This was kindness? Harper hated to see the male on one of the days when he was angry. He suppose if he did that, then he would be dead right about now. The blonde shivered. His life depended on the erratic feelings of a murderer. That made a cold sweat break over his skin. The urge to throw up appeared again, but he pushed it away again. He didn’t want to make the other angry with him. No. Then his kindness would slip away again.
Harper’s head snapped out when he saw the other leave. His mind screamed at him to leave. To move his legs, and run a fast as his body could carry him. He didn’t think of getting the police, too frightened by the male’s words. He wanted to move. But his eyes met the lifeless eyes of the mutilated body away in the room and Harper found it hard to actually move. With what took like hours, he somehow managed to move up on shaking legs. He took one step towards the door before it was blocked by the man again.
His heart dropped to his stomach when he saw the knife. For a second, he thought the other was going back on his word. The culinary student felt his entire body freeze in fear. It took a few seconds, but he managed to hear the male request his help. Harper looked on, confused for a second. Then he looked at the bodies and then the knife. His already pale face turned even more pasty. “N-no…” he shuddered, “I-I can’t…" He absolutely couldn’t take part in that. there wasn’t any way.
♛【 Edgar ran his gloved hand through his hair, as he began slicing up the bodies, a single clean cut and the body part was no longer attached. He threw the other a cold glance; "If you want to know whats best for you; I recommend helping me out here.” He replied, though he wasn’t actually going to hurt the other one, he didn’t feel like dirtying up his clothes further. 】
♛【 Within thirty minutes, all of the bodies had been dissembled; It was obvious Edgar was rather skilled in dismembering bodies, after all he had to do this once a month anymore. As he was loading the body parts into bags, he began to hum a rather ominous tune. Edgar had tossed the one of the bags full of body parts towards the other. “They’re too heavy for just one person to carry.” Originally he just wanted to see the others reaction, but at the same time he wanted a little bit of help with moving the bags. 】
Harper suppose he should be thankful that the other hadn’t attacked him yet. He didn’t want to be like those bodies that were piled and draining blood like a running faucet. He tried not to look. If he saw those bodies again, he knew he’ll just throw up the meal he had before. This small trip to the circus turned into something that he hadn’t imagined. It was like a vicious nightmare he wanted, needed, to wake up from.
Harper swallowed his fear once again. He just wanted to leave and be as far away as from this man as possible. He knew that this man could possibly pull out his threat. He had so easily killed all those bodies by himself. And Harper was just a naive student. He didn’t know to respond, so he shakily nodded. His eyes dropped to the ground. And to think that the man had been so kind when Harper had gave him his food. That just showed him that anyone could be dangerous. Even a cheerful circus ring leader.
♛【 “I’m feeling rather kind today; You may live. Unless you speak about what you’ve seen here.” He gave off this cheerful grin, despite the fact that he was still drenched in dried blood and his tone was deadly serious. He’d needed to change out of the blood soaked clothes and it was a shame because he really liked his current vest. 】
♛【 He walked out of the current room they were in; making a B line for the sink, washing the blood off of his face and hands, for now he’d roll with the completely bloodied white button up shirt, nobody would think much of it; in most cases it just looked like a maroon button up shirt. 】
♛【 Edgar slipped a pair of latex gloves on, walking back into the room with a kitchen knife; it was obvious what his plans to do with the bodies were, but first he stopped and locked eyes with the other again. “Since I allowed you to live; Could I get some help hauling body parts out of here?" 】
By willpower alone he didn’t upchuck his breakfast. He was never good with any blood. That was why he was always so careful with his knives. Just the smell of blood turned his skin into a sickly pale color. Harper hated that the scent of blood just wouldn’t go away. He absolutely refused to look at the bodies, instead, pinning his eyes on the only other living being in the room.
It was hard to look at the circus ring leader as well. He was coated in the blood of his fallen victims. And those eyes were filled with maniacal glee. Not a sense of remorse for what he had done. Not even a shred of pensive thought on what he had just done. If anything, he looked happy. It was sickening and Harper had to swallow back his terror, else he would just scream from the plain wrongness of it all. He wanted to look away, but he had to keep this murderer’s actions in his eyesight just in case. That ‘just in case’ had him shivering.
Harper winced, hearing the smack of the bodies colliding against each other. The blond pressed tightly against the door when he saw the man move closer to him. Swallowing back a scream that was threatening to arise, Harper’s blue eyes widened in fear. He had no idea what the other was going to do. He wished his legs would work and he could run out. He wanted to scream to have others know that they were back there and this was happening. But his body refused. Harper winced again at the dangerous voice settled on him. Pressing back against the door as much as he could, Harper first found his voice to be lost. At the use of the French language, the pale, shivering blond nodded. “O-…O-oui…” he whispered.
