Chapter 4: Apollo
Sitting in the garage at the police station waiting for the time to leave, they still had another hour before she usually arrived at the warehouse, Everlee sat playing with the chains on her boots, chin resting on her knee, when she felt someone sit beside her. She glanced over, seeing it was the cop that questioned her. "Evening Officer Hot-Stuff."
Jay chuckled. "Its Halstead," he corrected.
The girl squinted. "Good to know."
The detective looked down, knocking his knuckles on his knee. "Listen, I know that your angry at Erin, and you have your reasons, but she really regrets leaving you behind. And she just wants to know her sister again."
Everlee tensed up at the mention of her sister, eyes losing their playful glint. "So thats why you came to talk to me. Erin sent you over here."
Halstead shook his head rapidly. "No, no. She didn't send me over here. You seemed nervous, thats why i came over, but i figured while i'm here, might as well bring up the giant elephant in the room."
Everlee nodded. "Am i the elephant or is she the elephant?"
"The situation is the elephant. And dont try to steer the subject another way."
He suddenly felt like he was on fire when she shot daggers his way. "Listen, I dont have to talk about this if i don't fucking want to. You can go back over and tell Erin that this changes nothing. I'm doing this to get myself and my boys out of here, i'm not doing it for any of you guys." She then locked her jaw, indicating that she's done speaking, shot one last glare at the man, then turned back to playing with the chains on her boots.
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"I've been in here for hours," Lex groaned, feet on the edge of the table, rocking his chair, head flung on the back of it in a dramatic form.
Niko chuckled at his best friend's boyfriend. "Thats like the tenth time you've said that man." The police had moved them into the same room so they wouldnt be too irritable when they got back from whatever they were going to do.
The fighter lifted his head off the back of the chair and glared at the shorter man. "I've been here, sitting on my ass a lot longer than you have."
Niko shrugged with a smile. "Nobody said you had to sit on your ass, bro. You could do push-ups, run laps around the room, jumping jacks. Your a fighter. You can come up with some workout shit to do while your here instead of bitching like you have been."
Lex rolled his eyes. "How the fuck did they get you anyway?"
The other man sighed. "They got me when they got her."
The dirty blonde sat up, taking his feet off the table. "Wait, they got her?" When he received a nod he lifted a hand in question. "Where the fuck is she then?"
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Everlee's boots clunked on the ground, chains on them clanging together as she made her way into the old warehouse. It was quiet, a little bit too quiet and it made her a little nervous.
Making her way to the back of the building she called out, "Yo, Apollo!" just as she turned into the area where Apollo did all his "cooking".
Only Apollo wasn't there. "What the fuck," she let out as she looked around, trying to spot someone. "Apollo!" Still receiveing no answer, she continued walked towards the back of the area, towards the rooms that Apollo called his office. "Apollo, you here?" she asked as she turned the handle, flinging the door open and freezing. "Holy shit," she breathed out, backing out of the room, where Apollo's head man, Leo, was sprawled out on the floor, bullet wound to the head.
"O fuck. Holy shit." After giving herself just a second to recover from the shock, she turned a made to bolt, only to come face to face with Apollo himself.
"Going somewhere, young EV?" he questioned, grinning wickedly.
Everlee swallowed passed the lump in her throat. "No, no," she choked out. "Um...Wh-what happened to your man, Leo?"
"I began to question his loyalty," his eyes connected with hers, like he was trying to see inside her head. "I know i don't need to question your loyalty, do i, dear EV?"
"Of course not," she spoke, keeping eye contact. She swallowed again. "Look, i dont have much more time before my break ends. Wheres the drop off point?"
Apollo held eye contact for a couple more minutes, before looking away and stepping around her, into his office. "I actually have a different task for you today."
Everlee sighed. "What kind of task? I'm not selling your shit to anymore college kids. Those kids can't handle the hard stuff."
The man chuckled. "No. I need you to do something about this," he said, gesturing to the body in the room.
The young dealer huffed. "Excuse me?" She let out a humorless laugh. "No way. I'm a dealer. I dont deal with your baggage or dead bodies or whatever the fuck. So just give the the drop off location, give me the dope and let me do my actual job so that i can go back to my other job."
Suddenly she was on the floor, her face throbbing. "You will watch how you speak to me. And you will do as i say."
The girl spat out the blood that was pooling in her mouth and sneered. "Bite me, Apollo. I'm not doing it. So if your not gonna give me what i came here for, then i'm out."
She began to pick herslef up off the ground. This day has been bullshit, and they can come get him for the body, they dont need the drugs. Back on her feet and turning to walk away, she froze mid-step when she heard a gun being cocked. Turning back to her boss, to see he had a pistol aimed right in her face.
"I said, you will do as i say. And you will never speak to me like that again."