create

8. brokeback

"This is the place! Right here you can punch the Watcher where it hurts the most!", the paid help said. Neither she nor Goldie had bothered to ask for a name.
"No thanks", Sylver answered, "I'd rather not... but I can bring you some undergarments of his if you crave that so much?"
Goldie chuckled, "Don't give him ideas, next he'll ask for the Count's testicles coated in gold!"
Now Sylver laughed. "I enjoy both of your help, or half of it, but I could do that one alone! I kinda did once after all!"
"Wow!" Ass said from behind Sylver, "You broke into the palace of the Count??? That is a-ha-maazing!! After this job I'll have to venture into this head of yours some more, I see sooo much potential! I just hope I'll be allowed to..."
Sylver ignored her and continued to enjoy the look on their paid help's face. It was priceless. He was shocked, he was angry, even afraid because of Sylver's confidence, but he also couldn't do anything. He was only paid half of his whole payment in before, which, for a greedy person like him, was not enough.
"Oh my, are we too early? You're only attempting to break in right now, not out! Silly me! But this way inside the Watcher's stronghold... Imma have to look into that later as well! We have a long session infront of us!", Ass said in awe before the scene shifted.

"But only after the first count has fallen to us! You understand? And then I'll even go on a serious date with you if that should be your wish, I swear to my life!"
The last sentence she said with her pinkie extended. Wow. She actually meant it...
"So you're into women, huh? Interesting! What do you think about me then? Am I attractive to you? Wait, please tell me you didn't think 'Ass' for half your life...", Ass scolded her.
Sylver extended her hand, hooked her pinkie into Goldie's, and then she turned away. Towards the vault.
A tear rolled down her cheek. 'Thanks mom, as if dieing hadn't been enough...' Sylver cried in her head.
"Thanks mom? Wow... what did your mom do to you?", Ass interrupted.
Sylver let the tear roll. No need to hide anything from Goldie. 
"That's more like it, you're in now!", she smiled.
And Sylver was. Game on.
Sylver's senses went into overdrive, and for the first time since the damned heart she really noticed her surroundings.
"What is this? What is happening? Sylver, what in the actual fuck? Explain? Aaaaaahhhhrrrgghhhh!!", Ass cried out in pain, clutching her face in both hands, falling to her knees.
Sylver panicked. What was going on? She didn't understand, she couldn't understand, because she suddenly was able to see into every corner, she noticed every shadow, she saw every laser-based security system.
She could hear the sightless cameras beeping, the electricity of every trap crackled in her ears.
Her nose picked up the faint traces of the acids and poisons coating different cases, wires and doorknobs.
Sylver could even taste the copper in the air, from all the cables winding through the floors, and from all the spilled blood of those who had tried this theft before. Sylver could feel more intensely. She could feel the vibrations in the ground that were caused by Goldie's light steps. She could feel the arteries popping in Ass' eyes, she could feel her skin ripping and her blood flowing out of her eyes, ears, nose and mouth. She could feel the currents of air trying to leave this deadly room, and they were running away from the wall straight ahead.
But what really made her Focus so rewarding was the additional sense she seemed to get. Sylver could mentally feel everything surrounding her. She knew, without knowing from where, which tiles on the floor needed to be avoided, where the tripwires and lasers were, she even knew where to enter into the (now not anymore) secret vault. She could even feel the vibrations in the air coming from Ass' shaking body. Hopefully she would remain silent, or she could risk this whole operation.
"STOP THIS MADNESS!!!", Ass screamed, and the scene shifted, but not fast enough.

It was as if they were flying past the event, but sometimes in slow motion.

Sylver lay her hand on her chest, then extended her left hand with her palm facing upwards, lay her right hand on top of it. Then, in a wide motion, she brought her right hand to the right side until it was parallel with her left hand.
I will guide you.

Of course, it had a catch, and she was thrown back in time just when there was a soft click.

"Keeping silver locked up brings bad luck, Case! Never lock up silver if you don't want to be unlucky!"

Now the bound together forks stuck inside of him, one in each eye and the third one in his forehead, 'making him a unicorn'.

She was at her current boyfriends home right now, in the full bathtub, looking at her naked features and searching for the perfect spot to sink the knife into. The same one that had killed her mom.

To rob the sixtuplets of the Count during the light of day while they were occupying every imaginable room? Of course, Casey had managed, but only through triggering alarms on five different locations and knocking one of the six out clean.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything!", she said to him before he could get even more worried. "Not yet...", she thought as she picked it and the forks up.

"Sylver, with a Y!"

Sylver just wanted to thank her and give her reassurance when the AfterFocus punched in.

Ass cried out in sheer agony. "Please... just... just make it stop... please...", Ass pleaded, but Sylver was helpless. She didn't choose any of this.

"Be careful!", Sylver shouted as she stumbled forwards, but Goldie had already grabbed the pale red stone. And... nothing.

L.

Her arm still burnt like a bitch. It felt as if a thousand needles were piercing her arm at once, and as if the sharp teeth of a thousand saws were eating away on her flesh.

"I can't take this anymore... how... how could you? How did you manage? How do you manage?", Ass whispered, bloody tears rolling down her face and overall.

She could look through a rapidly growing hole in her hand already.

"I got quite a few, over 20 at least!"

"If I need to be left behind you can do that later as well!"

That stone seemed to cry out to Sylver.

Bullets pierced her body from every direction.

She only fell when a bullet destroyed her kneecap.

The stone began to glow, its aura flared to life.

Sylver dragged the bloody mess of what was still remaining of her body forwards for one last heave.

She extended her arm, and touched the stone.
And her world exploded into light.

"Fuck everything!", Ass shouted, stumbling away from the bed Sylver lay in, "Fuck everything! You poor, poor soul! How the fuck are you alive? I can't see... I can't... feel... fuck..."
Ass' overall was full of blood, her whole body was a bloody mess, and she was shaking uncontrolably.
"No more... don't ever make me do that again...", she at first whispered, but then she screamed, "DON'T YOU EVER MAKE ME SEE HER PAST AGAIN! I DON'T WANT HER PAST!"
And with those words she ran off.
Sylver closed her eyes. All of that shit again. For what?
A single tear rolled down her cheek.