What Is and what should Never Be

Chapter 16

Charon's Pov

"It was my fifth birthday, mom had decided to stop in. The first time in months. Dad, if you could call him that had been out all day letting me starve. As if that was anything new. He was a first rank bastard. The cuts on my arms and neck were evident. Though I was so used to covering them up."

The table was bare and it was a regular day, besides that it was, well my birthday and mom was stopping in for a few minutes, every single time I asked why she couldn't stay longer, and every time she would say something along the lines of. "I'll tell you one day, boo, but today isn't it." She would leave me with my father. As he beat me, made me into a monster. Making me steal for him. I could get into tight spaces where his men couldn't you could call them one of the bigger street gangs that are here in New York." 

My father, on my fifth birthday though, had been extremely vicious. He had come home, drunk, rambling over having to kill someone. He was tripping over his own feet and continuously dropping the bottle of bourbon that was in his hand. Luckily mom had let just minutes before, she wouldn't have to find out about this side of the man she might've loved. I never knew what she saw in him even for a one night stand. And after that one night, I never tried to help him, nor tell him if he forgot anything. I still have the scars that cover my body, all over from the years of abuse and torture. Months in juvie for crimes I didn't commit, things that other members of the gangs did and pinned on me. Never did he once bail me out, or try to hide his scorn. And on my fifth birthday was the last time I ever saw my mom, and the day I lost sight in one eye."

I looked up to meet Jesse and the other man's eyes. I knew that the one with the black hair recognized the name Bella Talbot, and to be truthful I know that isn't her real name. And even I don't know what it is. The cut on my neck didn't hurt much, only a small sting. I shouldn't have been dumb enough to go after two hugely built guys. I saw the suits and I thought "Maybe to today I won't get hit if I bring home a few hundred dollars." Though I didn't say anything out loud in fear of getting hurt.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I tensed up thinking that I was going to get hit. But I looked up and saw the sorrow and grief in Jesse's eye's 

He spoke in a low tone. One that was soothing and not sharp. "Look, Charon, I know how hard it can be. Fearing what other people can do to you. If you are at their mercy, and you know what live out in the night. things like us, but were not evil. We live with hunters. We have a family that loves each other. Yes, we get beat and broken from the monsters that are out there. But imagine that good that would come from being in a family that likes and loves you. What if you came with us. leave this behind never lay eyes on your father again."

We can train you. Me and Jupiter, his dad and uncle, who is an angel. We would never hit you, or beat you. you could have something you never had before. A home. The job is dangerous, but we would never send you out with someone before your ready. And maybe you won't have to you could be  IT. Finding out there hunting. Me and Jupiter, who is this handsome fellow right here. We're going to a different world to save his grandmother and basically his brother. So Charon, would you want to come with me and Jupiter to save people, and hunt things. To leave this life behind and say hello to a better life with a hint of danger and a whole lot of family movies nights?"

Excuse me what. Jesse was offering me a home? Someplace where I could have a safe place to stay and not be woken up in the middle of the night in fear of getting beat to near death. I was trembling under their gazes. Mostly Jesse's, the man named Jupiter was looking at his feet like they were the most interesting things out there. 

A home though. Someplace safe, a family and friends. It sounded too good to be true. I held out his stare and met it back with as much strength. 

"What's the catch?" I asked him and he looks surprised.

"There is no catch. There is a danger, a risk of getting killed sure, and a little weirdness mixed in but there isn't a catch." 

He sounded so convincing, so damned convincing, I want to I so wanted to. But something still isn't right. I know about the supernatural, and basically everything else. 

 I was so tired of getting nearly killed from my own father though, what was getting killed from beasty any different. 

I made up my mind.

"On one condition."They both nodded their heads. "Tell me what you are."

Jupiter let out a breath, expecting this question.

"Well, kid, don't freak out, but I'm half demon half angel and Jesse here is half Demon half Human. My dad and uncles are human and angel. But most hunters are regular humans so if you're okay with that I guess you'll be okay all together. "

I nodded my head I thought it was going to be like a vampire or some of that shit but I think that this is better. 

"Okay, then let's get this party started," I say with a small grin. 

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