THĒ JÃILBĪRD
Thē Jãilbīrd - Episode 19&20
(Female•In•Disguise)
★★★★★★★★★★★★★
#UNEDITED
BACK IN THE FOREST*
Adeline hasn't stopped running.
She fell for the third time already, and each time she did, she stood to her feet and continued.
Poe is still hot on her heels, chasing like jezebel and enjoying it everytime Adeline fell.
It's like the forest got wider tonight cos Adeline couldn't even find the entrance to the compound.
She kept going around in circles, breathing heavily as the chase got hotter.
She fell for the fourth time, and she spranged to her feet again, but this time, she didn't resume running.
She turned back and faced Poe slowly.
"What exactly do you want from me? I'd have seen it as jealousy if I were a woman, but I'm a man so why the f+ck are you on my neck all because I'm closer to Death? I never did anything to you and I'm starting to regret the fact that I liked you at first sight. You might be Jinx's bestie, but trust me that girl is a lot more precious than you. You're worse, Poe" she said breathlessly, sweat making a sheen on her face.
The blood on her back spread already, wetting the shirt she's putting on again.
"Thanks for recognizing my talent early. Yes I'm wicked, but my wickedness only applies to people like you. Because you're a fast learner, you want us to go die? You learnt the use of guns within two nights, so what? Death keeps you close, so what? No matter how much you try, you can never take the place of Jinx and I beside master, let that sink in!" Poe yelled.
"I didn't tell master to keep me close. He did it on his own!" Adeline replied.
"Lair! You knowingly gummed around him and I think you're the gay here. Listen, if you have any feelings for him, better trash it, and as for the wound on his arm, you'll pay for it. I'll make you pay motherf+cker!" Poe gritted before coming for her again.
Adeline decided not to run.
Even if it means she'd lose every drop of blood in her system from her wound, she'd fight back.
She fisted her palm, ready to attack back when someone jumped in the middle, stopping the collision.
It's Kimberly.
"Stop it, Poe!" She cautioned.
"And what's your business with what's ongoing here?" Poe glared.
"You bullying Micheal is unallowed, unless you want me to go to Death right now and report" Kimberly replied, and Poe scoffed.
"F+ck you, Kimberly" she raised her two middle fingers before storming down the forest.
Kimberly made sure she was long gone before pulling Adeline to the camera-blind spot in the forest.
It's an angle behind a thick shrub.
Adeline hugged her first, so tight as her tears resumed.
"Niko, is Niko really...dead?" She sniffled.
Kimberly broke the hug and held her round face.
"Don't be emotional about it Adechka, we lose people in here everyday" she said.
"Yeah, right...but he was my roommate Kimberly" Adeline replied.
"Just lock up" Kimberly said and turned Adeline's back to herself.
She raised her shirt, checking out her wound, and her eyes widened.
"It's big! You can't keep this, Adeline. What if it gets infected? I'll take you to the clinic. I know how to talk to Igor and he'll allow your treatment " she said.
"No there's a more pressing issue at hand" Adeline pulled back.
"What is it?" Kimberly asked impatiently.
Adeline held eyes with her, and her throat itched with the need to tell her about the new development.
To tell her about the fact that Madden has always known she's a woman, but she decided not to...
What if she told her and she freaked out? What if telling her would make things more awkward and make everyone suspicious?
Thankfully, Madden is not interested in why she risked her life to enter the clan as a man, and he's probably gonna keep her secret, or so she hopes.
She should probably ask for permission from Madden before telling her.
"What is it?" Kimberly asked again, her voice curious.
"The injection you told me to take before leaving America, they didn't work. My period came" Adeline replied, and horror filled Kimberly's eyes.
"What! How come? How could...
"I nearly got bursted, but thanks to hunches, i was able to slip off and steal some injections from the clinic" she said, and Kimberly exhaled in relief.
"You did that carefully, right? You can't get caught" she said.
"Trust me" Adeline smiled sadly, and Kimberly stroked her hair.
"I've been meaning to ask what happened to mum and dad's investments. They made a lot if I could remember, and they have shares worth more than thirty billion dollars" Adeline said.
