Starbound: A Space Odyssey 111 Jason Silverhand 2

After berating with Jason one last time, Travis turned his attention toward the screen and completely ignored Jason.

This was a clear indication that doesn't want Jason to remain on the office for a single minute longer.

Seeing this, Jason turned around and immediately left the room without turning back.

Under the mocking gazes of the soldiers and workers that were around the place, Jason hastily disappeared from there.

...

Returning to his room, Jason found himself looking at the mirror.

He was a splitting image of his mother.

It might be because of this that his father hated him way too deep in his heart.

He slowly moved his finger toward his mouth and cleaned the blood on the corner of his lips.

He watched as the crimson liquid slowly stained his white hand.

Raising his hand closer to his mouth, he licked the blood out of his fingers and closed his eyes to savor the metallic taste of his blood.

After finis.h.i.+ng, he opened his eyes and his lips slightly moved upwards, forming an alluring, yet dangerous, smile.

"Father, oh, father~" Jason said to himself in a playful tone, "I'll enjoy seeing you fall... I'm to enjoy a lot."

Jason looked down and caught sight a picture in a beautiful and detailed wood frame.

In the picture, there was a young boy, around 6 years old, and a beautiful young woman no older than 23 years old.

The woman was wearing something that looked like a maid outfit. She was very beautiful and angelic, with a gentle and happy smile on her face.

She had a bright, long blonde hair, and blue eyes. He body was very proportionate, neither her chest not hip were big, but neither were small.

It was indeed a beautiful and charming young woman, a flower that looked untainted and perfect, but she far from that. The amount of stress and hards.h.i.+p that she to dealt was something that almost no young woman like her would have been able to go through.

Her name was Renna Nandor

Jason took the picture and carefully caressed it like it was his most precious treasure.

In his face, there was a surprisingly small and gentle smile, and a melancholy expression in his face.

His eyelids dropped and his eyes glistened with tears on the corners.

"Worry not, mother, I'll avenge you." He said in a sweet tone. "Travis is going to pay for what he did to you."

Jason hugged the picture for a while before placing it bad on the table he took it from.

His whole room was very simplistic. There was a bed, wardrobe, a separated bathroom, and a study table with a computer on top.

There was something expensive in sight.

Only his clothes were somewhat more expensive, since it was given by Alfred, the only person Jason somewhat trust, but not enough to show him his true personality and thoughts.

Jason learned since young to wear masks. He uses one when talking with his father, another in public and a new one in front of Alfred.

He always keep his true face hidden from everyone else.

Without anyone to protect him ever since his mother died, he learned by himself how to manipulate other people and hide himself behind masks.

The reason why he treasured that picture so much was because it was the last one it was taken before his mother's death by Travis's hands.

One day, when he was 6 years old, his mother tried to kill Travis in his sleep. But right before she was able to stab him to death, his wife, that was just beside him at the bed, woke up and screamed.

Travis was awaken by the scream and unconsciously dodged the deadly knife Jason's mother was wielding.

Yes, Jason's mother, Renna, wasn't Travis's wife.

Renna was nothing more than a maid of the s.p.a.ce Station, a beautiful and innocent one that was tainted by the beast known as Travis Silverhand.

Jason's mother always loved Travis, but Travis never acknowledged her existence beside the fact that he kinda admired her beauty, but that was it.

In a drink stupor, Travis ended up taking Renna to his bed, in which ended up with a barely 17 years old woman getting pregnant.

After waking up Travis regretted what he did because he already had a wife. He covered up the incident and convinced Renna to keep secret or else he would have no choice but to kill her.

The fact was, Travis's wife was the daughter of a high officer in the UEG, United Earth Government. He couldn't sleep with any other woman, he had to keep the marriage stable, to keep his position inside the Syndicate stable.

When he found out that Renna was pregnant he even thought of killing the baby, but Renna stopped him and promised to never tell anyone about the true origin of him.

Unfortunately the secret about a b.a.s.t.a.r.d son was still found out by Travis's wife when Jason was 5 years old.

And just like this the abuses began. His mother was often beaten up and abused by everyone in the Station.

The soldiers and servants did it because Travis's wife allowed and even motivated them to do it. She hated Renna to the bones.

s.e.xually abuse was something that happened daily. Syndicate's soldiers weren't known to be gentle, they were brutes, cruel and unfeeling.

Renna only had Travis, she tried to ask for help, but he even if he wanted, he couldn't. He was in the wrong when committed adultery, so he could only obey his wife and keep quite about all the abuses against her.

Renna never fought back because she was afraid that Travis's wife start to target Jason, but that never happened.

It was daily abuses against Renna continued and she always endure and kept quite, but one day something happened that completely snapped Renna, and she tried to kill Travis.

It caused an uproar in the Syndicate.

In his rage, Travis furiously shot Renna to death.

Renna died just like that. The only regret she had was leaving her son, Jason, behind in a pit filled with snakes.

By the time Jason was 9 years old, Travis's legitimate son was 7 years old.

Travis's wife started to see Jason as thorn in her eyes, so she decided to get rid of him.

Unfortunately for her, she died in an accident when her s.p.a.cecraft exploded right after it got outside of a planet's atmosphere. Her son was there as well and died with his mother.

Seeing bad things happen one after another, Travis started to suspect someone had betray him and wanted him dead.

a.s.sa.s.sination attempts started to happen more frequently after his wife was killed.

He swiftly became someone extremely careful and cautious around everyone, always suspecting that they could be a traitor or even an a.s.sa.s.sin.

Travis's sanity slowly decayed as he suspected of everyone and everything around him, thus leading to his situation right now which he could even suspect his own son without even a single clue or evidence that claimed that Jason could be a traitor.

Jason looked up at the ceiling and a small smile creeped out on his lips.

"Father, oh father..." Jason reached for his PIPS and looked and dialed a number at it. "You can't blame me for being ruthless now. I'm not going to this because I'm altruistic, or someone good that wish to see the Syndicate became something better for the universe. I'm doing this because I hate you, because I want to kill you."

The smile on his face widened a bit as he finished whispering, "As for getting the Syndicate's leaders.h.i.+p, I'll do only because Jevil and Husk asked me."

"h.e.l.lo, Jason?" A feminine voice came from Jason's PIPS and reached his ears.

"Stina, it is time..." Jason said with a low and calm voice, "Begin the plan to get rid of that old f.u.c.k known as Opert and all his influence over the faction. We have one week to get full control over the Black Star Syndicate."

"..." There was a small period of silence before the other spoke again, "Did something happened?"

"Some issue on Jevil's side. Don't worry, trust him. He always managed to pull himself out of trouble."

"Alright, it will done."

"Okay, bye." Jason was about to finish the call when he heard the other side saying for him to wait.

"Jason..." Stina's voice quivered a little. She hesitated a bit but still spoke in a voice so low that was almost a whisper, "Be careful..."

"Sti-" Jason didn't have the chance the speak again as Stina's immediately turned off her communicator once she spoke those lines.

Jason bitterly smiled as he looked at his PIPS, "Strange girl..."