※ - 'DOLORIS EXPERS'

Kitty was glancing down to check the time - could she still catch the drunk ferry? - when she realized her ring wasn’t where it had previously been. And, yeah, okay, she was hurt. But not that badly. And she’d just bought that.

“Yeah, okay, Posho. I don’t actually have time to argue with you because I think there’s some very expensive jewelry in that pile of mess.” It was pretty gross, but still fresh, so she’d dealt with worse. Besides, Kitty had always had a strong stomach.

“Oh, then by all means go search for said expensive piece of jewelry.”, he answered with a blunt tone, eyes turning into a hooded state as a small smirk fell on his face. 

Ah, asking all the questions. Greed isn’t going to lie, but he’s not going to tell the man the truth either. “With my help. I’m going to help you get to her.  She’s heavily guarded, but I’m sure that’s nothing you can’t handle.” He runs his fingers over his chin, “I can’t give you any more information, because a lot of it, you have to find out for yourself.” Armageddon was not an easy topic to talk about. 

“Hello? I-I was told I could call this number for help with a…” she paused–how could she know if this wasn’t a trick? If the man who had given her the card wasn’t some kind of Neo-Nazi who hated mutants? How was she supposed to know if this was going to get her killed? Anything’s better than this, she heard in her head. She thought over it for a moment until she heard a bored clear of the throat on the other side.“I need to be cured,” she decided. “Can you help me or not?” She almost sneered into the receiver. Her heart was beating wildly–she might be talking to a sadistic murderer or a strange doctor/scientist of some kind, but part of her didn’t care. Anything’s better than this.

It almost made him glad that he was inside.

“Of course I can.”, Ajax hummed in reply and leaned forwards in the chair, the leg resting upon it’s partner coming down to stay flat on the ground - the foot tapping away at the hard cement. “Curing you is the easy part. Your small...”, he stopped and held in a small laugh, the utter ridiculousness of every single one of these conversations kicking in. How they thought he’d cure them of either diseases or their own mutation, when in reality he’d harness their power for his own gain. But what they didn’t know they didn’t have to worry about. 

Ajax shut his eyes, taking a deep breath through his nostrils before he fluttered open his eyelids to stare hard at the man in front of him. “And how did you know about this?”. It seemed like he only had questions for these beings.

Her heart fluttered at the sight of his smile, thin fingers curling around the wires monitoring her vitals as one of the machines beeped a tad more rapidly. She knew how silly it must seem, to let herself get overly excited over Ajax showing up. But in between the bouts of torture and the pain, his visits lifted her spirits. 

“I’m sorry to hear that. But we have to continue. The sooner were done, the better.”, he reassured the girl as he sat down on the edge of the small bed, far away enough from her so it wouldn’t cause any friction. Ajax lifted a hand and quickly let it glide over one of her pallid cheeks - the finger tips barely touching the skin - a sense of ‘comfort’ for the poor girl. If he had a heart, it would have died at the fake promises he gave her.

she looks at me empty eyes polished obsidian black from a face pale as salt

a smile sickly grey lips needle teeth

“I need to talk to you.”

she reaches bone-like fingers grab me draw me in but I step back

“We have nothing to say.”

she wraps herself around me crooning breath cold on my neck like a broken vow

“We have all to say.”

touch dry sandpaper harsh shake her off

“We’re nothing alike.”

skin crawling

“You are nothing without me.”

I turn away there’s work to be done ignore her words

“Isn’t this romantic.”, Ajax mused, a breathy wheeze escaping his lungs. That kick really pushed the air out of him, whether he’d admit it or not. “What will the next thing be, a dinner for two?”.

“Remarkable, yea - I shouldn’t have told you that, that was idiotic on my behalf. So, I’m just going to leave you here, in your strange warehouse while I go home, alright?”

Swiftly his eyes went to the rift, both eyebrows rising to show his surprise before he made them fall down, masking his absolute interest. “Leaving so soon, and even without a goodbye.”.

A chuckle left his throat, the breathy sound sending hot air into the cool night sky. Ajax tilted his head backwards, glancing up at the woman  on the fire escape. “What does it have to do with you?”. He chewed on his bottom lid, hooded eyes never moving away from her figure.

Perhaps it was the way the words were said, or it was the way that smirk just irked him. In any shape and form, he didn’t know what to think of this man. “Oh, is that so?”, Ajax replied back, a narcissistic grin splitting his face in half. Behind steel eyes a glint of something was hidden. Pride, greed, or something else?