Chapter 12 The End of the Beginning/The Beginning of the End

Justinian and Roman entered the abandoned hanger in the shade side of town, infamous for drug dealers, murderers and other scum. The hanger was empty save a few empty crates and two other people in the hanger. The taller one was a woman with black hair that faded to an ash gray at the bottom with a crimson dress with long sleeves and yellow-orange detailing. The shorter woman was around Justinian's age and had pink and brown hair with a few streaks of white in the pink half of her hair. She wore a white jacket over a pink t-shirt and a pair of brown skinny jeans with a pair of white knee high boots. Roman walked over to the older woman leaving Justinian and the other teenager to talk to themselves. Justinian extended his hand out slowly in a hand shake. The woman took a small step back and shrunk.

"Hey...its okay. I don't want to hurt you." Justinian said in a calm and friendly tone. "I'm Justinian Torchwick, and you are?"

The older woman noticed Justinian's question and turned to face him. "She doesn't talk anymore. She saw her parents being killed by the security of the Schnee Dust Company. Her name is Neapolitan, she prefers Neo." She explained turning back to Roman.

Justinian let out a small sigh and lowered his head. "I know what its like to lose a parent. I just lost my mother."

Before he could continue he found her hugging him tightly. Justinian quickly returned the hug knowing she needed a shoulder to cry on. He decided from that point on he would be there for her if she ever needed someone to keep her company.


When Reaper came to he found himself handcuffed to a chair in a room only inhabited by him, a table and another chair on the other side of the table. After a minute a man in a suit with short brown hair entered and took a seat across from Reaper. The two sat in silence for a good thirty seconds before the detective spoke up.

"After four years we finally caught you, Reaper. Lets see, several accounts of armed robbery, breaking and entering, theft, grand theft auto and now domestic terrorism. You'll be lucky if you don't get a firing squad." The detective said leaning back in his chair.

"Hey buddy, two things you should know." Reaper said with a smug look on his face. "One I've been in a seat like this before." As Reaper finished his sentence Neo appeared behind the detective, drawing the sword from her umbrella and stabbed the man in the chest. He let out several gasps and had his hands go for his chest. "And two I just got paroled."

Neo pulled the sword out from the now dead man and then strolled over to Reaper. She lean over, giving Reaper a kiss then cut the cuff holding Reaper to the chair. Reaper stood up and returned Neo's kiss. After a few moments the two broke away.

"Whats gotten in to you?" Neo asked.

"Well I almost died by that blonde bitch, and I could have been incarcerated and never see you again."

"Speaking of which we need to get out of here." Neo said grabbing Reaper's arm. She teleported them just a block away from the police station he was at.

The two darted down the street towards the bad side of town in hopes of finding some safe haven. Reaper was running slower because his shin was still wounded from Weiss's unexpected move of jabbing a piece of metal in to it. About a block away they found themselves outside Junior's club. The two opened the doors and entered, closing the door behind them. Junior and the twins where at the counter of the bar while a few goons where cleaning the place up. Reaper could tell that the club had to have been packed last night.

"Reaper." He heard Junior call out. "What are you doing here I thought we weren't in business together anymore." He continued as he walked up to meet him.

"Look Junior we need a place to stay, everything just blew up in our faces." Reaper explained.

"Okay you guys can lay low here, but try not to cause me any problems." Junior said as he walked back over to the counter.

Reaper and Neo walked over to the lounge area of the club and sat down on the couch. Reaper put his leg up on the table and pulled his left pant leg up, exposing the wrapping around his shin. He then pulled the pant leg back down and let his body slacken in exhaustion. Neo started to lean on Reaper while wrapping her arms around him. The two sat there like that for a few minutes before Reaper broke the silence.

"You know, I think I owe you one." Reaper stated.

Neo sat up and faced Reaper. "Oh, no. You owe me more than that." She said with faux anger.

"I'm sorry who didn't stop that blonde tank from almost killing me." Reaper shot back in a playful tone.

"Look someone else showed up and they looked like they could stop the train with just their sword." Neo said defending herself.

Reaper started to form a smirk. "So, you got scared by someone."

Neo punched Reaper in the shoulder, playfully. Reaper quickly sat up, pulled Neo into his embrace and lied back down, causing Neo to lie down on top of him. "I hate you." Neo joked.

"I love you too." Reaper said before closing his eyes to get some sleep.

After an hour or so the two fell asleep on the couch. Thankfully for them Junior's club wasn't open today so they where able to get some actual sleep. For Reaper this was the happiest he has ever been in four years. He found someone to hold on to, someone to care for, someone to love. Now he was certain never to go back to being 'The Reaper' and return to being Justinian.


Cinder sat with Mercury on one of the beds in their dorm room at Beacon. Emerald sat on the bed adjacent to them. Mercury was reading a new issue of X-Ray and Vav while Emerald sat quietly and Cinder was looking at her scroll.

"It seems our friend, Reaper just got paroled. However he hasn't spoken to anyone in our operation." Cinder said looking up from her scroll.

"So what? Lets say he doesn't want to continue with the operation, big deal." Mercury said without looking up from his comic.

"He knows whats going to happen in phase three you dipshit." Emerald said with a hint of venom christening her words.

"While yes he knows too much, but if he was going to tell he would have told the cops Emerald." Mercury shot back.

Cinder let out a small sigh. "We have to tie up loose ends. Its a shame, he was a good co-worker." She said feigning sorrow.