Twisted Empire - Episode 101&102

 

TWISTED EMPIRE

Twisted Empire - Episode 101&102

(Her Blade, His Neck )

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by Naomi Cindy B.

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There was silence for one minute straight, the cops are dealing with glacial shocks right now.

"You're the same person who killed my girlfriend Gem cos she wasn't rich enough. All because you wanted me for Teal. Why? What have I ever done to you?" Xanthe sniffled, eyes stabbing Spyros.

"F+ckin hell." Jason muttered, looking at Katerina then at Spyros.

Xanthe quickly held Jason's arm, balancing himself with it so he won't fall with shock as she stared at Katerina shockingly.

He was thinking she moved according to the president's orders. He thought she was only a pawn in the president's game, but turns out she's the biggest fish.

Katerina is already shedding tears, but Spyros doesn't seem shocked cos he once read her phone diary too, and that's how he knew she used Four for her work.

Reason why he told Teal's Uncles that Four is involved in the Ambrose couple death, and it's the reason he told Four that he's the one who killed the couple.

Xanthe couldn't talk anymore. He's already crying again like a baby. Jason hugged him again, letting him cry on his chest while stroking his neck.

Mr. Yuri took a deep breath after the shock settled inside his bones, then he came closer to the two criminals.

"I've always known you're not a good person since the death of your wife." He started.

Spyros blinked.

"Your wife died of br+ast cancer when you were outside the country for official duties. Official duties could have been paused, but you didn't. You stayed abroad till the burial was over before you returned, and I have reports that you haven't even visited her gravesite for once. I mean...who does that?" Mr. Yuri continued, nodding to his own correct deductions.

"You're more than an animal, Spyros Dimitris. And you, Katerina Jenkins, you're not only a whore, but also a lower animal. Reporters are already waiting outside, I'll give you both the best send-off to jail" He continued.

"He knows where Empress is hiding, please break his head and make him confess if you have to. That woman is evil." Xanthe said.

"He's gonna bend by the time we arrive at the bureau." Mr. Yuri scoffed, facing the cops.

"Cuffs!" He ordered.

The two were instantly cuffed, and as they were taken out of the mansion, Spyros was looking back at Xanthe, trying to touch him, but Jason slapped his hand away...

"Don't soil his body with your filth!"

"Xanthe!!" Spyros yelled, but Xanthe's head stayed on Jason's chest. He didn't look up at all.

"Xanthe!!" 

"Quentin!!" Katerina shouted, too.

Quentin raised his two middle fingers, and that was enough to shut her up till she was pushed out.

Xanthe finally raised his face from Jason's chest. He has soaked his shirt with tears, but Jason didn't seem to care.

"How do I live from now on? My life is us ruined totally. The citizens won't only hate my father, but also me. I...I can't handle hate. I just wanna live my life simply and...i don't wanna get killed..." She shook his head.

Jason cupped his face gently, giving him a reassuring smile.

"I'm gonna stay by you, and of course you'd be hated for your father's sins, but it'd only make you stronger." 

Xanthe nodded, and Jason wiped part of his tears with his thumb before pulling his head to his chest again for comfort. 

Xanthe's arms wrapped around him very tight, and Jason smiled.

"What next now?" Quentin asked beside them.

"Oh...you have no idea. Things are about to get messy. Don't go out unnecessarily, cos the next terrorist attack? I seriously dunno how many more people has to die cos of Spyros and Katerina's sins." Jason said.

"Spyros sins?" Xanthe looked up.

"Sorry to break this to you, soft boy...Rue Ambrose is Usman. She survived the accident,, and USMAN is the acronym of their stolen project title." Jason replied.

Quentin and Xanthe received yet another shock.

Meanwhile, it's more messy outside than Mr. Yuri said.

There are hundreds of reporters, cameras—standing ones and movable ones, white flashlights, wild questions and screams.

Katerina and Spyros were getting egged aggressively as they marched towards the police cars, and guards protection was declined by Mr. Yuri, so all the eggs landed directly on their bodies, flashlights clicking their faces like national thieves and questions bursting the morning.

• Is your wickedness an inherited trait, or did you develop it yourself?

• Spyros Dimitris! How many people did you kill before becoming president?

• How long have you been killing? Since womb?

• Katerina Jenkins, did you by any chance have a child with your soulmate Spyros?

• For how many years have you been crushing on him?

• Did you preserve your womb waiting for his fertilization?

