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Chapter 46
An old friend Part 2
"Long time no see, my old friend," Damien says with a big smile. "Also hello to you too, Lincoln. Oh, and you also brought Lucy with you. What a nice reunion."
Immediately, Lincoln steps in front of Lucy. "Come close to her and you will regret it!"
"The knight in shining armor. Or should I say, the big hero with a cape?"
"What are you doing here? Where are the others?" Isaac asks angrily.
"They're all at home, I guess. Shawn had sent them a message that you would have canceled today's meeting."
Baffled, Isaac looks at Shawn. "You have what? Are you nuts?! This guy is a fucking psychopath and you're on his side?"
"He has the better argument. And with that I mean money," Shawn explains bluntly to him.
"I should smack you into the ground!"
"It would be better to not overreact, Isaac. I don't believe you want her to get hurt." Damien snaps his fingers and another guy comes out.
"Ellie!" Lincoln shouts.
The guy was holding Ellie hostage. But so far, it looks like she isn't hurt.
"I'm sorry, Isaac. He had sneaked up on me," Ellie apologies.
"Idiot. Stop excusing. I get you out of this in a minute," Isaac says to her while clenching his fists.
"I would be very careful with what you say. Jim can be pretty rough with girls sometimes. Also, when you charge at me, like the last time, Lincoln and Lucy would be unprotected."
"What is wrong with you? What is your fucking problem? I just wanted a nice night where I can forget about my depression for a while and you have to ruin it!" Lincoln rants about Damien.
But he just laughs out loud. "Wonderful. Just wonderful. So you still have your bad thoughts. Good. It would be annoying to start from scratch again. But if you really wanna know why. Do you remember that talk we had? In the night where you tried to commit suicide a second time."
Isaac, Lucy, and Ellie's eyes got big as they heard that and looked right at Lincoln.
"You, you what?" says Isaac in disbelieve.
"L-Lincoln?" comes it from Lucy.
"He, he is lying. Please. Please tell me that he is lying," Ellie pleads him.
Damien laughs again. "You haven't told them? You still had kept it your little secret? Oh boy, that is good."
"SHUT UP! You fucking asshole has no idea how hard this all is! What I was going through on that day! I was a big idiot to even think about it. And it frustrates me that it was YOU. From all the people who could have stopped me, it had to be you. But why? Why stopping me there and later on attacking me?"
"Because I couldn't let you die, Lincoln. You belong to me. I couldn't let you take yourself away from me."
"All right. I think we need to have a serious talk about your stupid habit of trying to end your life, young man. After all of this," Isaac says sternly to Lincoln.
"Says the guy with the million secrets," counters Lincoln.
"Could you two, please, take this seriously?" comments Lucy.
"Sorry, Lucy. Okay, Damien. What is with the talk we had back there?"
"I have told you about my mom. Remember?" explains Damien and yes, Lincoln remembers. "You see, she didn't die because of an accident or so. She was very ill. It was a very slow and painful process. Every day she got weaker and weaker. She lost weight and everywhere on her body were abscesses. She looked like, as people like to say, a total wreck. But to me, she was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
"My god. You truly are insane. You have lost your god damn mind," Isaac says truly shocked.
"When people are suffering they show their real face. They show the real beauty of this world. You have to see it for yourself to understand it. But unfortunately are people extremely weak. They can't handle being so beautiful. They always slip out of my hands."
"Th-they?" Lincoln asks worriedly but quickly regrets his words.
"Benny," was everything he gave as an answer. It was all he had to say so that they would all understand.
Ellie's eyes become wide as dinner plats, but her pupils got very small in contrast. With pure shock and disbelieve she looks at Damien.
"B-Benny? Wh-what... what have you done to him?"
"Damien, no!" Isaac shouts.
But he ignored his 'former leader' and looks back at Ellie with a big, toothy grin. And with a nearly whispering voice, he says, "I brought him to his mental state."
