Vile Creatures

Chapter 2: Book based violence

'I am telling you: if religion was abolished society would collapse, everyone would go around killing everyone else because they would have no reason not to!' Preached the short, obese christian to Dr. Kane, who at this point had stopped listening and instead was reviewing the wall behind him.

'If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then brother that person is a piece of shit.' Dr. Kane responded in his gruff American accent.

'I am not here to debate you, doctor!' Replied the christian in his annoying tone. His tone was high pitched and squeaky but most indefinitely not cute but more annoying, the sort of sound you expect to hear from a three year old having a seizure.

'Debating is a means of catharsis for me.' Slowly answered Dr. Kane, taking no effort in produce any sort of definition for the dumb founded christian, whose mouth now hanged at angle that would allow Dr. Kane to fit his whole hand in there and rip out his teeth, if he wanted to, but since Dr. Kane was opposed to unnecessary violence, the idiotic christian could gawp for as long as he liked.

The tension was broken up by Khan walking in, cigarette in mouth but not lit, his shoulder bag weighed down by overdue books on various topics unrelated to any work he was doing now, but still a good read for him, and it was a good way to kill sleepless nights and sexless nights. Khan wore his school uniform in the loosest possible way, his tie hung low, his shirt un-tucked and unevenly buttoned and his blazer was as always slung on top of his shoulder blades.

'All right fuckers, calm the fuck down. No need to bloody shout all the god damn time.' Said Khan, rubbing his forehead in an attempt to calm the raging hangover that now haunted his thoughts.

'No one has been shouting here, Lucifer.' Retorted Dr. Kane in his usual slow fashion.

Dr. Kane, never referred to Khan by "Khan" but rather by his actual first name which was Lucifer. This annoyed Khan to high end but Dr. Kane did not give a shit about him or anyone else for that matter, Dr. Kane was not particularly egocentric in qualities but rather apathetic towards people's emotions and believes. To most people this made him seem like an exceptional arsehole but to Khan he seemed more truthful, for Khan believed that no one truly cares for anyone but themselves and those who say otherwise are lying in order to sleep with you or some other crazy shit like that.

'Sorry, I probably shouldn't have drunk so much last night, but still what the fuck were you two going on about, all I heard was fucking pessimism.' Uttered Khan, struggling to handle himself when there was noise and now struggling to handle himself when there was silence.

'You probably should not have slept with Alexander either...' Viciously responded Dr. Kane, in his slow fashion but he took extra time with this to test the reaction of Khan.

Fatty christian kid was about to interject with a comment, knowing him probably a homophobic comment, but he was simultaneously stared down by Khan and Dr. Kane alike. Dr. Kane probably intimidated him the most as the hungover eyes that rested in Khan's sockets were as frightening as a blind paraplegic sniper. Fatty christian kid then started for the door stumbling dramatically past Khan, knocking him into the near-by wall and forcing him to send his arms out to prevent him looking even more like an idiot by falling over. He failed dramatically and Khan ended up on the floor and now with a slight pain in his leg. Khan rose again with the elegance of a drunk deer.

'I will not question how the fuck you know that, but back to real reason for my visitation: I have these books I need to return.'

'Over due as per usual, Lucifer.' Dr. Kane said, glancing at the titles.

Dr. Kane has Hyperthymesia, and this allowed him to remember what book went out to whom, when and why, something efficient for librarians but not so much for people who don't return books on time, such as Khan. Dr. Kane also played chess at a masters level, beating everyone else in the whole school, even all the professors to their dismay. It also helped that his IQ was in the high one-nineties according to his last MENSA approved test, this was three years ago by now he would surely be in the two-hundreds by Khan's estimation.