Continuous Misfortune

Any Given Psycho

        The dark jail cell was not as pleasant as the ones Samantha had become accustomed to. She sat on her cot staring at the wall, waiting. She knew it was only a matter of time before someone came to get her; whether it was friend or foe is what worried her. It didn't matter either way though, she could handle herself, she had done it before, all those other things had been relatively easy to take out, though they had resulted in some pretty harsh jail time hadn't it been worth it? Maybe not, they just came back, they always came back, everything she did was in vain, she just had to believe she could get herself out of here and stop the big problem before it became an even bigger problem. It was ten minutes after her initial thought of friend versus foe that a scream sounded through the halls and crash echoed. Samantha sat calmly on her bed awaiting what was to come. A man's body flew down the hall and she could hear it thump against the far wall. Slowly the footsteps got closer, it was a man, and judging from the shadow he was probably around 6'1'', this would be fun. The man stood in front of her cell staring in, yellow eyes and pointed teeth, the teeth quickly retracted but still stood still and silent.

        "You're a lot younger than I thought you'd be." Samantha noted looking over the creature in front of her, he couldn't be anymore than seventeen.

        "You're Samantha Moore,"

        "Mhm, and you're the son of Jareb,"

        "I saw you on the news, I've heard your name before, you're vital to my father's plan."

        "That is correct, are you here to finally collect me?" Samantha asked, he didn't know who she really was, what part she really played in the prophesy, Jareb had kept him in the dark, she struggled not to laugh. Jareb had grown attached to his hybrid.

        "My father is a mad man, your a mad woman, I'm here to kill you and prevent you from falling into my father's hands." The boy stepped closer and Samantha finally couldn't keep the laughter in anymore, the ignorance of this child was unbelievable.

        "You would be better off killing yourself son of Jareb, I am useless to your father compared to the necessity of you." Samantha explained, if this boy didn't know she was to be his and his father's destroyer she might as well keep it a secret, merely for self preservation purposes. Maybe if she was lucky the kid would just knock himself off and make her job ten times easier.

        "I plan on it, after I destroy the minor players."

        "That is a terrible plan."

        "Do you have a better one?" The boy snapped his eyes glowing with increased intensity.

        "You must realize that you are just as psychotic as I am, as your father is. You are as psychotic as anyone of us boy."

        "So what do you suppose I do, let you go?"

        "Now, that's a dynamite idea, but I've got a better one. You may hate your old man, but I've got an axe to grind with him as well, I say we take him out together."

        "You really expect me to believe that you want to help? You killed seventeen people, I heard my father talking about you and when he uses the words ruthless, insane, and destructive about someone else that really means something."

        "He forgot pretty, other than that I am flattered." Samantha smiled, the boy did not find her in any way amusing. "Look, genius, I'm not one of the bad guys here, I'm in prison, no one came to help me out but you, I'm not a threat and obviously not very important to your father."

        The boy seemed to think about it for a while, he didn't seem like the brightest cookie in the batch, but Samantha wondered what all his transformation had really changed about him. She didn't know this child's name, who he was before, what horrors he had seen and at this point it didn't matter. She just had to get out of here and take down Jareb, and eventually the boy, or the whole world would, quite literally, go to hell. Finally the boy seemed to settle on some kind of decision he didn't seem happy about.