Mafia 2 and all of it's characters belong to 2k.
Lucia and any other OC I may throw in, belong to me.
Recap:
"What did you want to talk to me about?" Lucia asked, worried at what he would say. "Well, first of all here is your pay. I gave you a little more, let's say a bonus for your first kill. Second of all, I have spoken to the don of this family and after some convincing and other things. He has approved of you being in our family. Thirdly, I know I was harsh on you earlier, I was angry that we weren't able to locate your father. I don't want you too think I am using you, I just want to help you find your dad and get the truth and maybe my money, you know?" Eddie explained, standing next to Lucia. As he placed a hand on her shoulder, she looked up at his face. He gave her a small smile, "I personally think you're a great addition to the family and hope maybe you'll like doing this sort of thing again. Sure it's going against everything you believe in now, But would it hurt to go back to the old you, the one who hung with Joe?" He asked. "I can try, But it's going to be hard going back to the old me, when I spent the last 5 years being someone new." She mumbled, thinking about how much she had changed. "It will be hard, but remember this. You'll be safe; Me, Joe and Henry will make sure of that." He said, walking to the door. "Now you go home and think about all of this, ok? Also, do not tell Joe nor Henry about this talk, I don't want them thinking their boss is soft." Eddie asked, giving Lucia another smile. Smiling back at him, she walked over to the door, "I won't, it's safe with me." As he closed the door behind him, she looked back and whispered "The nice side of Eddie, I've missed you."
Dear Diary,
It's me, Lucia. I am sorry I haven't written in you for so long.
My life has become so hectic, I'm involved with the Mafia now.
Reasons to find the where abouts of my father and to try and pay off the money he owes.
Today is the 10th April, 1951, It has been nearly over a year now.
In the last year, I have been reunited with one of my old friends, saw uncle Eddie and met some new people.
One of them is named Henry. At first, he was a jerk to me, than again.. I was quite a bitch to him; But he did kick my ankles a lot. I'm still pretty harsh to him, he is the same way to me, I doubt we'll ever be friends.. I would love to be friends with him, since I am forced to work with him, But I guess you can't be friendly with everyone, eh?
Between you and me, He's pretty good looking. But He wouldn't be interested in me, He is quite older than me and why would he want to be with someone like me? Besides, a guy like him is probably already married! hah..
Enough about Henry!
In the last year, I have been pretty busy.. I feel sorry the store I was once working full-time at. I had to quit and forget about that place, Even though I was pretty close to my dream of owning my own shop.. I guess that's completely out of the window for now.
But why have I been so busy? Eddie has been supplying me with a lot of jobs, Most of these jobs were just sorting people out because of money they owe. It seems tons of people have borrowed money from a Mafia family and just never bother paying it back.
Important news, Vito is being released today!
One of my old friends, I haven't seen this guy since 1943! Holy crap.
I wonder if he's as good looking as he used to be.
I wonder if he even remembers me.. I mean I have changed a lot.
Honestly? I'm nervous as hell.
Oh, I should really be getting ready now, Since I'll be meeting him at Joe's apartment!
I will promise to write in here more..
Bye!
Throwing her journal on the messed up bed, she walked over to her closet and swang the doors open, eyeing up all the clothes. "What should I wear." She thought, as she began slinging clothes behind her. "I can't wear trousers. For once, I want to look like a women. But a dress, Ugh." She sighed, imagining herself in a dress. Lucia hadn't worn a dress in a very long time, she would buy mens clothes and alter them to her size. Growing up around men, She had picked up male traits, not to mention her father would dress her in boys clothes when she was a child. When she got older, she did finally dress and look more feminine, But kept wearing trousers. As she continued going through her clothes, she had finally found a dress she could wear, It wasn't too long, but not too short either and had floral patterns; Perfect for todays weather. "Oh my god, this is going to be fun!" She thought sarcastly as she began changing into the dress.
Looking in the mirror, she began checking herself out. Letting her hair down, she simply smiled. "Wow.. I look so girly." She spoke in a suprised tone. "Now I just need some shoes to finish this look." Looking up at the clock, she was running late, as usual. Rushing back into her bedroom, she lent down to her bed and pulled out a shoe box from underneathe. Opening it, she took out a pair of small heels. "These will have to do." She spoke as she slipped them on. Grabbing a small jacket, Lucia rushed out of her apartment. Going down the stairs, she couldn't help but have a smile plastered over her face; She was extremely excited to be seeing Vito again. As she got out of the front door, she ran over to the sidewalk, waiting for a cab to drive passed, since there was no way she would make it to Joe's in time if she had walked. Finally a cab was driving down, whistling at it, the cab pulled over and Lucia was able to hire it.
