Victor had gone out earlier that morning after telling Nathaniel that he needed more than just a few extra supplies to clean up, this dump. And Victoria had been about to follow him out too, bags secretly packed with her stuff and some stolen goods from the gang's vault. But just as they had been about to go, Nathaniel had decided on that exact morning that he would take a morning stroll. And had caught them mid-flee.

Resulting in Victor, of course, having to lie for them, again. Which didn't Nathaniel seem to believe, at first? But after a few moments when Victor's lie actually began to make sense, so did Nathaniel's grin before he went into full on bolts of laughter. Making Victoria shiver as she realizes that for a boy who was supposedly not cunning, he sure could tell when someone or something was off.

As he first sat them down to have an early breakfast with him. Claiming that they couldn't go on an empty stomach, and certainly, wouldn't have had time during their cleaning session. Before talking about how much he appreciated their help on the raids. Almost as if he was trying to distract and guilt trip them. Victoria had only suspected this of course, at first. But his final bit of action was what really gave it away. As just as she had thought that they would get away, he had pulled a completely different card out of his sleeve and used it.

Blindly asking if Victoria wanted to stay with him in order to help count up the supplies. Since they didn't need two people for that small of a load.

Victoria had tried to tell him that they simply always stayed together for stuff like this. Which honestly hadn't been a lie but by the way he had waved his hand both twins had known that they wouldn't be together today. As Victor cast her one final worried glance at the tunnel exit before leaving. Victoria had wanted to scream in complete frustration at Nathaniel. But knew that if all else's failed, that they could always just leave when everyone went on the supply run.

But as more than two hours slowly passed and soon three, well that's when she had begun to worry.

'What was taking him so long.'

'Did he get caught by someone?'

'Had Nathaniel actually caught on to them?'

'Was her brother dead?'

At that last thought, Victoria couldn't help but let out a noise of frustration as she finally finished counting the cans of fruit, and wrote it down. Slapping the paper onto Nathaniel's clipboard she did not wait to see if the group had finally left before sprinting down a few tunnels until she ended up in her and Victor's space.

'Where was he?' She had questioned aloud as she paced their small area. Never quite getting used to just how close the walls actually were, or how close the ceiling pipes were. But of course Victor had always had it worse as he was a bit taller than her and as a result had to hunch or risk hitting his head repeatedly.

The thought alone made Victoria feel even worse.

Victor had always had it hard and never complained, which in turn made it extremely frustrating for Victoria. Who was probably the worst at reading other people's emotions? Then again Victor had never really been what you would call an open soul. Always staying around his sister or to himself.

He had never been chosen to be adopted when they lived in the orphanage. Because he was too pale or too quite or just down right creepy. Which resulted in Victoria having to act the same since usually that meant that the couple was planning on choosing her.
Until it happened, on the final day that they had stayed at the orphanage. A rich couple had come in, looking for a son. And had decided that they wanted him, which was when he had made the quick choice to take care of Victoria himself, rather than be adopted by people who could make him happy.

Victoria almost began to cry, until finally, her brother's soft voice rang through the quiet room and into her ear. He was looking at her, with his usual concern in his eyes. Probably wondering why she was laying on their bed with his pillow covering her chest and half her face. But just before he could ask anything else, she jumped up and hugged him. Not leaving him any time to say anything as he stiffly hugged her back.

She didn't even know how long they stayed there, but she did know that when she pulled back and looked her brother in the eye. All she saw was stony-eyed determination, making her grin slowly take up her face as he quickly walked over to her bag and picked it up. Before setting it on his back and motioning for her to follow.

The group and Nathaniel had finally left meaning that all they had to do now was avoid anyone they knew above ground until they made it to the subway.