-So so so sorry for not updating like I should. College sucks away any and all free time you have. Well that and I have been a lazy girl. (Bad Kattis!) Thanks everyone for putting up with my ridiculous update schedule. And thank you SOO much for reviewing and reading this! Anyways, here is the long awaited next chapter in my series.
-Oh side note, does anyone want to draw some of my characters? I'll love you forever if you do. And you shall get a digital cupcake, which is the most delicious of all cupcakes!
"Sullivan." his chief executive said in her nasally clipped tone. "Business has fallen by twelve percent. What is the meaning of this?"
"Miss Raynes, I would kindly appreciate you calling me Mr. Burke." he replied calmly.
His Italian leather shoes clicked as he walked toward his underling. "All in good time, everything will come into place so don't worry about a thing."
Miss Raynes nodded and quickly dashed from Sullivan's office. He sighed and ran a hand over his hair. He needed to put his plan into action soon before his company fell completely.
A knock on his door, pulled Sullivan from his bitter thoughts.
"Well come in." he grumbled before moving to sit behind his desk.
Caspian slowly opened the door with Lilith in tow. "Sullivan, We-"
"Silence!" Sullivan bellowed. "I am sick and tired of your incompetence. You have tried my patience for the last time."
"But sir," Lilith protested. "You could not have expected us to anticipate that brat joining a team here."
"Yeah." Caspian chimed in. "She has powerful allies now."
Both twins jumped as Sullivan slammed his fist onto his desk. "That is no excuse! She is not that hard of a target to eliminate!"
"We're sorry sir." both twins whimpered at the same time. "We'll do better next time."
Sullivan chuckled darkly as he moved toward them. "There will not be a next time, you fools."
Caspian gaped at his boss, dread in his green eyes. Lilith clutched onto her brother as both feared the worst. The glint of shining metal reflected in both twins eyes as Sullivan came closer.
"No!" Lilith screamed as she dragged her brother toward the door. "We'll do better we swear!"
Desperate tears fell from her eyes as she clawed at the barricaded door.
"Your punishment is well deserved, my dear children." Sullivan said in a deadly calm voice. "Take this with grace and I might just overlook your blunder. After all, you two owe me for many things."
Rain poured from the sky as two identical twins scoured garbage cans in the desolate alleyways of a town in Russia.
"I'm so hungry, brother." a ten year old Lilith mumbled weakly.
"I know." Caspian whispered in reply.
Caspian, being a whole ten minutes older than his sister felt he needed to take the role of the strong older brother. He knew Lilith blamed herself for their mother's death and their father reminded her of that fact everyday. Well before they killed him that is.
Caspian was snapped out of his thoughts by a loud thud. Lilith had managed to crawl over to a garbage can and attempt to find food. In her haste, she managed to dump it all over herself.
"Lilith!' Caspian screamed as he ran over to her. "Are you okay?"
Lilith smiled in delight and held out the slightly moldy bread. She ripped open the plastic casing on it and handed the less moldy pieces to her brother. "You can have the better ones this time."
Caspian shook his head and pushed the bread back toward her. "You eat those. You need it more than I do."
'Someday we'll escape this hell.' he thought bitterly as he watched his sister eat.
He knew that this would be a result of their father's death, but even this was better than living with that bastard. He had multiple scars from the beating his father used to give him everyday. He couldn't even imagine what his twin had gone through. She would always come out of the basement, bloodied and barely able to stand. Their father might have hated both of them, but he hated Lilith the worst.
"It's your fault, my beautiful Alesandra is dead!" he would scream. "You are a child of the devil!"
Caspian just couldn't understand why a father would hate his children so much. When he had begun to burn Lilith is when Caspian made up his mind.
"We cannot let him do this to you sister." Caspian whispered to his sister as she crawled up the stairs after another beating.
"But it is my fault mother is dead. I am a devil child." she protested.
"It is not!" Caspian growled. "If father thinks we are children of the devil, then let us act like it."
Killing their father had been simple. They waited until he was passed out drunk and the proceeded to strangle an stab him. Lilith held the pillow over his face, while Caspian took a kitchen knife and drove it through his chest multiple times. Afterwards, they lit the mattress on fire and then fled the scene.
A shrill scream broke Caspian out of his memories. Sullivan had managed to pin Lilith down and was now slashing the word failure on her back with his small dagger.
"Enough!" Caspian growled as he attempted to push the older man off of his twin.
Sullivan smiled and let go of the smaller twin. "Fine, but now it is your turn."
"Fine." he grunted in reply.
Blood seeped from the deep slashes in his arms as Sullivan glided the dagger up and down them.
"Let this be a lesson to you." he said in his eerie calm voice. "I do not take kindly to failure and mistakes."
He then walked over to his desk and pressed the button that unlocked his doors. He watched in wicked glee as both twins scrambled out of his office.
"That man will not get away with this." Caspian growled as he rubbed antiseptic on his sister's morbid tattoo.
"What can we do, brother?" Lilith whimpered. "We owe that man our lives."
It had been about a month since the death of their father and both twins were not doing well. They barely managed to find food and it was showing.
"Caspian, I think mother is calling us." Lilith whispered in a dead voice. "We should go to her."
Caspian looked at his sister in fear. "Mother is dead, Lilith. You have to stay here with me!"
Lilith ignored the calls of her twin and closed her eyes, a blissful smile on her sunken face. Caspian panicked. He grabbed his sister and drug her out of the alley that had made their home.
"Please!" he called into the empty streets. "Help us!"
After what seemed like hours of screaming, his voice finally broke. He collapsed into a heap and began to cry.
"My dear child." a silky voice said beside him. "Why are you crying?"
Caspian could not speak anymore, so he merely pointed to his sister. The man knelt down by the girl and leaned his head in close.
"She is still breathing." he said. "How about you come with me and I will take care of this mess?"
Caspian merely nodded and took the mans hand.
'We still haven't escaped our hell.' Caspian thought as he bandaged his sister's wound.
"Let me fix you up now, Caspian." Lilith said.
He nodded and grunted in pain as Lilith cleaned the cuts on his arms.
"We cannot fail again." she said in a small voice. "I fear what Sullivan will do to us if it happens again."
"He will do nothing, because we will not fail next time." Caspian replied. "We are better and stronger than that brat of a child. She will not know what hit her the next time we meet."
"We must prepare then." Lilith replied as she finished fixing her twins arms.