• Are you both gonna get married in jail? Invites please!!

The questions were ridiculously demeaning, and none of the two could look up nor talk. They could only take the hits from the eggs till they entered the cops car which drove out of the estate.

They're with two cops plus Mr. Yuri in one car, and the other cops followed behind in different cars.

The reporters in the estate would be small compared to the ones that'd be at the bureau. Katerina just knows things would get worse when they arrive, so she began crying.

It's like someone had suddenly flipped the switch.

The main police car was crossed by a speeding car on the highway, and Mr. Yuri thought it was only a coincidence till more speeding cars entered the road, blocking the entries of other cars and also blocking the movements of the police cars.

The police cars were targeted, and Mr. Yuri knew it'd lead to an hijack, so he drew his gun, leaned out the windows and shot at the blocking cars. The other cops followed his lead, shooting out through the windows and trying to slime their way out of the blockage.

But the cars didn't stop coming. They even multiplied till every police car got stuck in the middle. They were suffocated, their bodily metals pressing in with violent dents.

White fumes like gas poured into the cars, and it didn't take a second before the cops slept off in the middle of the hijack. All except Mr. Yuri who covered his nose with an hanky.

But he wasn't enough to fight off the hijackers cos he might have covered his nose, but his eyes absorbed some of the fumes, weakening him.

Katerina and Spyros were both dragged out of the car by the hijackers. They were thrown in a van which rode off the highway with a rough screech that imprinted the tires on the tar.

The other blockage cars followed after the van.

Mr. Yuri fell out of the car, standing from his knees before grabbing his phone, walking away from fumes.

"There was an hijack, definitely Usman." He reported to the constitutional office.

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[Therapeia Underground Annex]

Paul arrived just when the patients opened the second door with the code. They trembled, thinking he's one of the assistants.

Gem covered the others from him.

"Don't wait, Dave's partner, Go!" Paul pushed them out and entered the place, handed Gem the halo vial before shutting the door.

He met the five assistants who're chasing after them, and the two sides stopped at a time.

Paul rolled up his sleeves, motioning at them. They made the mistake of drawing closer to him, and their teeth were gone in a whim.

All five of them lost part of their teeth from his punches, and their bodies slammed on walls and hit the ground.

Turns out Empress didn't train her assistants, she only relies on the dogs and herself for protection.

Paul entered the inner door, gasping when he saw Dave lying on the bloody ground with half-eaten flesh.

His right leg is almost gone, and his stomach...the intestines are out. A part of his face has been ripped apart too. He looks like he's dead.

"David!!" Paul shrieked, running fast to kneel beside him.

"Are you crazy? How could you... how could you allow them to do this? How could you!!!" He cried, not even knowing where to touch on his body since everywhere is in shreds.

Dave's eyes opened a bit, and he smiled dryly—his last smile which spread agony across his remaining seen features.

"I don't regret it. At least, the patients and Gem are safe now. If Emily didn't steal my copy of the black book from me, then she wouldn't be this cockily powerful. It's my fault, I should have been more careful." 

"You can't start blaming yourself right now!! You can't die!!! Rue your sister is USMAN!! It was Empress who ruined her womb for the President! The news is all-over the country! The president got caught!!" Paul cried again, his tears hot.

Dave raised an hand, and Paul took it, slowly...

"David...."

"Paulo it's time... I trust you can do better than me. I... I'm dying a happy man, so don't cry... Marry a wife and live in the ranch with her, and... maybe when you give birth to your own child, you can name him David in my remembrance? Live well..." 

Dave's smile fell from his face, and it was his life that fell next from his chest as his eyes closed.

"David!!!!!!!" Paul cried louder, his voice shaking with grief and pains and sadness.

"David.... Dave..." 

Paul's eyes were watering so bad, and he wouldn't have stopped if he hadn't heard a low growl behind him. 

The growl made him stand, and he was enraged to see the line of mad dogs behind him.

He drew a bottle out of his pocket, pouring a cream-coloured powder on his palm.

He covered his eyes with his second palm, and immediately the dogs came for him, he blew the powder, blinding them permanently.

The angry dogs stopped moving when they lost their sight, and that just offered him the needed opportunity.

He drew a knife out of his back pocket, starting from the first dog.

He tore it limb by limb just the way they did Dave.

He moved to the second, third...till the last one, tearing them apart. By the time he was done, the hall is full of bloody dog furs,purs, heads and slaughtered body parts.

