Gods and Monsters

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Peggy's apartment - Finchley, London

Peggy felt trashed as she turned the key in her lock, ready to finally settle down for the night despite it almost being 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Her apartment looked so warm and inviting, despite the fact that she hadn't given it a good clean all week. She walked over to the fridge and brought out a large bottle of red wine and settled down on the sofa with a glass, turning the TV on before finding it was flooded with trash, or reports on the situation in Ruislip, the last stuff Peggy was in the mood for. The television was turned off and the wine uncorked as Peggy poured herself a glass to help with the downing of her pills.

She popped the final two capsules out before attempting to throw the now empty packet into the bin, missing as it bounced off the rim and onto the floor below, joining the small pile of mess that was now gathering from similar failed attempts.

As Peggy swallowed hard to get the pills into her system, she couldn't help her mind drifting back to what Sean had said that day, and Blue Eyes before him.

This is but a minor setback. Rest assured Miss Parker, the grand scheme shall proceed as planned. The light of Erinis shall carve the path to the future.

Who or what was Erinis? It didn't really matter to Peggy at the moment, out of all the weird stuff that they had dealt with, it was really the least of her problems. What she was concerned about was the fact that Andy had said the exact words that Blue Eyes, the hallucinogenic induced man, had said to her. Did that really mean...Was Blue Eyes real and not the hallucination that Peggy had previously thought?

Peggy slammed the glass down hard on the table, her head hurting from all these crazy thoughts. She needed something to ease the pain and began looking through her drawers to find something to either kill the headaches or just knock her out for a while. As she picked her way through matchboxes and cling film, she came across one small packet of pills she had sworn to never go back to. Charlie's drugs; the ones which she had promised to give back, the drugs which had shown her Blue Eyes in the first place. Peggy knew she shouldn't, but after the day's events, the temptation was too much. She tore the packet open, pouring three of the pills into her hand before dry swallowing them and collapsing onto the beige leather sofa.

The effects began even quicker than the last time, the room began to spin and her body went numb as she seemed to sink deeper into the leather cushions. That was until she looked into the corner of the room, where in the doorway to the kitchen, her eyes caught sight of two sapphire irises, like stars in the midnight sky. The figure these eyes belonged to walked further into the room showing off their black suit, complete with matching black shirt and tie. Blue Eyes looked disapprovingly at Peggy's limp body, shaking his head before beginning to speak in that awkwardly broken way that was oddly soothing.

"No, no...Miss...Parker. Unfortunately this...is not how...it works. You can rest assured...we shall speak...again...however. For now though...you must deal with...the consequences...of your actions."

Blue Eyes gave her a slim smirk before skulking back into the darkness of the doorway and disappearing from view. Peggy tried to move or just speak but found herself unable to do anything other than stare at where Blue Eyes had been. The room was still spinning and Peggy felt so sick now. Her body fell cold as her heart began beating violently and she struggled to breath. All Peggy could think about was what a mistake she had made as her body finally slipped off of the sofa, onto the carpeted floor of her living room, her eyes struggling to remain open. Peggy was willing herself to lift her arm and reach the phone on the coffee table but despite a few twitches of her fingers, nothing was working. Peggy was forced to accept her fate as her eyes slowly shut and she was left alone in her apartment.

Continued in Part 11