What I Do For A Living (MCR Fanfic)

As I Have Assumed

Afterlife wanted me to stay for a while.  

What could he possibly want from me?     

I stood up as I tried to pick Jude's body off the bedroom floor. I placed him neatly on the bed and removed the cut rope around his neck. I took glances at Afterlife, and he still awaits me. That sounded a lot worse than it actually is.

Turning whole body to his general direction, I raised my eyebrows.   

"To put it shortly, soul with flesh, nobody has ever seen me without suffering a consequence for their lifetime." he placidly told me, folding his bony arms in front of his chest. I could only sigh. Geez, haven't I heard this line in a movie once?   

So then I was hoping to expect something like a hole appears under me and sucks me right inside, taking me to something called Hell, and then I plead him into giving me some sort of chance to live, and blah blah blah... He can go ahead and take me anytime. I can't exactly go on living knowing that I could have undone all that has happened today if I came a little earlier.

"Go ahead  kill me as a punishment. Just do me the grandest favor of not taking too long. I like it quick, if that's alright." I said, tilting my head to the right, exposing my pale neck, maybe he'd love to chop me there, or something.     

"You fool. What you have witnessed in movie houses do not qpply to how this all actually works. Soul with flesh-"  

"Gerard. This soul has flesh and a name."   

"I call you however I please."   

I don't further argue.   

"Soul with flesh, I am not the devil. Nor am I an angel,"   

No shit.  

"I am the Afterlife. When someone has died, I come to them and take their souls for judgement, up there... Or down there. I will not take your arrogant soul, for that is beyond my ability. You need to willingly die, or get killed by any means for me to take you." he explained, and somehow, it reminds me of Kinder days, like one plus one is two.   

So all he does is take souls. Okay.   

"What about my punishment?" I queried.     

"As I have mentioned, nobody who isn't going to die yet has seen me, until you came. People who have seen the soul taker will see and experience "weirder", as how you term it, things. Forever."   

What weirder things could possibly happen to me now?   

I am certain, being the first person who had seen him while still alive, he doesn't really know about the rules. Odd as it sounds, I am his first. What could he possibly give me? Few nightmares, maybe, but not for the rest of my life.... 'forever'.   

"Unless, of course, if you decide to render services to me until your mortal life ends," he continued, gesturing with his hands. Ah, I see, he is scaring me to make me want to be his living slave. Nice trick, but I would need to pass.   

"I choose to suffer the consequences. I am certain after a few beers and months of mourning, I can completely forget about what I have seen, especially you. You won't need me as a servant." I know he called me arrogant, but if he is not going to kill me or anything, I might as well sass him all I want into leaving me alone.   

He stood still, his arms stil folded, I can sense his eyes, which glowed blue earlier, studying me. I will not yield to his strict appearance, and I will not bow to someone like him. He can take my life when I am ready. I know I sounded like I was ready for him earlier, but now that I know letting him kill me is not an option, but becoming a slave is, I would rather back away, and again, I'd rather blow a donkey.

His fingers, which looked like bones with thin linings of flesh,tapped the elbow of his other arm a couple of times, making really dull, but loud, sounds that echoed the room. Then, he unfolded his arms.   

"Alright. Your decision shall not be asked again; you are to suffer what is coming to you. And that is all."   

"And that is all," I reinstated,  sounding rather pleased with myself for such an easy bargain.    

Once more, I heard his deep chuckling laughter.  

"And that is all." He mumbled, and instantly as he came, he left. Not through the portal, he just vanished. Even the portal vanished too. All there was left was me, what ever remained of Jude, and the empty house.   

Not giving a second shit, I went outside and rushed to a payphone to call the cops.   

Not too soon, I hear the ambulances and police car sirens coming my way. I promptly led them to Jude's house and let them do the job.     

Although honestly, I could have died from severe fear of the crap going on today,I held my heart and reassured that nothing weirder will happen.     

"And that is all," I murmured, as a cop approaches me.

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A.N

Hey, unusually short chapter, I know. Well, guess what happens next :)