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Anywho, here is the next part :) I think it will definitely be just a fourXshot story.
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Alot of you have been asking about Jez. She will apear in the next part.
Discalimer: I dont own the Night World.
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"So you didn't know?"
Keller took the glass of water Poppy was offering before shifting slightly in her seat as she started to feel uncomfortable with the topic because it still made her heart ache. "Not until I over heard Rashel talking to Thierry about it"
"They never told you?" Keller flinched at the way Poppy had asked that. "But! Thierry and Rashel… I thought you would know…"
"As you can see my family doesn't trust me"
"Don't say that" to Keller's surprise it was Thea who spoke. Keller didn't know much of her and in all honesty they had only met twice. Usually when Keller came over to talk to Poppy she would simply leave or find something better to do because neither quite liked each other. It was like a 'I don't know why, but I don't like you' feeling. But now it seemed Thea wouldn't be leaving any time soon and Keller figured it had to do with the fact that Poppy had recently discovered the truth. "They probably had a good reason why they didn't tell you"
"Just like the good reason James had?" Poppy scoffed while Keller just shook her head.
"You don't even know his reason!" Thea snapped making Poppy feel guilty at the thought.
"Why should I give him a chance to explain? He lied to me all this time!" Poppy was not content with the way she exclaimed out loud the thoughts that had been hunting her for almost a week now. "He lied" she mumbled the last words before her eyes started getting watery.
Thea sighed regretting allowing the topic to go this far. She bit her lip thinking of something to say before Poppy started crying once again however, Keller beat her to it. "You know…" she said looking at Poppy with mortification in her eyes. "I talked to James today" Poppy ignored the shiver that ran through her body when she heard his name. "Well, we didn't really talk… it was more like a short argument" Keller let out a forced laugh before pushing the hair that was covering part of her face back.
"What did you guys 'argue' about?" Poppy asked hoping she didn't sound that interested in the topic.
"I recently broke up with my boyfriend and well I was having a bad day so I decided to go the bar and drink a little." Keller rushed out those words while she made hand gestures to go with her short 'story'. "He came back from…" Keller hesitated "…work, and well you know how he can be annoying in the wrong moment." Poppy nodded as a sign she was listening- which she was. Even though she didn't want to admit it, hearing something about James triggered her interest like a lightning bolt. "He started making some stupid jokes that with his luck, happened to be about my 'boyfriend', so I snapped"
That was no surprise for either Poppy or Thea. Poppy knew Keller very well and she knew exactly how bad of a temper she had. At some points, anything and everything could trigger her anger and well things never ended well. Thea barely knew her, but she could already tell by the way she acted and talked. Keller often reminded Thea of her cousin, Blaise. Although Blaise's temper was often triggered because she didn't get what she wanted- unlike Keller who seemed to be the one to snap over something that had affected her feelings.
"I said something I shouldn't have…" Keller mumbled guiltily before giving Poppy an apologetic smile. "I kind of… rudely, reminded him of the 'reason' you broke up with him."
"Huh?" Poppy asked completely forgetting the reason.
"That you left him for a better dick…"
Poppy didn't blink as she let the words progress. "You told him, that!" Sure, in a twisted way, that was true… however, Keller could have been nicer about it.
Raising her hands in surrender and offering once again an apologetic smile, Keller said; "In my defence he was being a dick"
"You like that word don't you?" Thea teased in a cruel way which got Keller to glare at her. "I was joking…" Thea mumbled partly true. Keller once again glared at her before opening her mouth to speak, but that's when a loud thud was heard making the three girls freeze.
They stayed quiet as they heard a few footsteps and just as Poppy was about to grab the lamp besides her to use it as a weapon, she heard a familiar voice calling her name. "Isn't that Eric?" Poppy asked Thea softly who nodded as a response. "In the living room" Poppy called out and in a few seconds two figures entered the living room.
Thea knew both the guys. One of course was her fiancé, Eric, who at the moment seemed to be in the worst mood ever and next to him stood Galen, his co-worker. She noticed Eric wasn't surprised at all to see her there, and she believed it was mostly because Thea spend half her time over at Poppy's place. However, Eric was surprised to see Keller. Thea knew Eric had never been around the times Keller was over, but by the way he was looking at her it seemed that he knew her.
