Twisted

Chapter Three

"Going somewhere?" he said causally.

"Got a kill tonight the one I missed out on yesterday" she smiled happily.

"Good make sure to bring some of him home for Billy you know how he likes his food" he laughed licking his lips darkly as she walked out laughing loudly to herself.

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Raven pulled up in the parking lot of King's bar earlier than she normally would because she was actually excited for the kill she had planned tonight. She got out, lounged on the hood of the car and waited for Hunter to show up.

An hour passed and she was growing agitated and pissed each second.

Where the hell was he?

Finally after a few more minutes she saw him approaching in a gray worn down sweatshirt and matching pants. He pulled the hoody off his head as he approached her, breathing heavily and drenched in sweat.

"What happened to you?" she asked still a little annoyed at being kept waiting.

"I'm sorry it's....my dad wouldn't give me the keys to his car when I told him Ray and Mark weren't coming home he said I didn't deserve them. They weren't for me to take" he said softly and for some reason that touched her.

"Your father said that to you?" she asked kindly. He nodded leaning on the hood of the car next to her soon he was crying quietly next to her and she gawked awkwardly at him. She always though that men who cried in front of her were weak and as weak as she believed Hunter was seeing him cry touched something in her. Awkwardly she reached for him and pulled him towards her chest then began to gently stroke his hair which was very soft to her amazement.

"I'm sorry I'm ruining are date it's just...Ray called this morning and said he wasn't coming home and I had to tell dad and he went ballistic. It's not the first time but he was just so angry and I was weak against him it's always been like that" he whispered softly and she grew surprisingly angry.

"He hurt you" it wasn't meant to be a question.

He nodded and sniffled "I'm use to it its nothing to worry about anymore". The word date caught her attention making her grin widely; he believed that this was a real date and had no idea that she was planning to kill him the first chance she got which was now.

She reached over with the hand that has been wrapped around his waist over to her purse. Quietly she pulled out the knife that was hidden in there then slowly held it up behind his back. Her aim was to stab him in the neck in order to sever or damage the spinal cord. The tip of her knife lightly touch the back of his neck and felt something oddly hard. He groaned moving away from her and she quickly hid the knife behind her.

There was something hard in the back of his neck like a bruise or something. He rubbed the back of his neck consciously and said "Sorry about that it's an old bruise that never healed".

"Let me see it" she said and he hesitated but reluctantly showed it to her. The bruise that knife had touched was a dark purplish color there was something hard in the bruise and when she touched it with her finger; she was intrigued and pissed someone had actually hurt him and it hadn't been her.

"What happened?"

"It was when I turned seventeen my dad came home drunk and ended up beating me senseless. He stabbed me with a broken bottle and a piece of glass got embedded in the wound when it healed and he never gave me the money to have it removed so its just there"he finished still rubbing his neck painfully.

"Your father beats you and no one stops it" she growled.

"I'm use to it now. It's been going on since I was six he always favored my brothers over me and my mom is too scared to stop him". While listening to his sad story Raven felt herself growing increasingly angry with his parents. A weak mother and a drunk abusive father were two of the many things she loathed in this world. His father beat on him cause he was weak; she didn't like that one bit.