The Last Hour

Part 7

Bram's POV:

Tokoshi and I silently stare at the girl who was tied to the armchair, her blackish- brown hair going in her face as she tries to struggle in the rope.

"Let me go!" She growls out, yanking on the rope with such strength the chair made a creaking noise.

Tokoshi laughs lowly at the girl, shaking his head and says, "Sorry honey, but that isn't happening anytime soon. Now tell us, why did Cronus send you to kill Bram?"

I lean against the wall, calculating every move the girl made to get out of her restraints and I say, "Brother, maybe we should just get Thaddeus."

Tokoshi ignores my comment, stepping closer to the girl and waits for an answer.

The girl gives us a glare, her eyes full of pure hatred and snarls out, "Kiss my fucking ass, you filthy piece of scum."

I raise an eyebrow at the girl's attitude, surprise she would talk that way to us and I say again but in a more warning tone, "Brother, we should--."

Tokoshi turns around to face me, his eyes glowing a bright yellow and says, "I heard you the first time, and we are not calling Thaddeus. He is busy ruling the throne with father who by the way is still waiting for you to get Cronus..." He turns around to face the girl again, he pulls out his blade and points it at her chest. He says to her, "One last time, why does Cronus want my brother dead?"

She stares at his blade with a blank look, her face showing no emotion at all and says, "I'm not afraid of you, demon. So kill me if you want." She flips back her hair so she could stare at Tokoshi some more.

Tokoshi raises the blade, ready to kill the girl and says, "Your funeral."

I take a step forward, yanking his blade out of his grasp and say, "No, brother... This is not what we do to people like them. We do not give them easy deaths, we keep them in our custody." I glance at the girl, realizing that she was trembling a little and I smiled at this.

Tokoshi gives out a distasteful laugh, looking at me and says, "No, that is how you do it. I like to kill them and bring them back to life and kill them again so they know how it is like for them. And once I do it for over a hundred times, they do break. Now, my blade." He holds out his hand for the blade, waiting patiently for me to hand it back to him.

I don't do that exactly, I look at my cat Dorian who was watching us intently and I smiled. I bent down on my knees, holding out the blade to my cat and say, "Here you go Dorian, would you mind throwing this away for me?"

Dorian perks up at the mention of throwing something away, he trots over to me and snatches the blade out of my hand.

Tokoshi gives out a loud gasp, his eyes going wide and says, "No, dammit brother! Tell your cat to give me back my blade that you told her to throw away!"

I laugh at him as I watch Dorian head over to his litter box and says, "I'm sorry, I can't. Dorian hasn't disposed anything in a long while."

Dorian drops the blade on the litter, he starts to dig up some litter and looks at me; waiting for my signal.

I nod yes to him, smiling proudly at him and hear Tokoshi start to mutter some nonsense under his breath about how my cat was stupid.

Dorian picks up the blade with his mouth, he stares at Tokoshi for a very long time and then drops it into the the dug out area. He starts to dig the litter back on top of the blade. Once finished, he hops out of his litter box and comes back over to me. He rubs against my leg and meows.

I pet Dorian's head, smiling at him and say, "Good kitty, I'll give you treats later."

Tokoshi looks at me with a scowl and says to me, "Good thing I am not skinning your cat right here and now."

I give out a small gasp of shock, picking up my cat and say, "Don't you dare."

The girl gives out an irritated sigh, she looks at Tokoshi and I, and says, "Hello. Guys.. I'm still here you know."

I glance back over to see the girl giving us an annoyed look, clearly wanting to die from our arguing.