UnExpected

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Damn You

"Mother…fucking…bastard."

That was the first thing X moaned when she woke up.

Her head hurt, her back hurt, everything hurt.

And she was so pissed.

She slowly opened her eyes.

Everything was unfocused, but she could still make out the dimly lit room that she was in.

She shifted slightly, making the leather couch she was lying on creak.

Suddenly, everything that happened to her and Robin in the park came rushing back to her.

She bolted upright like you would after having a nightmare. Her sudden movement made her whole body ache more.

Her vision was clear and despite the fact that her body hurt like hell, she tried standing up.

A hand on her shoulder forced her back down on the couch.

"Now, now baby, where do you think you're going?" Ricco's icy voice asked her from behind.

She turned to look at him, let out a fierce growl and lunged at him.

She tackled him down and sat on him.

When she drew back her fist to punch him and noticed that her hands were handcuffed together.

Since she couldn't hit him, she used the chain between the cuffs and started to strangle him with it.

"Where's Robin?" She snarled.

Before her question was answered, a strong man picked her up around the middle and slammed her back down on the couch.

X groaned at the pain clawing at her from being handled so roughly.

Ricco coughed and stood, leaning on the back of the couch.

"Don't worry about your little boyfriend. He's fine." He muttered and rubbed his neck, which was now red.

She just lay on the couch glaring at him. He looked at her.

"You are so cute when you're pissed. You get this little wrinkle in your nose and this little blue vein in your forehead pops out, and actually, it matches your shir-."

She hit him hard in the face with both hands and sat up.

"You knock me out, kidnap me, and keep pushing me down on this damn couch, now you're talking about I'm cute when I'm pissed, I'll kill you!" She screamed.

He rubbed his cheek where she had hit him.

"Just trying to cheer you up, god." He said sounding a bit hurt.

"You want to cheer me up? Just go somewhere and die. That'll cheer me up."

He jumped over the back of the couch taking her into a tight hug so that she couldn't move her arms. He rested his chin on her shoulder.

"What happened babe? We used to be such good friends." He whispered softly.

"You happened damn it." She growled trying to pull away from him. He only held on tighter.

"What do you mean I happened?" he asked.

"Don't play dumb, you suck at it. If you hadn't tricked me into sleeping with you then we might still be friends."

"Oh, that. Why can't you just get over that? It's not like anything happened."

"Because the minute I started to really trust you, take advantage of me. I hate it when people use me. I won't just get over it"

"You should."

"I won't."

"Why?"

"Why should I? Give me one good reason to forgive you after all the shit you've done."

"Because, hate can destroy a person. It can control people with it's evils and wreck them and their lives. Forgiveness may be a hard path to take but the rewards can be promising."

What the hell? X was suprised. She had never heard anything like that come out of Ricco.

"I'll even bet money that you haven't told Robin you're in love with him yet because you're afraid that he'll turn into some evil bastard. It's because of me. If you forgive you could probably weed out the fear, instead of being distracted by hate and shielding your heart from him."

Maybe an angel or something possessed him. She swallowed. Ricco couldn't be right could he? This was probably just some sentimental bullshit he saw in a movie, or read about in a magazine.

He softly kissed her on the neck bringing her out of her thoughts. She opened her mouth so say something cruel, but nothing came. She just wasn't angry anymore.

"Just…just get away from me." She managed to say. Ricco looked at her for a few seconds before letting her go, standing, and leaving the room.

She sat there and thought about what he had said. If she forgave him would things actually get better?

In the past she never really forgave anyone. People who wronged her just got themselves beaten up and in time she just forgot about them.

But Ricco wouldn't just let her forget him. For some reason he wanted her to forgive him.

She sighed and looked down at the set of keys she had stolen from his pocket when he was holding her.

She shielded them from the sight of the one strong man who had been standing in the corner the whole time, the same one that had punched her in the face. She quickly removed her handcuffs

Remembering that strong guy made her somewhat angry all over again. She shifted on the couch to look at him.

"Hey." She called to him. He looked up at her. She stood and cracked her knuckles.

"Now that you're big friends aren't around, I can finally get my payback. No one punches me in the face and gets away with it."


While X was having her chat with Ricco, Robin was already awake. He had been handcuffed as well, but he had broken them about twenty minutes ago.
Robin jumped up and kicked the door again. It shook, but didn't give. He seriously hated being locked in that room.

He kicked the door again. He counted out the several dents he had put in the door.

"This is exactly why I wanted her to stay in the tower." He grumbled to himself.

And he kicked that door again. But only out of frustration. He had realized by now that that damn door wouldn't give.

He brought his foot up to kick it yet again, but thought better of it. His intuition had told him not to. Like how a spy backs away from his car juist before it explodes.

And suddenly, a huge dent appeared in the door. The hinges gave and it fell to the floor.

X stepped into the room.

"Dude, I was out there like ten minutes listining to you kick that door." She laughed.

