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Chapter 12 – The Black Rose
Arra sat in Speedy's coffee shop waiting for Sam and her new baby. Her friend had refused to tell her the sex of her baby and Arra grew more annoyed about it each day. She looked up from her James Patterson book when the bell chimed to see Sam struggling with a pram and keeping the door open. Before she could move to help her, a man with familiar dark hair and tanned complexion moved to help her. Arra began deducing who this stranger was, she grinned when she realised who it was. She walked behind him and hugged him, he jumped in shock.
"Well hello Lancelot." She smiled
"Gwen?" He whipped around "what are you doing here?"
"Considering my dad lives next door and I'm meeting my friend's sprog for the first time." Arra grinned
"Oi don't call my son a sprog." Sam growled
"Yes, I knew it was a boy." Arra crowed
"Oh Shit, well it's your fault for having such attractive friends." Sam admitted causing Lance to blush.
"I'm not sure your partner would like to hear that." He said sheepishly
"I don't have a partner well I do in crime and that's Pippin." Sam said grinning at Arra "Saffire's dad fucked off when I told him I was pregnant."
"Come on Samwise, let's get sat down, Lance why don't you join us." Arra suggested they both agreed and sat down at Arra's table before ordering tea's all around, a crumpet for Sam, toast for Lance and a toasted teacake for Arra.
"Remember to put proper butter on." Arra called to the owner who just grinned and nodded, as Arra picked up Saffire giving him a cuddle while Sam and Lance got to know each other. "Hey little Saffire I think your mummy likes Lance and he likes her, don't you I think he'll make a good daddy for you." Arra whispered to the baby who yawned before opening his bright blue eyes staring up at Arra.
Arra stiffened "Sam!"
Sam looked at Arra
"Why does your kid look like fucking Arthur Jackson?" Arra asked quietly
"Umm, because he is Arthur." Sam replied nervously
"You slept with that dick head, why Sam Why?" Arra asked her voice began to rise.
"Arra, it was a one night stand and I fell pregnant, I told him as soon as I found out and he called me a liar and a whore and he said that I had no proof that the baby was his and I was just lying to get money. Trust me Arra I wish I had never met him, I wouldn't be without Saf but I didn't know who he was at the time I was too drunk, I found out the next morning and I remembered that you had warned me about him, Arra you have to believe me." Sam begged as tears ran down her cheeks.
Arra handed Saffire to Lance and wrapped her arms around her best friend. "Shush, its okay I believe you Sam, it's okay."
"I'll fucking kill him." Arra vowed
"Thanatos, I will see you in two hours." Arra said quietly down the phone
"Very well Raizel see you then." A male voice replied then the line went dead.
Arra looked around her noting the two agents following her, she walked into 221 and walked upstairs to her father's flat, she knew both he and John were out because of the demanding text she had received for her to come to St Bart's. She walked into her father's room opening his window before slipping out of it and dropping to the pavement below. She continued down the street making her way through the underbelly of London where she couldn't be seen by Mycroft's minions. After travelling for at least an hour and 45 minutes she came across an abandoned warehouse near the docks. She knocked twice then paused then three times then paused then once more. The door opened slowly a man looked out. She raised her eyebrow at him before the door was opened and she was ushered inside.
"I never thought I'd see you here again Raizel, I thought you had some cushy job in the government." Asked the man with a scar that ran across his left bright green eye, down to his lips past his straight roman nose. His dark curls tumbled over his eyes causing him to push it back.
"Cushy is not the word I'd use Thanatos, I've been shot and shot at more times than I wish to remember over the last two years than in that year and I'm losing my touch I need to train again I have the feeling that I'm going to need to be the Black Rose again."
"You haven't been the Black Rose since Raisa died, are you sure about this." Thanatos asked
"I am well aware of that, Mum trained me for this and there is someone behind the scenes out of the spotlight pulling the strings. Do you know anything to do with one going by the name Moriarty?" she asked
"Moriarty, let me think." He turned away from her "Yes, I've heard of it, there are rumours about that one well whispers, they organise the crimes but no one ever gets to them. They found General Shan dead recently." Arra flinched
"Good that bitch shot me and I still owed her for the scar on my back." Thanatos smiled at her, she began to plait her hair then wrapped it up into a bun, then moved towards the IPod docking station, finding From Paris to Berlin by Infernal. She clicked her neck and swung her arms around her while bouncing to the beat as she took up her stance, Thanatos mirrored her before rushing at her throwing a punch she blocked it swiftly before attacking him back. They blocked and volleyed punched back and forth till Arra dropped to the ground sweeping his legs from under him before he could register what happened she had his arms pinned to his side with her legs as she straddled his chest with a knife at his throat. He chuckled as she moved off him.
"My dear Raizel you do not need training your execution is perfect you are the perfect weapon and a brilliant assassin." He said standing up.
"I am not an assassin anymore Thanatos, I'm not the Black Rose but I may have to be." And that is all she said as she left.
So I finally told you what the Black Rose is what do you think please review with your thoughts
- The Archfiend
