A/N: This one actually for ARP: Not much is going to happen in this one, it's just going to be a little more interaction between Twitch and Sivir, won't say too much. The search for Martha will truly begin in the next chapter. That's all I'm going to say, now enjoy the fourth chapter of ARP!


Chapter 4

"What is this place?" Twitch asked, still invisible.

"A room I rented while I stay in Zaun."

Twitch looked around at the beautiful pieces of décor, the marvelous paintings and sculptures, the expensive furniture, and finally the massive fireplace all located in the living room.

It disgusted him, it smelt too nice in here and it made Twitch want to hurl a little.

"This smell is going to kill me!" Twitch groaned, trying to hold his nose to block off the smell.

"It probably would with you practically living in the smelliest shit hole ever created." Sivir pushed Twitch lightly on the shoulder startling him not because the push was hard or anything but because Sivir knew where he was standing.

"Do you have a fucking pink ward or something in here?"

"No it's just no hard to guess where you're standing right now." Sivir pointed down to the gray carpet, Twitch looked down and saw a bunch of green footprints coming from the entrance of the door to where he was currently standing.

"What kind of cheap carpet is this? The one I have at my home never did this."

"It's not cheap, maybe the only reason footprints weren't left on your carpet is because it's dirty like you are."

Twitch growled but didn't retort back at what she said. He came out of his invisibility ability and walked over to Sivir.

"So what now?"

"You're taking a bath."

"I'm sorry I didn't quite hear you right, come again?"

"You heard me."

"Hmmm…how about nope." Twitch turned to try to run away but Sivir caught him by the back of his coat and started to drag him to the bath.

"As long as you're staying here you will have to take a shower every day."

Twitch's eyes widened more than they probably would if someone told Twitch that they were going to torture him to death.

"No, no, no, no!" Twitch struggled and tried to claw at Sivir but it didn't help at all. Sivir was tougher then she looked and the claws didn't even leave a mark due to her armor.

Once they reached a door at the far right end of the living room Sivir used her free hand to pull open the bathroom door and drag both Sivir and a still screaming Twitch inside.

"Murder! Murder!"

The bathroom was a large room with a large hole in the middle with water, this acted as a large bath. It was big for just one person but just like everything else in the hotel room it looked expensive and beautiful, this only frightened Twitch more.

"In you go!"

"Fuck yoooooooooooooooooooooouuuu-" Twitch screamed as he was thrown like a doll into the pool of water. He floated underwater for a minute then swam up to the surface spitting out water and frantically splashing around.

"Battle mistress, you will regret the day you did this to me!"

While Twitch was shouting and cursing at her she locked the door with her hotel key making sure that he had no chance of leaving the room without her consent.

"You can't take a bath with your clothes on take them off."

"I'm not taking a bath and I'm not going to strip for your perverted pleasure!"

Sivir rolled her eyes and said,

"I'm not going to let you leave until your clean." Sivir glanced at the water and noticed a green and brown pool of dirt and grime surrounding Twitch as he splashed around. "You definitely need a bath."

"You're lucky I left my crossbow in the other room!"

"You wouldn't do anything."

"What makes you so sure!?"

"I just realized something, if I die that means less help for you finding the girl." Sivir stood smugly. "Zaun is a big city and like it or not, you need my help to find the girl before they hurt her."

"They won't hurt her, they want her to get some money from her dad!"

"Yeah, that's what SOME people want from here. Zaun is a very ugly city Twitch, whoever they were could have been slave traders, child molesters, who knows what they are doing to her right now!"

Twitch had stopped splashing around which made Sivir lower her head down to see what happened. Twitch was looking down at the dirty water, deep in thought.

He's really worried about that girl. Sivir, feeling slightly sympathetic said,

"Look, please just take a bath, after that I can make us something to eat and we can head out to look for the girl after we've rested for a bit. You're just wasting time, all I ask of you is to take a bath and your acting like you were dying in there."

"I was!" Twitch suddenly shouted snapping his head up to look at her.

"No you weren't, and if you were you seem to be fine now."

Twitch admitted she was right, but not out loud.

"Still I could've!"

"Well since you didn't you can go ahead and take your bath now, I'll be in the other room until you're done."

Sivir began to walk towards the door when suddenly Twitch shouted,

"Wait, I don't know how to take a bath!"

"Stop playing around Twitch."

"No seriously, I never took one in my whole life!"

"Okay, what do you want me to do about it?"

"Teach me how!"

"No way."

"Why not?"

"You have to be naked to take a bath."

"…aaaaaand?"