As the cab parked outside Joe's apartment, Lucia gave the driver the money and rushed off inside the building. Dashing up the stairs, she managed to bump into someone. "Fuck!" She yelled, grabbing onto the unknown person she had bumped into. "Well, look who finally showed up." Henry said. Shooting her face up, she was staring at an amused looking Henry. "The fuck you doing in my way?" She asked with an annoyed tone. "I was going to drive to your place, to see if you were ready or not, But you're here now." Henry spoke as he grabbed Lucia's arm to pull her into Joe's apartment. "Hey! I'm capable with walking on my own" Lucia said, pulling her arm out of Henrys grip. "Whatever." He shrugged, walking back into Joe's apartment, Lucia followed behind.
"Hey Joe." Lucia said, passing Joe a small wave as she walked through the door. "Lucia Hi. Wait, you're wearing a dress?" Joe gasped, as he began eyeing her up and down. "Umm.. yes? Is there a problem with that?" Lucia asked, raising an eyebrow. "No no! It's just this is the first time I've seen a dress on you! I like it, looks good on ya!" Joe commented, giving a thumbs up. Slightly blushly, Lucia smiled at him, "Thanks." She said as she sat down on the couch. "Oh, I knew something looked different on you." Henry commented as he took the seat next to Lucia. "Huh?" She asked, turning her attention to him. "When I saw you bump into me, You looked different. I couldn't point it out, but you look more feminine today. Looks cute on you." Henry compliment as he turned his view away from her. Those words caused Lucia to choke slightly, But before she could even ask him anything else, a knock on the door was heard. "I think that's him" Joe bellowed as he walked to the door, Lucia took this time to scurry into Joe's kitchen, Henry followed her.
Vito's P.O.V.
As I knocked on the door, it didn't take Joe long to answer it. "Vito! Good to see you pal!" Joe happily spoke, pulling me into a hug. "Joe, it's nice to see you again as well." I say, as we pull away from the small hug. As I walk in, I noticed the make-over of his apartment, it was very... colorful? "What happened to the place?" I asked, checking out the outragious wallpaper. "You like it? Got to keep up with the trends" Joe replied witha smirk. "This is a trend?" I thought. "And what the heck are you wearing? I spoke, noticing the extremely bright shirt Joe was wearing. "Fashion has changed a lot since you've been in jail Vito. This is the sort of things we wear now" Joe answered. "You've got to be kidding me.." I say, hoping I'd never have to wear one of Joe's shirts or anything close to it. Sitting down on the couch, Joe started telling me about the apartment he had found for me, "Thanks Joe, that's really thoughtful." I say in suprise. "Oh that's not all, There is another surprise in this apartment.. Where is it." Joe spoke with a sly grin on his face as he began looking around his apartment.
Third person.
As Lucia dashed into the Kitchen, she leant against the wall and wiped the sweat that had formed on her forehead away with a tissue. "I am so not ready to see Vito again." She mumbled, breathing slightly heavy. "Is that why you ran off?" The sound of Henrys voice appeared, causing Lucia to slightly jump. Looking at him, she nodded a yes notion to him, "I thought I was ready. But what if Vito doesn't even remember me one bit, I mean I have changed a lot.. what if he thinks I'm ugly or just too different to like?" Lucia began questioning herself with worry. "Lucia, stop it." Henry sternly spoke, grabbing her by the shoulders. "I'm sure Vito will recogize you and you are not ugly. I don't know how you were before, but you're a great girl." He kept his eyes locked onto hers. But Before she could say anything, Henry decided to drag her out of the kitchen. "You will thank me for this later." He mumbled as he shoved her by the couch. "You're a dick!" She shouted as she fell into the couch. "Hey Vito." Henry waved, pretending like nothing just happened. "Hey Henry." Vito replied, waving back at him and then put his attention onto the women who had fallen on to the side of the couch. "Are you ok?" Vito asked, as he watched the women pull herself up. "Oh, I'm fine for now." She moaned, flicking her hair out of her eyes.
