Disclaimer: Don't own Skillet's 'Never surrender' which inspired me this chapter!
Do you know what it's like to
Be your own worst enemy
Who sees the things in me I can't hide?
Do you know what it's like
to wanna surrender?
Chapter 14
I sighed, after our little chat-he had asked me to leave because he had a long day ahead of him tomorrow. At the time I hadn't thought anything of it, not until I was safely tucked into my bed did it even occur to me, the talk we had was rather intimate...it showed that he was a sexual creature, one that even though he wanted privacy he also needed love. Mind as well as body, I knew that he might never want me, but there was hope yet, he was talking to me more-we were closer then I'd ever been to anyone, lord knew if he had any other close friends other than his brother and best friend Minion of course... Yet I was frustrated with him as well, for all the friendship we had he still wouldn't tell me who had literally tortured him almost to the brink. Sure he healed really fast and now all that was left were scars. Still nothing bad had happened to any of of his co-workers either, what was he waiting for? Surely he would like to get back at them, or was he too scared to? My dresser buzzed angrily at me, getting up I reached over to snatch up my phone, very few called me at this time of night, so it was either really important or a drunk dial.
The caller I.D simply stated private number. The hell? That didn't help tell me which one;
"Hello?" The was some sloshing of water before anyone said anything; "James, uh. Can you come back over?" Minion. What was he calling me for and why did he want me to come over? "Sure." The door opened, Minion still holding his phone. It had taken me five seconds after all, to get clothes on and to get over here, some days it was good to be a superman. "This way." I closed and locked the door for him and trotted after him. Siler sat in the kitchen nursing a honey colored liquid-my guess some kind of alcohol. What had happened between the time I left and now?
"Siler?" He looked up at me but didn't really focus on me and gave Minion a sour look; "I told you I didn't need you to call him up." At least he wasn't drunk enough not to realize it was me...Minion shrugged and walked away, leaving me with a rather drunk Siler. I sighed and took a seat across from him, "What happened? You seemed fine when I left-Did our conversation do this?" He shook his head and pulled his phone out. He pressed a few buttons and put it on speaker;
"Hey Edward, we miss you" A rather lilting voice said drunkenly, it sounded like the phone had shifted hands- "We wanna hear you again!" another man said in a bedroom voice, oh god sick bastards! "Lets have some more fun!" Three men, at a bar-drunk as skunks admitting to their crimes if not aloud at least to Siler... Making Siler flinch away from his phone, as if every word was a lash of a whip, every twist of a knife. "I won't let them-"
"You can't keep an eye on me twenty-four seven James." I could damn well try to! Its not like I had a job, or ever had to have one with how much money I still had, I could make it my job to follow him around at a distance…okay maybe that was a bit much, and he could fight on his own. They must have gotten the jump on him after all, he had kind of trusted them to have allowed them to get as close to him as they would have had to gotten to catch him. They wouldn't be able to now when he was on his guard and ready for attacks.
"Tell me who they are. Tell me and I'll make sure they don't even think about it, let alone try." He let out a sigh, another sip, this one sloshing over the edges and dripping all over his fingers. I stood and went to the sink, I grabbed a cup in the draining board and filled it before going to Siler. He looked up at me as I handed him the cup of water and took his to dump in the sink. "Hey!"
"You shouldn't be drinking Siler." He put his head in his arms; "I just wish they were gone- I wish it never happened, I have so many wishes that will never come true." If that wasn't surrender, I didn't know what it was. "Siler, they wronged you and yet your protecting them...let me give them hell." He looked up, tears falling down his face; "Hell? What happened to Justice?" I had always stood for Justice...my emotions were getting the best of me. "They hurt you- Someone who matters to me, you think I don't want to hurt them?" Of course I wanted to hurt them, I wanted them to bleed-to beg for mercy and for me not to have any.
"James..."