"What do you think happened to them? Auntie Odessa claimed everything as hers when you were in jail. I couldn't even win against her in court" Kimberly replied, and Adeline's mouth widened.
"What!"
"The thing is... We're not only here to learn how to kill Corey, but also get strong enough to take our parents properties from Odessa, and that's why you need to take this serious ok? Take every chance to get stronger. The Wilson family name will not go into oblivion... We'll forever remain" Kimberly smiled, and Adeline nodded with a smile too.
"Adeline Wilson" she said.
"Kimberly Wilson" Kimberly said, and they stuck hands like they do when they were kids.
Their smiles turned even sadder, and Kimberly stepped back.
"Careful, Adechka" she said.
"If I wanna call you in Russian endearment form, what will it be?" Adeline asked.
"Kimoshka" Kimberly replied, and Adeline waved as Kimberly finally left the forest.
She waited two minutes before leaving the forest too.
A minute later, a little girl came out from behind a flower shrub, wearing a pretty floral dress.
She has lots of sunflowers hung in her hair, and she's holding a bunch of it too, playing with them.
She has no smile nor frown on her face, but when she sighted a blue butterfly, she smiled widely.
She was about to start going after it when she heard her name...
"Angelika!"
She turned back to see her mother coming her way with a frown.
It's the kitchen lady... Lady Selesta.
"I'm sorry mum!" Angelika squealed.
"I told you to stop coming to pick sunflowers and butterflies in here, do you ever listen?" Lady Selesta said as she picked her up.
"I just couldn't help myself, sorry" Angelika pouted.
"The clan is currently in grief, this is not the time to play Lika, ok?"
"Ok" Angelika nodded.
"Now let's go get you dinner" Lady Selesta said, taking her out of the forest.
*
GRAVESITE*
Loud is sitting sprawled on Nikolai's grave, resting his back on the concrete even when it's not dry yet.
There's a bottle of tequila in his right hand which he's downing like a drunkard, and there are still tears in his sorrowful eyes.
Jinx is beside him, patting his back and giving him pitiful looks as he swam in sorrow.
"His parents died during an earthquake ten years ago, and since then, he has been the one fending for himself. He didn't come here of his own freewill yunno... He was kidnapped from a ghetto and brought here by Igor to join the clan, and now he's gone... Just like that? He's more than a friend, Jinx. He's my brother... How could he just...
Jinx was already in tears before he could finish lamenting, but even when she tried hugging him to comfort him, he refused.
"Loud" Adeline's voice made the two of them look up to see Adeline just coming, her face tearful too.
"Michael" Loud stood.
Adeline walked fast to him, enveloping him in a hug of comfort.
"How could he leave just like that" Loud cried.
"I'm sorry, Loud... I'm so sorry" Adeline sobbed, patting him.
Jinx had to join the hug too, and the sound of their cries rented the graveyard.
*
IGOR'S SUITE*
After Andrei left, Igor returned to f+çking the bî+ch he was f+çking.
They went several rounds since he's too happy, and they did everything in the living room, so right now, the living room tiles is a mess with his sperm droplets.
The bi+çh left some minutes ago, and now he's throwing himself a mini party, drinking and dancing to a jazz music playing in a small MP3.
He was dancing around, wetting himself with alcohol as the happiness was unmatchable.
The opening of the door made him jump down from the table where he's dancing on.
He was so sure it's Andrei cos he's the only one who knows his door passcode, but it's far from him.
It's Madden, and he looks like a wild animal right now, a wounded lion who'd bring down anything to ease it's pain.
His blood changed the white singlet he's wearing to red already, and the blood is starting to stain his black trousers too.
He looks deadly as it is, but Igor is blind to the handwriting on the wall cos he laughed out loud.
"What? Are you here to take out your failure on me? Now that you tasted failure and you know how sour it is, you wanna kill me?" he said.
"Let's talk" Madden replied, his voice void of emotions, then he walked out of the suite.
"Is he mad?" Igor muttered, stepping out of the suite too.
He met Sin with Trixie in front of the suite, and he just knew immediately that it was Sin who hacked his door for Madden to enter.
One of these days, he might have to start looking for a fine burial site for Sin.
