I do not own Black Lagoon or any of its characters etc…

Prologue.

Eda was in the chapel surprisingly drinking alone, she was about to give in and call It a night when a voice came from the church stalls.

"What is salvation?"

Eda went for her glock and carefully approached the stall.

"This is a church stranger, so your answer is god"

The stall opened and out stepped a man who looked fairly familiar.

"That is incorrect, salvation can be anything, a hand to break your fall, a hug from an old friend or even a hello from a stranger"

Eda lowered her gun seeing the man had made no attempt at a violent conflict.

"So what's your name stranger?"

The stranger looked up with a rather pleasant smile.

My name's Richard"

Eda looked back at the chapel.

"Well Richard, want a brink?"

Richard laughed.

"Yes that'll be great, but first do you know were I can find this girl"

Richard pulled a fairly old looking photo, as Eda looked at it, she burst into laughter.

"Yea sure, I'll show you were later…"

Chapter 1 Stranger.

The next morning at the Lagoon company's office everyone except Rock was busy, Dutch had been on the phone with various clients for the last hour and a half, Benny was fiddling with his computers and Revy was doing whatever she always did.

Suddenly a knock on the door relieved Rock of his boredom.

Rock opened the door as Revy walked through the office lounge, the man at the door spoke.

"What is salvation?"

Dutch and Benny both looked over at the door.

"Huh haven't had a Christian knock in a while"

Benny was about to respond when they heard Revy speak.

"Salvation can be anything, a hand to break your fall, a hug from an old friend or even a hello from a stranger"

Rock looked back over at the stranger who looked past him and straight at Revy.

"Hey Rebecca long time no see, even with your letters I hadn't expected this"

Revy was still staring with her mouth slightly open as the stranger crossed the room and hugged her.

Benny looked over and spoke.

"So who is this guy?"

Revy let go of the stranger and spoke more to the three of them than to just Benny.

"This is my brother"

The others looked rather perplexed, seeing their reluctance to accept this new revelation Revy took of Richards jacket revealing his arm.

"See matching tattoo's, mine run's down the right arm whilst Richards runs down his left"

All three could see on Richard's arm was a exact copy of Revy's tattoo.

It was Rock who spoke next.

"So why haven't we heard of you before?"

Richard put his jacket back on as he responded.

"Well you might not know anything about me, but I know everything about you three, Rebecca talk's about you all the time"

Benny suddenly acknowledged something unseen by the rest.

"So the letter you make me send every couple of weeks is to your brother"

Revy looked slightly irritated at Benny.

"Yea that letter… the secret one's you weren't supposed to say anything about"

Dutch looked over ready to save Benny's life.

"So Riky what do you do?"

Richard looked over at Dutch, slightly confused.

"Riky?"

Rock spoke again to explain.

"Dutch give's us nicknames, Rebecca is Revy and you are now Riky"

Revy now getting slightly irritated.

"Well Riky, why are you here of all place's isn't this out of N.Y.P.D jurisdiction?"

At the mention of N.Y.P.D the atmosphere inside the room grew tense.

Benny looked around before speaking.

"That's kind of a different career choice from your sister isn't it?"

Riky smiled as he grabbed Revy's arm.

"Well after what we'd been through as kid's I wanted to prevent it from happening to other children, heroic or what?"

Benny nodded along with both Dutch and Rock, Revy had gotten bored with being quiet.

"So Riky how many gun's you carry now still a handgun nut?"

Riky smiled, he seemed to be enjoying Revy's childishness.

"Eight, including a revolver now as well"

Riky had an innocent smile as he pulled out six guns.

"This is my police issue M9"

Riky placed a plain Berretta M9 on the table.

"These are my Colt M1911's"

Riky placed the two guns on the table they had slight differences but no major changes.

"This is my Smith and Wesson M500"

Riky pulled out a revolver the size of his forearm.

"And these are my main boy's"

Rock, Dutch and Benny all looked with slightly more concentration as Riky pulled out two customised M92F's which were exactly the same as Revy's"

Rock said it out loud.

"Revy's gun's are the same as those"

Riky smiled a perfectly natural smile.

"Well yeah I designed them after all"

Benny spoke next.

"Well that's six you said you had eight"

Riky's smile became slightly sinister.

"Only the dead have seen the other two"

Benny took the hint he'd seen Revy with that look before and knew better than to argue.

"Oh I almost forget"

Riky went over to the door and pulled in a couple of suitcases.

"Is there anywhere worth booking a room?"

Dutch laughed.

"Don't bother we got a guest room if your alright with it being untidy"

Riky thanked Dutch and went to place his suitcases in the room as one broke open most of the stuff being fairly basic things.

Nothing odd except a letter and what and what Riky didn't see was the box that fell out to.

Benny went over and picked up the letter.

"Hey someone wrote over Revy's letter"

At the sound of that Riky flinched, Benny continued.

"At the end it say's love from Rebecca"

Benny, Dutch and Rock all looked at each other before bursting into laughter.

The three continued laughing until they heard Revy's voice sounding slightly agitated.

"Richard what's this doing here?"

Richard froze as he saw what Revy was holding"

"I fixed it up and made sure the bullets are still fireable…"

Revy opened the box to reveal a rather old but well looked after revolver, on closer inspection the six shooter revolver only had four bullets loaded."

"You'd said you'd gotten rid of it"

Richard looked slightly panicked and started looking rather unnerved.

"Revy there's a reason I'm here…"

Dutch, Benny and Rock all looked rather perplexed, Richard continued.

"Revy that last letter you sent me was intercepted by… by…"

Revy was starting to lose her patience and there was defiantly fear in her voice.

"Richard who did it?"

Richard picked up the letter and showed the words to Revy.

"Hello my children, Rebecca I'm afraid you missed but don't worry I'll finish what I started"