Paul moved into the annex with bloodied hands and knife, but by the time he arrived, Empress already escaped. She's nowhere.

"Ahhhgggggggg!!!!!!" Paul screamed out angrily stabbing the knife with the wall.

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[Military Cantonment, Clinic]

Paine is still unconscious, but according to the doctors, he's already stable, he just has to wake up though it might take days or even weeks before he does.

Yulia and Kash are the only one in his ward with him right now. The others are in the other ward where Rook is.

Rook already woke up, and he has been crying sickly.

Nothing could pacify him, so the others just sat, watching him cry loudly in bed.

"You should calm your chest a bit," Brent said.

"That's right. You fell in love with him, he fooled you, but he also fooled us all and I'm crying inside right now." Shannon added.

"Hand tremor? He's a very good actor. So back then during the scarecrow training, he intentionally shot the dog?" Morgan said.

"I should have suspected the moment I heard he was 22. Master Kash said he was enlisted cos he cooked up a story of how he was raped and how his family was killed by Usman's men, so they let him in cos they believed his anger would fuel his skills." April said.

"Raped? Family killed? Oh wow! I'm impressed!" Brent clapped, and Shannon joined him.

Rook's cries went higher, and they all stopped talking immediately.

"Dude even gave him a bunny necklace." Brent whispered to Shannon.

"Seriously?" Shannon muttered.

"I'm telling you, everlasting love shit but look at him. Rook is broken." Brent sighed.

"Is Teal not back yet? It's getting suspicious." April said.

"She went somewhere?" Morgan blinked.

"Said she was going to get Rook something to calm him down, and we've not seen her. It's been..." Shannon checked the time.

"Five hours ago? Give hours!!" She screamed.

"What!" Rook got down from the bed, pausing his tears.

He rushed out of the ward, and the others followed him as they head to Paine's ward.

"Battery...I mean Teal, she's not back yet. It's been five hours." Rook reported.

"What!" Yulia and Kash stood at the same time, eyes wide.

Everyone got their phones, and they were about to start dialling her when Four rushed inside.

His face shows the fear in his heart, and Yulia could hear the maddeningly fast beats coming from his chest. He's covered in sweat.

"Where is she?" He questioned.

"She left since five hours ago, yet to return." Brent reported.

Yulia heard the increase in Four's heartbeats, and she went closer, holding him.

"She'll be fine."

He pulled out his phone when it bleeped, and the text he saw made sweat fall from his chin.

350: Told ya, that I was gonna take your dearest betrothed. It finally happened. Hurray! (Laughing emoji)

Four quickly texted back...

Four: Rue... She's not your daughter, but if you hurt a strand of her hair, I'll die with you. 

350: Of course you have no regards for human lives, not even yours. And that's why you were able to make that call that night. We didn't agree to come cos you promised to pay; we were already living fine back then. We agreed to come cos we loved you! Why did you think we signed the agreement to give our daughter to you? It was because we adored you! But what did you do, you connived with the president, made that call and called us to death! I won't stop, till I kill the right number in this country. By now, you should have known there are five black birds. Spyros, Katerina, Emily, and you! You're the number four. Prof Kai is the fifth bird. I'll give y'all popular deaths that the whole world will watch on their televisions while shaking in fear! And yunno the most interesting part? I'll make my daughter,...the one you fell in love with. I'll make her be the one to kill you. Next attack in a week, and this time...I'm not dropping the location, find it with your so-called squad, and I'll slaughter y'all!

The phone fell from Four, and Yulia's arms dropped beside him.

She actually read with him.

"You...you called them to the mansion that night? Huh?" She held his arms again, but Four is already so rigid.

"Talk to me, you did? Hmm? Is that why you locked yourself inside cos you were guilty of their accident? Talk to me is that why?!!" 

Yulia didn't have to try too hard. She was crying like a disappointed mother, and her hold on him went slack as her arms fell back.

The others were watching in silence, and Kash took the remote, putting on the TV at the hall.

They all watched the news from the door, and as each line got read from different news anchors, they received their own share of the shock.

Spyros Dimitris, Katerina Jenkins, Empress Emily and Four DeVille.

Their names appeared on the news, though Four was tagged as a victim of Katerina's manipulation, not part of the criminals.

Yulia had to go on her knees and cry when the part about her first three pregnancies was read.

Emily was behind her three dead babies.

