Also. The chapter is almost all set in the past with a few snippets of modren day Kai at the end. please don't hate for what happens.
Chapter 22 Remorseless
He didn't drag his feet and he entered the common room; didn't slow any or look even the slightest bit indecisive. He looked like he always did; his face blank his countenance guarded.
Nobody even looked at him when he walked over to his usual companion; it was after all what happened everyday so why should they care? Anyway they had never liked Kaiser or Kai or whatever the hell people were calling him now, they only put up with him for Rei's sake. Everybody liked Rei.
Rei smiled as Kai approached him; he'd had a rough day and although he liked the other boys he never craved their company the way he did Kai's.
If there had been anything different about Kai Rei would have noticed it as the boy approached him kneeling into his bedding and searching for something.
"Hello Kai how was your day?" Rei asked. He was curious as to why Kai had been separated from the rest of the boys.
Kai sat up on his heels and looked at him. "Hard."
"Hard?" asked Rei confused.
Kai leaned forwarded and ran his blistered hand along Rei's cheek. "Do you love me Rei?"
Rei blinked. He was a child still even after all they had done. He was too young to understand the concept of romantic love. "Yes Kai, of course I love you."
Kai leaned further forward the corner of his lips caught between a smile and a grimace. "Then close your eyes," he whispered.
Rei didn't even hesitate. This was Kai after all, the same Kai that had shared his food and shelter; the same Kai that had been comforting in his silent strength.
Kai leaned over and placed a chaste kiss on Rei's lips "Tell me you love me again Rei."
"I love you Kai. I love you allot."
Some of the children screamed when Rei's body hit the floor, some cried and some, like Kai, did nothing. There had already been death, too many of the boys had fallen to the cold or the training or even the trainers. But not Rei, not sweet kind Rei who always smiled and tried to help. Never Rei…
Kai stood from in front of the body and wiped his knife on the leg of his trousers before holding it out before him and daring the other boy to have a go. A few of them tried only to be held back by worried friends.
"Well done boy." came a voice from the doorway as instructor Boris entered clapping.
"Thank you sir," said Kai bowing. "What's my next assignment?
"And how did you feel when he said he loved you?" asked the doctor intrigued.
"I don't understand the question." Kai stated his voice as flatly beguiling as ever.
"What thoughts were running through your head when the boy told you of his attachment to you? Did they make you question your orders?"
"They were just words. Why would they make me question anything?"
"You made him repeat them. Why?"
"Because I was told to make him say that he loved me, he originally said the words in the wrong sequence."
"And how was it to kill him?"
"It was the same as kissing him. Are the two things very different?"
"You do understand what killing is, yes?"
"Killing is the taking of another life. Killing is taking someone out of the world and making sure that they never come back." recited Kai remembered the skeletal hand that once encased his wrist.
"And kissing?"
"Kissing is when two sets of lips touch. Maybe not always lips, in classes we were taught that kissing can be done all over the body with open and closed mouths."
"Did you enjoy it?"
"It was ok."
"The kissing or the killing?"
"Both. I think that I enjoyed both."
"He will be perfect. He is like a robot."
"Yes. We only have one cause for concern."
"Which is?"
"When he was selected we gave him a full body physical complete with X-rays and all kinds of tests."
"And?"
"There is some cranial damage to the right side of the frontal lobe."
"Which means?"
"That he suffered some pretty serious head trauma when he was a young child. We believe that the trauma is what activated some of his sociopath tendencies… although we can't be one hundred percent sure all the research on the subject at the moment is unproven."
"Why is how he got the condition important?"
"Because in such cases it becomes harder to predict the reactions and symptoms of the patient. I am just warning you that he could unstable."
"Are you saying that we can't use him?"
"I'm saying use him but be careful."
Kai sat at the kitchen fingering the scar just above his hairline. He sometimes had flashed of memory, a glimpse of his mothers face as she swore the heavy bearing of customer's hands as the pawed at his childish clothes. Today it was the scar.
Her legs were flailing and kicking everything in sight, her screams were ringing through the paper thin whore house walls.
Kai sat and watched and cried as the man tossed his mother about the room shouting and cursing and ripping at her clothes.
"You fucking slut. You fucking slut!" he chanted until he finally lost his patience and pulled her to the floor.
When the man had finished with his mother he walked over to him with curiosity. "Who the fuck is this?"
"Your son you bastard!" she had laughed, "Your fucking son!"
"My son?" he had asked his voice shocked.
His mother was laughing hysterically now. "Yeah. You want him you can take the little shit. He barely pays for his own food at the moment. Even sick punters don't want them that young."
"Whore." he shouted picking Kai up and staring at him. "And you little mistake, you shouldn't be here."
There had been a crack and a soft squelching sound as Kai crashed into the wall and a soft slipping thud as he hit the floor. He didn't really remember much after that.
Kai ran his finger over his butter knife and waited for Tala's aunty to be done with dinner. He was hungry and impatient to be extracted.
He hadn't seen Tala in hours. He wondered if it mattered.