Isaac was now extremely pissed. His fists clenched and were shaking. He was ready to scream at his former right-hand man and to charge at him.
But the scream of someone else had dragged him out of his fury.
"DAMIEN!" Lincoln screams out of his lungs. And all eyes were locked at him. "Stop it! It is me you want! So let Ellie out of it!"
"Haven't you listen? I want to see their beauty when people are broken."
As Lincoln wants to charge at Damien he was held back by Shawn.
"Let me go, you fucking idiot!"
"Lincoln!" Lucy calls out for him but was also held back by Isaac.
"He will not hurt him. Damien wants him so he should be fine for now," he says to her. Then he got closer and whispered to her, "Run when I give you the signal."
Lucy was looking shocked at him and want to ask him if he is right in the head. But before she could he continues.
"The fewer people I have to protect the better I can handle the situation." He lets her go and stands up again. "All right, fuckface. Time to take the trash out of our place." He was cracking his knuckles and neck to make himself ready.
"Careful, Isaac. Jim could hurt little Ellie. That would be a shame." Damien turns his attention back to Ellie, while Jim held an eye on Isaac.
"I have talked a lot with Benny, you know? There was a lot on his mind. He thought he would never be good enough for this world. For the people around him." He got closer until he was direct beside her ear. "For you."
Lincoln looks at Damien. Not enough for Ellie? Was he?
"Wh-what do you mean?" asks Ellie, not understanding.
Damien laughs quietly. "He wanted to fuck his own sister. Still, waters run deep."
"That isn't true. You're lying!"
"I'm not. Why had you never seen him with other girls? He didn't want to hurt them because he wanted you more than anyone else."
"I... I don't care. Even if it is true. Even if he saw more in me as his sister. Even if he wanted to sleep with me. I'm not gonna hate him. He is still my beloved big brother."
"Oh. He knew that. It was clear to him that you would still love him. That was the worst part for him. Well, it got harder for him after all the talks we had. Just a simple word here, a short reminder there. It was easy to break him. Too easy. In the end, he had hung himself. What a shame. He looked so wonderful with all the bruises and cuts. All his thoughts carved into his flesh."
"W-what?"
No one had told Ellie about what Benny had done to himself. Not Isaac, not the police, not even her parents. The last time she saw his body, he already was prepared for the funeral.
"That's enough!" Isaac screams and attacks Damien.
To his luck was Jim a bit distracted about what Damien was telling. So he managed to punch Damien really hart in the face as he turned around.
That surprised Jim which than got Ellie's head right against his nose. With that she got free.
And also Lincoln was able to free himself as he had stepped on Shawn's foot.
Lucy, understanding the situation, takes Lincoln by his arm and runs with him away.
"Lucy, what are you doing?" the white-haired boy asks her.
"Isaac had said to me that we should run away. He can handle it alone. We are just in his way," Lucy explains to her brother.
Lincoln wasn't happy to let his friend back alone. But he couldn't to that much. Besides the kick at the bully some days ago, he wasn't a fighter like Lynn. So he truly would be just in the way.
"Ellie! You too! Run!" Isaac shouts at her after he had thrown Jim above his shoulder.
"And let you alone with these psychos? No way!" shouts Ellie back and gets in a fighting position herself. Where had he learned to fight like that?
"Tch. Crazy bitch. But don't cry when you broke a nail."
Jim runs at Ellie but it was easy for her to dodge him and sweep him off his feet with a low kick.
"Did you say something?" she replies confidently to Isaac.
"You fucking idiots! Get them!" Damien says angrily.
Shawn and Jim stand up again. But also Damien joins the fight. He takes his knife out and as expected it was a costume-made knife that was kinda like a scalpel.
Shawn and Damien attack Isaac but he can manage to dodge or block their attacks most of the time.
Ellie did also very fine with Jim.
That means until Isaac got a strong hit against the chest and goes to the ground.
