THE ORIGINAL SIN

Rufus Jameson
The Motel

Rufus felt a cold shiver run down his spine when he saw her. It was not that surprising she showed up actually. Had she not always followed trouble and been a sign of death like a rider of the apocalypse?

He put the M5 right around his shoulder and brought it to his back, but instead got out his automatic, loaded it through and put it into his belt. Then he stood up and slowly walked up behind her.

"I'd say long time no see, but truth is we technically meet for the first time. Right?" He asked. "Hey Lilly." He smiled and realized how completely he had forgotten how breathtaking her beauty was.

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Markus Jethro Flinkman
Alster Tower, Penthouse Office

Everything was smooth, everything was easy. He felt like a lamb being shepherded to a fleecing and a slaughter without a care that it was so. Only he knew what it was, it was a gift, an ordination, and his damnation. All for the love of one, his daughter. The truths that his guide Anthony yet shared were like vinegar to his wounds, a salve that should be healing that yet burned all the worse for the truths he knew it held.

The plane ride over they had passed in silence to Karl's abode, to that very devil. Exonerated from the sins that everyone remembered, but the effects had not been lasting. A travesty of justice that slapped in the face any notion of emotional or mental trauma counting as anything.

"Hello Markus." Karl said without turning. Of course the man knew he was here, it was his building, but Markus as he waved reflexively and somewhat fearfully at the man's back had to wonder if he should be doing anything at all.

"Looks like the game might have been fundamentally changed, but the players always remain the same. Maybe we should have abandoned her back there in Hamburg, hm?" Karl turned half. "No. it would not have helped. We did not know who she was, but she had become it nevertheless. So after all those years, what brings the worlds most truthful blogger to my door?"

That was a slap in the face or a pat on the back, Markus wasn't sure what he should take it as. As his guide was silent he knew this was his moment. "She sent me." He said, with barely a crack in his voice. Grunting a little to clear it he continued. "I had reservations, and She sent me to you for your help. To kill Her." It was hard to say, and it weighed upon him heavily.

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Karl Weber
His office

"Kill her?" Karl was a little irritated for a moment and wished it did not show so much. Being human for a while had made him very vulnerable to emotions. He turned around fully to Markus then and stepped forward.

"Why do you want to kill her?" He asked directly and shook his head. "Who would replace her anyway? You? Me?" He laughed out loud. "Really, we could have done worse than her."

His return to his old form, had it something to do with this? Was it punishment? Bribery? Distraction? Being eternal was curse and blessing the same time, but the rules had changed. Maybe the blessing part was not what it was used to be.

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Markus Jethro Flinkman
Alster Tower, Penthouse Office

He was shocked, open mouthed at the response that he received from Karl. The devil should not need convincing when you are going to kill the controlling deity. Yet here he was being forced to play devils advocate to the devil. If that wasn't a questionable situation for one's sanity and life choices he was not sure what was.

Still, he had to. "It's either we do so, or she wants to scrap humanity. Reset reality and let a new creation have a go. I was offered to stand by her side and watch it all go, but. . ." he choked waving his hand for a moment. "I - I -I couldn't let go of my daughter." he said with a sigh. Of all the painful truths and weakness' to share with the worst of the worst.

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Karl Weber
Bureau, Alster Tower, Hamburg

Karl closed his eyes and then ... he laughed. "Oh Markus, I got the feeling she will be pretty sad about you. The last descent man on earth is joining humanity and their darkest impulses." Karl went over to the couch and with a gesture offered Markus a spot where he could overview the city as he sat with his back to the panorama and took a cigarette out of his jacket. He finally decided to not light it.

"She tries to avoid it. She tries to save humanity by committing suicide by humans." He smirked. "Still a human psyche there. You were wondering if any shred of humanity survived omniscience? I was." He shrugged. "She is offering a false mercy of course. She does not save humanity, she dooms everything else."

He sighed. "Half." He then said. "You know that half of all lifeforms of this planet have vanished since my arrival? They are not sentinent of course. So they are not as valuable as we are, are they?" Karl smiled. "Lucky for you guys you have had the privilege to invent the criteria of that."

