The man on the couch didn’t respond to Tate’s unannounced presence at all. Not a flinch. Not even a surprised twitch of an eye in the teenager’s direction. However, the words the younger spoke were not lost to Kai’s calculating focus.
Bitterly, he aimed the remote at the TV and muted the volume. It didn’t look like they’d be acknowledging it any time soon, and Tate’s comments rang true. This day and age everything and anything that could spread fear was blocked, instead, serving things on a sensitive-proof silver platter.
How they all lap it up like starving dogs.
“ I haven’t yet, “ Kai finally spoke, turning his attention to the blond, “ Quick thinking though, that’s just what I was about to do. “
He rose up from the old, tattered couch, slowly walking toward Tate. The movements were more comparable to that of an animal stalking his prey than a man. Kai plucked the phone out of Tate’s hands with one single swipe and looked down at the results of the Google search.
Only one headline stood out among the boring local news articles.
‘Unidentified Body Found in Landfill’
Kai clicked the link faster than he could form the excited grin on his face.
….Which quickly fell when he started reading the actual article. No mention of serial killing, no mentions of a curfew, no mentions of panic in the slightest.Only an understandable concern at best. Kai calmly set the phone back into Tate’s hand before slamming his fist against the wall with a loud, sudden THUMP.
“ We need to send a louder message. One that these news stations will piss themselves over!! “ He yelled angrily, his hands making sporadic movements to emphasize his point.
He paused his outburst and lowered his voice into a dangerous whisper, “ We need to do something so fucking monstrous that they’ll have no choice but to report on it properly.. “
Tate flinched when Kai’s fist in the dry wall and reverberated around the room , even going as far as causing a few things mounted up on shelves to rattle . He wasn’t necessarily afraid of him , no --- He might actually be one of the few that wasn’t , but his anger was quite unnerving when it got out of hand . “ Like what ??” He questioned , going back to his phone to hit the back button and scroll down a few links . There really wasn’t much on the matter , so that was locked and set away in his back pocket .
He stepped over to prop himself up on the arm of the sofa , kick his Converse off of either feet and flex his toes . “ I’m not trying to like ... Tell you what to do , but I think we should just be a little patient . All this want for instant gratification is going to get us caught ... I - I mean , just look at like ... Ted Bundy for example . He caused nation wide panic , and near the beginning , he was only killing about one girl a month .” And yet , the killer on the streets struck fear in everyone’s hearts . It went so far that it had girls dyeing their blond in a sad attempt to not meet the unknown man’s typical victim .
“ He started doing one , two , five victims in one month and he ended up getting caught . He was getting too brave , and too impatient ... I just don’t want to see anything happen to you , Kai . I care about you .” Tate’s dark , dark eyes turned down at his hands ; He twiddled his thumbs around one another , visually uncomfortable with questioning The Divine Rulers methods , but he felt it was important sometimes to settle him down . He was a very ... excitable man .