Of Gangs and Royals
by Duo Misfit
PALACE - chapter 7
I watch from a tree as the light goes on in the room,
then Cat appears in the window and opens it and backs up as I climb up the tree
to the window and climb through, I look around the room, posters are on the
walls and there's a bed on the far side of the room, next to the door and a desk
in the corner to my left, with a computer on it, and like every other boys room,
clothes are all over the floor, which Cat was trying to clean up, and what
surprised me was that it took less that 3 minutes to clean it all up and he
didn't shove anything in the closet he put it all were it was supposed to go,
'impressive' I think.
*knock, knock*
I look up at the door, from
my spot on the window sill Cat who was putting something on the desk, turns
suddenly to look at the door, his eyes wide, he calls out, "Who is it?" and
waited for a response. A muffled, "Its me, Mill" came from behind the door, Cat
looks at me and mouths 'the prince' and I just nod at him to open the door, he
seems to panic for a second then calls out, "Its open Mill." Cat walks over and
lays on the bed, just as the door opens and the most gorgeous man I've ever seem
walks through the door.
He closes the door and looks up and he sees me,
well no. not me, Epyon, he sees Epyon, dressed in all black, sitting in his
friends window, one foot on the floor, one bent and resting on the sill, and it
freaks him out, but before he can say anything Cat speaks up, "Mill," he looks
at his friend and then gestures to me and says, "the infamous Epyon."
I
wave at him, since my smile would've freaked him out even more, after a few
moments 'Mill' seemed to get through the shock of seeing me, and he says, "ok.
ok your Epyon," he said pointing at me, I nod, and he continues, "and what are
you doing in Quatre's room?"
I think it's a reasonable question so I
choose to answer it, and me being honest as always, I answer truthfully, "Well,
Mill, I'm here to kill Senator Roland," his eyes go wide, but I'm not done yet,
"and I need a place to chill for a while, till I know that he is with everyone
he knows, and everyone who thinks him a kind man, then I plan on making him beg
for his life before I kill him." I finish and he just says, "He'll be in the
hall for a party in an hour . everyone's going to be there."
And it's my
turn to be shocked I did not expect the prince of all people to help me, and it
must have shown on my face because he smiles a little and says, "Me and Quatre
think that you hurt people for a reason so I'm not going to stop you unless you
don't have a good reason for it." he waits for me to tell him the reason why and
Cat takes on a hurt look, but I answer, "I do . he killed Jordie." and Mill
looks sick.
As we wait for the party to start Mill, Cat and I all are
hanging out in his room, and surprise, surprise, the prince is a nice guy . not
to mention
hot..
"Ok,"
the prince said, "here the basic layout of the hall," he pointed to a diagram he
drew while we were talking, "Roland is going to be sitting here with mine and
Quatre's families. so Epyon you have to be careful where you fight 'cause I
don't want my family caught up in it ok?" he asks me, still referring to me as
'Epyon' since I haven't told him my real name and have no intention of tell him,
I nod and reply, "No worries prince I got it." I give the diagram another
look.
The prince gets up and looks at me; I look up, "Yes?" I ask him,
"Don't call me prince.."he says, I looked kind of surprised but I nod, "what
then, do you want me to call you?" I ask him, he smiles, looks at Cat, then back
at me, holds his hand out, I reach out and take it he shakes my hand and replies
"Zechs." I nod and he walks to the door saying he has to get ready for
tonight.
I look at Cat and ask, "Don't you have to get ready too?" he
looks at me and nods, "Yea I do but. if you just face the window its all good" I
grin and turn around looking out the window, at the city beyond the
wall.
I
watch from my perch on the balcony, as Cat and Zechs meet up with there families
and sit down to dinner in the crowded room, they go about eating dinner and
talking ideally about everything, until a man, that looks identical to the
picture I saw in Cat's fathers office, asks Cat where he was today, I sit on the
floor of the balcony and watch as Cat looks slightly panicked, I bite my lip as
I watch him think of something to say, but instead of lying to him he tells him
the truth.
"Well father. I met someone new today and I spent the day with
her." at that his father looks shocked, so shocked that he actually dropped his
fork, and the captain looks at him suspiciously, but Mr. Winner beat him to
saying anything, "Quatre, are you going to see this girl again?" he sounds
hopeful.
"Um. yes father I do plan on seeing her again" Cat answered, his
father looked pleased and said, "excellent! Now son about this girl do you think
you could settle down with her?" and after he said that I knew, I knew that Cat
hadn't told his father that he was gay, 'that's why he panicked so badly' I
thought but that was wrong, as Cat suddenly said, "Father I already told you
that I don't like women, I'm gay, dad you know that, so just give up the whole
idea of me marrying a woman." 'So' I thought, 'he just won't except it, well
that explains why he always looks ashamed of himself.'
After the dinner I
get up and walk down the stairs, no one looked up as I passed, 'odd you'd think
these people would be more observant' I think as I walk up to the boy's table
and throw the skate board on the table, in front of Roland, breaking the dishes
underneath, the captain looks up at me with a shocked and curious expression on
his face, 'good' I think, 'he doesn't recognize me.' Now I have the entire
room's attention, all eyes are on me, and my eyes are on Roland, I move around
the table slowly and take off my trench coat as I walk; I fold it nicely and put
it on the table next to Cat, "Do you." I pause and look into his eyes, "do you
know what that is Roland?" I ask, my head cocked to one side.
He swallows
a few times and says, "Yes. it's a skate board.."