Karl finally leaned back. "So you are sentinent and empowered by free will. Humanity could have done anything, ANYTHING, yet you guys eradicated half of this planets life and considering how good you have become at it will end the rest within a hundred years. Until you vanish yourself and the cockroaches and rats take over, having outlived you by being able to adapt." Karl shook his head. "So here you are. A human being considering eradicating humanity a great evil probably. Personally disastrous! Your precious daughter! The thought of it being a mercy on everything but humanity might not even have crossed your mind. Then we got Laura Blohm, successor of the guy creating all of this and still so much a human being she rather ceases to exist than do the only thing that makes sense." Karl folded his hands and again shook his head.

"There was a test , Markus. A game. It might not have been fair and not have been easy, but truth is you ... humanity ... failed. But instead of facing the consequences, you wanna shoot the referee." He gave him a bitter laugh. "Very, very human indeed."


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Markus Jethro Flinkman
Alster Tower, Penthouse Office

Markus could feel the shame burning inside him at this, Karl's, judgments upon him. A liar and a killer he might be, but he felt somehow he deserved the damnation that this man now issued upon him. He took a seat on the couch and listened in abject silence and acceptance of this others judgement. It was after all nothing he had not already found against himself. The view was lost on him, although he was thankful the other had not lit the cigarette.

Next was the broad strokes by Karl, the survival of a perceived human mindset in omniscients. Was that true? She had said she had given him his gift as a memory of what she was, as far as he was concerned that meant he was like a cherished memory saved in some animate form that was also frozen as though in amber as the rest of the world began it's journey. Suicide by humans though, was a term he did not like. It felt wrong somehow, just as the judgement of half passing due to humans also flowed off him like water to a duck. It was too abstract even if arbitrarily true.

"There was a test , Markus. A game. It might not have been fair and not have been easy, but truth is you ... humanity ... failed. But instead of facing the consequences, you wanna shoot the referee." Karl gave him a bitter laugh. "Very, very human indeed."

"I - " he stated haltingly as he raised a hand, lowered it with a sigh before he continued. "I do not think humanity is anything worth saving, my sin is greater than that." he simply stated as he looked at Karl and Anthony. "I agreed with her on wiping away humanity, only on my daughter, on that point did I shirk, did I shrink away from lauding her will be done." He shook his head at that. "You say a hundred years, I say that is too optimistic. We will last a thousand more, gasping, clawing, and scraping at survival until I am sure not even the rats survive due to us. Or we might scrape by the great filter and finally become something of note." he shook his head as he now leaned back into the couch. There was no subtlety here, there was no guile, they were well past such things at this late hour. "I begged for my daughter and instead I was handed a dagger. I wanted her to have a life or to be saved before the final ending was drawn on humanity. That is the depth of my sin and I was sent and told that you would help me do the horror of the deed."

Lifting his eyes to look at the man he wondered if this was how it would end. How it had to, with him sent on a fools errand so at least he would not be there to see what happened to his daughter when the world ended. This time he would suffer baring witness. "You betrayed God once and killed him to bring about this world of humans, we were allowed to kill so many and so much whilst he was still here. How much more did we destroy once he was gone? How much did you egg on? You applaud the final end of a game that you have been trying destroy for thousands of years, caring not what a new world imagined by someone still tainted by humanity will look like. What your new part in it might be. Which of us is more human in this Karl?" He simply asked and waited.

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Rufus Jameson
The Motel

Rufus couldn‘t help himself but sigh. She was as breathtaking and dangerous as he remembered her. It was the woman he loved and who he left behind to die by the hands of this monster. It was the woman he had spend a night in Nepal, that had made any other woman uninteresting for him for many years. Until today actually. He had hoped to see her again countless times and had prayed he never would about as often.

„I wish they had not send you.“ He said in calm resignation. He was not blinded enough to consider her appearance as coincidence. They always send a friend. Someone you could trust, someone you would not shoot right away. Well, if she was still her old self shooting her would not have the effect it should.