As she made eye contact with him, they both stayed quiet; staring at one another. "Lucia?" Vito suddenly asked, squinting his eyes at the women. "Vito?" She replied, with the same expression. Without saying anything, Lucia threw herself at him, "VITO!" She shouted, tackling him down to the couch. "Woah! Hello Lucia." He spoke, letting out a small chuckle as he wrapped his arms around the women. "I can't believe it's you!" She said, her voice muffled by Vito's chest. Using one hand to stroke her hair, Vito smiled. "I can say the same thing, I've missed your cheeriness and everything." He comforted. "I've missed you too, I can't believe how much you have't changed, You still look as handsome as you were in 1943!" She commented, lifting her face from his chest. "You think so?" He grinned. "Yeah!" She replied with a toothy smile.
As they both sat up, Lucia couldn't keep her eyes off of Vito, He looked actually the same as before, no differences at all; which she liked. "I must say though, you've grown up, a lot." Vito spoke, giving another grin. "Well, I'm still the trousers wearing girl. I'm just wearing this dress because it's a special occasion!" Lucia explained. "I see." Vito smiled, giving her one last pat on the head as he got up.
"Let's go take you to your new apartment." Joe interrupted as he stood by the door. "Sure, you going to come with or do you have some other stuff to take care of?" Vito asked Lucia. "Yeah, Like you're going to need a new outfit for tonight" Henry added with a smirk. "What.." Lucia said, "Oh yeah, Vito's surprise is tonight, you said before you didn't want to come, did you change your mind?" Joe added. "Uhh, Yeah..." Lucia lied. "Well good! We'll see you tonight then." Vito waved as he followed Joe out of the door. Henry followed them, but before he was out of sight, he quickly looked at Lucia with the same smirk as before, "By the way, You should wear dresses more, you have nice legs." As he said that, He vanished before Lucia could even responde. "What just happened?" She said, her head full of confusion as she walked out of the apartment building. "I don't understand Henry at all. Why is he suddenly complimenting me? It makes no sense. But then he is also such a dick! Putting me on the spot about tonight, God damn I could have skipped the hussy house, But noooo." She yelled, becoming more annoyed at the thought of tonight.
"I can't believe I have to go to that hussy house tonight, FUCK!" She moaned walking down the street, her outbursts had caused quite a bit of unwanted attention to her. "What are you bastards looking at?" She stopped, screaming at the random people who were standing there looking at her. No one replied, but instead lowering their heads like they heard nothing. In response, Lucia gave them all a nice middle finger and proceeded to walk off again in a huff. "God damn people listening to my business." She complained more as she walked down the road. "I guess I have to go now, what am I exactly going to wear though.. This floral dress wouldn't be good." She thought. As she got to the nearest clothes shop, she walked inside and began looking around. She couldn't think what to wear, so we walked to the cashier woman."Uh, Excuse me.. but I know this is going to sound weird, but what kind of dress would a women wear, if she was going to cathouse?" Lucia said in embarrassment. The cashier let out a small chuckle, but came out from behind the counter. "I think you'd want a body hugging dress." she replied, walking over to a rack of dresses. "Body...hugging?" Lucia squeaked in confusion as she followed the cashier. "Yes, it shows your figure and by the looks of it, it will be perfect for you." The cashier winked, passing Lucia a few dresses. "Uh..." Was all Lucia could say as she was being pushed into the changing stall.
A few minutes later, the sound of sighing was heard from Lucia's changing stall. "You've got to be kidding me..." She sighed once more, having a hard time believing such dresses even existed. "Is there a problem miss?" The cashier spoke from the otherside. "Well, Not really. but I mean.. this one fits perfectly, but why do such dresses even exist." She mumbled. "Simple, women wear these to get male attraction and to show off their curves!" The cashier replied with a happy tone. "Hmm.. I guess this is the only dress that would suit such a place. Gosh, men have it so much easier." Lucia complained. "Haha, they do" The cashier replied with a small chuckle. As Lucia came out of the changing stalls back in her clothes, she passed the cashier the dress and walked over to the counter with her. "That will be $250.00 please" She said with a smile. "Woah that is pretty steep for a dress, But whatever, here you go." Lucia sighed, passing the cashier the money. Grabbing the bag, Lucia went out of the shop, giving the cashier a small wave. "Fucking hell, what have I gotten myself into. The guys better freakin' love this dress." Lucia huffed as she began walking back to her apartment, to get ready for what tonight may bring.