"If I was to show you, I would have to see you naked."

"…aaaaaaaaaaaaand?"

Twitch saw no problem with being naked in front of another person, he didn't understand exactly why someone would be uncomfortable in a situation like that mostly because he has little interaction with anyone. Sivir on the other hand didn't find the idea of being with a naked Twitch pleasant.

Does he even have one?...ug, what am I thinking? Sivir shook the thoughts of what Twitch would look like if he was naked.

"Look it's not that hard to do, just take off your clothes-"

Twitch began to take off his clothes when Sivir quickly stopped him.

"Once I'm out of the room!"

"Fine, whatever, then what?"

"Then you take this." Sivir threw a bar of soap to Twitch who caught it with one hand. Twitch took a quick smell of the weird square object and instantly regretted it, it had a lovely flowery smell to it and Twitch wanted to hurl. "Then you take that, it's called soap by the way, and rub it all over your body like this."

Sivir then pretended to rub a bar of soap all over her. Twitch watched this and tried to mimic it himself with his own hands.

"Yeah, something like that, only you need to press the soap against your body when you've undressed and do the same thing you just did."

"How long do I need to do this."

"Normally I stay in the shower for ten to twenty minutes, the longest I ever did was probably thirty."

"uuuuuggg…"

"You however may need an hour in here."

"UUUUUUUUUUUUGGGG…"

"Stop whining, remember you're not leaving until the hour is over and your clean."

With that Sivir left the room, leaving Twitch alone in the bathroom. Blinking a few times Twitch then looked down at the soap in his hand, disgusted from the smell coming from it.

Twitch wondered how much it would hurt to jump out one of the windows in the room.


Sivir sat down on one of her couches positioned near a fireplace while she waited for Twitch to be done.

It had been almost a hour and he better had actually took a shower.

"Sivir?" Twitch knocked on the bathroom door.

"Yes?"

"I'm done."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Yes, I did everything you told me to do and I hope you're happy because now I smell like shit!"

"Only if you didn't actually take a bath!"

Sivir got off from her couch and walked over to the bathroom door, before opening it she took a sniff of the air. It didn't smell bad and usually with Twitch you could smell the stench of shit from the other side of a door, it was promising but Sivir didn't get her hopes too high up that Twitch actually took a good bath.

Sivir unlocked the door and opened it a little so she could peek inside, she immediately slammed the door shut with her cheeks red.

"Could you put some clothes on please!?"

"Well, you kind of got the only clothes I have wet from throwing me into that horrible water of yours. Until they dry I guess I have to walk around In the nude!"

"Hell no!"

"Do you have any clothes?"

"None that can fit your size."

"You calling me fat?"

"Maybe."

Twitch sighed and banged his head on the door.

"I don't see why this is bothering you so much, you don't have to look at it if it bothers you so much."

"Why don't you just stay in there for tonight until your clothes dry?"

"No way, I'm not sleeping in this disgusting place all night!" Twitch banged on the door and tried twisting the knob again even though he knew it was still locked. "…Sivir? Sivir!"

Sivir was long gone though, she felt exhausted and there was no way he would allow a naked Twitch to walk around her apartment with his…junk showing. Maybe it would've just been easy to not look down there and allow him to come out but Sivir also considered this as a form of payback for the shit he did to her.

"That bitch didn't…" Twitch stopped his banging then slid down onto the floor with his back to the door. Twitch swore sometimes she truly hated that woman, sure they bickered a lot but there was sometimes when Twitch actually enjoyed the presence of the black haired bounty hunter. This was not one of those times.

Twitch still didn't quite get why this whole thing had to be a big thing, was his dick so tiny that it frightened him or is it so big it intimidated her, who knows?

While the smell of the room was a big problem, another problem with sleeping in the bathroom was the fact that there were no beds in the bathroom.

The hard tile floor also wasn't any appealing either, no he had to get out of this room, but how? He could climb out the window but that had to be a few stories drop and even a genetically mutated rat could survive that.

The only other option of getting out the room was through the door, but it was locked…unless!

Twitch grabbed his wet coat from on top of the sink where he placed it then rummaged through the pockets.

"Old coins, used toilet paper, cookie…aha!" Twitch finally found something he could use to his advantage: a old lock pick that he forgot he even had up until now. "Now time to bust out of this place!"

Twitch ran eagerly back to the door then positioned the lock pick in the lock to begin.

"Okay, here we go!" Twitch had practiced lock picking before, he wasn't the best at it but he definitely wasn't the worse, a lock this simple would be easy as pie to unlock.

As soon as Twitch twisted the lock pick though, it snapped in half.