„You cannot have her. Nobody can have her. I know what you want to do with her.“ He said and his hand closed tightly around his gun. „Please,do not try to get her.“

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Rufus Jameson
Motel

He wondered for a moment of he could trust her. He had never answered this question yes, yet t had been him who betrayed er in the end.

"Who is it who wants to kill her?" He lowered his gun. "Why is she so important? It is all about her, is it? It was back then and it is now." He sighed. She was so breathtaking beautiful. He wanted to storm over there and kiosks her and hold her sonstiger she might scream from it. But he did not allow this to happen. He knew what this was and he knew he would probably die again for what he had to do. Unseen by anyone he was again alone saving the world. Not entirely alone this time. Lilly was here.

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Karl Weber
Alster Tower, Hamburg

He gave Markus a long and hard look and finally nodded. "You do not need to remind me of my sins." He sighed. "I remember them all too clearly. But ever would I have raised my hand against my creator. Such madness I am not capable of. It was my brother who did this. The one you have always known as the Adversary. The Devil. I think he called himself Milton nowadays." Karl leaned back. "The process is simple though. Everything can be named in the original language and speaking ones name gives you power." Karl smiled. "Destroy a name and it destroys the thing." Karl leaned forward. "So your daughter might life if you find and destroy the name of creation. But where can we find it?"

"In Washington Stare, USA." Tony said who had been sitting silently at the side. It was probably only now Markus understood that Karl was not seeing him.

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Update 8 (last one was actually 7)

Martin‘s Beach, Beach

„One cannot rely on those who historically have been unreliable, don‘t you agree?“ Milton asked, standing barefooted at the beach, feeling the water around his feet and the lower end of his suit trousers getting wet. The man behind him said nothing.

„The girl without a mouth has to die, if I cannot have her. They always had to die. I remember what she said about them back then in Africa. See, I send you like sheep to the wolves.“ Milton laughed. „That is me. The wolf. Lilith is more like a fox. You my friend, you are a dragon. A sheep should not be a problem for you right?“ He sighed. „A mysterious thing how I regained my powers. It is almost as if she wants me to play a role and I think I finally figured out what it is. She wants to die.“ He turned. „So Who does God turn to if he wants to be slain? The Devil.“ He turned to the man. „A great mistake, actually. She should have turned to you, murderer of murderers, king of all kings, wanderer of this earth. You longed to kill God for a long time, did you? Like the grim reaper, finally reaping the one he cannot reach.“

The man looked at him and smiled. „Yes.“ He said. It was all he said and it was all Milton needed to hear.

„Good hunting.“ He said and laughed as the sun was coming up.

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Rufus Jameson
Motel

He saw her come closer and he almost felt like screaming at her to stay away. He also felt like kissing her and embracing her. Funny enough the second one won. He took her hip, pulled her towards him and kissed her. He was fully aware she might ram a dagger into his side, but he did not care. If everything went to hell, he would prefer everything to go to hell while feeling her lips on his.

Finally he managed the impossible and let go of her. „I kinda missed you.“ He admitted and laughed at himself. Understatement of the century probably.

„Let me introduce you to a girl who really is not under suspicion to talk too much.“ He finally said. „You will see she is pretty harmless.“

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Markus Jethro Flinkman
Alster Tower, Penthouse Office

Markus did his best to keep the stare-athon going, although he did fidget a bit under that harsh glare of Karl. Finally the man nodded. "You do not need to remind me of my sins." He sighed. "I remember them all too clearly. But ever would I have raised my hand against my creator. Such madness I am not capable of. It was my brother who did this. The one you have always known as the Adversary. The Devil. I think he called himself Milton nowadays." Karl leaned back. "The process is simple though. Everything can be named in the original language and speaking ones name gives you power." Karl smiled. "Destroy a name and it destroys the thing." Karl leaned forward. "So your daughter might life if you find and destroy the name of creation. But where can we find it?"