Correction; two.

Empress is behind them, and Sierra ain't even Pedro's child? She belongs to Teal's Uncle Dave?

Yulia closed her eyes, sitting on the ground finally.

Her tears were bitter, and she couldn't even stop.

Everyone else cried with her, except Four who wants to cry but still can't. 

His tears still couldn't fall.

He stood their like a robot, eyes still red with unshed tears as he stared at the screen like he has lost everything.

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[Zeus Hospital]

Cassie is inside her father's ward. She's on a mat beside the bed, and her luggage is on the other side of the bed.

She has been sleeping here since she got sent out of the base two days ago. Nowhere else to go.

There's a small foil cake on her laps which she's eating as she scrolled through her phone.

Everything happening in the country right now is not her cup of tea.

Not the president's arrest or how the base is falling apart.

She's still busy trying to track her real estate agent down, but she's still meeting dead ends.

She nearly smashed the phone, but she remembered that there'd be no replacement if she smashes it, so she drew back.

If this month's pay expires, then her father might die for real. And she'd have to move out of this hospital and go to the streets to start sleeping with beggars.

She didn't stop the tears that's rolling out of her eyes. 

She let it flow, freely.

They're tears of regrets.

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[President's Mansion]

It took a while before Xanthe could be convinced to leave, scared that he might get stoned if he steps outside this mansion.

Endless persuasion from Jason and Quentin finally made him give in.

Jason helped him pack some of his belongings into two big bags, and they dragged them out.

As expected, there are still reporters outside, waiting to give him shit, but with Quentin and Jason's protection, he was safe.

They pushed the stubborn reporters off their tail, and Xanthe stayed behind Jason throughout.

Quentin threw Xanthe's bags into his car trunk, then he drove out of the estate first.

Xanthe gummed his body to Jason's on the bike, and Jason rolled the bike out of the estate too.

They didn't even bother to use helmet since there's no time for it.

The moment they came out of the estate to the first street, Xanthe saw someone. 

He wasn't sure at first cos of the change in physique and complexion, but after a second look...

"Stop!" He told Jason whose palms stilled on the handlebars.

"What do you mean stop? The reporters are on our tail."

"But that's Gem!" Xanthe shouted.

Jason instantly stopped the bike, and Xanthe jumped down.

The lady stood on the other side of the road, barefoot. She's staring at their side, too.

Hair still tangled and body still wounded, rashes and pus, tattered clothes. She looks mad.

"Gemma?" Xanthe said, still not believing his eyes.

Jason got down from the bike too, and Quentin came down from the car.

Gem crossed the road to them, and Xanthe's eyes widened more.

They were both 19 when he thought she died, and now he's 28, meaning it's been 19 years.

"Gem?" His voice broke out.

"Xan" She sobbed, her lips trembling as her tears began pouring.

"It's really...you?" Xanthe muttered, and she nodded.

"Your dad sent assassins to kill my family, and at the same time, Empress wanted to kill us cos of the secret about Yulia's babies, but the assassins already killed my parents before she arrived. She replaced me with another girl who was killed, and she took me with her to her mental asylum.. I've been in her annex since then." She explained.

"For 9 years?" Xanthe swallowed.

She nodded again. "The truth is, my dad only helped Empress inject Yulia's gin during her first two babies, but during her third and fourth babies, dad diluted the injections, so even if it'd affect the third and fourth babies, it'd be mild and they wouldn't die. That's why Four survived, and I'm sure the third child survived too. Dad didn't do it intentionally, Empress threatened him, and...and I'm ruined.." Gem smiled sadly.

"It's over for me...I dunno what to do and where to go...I have nobody, and your father just got arrested and I look mad, I can't—"

She was already in Xanthe's arms at this point. Xanthe hugged her, not minding the smell from her hair and body. Not minding the rashes and pus on her skin.

The hug was tight, and she slowly reciprocated, crying.

Behind them, Jason looked away as fast as possible.

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[USMAN LAB]

Teal met exactly what she expected.

A new world. Combining science, arts and tech. Rue isn't a lowly genius like she knew, this is a whole new level of insane development.

She's insane, more than an average genius. She's everything scary, and intimidating.

This place is located in the President's estate street, and that even made it more crazy. Right under the President's nose?

But the entrance is a shielded grave—Vaughn's grave, so it's understandable why it has stayed undetectable for years.