Thea turned her head towards Poppy who looked just as confused as her and then she turned to see Keller, who was ignoring the looks Eric was giving her as she stared at Galen with her mouth slightly open. Galen was also looking at Keller but apart from confusion and surprise, there was pain in his eyes.
"What are you doing here?" the funny part about the question was that Galen and Thea had asked it at the same time. Galen addressing the question to Keller and Thea to Eric.
It was Eric who answered as Keller simply stayed quiet staring at Galen. "We came to talk to Poppy" he mumbled before looking at said person.
"About?" Poppy asked confused.
"James"
Hearing that name made Keller snap her head towards Poppy as Thea gulped whole her eyes narrowed. "James?" Poppy questioned ignoring both the girls that were looking at her. "What about James?"
Eric thought over his next words carefully. The look in Poppy's eyes were telling him something he didn't want to acknowledge- it was like she knew what he was going to say, like she knew what this was all about, which meant she might have something to do with it…
And Thea, because Thea had the same look. For the first time in years, Eric found his job difficult. "He is currently facing bank-robbery chargers" No, his words weren't true. James was a suspect, yes, but they haven't charged him with anything yet. However right now Eric needed Poppy to believe that.
Galen watched the reaction of the three girls. He knew what Eric was doing, he was going to try to trick Poppy into telling him the truth, however it seemed that now Poppy wasn't the only one to know the truth. He knew there was a possibility Thea knew… but Keller? He didn't even know what she was doing here.
That's when realization slowly hit him, but he refused to acknowledge it, at least until it was proven. "We caught him a few hours ago" Galen explained. "It turns out that he mentioned your name" Galen was aware that this was a very sick way of getting the truth but he continued; "Can you tell us everything you know about this matter?"
Poppy was confused to say the least. One, because she had no idea why James would mention her name and two, because she didn't know what to say. She opened and closed her mouth numerous times over thinking every word that she considered speaking. When she finally decided to actually speaking, Keller beat her to it. "Where did you catch him?"
"Do you know him?" Galen asked dryly.
Taken aback, Keller crossed her arms before huffing. "That's none of your business"
"What do you know about this, Keller?" Galen asked raising his voice. The blunt questioned silenced everyone and no one dared to even move as Galen went to stand right in front of Keller. He watched as she slowly took a step back refusing to meet his eyes. "What do you know?"
"Nothing" Keller mumbled but she knew it was hopeless. Keller knew Galen knew something. She knew how well he could read her, and right now, she was certain Galen had figured out the real reason she had broken up with him. The reason why she had ended everything… the reason she had destroyed their future.
"Your lying" Those words stung.
"You guys know each other?" Thea asked as she moved to stand next to Eric. He watched as she glanced around the room before looking at him and asking; "What's all this? Why are you both practically accusing-"
"We know everything, Thea" Eric mumbled loud enough to interrupt her. "I know you've been lying to us" Thea said nothing as Eric's eyes burned her own. Her mind was clouded with confusion as well as questions, she couldn't even progress the words Eric had spoken- and her heart, he heart was slowly sinking.
"Stop it! She has nothing to do with this!" Suddenly, Poppy yelled. "Nor does Keller. Its all my fault"
"Poppy" Keller warned but she simply ignored her as she continued talking.
"I-I know about James. That's what you want to know right?" Poppy's eyes were watery right now, she was biting her lips nervously as she continued talking after Eric nodded to her question. "I don't know what you are thinking Eric, but I'm not an accomplice or anything for the matter" Poppy gulped as she looked at Thea who was looking at Eric with disappointment.
"Explain"
"Eric! Leave Poppy Alone!" Thea yelled as she went to stand next to her. "She has nothing to do with this"
"You know, by the way you are acting it seems you are well aware of the whole situation. What do you know about this?" Thea was completely shocked at the boldness of Eric's words, he was being so blunt- she couldn't even understand why he was doing all this.