As night fell over Empire bay, Lucia was staring at herself in the mirror again; all dolled up as nicely as she could. "I feel so weird. Seriously, It's nice to wear a dress once in a while.. But this? Fuck I feel like someone else." She said as the sound of a car horn was heard. "Huh? I didn't know I was going to be picked up.." She questioned, running over to the window to see who it was. Opening her bedroom window, she popped her head out. "Hey Lucia! I thought maybe you needed a lift to Joes?" Vito shouted from his car window. "I'll be down in a bit then" She replied, passing a small wave. Closing her window, She grabbed a small purse, a jacket and headed on out to the car. "It will be fine." She kept saying to herself as she walked down the stairs. Going outside, Vito was leaning against his car, smoking a cigerette, He had not noticed Lucia walk up to him. "Hey Vito! Thanks for picking me up." She quietly said, as she stood by him "Oh Hey Lucia I-" As Vito was about to continue, he had noticed the dress she was wearing. (She wasn't wearing her jacket at the moment, for the weather was warm.) "You what?" She asked, confused at why Vito had cut off. "You.. that dress. Wow." Was all he could manage as he flicked the cigerette to the floor. "Is it that bad?" Lucia worried, but caused a chuckle to escape from Vito's lips. "Oh you're so amusing sometimes. The dress looks amazing on you, seriously. Come on, let's go to Joes." Vito grinned as he got into the car, Lucia followed and got into the passenger seat.
As Vito pulled up behind Joe's apartment, Lucia had the same worried look as earlier slapped on her face. "You'll be ok. Just wait outside, I'll go in and get them." Vito suggested slipping her a small smile as he got out of the car. "Ok." Lucia replied, slowly getting out of Vito's cart. He walked inside the apartment, leaving Lucia. "If Vito says I look fine.. I look fine right?" She asked herself, keeping her eye on the backdoor. "But what if Henry thinks you look stupid." Her mind raced, not what she needed right now. "No. It will be fine. I trust Vito's voice." She responded to her mind. "I'm dying for a drink" The roaring voice of Eddie's came. "Oh god." Lucia gasped, trying to find somewhere to hide. As they walked out the door, Eddie gave Vito the keys to his car, "You can drive." He said, Vito nodded in agreement. As they all began getting in the car, Joe stopped by the door "Hey, didn't you pick up Lucia?" He asked, looking around the area. "I did.. she was here." Sighing, Vito got back out of the car. "Get in the car Joe, I know where she is." Joe listened to Vito and got into the back with Eddie, as Henry had taken the passenger seat. "I thought you was here." Vito grinned, casually leaning by the corner of the garage. "I'm nervous Vito." Lucia pouted, "You're fine, come on" Vito said, grabbing her hand. Lucia allowed him slowly, so he dragged her to the car. "You'll have to sit in the back with Joe and Eddie, I hope you don't mind." He added as he opened the door for her. "That's fine" She mumbled as she got into the car, sitting next to Joe.
"Hey Joe, Hey Eddie, Hi Henry.." She greeted, sounding extremely blank when she had said Henry's name. "It's about time you showed up, Henry commented, "Yeah well, shut up" She replied. "Are they always like it?" Vito asked, "Yeah. yous get used to it" Joe answered. "By the way, "You're looking lovely tonight" Joe said to Lucia, as he took her hand and kissed it. Looking shocked at Joe's sudden action, she smiled at him. "Well.. Thank you Joe! You're looking rather nice tonight yourself!" She replied, Joe simply gave her a wink. "I agree with Joe." Eddie added, passing a sly smile towards Lucia. Blushing, Lucia bit the her bottom lip and grinned back at Eddie. "Thank you!" she piped. "See, told you it would be fine" Vito smirked as he kept his eyes on the road. Henry slightly turned his head to have a quick glance at Lucia, though he said nothing to her. "She looks rather nice tonight.." His mind raced, "No, Bad. She is my work partner, that is all. Plus she is young. So no thinking about her in any other way." He thought as he turned his attention back infront. "So Have you told Vito where we are taking him yet?" Eddie asked Joe. "No, But I might as well now since he needs to know because he is driving" Joe responded. "We are taking you to the Garden of Eden." Eddie presented, giving his usual sly grin. "Whoopy" Lucia sarcastically added, twirling a finger in the air. Her response had made Vito chuckle, He knew she would probably hate the place they were going, but was happy she had tagged along. "Oh, don't let me get too drunk, I have business to take care of after.." Eddie quickly added as they got closer to the cathouse. "Sure thing" Joe replied, "They will get drunk.. so drunk" Lucia thought, nodding her head in a no motion.
