No Regrets

Chapter 14

     Ajax and I walked up the stairs and Gaia closed the door as she turned to look at us. "Seventeen-year-old boy is with his girlfriend of same age." She walked, alongside us three, through the kitchen and to the door which had all the weapons we would need for this task. "He hit her last night and left a slight bruise. She is in danger; boyfriend is beginning an argument with her."

     My first task ever was a domestic abuse case and it made me wonder if this was given to us on purpose. I told myself it most likely was and it was done for me to be more comfortable with killing someone. But because I related to this, I didn't want to kill him, I wanted him for my basement. He would be my first person to be put in there. My first ever assignment would also have the first ever person to be trapped and tortured in my own room.

     Ajax grabbed a pistol and two cases with bullets in them, the spare one he put in his back pocket. Gaia grabbed a bat and Rhea grabbed brass knuckles which she held both in her left hand. I quickly scanned the assortment of weapons and chose my favorite weapon, a knife. I chose a fully black switchblade and grasped it with my right hand.

     Training with Ajax made me realize that the weapon I was most comfortable using and thought it was fun to fight with, was a knife. Lots of control over it as it would be held tightly in my palm and I could cut or stab someone. Lots of choices with what I could do with a knife. 

     We exited the house and got in the car, I sat in the back seat, drivers' side. Ajax was the driver, Rhea in the passenger seat, and Gaia in the back passenger side. As we sped our way to the house, I asked Ajax why he chose a gun. Remembering my theory and wanting to see if I was correct with the assumption.

     "With the correct aim, gun, and bullet, a lot of pain can be inflicted. Long lasting pain." I sucked my teeth, saddened by the incorrect assumption I had made. I looked to Gaia and asked if she liked a slow and painful death, which she smiled and nodded.

     "Guns and knives can kill someone even if you are precise. But weapons like these-" She raised up her bat and stared at it, "-can break bones and skin without ever causing death."

     I nodded, noticing that both of them liked to enjoy inflicting pain but using different methods which opposed the other's thoughts. Then I looked at Rhea, "And you Rhea, why you did you choose those."

     "As much of a sin domestic abuse is... I rate it fairly low on my chart of pain and torture. I want the others to do the most work and I just hit the guy if he gets too close." Ajax looked at me from the rearview mirror, knowing this was a sensitive subject and wanted to see if I had been hurt with her claims of domestic abuse ranking so low in her morals. I just nodded, not hurt by her ranking this so low. It was true that other things were way worse, and I knew that even though she didn't think it was as bad as the rest, she still knew pain had to be inflicted. Which is why she wore something that wouldn't kill, but instead damage profusely, and she let the others kill the sinner by what they deemed just. 

     "Don't kill him. I want him alive." I laid back comfortably and stared at the window, watching all the cars and buildings go by. I couldn't wait to actually fight a human being and kill them. I had already killed someone, Liam, just days ago, but this was different. This was my first time killing a stranger, someone I didn't know anything about, just a face in a swarm of others. The fact this kid was abusing his girlfriend made me more sensitive about it and it made me want to torture him not just end his life. Adding to how simple it is to kill him; it helped that I didn't know him. He was just a stranger to me and therefore I held no sympathy towards him, only anger.

     Ajax stopped and parked the car near the apartment number. He grabbed his gun and stuck it in his pants, hiding it with his shirt. It was time to kill the kid, making me nervous of fucking up the mission and ruining everything. I took a quick inhale as I watched Rhea and Gaia exit the car. Clutching to my pants pocket where the switchblade hid, I rubbed on it like a good luck charm and left the vehicle.