Every where I look. Numbers appear above people's heads. On scale of 1-10. 1 means their pretty much harmless. 10 they could be the most dangerous person alive.
My sisters number is a five meaning she's not harmless but not super dangerous. Alice, the girl I sit next to at work, she's 3, my boss, 6.
I have never met someone with a 10 before. I must be lucky.
I walk into work. Everything seems normal. I wave to Alice as I go to sit down. Another long day of work ahead of me.
Click clack. Clickity clackty.
Ring ring.
"Hello! Customer service, how may I help you?"
"Hi, yes my new toaster is burning all of the toast no matter what setting it's on. What should I do?"
"We can give you a full refund or send you a new one at no cost. You must have brought one of the flawed batch ones that came out last month. All you have to do is go to our website and put in the operator code and ask for the full refund or a new one."
"Thank you! Will do! Have a great day!"
"You too!"
I hang up the phone and look around. I spot a new guy who must have just been hired. Over his head, a 10.
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A 10! What could make this man so dangerous? Is he a serial killer? Is he planning to kill everyone in this office? What makes him so dangerous?
He walks around the office looks everyone in the eye. It's like he's assessing each and everyone of us.
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Everywhere I look I see numbers above people's head. The numbers tell me how close a person is to death it is on a scale of 1-10. 1 being no where close to death and 10 could be just minutes away. Most days I see 1,2,3,4 and maybe 5's almost never 6's or 7's and rarely 8&9's. The one number I've never seen is a ten.
I start a new job today. I walk into the building and look around mostly 1's and couple of 2's and then my eyes land on a girl who looks kind of panicky like she had seen a ghost and above her head was a 10.
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A 10! I couldn't believe it she could be minutes away from death! How is she going to die? Is it too late to save her? What am I going to do?
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Oh gosh he's looking at me! Why is he looking at me? He's been staring at me for more than a minute now, what is he going to do?
I need to know what he's doing here.
I'm going to go greet him try and be friendly.
"Hi! Welcome to Customers Service! My names Jane and I guess you are our new employee. What is your name?"
"Hi my name is Jacob. Are you feeling okay? You look a little pale?"
"Who me? Yeah I'm fine probably just the lighting. So what did you do before you came here?"
"I worked at a bookstore but it closed down. So here I am."
"Ah nice."
"Yeah."
We stand there and just stare.
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She's talking to me! Why is she talking to me? Maybe this is my chance to change her fate? But how?
"Do you want to have coffee at lunch today?" I ask
"Umm I mean normally I just sit in the courtyard with Alice and I rather not stand her up sorry." She starts to back up and head back to her cubical. I don't know what to do. I mean should I follow her. Probably not but it wouldn't hurt. I grab her sleeve and pull her back towards me.
"Get your hands off me!"
"You are in danger. I don't know how to explain this but you are going to die, and soon. Let me help you."
"You are mad! I'm not going to die. What are you crazy?"
"I'm not just listen to me plea-"
"Everybody! Down on the ground this is an armed robbery!"
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First a 10, then he tells me that I'm going to die, and now an armed robbery. This is just a great day.
"Lay on the ground!" The masked guy yells at Jacob.
"No. What do you want anyway from this place?"
"Lay on the ground now or the girl gets it!"
"No."
Bang
So that's it, that's why he was so dangerous. He got me killed just for standing up to the guy. Well I hope that guy gets what's coming to him. He has no clue that he's up against one of the most dangerous men I've met.
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So that's it, that's how she dies. I never saw that coming. But now I'm mad These guys have no clue that I'm dangerous. They have no clue what they are up against.
