You know what they do to guys like us in prison
Gerard smirked as he sipped his coffee, discreetly looking around the crowded restaurant, next to him Ray chatted with Bob about this and that. Frank and Mikey sat across from him, the former with a dangerous grin and the latter with a poker face. As bored as he looked, Mikey too was gazing around.
It happened in a second, a group of five stood up and drew arms, Gerard and co. didn't miss a beat as they stood and did the same. The two groups stared at each other with mirrored smirks while 40 terrified patrons watched, or ducked under tables. One girl took out her cell phone, with obvious intentions of calling emergency services.
"I'd put that away if I were you, darling" Gerard drawled without looking away from his opponents.
"Doesn't matter anyway" Stated the man opposite Gerard conversationally
"Oh?"
"Yea, the sound of gunshots will drag any cop in earshot here"
And with that, the shots rang out; there was blood as innocent people were caught in the crossfire. Gerard found himself disturbed and fascinated at the same time. A loud swear alerted him that one of the opposing gang members had been shot.
The leg, probably Mikey then Mikey liked to shoot people in the leg because it was the most painful yet non-lethal place to get shot. Frank would go crazy, releasing shots in an apparently haphazard way that never missed its target. Ray was controlled, he had the best aim of all of them, known to take out any enemy in one hit, and that's exactly what he did. Bobs style resembled Mikeys closely, but he would always aim for the artery in the thigh, ensuring they'd be dead in seconds. Gerard shot at the heart and the head, often he had been accused of overkill by his teammates, he didn't really care; it was the blood that fascinated him. It would come gushing like a crimson river from open wounds, drowning his victims as they lay in a puddle of their own blood as they gasped out their last breaths.
The battle ended quickly
"Let's get out of here" Mikey said, coolly, Gerard was still panting with adrenalin, Frank laughing his head off while Ray shook his head, his fro bouncing
"There's too many witnesses" He said, Bob nodded and was about to reply when an outside voice flooded the restaurant
"We have the place surrounded, Come with your arms in the air!"
At once, the group all turned to Gerard with eyes that trusted him implicitly.
"C'mon, we're getting out of here" Gerard announced and they followed him into the back room where there were cowering kitchen staff.
"I chose this place for a reason" Gerard grinned and opened a trap door on the ground, raising dust into the air. They all quickly huddled in and ran down the stairs into a long tunnel that they sprinted down. By the time they'd reached the end of the tunnel they were all saturated in sweat, panting heavily. Gerard grinned and loosened the red tie around his neck and ran a hand through his mop of black hair
"That was fucking fantastic!" He exclaimed
"Yea, great fun" Mikey said sarcastically
"What now, boss?" Frank asked sardonically, he had brought them to a dead end and he was sure there were cops on their tail
Gerard opened another trap door, this one in the ceiling and grinned "I know a place we can go"
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"Lady it's me!" Gerard hollered as he stood by the door. It was the dead of night and they were in the centre of a forest in front of a small cottage. It had taken them hours to get here and Gerard seemed to be the only one who wasn't irritated. Mikey looked at the cottage carefully, it seemed familiar.
Suddenly the door was thrown open "Party Poison!" A blonde woman in her thirties cried and locked her arms around him "Kobra Kid!" she exclaimed and hugged Mikey –who stood stiffly in her embrace- too.
Ray and Bob raised questioning brows at each other, having a silent conversation.
"Come in, come in!" Ushered the woman and they all went in, soon they were all sat around a table, with coffee and cakes while the woman explained how she knew Gerard and Mikey
"I was like an auntie to them, you know the cool auntie that helps you sneak into and out a places" She winked at Gerard who laughed at the fond memories
"What's with the nicknames?" Frank asked with an excited face
"They're kinda like aliases, call me paranoid but there's a lot you can do with a name these days" The blonde nodded and added as an afterthought "My name's Lady, Lady of the house, by the way, but you kids can call me Lady"
"We're in our twenties" Muttered Mikey but Frank grinned wider than before
"Okay then, I want… Fun Ghoul!" he decided
"Jet star" Ray smirked
Bob thought for several seconds before deciding "Bulletproof danger heart"
The room was silent before they all burst out laughing –even Mikey smirked-
"It's a bit of a mouthful isn't it?" Gerard asked between guffaws, Bob just shrugged and drank his coffee. Which reminded Gerard …
Mikey was in the middle of talking to Lady –"I swear it was Party Poison over there who killed your plants"- when he saw Gerard from the corner of his eye "Oh stop staring and just take it" he groaned and Gerard grinned before taking the coffee and knocking it back.
"Y'know if we're on the run we're gonna need to change our look again" Ray pointed out
"Just don't leave the cottage, I'll buy you some clothes tomorrow, and hair dye" Lady nodded "Now off to bed with yee"
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They all slept in the one guest bedroom together, scattered around the small room lying and staring up at the ceiling
"Hey Ge- I mean Party Poison" Frank started
"Yea?"
"How did you know about the tunnel in that restaurant?"
Gerard could feel the room listening "I knew the girl who ran it, well her parents ran it, but she showed it to me"
From the tone of his voice they could tell that this girl, whoever she was, was important to him and that it pained him to talk of her. Mikeys' eyes darkened with memories.
When Gerard was 16 he ran away from home, leaving behind his many tormentors but also his brother, Mikey. Mikey had been hurt by this, Gerard had come back three years later, looking haunted and with an alcohol addiction. He refused to talk about what had happened and not long after that they met Frank and Ray and Bob and they formed a group of thrill seekers, firing bullets to get back at the society that screwed them over.
Gerard slumped down onto a swing in the deserted playground and sighed, running away probably wasn't the best idea. He didn't have much money and with his appearance everyone seemed to think he was a criminal. His pride wouldn't let him go back home, the sun was setting anyway so travelling in the dark was probably a bad idea when you're on foot.
"I suppose staying here would be a bad idea too" he muttered
"Come stay with me then!" A girls voice sounded above him, he looked up in surprise at the smiling girl in front of him, she looked at least seventeen but it was hard to tell.
"What?" He asked incredulously, the girl merely smirked brushing a stray strand of blonde hair out of her face
"I said, come with me, my family has a guest bedroom and you don't look particularly dangerous, I mean how good of a killer could you be if you didn't see me coming?" she asked mockingly, blue eyes twinkling in amusement
"Is this the part where you lure me to a van where a big man with an axe kills me?" Gerard asked but got up anyway, the worst thing that could happen was that he'd get tortured and killed, but judging by the people he'd seen in the neighbourhood so far that was likely to happen anyway
"Don't worry, sweetie, there's no need for an axe-man, I could kill you all by myself"
"I like you" Gerard decided
"Good, the name's Quente" she smiled
"Gerard, and are you sure Quente is a real name?"
Gerard was brought from his musings by Bobs' voice
"What if they get us?"
"They won't" Gerard said determinedly
"But what if they do?" Bob pressed
"They won't" Gerard repeated and his voice brooked no arguments.
It wasn't long before they all fell asleep, Gerard being the last, reluctant to sleep as he knew the person who would appear in his dreams. Quente.
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AN
Okay so that was the first chapter. Review please ^-^
Oh and I know that Bob doesn't actually have a killjoy name so I typed his name into a killjoy name machine thing… and that's what came up