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Octarine: Crime Doesn't Pay COMPLETED!
Author: novel_machinist
Story: Crime Doesn't Pay
Character(s): Detective Karen Boch, Kalen Boch, Randos
Theme:Literary / Octarine 2, 15, 26
Word Count: 639
Summary: Character study for yet another Roostverse cast. This time it's Karen and her brother Kalen. Their relationship is strong, considering...well, Kalen's problem.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Talk of a serial killer, loss of a sibling due to incarceration
Notes: I'm debating submitting this idea for an “Anti-Villain” collection! So please let me know how if you'd be interested in more! AND I AM DONE WITH OCTARINE!
2. He had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
When she graduated from school, only Kalen showed up. Her father was gone and her mother was busy. Always busy.
He hugged her so tightly she squeaked. Kalen was proud of her, and that was all that mattered.
15. Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Karen knew it was him almost a month before she went in for the arrest. The young man's dead eyes reflected the sun off their glazed surfaces. She clenched her jaw. This one was different than Kalen's other victims.
This was was her fault.
He was sitting on his living-room sofa, drinking a bottle of water. Still in his workout gear. A tank top and snap jogging pants. He noticed the badge on her hip. "... was wondering about this, sis."
"Kalen, you kill people."
To that he shrugged. "Not going to lie to you, Kare-bear. I'm really not sorry."
She swallowed. "How many bodies haven't we found."
Kalen crossed his arms and propped his feet up on his table. "You've found six?"
"Seven as of this morning."
"Then three." When she didn't speak he shook his head. "I can't help it, Karen."
"You taught me killing people was wrong." Didn't he?
"I taught you that sometimes bad people existed and that you should be a careful. Because bad people really don't just go looking for pretty little girls and boys to hurt. They just like to hurt people. You're the one that made the jump to 'hurting people is wrong'." He looked about. "You came alone?"
"... you're my brother, Kalen. I love you." She bit her cheek.
Kalen stood up and walked across the living room. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders. "I love you too, Kare-bear. Please don't cry."
She gripped the back of his shirt with both hands. "I don't want to do this."
"I think you gotta."
Kalen always taught her important lessons.
26. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
“Well, FBI-lady, how's it feel?”
Karen only smiled and shrugged. The rest of the department, of course, said that she was just being modest. This was a huge promotion, a huge deal for their department. The FBI didn't just offer for people to skip classes. She knew that it was a huge deal.
She also knew that the reason she got it was because of Kalen. He'd been found insane and was going to be in jail for the rest of his life.
She flipped the psychiatric report open and closed on her desk.
Kalen was a strange sort of psychopath. He was a compulsive killer who could not stop himself and learned how to make mouse cookies when he was 13 because she liked them. He was a danger to society and he never missed a school play. He was her brother, he was a killer, she loved him, and there was no small part of her that was fairly certain that he was absolutely sane.
But for his own good, no one else needed to know that.
novel_machinistStory: Crime Doesn't Pay
Character(s): Detective Karen Boch, Kalen Boch, Randos
Theme:Literary / Octarine 2, 15, 26
Word Count: 639
Summary: Character study for yet another Roostverse cast. This time it's Karen and her brother Kalen. Their relationship is strong, considering...well, Kalen's problem.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Talk of a serial killer, loss of a sibling due to incarceration
Notes: I'm debating submitting this idea for an “Anti-Villain” collection! So please let me know how if you'd be interested in more! AND I AM DONE WITH OCTARINE!
When she graduated from school, only Kalen showed up. Her father was gone and her mother was busy. Always busy.
He hugged her so tightly she squeaked. Kalen was proud of her, and that was all that mattered.
Karen knew it was him almost a month before she went in for the arrest. The young man's dead eyes reflected the sun off their glazed surfaces. She clenched her jaw. This one was different than Kalen's other victims.
This was was her fault.
He was sitting on his living-room sofa, drinking a bottle of water. Still in his workout gear. A tank top and snap jogging pants. He noticed the badge on her hip. "... was wondering about this, sis."
"Kalen, you kill people."
To that he shrugged. "Not going to lie to you, Kare-bear. I'm really not sorry."
She swallowed. "How many bodies haven't we found."
Kalen crossed his arms and propped his feet up on his table. "You've found six?"
"Seven as of this morning."
"Then three." When she didn't speak he shook his head. "I can't help it, Karen."
"You taught me killing people was wrong." Didn't he?
"I taught you that sometimes bad people existed and that you should be a careful. Because bad people really don't just go looking for pretty little girls and boys to hurt. They just like to hurt people. You're the one that made the jump to 'hurting people is wrong'." He looked about. "You came alone?"
"... you're my brother, Kalen. I love you." She bit her cheek.
Kalen stood up and walked across the living room. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders. "I love you too, Kare-bear. Please don't cry."
She gripped the back of his shirt with both hands. "I don't want to do this."
"I think you gotta."
Kalen always taught her important lessons.
“Well, FBI-lady, how's it feel?”
Karen only smiled and shrugged. The rest of the department, of course, said that she was just being modest. This was a huge promotion, a huge deal for their department. The FBI didn't just offer for people to skip classes. She knew that it was a huge deal.
She also knew that the reason she got it was because of Kalen. He'd been found insane and was going to be in jail for the rest of his life.
She flipped the psychiatric report open and closed on her desk.
Kalen was a strange sort of psychopath. He was a compulsive killer who could not stop himself and learned how to make mouse cookies when he was 13 because she liked them. He was a danger to society and he never missed a school play. He was her brother, he was a killer, she loved him, and there was no small part of her that was fairly certain that he was absolutely sane.
But for his own good, no one else needed to know that.
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Kalen is a fascinating character, but I think his effects on his sister may be even more fascinating. Very cool.
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Thank you for reading!
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