“The Heart Has Its Reasons”

100 Words:

They say no villain sees himself as the bad guy. Is it true?

My entry:

“They got stuff, I want it, I take it.  Why should they have it and me not, y’know?”

Eddie took the proferred bottle from Luis.  “Nah.  I mean, I know what’s right, what’s wrong. I don’t got no right to take stuff from folks, and hurt ’em. But the way it makes the ladies look at me, y’know?  It’s a badge of respect.  That’s how I look at it.”  He glanced over at TJ.  “What about you, TJ?”

TJ looked at the others, then calmly put three rounds into each of them.  He took the bottle and drank deeply from it.  “I just like to watch folks bleed.”