Light and death (Solangelo au)

Part 2

Will Solace

I place my baby brother on the steps of the orphanage, as if I'm some distressed mother giving up her baby. Tears well up in my eyes as I walk away from my brother. Hopefully he won't remember my father, I don't want him to hate me or him.

I hop in the van while they sit silently, looking at me intensely.

"Well we need to give him a name." 'Death' says.

"We all have nicknames, of coarse death is not his name! You'll probably hear either me or him slip each other's name out by mistake but my nicknames poison. It's nice to meet you!" 'Poison says happily. I thought murderers where heartless creatures that only cared about destroying other people's lives and families, but now that I'm here with two mass murderers, it makes me think different, like everybody may have some misunderstandings about them. Sure they kill people, but these people killed someone really bad today, and I'm grateful for that.

"Light." Death whispers.

"Light?" Poison asks him.

"I think it'd be a good name, what do you think?" He turns to face me, I can barely see his eyes, they're dark and lifeless.

"Why not." I smile like nothing's wrong, but today, my whole world came crashing in top of me, making me feel trapped. I'm in a van with murderers and I still act like I don't care. Maybe I really am supposed to be a murderer.

"Okay, then light! Welcome to our group!"

"Keep your eyes on the road! Are you trying to get us killed!" Death shouts at poison.

"Don't worry light, this pays quite well so you don't have to worry about finding a job later either, they work out money for when you retire, and trust me, it's a hell of a lot of money!" Poison laughs as the van shakes even more unsteadily.

"What did I just say?! Keep your goddamn eyes on the road!" Death shouts making me laugh.

I've only known these for a few hours, but I know that I'm never going to forget this day, whether I don't forget it because I regret it, or I remember this because it changed my whole life for the better. Thinking like that makes me feel happy, because, I can already tell, I'm going to enjoy this time of my life.

"There it is." Death says as he points to a building. Surprisingly it's quite new, the opposite that I was expecting. Glass covered most of the building where people worked at desks.

"Are you sure? It just looks like a normal workplace." I say, slightly confused.

"Well, the boss of the company is in charge of the company and our group, we're not just gonna use some old abandoned warehouse, that'd be too obvious." Poison says as he parks near the building. I get out, the cold air hurts my lungs as I inhale.

"We walk through the back, seeing as we don't actually work here it would look suspicious."

I nod at them both as we walk through the back door.