This is a sequel from a previous story I wrote called the Anti Hero

To all my awesome readers, I hope you enjoy this as much

as you all enjoyed the first one :)

"You know they'll kill you if they ever find out?" Jed said coming to me in the dead of the night.

"I don't care," I growled quietly sitting at the window surrounded by cigarette butts and a near empty bottle of Jack Daniels. I could only stare out the window, off in the far off distant of the dark moonless night I could see the white Ferris wheel on the horizon. If it weren't so dark from the lack of the moon that night I knew I'd be able to see the zip line.

"They'll kill me too," Jed replied quietly, "you're putting all of us in danger, mother, father-."

"They'll never know if you don't tell them," I said bluntly, "when it all comes out just say you didn't know anything about what I'm doing. Save your own skin."

The room remained quiet. Jed was at war with himself, so was I but for such different reasons…

"You're my brother…" Jed said with some hint of sentiment, "but you're making this a lot bigger than us. There's more at stake now."

"Who do you think put us here?" I asked now turning to face him. Even when I did I still couldn't say anything, my room was just as dark as the night.

Jed again didn't have a reply.

"If you didn't want to help me than you never should have in the beginning," I said to him as I poured myself another glass of Jack.

"I admit," Jed said with a shaky voice, "I do regret helping you…but not for the reason you think."

"Why wouldn't you regret it?" I scoffed angrily.

"Would you have killed me if I didn't help you back in the lab?" Jed asked.

For once I didn't have an answer. We both just sat there in the dark, dead, cold night both lost in our own thoughts. The world down below was quiet and yet there was a storm raging not so far off. Everything was about to change…and I knew I wouldn't be there to see what happens in the end.

"I don't regret helping you because I believe in Jeanine's cause," Jed said after some time, "I regret helping you because now I get to witness them torture you with the Fulmination device lodged into your heart."

Instinctively my hands moved up to the conductor rods that were now lodges into my chest underneath my skin. It was a device designed by my father of all people, meant to be a torture device. It was a secret within Erudite, no one knew that they had them and lived to tell anyone about it. There was one central metal ball in the center with wires radiating out of it connecting to a series of smaller balls. Those were the conductors; from there they had wires that went down surrounding my still beating heart. There were more small conductors were placed all around the surface of my heart. Someone was controlling it from a computer and could send the equivalent amount of electricity as a bolt of lightning straight through my heart. Removing it was impossible; once the device is placed into your skin it can never be removed. Even if it was deactivated, there were still conductor rods and wires all around my heart, pulling them out would kill me. I was stuck with this thing for the rest of my life…however long that was going to be.

"You fucking smarties appreciate irony," I said bitterly, "funny how you talk about how I'm putting our father in danger when he's the one who made the Fulminator …if I die you tell dear old dad it's his fault."

"He doesn't know you have it," Jed replied trying to defend him.

"Well…" I said downing the rest of the drink, "I'm sure he'll be pleased to know I have it once everyone finds out I'm a traitor."

After more silent minutes Jed asked, "Why are you doing this?"

I sighed feeling my heart swell painfully…and not from the Fulminator.

"For the stiff," I whispered quietly, "because I can."