Thea thought over something to say and right before she opened her mouth the sound of a phone ringing, interrupted her. She turned to look at Keller who was now taking out her phone from her pocket. Keller flipped the phone open and then checked the caller ID. Her eyes slowly widened before she looked up to meet Galen's eyes. "You lied!" she accused before Galen suddenly grabbed her phone and moved to stand behind Eric as he blocked Keller from Galen.
Feeling slightly guilty about what he was going to do, Galen clicked the talk button before putting the phone on speaker. Then he said hello before a familiar voice responded in confusion.
"Who is this?" James' voice was heard from the phone as Thea and Poppy turned to look at Eric with disbelief written all over their face.
"James don't-" Keller managed to say those two words before Eric clapsed a hand on top of her mouth, he then ordered Poppy and Thea to be quiet with a hand gesture.
"Keller? Are you there?" James asked now sounding worried.
"Mr. Rasmussen." Galen stated more then asking. There was a pause before James asked who he was. "I'm officer Drache" once again, there was another pause but this time a click was heard before James spoke again. Everyone assumed he had put the phone on speaker.
"Officer, is Keller alright? Did anything happen to her?" Poppy was surprised to hear James' tone. His voice sounded so different and the concern in his words for some reason made her feel uncomfortable. That's when she realised he was acting.
"Keller is fine" Galen stated before looking at Eric who gestured him to come closer. Once close enough, Galen placed the phone near Eric's mouth before he started speaking.
"James?" Eric said softly as Keller struggled to speak.
There was soft whispers heard before James spoke. "Eric? What's going on?" a pause. "Nothing happened to my friend, right?"
"Nothing happened" Eric stated coldly before James asked why he had Keller's phone. By this point, Galen had pulled out a small device from his pocket. He had placed it near the phone before pressing a bunch of buttons. From where Keller was standing she knew exactly what that device was. "Keller is currently going through an interrogation" Eric paused to see Galen staring blankly at the device, then in an instant, Galen smiled before nodding his head. "Unfortunately, no phones are allowed so I'm going to have to hang up."
"Wait!" James shouted through the phone. "Eric…"
"Hang up" To everyone's surprise it was Poppy who made that order. "Hang up James!" She yelled once she realised what the device was. A tracker. It was the devices used to track down people through phone calls…
"Poppy?" James questioned in disbelief before a loud shout was heard and then the beeping of the phone Galen had in hand. Galen shut the phone as Eric let go of Keller. Galen handed her the phone back before giving the device in hand, to Eric.
"Eric… you… how could you!" Thea asked in disbelief but all she got was silence as Galen and him started discussing something in whispers.
Poppy was sobbing quietly as Keller kept trying to call James back, but all she got was the answering machine. Thea simply kept staring at Eric with disbelief. He had tricked them. Her fiancé had tricked her.
After what seemed an hour but was barely five minutes, Eric cleared his throat as he looked at Galen. "Call Mary-Lynnette" Eric said before focusing his attention on the three girls. He looked around slowly before his eyes finally met Thea's. He let out a heavy sigh before speaking words he never thought he would, at least not towards his fiancée. "You three are under arrest"
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Delos knew he was in deep shit now as he drove down the street finally able to see his house. Thierry was definitely going to kill him, he was what? Two hours late? Stupid! He yelled at himself ignoring the cold breeze touching his chest since he left the top buttons of his shirt undone, regardless he still closed the window to stop the air from coming in. Thierry had to understand though, he was a guy after all, he would understand…
That you lost track of time because your hormones kicked it! Delos pushed the thought aside deciding that apart from his hormones it had also been the feeling he had towards his lawyer the reason why he was running late. Maggie Neely seemed to make his blood boil every time she was near him. His skin would tingle every time her own skin would make contact with his. His heart beat would raise and he couldn't even start explaining how his mind would easily find itself trapped in a thousand thoughts on why everything seemed so perfect when they were together.
So maybe they had only been together twice. For Delos, that was enough to say it meant something special. After all, when was the last time Delos Redfern found himself in the same bed twice? Finally reaching his house, Delos found himself relaxing. He stepped out of his car before locking it and made his way towards the front door. He had to go inside, change and then-
Delos froze. His eyes had slowly widened as he saw his door slightly open. He reached for the gun tucked behind his coat as he looked around. Deciding no one was watching he pulled out the gun before entering his house. He closed the door as he took a chance to look around his house, sighing, he took a couple of steps before he heard a thud to his right, reacting fast, he turned.