The sounds of Twitch screaming profanities and banging on the door woke Sivir up for a second but the woman shoved a pillow over her head to block out the noise, she swore it sounded like Twitch was being tortured by a Noxus general in there.


Morning came to the city of Zaun with the sun rising over the mountains, at least that's what the denizens assumed what it would look life, can't exactly see the sky through the smoke coming from the factories which covered the entire sky.

Twitch woke up feeling cold and sore, both from laying down on the cold hard tiles of the bathroom for gods know how long. Even after all the water from the bath and the fragrance that emitted from it was gone it still smelt horrible. Twitch would've done something to make the place smell better but after that bath he no longer had anything that smelt even a little bit good.

Taking a good look at himself in the mirror he could see that his once green fur was now a light gray color, a color he hasn't seen since he was…well, Twitch doesn't think he's ever seen what his fur ever looked like.

All of the years of grime and sludge that collected onto his body had been washed away, made Twitch almost shed a tear but he could always just collect some more whenever he goes back down into the sewer again.

Twitch sighed before giving his eyes a good rub, even his eyes felt more clean somehow…gross.

After that he went over to his coat and picked it up, even though all that happened was water getting splashed over it, it still smelled clean.

If Twitch had to put this on a list of the most horrible things ever to happen to him in his life it would just barely beat the number one on his list which was when Nami accidently splashed him with water and he started freaking out in front of everyone that was on his team at the time. Which is also why Twitch fears that fish…woman…person, to this day.

Twitch heard the sound of footsteps walking around outside of the door, along with the smell of something…cooking. Twitch knocked on the door.

"Sivir, is that you!?" Twitch called out.

"Yeah why, are you ready to be let out?"

"Yes, my clothes are dry and stuff now, can I come out!?" Twitch said as he finished putting on his coat, boots, and goggles.

"Fine." That word was like music to Twitch's ears, finally he could get out of this damn room and…maybe start looking for Martha. A day has already passed, hopefully she was still okay wherever she was.

If Sivir agreeing to let him out was music to Twitch then hearing the door being unlocked were probably like angels as he eagerly watch the door open.

Sivir stood on the other side with a small red t-shirt, which Twitch noted showed off her bellybutton, and a pair of jeans. Twitch never saw Sivir without her armor on so this was a first for him, he thought the woman had it glued onto her all the time even when she was asleep but that would probably be uncomfortable now that he thought about it.

"What you looking at?"

"Huh? Sorry, it just still amazes me how ugly you are."

"I'm closing the door."

"Sorry, won't say it again ma'am." Twitch quickly apologized.

"Damn straight." Sivir smirked before allowing Twitch out of the room. "You smell better now, good."

"You mean worse?"

Sivir rolled her eyes but didn't respond to that, as long as she wouldn't have to deal with that stench for awhile she was okay.

"Now that you've released me form that cell can we start searching for Martha?"

"Sure, let me finish breakfast first." Sivir walked over to the corner where the small kitchen was located, on one of the stoves was a pan with pancakes and the counter held a few ingredients needed to prepare such pancakes. "Are you hungry Twitch?"

"Starving." Twitch chuckled.

"Want some pancakes?"

"Ew, too fresh, where's your trashcan?"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, oh there it is!" Twitch happily ran over and began to take old rotten food out of the trash. "I'll just save these for later and I'll eat these right now."

Twitch stuffed a few of the 'delicacies' he found in the trash into his coat pocket and put the ones he didn't on the kitchen table.

"Hey I just cleaned that!"

"Yeah, you're welcome." Twitch took a bite out of a rotten apple speaking while he was chewing. "You have some high quality trash here, I'll give you that."

Sivir turned away and put her focus back on her pancakes, Twitch was a disgusting thing for sure. Well it looked like she would be eating on the couch, cause with the mess Twitch was making on her table she definitely didn't want to put her food anywhere near that.

Once her pancakes were finished Sivir placed them onto a plate and brought it to the couch and began eating her own meal while Twitch rapidly continued to much on the trash.

Sivir then slowly savored the taste of the pancakes as she cut it into little pieces and placed them into her mouth.

Twitch was doing the opposite and trying to shove whole bits of trash into his mouth in one bite.

Sivir did her best to just ignore the noise from behind her and kept her eyes on her plate as to not lose her appetite.

"Man, that was the best breakfast I had in awhile!" Twitch said with a contempt sigh as he leaned back in his chair.

"I'm so glad you enjoyed eating out of my trash." Sivir stated sarcastically.

"Yeah, I should eat trash from the surface more often!"

