Adam
"Uh...I guess it's just kinda natural. It's a shorter version of your name." He shrugged, not having thought about it. Simply, Peter just didn't really seem like a 'Pete', and Adam rarely called people by their full names unless he had no other option.Adam grinned almost deliriously as Peter dropped down, a thrill going through him at the knowledge he'd broken the other man's stubbornness. He'd found out what made Peter tick, and he thought he could help. By breaking his walls down. Aggressively. It was not the most compassionate plan, but he had good intentions, and in the end that was what mattered.
...Right?
"Pet...lemme tell you a story, okay?" Adam sat back, patted Peter's shoulder. "Where I'm from, there's this city called Sainen. It's a big place, really fucking rough. Lots of criminal types. Anyway, there's a lot of these gang bosses there. Guys who've just started out usually end up working for them. And like you said, at first, as long as you're good and do what you're told, you're fine!" Adam's voice was falsely saccharine, his hands making the motion of a rainbow.
"But then, all of a sudden, you realise you're fifty gold in debt, and you can't leave cos you owe the boss, and a guys betrayed the gang, so you gotta kill him. So you grit your teeth and do it, but now you're the guy that kills people, right? So the boss asks you to do it again. And again. And eventually it's easy, til one day you look in the mirror and you think 'fuck, I'm a fucking monster.' Then..you know what comes then, Pet?"
He leaned forward. "There was a river in Sainen. We used to call it the Stepping Stones, because the backs of the people who drowned themselves in it floated to the top. Looked like you could walk over them. I'm sure looking at you you know some of this. Do you really wanna go back into it?"
It didn't matter, for the sake of his argument, that everything except the city name was made up.
At least everyone is trying, everyone is shining
Everyone deserves the flames but it's such a shame