"Whoa" Arms raised, smirk on his face and casually leaning against a counter was David Blackburn. Delos looked at him startled as he tighten the grip he had on the gun that he was currently aiming towards David's direction. "Put that down kid, don't want to hurt someone, do we?"
"What are you doing here?" Delos asked not moving an inch.
"Visiting" Delos snorted before he finally put the gun down, however, still not trusting David he didn't put it away.
"How nice of you" Delos commented sarcastically as David went to grab a glass that was on the counter.
"Hope you don't mind" David said gesturing towards the glass "You know how much I love vodka" Delos raised an eyebrow finally realising David was drinking from his bottle before he simply shook his head and went to stand next to him.
"What do you want?" Once again he asked as he watched David gulp down the whole drink. Much to his annoyance though, David never answered his question, instead he asked one of his own.
"How is Thierry?" Delos shook his head as he answered a simple 'fine' "Heard your working with some other guys as well" at this, Delos simply rolled his eyes before explaining the short story on how James, Ash and Morgead had started 'working' with both Thierry and himself. "No ladies?" David ended up asking which caused Delos to laugh.
"Thierry is engaged and Keller and Rashel are still around." he shrugged making it seem like it wasn't a big deal. "I'm seeing… someone" David didn't push the topic further but instead decided to ask about Thierry's step sisters. "Rashel is with Quinn and do you really care about Keller?" Delos asked not really putting much thought in the conversation, that is until he finally remembered…someone. "How is Gillian?"
He wasn't certain that David knew, and in all honesty he hoped he didn't. The last thing he needed to know right now was that he had somehow managed to find Gillian, convince her he wasn't a bad guy and- oh he didn't even want to continue thinking about it.
"That's why I'm here" David mumbled with clear pain in his words. Delos couldn't help but to be amazed at how much he had changed. When he first met him, he thought he was some heartless bastard that didn't know what a smile or emotion, for the matter, was. He was always so serious. But now, it was so easy to tell he was in pain. That every part of his body was screaming in agony- which only got him worried. "I need your help" David said dryly as he went to sit on the couch in the living room.
Delos nodded his head as he waited for David to explain.
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"You have to be joking!" Rashel yelled as she kept watching Quinn throw all his clothing in his suitcase. "Quinn, you cant just leave"
"Yes. We can" Quinn stated as he went to pick up Rashel's suitcase. "Start packing" he ordered before running down the stairs to the living room. He heard as Rashel kept complaining while he took every valuable item he had in the living room.
"But what about my sister?" she asked as she started packing. Quinn threw all the valuable items in his suitcase before running down to the basement to do the same. Once he was back in the room he found Rashel changing as she kept cursing every living thing for what was happening. Taking a break from the packing, Quinn walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her from behind as she was just taking of her skirt. "Quinn" she gasped in surprise.
"Your brother went to get her, don't worry" Quinn mumbled as he planted small kisses on her neck. Rashel slowly let herself get lost in the kisses as Quinn started rubbing her stomach with his thumbs. "Your beautiful" he mumbled before turning her around and catching her lips with his own.
Rashel kissed him back forgetting just for a second all the problems they were facing right now. She deepened the kiss while she placed one hand on his face and the other on his hair. Quinn had her pressed against his body as both his hands were around her waist. He was the one to break the kiss feeling the need of air.
"Rashel" he whispered, his mouth only inches away from hers, their foreheads were touching. "I'm" he mumbled. "I'm sorry" Rashel would only look at his eyes as the words left his mouth.
"There is nothing to be sorry about" she told him but he slowly shook his head obviously not agreeing. "Quinn, this is not your fault. So drop it" she ordered before giving him a little peck on the lips.
"It is, because-" but Quinn never got to give his explanation as a far to familiar ring tone was heard. With a growl he reached for the phone in his pocket. Rashel let go of Quinn allowing him to talk to whoever had called him as she continued to change. She grabbed a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt and headed towards the washroom. Once she was changed she walked out to notice Quinn sitting on their bed with his head down and his shirt gone.
