three | line drive monster [unfiltered]

[strike_you_out]

[The phone is picked up, a call is placed. The voice on the line is, at first, dangerously calm-]

To the one who stole what's mine...
[-only to become a sharply hissed whisper]

I will find you.

[After being droned, humiliated, and murdered (and ultimately dissected by his attackers), this is what tips him into a rage: his missing bat.]

Comments

[deaths_heritor]

Don't make public threats over the phone, Slugger. Exacting revenge is much more meaningful that way.

[strike_you_out]

Yes, Mother~

[And just when you thought he couldn't get any creepier.

Slugger reluctantly hangs up the phone, satisfied with having already broadcasted his intent for vengeance.]

[deaths_heritor]

((That should say much 'less' meaningful, of course.))

Perhaps you'd like to tell me what this is about? Droned one day, dead another?

[strike_you_out]

...It's a game.

[Perhaps not the full truth but what "little boy" doesn't love games, Miss Susan?]

[deaths_heritor]

((Little boys who are actually monster figments of imagination.))

How quaint. Tell me about this game of yours, Slugger.

[strike_you_out]

Two-player game of chance...

[Hesitant. He folds his arms and continues in a monotone]

Player 1 bashes in the skull of Player 2 at risk of droning. Player 2 returns favor and steals item of interest from Player 1. Player 1 then seeks to regain lost item in order to even scores.

[shrug] Put simply.

[deaths_heritor]

Hm. And Player 1's reason for instigating the game was . . . ?

[strike_you_out]

Strictly vocational. [he doesn't skip a beat]

[deaths_heritor]

Your job is to beat people over the head with a bat?

[strike_you_out]

Ding ding ding~

[deaths_heritor]

Not a very rewarding career for a child. I suggest you change lines.

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger hangs his head, his shoulders shaking with subdued laughter. But when he next looks up at her, there is no trace of humor to be seen.]

He was suffering. I provided an outlet for escape. That's my vocation.

[deaths_heritor]

Unknowingly desired assisted suicide? Hm. Still rather inappropriate for a child your age.

[strike_you_out]

He was under the impression the world was ending.

[Pointedly not addressing the second part of her remark.]

[deaths_heritor]

I suppose his world certainly ended soon enough. This concerns the hallucinogenic gas craze a week or so ago?

[strike_you_out]

It might.