Protecting the Ones You Love
Something is going on in Hillwood and everyone is keeping a secret to protect their love ones. What would you do if you had to lie to the love of your life, just to protect them from danger?
Disclaimer: I own nothing from Hey Arnold. This is my first FanFiction story.
Chapter 21: Loyalty
Wolfgang P.O.V
It is a chilly night tonight, the moon is half full and the sky is purple, black. I am on the roof of one of the military bases, looking out over the night sky, when I hear footsteps coming up the stairs to the roof. I did not turn around because I know the person is smaller than me, so I am not alarmed. "I though, I told everyone to go to sleep."
The person walked up to me and said, "I can't sleep, my mind is racing from everything that happened today." She keeps walking until she was staying next to me. "Why are you not sleeping?"
"I told you already, I am watching over everything."
"It must be lonely up here, all alone, by yourself." She looks out towards the moon. "I feel so alone right now. Everything that I thought I knew was a lie. My family or should I say my fake family, I just don't know what to feel right now, or who I am."
"Shouldn't you be talking to Gerald about this?" I turned to meet her puffy, red eyes. She looks so confused, hurt and broken. She turned away from me and looks back to the sky.
"Gerald would not understand. He has this perfect normal family, with his brother and sister and his parents that love him to death. Who do I have?" She took a deep breath before continuing, "All my life I was taught to be the smart one, to never be a failure, to be the best at everything. My parents told me to be honest and to never lie to get what you want. My 'mother'" she could barely call her that, "or should I say Reba?" She laugh out of saddens, "Reba had me afraid of her; I could not bring home a B on any of my test. I had to push myself until I could not go anymore." She looks back at me and says, "It was said somewhere that your parents make up the person that you are to become as an adult. What does that say about me?"
"I would not know my parents were never really there for me. I had to grow up at a young age." Why am I telling her this? I should send her back downstairs with her boyfriend. But for some reason I can't, just looking in her face she needs someone right now. I don't know why, but my heart is starting to beat fast, just by looking at her. "My dad…let's just say was not around very much, but when he was around you knew…He uses to beat my mom…When you are a kid, you don't know how to handle it, so that's why I use to pick on you guys." I shake my head thinking back at my elementary school days. "I would get into fights, just to take out my frustration. So when I turned 13 years old, I got tired of my father beating on my mom and that frustration that I had I took it out on my father. I throw him down the stairs and out of my house. I became a man that day in my mother's eye. She never been so proud of me before and so happy that someone care about her that way. She told me that she knew that very minute that I would not be like my father. So I guess that if you are worried about becoming like your mother, don't cause I will not became like my father."
She touches my arms, squeezes it and turned back to the moon. I don't know why, but for some reason I felt at peace, just by her being at my side. I knew right then and there that she would never tell anyone what we talked about. I guess she wanted to change the subject because the next thing that comes out of her mouth is, "What happened to you? Why are you staying in a military base?"
"I found out some information that can hurt the Hillwood Mob and they tried to kill me." I moved my arm away from her and walked to the window of the roof in set down on the ground. She walks over to me and sets down next to me.
Flash back two months ago
I was hiding in an alleyway, when Curly comes up behind me. "It's not good." Curly spoke. I turned around to face him, he pulls out a cigarette to smoke and offer me one, and I take it and light it up. "They want you dead, you know too much information and they are planning to send someone to kill your mother. What do you want to do?"
"Who are they going to sending?"
"Edward, it is going to show who his loyalty is too, you are them?"
I blow out smoke before speaking, "damn, did you talk to him?"
"Yeah, he does not know what to do, because he has to think about his own family." I shake my head, "What do you want to do?"
"I don't know." I really did not know what to do. Edward and I were friends since birth, we grow up together and did everything together.
"I have an idea that you may not like, but it is something."
"What is it?"
"We can fake your death? Tell Reba that you could not handle all the pressure and tell the school that you moved away. We can send your mom to a place where no one would ever think about. Remember that old military base outside of Hillwood, you can hide there and get everything ready for when it is time strike back."
"Yeah let's do."
End of flash back
It was really late, the moon was starting to go down and the sun was starting to rise. I look down to my right; Phoebe had her head resting on my shoulder asleep. She looked so peaceful, I did not want to move her, but I knew that she should not be up here with me. I just could not let her go; I put my head down on her head and fell sleep next to her.
Gerald P.O.V
Damn, what am I going to do now? I did not think to long cause my phone starts to ring. I look at it and it is my sister. Why is she calling my phone so late? She most wants to know where I am just in case mom and dad are looking for me. "What's up Timberly?"
"Gerald…Help!"
"Timberly!" Every muscle in my body tightens.
"That's right Gerald, we have your sister." It was Sid on the other line.
"Sid, I am going to kill you!"
"Oh really, I doubt that. Now shut up and listen if you ever what to see your sister a life again, you are going to do what I say?"
"What do you want?"
"I want revenge and you are going to help me with that. And by getting my revenge, I want to see where your loyalty lies. Is it to your friends or is it to your family? Tomorrow I am going to call you, be ready!" He hangs up the phone without letting me speak.
"SHIT!" I scream, throw my phone at the wall and fall to the ground.
Stinky P.O.V
I am seating on the bed as Gloria checks my shoulder. "It looks good. You did a really good job."
She smiles at me. "I would not know what to do if anything happens to you." I grab her waist and pull her to me; I was just about to kiss her, when my phone starts to vibrate. I take a deep breath and pull out my phone. There was a text message from an unknown number.
Unknown – Sorry about your father. There was an attachment to the message. It was a slide show of pictures of my house being burn down and my father taped to a chair.
Gloria was the first to speak, "Stinky, is that your house?"
I could barely speak to Gloria, "I reckon that it is." I just broken down crying and she just held me.