa and began to scrub his flesh once more until parts of his skin bled from the abuse.

He heard a knock on the door, his father. “What?” He asked bitterly.

”Get out.” He ordered.

Joshua sighed. “Ten minutes.”

“Five.”

”Yes Dad…” Joshie sighed before finishing up with his bath. What did he want now? Hadn’t his day been disappointing enough without him getting all involved and making everything worse? By holding him back? By forcing him to endure all that? Couldn’t they have just moved or something? At least then he could’ve believed that she really did love him… at least then he wouldn’t know the truth. Joshie rubbed his arms at the bone chilling facts… the truth was so horrible that he would’ve preferred a lie… he prayed for a lie, he longed for a lie! The truth… it was too painful to bear! He grabbed the razor.

”Put the razor down.” His father’s voice demanded from the other side of the wall. Joshie felt chills run up his spine as he did just that. “Get out of the tub.” Was he psychic? Joshua unplugged the drain and got out before drying himself off with a towel. He wrapped the towel around his waste before unlocking the door, peering at his father’s much wiser eyes. His father pointed to the bed and with a sigh Joshie sulked to where he was directed. “Can’t I put some clothes on first?”

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Parallax09 · Subject: Life's Lessons [SockyTM] Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:34 pm

[Mature. If you would like to join, PM me... SockyTM is in this rp, we may accept one other person.]

I’m standing here, gazing down on her face. She use to be so beautiful… she use to be truly alive… she use to be, in a sense, perfect. Now she’s just a painful reminder of what use to be.

“No, please, Cid please, you don’t have to do this-we can work it out we can get you help!”

Her life ends in a bang, just like her birth. The day my wife was born the world gave praise and got on their knees. God stood above the angels and roared proudly “This is why you were all born! This is why I created all of you, just for her!” The people of earth, heaven, and hell knew the power of God just by looking at that glorious smile on her face. The gun slipped from my hand as I moved to my knees and shifted her body into my arms. Even in death her beauty was unmatched. The small trickle of blood slipping from her rosy lips, her eyes closed as though she were asleep, her soft pale hands were still warm not ready to say ‘she’s gone’.

“It’s for the best dear Cid… After all, your wedding vows claimed you would be by her side, how was the rest? ‘Until death do us part’? Well now you have parted, which means holding her is no longer your business.” I dropped her limp corps upon being reminded. I stood and gazed to the man with silver hair and eyes that burned with hell. The envious eyes of the devil himself who had plagued my very soul… My master, Kasha. It was he who convinced me that she was turning me into a dangerous person and it was he who opened my eyes and made me realize my son was in jeopardy of becoming a monster. You see, when you are living with the most perfect being in all the land you realize how truly sinful you are. You become aware of how insignificant every attempt to match perfection would be and you understand that you are an unworthy little speck and you infect the angel like a virus. If I let him grow up to see how foul and putrid we both were in comparison to Madelyn he would have hurt her, he would have hurt everyone including himself. “Get the baby; it’s time for us to depart.” Kasha ordered. Like a dog I did as he asked.

Joshua was only two at the time. A fine young lad, a mind ready to be molded like a lump of clay... He had his whole life ahead of him. When I looked at his face I knew that I was doing the right thing… at least, I thought I knew... Kasha helped me raise him. Kasha helped me teach him right from wrong and Kasha had turned him into a young man one would hardly be able to trust. It was for the best, you can’t trust anyone after all you can only trust yourself and your master. Kasha is the only one who will never lie to you, the only one who will protect you and who will save you from others who wish to do you harm. He’s a good man… but if he’s such a good man, then why did he demand the head of Joshua’s girlfriend on his sixteenth birthday?

It was Joshua’s birthday present. A mission from Kasha... His first real mission... He was to go out and find the girl who was secretly plotting against him. The girl Kasha claimed loved another, Joshua’s so called friend Jeremy. He told Josh they met behind the dumpsters after school and they spoke amongst each other of familiar things and laughed, laughed about Josh… they made fun of him behind his back, they spoke of all the mistakes he was doing and they spoke of how good he could have been if not for this and that…
Kasha took me to watch my son in action. He gave Joshie a special bat made of platinum and various other minerals. It was special, just for my little boy… We watched from behind the chain-link fence and listened. Sure enough they were talking. “Today Joshie seemed really out of it… I’m so worried about him.” The girl frowned.