Vito parked outside the cathouse and with that, everyone got out. Walking into the cathouse, Lucia kept herself behind the guys, "I feel so awkward." she mumbled, keeping her head down. Women in skimpy outfits were all over the place, giving all types of services to the drunken men that were here. As they found a table to sit, Lucia decided to sit by Vito. As an hour flew by, Eddie was having a conversation with Henry, Joe and Vito about business, Lucia couldn't join in on this conversation because of how uncomfortable she was. Eddie was soon being given some form of service from one of the cathouse workers while he was talking, so Lucia decided to go sit by the bar.
"Have I told myself how awkward it is being here.." She said to herself, taking a sip of some alcohol. It wasn't long until she started walking back to the others, because it looked normal again. But a guy grabbed her arm, stopping her from moving. "Hey sweetheart, how about you and me go have a nice private session together" He drunkenly slurred, pulling Lucia closer to him. "Hah, I don't think so" She quickly replied, trying to free herself. "You're not going anywhere, except where I go" He slurred some more, dragging her towards the stairs. "Get the fuck off me!" she shouted, kicking the guy in the shins. The sound of his pain was drowned out by the loud music and talking that went on. But luckily enough, the guys where able to see what had happened. As Lucia tried to go back to the others, the same man grabbed her again, this time he didn't care if she hit him or not, he was going to get her upstairs. As she was being dragged to the stairs once more, a fist proceeded to punch the random drunk man in the face. "Where do you think you're taking Lucia." Vito's voice spoke, anger in his tone. "Vito!" She said, quickly moving to him. He wrapped his arm around her to protect her, As the man got up from the floor holding his face where it was hit. He tried punching Vito back, which ended up badly; because as he tried punching Vito, He ended up falling into another guy. Which caused a small fight to bust out between the two drunk men. The bouncers were soon involved and began trying to sort it out. Allowing Vito and Lucia to head back to the table "Are you alright?" Vito asked Lucia, as he kept an arm around her. "I am now." She piped, a smile on her face. "This is why you need to stay with me, I don't want you getting hurt," Vito spoke with care.
As they got back to the table, Lucia sat down next to Vito, but it wasn't long until some women wanted him to go upstairs. "You'll be alright, Just stay with Henry or something." He waved, going along with two women. "Yeah, sure.." Lucia waved back feeling awkward again. Looking over to Henry, she watched how he was flirting around with a women, like the others were doing. "I guess I will just sit here alone and drink." She mumbled to herself with pity. But couldn't keep her glare off one of the women, who was more noticable than the others. She was absoloutely stunning and had been hanging around with the guys since they had arrived. "Maybe she's a friend of Vito's.. she was acting extremely friendly towards him earlier." Lucia mumbled, sipping her drink as she kept her head low.
Henrys P.O.V
As I had a women over me, I noticed Lucia at the corner of my eye, she looked pretty miserable if you ask me. She was also looking very nice tonight, though, she is always pretty. Wait, I can't think like that about her, the age between us and by the way she acts, she has a thing for Vito. But what does Vito have that I don't? Sure he is more her age, but still.. What are with these thoughts?! Maybe it's these drinks. As I ignored the feeling and my thoughts I dismissed the woman who was with me. I decide to move over to Lucia, tapping her on the shoulder she quickly lifted her head up, giving me her attention. "Lucia, if you want to go, you can." I said. "What? I'm fine haha.." she replied, I could see she was just trying to be nice. "It's my fault you're even here, I'm sorry.." I apologise, as I cup the side of her face. "No It's fine, Really Henry. I'm glad to be here, I get to be with Vito.." The moment she said his name, I felt that same feeling again. Letting go of her face, I turn my attention away from her. I don't mean to be cold towards her, But I don't really deal with these emotions daily. "I'm going to go get a drink.. do you want one?" She asked me, I kept my attention from her, but nodded a no. She said nothing to me in return, I have a feeling she's pretty pissed at me now; I really need to stop being a dick towards her.
Third person.
As Lucia rushed towards the bar, she stopped and began to watch a very drunk Joe trying to dance. As she nodded her head and giggled, he had noticed her. "Luciiiiiiiaaaaaaaaa" He called, stumbling over to her, "Hi Jooooeee!" She tried mimicing him, but ending up yelling it, as Joe grabbed her and began twirling her around. As Henry looked over to Joe and Lucia dancing, the pain that struck him before, hit again. He generally had no idea what this feeling was. Sighing, He decided to get the woman back from earlier to keep him occupied. "Joooooooe let me gooo. I'm getting dizzy!" Lucia shouted. "But, I'm having so much fun!" He replied as he tilted her.
