Triss sat at her desk in her bedroom starring at the words on her computer like they were some holy message. She let out several heavy breaths as she composed herself, the transaction was done and she would now have to do her part. She closed the mail and another window presented itself to her, as if to mock her.
Life.net, a site for the suicidal and mentaly depressed. She was still logged in as LittleBadger, a few updated threads but no new messages. Life.net was dedicated to help people talk and stay in this world with lots of threads how to talk to your parents and freinds and police if needed, threads on how to apriciate the small things in life and threads that if nothing worked helped with the least painful ways to go. There was obviously assholes whom edged people on to jump and just get on with it but they were ussualy banned rather quickly by the mods.
She had sadly been a member for almost 2 years now, she had done a stupid mistake half drunk at a party and suddenly she was "a slut", "a whore", "some gross fat cunt that could just go fuck herself". She had kissed the schools boss bitchs boyfriend and nothing more, and then they started spitting at her when she walked by, destroying her clothes and stuff she let out of sight.
Triss was 22 years old, around 1`6m tall with long blonde curly hair and bright green eyes. However that was about all the femeninity she could muster, her arms and legs were too fat and boyishly muscle even without training, not slim by any stretch of the imagination but not fat like they told her. A nose that was just a tad too big and cheeks riddled with freckles. She would never win a beuty contest and practicly everyone at school made sure she knew.
At least she got away from school when her sister got sick, some heart problem or whatever. Triss didn´t wanna know how bad it was. She quit school and took more parttime jobs to try and pay for her sisters surgeries. Their parents dead years ago in a car crash caused by a villian named Crash, he casued 13 deaths and 40 injured before Claymore, a local hero, got him.
However the jobs were not enugh so she had to get more, she had 3 jobs right now and all were HORRIBLE. Not the jobs themselves but the people, always insulting her and "accidentaly pushing her" making her drop food and trash all over herself. The worst was the evening resturant job were the manager tries to molest her. She cried herself to sleep half the nights and simply collapsing the others.
She tore her eyes from the computerscreen, too many bad memories she did not wanna deal with, insted her gaze found a letter on her desk. The letter. Her letter. The letter that told whomever read it to give anything she owned to her little sister and to not search for her. She shut off the computer and started to walk slowley thru the little apartment, turning off the light whereever she went.
When Triss walked out the door without locking it she felt wired, no mobile no cards no keys. She felt empty. She walked out into the cold dark moonless night, no clouds in the sky just a few stars and the "cawing" of some bird.
"You ready?" a voice said.
"No idea" she answered.
The man to whom the voice belinged to rose from the hood of the car he sat on opened the cars doors, the driver seat for him and the passenger seat for her. The man´s name was Sevin Grove, his user name on Life.net was also Sevin Grove, he was as close to being a moderator without actully being a mod you could be. He was also the person who had keept her (and a lot of other people) alive for the past 2 years. He owned a café where could come and talk to a real person rather then online. A great listener and great at helping people to help themself.
Sevin was tall lanky man with stright black hair reaching his shoulders and brown eyes that one could find comfort and empahty in, a warm smile and small nose to compliment his nice looks.As they seated them self in the car Triss could not help but to stare at his face and wonder how many requestes he got from the "I don´t wanna die a virgin" thread.
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As he started driving she thought back on why she was in this car with him. She had told him about her sister´s condition and her need of money and he had offered to buy her, not for sex like she thouht at first, but her life. As she was thinking about ending her life anyway he might have use of her body, and paying for her sisters life seemed like a fair deal. He had promised that it would not hurt, what ever it was. He would not tell.
She was scared but she had gotten the mail from the hospital and they would prepare to save her sister´s life immidiatly, she hoped at least. As she looked out the car window in the dark night she saw a green bright light around some sky scrapers followed shortly by an bright orange beam of light.
"They are at it again huh?" Sevin said, sighing.
"I´m rooting for Tangerine, you?" Triss asked
"They one that does the least amount of property damage tonight"
She smiled a bit at that. Malachite and Atomic Tangerine used to be a vigillante due catching varius villians and causing a lot of damaged cars, houses and roads while doing so. However thay had a falling out and Malachite joined the heroes while Tangerine is now a independant villian. Being eachothers rivals and fighting eachother almost every weak seemed to be part of normal life nowdays. There was a lot of betting online on who would win each match, the current record was 43-42 in Atomic Tangerines favor. How they did not get tired of it was beyond Triss but they probibably had something to prove to eachother.
They drove past Duncan´s Park right next to the giant bay here in New Gala, "the city of Bread, Sweat and Opertunity".
"The guy who decided the slogan for the city was stupid" Triss said, speaking her thoughts out loud.
"I have to agree, altough at least it is so bad you always remeber it" Sevin answered in a joking tone.
"Were here" he said as he parked the car.
They exited the car and went towards the Café, no light in the windows. A rather big three story building its back turned towards the big trees of the park, close to the water. A big sign on the front reading "Red Star Café". As Sevin started unlocking the door Triss was hit with a wave of dread, she would probibably die here. Would he bury her in the park when he was done? Or was he a cannibal and would eat her? She started shaking in the early april night, but if it was cold or sometinhg else that made her shiver she didn´t wanna know.
"Come on in" Sevan said like she was a customer rather then.......whatever she was.
She entered the cafe, Sevin holding the door for her. It was a wonderfull café in Triss´s opinion, all the furniture was made of varius darker sorts of wood like mahogany, chestnut and dark cherry. The chairs and sofas had somekind of red cushioning with little flowerpatterns woven in to them.
"Sit down where ever you like, is there something you would like to eat? We still have some pasteries left." Sevin asked lightly, like he was not about to kill her at all. She was starting to be really scared but there was no stopping now.
"A Princess if you have" Triss answered with quivering voice.
"I think we do, I will be back in a moment" he said and disepared into the kitchen, leaving her alone.
She could run she thought to herself but she did not dare, you do not pay so much money for someones life and then just let them "run" away. She was certain that Sevin was a super villian or atleast some kind of minion to a super villian. It didn´t matter now tho, she hade given up when she accepted his offer. Her life for her sister´s. Her toughts were interupted by Sevin sitting down opposite her, placing a little pastry and a glass of water in front of her. The pastry was a "Princess", practically a little cake big as a muffin with whipped cream and rasberry or strawberryjam contained by pink marzipan and a little chockolate crown on top. She reched for it and started eating it.
" Triss" Sevin said, staring deep into her with serius eyes the gravity of the situation could be heard in his voice "In this water is a little something that will put you to sleep, a sleep from witch you will not awaken. Is there anything, Anything at all that you would like to tell me? cuse it might be the last word you will speak."
She was shivering now, really shaking on the edge of tears. The alien thought that she might not wake up felt so unreal. But she had made up her mind. She swallowed the bite of Princess and took a big chug of water.
"T-thanks for s-savingmysister" she quickly blurted out as a blackness started creeping in from the edges of her vision.
"No problem, now good night my little Triss, sweet dreams." He said with a warm smile on his face. A pleasant picture in Triss´s mind.