"Asshole" he told him before leaving.
"My pleasure" Sin replied with a grin.
"This ain't the right time to grin, bî+ch. I have a feeling this won't end well" Trixie said.
"Who told you it'd end well? I mean... Madd came to call Igor for a talk by himself, and you're still doubting it? Newsflash, start preparing your burial speech for Igor. As for me, i have plans to f+ck on his grave so I can't wait for it" Sin laughed, raising his hand to Trixie's face.
He touched her lower lip with his thumb, and she hit it away.
"Damn you" she muttered, rushing off.
Sin's smile faded for a minute, then he started smiling again as he rushed after her.
*
CLAN CATHEDRAL*
Igor was still so clueless as he entered the big building with Madden.
Why would Madden want to talk inside the church?
The cathedral was built only because Madden insisted on having it built when he was young.
Madden is the only one who enters it since it was built, and no one knows what he comes in to do.
Madden is not the type to pray or ask for forgiveness since he doesn't even believe, so that part is still a mystery.
Madden walked in front of him, and Igor walked behind, wondering the reason for this venue.
"What the hell are we doing inside the church?" He questioned, stopping at the middle of a row.
"I'd like to make your death glorious" Madden replied, stopping too.
He's currently at the alter.
He turned back to face Igor, and Igor scoffed.
"Damn bastard, what are you planning to do?"
"The last honour you'll receive from me as a family member is letting you die inside this cathedral. At least, you'll go to hell peacefully" Madden replied, his eyes rolling in their sockets as he rested on the pulpit.
Igor took one step back.
"Whatever you're planning , I won't be a part of it. I'm not the cause of your failure!" Igor spat and turned to leave, but immediately he took one step, a rope came dangling from the mahogany ceiling, wrapping around his neck.
"Madden!!!!" Igor gagged as he got lifted by the rope on his neck, choking him and hanging him automatically, but the rope is still loose, so he can still breath.
"Ma...dd...
Igor began choking and struggling with the rope, his legs dangling in the air and the sanctified scent of the church filling his nostrils.
He started bleeding from the mouth as a result of the brutal choking, his veins mapping his face and sweat sheening his skin.
His skin is already turning bright red.
Madden brought out his gun, checking out the barrel and taking a look at the bloody bullet again.
"We're the only two of the Orlovs who use guns almost everyday, which is why our styles and bullets are different. I use red-tip bullets and you use black bullets. Every bullet shot at us during the mission were black. If you're going to doublecross me, you should do it well at least... You're ruining my reputation, and it's upsetting" he said.
Igor's tongue was already twisting as he got suffocated and asphyxiated at the same time, and his eyes are starting to roll up.
"M...ma...Madd..e..
Madden has no pity in his dark orbs as he stared at him...
The main door opened, and Trixie rushed in with Maya.
"What the... F+ck!!!!" Trixie screamed.
"Madden let go of him!" Maya ordered, walking to the alter where Madden is standing at.
"Not hearing anything right now" Madden replied, pointing his gun at Igor who's still struggling with the rope on the ceiling.
"Madden I said let him go! Madden!" Maya shouted, switching to running till she got to him.
"I'm not doing that, Maya" Madden replied.
Trixie got to the alter and started begging too...
"I promise he's not the one. Igor might be an asshole but we all know he can only talk but zero action. Please Madden...hmm?"
"It's useless, Trixie" Madden replied.
He's not even looking at them at all.
Sin came into the church too, and he nodded when he saw Igor hanging on the ceiling.
He got his phone and began snapping pictures.
"Igor looks more handsome on the ceiling like this" he said.
Andrei rushed in behind him, pushing Sin out of the way.
"Igor!!" He shouted and got his gun to shoot the rope.
Before he could do it, Madden already shot him.
Andrei got hit in the arm just like him, and Maya gasped with horror-filled eyes...
"Madden!!!!!"
"Cool, he probably planned everything with him. He's the closest to him anyways" Madden muttered with no empathy as he watched Andrei go down.
"Stop this madness right now, Madden!" Klara yelled, rushing in with several guards behind her.
"Make me stop" Madden replied.