It looked as if he was about to kiss her, as he closed his eyes, Lucia was able to slipped out of his arms and rush away; causing Joe to fall onto the floor. Pulling himself up, Joe quickly moved on to the next women he laid eyes on, forgetting what had happened with Lucia. "Phew, Thank god he's very drunk.." Lucia sighed, standing by the bar. "Heeey Luc-ia!" Eddie stammered, giving her a grin from the bar. "Oh Eddie.. Don't tell me you're drunk too." She said. "I'm so glad I am not drunk" Her mind thought. "Have I ever told you how beautiful you are! Any man would be lucky to have you, you ain't like any broads around here!" He continued, sounding more drunk as he spoke. "What...Me? Beautiful? Surely you're talking about someone else." Lucia quickly answered, slightly blushing from realising what Eddie had said. "I'm being serious! Joe, Vito and even Henry would agree!" he said, giving her a wink when he mentioned Henry's name. "Henry..really?" She pondered, moving her eyes back over to Henry. She suddenly felt a hand softly touch her shoulder, causing her to flinch a little. "It's true.. From what he told me, he thinks-" Before Eddie could finished, a bouncer for the club grabbed Eddie. "It's time to leave." The man had said, pulling Eddie to the door. Henry, Joe and Vito weren't far behind him. "Come on, let's go" Vito had said, quickly grabbing Lucia's hand as he walked passed. "Oh ok!" She said, a little confused at everything that had just happened.
As they got outside, Eddie and Joe couldn't stop stumbling about. "Where are my keys?" Eddie shouted, searching his pockets. "Vito has them, remember?" Joe responded, "Oh yeah" Eddie commented, giving everyone a smile. "Com'on let's go" Vito commanded. "Lucia, you might want to be in front with me." He added as he unlocked the car. "Yeah, I will.. I don't want to be stuck in the back with the drunks." She spoke with agreement, nodding her head in shame at the state of Eddie and Joe. Henry was pretty tipsy, but acting like his normal self. But Lucia knew it would be safer if she took the passenger seat.
As Vito began driving the car, a vile smell soon became clear to everyone in the car. "Oh my god, what is that smell? Did someone vomit in the car?" Joe said, covering his nose with a hand. "WHO PUKED IN MY CAR?" Eddie shouted, as he began frantically searching the back of the car. "No one did. but where is thet awful smell coming from?" Asked Vito, as he began to wind his window down. "Oh.. yeah, now I know where it's coming from." Eddie remembered, "I have a dead body in the trunk" He added, that sentence caused everyone to face Eddie. Vito slowed the car to the side and stopped at the curb. Turning around, he gave a look of anger "There's a what in the trunk?" He slammed, gribbing the sides of his seat. "A body! It was some FBI agent, I had to take care of him before he found out too much. This is what I meant by when I said I needed to take care of something later." Eddie said, "So what are we going to do with the body?" Joe asked, trying to keep himself from throwing up everywhere. "There is a hole dug for him already at the Observatory, you just need to drive us there." Eddie explained. Sighing in defeat, Vito knew he wouldn't be able to get out of this. Lucia kept quiet, her mind stuck in thoughts from the scenes back at the cathouse. As Vito drove towards the Observatory, he could tell something was wrong with the women by her unusual quietness, quickly making eye contact with her, he could see she looked upset by something. But decided against asking her, specially when there were drunk men in the back seats and her problems may involve one of them.
Arriving at the Observatory, Vito stopped the car by what looked like the dead mans grave. As he got out of the car, everyone followed. Joe and Eddie, stumbled off to do what drunk men did, Henry just got out to smoke a cigerette while watching Vito open the trunk. Lucia on the other hand was being helpful, "Here, let me help you, since the others won't." She said as she began helping Vito lift the dead body out of the trunk. "You don't need to, besides you might get dirty." Vito replied, giving Lucia a small smile. "I don't want you to do all this work by yourself, so please let me help." She asked, with a tone of begging in her voice. "Fine, you can help. Just be careful ok." Vito said, sighing in defeat. As they continued lifting the body out of the trunk, either of them couldn't stop complaining at how heavy one body could be and how the others wouldn't help. "This is turning out to be a horrible night." Vito complained as they finally dropped the body in to the hole. "I can say the same thing Vito." Lucia said, putting her eyes onto Henry, who was still smoking. "Com'on, we should start filling up the hole before any one shows up." Vito spoke, passing Lucia a shovel. "Yeah, I suppose you're right" She sighed, grabbing the shovel with one hand. Slipping off her shoes and tucking the bottom of her dress into her underwear, she began to cover up the hole, not caring if the others saw. As the hole filling went on, Joe would occassionally stumble over and comment on it, as well as whistling at Lucia, who ignored it or would proceed to throwing dirt at Joe and telling him to get lost until she was done.
