Pulse

Chapter 19: Confliction

11:09 A.M.
Tuesday Morning
Beats' Bedroom

Beats had awoken ontop of his bed staring at the ceiling almost confused as he went to move but all he got in return were several pains which put him right back down. Ungh, my entire body hurts. Cosette was sitting on his dresser when she advised.

"Don't move, you're body is far too banged up. You'd only damage your tissues further."

Beats looked defeated when he asked.

"How'd you bring me home?"

Cosette was kicking her legs over the edge when she answered.

"I didn't, rather I couldn't. My size effects my abilities to lift and or carry things heavier than me so I simply watched. As your friend carried your mangled body all the way here."

Beats' eyes widened in shock when he thought to himself. Zach. Cosette continued her explanation as Beats stared at his ceiling with a dead inside expression on his face.

"He wouldn't stop crying because you wouldn't wake up, and he had to take the long way so no one would see you and ask questions. When you said you had a plan I was hoping your plan wouldn't involve anyone but yourself."

Cosette stood up when she scolded.

"But it's you so I guess I shouldn't have expected so much from you. I was able to remove the knife and using my magic I was able to close the wound. But as far as the damage you've done to the inside of your body by wrecklessly electrocuting yourself."

"You'll have to figure that one out on your own."

Cosette grew her clear see through wings before consoling.

"One more thing, I'm proud of you for being able to defeat something that was out of your jurisdiction. You did what was necessary to survive and ensure other's survival. So don't beat yourself up too bad. I'll leave you be now."

Cosette flew out of the room leaving Beats laying in the bed contemplating if surviving the recent incident was the right call. She's right, Bonnie was one thing but Zach has been saving my ass way too much.

I owe it to him to just leave him out of my demon affairs but I'm so weak that I honestly don't think I can keep living without other's help. I'm so useless. Whenever I think I'm getting stronger turns out that the next baddie is way stronger than me.

Beats struggled to raise his arm but all he got in return was his right index finger twitching uncontrollably. I really fried my entire nervous system, had I upped the voltage and I would've died. But so would Lust, dammit what was the right call in that situation?

Beats closed his eyes causing tears to escape going down his face as he began silently crying to himself, sick of his previous actions. The camera blacked out to Beats' quite sobs.

3:47 P.M.
Tuesday Afternoon
Beats' Bedroom

Cosette flew into his room while asking.

"Still can't move."

Beats replied.

"I can move but it hurts like hell to do so."

Cosette sighed.

"A simple no would suffice, anyway is there anything on the map?"

Beats turned on his phone before shocking his phone briefly making the screen return a familiar radar which was searching.

Beats responded.

"No, there haven't been any demons popping up every since I killed Coz. It's weird though, I thought I'd become a little bit more popular. In a bad way that is."

Cosette explained.

"Coz was a pretty strong demon so you defeating him with relative ease must've struck fear into the demon world."

Beats didn't look proud of this as he hesitated.

"Cosette am I good Demon Hunter? Be honest with me."

Cosette answered without delay.

"Of course not, in fact you're barely above decent. But it's to be expected you're new to all this and you're extremely young for this line of duty."

Beats looked shocked as Cosette continued with her rant.

"I mean why give a kid such a big responsibility with no reason behind it, if anyone is to blame it's the higher ups of the DHC. (Demon Hunter Core) But we have to work with what we've got right?"

Beats smiled when he nodded his head in agreement when suddenly his phone got a ding notification making him look down. It was a text message from Bonnie which read.

'Hey u didn't come to school today, you okay??'

Beats groaned.

"Dammit, instead of sulking I should've been thinking of about a coverup story."

Bonnie 🌼💛

"Yeah I'm fine, I just caught a bad case of the flu all of sudden this morning. Decided to crash home until I get better.

"Sick?! Why didn't u tell me I would've came to visit u😠 U have to learn how to communicate more."

"Yeah yeah , no need to visit me though if you're worried you can always FaceTime me."

"Okay I'll call u later, I love u ❤️❤️"

"Love you too ttyl."

Beats turned off his phone before sighing.

"Hey Cosette when I'm back in shape I'm going to get stronger, I promise."

Cosette smiled when she remarked.

"I'll hold you up to that."

I will get stronger for the sake of everyone I care about.