Who: Herrick and Danil Where: Garage, Turner House When: Evening, Monday What: VIP Fight Club Warning: Violence
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
The only holiday lights Herrick needed for his house were black ones. Accompanied by a spritz of luminol the place would light up. Even if everything looked clean and normal and properly in place, nothing was ever as it seemed in the dark. The garage was a little different. The brown splotches were definitely a bio-hazard. Dried blood. No point in trying to hide it. If he couldn't scar anymore the least he could do was maintain a proper, gory aftermath. On the shelf built into the wall of the car park he found his rings. He hadn't taken them after his fight with Animal although he had come back for his phone. They were frozen as he slid them back on to his fingers. He looked at them, gleaming gold and silver and with a second thought he pulled them all off again and walked them back to the house.
Danil had said he wanted a fight. Herrick didn't think it would be a real brawl, more like a training session. Violence, in Danil's life, had evolved to a new level. It had grown. He had trophies from the vampires he killed and Herrick wasn't stupid enough to think his old claim wanted to fight him to learn how to throw a better punch. He probably just wanted to be better at driving a stake through someone else's heart. He really had no problem teaching him. He knew quite a few vampires that never should have been turned to begin with. He had no problem bringing up someone with the ability and desire to stand up for himself no matter the consequences. He was willing to do the work. If anyone deserved it, Danil did.
Throughout the course of his life every time Herrick taught anyone anything he wondered if he was training the person that would eventually kill him.
Danil? Maybe.
He left his rings in a pile on the small table near the door and without giving himself a chance to warm up he retraced his steps back to the garage. A fight would be good right now, a good way to ignore all those pesky domestic issues he was in the midst of dealing with. He just needed Danil to get home to help him.