Discernment

Chapter 26

"Thomas. Wake up. There's someone at the door for you." Jess says to me from the doorway of my room and wakes me up. "Who is it?" I mutter to her, adjusting my eyes to the light. I sat there, waiting for an answer, but Jess didn't reply. "Jess? I asked who's at the door?" I say again, but when my vision came clear, Jess wasn't even there. I tilt my head slightly and walk out of the room, not even getting dressed into normal clothes, then continue down the stairs. "Jess, I asked you who was at the doo-" I cut off my sentence right as I saw Indigo sitting there on the couch next to Jess.

"Indigo? How do you know I lived here?" I asked him. "I saw you walk home yesterday, I mean, I do now live across the street from you. I just came over and this lovely young lady let me in." Indigo says as he made hand gestures pointed behind him towards the window, then back at Jess. "That's not weird at all." I say with a blank face, looking at Jess who's holding in a laugh. "Oh, whatever. I'm here because I thought we should get a drink." Indigo says. "It's seven in the morning. I can't be drinking at this hour?" I explain to Indigo. "Alright, whatever, your loss. Anyways, the real reason I came over was to ask you if you could show me the job list for your community. I can't just join in unexpectedly and not do work!" Indigo says to me, putting his feet on the coffee table.

"Alright, come on up. I'll show you what we have." I tell him, then begin walking up the stairs. Indigo quickly jumps up and follows me into the den. "Hey, if you don't mind to stay here while I go get dressed?" I ask him. "Yeah, no problem." Indigo replies and sits in the chair on the other side of the desk while I left the room. He's sitting there, looking around the room. He sees my bat laying on the ground and then grins. As I walked back in the room, now dressed, I cross out the yesterday on the calender. "Thomas, that's a nice weapon you have there. A spike welded onto a bat? That's fuckin' bad ass man." Indigo says. "Yeah, Eddy made that. You haven't met him, but you will today. I'm going to have a party held, since some of us wanted one lately." I tell him. "Party? I hope I'm invited!" He says, laughing and readjusting his position in the seat.

"Of course you are man. But now, what you're really here for." I say. "The list of jobs that are open, and some recently new.. Are supply runner and recruiter. Recent ones that have now been added now. We need someone to be a coplike figure, going around to each district checking in on people, seeing if there's any trouble, and then there's scouting for new places to live and expand. Those are what we have open. Anything that you're up for?" I offer him. He nods instantly, "Definitely the vigilante. I'm known for doing stuff like that anyways." Indigo says, shaking my hand afterwards. "Are you, now?" I ask him.

"Yeah.. I have a story about this too, if you don't mind hearing it." Indigo says. "Sure, lay it on me." I say leaning back in the chair. "In the beginning of this, I.. I was with this terrible group. They roamed around, seeking for people to kill and to loot their stuff. I did it with them, didn't like it, but they were tough. Tough enough to keep me safe if I were to get into trouble. But, of course, if I had to stay with them, I had to kill alongside them, so I did." He mutters. Questioning Indigo now, I lean forward, hoping this story changes quick. "It sucked. It really did, but the time that really made me want this all to end was when we raided this one small group, maybe about six people all together. The group I was with killed most of them. There were two of them left, a mother and her child. The leader of the group I was with, told me to come over and to take his gun, as it was aimed at the child. 'Take the shot.' He told me, then another man in the group I was with aimed a gun at my head. 'I said take the fucking shot.' The mother was crying, begging not to. The sound of the gun.. cocking behind my head.. It scared me. I took the shot.. Sent the bullet straight through the boy's skull, the mother now left crushed. The others in my group ravaged through the dead to take their belongings, as I sat on my knees, feeling terrible, the mother kneeling over the dead child that rested in her arms." Indigo states, staying quiet now.