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You’ve met him at a low point of your life. Quite vulnerable and quite malleable. It was not a very proud moment for your lowly existence but you were at where you were.
It all started on an insignificant Thursday of an equally insignificant January. You were just not feeling yourself. And remembered how people in your life were going on and on about going for a walk to clear your head and who were you to suggest otherwise. You had all these thoughts in your head that were not very kind to you and when were these voices ever kind to you, you couldn’t recall it to save your life. Actually you were just numb at this point and you needed something, anything to make you feel again. So this walk better have work somehow, you thought to yourself feeling truly silly to think so.
You somehow ended up in the middle of nowhere with no one around with barely light whatsoever around you. This was a very quiet beach with the void of waves reaching to infinity. You certainly didn’t have any plans coming here and you certainly didn’t have any plans going forward. So with brilliant decision making you decided to just sit on some rocks and watch the waves in the middle of the night. What could ever go wrong?
Or so you thought. That thought was proven wrong the moment you heard some footsteps approaching. Honestly what could be the worst thing happening to you, besides bloody murder and maybe some worse stuff. But what were the chances of anything going wrong, you asked yourself knowing you were being very optimistic for yourself.
You turned around to find some stranger sitting right besides you out of all the rocks and some benches available to sit down. You just decided to accept your fate, it was too late for you and it was all your stupidity and maybe it was the fault of the people in your life telling you a walk would do you some good but nothing ever went your way in your wretched life and it would unmistakably be no different this time around. You sighed deeply as you continued to watch the waves like you were not aware of this existence besides you. If he wanted something he would probably talk or just kill you already.
“Is this helping, just looking at the waves mindlessly? Wasting away not doing anything at all?”
This stranger who now you were looking and finding out that was a masked man for some reason was not very kind. You might not think so highly of yourself but the audacity of this stranger who was hiding his face from the world but was willing to judge some random person off of the streets was a lot.
“What is it to you?”
You would not describe yourself as a rude person but you were not fond of just taking the hits as they come.
“Aren’t you tired of waiting for something or someone to save you miraculously when you yourself are not doing much about it?”
Can’t someone just sit and look at the waves or was it illegal and you weren’t aware of it.
“Look dude, what do you want from me or what do you even want me to say? You somehow seem to know what I am going through even though I have never met you.”
He tilted his head amused, you didn’t know how you knew when you couldn’t really see his face with his mask and this dark night was not helping.
“I have my ways and I have my reasons for doing the things I do. But you didn’t answer my question at all dearie.”
He was full of nothing but audacity, you were sure of it but you also kinda hated yourself for thinking he was right and his confidence and his knowing all attitude was alluring to you. You were like a moth to a flame, a sailor to a siren or flies to the fruit. You were going to your doom but you were somehow intrigued all the same. Your life was oh so boring and he was right about nothing ever changing about it.
“I would at least expect you to have the courtesy of introducing yourself before we tear apart my life, then I’ll think about this little therapy session I got for free for some reason.”
You were pushing it, you knew that but you already decided to play with the fire. You knew this was not gonna end well, how could it, but you were going through with it because a change was what you needed and you were gonna take this random chance with this masked stranger because this was certainly not how you got murdered in both fiction and reality.
“I am called Dottore and you could call what I am doing some sort of experiment that you do not need to concern yourself with. Now that the introductions are over with, because I already am aware of who you are, to not complicate things for you let’s just say that I am willing to fix you. What do you say?”