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2 weeks before Purge night
Becky hated this time of the year, she hated it a lot. Not because of what was to come but because of what would happen before and sometimes even after. In just two weeks, the American landscape would be transformed into a hellish nightmare; its people recast as demonic predators and their unlucky prey, others would become ghosts, and some, perhaps, even angels.
In just two weeks the biggest party in the world would begin, what's this party you might ask? Well it's just the annual Purge. There will be a lot of violence, a lot more bloodshed, it's sad when that can be classified as normal.
Becky didn't hate that part, what she hated were the troublemakers who liked to come to the bar she worked at around the time of the Purge just to cause trouble. This Bar was, ironically, called The Lass Kicker, a nickname that Becky herself had been given by her friends. It was a nicely sized pub that didn't draw too much attention but it was still eye catching, the owners of said pub were her two good friends Sheamus and Cesaro.
Sheamus, a fellow Irish native like herself, has helped her and Finn out a lot. Especially on purge night, he wasn't called the Celtic Warrior for nothing, and his partner Cesaro, also known as the Swish Cyborg, wasn't someone to count out either. When provoked and faced with no other option, the two of them were absolute animals and Becky loved It!
It's not that they willingly go out and kill people no no no, but when the night doesn't go as planned well...it was better to be with them and not against them.
But back to the trouble at hand, Becky sat next to Finn as they watched the scene unfold before them. This duo, who called themselves the Ascension, had came in and gotten drunk off their asses. They were loud and obnoxious and were now trying to hit on all the women in the bar. At first it had been amusing but as time ticked down Becky found herself getting very annoyed.
She had been ready to kick their arses but Finn stopped her. Let Sheamus handle the problem he’d said.
“Why does he get to have all the fun?” she had grumbled while being pushed into the seat she was currently sitting in.
“It is their turn.” Finn said. He meant it was Sheamus and Cesaro’s turn to deal with the drunks. That and whenever Becky ‘dealt’ with a problem they usually ended up attacking them on purge night.
Sheamus had been talking to the Ascension boys for a few minutes when Konnor, the bigger one, suddenly, and stupidly, tried to blind side him with a punch only to be slammed down hard on the table with his arm twisted painfully behind him by Cesaro. Viktor, his friend, didn't even get a chance to move before Sheamus had a knife up to his throat.
“Don't make this hard Fellas.” Sheamus said in a very casual tone.
“Get the hell out or we'll use more force.” said Cesaro and he pushed Konnor’s arm up a little causing him to let out a painful grunt.
“I'd give in if I were you. A shattered arm wouldn't do you much good come the purge.” Finn said pointedly.
“Are you threatening us, you sure you wanna do that?” Viktor asked with a sneer.
“Oh it wasn't a threat, just stating the facts.” For the longest time the Ascension boys just glared at them until they eventually gave up.
Cesaro let go of Konnor while Sheamus moved his knife away from Viktor’s neck. As the two walked away, it was Viktor who turned and looked at them all, he still had a sneer on his face, “You better watch your backs.”
“And you better watch yours ya wasteland rejects!” Becky yelled as the door closed.
“Well that's great, now we have those goons to worry about come the purge.” Finn said with a sigh.
“Well that's in two weeks, right now I wanna go home so I can sleep.” Becky said drawing an amused chuckle from the other three,
“Yeah, me and Shemy need to head out too. We got some business to get done.” Cesaro said and Sheamus huffed in response.
After cleaning up the bar a bit Finn and Becky said goodbye to Sheamus and Cesaro, it was their turn to lock up today too. “Hey! We're still gathering at your place right?” Finn called back.
“Yeah, just make sure you get there early!” They heard one of them reply back followed by laughter.
As they walked to their car Becky fished out the keys from her pocket and tossed them at Finn who caught them effortlessly. Once they got in Finn started up the car and pulled out onto the road.
“Ya know we're supposed to meet up with Sami tonight right?” Finn asked after a couple minutes of silence.
“Yeah yeah, didn't he say he was bringing a friend with him? Haylee right?”
“You mean Bayley.”
“It rhymed so I'll call it a win.”
Finn shook his head but Becky could see the smirk on his face. “Yeah, it's because she was the only one to agree to go with him.” he replied.
“What about Kevin?”
“He's off visiting family or something, I don't really remember.”
“Ahh.” Was all Becky said leaving the two in comfortable silence. Now before anyone gets any ideas no, the two of them were not dating. Finn and Becky have known each other for years back in Ireland, they were like family.
They both decided to go to America together mainly to watch out for the other. America was after all a very crazy place, they have a designated day every year where they can spend 12 hours brutally killing each other!
They decided that staying close together was the safest, and only, thing to do when going to a country as crazy as that.
They had originally bought an apartment but it had been set on fire during their first purge. Now they stayed in a relatively quiet neighborhood and thanks to Sheamus, they were beyond prepared for death day. Not only did he pay good but they had an arrangement of weapons hidden throughout their house and a state of the art security system. The red headed Irishman had a friend that had set it up for them, who it was they didn't know.
“What are we supposed to be doing anyways, I don't remember agreeing to anything?” Becky asked just now noticing that they were in their neighborhood.
“I don't know, I think he said something about going to a club.” Finn answered.
“Did he say a name?” Becky asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Yeah, yeah I think the name of it is New Day.”
“New Day, hmm.” Finn had just turned down their street and Becky sighed in relief; she was really tired.
Their house didn't stand out at all, it had two floors, well technically three but they didn't count the basement, with a decent sized front yard and spacious backyard with a fence. The house was sort in its own corner at the end of their cul-de-sac. The light coloured wood gave the house a very homey feeling.
As Finn pulled into the driveway Becky, not even waiting for the car to come to a complete stop, was already out and walking towards the front door. Finn shook his head as he parked the car before turning it off and getting out himself. One of these days she's going to fall out of the car and when she did he would laugh and laugh…and then still laugh as he helped her up.
By the time he had closed and locked the front door, Becky had fallen face first onto the sofa. “You have a bed ya know.” Finn said heading to the kitchen. Becky lazily waved her hand before it dropped to the floor.
The inside of the house was decent, there was plenty of space too. The light coloured wooden floors and carpet just made people feel calm and they seemed to make the house shine somewhat. There were stairs leading to the second floor and passed the kitchen were another set of stairs leading to the basement turned ‘hideout’ as Sami put it. It was were they planned, trained and stored weapons for the Purge mostly.
It looked like a normal house, no one would expect for a gun to be hidden in plain view in the hall closet of for the lamp pole in the living room to be a sword. They made sure that there was a weapon close by in every room, even the bathroom. Maybe they may seem a bit paranoid but they're alive aren't they?
Finn walked into the living room with a bottle of beer in hand and headed towards the stairs. “Sami and Bayley will be here in roughly 3 hours, do be ready.” He said hitting her in the head slightly with his bottle.
“Yeah yeah just let me sleep.” Came a mumbled reply, with that Finn went up stairs leaving Becky to her much needed nap.