"Hey, you're alright!" He said ignoring her snide little comment.

"Of course. How could you expect anything less of me?"

"We need to go right now." He said taking her wrist and heading for the door.

"No lets stick around." She said sarcastically.

They both crept quietly out into the hallway. They silently made their way down it. There were five doors along the hall. The first three rooms they passed were completely silent. The fourth room was occupied because they heard laughter coming from it.

They crept down to the fifth room.

"Is she here?" She heard a dark voice say.

"Yes sir."Said Ricco's voice. X tugged on Robin's shirt signaling him to stop.

"You're sure it's her right?" The dark voice spoke again.

"Yeah. I'm sure. Listen, when do I get my cash?" Ricco asked. The dark voiced man laughed.

"Ah, yes. Your cash. I suppose I do have to pay you."

"Yes, yes you do."

"No."

A few moments of silence went by.

"No? What the hell do you mean 'no'?" Ricco's voice asked angrily.

"Just what I said. No. I want you to do something else for me before I pay you."

"I'm not doing anything else. We had a simple deal. I bring X here, you pay me. That's it."

"I need a middle man. Someone to finalize some dealings for me. As well as retrieve some very important supplies. If you can do that then I'll pay you double what I would have paid you before."

"...Double?"

"Yes my friend, double."

"...Well...all right. But I had better get my money."

"You will. Now I believe you have a theif and a little birdie to tend to."

Robin and X looked at each other and decided that now was the time to get out of there.

The two of them hurried down the hallway, looking for a way out. Finally they came to a door labeled 'exit'.

They slipped outside and breathed in the cool night air.

"I hope my cycle is still at the park." X said absentmindedly.

Robin grabbed her by the shoulders and made her look straight into his serious face.

"This is exactally why I wanted you to stay in the tower with us. If we're ever kidnapped like that again, we might not get so lucky."

X sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Robin, don't dramatize the situation."

"You know I'm not being dramatic. I'm being a realist. These people are after you, just because we slipped away this time dosen't mean they won't try again."

X shrugged Robin's hands off of her shoulders.

"Ok. You're right. They probably will try again. And there is a very obvious solution to this." she said.

"You'll come back to the tower with me?"

"No, I'll by a guard dog and put some more survaillance cameras up in my apartment."

Robin stared at her completely dumbfounded by her stubborness.

X stretched and yawned.

"I'm tired. Can we pick this arguement up tomorrow? I'll just call you or something. Ok? Bye." She said and started to walk away.

Robin grasped her firmly on the shoulder.

"No. The way I see it you have two choices. Now you can go with me to the tower and be safe there...or...I can take you down to Saint Bethel's and you can be safe there too."

X turned and stared at him. Saint Bethel's was an awful prison. The dogs were vicious, there seemed to be hundreds of guards who would taser you if you even looked like you would start trouble, and then there were the prisoners.

Now X didn't scare easy, but the thought of Saint Bethel's was enough to make her want her mommy. She had seen it before and it was the first time she thanked god for something.

"You wouldn't." She said.

Robin looked completely serious.

"We both know that no one has ever broken into Saint Bethel's...or out of it." He stated simply.

X's right eye started to twitch.

"For your sake, that twitching better mean you're about to say; 'fine Robin, I'll go to the tower with you.'."

X blew some hair out of her face.

"I hate you right now. But fine, I'll go with you." she said sounding slightly defeated.

An angry yell was heard from somewhere inside of the building.

"Well it was smart of us to just stand here chatting now wasn't it?" X said.

They both took off across the old parking lot and down the near by street. They darted into an alley that led them back to Main Street and headed back towards the park for their motorcycles.

They slowed to a walk as they approched their bikes, panting heavily.

As they both mounted their bikes, an idea passed through X's mind. An idea that made her smile darkly.

"Don't even think about ditching me and going back to your apartment." Robin said smartly.

X dropped her smile and tried her best to look innocent.

"Why, I wouldn't do such a thing." She said. Robin rolled his eyes.

"Please, I saw that smile. That was exactly what you were thinking wasn't it?"

"So what if it was? A girl can dream, can't she?" X said dismissevly.

Robin smiled before slipping on his helmet and starting his cycle. X did the same. Reluctantly following him back towards the tower.

After a few minutes of riding, the cycles slowed to a stop in front of the massive T. X looked up at it and felt her stomach give a little turn.

If I took off right now, I could probably lose Robin on Maple st. Then head- No. I said I wouldn't. She thought.

"Hey." Robin's voice said interuppting her thoughts.

"What?"

"Close your eyes."

"Uh...why?"

"Just close them."

X obediently closed her eyes like he had told her.

Five seconds later he told her to open them. Now they were standing, with their bikes, on the island on which the tower stood.

X looked back at the shore where they once were. Then looked to him and then back to the other shore.

"How did you do that?" she asked.

He simply smirked at her.

"It's a secret." he said and opened the front door to the tower.

X just shook her head and followed him inside.