"In Washington Stare, USA." Tony said who had been sitting silently at the side. It was only now Markus understood that Karl was not seeing him, as Karl did not react at all to that revelation, and now that he thought about it, Karl had never looked at the man either. He had so hoped in a swelling delusion that this would be the end. His folly would vanish and he would be right with God and all would be alright if he accepted this meandering correction. Only now with those words and revelation he saw her hand firmly upon the moment and the blessing and curse of gaining a little more certainty and clarity in this terrible situation. For the sake of love he was being allowed to attempt this and every possible boon to make it possible was being given to him.

Markus cleared his throat a little to try at least a little to cover his discomfort as he looked at Tony and then the opposition direction of the room as he spoke to Karl. "Ever visited the Yanks? Washington State seems to be lovely this apocalypse. Well, not lovely, I mean it is. . .I meant that's where, well you know." he said with a heavy sigh as he put a hand up to smooth his hair back. Belatedly the thought that he needed a haircut ran through his mind before he dismissed the foolish notion.

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Update 9

The Motel Room

The girl was sitting on her bed, the gun Rufus had given her lying as far away as possible. She looked up as Rufus entered with Lilith and she was visibly scared at the sight of Lilith. Hard to say what she saw in her.

Picking up her little notebook she had found here she wrote down something quickly.

SHE IS ONE OF THEM.

The words she held up to Rufus, almost accusing him wither eyes of bringing her there.

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Rufus Jameson
Motel Room

Rufus nodded to Lilith and sat down on the bed next to the girl. „I know, but shew saved my life more than once.“ He said. „I trust her.“ He finally admitted. Then he wondered what the girl exactly meant.

„What do you actually mean, THEM?“ He asked and pointed at the notepad. Rufus knew Lilith was not mortal, not in the strictest sense of human mortality. He also knew she was not like the three, he had read Finmann‘s blog on them a lot. She was something in between. Something else. The girl seem to know what that was.

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Update 10

Motel, Martin‘s Beach

The girl took the notepad and wrote down a few words. Then she held it up so Rufus and Lilith could see it.

SHE IS IMMORTAL. SHE WAS MADE THAT WAY BY THOSE WHO DO NOT BELONG HERE. I THINK I AM HERE BECAUSE OF THEM.

She ripped the page off and wrote again. Then she held it up.

WE HAVE TO LEAVE. IF SHE IS HERE THE OTHERS ARE NOT FAR BEHIND.

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Karl
Hamburg Office

Karl leaned back and gave a sigh.

"Seems this time you are one step ahead of me." He smiled. "My brother was sighted in that state. So you might not be the only one out there to kill a God." He shrugged. "Shall I get you there? My powers have been restored lately. A bit of a surprise. That's means my brothers powers have been restored too. I think you met Milton briefly in Africa, did you? If you think I am the devil, wait until you meet him. The Devil was actually modeled after him."

Antony smirked. "True. But sometimes it needs a Devil right? Especially if you go after God."

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Thomas Pfeiffer
The Golem


Temptation.

The worst thing in the world was temptation. The girl was so willingly offering herself. So weak and vulnerable and she even looked a bit like Laura.

"You know what? We should go to my place. There is something I would like to show you." He sighed. "It is gonna make you understand."

Oh why? Why now?

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Markus Jethro Flinkman
Alster Tower, Penthouse Office

Karl leaned back and gave a sigh.

"Seems this time you are one step ahead of me." He smiled. "My brother was sighted in that state. So you might not be the only one out there to kill a God." He shrugged. "Shall I get you there? My powers have been restored lately. A bit of a surprise. That's means my brothers powers have been restored too. I think you met Milton briefly in Africa, did you? If you think I am the devil, wait until you meet him. The Devil was actually modeled after him."

Antony smirked. "True. But sometimes it needs a Devil right? Especially if you go after God."

Markus looked at his feet and then back at the view before nodding. He was too far down the path now, it had been laid out too well. He could do nothing without muddling his own waters and risk acting the maggot more if he did not see this through until that final step, the final action of killing Laura. "Yes. I would be glad for your help." He simply stated as he began to feel rather numb, waiting to see what and how this now would happen.

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