"He's not behind the attack. The black bullets were only a coincidence cos they got it from the Iranian market, and I talked to the merchant already. Before daybreak, we'll get the name of the real snitch so stop!" Klara replied, snapping her fingers.
The guards got a ladder inside the church, and one of them climbed high.
The rope was cut from Igor's neck, and he was carried down unconsciously.
They took him out with Klara, and Andrei struggled to his feet, holding his bleeding arm.
"Are you ok?" Maya asked him.
He didn't reply before leaving the church too.
"I hate you" Maya told Madden in a mutter before leaving too.
"You're becaming scarier" Trixie said.
"Haven't even started the scary shit" Madden replied icily, and Trixie left too.
"In the end, I'm the only one you're left with brother" Sin grinned.
Madden dropped his gun and left through the backdoor.
"Whoa! Only me?" Sin clapped, picking the gun and sighing.
"We're all mentally unstable in my family. I hate my dark family history" he mumbled.
*
HOUSE OF ORLOVS, AN HOUR LATER*
Klara only brought Igor, she didn't stay with him.
She left him in Erik's room after the nurses treated his swollen neck, and he woke up just now to meet Erik waiting beside the bed.
"Father?" He said, sitting up.
"How's your neck?" Erik asked, his brows rising.
"Not bad" Igor replied, coughing slightly as he rubbed his neck.
"I'll kill Madden, I swear" he muttered vengefully.
"Is there something you want badly right now?" Erik asked, sitting beside him.
"Any f+çking thing?" Igor replied.
"Anything to make you calm" Erik patted him.
"Michael... I want Madden to hate Michael so much, and after that happens, I can have Michael as my second bodyguard with Andrei." Igor said.
Erik smiled slightly and left the room.
He went to his office and sent for Adeline.
Adeline arrived with a guard after five minutes, and she bowed her head before looking up at him.
"You called for me, sir"
"You have a mission tomorrow night at 7pm" Erik replied.
"Eh?" Adeline almost gasped.
Erik kept looking at her...
"I thought... I was only supposed to go on missions for my master, then... My back would is still fresh and...
"You're going on the mission tomorrow, and it's meant to be kept a secret from Madden. You'll die by my hands if he gets a whiff of it" Erik cut her off, and she tightened her chin.
"Where is your answer?"
"Yes, sir" she replied, took a bow and walked out of the house.
She was on her way back to the room when she saw Madden going towards the basement direction.
She followed, and immediately she went out of sight, Kimberly came by.
"Igor ... Is Igor ok?" She asked the guards in front of the house.
They didn't reply, so she asked again in a rephrased form.
"Is Master Igor ok?"
"He's fine, now leave" one of the hefty guards said.
She slowly left, going back to her apartment which is right beside Andrei's own.
She entered the small house and fell on her bed, unable to stop thinking about Igor for a second.
Is he really fine?
Madden almost killed him according to what she saw in the group chat.
Were the guards saying the truth?
She sat up restlessly, opening her drawer and bringing out a white wrap.
Inside the write wrap, there's a used condom.
It's the condom Igor used on her the night he screwed her hard.
She took it back then and washed it, then she kept it as souvenir to always remind her of how special that night is.
She smiled as she stared at the condom, rubbing it with her thumb.
*
ANDREI'S APARTMENT*
With the help of some nurses at the clinic, Andrei got the bullet removed from his arm.
The arm is bandaged, and he was told to eat something before going to bed.
He's not a eater, actually.
Reluctantly, he waited for the arrival of his meal, and after ten minutes, the doorbell came.
He went to the door to open, and as expected, he met Lady Selesta by the door, holding his tray of food in her right hand and holding Angelika in her left hand.
"Andrei!" Angelika brightly waved.
"Angel" Andrei stroked her hair before taking the food tray from Lady Selesta.
"Make sure you finish it" Lady Selesta said sternly.
"If I can" he smiled.
Selesta left with Angelika, and Andrei was about to shut the door when someone held it.
The person pushed it open and came in forcefully...
It's Maya.
"I didn't invite you" he told her.
"I like barging in uninvited. I enjoy taking what's not mine and invading other's privacy" she replied without blinking.