I shake my head and
say, "Wrong!" and slam his head down to the table, he yelps loudly and I hear a
few gasps from people around the table and the woman sitting next to Roland just
yells, "Un-hand my husband!" I look at her, she looks like Jordan, my only
response to her is a growl, but that shuts her up, "now Roland try again ." I
hiss to him, "I . I don't know!" he cries out, I lift his head up and slam it
down again causing him to cry out, "well then," I say as I let go of his head
and back up a bit, "I'll tell you what it is. its your daughters skate board!" I
shout at him, he flinches, but asks, "So?" and I look at him trying to make his
head implode, with my thoughts.
"SO!" I yell and everyone in the room
backs away just a little bit more, "one of my 'vigilantly'" I use air quotes to
show them that I don't believe that we are, "friends found her! Found your
daughter! Beaten!" I take another step closer to him, "Black!" another step,
"Blue!" another step, "Bloody!" another step, "And DEAD!" the last part echo's
off the walls, his wife screams out, "NO!" and I glare at her, and if looks
could kill she'd be long dead and turned to dust.
Roland just looks
panicked, and I speak again still loudly, so everyone in the room can hear,
"But. you already knew that," I say as I back up a few steps, "Since you killed
her, I mean." And at that everyone looked at Roland all expressions reading
shock and horror.
He opens his mouth to say something but I slam his head
down and shout at him, "You better be planning on telling the truth . 'cause I'm
her avenging angel! And I do know what you've done Roland . so tell the truth."I
back off and let his head go again and walk around the table slowly and I see
him working tears into his eyes.
"No I didn't .I . I."and he bends his
head and starts to sob, I walk behind him, pull him by the back of his jacket
neck, so he's sitting up right, no tears on his face, nor in his eyes, a ruse,
and not even a very good one, "tsk, tsk, tsk, I told you not to lie Roland." I
grin, "how about this rule Roland! . You lie! You die!" I yell and grab Roland
by the neck and lift him to his feet then slam him into a wall and again yell,
"now lets try this again! . You tell me the truth or I lift, which will cut off
your oxygen supply and after a few moments you'll die and the world will be a
better place... so?" I raise my eyebrows and wait, but he doesn't say anything,
I growl and slam him into the wall then throw him to the floor, "looks like we
do this the hard way," I say as I pull my switch blade out of my right combat
boot.
I walk slowly to him, he's trying to get up, only he keeps
slipping, I yell, "Come on Roland! Get your fat ass off the floor!" when he
finally gets to his feet, he tries to run for it, only I grab him before he's
stepped two feet, I 'tsk' again and I cut his cheek with my blade, slowly,
deliberately, he cries out again, and tries to get away only I
hold-fast.
I hold him around the neck, so he can't struggle without
getting choked, I hiss to him, "Wanna go for another around Roland, or do you
admit what you did, admit that you beat her, and admit that you molested her!"
everyone was shocked to absolute silence, everyone wanted to know, Roland was
still, he made no sound, he hardly even breathed, until, "Un-hand me, girl, or
I'll tell them who you really are." he let the threat hang in the air, the
people were practilly on the edges of there seats, if they were still sitting
that is, and I knew his threat was real, he always called me 'girl' whenever I
saw him.
~~flash back~~
"Hey Jordie your parents aren't going to
be home are they?" I ask her, she just shrugs and replies, "I don't know Luca,
they might be.."
We walk inside and Roland is standing there, apparently
waiting for us, no waiting for Jordan, 'probably to smack her around, or molest
her.' I think.
"Jordie," I say turning to her, "go get your stuff." She
runs off and says nothing to her father as she passes him; he just glares at me
then finally says, "So girl, how much is it going to cost me to get you to give
her back to me?" I just look at him for a moment, and then reply in a voice
colder than ice, "It'll cost you nothing since it's not my choice, it's hers."
Just then Jordie comes running down the hall, bag in hand and goes to the door,
opens it and leaves, not saying one word to her father, but he yells, "give me
back my child girl!" the door closes and we leave.
~~End of
flashback~~
I let go of his neck, a collective gasp is heard from the
'audience,' and before anyone could blink, before Roland can even get a smug
look on his face, I stab my blade though the side of his neck and push forward,
cutting his jugular open, blood poring everywhere, I pull my blade outta his
neck and wipe the blood off using his jacket, he makes a gurgling sound and
falls to the floor clutching his neck, I kick him.
I walk back over to
the table and I say to Mrs. Roland, "You'll get her back, but I just want you to
know that you don't deserve her back. your only getting her back because we
can't afford to give her the funeral she deserves .." As I finish that statement
I hear someone yell 'there's another one!' I turn around and look, walking
through a door is Trowa his face painted blue and green, it looks identical to
mine, his hair slicked back out of his face, and in his arms is a little girl,
Jordie, he walks over to where I am and nods once at me, and lays Jordie on the
table that Cat and Zechs had cleared off, and I take note that Poe didn't clean
her up, she's still covered in blood, only now its dry.
Mrs. Roland
screams, when she sees her daughter, and starts to sob uncontrollability I look
at her, then back to Jordie, I step up close to the table and look down on her,
'if it weren't for the blood. she'd just look like she's sleeping..' I think, I
lean down and kiss her forehead, I whisper, "good night Jordie.." I grab the
skate board and my trench, turn and walk away, I hear Trowa following, I hear
him stop, then I hear him kick the corpus of Roland, and he starts walking
again.
We leave the building via Cat's window and I leave a note on his
computer saying: 'Cat I hope you weren't horribly grossed out by what I did,
well if you weren't come by tomorrow we could use your help. and if you want,
you can bring Zechs too. Luca.' Me and Trowa jump out the window and run off
into the night.