"Isaac!" she says and looks at his direction.
Jim took his advantage and grabs Ellie.
"Now you will pay, stupid slut," Jim says, ready to walk the talk.
Isaac got back on his feet. "Shit, girl. You have to learn how to DODGE!" he screams and Ellie got the hint.
She steps on Jim's foot what made him loosen his grip.
"God damn it! Why always the same freaking foot?" swears Jim.
And then right in time she just rolled out of the way because Isaac was already running at them. With a dropkick at Jim, he sends him flying back.
"And now go! I'll handle these three clowns alone," Isaac says to Ellie again.
"But—"
"Go or I slap your butt that hard you can't ever sit again!"
Reluctantly she goes and lets Isaac alone with the three attackers.
"Finally. Now we can stop playing and be serio—"
Isaac got off guard as Jim, who got up sooner than expected, and Shawn grabs his arms and held him in position.
"Handling all three of us alone? Don't make me laugh, Isaac. You may be strong and know how to fight. But you're still just a simple guy. But tell me. Since when had you become so selfless? Sending the others away and try to stop us alone. You aren't a hero."
Isaac just laughs. "No. You're right. I never was and never will be a hero. I'm not a protector or so. Just a guy which just thinks of himself. An egoist. But I'm not an idiot. I know when I should run away and when I can win a fight."
Now laugh Damien and his goons. A little distraction, but enough for Isaac.
What no one noticed was that Isaac had managed to come a bit closer to Damien through his wiggling.
And then, clonk. A very strong headbutt against Damien. And judging by the sound had he broken his nose.
The other two were surprised and shocked what made it easy for Isaac to get free again.
He shoved his elbow deep into the stomach of one and then grabs the other one at his head and pulled him down to his uprising knee.
Isaac turns to face the first one again, which had recovered again. But before he was able to do something he got kicked at the chest. Like in this one movie with the Spartans.
Isaac wants to make sure that he wouldn't get up this time and kicked him with his boots. Lights out for Jim.
Next, Shawn. He was running at Isaac but a simple roundhouse kick finished it.
"Now to you," Isaac says angrily.
Damien was getting up too. Still holding his broken nose and laughing. "Okay. I have to admit you're tougher as I thought. I never will underestimate you again."
Damien speared Isaac and both go to the ground. Then he starts to punch Isaac, which just can hold his arms in front of himself to block the punches.
He endures the punching to wait for a chance to counter Damien. After several punches, the time-space between them become bigger because of simple exhaustion.
Isaac grabs Damien's fists and throws him above him.
But both got up again. Damien was switching his eyes between Isaac and the ground to scan his surroundings for his knife.
Isaac was now the one trying to punch Damien, but he was also capable of blocking it.
"I have to admit, you aren't that bad at fighting, Damien. But it doesn't matter how good you are," Isaac says to him.
"Oh, and why so? Do you still believe you can take me down?" answers Damien mockingly.
"Nope. I don't have to. Just listen and you will understand."
After some seconds of silence, Damien hears people approaching.
And judging by the sound it was more than just three. So it wasn't Lincoln, Lucy, and Ellie who are coming back to help Isaac.
"It is over for you, Damien. Just give up."
Phew, that whole chapter is becoming longer and longer. But I do believe that part 3 will be the last part of this extremely ride. I mean, Jesus. Damien is responsible for poor Benny. That is a big bomb for Ellie. And now we know about Damien's reason for attacking Lincoln. But what do you think about his backstory? Too much? Not crazy enough? Or do you have a better idea for his motivation? Just let me know. And what about the fight scene? First time I did that. So, was it good?
Also, I hope you all had the "I killed Mufasa!" scene from Lion King in mind as Damien told Ellie about her brother. Oh and if some may think that it was strange how Isaac said Ellie to dodge. It is a reference to TeamForeStar's DBZ Abridged series.
Stay tuned and have a great day.
