Ah. I'm updating. SHOCK!
So, I need to apologize about my long hiatus. I used NaNoWriMo as an excuse, but that kinda stopped working after the month was out. So my year's resolution was to update at least one fiction every two weeks! Here it is!!!
Bel reposed on a couch with a princely smile as he watched the rest of the Varia drag their blood-stained selves back into the mansion from their missions.
He was sitting on an unconscious Dina. But no one needs to know that.
Squalo was the first to come. He was too tired to even…yell. Which is rather hard to come across.
He was also muttering under his breath rather mutinously… "Varia quality, my butt…argghhh…I think I'm outa shape."
He noticed Bel sitting there languidly, and a spark of rage kindled within him.
"FUCK YOU, YOU FAKE PRINCE. WHAT RIGHT HAVE YOU TO SIT THERE SMIRKING AT ME LIKE THAT?"
Bel blinked lazily behind his curtain of princely blondeness. Of course, Squalo wouldn't know that.
He calmed down a bit. "Just…-gag-…get your useless butt into the shower. You're dripping blood all over that new sofa the boss brought in the other day."
"Oops." The prince shuffled off the couch, threw Dina over his shoulder, and went upstairs to shower. He would have to remove all traces of his blood from that couch later, or he was pretty much doomed.
He decided to leave Dina's blood there for the heck of it. Everyone likes to have some fun once in a while, right?
It was about time to leave, anyway. He didn't want to be there when the rest came back…namely, he wasn't very interested in the corpse he knew that Levi would bring back to add to his Xanxus shrine.
-shudder-
Throwing Dina into her own room, he sauntered into his own room casually, laying out his knives carefully to polish and dry later.
He was busily unstrapping the various knife belts from his body, avoiding several of his poisoned blades carefully, when something clattered out and hit the floor, surprising him so much that he nearly sliced himself with an especially toxic one.
Oh? What's this…?
He bent over and poked it tentatively. Nothing happened.
Picking it up and examining it, the genius was a little at a loss as to what it was. It was spherical, and metallic-looking, about the ¼ the size of a normal glass marble. Maybe one of Dina's weird bullets? Who knew. Pocketing it in his Varia coat, he grabbed some fresh clothes and headed over to the showers.
Dina never wore her Varia coat. She said it hindered her movement. She was the only one in the Varia who ever really got up real close to fight, anyways, even though a simple slaughter with her bullets would have been easier and faster. She liked to enjoy herself. So it was likely that she had put it in his pocket for safekeeping.
Or maybe she was a closet pervert, and this was some sorta camera or device or something that she was using to stalk him. The prince laughed conceitedly at the thought.
Either way, he wasn't going to take any chances. Wrapping it up real tight with some of the cloth he used to preserve his poisoned blades and strings, he wrapped a while roll of duct tape around the bundle, then stashed it inside a circle of explosives.
Obviously, that probably wouldn't help. But the Prince liked to have fun. If it was going to blow up, why not blow the whole damned mansion up with it?
When he got to the showers, he heard Dina singing in the showers.
She wasn't bad, actually.
But he saw another chance to have some fun.
It's probably not very surprising to say that Dina nearly collapsed due to heart failure when she turned around in the shower and found herself nose to nose with a tiara'd golden head, grinning widely and "Ushishishishi~" ing.
You have to admit, if that had happened to you, you would have died from blood loss, 'cause of that nosebleed that suddenly sprouted up, no?
Anyways, she ended up slapping him and attempting to kick him across the bathroom, but it didn't really work. Because he's a prince.
No, duhhh.
Bel still ended up running for his life. A few minutes later, when he decided that it was safe to approach her again, he stood a respectful distance away from her shower stall and asked if she had perhaps left something in his jacket.
Inside the steamy mess off warmth, Dina was busily toweling herself off. At that particular moment, the towel was wrapped around her head (for reasons unknown). So all Bel got in reply was a muffled, "Mmmph?"
The prince started to feel a bit annoyed. Princes didn't go bowing and scraping to other people, much less commoners like the stupid girl in the shower stall. Walking over and languidly kicking at the stall door, he said in a cross voice, "You left something in my jacket pocket, bitch. If it's going to blow up, say so."
"I didn't leave anything in your jacket pocket."
"Then I'll assume that it'll blow up." With that, Bel swept regally out of the shower rooms.
Dino stepped out of the stall with a sleepy look on her face, and was a bit surprised to see that she was in the Varia's communal showers. They each had a private shower room, but the Varia liked to gather here and horse around. She normally kept out of it.
Mumbling sleepily to herself, she picked at her already-forming scabs and shuffled over to her room, almost bumping into a perfectly composed Hibari making his stately way down the hallway towards the showers.
Oh, right. The guest rooms didn't have private showers.
A perverted thought briefly crossed her mind, but Dina was way to sleepy to carry it out. Stumbling into her room and collapsing onto a pile of cushions, she fell fast asleep.
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"Is she awake?"
"Nope. She's not answering her doorbell."
"Aggh, fuck it. Stupid girl. Try getting in."
A creak, several thuds, a princely laugh, and then a loud VOIIII.
"FUCK. THAT. BITCH."
"Gladly."
"Gahhhh, NOT THAT WAY."
"It's not like it's surprising that she set traps, paranoid idiot that she is. Oh. Well, anyways, the door's open now."
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Dina's eyes opened to a furious Squalo pointing a sword at her throat.
"Get up," he growled.
A bit confused, she nodded groggily and sat up, pushing the sword blade away and stumbling a few steps away from the bed before collapsing to the ground.
"Uh oh," Bel said happily. "Looks like something is wrong."
He received a flying kick from his commander, who had already slung the girl over his shoulder and was now marching out of the door. "I'm taking her to the boss."
Bel simply slouched lazily over to Dina's bed and lay down. "I'll take a nap till you get back, then."
Squalo gave him a suspicious look, but marched out and slammed the door behind him.
The minute he heard the door close, the prince got to work. Humming a happy tune, he began rummaging messily through Dina's drawers.
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When Squalo got to the boss's office, the room was completely abandoned except for a letter on the table, still stamped and sealed. On the front of the envelope, Dina's name and the address of the Varia mansion were printed neatly. Squalo picked up the envelope, dumped Dina into a chair, and shoved the letter unceremoniously into her face. Plopping into a chair next to hers, he crossed his arms and stared at her moodily as she slowly started to come around. Blinking sleepily, she reached out for the letter on her lap with a trembling hand and stared at it for a while before suddenly opening it, tearing the envelope violently apart.
Unfolding the letter, she read it over slowly, one, two, three times. By the third time, her eyes had glazed over, and the letter fluttered slowly to the ground. Her hands dropped lifelessly to the side, and her body began to fall forward. Jumping forward, Squalo pressed her back onto the chair, cursing under his breath and calling out for some help.
He suddenly noticed that her previously bright pink hair had died down into a dark shade of chestnut scarlet.
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