Nightshade

Nathan - the trip

Nathan smiled as he ruffled his hair, fussing with the wavy green mess, adjusting it into a more out of the way position before going inside the nice hotel he had arranged a meeting with two people at. A young couple who had shown interest in "a new adventure". Today's openness was truly a blessing, he thought to himself. "C'est la vie, my friend, c'est la vie" he chuckled to himself. He probably used that term too much, but it sure did strike him as a hell of a versatile saying. He spotted the pink haired, olive skinned young man and his fairly bland looking blonde girlfriend, and he waved. They smiled and interlocked hands as they walked over, the man whispering something into his partners ear, and she laughed as they walked over. The man offered a hand to shake, his left, since the right was in his lovers hand. "Hey, nate right?" Nathan flashed a winning grin as he shook it. It struck him as an oddly formal gesture done hilariously informally, leading him into a small chuckle "Yeah, and you would be Gabriel, and I take it this is your lovely wife, louisa?" He nodded "yep yep! So, you wouldn't tell us where this forest retreat of yours is, do we get to know yet?" Nathan shook his head, in mock seriousness. "I'm afraid not pal, but I assure you that you won't be disappointed." The man shrugged and his wife laughed, causing an involuntary laugh from Nathan. "I'll take your word for it." They headed out into the parking lot, to Nathan's little beat up firebird, and he slapped the roof before opening up the passenger door for them. "Alright, this is technically a five seater but since there's only two doors, one of yall is gonna have to climb on into the back. I'll leave it to you guys which one gets shotty." He chuckled and got into the driver's seat, tapping his fingers on the steering wheel and humming to a song stuck in his head as the two sorted themselves out, the girl, louisa, settling on the front seat as Gabriel clambered back. He started the car, and cranked up the music, a track from ice nine kills, hip to be scared, a hilarious yet awesome song with the usual kickass vocals of Spencer charnas, with a guest appearance from jacoby shaddix. He complimented his own taste in music as he drove off, the other two asking him some bland opening questions. He drove, laughing and talking with them easily. He slid out his phone as they approached the cabin he had with the schizo off the message board, who happened to be named raguel. He chuckled at the irony of two angel names about to meet in such an unholy way. 'About 15 minutes out my man, try to contain your excitement' he messaged. "Who are you texting?" Louisa asked, sounding a bit nervous, probably because they were going a solid 20 miles over the speed limit down a dark and windy road in the forest and he seemed distracted, though the truth was his... condition let him have a semi supernatural sense of awareness of what was going on around him. And speak of the devil... Gabriel had a makeshift garrot and attempted to slip it over Nathan's neck as his wife grabbed the steering wheel. They both shrieked with laughter, as did Nathan as he easily caught the wire in his left hand, punching louisa squarely across the face, intentionally light, just enough to stun her. Excitement at the turn of events caused that beloved adrenaline to course through his veins, and he laughed, more hyena like than he usually let out, and he gunned the gas, the car rapidly getting harder to control. "Oh, you wanna tangle pals? Let's do this shit!" He laughed as they approached a thick tree, and he let them panic as they realized he had no intention of stopping "holy sh-!" Gabriel started, but they slammed into the tree, and loisa flew through the windshield, impaling herself on a branch of the tree about 5 feet up through the throat. Nathan got out of the car, coughing and laughing. It was totaled, but he couldn't bring himself to care much. It was about time for an upgrade anyway. Gabriel was unconscious in the back seat, his head bleeding a little. "Holy fucking shit! She's a fucking kebab!" Nathan laughed harder as he straightened, wiping tears of hilarity from his eye, and then it hit him one of him n rags victims for their weekend of fun was already gone, tempering the edge of the bizarre and hilarious situation with a little disappointment. "Aw... shit. Look what you two made me do. Damn! Ah well, c'est la vie." He walked back to the car and tore the door off its hinges, then dragged out the unconscious man "you better not die on me too you ambitious little fuck, rag would have my ass if I didn't bring anyone and he had to give me a ride back. Dude is already too serious." He chuckled and walked, enjoying the woods, all the lovely smells and sounds, and he dragged the slowly awakening man by his side. He tossed him up over his shoulder, and hummed. The man started to come to, and he punched him just hard enough to knock him back out. "Sorry love, don't need ya freaking out just yet. " He laughed, and the cabin soon came into view, a little nondescript toyota celica parked out front. He walked up to the door and gave the special knock he had set up with rag so many visits back he couldn't even remember whose idea it was. Probably rags, guy was more paranoid. Of course, he had plenty of oddities about him. The door opened to the familiar scarred face he'd come to... not love exactly, but certainly feel more than he usually did for people. The man eyed the bleeding and unconscious figure over his shoulder and raised an eyebrow, a flash of anger going through his eyes. "Really? What did you do this time?" He muttered darkly as he let them in. "I know, I know, but it really wasn't my fault this time pal. Anyway, home sweet home!" He shrugged off Gabriel, letting him drop bodily onto the floor, and stretching, cracking his knuckles. "Alright, so here's a tale you gotta hear" the door shut and raguel stood, arms folded. The man frowned, but Nathan knew he'd lighten up soon. He chuckled, and began to recount the events of the last hour.