Sivir rolled her eyes then finished the rest of her pancakes.

"Now that you're done, can we start looking for Martha?"

"Yes we probably should, but first do you have any idea on where she could be?"

Twitch thought for a moment, the only clue he had on his mind were the people that wanted to bribe Martha's father for money by kidnapping her but he had no idea where people like that would be.

"I don't have any idea, is there like some kind of hangout that criminals would hang out at or something like that?"

Sivir snorted,

"Try every damn bar in Zaun, you can always find some sort of scum hanging around in the bars."

"There, how about we just search every bar in Zaun! How many bars are there exactly?"

"I don't know exactly how many, but so far around every corner I've turned in this city there is at least one bar."

"So that's what we will do, we just go to every bar we find and try to get some information from the people there."

"As easy your making it sound Twitch, they are scum for a reason." Sivir got off of the couch and placed the plate in the sink. "They aren't exactly the most cooperative people."

"I can be very convincing Sivir, trust me, I'll find a way to get at least one of them to talk." Twitch chuckled quite sinisterly.

"…I bet, but you seriously want to check every bar you can find in Zaun?"

"I'll do everything I can to make sure she gets home to her father, I promised her." Twitch said with a fierce determination that Sivir only saw when he spoke of Martha. "It's the least I can do, she's the one true friend I have even if she's a little girl. I'm not going to let anything happen to her."

"You're certainly a loyal rat, aren't you?"

"You aren't? haven't you ever had someone you would do anything to protect?"

"Well, there was this one rich Demacian noble that hired me to protect him for tons of gold."

"No I mean, like…never mind." Twitch shook his head in slight annoyance, it was no exaggeration that Sivir's one true love in this world was money and the rat doesn't think that will ever change.

"My loyalty isn't earned, it's bought. The only reason I'm helping you is because one, I feel sorry for you losing your little girl and two, I want to get paid."

"You have a heart of gold Sivir." Twitch said sarcastically.

"Yep, and I would sell it if I could." Sivir snapped back at the rat. "And you of all people shouldn't be talking about heart."

"What do you mean by that?" Twitch said defensively.

"I can't imagine a scary mutant rat that kills people in the sewers having a big heart."

"What do you mean I never killed anyone! …Without a reason!"

"Oh yeah? What about those innocent people that went missing once they went down into the sewers?"

"Well it seems that wherever you heard that from forgot to mention that all those people except for one person was found and the one person who wasn't found died from overexposure to the radiation down here which was none of my doing!"

"How do you explain the hundreds of corpses that are down there? Some even with CROSSBOW BOLTS." Sivir put emphasis on crossbow bolts.

"I'm not the only one that uses a crossbow Sivir and also I'm not the only one down there, have you ever met my neighbor? Now that's someone who's actually insane, he also knows how to use a crossbow too so he could've killed those people." (A/N: Twitch is referring to 'human Twitch' who was mentioned briefly in chapter 1)

"Yeah, sure Twitch, I'll trust that coming from the guy who almost killed me before."

"I had reasons for that though! I'm not some cold-hearted murderer, if I want to actually kill you then you would've had to give me a good reason to!"

"Whatever, let's just drop this conversation."

"Fine!"

"Fine."

"Fine!"

Sivir rolled her eyes then walked over to her bedroom door.

"I'm going to go put on my armor before we head out, just wait there okay?"

Twitch held up his middle finger.

"I'll take that as a okay." Sivir said bitterly as she opened the door then closed it, rather hard, behind her.

If you would call that armor, I have no idea how that would protect you from anything. Twitch snorted. Of course I don't mind though…wait what did I say?

Twitch didn't have time to ponder on what he just said because as quickly as she entered Sivir came out fully dressed in her usual armor along with her boomerang blade.

Twitch took a second to admire Sivir's form, no matter what he said she definitely wasn't ugly…

"You ready?" Twitch finally asked.

"Yes, you?"

Twitch nodded.

"Alright, let's get this over with."


A/N: Now that all my personal problems have been resolved I'm back in business baby!

Expect more recent updates from now on until I inform you otherwise.

I liked how this chapter turned out, some more interaction between sivir and twitch, nothing too special but still I like it.

I hope you enjoyed this and to see you in the next chapter!

Have a great day/night. :D


Next Chapter:

Sivir and Twitch's search for Martha has officially begun and their plan is to collect any information from the bars in Zaun. Not only that but Twitch is going to learn that he doesn't only have the people who kidnapped Martha to worry about.

Find out more on what happens in the next chapter of A Rat's Promise!