"What do you want?" He asked softly, and she came closer.
Before he knew it, she has started unwrapping his arm bandage.
"Maya!" He freed his arm and dropped the tray before stepping away.
"It's already treated. Stop, ok?" He said.
"I have to check for myself and be certain" she replied flatly with her sharp Russian accent.
"Who are you to decide that?" He said.
"Maya Orlov, your future bride" she replied, pulling the bandage again.
Andrei grabbed her two hands and started struggling with her till he was able to hold her in place so she can't move.
Their eyes met, and she relaxed.
"What were you talking to Kimberly about the other time?" She questioned.
"She had a thing with Igor, and he sidelined her.." he explained.
"That bastard" Maya muttered, and Andrei started pushing her out.
"You really won't let me check your wound? Andrei... Huh? I really need to check it and...
She already pushed her out and locked the door before she could finish.
He rested on the door, releasing a loud exhale.
"Maddest of the bunch" he muttered.
*
9PM*
Madden's breaths came softly as he opened the door to the abandoned basement.
He stepped in, going down the cemented stairs till he got to the base.
The smell of blood still lingered in the air.
The blood of Malik and his two cohorts whom he killed here three weeks ago.
It's still so strong, but he's not here for that tonight.
He went to the walls and started checking out the scribblings on it.
To others, they're meaningless and childish, but to him, it's his language.
It's the only way he expressed himself as a kid. It's sign language.
As he stared at the scribblings, he could imagine his kid version writing them on the wall with a sharp stone.
He almost got sucked into the past, but he quickly turned and left the basement, shutting the door behind.
Surprisingly, he met Adeline waiting outside, backing the wall and obviously waiting for him.
She quickly stood straight at the sight of him.
"Your arm... We should get it treated at the clinic" she said, hoping he'd succumb.
Madden gave her a long look which made her cringe, then he led the way.
"Follow me" he said.
Without arguing, she did.
A five minutes walk brought them to the manor, and she entered with him, freezing instantly.
Is there a day she'd get used to the cold here?
He led her to his room and faced her.
"Get rid of the shirt and lay on your chest, on the bed" he told her, and she gulped.
She was about to say no when he took the first-aid kit, so she obeyed.
She took off the shirt, leaving her in her chest bandage as she climbed the bed, laying on her chest so her wounded back is up.
Madden sat beside her, and she had a nose full of his scent again.
She dislikes how cold he smells, or that's what she's telling herself.
Madden was blank in the face as he removed the patch and plaster, revealing her fresh wound.
"Did you cry with the wound? Is that why it's bleeding again?" He said, no single kindness in his voice.
Adeline almost told him it's Poe, but what if he kills Poe? He already looks too angry today, so that'd be dangerous.
"I exerted too much stress on it, I guess" she replied.
Madden's brows creased as he got a bottle of disinfectant, but it's surely gonna sting and make her go crazy the moment it touches the wound
He changed his mind and got a milder one, disinfecting the wound with it then going ahead to pour several herbal treatment on it just to make it close up quickly.
Adeline kept biting her lip repeatedly, trying to figure out what's going on in his mind.
Why is he not saying anything about her identity?
Will he keep quiet forever?
Why is he treating her wound right now, pretending to be nice when he's not.
He's the same guy who nearly killed his brother inside the cathedral.
Should she risk it and tell him about the mission she's going for Erik tomorrow?
The thoughts made her head bumpy, and her tiredness only grew worse.
Before Madden could finish treating the wound, she already fell asleep.
Madden returned everything to the kit and closed it, then he looked at her sleeping face and smirked, eyeing her smattered freckles.
She trusts him enough to fall asleep on his bed?
That's a huge mistake.
She shouldn't have trusted him.
At all.
He stood and got himself a roll of weed from his stash.
He lightened it and walked out of the room, smoking as he made his way to his workroom.
Tomorrow is the day he'll find out the real snitch, and he can't wait to slaughter whoever it is.
He arrived at the workroom and walked straight to Corey's clay image
He blew smokes out of his thin lips as he stared at it, smirking devilishly.
'I'm not to be trusted, Adeline. I'll ruin you'
TBC.
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