♛【 Propping his elbow on his knee, with his chin resting in the palm of his hand; The homicidal maniac admired the others expression. Edgar lived off of the fact that people feared him. His bloody print left a mark on his face as he stood up, breaking eye contact with the other to look back at the dead bodies; A lake of blood laid underneath the piled up bodies. It would be awfully difficult to hide the bodies, but he’d find a way eventually.】
♛【 “If you breathe a word of this to anyone, I will find you, I’m quite sure you can guess what exactly will happen.” Despite the rather cheerful tone he had taken up, his brown eyes locked with the others once again, were dead serious.】
The circus was, in a word, impressive. He could feel the family feeling of excitement and wonder as he stared at the bright colors and unique sounds of the circus. He was there a bit early so there weren’t many people around. He was able to move freely without a lot of people watching. A sense of mischievous had him keeping behind the scenes. Anyone could be able to see what was presented. He was more interested on what wasn’t shown to others. He suppose it had to with that fact that he was in the kitchen, which was another backroom.
Harper looked around in interest. After a few minutes on the backside, the blond was surprised that he hadn’t ran into any of the circus workers yet. When he did things like this, there usually were people around to stop him after awhile. Ignoring the pressure in his mind that warned him that something wasn’t right, Harper opened a door and walked in.
The sharp metallic smell was the first thing that he noticed. Pulling back the urge to gag at the smell, the teenager, stumbled back, inadvertedly shutting the door behind him. What was that? His eyes widened in shock and fear at the sight of the blood coated man. Placing a hand to his mouth,Harper felt himself become queasy at the sight of so much blood. There was too much blood. His eyes darted around before falling on the bodies twisted on the floor. He caught the wide, terror-stricken gaze on one of the fallen. Knees shaking, Harper fell to his knees as his body gave out.
“What did you do?”
♛【 Glancing at the young man, who looked faintly familiar. With a child-like laugh, he stood up tossing the knife down towards the pile of bodies. In a futile attempt to clean his hands off, he wiped his hands on his white, button up shirt, only to have the blood smear on his hands and shirt. 】
♛【 Remembering that it wasn’t just him in the room, he examined the faintly familiar man, Edgar could’ve sworn he had met this man before, but he couldn’t place his finger on it; he always had trouble remembering peoples faces. 】
♛【 "I do believe that we are both smart enough to see what I did,” He grabbed the back of the newest victims shirt, tossing them into the pile of bodies, Edgar preceded to walk towards the other. “Let’s keep this a secret between us, oui?” His tone was aggressive and dangerous, as he bent down, so he was eye level with the other. “Oui?” Edgar’s brown eyes locked with the others eyes, a cruel smile plastered on his face. 】
“Ah, you’re leaving…” Harper said as he jogged up to the male. He frowned a little, sad that he didn’t get the chance to speak to the other more. He wanted to know more about the male’s career. There weren’t so many circuses around. But the male had to leave, apparently. The male bit his lip. He put on a smile. “Ah, thank you for leaving. And the ticket.”
♛【 “You’re welcome! Au revoir for now, Sir.” Edgar replied, waving before putting his hands into his pockets, he shuffled away in the direction where the circus was. 】
”De rein,“ Harper said off handedly. He placed the sugar and cream closer, not sure if the male like his coffee black or not. But he kept the options open. While the other was eating, Harper made himself busy by helping the other’s clean. The midnight breakfast was nearly over. Harper was tired, but felt good. And he had a ticket to the circus to show for it. Before the man leave, he would have to thank him again.
♛【 As Edgar finished up, he looked at his watch, standing up quickly, as he realized that an act he was somewhat involved in was about to begin, "That was excellent, Sir. I hope to see you at the circus, tomorrow is our last day in town, so do come and visit.” The man said, obviously in a hurry, he sighed, wishing that he had a bit more time to stay and chat but responsibility’s a bitch. 】
”Alright. Please have a seatwhile I get your breakfast,” Harper said. Moving to the cafeteria, he decided that a French breakfast would be best. It was probably bias as he loved the French breakfast. It was hardly a breakfast but something like a little brunch. A croissant, a bowl of fruit, yogurt, coffee, and a chocolate cornet made its way to the plate. When he made it back, he sat the entree before the other. “Is this sufficient?” he questioned.
♛【 He took a seat somewhat nearby, as he propped his arm up on the table, resting his head on his palm. “Oui. Merci beaucoup!” Edgar replied, realizing it was a French meal. He began to eat, having not eaten for days practically, it was nice to have actual normal food for a change. 】
“Oh, right,” he said realizing he was holding the other from his food. “Ah, what type of breakfast would you like? We have American, European, Japanese, Chinese, African, South American…Actually, just name something and we’ll more than likely have it.”
“Really? Then what are you doing here?” He didn’t mean to be rude by he question, it was just surprising to see someone like a ringleader to a circus to be at the little student event.
♛【 “I heard there was food. Plus I’m on my break.” 】
”This is a legit ticket. That’s amazing!” He held up the ticket, eyes bright and smile big. This guy, whatever his name is, just jumped really high on Harper’s cool guy list. “What do you work as?” he questioned. He carefully placed the ticket somewhere safe so he wouldn’t lose it.
♛【 “I run the circus; In other terms, I’m the ring master, I train my performers in my free time though." 】
