Chapter 2: You stymied every plan I had; you saw me learn to kill. (part 1)

To the guest reviewer: I said maybe within the next hour, not definitely. It turned out to not be within the day at all. Sorry. And as I'm writing this right now, there isn't any wifi I can use, so even if I finish the chapter, who knows when I'll be able to post it.

Eventually, you took as much interest in me as I had in you. Sometimes, I would observe you, other times, you would observe me.

On one occasion, you watched as I made a deal in an alleyway, bargaining for a weapon with a man who had brown eyes, black hair, and a beard. As I turned to leave with my new sword, he pulled out his own and made a slice across the back of my ankle. I fell, but made sure to fall so I was facing him and in a stable position. Unsheathing my new weapon, I blocked the rest of his blows, until he knocked my sword from my hand. I dove to the side of his next strike, and then he was tackled from the side.

That was when I realized that you had been watching, and that you had rushed in, armorless and weaponless as always, to try and save me. Sometimes, I do feel like you were trying to get yourself killed whenever you did that sort of thing. Surely you couldn't have been that stupid. If you nearly died doing something once, you shouldn't have done it again and again. You wouldn't get lucky every time.

I withdrew my dagger from my pocket. The man pushed you off him, and adjusted his grip on his sword. He aimed it towards you, looking away from me. Then, I carefully rose to my feet, suppressing the gasp of pain that wanted to escape when I moved my left foot, and I moved in front of you. With only a moment of hesitation, I plunged my dagger into his chest. When he collapsed, in pain and in shock (the fact that he wasn't expecting to get beaten by a teenage boy, or even a pair of them, probably didn't help him), I pulled the dagger out, leaving him to bleed to death.

You were horrified. But he was going to kill us, so after spending a while calming yourself down, you pulled me off to the town hall to explain what had happened, before somebody got accused of flat-out murder of the man.

The guard who we told our story to said she understood, and we would be fine. But I could tell that the guards would be keeping a closer eye on me from then on.

Later that day, I wondered why I had blocked the man from attacking you, why I had let you drag me to the town hall with you. If you had been hurt, it would have been your own fault, for going into a fight unprepared. And it was already a shady deal, even before he attacked me, so I shouldn't have let you take me to the authorities, even if the only way they should have been able to know was if one of us told them. I thought, and realized that I had grown fond of having you around. I had made my first friend since I'd had to move here six years before.

But I didn't really want friends, especially not friends like you. I was going to live a life of crime, and you would only get in my way.

And I was doubtful that you would even want to be my friend, especially after seeing me kill a man with such ease.

After that, though, you didn't tell me to go away on days when I was observing you, and you still often followed me around on days when I wasn't. You would still talk to me, even when I tried to ignore you for the next couple of days after the incident. In fact, as I stopped responding, you grew increasngly distressed. "Did I do something wrong?" you asked more than once. It seemed that you did want us to be friends.

I guess if you were running around trying to save people from mobs of monsters when you had nothing to defend yourself with, I shouldn't have expected you to abandon me because I killed a man who tried to kill me. But I never have fully understood why you did anything, and I didn't really understand you at all back then.

Eventually, I gave in, and allowed myself to be friends with you.

I'm not entirely sure how to transition within the chapter between here and what would be the next part of this chapter, so I'm splitting this into two. This chapter is already longer that the first, if I'm remembering correctly. I would check that, but still no wifi, so...