“Hmm… yeah he wasn’t doing so well in PE. Today… Something must be really bothering him… you think it’s because his dad isn’t doing anything special for his birthday?”

“Could be… could also have something to do with his mother never being here… I can’t believe she just left him like this.”

They continued to speak; something about a party… a secret party that would make Joshua feel true happiness. I watched Joshua walk away with tears trailing down his face. He told Kasha he was wrong. I couldn’t believe my ears, though I didn’t deny that these children didn’t seem like a threat to my son. Kasha simply tsked and went to finish the job himself, giving me the order to make him watch and learn. I dragged my son out before the two and held him down as Kasha ensnared the teens in chicken wire and entangled their gnarly prison with the chain link fence. Joshua struggled and begged me to let him go. He begged me to make Kasha stop, but I wouldn’t. I held up his head and forced him to watch as Kasha’s claws slowly dragged down the boy and lightly across the girl’s neck.

“You’re going to die.” Kasha said with a smile. The girl began to scream for Joshua. The boy also tried to call for Joshua and squirmed and cried. “I could let you both live…” Kasha said after an hour of slowly dragging his claws down either child. The two sobbed as Joshua continued to struggle and beg for his uncle to leave them alone. “Will you silence your son?” Kasha asked with a glare. I sighed and covered Joshua’s mouth with the simple command to hush. “I could let both of you live, if you were willing to kill Joshie with your own bare hands…” He said to the girl with a smile, retracting the metal claws into his knuckles before holding out a knife. The girl sobbed as Kasha motioned for me to bring Joshua to the fence. “Are you willing to kill him child?” Kasha asked the girl while holding her chin. The girl sobbed louder as Kasha put the knife in her mouth.

“What are you doing?” I asked Kasha while holding my petrified son still right in front of her.

“Hold his neck out.” Kasha smirked. I frowned and did as I was asked. The girl continued to sob as Josh struggled. She began to try and tilt her head so she could cut Joshua’s throat wide open. I moved back the instant I realize she was really trying to do it, managing to save my son’s life however he did not leave her unscathed. His throat had a small cut. Kasha laughed loudly as Joshua stared at her with disbelief. He couldn’t believe it. She spit the knife out and cried out she was sorry… The boy was just watching, bleeding out his life, unable to speak. I let Joshua go.

“They would’ve let you die…”

I watched him pick up the bat.

“They’ve only pretended to care about you all this time…”

I watched him smash their faces in. He beat their bodies long after they had passed on, thrashing and waving the bat in a blind furry of pure rage and sorrow.

“Your daddy loves you… he didn’t let her kill you… I love you…. I told you about this all along… but they? They have always lied to you… about being your friend, about their concern for your life, your mood… they betrayed you…” Kasha’s voice echoed. When there was nothing left but a bloody mass it was time to go home.

“You’ve done well… a dog, trained to kill… you know who your alibi’s are don’t you Josh? Just like your daddy, you know who really loves you and who really cares about you… now it’s time you learned who’s hurting me, and your daddy… you don’t want anyone to hurt us do you?” Kasha asked. We took Josh home and let him sleep. Kasha took me to another room and began to tell me in full detail of a man who was planning on harming him. A man who wanted to kill him for selecting people who deserved to be saved, who were meant for more then what they were given… there were quite a few men, actually, who lived in his castle. I wasn’t the only one Kasha had selected from the world below and I certainly wasn’t the only one who had pledged my life to him. There were many in the castle that feared him and many who played the role of his experiments for his secretive reasons that would surely benefit us all. Not everyone could see that Kasha was trying to save us all… not everyone knew his methods or believed in him… many who use to be friends or loved ones to us who now lived with him were after his head to rescue their comrades, their relatives… some were ungrateful enough to escape and plot a way to end Kasha’s reign of what they called ‘terror’. The one Kasha wanted to send Josh and I to murder was such a man. “Your mission will begin tomorrow…” Kasha smiled before dismissing me to tend to my son. He had quite the unfortunate birthday if I did say so myself…

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