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 Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:36 pm
"Twenty-four hours."
Perhaps Robert turned around, perhaps he didn't.
"Twenty four hours." Caelius continued, not moving a single muscle from his spot. "I have scheduled Reine to sleep and reflect for twenty four hours. Convenient what isolation does to the mind, really." A crude smile. "However, if you so as much walk out of the room with Reine and decide to directly disobey orders, then I will guarantee that her and your sleep is much, much more permanent."
And still, the Death Hunter did not retrieve but simply waited. "So, what will it be, trainee?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:43 pm
Robert did not turn around, but neither did he keep walking. He stood with his back to the Death Hunter, shoulders sagging. Walking out of the room guaranteed that his, and Reine's life were over. The end. His choice. Every inch of him said keep walking, just keep walking.
He could even hear Roberta's voice, laughing, telling him to just keep walking.
He turned around, his cold gaze evenly focused on Caelius. "Promise me." Even as he said it, he realized it was pointless. What good was a promise from this man? What good was any word he said? "Just.. promise me she ain't staying in there for good."
His arms tightened around her body, soaking up every second he was given until it was time to say goodbye.
But not for forever.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:03 pm
"Do not ******** bargain with me trainee. I am not here to play out your little melodrama so that you might sleep peacefully knowing Reine might be a better person tomorrow. I am not here to conveniently make you learn some moral lesson at the end of the book, and hold your hand and walk you out. You are both Hunters and you should better start acting like them." If Robert was right about anything, it was about how useless the trainee's words were to Caelius. "The second you, either of you, both of you, stop fulfilling your role as Hunters then yes, you will go back to sleep here, permanently. This is not a threat, this is a ******** fact so that we do not have to spend time babysitting when there are things in the world much more ******** terrifying than me disciplining a few errant trainees."
A small pause as Caelius seemed about ready to lose the last dregs of his patience. "This is your last warning trainee."
Not even a 'yes I promise', but then again, had Robert been expecting anything else. Seconds seemed to tick on forever, and Caelius was simply not willing to wait for that long.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:08 pm
Caelius' words were warnings that Robert had already come to accept, and believe. They were here until they were useless. Even Reine. Even Petra. Even, and most definitely, him. He moved the body to a pod, gently laid her in, and kissed her forehead before Caelius could cruelly close the pod before he was ready. He made sure both of her hands were in the pod comfortably, and only then did he pull away, his back turning rigid as he stood tall and acquiesced to his duty.
"Aye, boss."
The word tasted like death on his tongue.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:19 pm
Not waiting for another 'if' or 'but', Caelius pressed against the cover where Reine lay, unconscious, in a pod. The machine snapped shut without so much as a small click, the trainee's face as pale as the others. She would sleep, she would dream, but worst of all, she, unlike the other sleepers would wake up, and find herself very much conscious.
It was one thing to be sleeping throughout the whole ordeal, it was another to face it wide awake, unable to move, unable to get out. Buried alive.
The door closed behind the two with a small hiss, as all the lights went out, leaving only the still humming of each machine inside.
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