Enter Apathy

Done Deed (6.)

Lilliana's hands fidget with the rim of her coffee cup, "New deal?"

"I won't work for free. You want your revenge, and I want my payment. Luckily for you, I am actually willing to compromise. But it has to be completely on my terms. You don't get much say in what's decided if you do agree to it. Alright?" Kalaraja declares in a honeyed voice.

"Consider me interested," she nods, "But I wanna know what you have in mind before I answer."

The left side of Kalaraja's mouth curls up in a grin, "That's fair.

"Like I said, I won't work for free. But I will take another form of payment; if I decide to take care of your problem, I'll need a substitute for the money I was originally promised. I'd like to explain something about myself: I'm a sadist. That means that I like to hurt people. Causing pain gives me pleasure-"

"I know what a sadist is," Lilliana interrupts.

"Let me finish, or I'll leave and I won't help you at all," Kalaraja scolds. "Are you willing to sell your soul to achieve your vengeance?"

Lilliana's eyes narrow, "My soul? What do you mean by that?" Unease creeps between her shoulders.

"I take his life, as per your request, and you give me your life. Like I said, pain gives me pleasure. Let me cause you pain, and getting rid of Kroj will be my absolute pleasure."

        Silence slithers between the two of them, like a snake ready to strike. This is not an easy decision to make. This is everything she's been waiting for since the incident happened; an opportunity to get rid of the man that took everything from her. Can she allow herself to die just to get the revenge she craves so much? Kroj has caused her so much pain. He stripped her of her family, traumatized her, and handicapped her with horrible nightmares that don't go away, no matter how much she fights them or works to ease her mind. He murdered the only two people she ever cared about. If she doesn't agree to Kalaraja's terms, can she live with the fact that Kroj might not get what he deserves? Can she live knowing that he's still out there, not paying for what he's done to her? Will she ever be able to get her aunt's dead eyes out of her head if she doesn't do it? The questions spin in Lilliana's head for minutes until finally, she knows her answer without any doubt.

Leaning forward, she folds her hands and levels her eyesight with his, "I'll do it. But I want you to get rid of him soon, and I want him to suffer. I want you to turn him into nothing. I want him to beg, I want him to know that those will be his last moments and I want him to be completely afraid. When it's done, I want you to tell me exactly what you did to him, and how you did it. Don't leave any details out of the description, I want to know everything down to the last drop of blood that leaves his veins as his heart stops pumping it through his body. I mean it." Her eyes grant him an intense stare.

Lilliana doesn't care if she sounds barbaric or homicidal, Kroj has driven her to this. At this point, she is homicidal. She'll do anything to get her revenge. Even sell her life to end another's. She'll spare no expense to get rid of the person that took her life; even if he hadn't killed her, he killed the purest part of her- her innocence. She's not going to get it back and she knows that. She can, however, punish him.

Kalaraja's eyes twinkle with an unknown mischief, "Alright. Then it's settled. I have a few requests as well-" he rests his right arm on the booth he sits against-"Once the deed is done, I'll give you some directions to prepare for your demise. You'll need to quit your job, say you're moving or you've found a better opportunity. I don't care either way what you tell them, that isn't the part I'm concerned about. Then you'll end the lease at your apartment and prepare to meet me."