Teal dropped her flowers on Vaughn's grave, and Rue stayed behind her as she payed homage.

"Our daughter is finally here, Vaughn. She grew into one beautiful, bold young lady" 

"Sorry I haven't come earlier than this, I was getting deceived by a traitor. I was getting fooled." Teal said.

Rue squatted beside her, stroking her back again.

"He's not mad at you. Why would he be mad at his one and only daughter?" She said.

Teal looked at her, smiling a bit.

They went back into the new world lab through a multiple door passage right inside the grave,, and this time, Teal had time to look around more.

The water walls, the cloudy ceilings, the electronic grounds and otherworldly systems.

It's hard to tell what exactly is going on cos there's a lot ongoing at once, but she could tell the making of human robots apart.

And she saw Axel on one of the electric beds...his head is currently open, and some doctors are working on inserting chips inside.

"You really took Axel." Teal muttered.

"I figured out he might be useful to use against Yulia just the way you're against Four. Axel might be a rebellious, bad child, but he's still Yulia's child..her motherly instincts will kick in, and she'd get distracted in battle when she sees him on our side." Rue explained.

"You sure about that? Lady Yulia isn't Black Widow for jokes." Teal said meaningfully, looking around again.

Theo is currently eating while supervising the doctors.

"A mother is a mother no matter what. Give birth first, then you'd understand." Rue replied, and Teal's eyes came back to her.

"Oh...I have a gift for you." Rue smiled, snapping her fingers.

A man brought Anassa and Vonn out of a room, and Teal's eyes widened.

"Isabella!" Anassa shouted.

"Sister!" Vonn smiled out his dimples.

"Why would you bring them here!" Teal faced Rue.

"Cos the upcoming attack in a week is fatal, and I have to keep them here to keep them safe. I'm doing this for you cos she's your birth mother anyways, and Vonn might be from a different father, but he's still Anassa's son so he's automatically your brother. I won't harm them, yunno I'm always on your side." Rue explained.

Teal calmed, and Anassa signalled at the man.

He took Anassa and Vonn back inside...

"Why is the next attack in a week? Why not now?" Teal asked.

"Oh dear, don't be in a rush. I'm staging a soap opera for everyone in this country starting from tomorrow, and it'd take six days. On the seventh day, I launch my attack and everything will be over." Rue explained.

"Soap opera? Featuring?" Teal asked again.

"Spyros, Katerina, Emily, and Prof Kai." Rue mentioned.

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[Next Day, Ring Building]

Empress is fully covered.

Woven hat on her head and muffler on her neck, nose mask and sunglasses.

She slammed her car door shut and ran into the building, expecting to meet Usman waiting already, but she met zero.

"Usman!!! Your best partner is here!!!" She screamed, smiling as she turned around on that spot.

"Usman!!!" 

"I know you're eager to see me too. I only need minor lessons from you, and together we'll be unstoppable! Let's ruin the country together! Let's finish them all in a whim! Come out to me already!!"

"Emily Kroger?" A voice sounded behind her suddenly. She turned back, her eyes meeting the eyes of Rue, but before she could experience the shock very well, her head was hit with a metal pipe.

Blackout.

[An Hour Later]

Empress woke up to a painful dim light blurring her vision, restraints on both arms and legs and even her stomach.

Her first, second and third trials at opening her eyes were futile, but at the third trial, she finally was able to open it.

She's not on the ground, she's on the air, floating.

The chair she was tied to has at least six thick chains holding it up to a metal bar, and it's swinging slowly.

One wrong swing, she'd fall to the ground, and the ground is not even your normal type of ground.

It's full of spike balls, and the sharpness of the spikes are dazzling even in the dim light, so if she falls, she'd lose every inch of her body cos these wicked spikes would tear her to pieces limb to limb, more than her annex dogs would do.

She looked around with trembling breaths, seeing there are cameras around the place. Cameras that are connected to every single television station in Greece, so presently, she's being watched by the whole of the country.

But she's not alone here.

Her chair is not the only chair suspended midair.

Spyros is on another chair not far from hers.

Katerina is on another chair.

Prof Kai is on another.

And they're all restrained with multiple chains like hers.

Now she's getting it, and she's getting it real fast.

She could remember seeing Rue before she passed out earlier, so where this is coming from is so clear.

Rue has been Usman all along? Her eyes came wider just like the eyes of the others.

