Chapter 4: Chloe's P.O.V

When I got the call Harry was in the hospital I drove there as fast as I could. Entering the room I found Nate passed out along with Harry. They were holding hands. Smiling I turned the TV on not wanting to wake them up. Harry looked like he hadn't slept in days and Nate looked near the same if not worse. For about an hour I watched TV and waited for one of them to awake so I could quiz them on how the relationship started up again.

Harry groaned and opened his eyes. "'Bout time you got your lazy ass up." I said with a smile.

"Hey what you doing here?" He asked rubbing circles in Nate's hand which was tightly grasping Harry's.

"Got a call you were in the hospital thought I'd stop by."

"How wonderful you rushed to make sure your best friend was alright."

"Now don't exaggerate it."

"Oh I know you were terrified."

"I'm going to be nice and ignore that so how did you guys-"

"My amazing kissing skills of course."

"He call off the wedding?"

"Not yet but he's going to."

"Pity he should just switch the bride for someone much more his speed."

"I can only dream and technically it would be a civil union." Harry said putting a gag after civil union. "Ass holes, the state."

"Can't argue that."

"Too bad I'd love to marry him. Wouldn't want to tell the old man though, he might shoot me."

"Feel kind of bad for Fisher but you two are much more charming together her and Nate just didn't fit." I said standing up I walked over and sat on the edge of the bed. "So how'd you two love birds meet."

"It's a long story you might get bored."

"Try me."

"You asked for it. Well we'll start from the very beginning. It begins with a woman named Cora Flynn. She had beautiful dirty blonde hair and emerald green eyes; she attracted many men but turned them all away with a laugh or at times a gun. Cora led an underground group known as the Shadow Guild, very crèche I know. They ran the London underground, a very feared and revered organized thief's agency. Business was anything from theft to assassination because the group was filled with so many skills and they were rich as could be." Harry leaned back in his bed wincing a little and continued.

"A man by the name of Carter Thane showed up and caused all the problems. The things one man can start. He swept Cora away he had the charms, looks, and skills to do that. She easily fell for him just as he wished and before anyone knew it she was no longer Cora Flynn but Cora Thane and he was her partner in business. To no one's surprise she soon found herself pregnant. The pregnancy gave her a change of mind and she wanted to retire from illegal business and become a house wife giving a safe life for her babe." Harry's eyes hardened.

"Carter on the other hand had other plans for his wife and became very angry at her plans. With that anger came violence directed at her. Cora knew to hide her cuts and bruises but she grew afraid for her unborn baby. Telling only one of her most trusted men she birthed the child in secret and gave him the name Harry Flynn and a necklace of beads." He reached up and rubbed the beads that even now rested around his neck.

"Then she placed her only son in the arms of Dan Talbot. Dan was a nice man and raised him as his own son. Just as Dan Harry fell into the life his mother had wanted him to avoid, thieving. Harry's only friend was Dan's son Connor. Before long he had exceeded them and found that he had his mother's talent. Leaving the Talbots he ran away. The harsh world weighed on his shoulders and life in the streets was hard, he ended up in Cartagena. There in a back alley he met a street rat just like him. Nate had no family of his own so they joined each other." Looking over Harry smiled at the still sleeping Nate.

"Nate was his one and only friend. They watched each other's backs and became extremely close. Harry then realized he had unusual feelings towards Nate. Acting on that feeling he told Nate all about it and Nate agreed he too felt an odd attraction towards him. I kissed Nate that day, we were 13. Giving in we became a couple. Two years later we were still at each other's backs hand in hand. Then it all turned to Hell." He gave me a sad smile.

"Nate tried to steal a man's wallet for a key to get Francis Drakes ring. A woman named Marlowe tried to kill him but the same man who saved him was the one he stole the wallet from. I trailed Nate and the man as they went on about Francis Drake. Victor Sullivan offered Nate a job and he didn't refuse but didn't mention me either. Afterwards he told me we had better part ways." He rubbed a hand through his hair lost in painful memories.

"I fled with nowhere to go my mother murdered by my father when I was five. The shadow Guild disbanded when I was eight and Nate had left. It felt like I had been thrown from a cliff with no finger holds to use to pull myself up. After that I kept myself alive by doing small heists here and there until I was hired by some random guy. Agreeing I met up with him to find the man looked a Hell of a lot like Nate. Soon after I found out it was indeed my lost love. Using a false name we did the heist and when we had completed it he called out to me, you sure remind me of an old friend of mine. I had said back a certain Harry Flynn. He'd been surprised at first but easily put two and two together to find I was he."

"After that we talked a while and ended up going back out. Though I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive him for leaving me back in Cartagena and well you know the rest." He rolled his shoulders and winced again.

"You forgot the part where you slugged me in the face on our first meeting." Nate said from the floor.

"Oh yea."

"Did you really?" I laughed.

"Right and hard too, broke my nose." Harry and Nate grinned at each other. Rolling my eyes I laughed at the two love birds. Everything was as it should be.