Destroying Angel 7

There must be something in the way I feel…that she don’t want me to feel……….

Ch 13

“We met a long time ago…”

“How long?”

“We’ve known each other……we’ve been together for a very long time…on and off….”

‘Come on Carmen…how long?”

“Since the Dead Pool.”

The Dead Pool…….

Flash of diving into the bottom of a pool thick with blood and arms and legs, flash of climbing rows and rows and rows of steps, flash of training with weapons…..hooded black suited figures kicking me till I felt like dying, flash of my weapons of choice, two katana swords on my back a silver hand gun…in my hand. Flash of kissing Carmen after the training, sweat and our hair being much longer. Flash of sitting in a chair bound up and tied…..flash of these words in my ear coming from all over…………flash of a room with thousands of white candles flickering in the darkness…..flash……..

…………I am the voice inside your head…..and I control you…….

“We where a part of this group….a program…..do you remember the program?”

“……….The Young Gods…..”

“Yeah that’s right….we where a part of the Young gods…..we where all hand picked out of school….”

“We?”

“You, me…Jenny….Natasha…..Mark…….Keith…Wayne……Lara…..all hand picked….”

“I don’t know these people.”

“Yes you do. You killed Jenny in Toronto in the sewer, you killed Tasha and Lara in the cabin down the road from where we met again…….You killed a general in Bosnia during a jump detail with Wayne and Keith…..You held a gun on Mark in the sewer in New Jersey when I called you in……”

“Stop!”

“Stop what Shane….it’s all coming back isn’t it?”

I nod my head slowly.

 “Well it shouldn’t be…ok…you remembering all of this should not be happening. It was not part of the plan!”

“Part of what plan?”

“……To make the perfect soldiers…it’s the oldest plan…the plan they have been working toward for years…decades really….since the end of the Second World War.”

“That’s what this about……..perfect soldiers…you can’t be serious….”

‘No I am very serious. The thing we all had in common in the Dead Pool, the thing that bonded us all, that got us into the Young Gods program…was what they considered a Lost Leader.”