"It's the first day of the opera show, and I...the host will not appear today, but it's your job to entertain the country citizens. They're all watching you now. Let's start with something simple, I want you all to scream!" Rue's modulated voice came.

The voice she always used whenever she called—the thick male voice.

Then their chairs began swinging, throwing them left right, back and forth. They slammed against each other, the spikes on the ground suddenly coming closer.

Their heads slammed, their noses collided, knees knocked into each other, and their chains began entering their skins, their blood dripping to the coming spikes.

Their screams tore out the their throats automatically, especially Katerina.

It's only just the beginning.

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[USMAN LAB, Two Days Later]

Teal's morning sickness started yesterday at the dinning when she was eating with Rue.

She had left the dinning table to go retch, and she thought it was the change in environment, so she overlooked it and spent the rest of the day training alone in the gym.

But today, it came again with tiredness, fatigue that's hard to ignore, and the retch again.

She has never felt this way before, and she was starting to think it's food poisoning as she stepped out of the bathroom, but she met Rue in front of it. She's pointing a pregnancy test strip at her.

"I've been taking birth control, I'm not pregnant." Teal frowned.

"Are you still underestimating that man till now? He might have switched your pills with placebos." Rue replied calmly.

Teal took the strip from her and went back into the bathroom, dipping the strip into her urine.

She waited painfully like she has never waited all her life, and her eyes twitched sharply when two lines appeared on the strip.

She's f+ckin pregnant.

"See? This just proves it all." Rue entered the bathroom with her, staring at the strip.

"It has to be gone, you can't carry that man's child in you, it'll hinder the upcoming war."

"Then prepare me something to drink. I'll instantly get rid of it." Teal replied, staring at her own reflection in the mirror. She's slightly pale.

Rue smiled, rubbing her back.

"You're still the daughter I raised after all. I'll prepare the abortion drink, and also a full table of food. You need it." 

--

[Military Base, T&F Suite]

Fifteen bottles of gin—no, sixteen.

Sixteen bottles of gin lay on the ground, and Four sat in the middle of it all with the seventeenth bottle in hand, and a cigar.

For the first time in his life, he smoked without his stainless, and he looks like a hot mess as the smokes made his nostrils a passageway.

He's in his uniform, but he still looks wretched. He hasn't been eating nor drinking, just gin and cigar.

The war day is drawing near, and he's losing his wits every millisecond.

Teal's phone has been untraceable since she left with Rue, so it's a lost cause.

The squad and even the entire army are training on the field since everyone is going to the war.

Kash is the one handling the trainings, and Four is just sitting here, feeling useless.

Usman is currently hosting a show for the country citizens, and everyone is watching in fear from the corner of their homes as she tortured the 4 sinners brutally.

He's the last one she's gonna be punishing at war, and she's really smart for taking Teal.

Teal is his strength when she's beside him, but apart from him in his enemy's angle, she's his weakness.

He's not gonna make it back from the war, so he's smoking as much and drinking as much as he could.

He's holding the big dipper painting in hand, the ash from his smokes falling into it.

Yulia barged into the suite, dried tears on her face and lips chapped with the tears too.

"The main reason you're mad at Axel is not really because of what he did to Hera, right? She said.

Four stood, his gin swirling in the bottle as he held it tight with knotted brows.

"I saw him with your phone that night—your twelfth birthday night. He came out of your room and I asked about you but he told me you were already asleep. I asked why he's with your phone and he told me he needed to make a call on it!"

Four dropped his gin, gently.

                       • Age 12 •

After Four went on lockdown that morning, the door to his room didn't open till one week later.

Axel tried to open it, and it actually opened. He ran in, meeting the room in darkness.

He had to turn on the lights on the wall switch, and he froze when he saw Four beside himself, standing there like a daredevil.

Four's hand was on his neck before he knew it, and he started crying.

"I'm not a fool, and you know it. I didn't make that call." Four muttered sadistically.

"After I kicked the phone to you, you picked it and couldn't dial the Ambrose couple before you passed out, so I took the phone and tucked you in bed and cleaned your room and then went to my own room to make the call. I had to harden my voice to make it match your own! I just didn't want to lose you!!! And if time is reversed, I'd still do it!!" Axel cried loudly.

Four threw him out of the room and slammed the door shut.

                  • Present Time •

"He did, right?" Yulia sniffled.

"He did." Four admitted, and Yulia gave him a big, motherly hug.

"Oh...my spider."

TBC.

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