"Who was that?" she asked as she went to sit next to him.
"Thierry" mumbled Quinn. "Apparently Keller is arrested and now currently at the police station, however it seems she wont be there for long because there really isn't any good reason why she is arrested- but" Quinn paused as he wrapped an arm around Rashel's waist. "They caught Lupe" he said softly.
At those words, Rashel's heart beat quickened. Lupe had been the one in charge of turning the cameras off for when they robbed the bank. And if she was caught… "She will most likely end up telling them everything"
"What!" Rashel exclaimed getting up. "I thought you guys… I… didn't you say you would… kill her?"
"We never got too, the cops got her right before the shooter got the chance"
"So that means?" Rashel asked before Quinn pulled her down to sit on his laps.
"That we need to enjoy this moment" and that was all Quinn said before he once again crashed his lips on her own.
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Delos sat quietly as he let the words progress.
One part of his mind kept telling him this was all a joke, but seeing the expression David had made him definitely believe that everything he was told was definitely not a joke. "Gillian is…"
"In Russia" David stated his eyes a little watery, but Delos had no time to make fun of him.
"… and she is…"
David flinched before he said the following words; "A slave"
"…owned by…."
"Her husband"
"How the fuck did you let that happen!" Delos exclaimed before grabbing David's shirt and pulling him out of the couch. He slammed him against the wall before pulling out his gun and aiming it at his head. "I should kill you." he stated "I should kill you!"
"Delos…"
"You!" Delos yelled ignoring the tears that were slowly escaping his eyes. "I trusted you!" he pressed the gun against David's head harder. "I trusted you would protect her- but-but all you did" Delos hissed. "Fuck!" he yelled right before steeping away from David and punching him right in the gut.
David fell on his knees allowing the pain to surround his body. He coughed as he wrapped his arms around his stomach. "Delos"
"Why the fuck did you let her get married!" Delos exclaimed as he once again aimed the gun at his head as he kneeled down. "I thought you loved her! Why would you-"
"I tried!" David exclaimed silencing Delos. "I tried, goddamnit! But she never forgave me"
"So you let her become a slave?" Delos questioned sick of the thought.
"No!" he yelled. "I couldn't stop her Delos, they didn't let me" David sighed before he started coughing again. Delos watched him cough out some blood before he heard his cell phone ring. Quickly he answered it and stayed silent as he heard Thierry talk.
Surprisingly, he wasn't yelling at him for not being at the meeting or for once again being late. Instead, Thierry was telling him about recent events that affected them all. He explained about the call between James and the two police officers and about how Lupe had been captured.
Delos heard every word Thierry spoke clearly before debating if he should tell him about David's visit. At the end however he decided not to because it seemed Thierry had a lot in mind. Delos cursed silently once he hanged up annoyed at the fact that soon he would be one of Americas most wanted. He looked at David who was now sitting against the wall with his arms still wrapped around his stomach. He saw the tears running down his face and the look of pure agony he had. And that's when Delos made up his mind.
Thierry had told him to pack his stuff and run away immediately. If he thought over it, right now he had nowhere to go. The police would definitely end up looking for him all over the states so he had to leave the country- but where would he go? The only solution he could think of, was Russia.
"Ill help" he stated as he watched David stand up.
"We would have to leave tonight" Delos nodded just as he heard a sound in the backyard.
His first thought had been the police. However, he would be hearing the annoying sounds the police cars made, plus Thierry had just called and he had mentioned that Lupe hadn't said anything yet. So it was when David had mumbled 'shit' that he realised it wasn't your daily American cops that had made that noise.
It was some very angry communist.
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Thats is it! Okay, I know, not that long but well I wanted to leave all the action for the next part.
Also, I love Russians so I meant nothing racist in what I wrote.
Some of you might be confused but hey, one more part and everything will be cleared. And for those of you who watched the movie takers... remember the Russians? Remember who they killed? Yeah I cried, but I still loved them.
And as for Gillian being in Russia and being a slave.. yeah I kind of added that just in case if I wanted to make a sequel. I always do that in all my stories.
Well! I hope you enjoyed reading!
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