MHOS Part 14: Peaches the passenger princess

We finish our food and Peaches suggests we go back to her place so she can start teaching right away. I chuckle and say "Are you that eager to get rid of me already?" as we head out. Husk is busy so I don't stop by the bar to say anything to him, but as I walk by with Peaches in tow I slow my pace down waiting to make eye contact with him. As he's repeating the order back to the man with his back turned to me, Husk quickly makes eye contact with me, winks and carries about his business as usual. No signs of disappointment, no jealousy, just a smile and a wink as I make my way out.. with a woman I kissed right in front of the whole bar. He knows what we had was casual, he accepts it freely, and that makes me like him even more.

As we head over to Gary, I go to hand Peaches the keys so she can drive me to her place but she stares at them like they are a foreign object she has never laid eyes on before. She looks back up at me and says "What are those for?" her hands not moving to reach for them. "Oh, you don't drive!" I say a little surprised. I travelled all over the world, having a license was important to me, but I guess as a stay at home wife and mother before her death, driving wasn't an important skill to pick up. I open up the passenger door for her and close it behind her. She swoops in, and buckles up and waits.

As I walk to the drivers side I suddenly get why she looked so lost when I handed her the keys.. Women in white hitch hike on the highways to seduce and drag men to hell.. of course they don't drive. Oh fuck.. Is this considered hitch hiking? She kissed me before the deal took place.. If she tries to seduce me in the car will she kill me? I don't know how to act in the car now.. okay just act normal..

"Lust and Wrath" Peaches says as I get into the drivers side and close the door behind me. I look over at her as I put my seatbelt on and say "Excuse me?" She says "We're on Lust & Predator alley, I live down the road where Lust Lane meets Wrath way. I have a map at home I can show you as part of the teaching. There are 6 main roads in the first circle of hell that make up Pentagram city. Once you've seen the map you'll never worry about getting lost again. Oh! Pull in here!" Peaches says as she whips her hand right in front of my face pointing at a home so small it didn't even have a driveway. But she did indeed have a lawn I could park Gary.

We get out of the car and she excitedly brings me into her home. It's a shack. How can a home only have 2 rooms? A main room and a bathroom. It's terrible! It's absolutely will not do for someone teaching me the ropes in hell. I didn't realize that not everyone got as lucky as I did when I first got to hell. I took her by the hand looked into her eyes and said "This will not do" I'm angry, for her, angrier than even she is. She was excited to show me the place she calls home. Both of my homes are far better than what she has the poor thing.

Still holding her hand I walk over to a beautiful cobble stone path to a decent sized cottage that has a proper driveway. Two men come out of the house and start barking at us about trespassing. I wrap my hands around the first mans throat and say "Give me the keys and leave.. or die" looking him directly in the eyes as I say so. His face pales and his eyes glows a soft lilac for a brief moment before returning to normal and he stops talking. I look at the man following behind him and he stopped dead in his tracks, he backs away walking back into the house, reaches inside the entrance, and I begin to squeeze the first man's throat and he starts making choking sounds. The second man says "Whoa! Stop! I'm getting the keys!" He slowly walks over to the first man and hands him the keys.

The first man searches my face to make eye contact with me holding they keys nodding his head yes. Peaches whispers for me to kiss him before accepting they keys to seal the deal and I pull his face to mine and kiss him on the mouth. As our lips part he's placing the keys into my open hand and I take my hand off his throat. I starts coughing and running, leaving behind everything but his partner as they run off into the night, leaving us with a much better place to lay our heads. I hand Peaches the keys to the house and say "Now lets go pack your stuff and get you all moved in." as I start walking back towards Gary and her little shack.

We get into her former home and start packing what little belongings she has and she says "I'm really impressed by the deal you just made with them. You can already initiate a deal without having to SAY it's a deal.. I wish I had that kind of power. It must be nice to be feared the way you are as a Siren. And I know they probably don't agree yet, but that was really generous of you."

"I don't know if that was a deal per se, all I did was give him an ultimatum" I reply. Peaches says "Yeah but your eyes glowed purple and so did his, when that happens it means you mean what you say like.. deep within your core.. and you will carry it out on way or the other, so when you gave him the choice to leave or die his friend gave him the keys to let him make the decision to live or die and he chose to live. He could have fought you on it had you not kissed him and sealed the deal, but you kissed him and he chose to live and now we have a big new house to live in!"

I smirk and say "That's a weirdly positive outlook on what just happened. It kind of reminds me of Gary" Peaches looks at me and asks "Your.. car?" and I say "No, the man who left me the car. He was laying dead in the street and his keys were in his pocket. I got his house and his car the day I arrived because he was fighting on the street the day I spawned and died right there in front of me. I swear I wasn't the one that killed him.. I just found him like that.. and looted his body.. Was it tragic for him that he died in the street 2 blocks from his house? I'm sure it would have been had I known or cared about him, but I mean.. it was a fantastic way for me to start my life in hell. So I named my car after him since his car, house and belongings were like my own personal spawning gift."

I look around the shack and notice that it is already empty as we both walk out of it with only armfuls each, none of which is food. We load it into the trunk and drive the 2 houses over into her bigger better home that's already furnished. She runs inside and comes running back out with a basket and everything in the trunk fits into it. It makes me sad that that's the way she lived before me. She's never going to go without again.