The hole was half filled, when Lucia felt a tap on the shoulder, thinking it was Joe, she swang around and was about to slap him in the face when she realised it was Henry. "Let me take over for you, you're covered in dirt, sweating and it's clear you need a rest." He said, holding out his hand for the shovel. "Are you trying to say I'm weak?" Lucia then asked, giving a small cold look. "That is not what I was even implying. You just look tired, look if you're going to get pissy over me offering to take over, then fine, you can forget the help." Henry scolded, giving Lucia a cold look to match hers. "Wow, excuse me, but I'm not getting pissy. But I am in fact tired, covered in so much dirt that it will probably take a long time to get the stains out of this stupid dress, getting constantly bugged by that drunk ass fool over there and just want this night to be over. Ok? Got it? Good. If you want to finish helping to fill this hole, you can. But you could have offered earlier instead of standing by the car and just smoking your pretty little smokes there. So here, take the bloody shovel!" Lucia shouted, throwing the shovel into Henry's hands as she stomped away from the hole, getting more mud on her. "Fuck this!" She screamed, kicking some mud that was under her feet. "Ugh fuck this, I'm sorry Vito, but I have to go" Henry spoke with anger in his voice. Throwing the shovel out of his hands and paced off, glimsping one more time at Lucia who was now sitting in the car. He noticed she was hunched down, probably sulking at what had happened, but seeing Lucia like this caused Henry to stop for a moment. Looking at the ground, he couldn't help but to feel guilty for Lucia's crying. "I'm sorry." He mumbled as he clutched a cigerette and began to light it as he walked away from the Observatory.
Vito's P.O.V
As I watched the small fight between Lucia and Henry, I forgot all about the anger that was boiling up inside of me earlier. Now, I felt useless that I couldn't even stop what seemed like a petty fight. I knew they weren't the best of friends, but all of these arguments that erupt between them are getting worser by the day. As I watched Henry throw the shovel to the floor, I noticed how he slowed his walking down as he passed the car, must have seen Lucia. I watched as he just stood there for a moment before walking off. I could hear him mumbling something, but unclear of what it was. Thinking about it, Maybe Henry is the reason Lucia was having a bad night. I mean I've noticed how differently she acted earlier in the cathouse; with me she was her usual self, with anyone else she was extremely quiet. I'm going to need to talk with her for sure, since I know she won't talk to anyone else about her feelings. Wiping the sweat from my forehead, I noticed that the hole was finally covered.
Third person
As Vito took the shovel to the boot of the car, he watched as both Joe and Eddie were still stumbling about, randomly vomitting where they pleased and just saying random words. "Why don't you two sit in the car, I've nearly done with this, so we'll be leaving soon." Vito shouted over to them. "Sure Vito" Joe happily spoke, as he stumbled on back to the car. Vito then went back to where the hole was and picked the other shovel up. "I am so glad this shit is nearly over" He mumbled in annoyance, as he proceeded back to the boot to place the shovel. "Hey, let me do this, since I ditched you earlier." A sniffling Lucia said behind Vito. "Lucia, are you ok?" Vito said, dropping the shovel as he pulled her into a small hug. "I'm fine Vito. Just tired mostly." She said, trying to change the subject while looking at Vito with a upset look. "I guess so, but maybe you should stay around mine tonight, I need to talk to you." Vito asked as he let Lucia go, to pick up the shovel. "What.. why?" She said, giving him a worried look. "I'm worried ok. Me and you are good friends and I want to know what is wrong." Vito continued as he threw the shovel into the boot. A silence glimpsed over the pair as they stood by the boot. But Lucia looked at Vito and smiled. "Thanks Vito, I knew I could always count on you as a friend, even after all of these years."
One day chapter 4 will be ouuuuuuuut~
