This is the second to last chapte, I'm starting to get all emotional now.
Please enjoy.
TishaLiz
Disclaimer: I do not own beyblade.
- No yoai, no rape, no sexual abuse. -
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Past and Present
by zzdoricorezz
Chapter 28
"talking" 'thinking' =flashback= i/ Russian /i
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Mr. Dickenson's black car pulls up in front of the gates of the Maximum Security Prison in Moscow. An armed Russian guard approaches the car and the driver rolls down his window.
i/State your business.i/ The guard asks in Russian.
"I'm sorry, I don't speak Russian." The driver first frowns trying to figure out what the guard just said and then apologises that the can't understand him.
"State your business." The guard repeats his question but this time in English. The tone the guard uses implies that they are not at all very welcome.
"Isn't it obvious?" The driver asks the guard sarcastically, like really what else would they be doing here? To try and rob the place?
The icy glare the guard gives the driver indicates that he may shoot him for that sarcastic comment. The driver swallows and starts to sweat under the guards heavy glare, then softly clears his throat, he feels like he has only seconds left to live.
The back window opens and a rather not so jolly face appears. "We have just come to visit a prisoner." Mr. Dickenson states his business from the back seat, he doesn't have time for the guard's intimidation today. There are more important matters to take care of.
The guard gives Mr. Dickenson his share of an ice glare and then he turns to the guard standing next to the gate. i/Open it. i/ The guard orders in Russian. The gate opens and the driver wastes no time getting as far away from the guards. Mr. Dickenson looks out the window as the car enters through the gates and moves closer to the main building.
-=Flashback=
"If you change your mind here..."
"I will not."
"Then you leave me no choice."
=End of flashback =
Mr. Dickenson isn't sure if Kai's adoption was arranged by Voltaire or if Voltaire even knows that Boris has adopted his grandson. So he's here to find out and hopefully maybe get some information from Voltaire that will stand against Boris in court.
Surely Voltaire knows about what Boris is capable of and surely he wouldn't let his own grandson end up in that monster's hands. Mr. Dickenson is sure that Voltaire will be just as serious about getting Kai away from Boris, just as much as he himself.
The car starts to slow down and then stops into a park. Mr. Dickenson gets out of the car before the driver can get out to open his door, and starts walking towards the prison's reception.
There are Russian guards armed with heavy guns visible every two steps and the unwelcome glares he receives makes him feel like he's the one heading for his execution.
Mr. Dickenson reaches the front desk and signs in and notices that there hasn't been anyone else here to visit Voltaire since his last visit. When Mr. Dickenson is finished at the front desk he's escorted to Voltaire's jail cell by another armed guard.
The guard unlocks the cell door and then opens it allowing Mr. Dickenson to step in.
Voltaire who is sitting at a small table busy reading a book lifts his eyes to see who it is. "Ah, Standley, to what do I owe the pleasure of seeing you...again." Voltaire knows that Mr. Dickenson isn't here just to talk about good old times. He's sure Stanley is enjoying himself to see him locked up like this.
"Voltaire." Mr. Dickenson greets as he steps forward. "Are you aware that Boris has adopted Kai?" Mr. Dickenson gets right down to the point, catching Voltaire slightly off guard.
"Whatever makes you think that Stanley?" Voltaire keeps eye contact with Mr. Dickenson without looking away.
"Boris has told me so himself and I have confirmed it with both social services and Kai himself." Mr. Dickenson speaks in a serious/worried tone.
Voltaire narrows his eyes slightly; he would rather believe that this is a lie Dickenson is telling him to get him to expose some information about Boris.
"You don't believe me." Mr. Dickenson takes out a neatly folded paper from the inside pocket of his brown jacket and hands it to Voltaire.
Voltaire takes the paper and unfolds it slowly, he's got all the time in the world, it's not like he's going anywhere. Voltaire takes a look at the open paper in front of him but keeps up his cold emotionless face not wanting to revealing that he's surprised.
After a few moments of studying the paper thoroughly Voltaire folds it up again and then hands it back to Mr. Dickenson.
"How's this my problem Stanley?" Voltaire asks Mr. Dickenson in a bored and very uninterested tone while he turns his attention back to the book he was reading.
"Do you not care!" Mr. Dickenson asks with a tone of worry mixed in with some anger.
"If Kai cannot see for himself what kind of person Boris is, it's not my problem Stanley." Voltaire doesn't look away from the book in front of him. This is the child he brought up to dominate the world, if Kai is too weak to look after himself than he will not have anything to do with his own grandson.
"So that's it? Kai doesn't mean anything to you?" Mr. Dickenson asks with a hint of sadness. Voltaire just keeps his attention on his book not even acknowledging Mr. Dickenson's presence.
After a few seconds waiting in silence for an answer Mr. Dickenson accepts that he has only come to waste his time here. He couldn't even get a hint of caring or even worry out of Voltaire for his own grandson, he much rather doubts that asking for Voltaire's help to stop Boris will also end in being ignored.
As Mr. Dickenson leaves the cell without saying another word Voltaire's attention is still in the book but his thoughts are a million miles away.
=Flashback=
"I don't want the name Hiwatari anymore Father. I want no connection to it at all. I'm leaving."
Niara, Voltaire's daughter is standing in front of her father's desk in his mansion in Russia.
"Well if that is what you want, then you force me to give you an ultimatum." Niara looks at her father knowing that he's not a man to let anyone get off easy who should turn their back on him. "What is it?"
Voltaire's eyes which are burning with hate makes direct contact with his daughters.
"As you know my dear daughter you are my only family and my only heir. And since you don't want the name Hiwatari anymore, I want an heir from you. I will let you run off with that boy you want to marry and I will never contact you again. But only if you give me a child. A child that will take your place as heir."
Niara looks at her father without shock. She new that her father would want a replacement heir, someone to train and rule everything he has built his entire life.
"How long do I have?" She asks her father with no anger or hate or surprise, this is exactly the kind of thing she would expect form him.
Voltaire's face shows no emotion. "I want the child brought to me the day after it's 4th birthday."
Niara turns to leave without saying anything else. "And Niara I want a disciplined child." Voltaire orders her in a harsh tone as she leaves his office.
Niara knows that to Voltaire's discipline means, no emotions, cold, heartless, a mindless puppet, taking the suffering with no complaining and good at shutting up and taking orders.
=End of flashback =
Voltaire was going to leave everything he had to Kai in his will but not anymore. Kai's betrayal and turning his back on him is the reason he ended up in jail, so why should he be concerned about his wellbeing?
The only reason Voltaire can think of why Boris would adopt Kai is to use him. After all Kai is the strongest blader ever to step out of Boris' precious abbey. The one thing that has Voltaire wondering is why would Kai agree to that; wouldn't Kai much rather stay with Stanley than with Boris? Surely Kai knows what kind of person Boris is and what he permitted to happen in the lower bases of that abbey?
Maybe Boris forced him into agreeing to the adoption or maybe Kai did agree willingly. Kai can sometimes do the most stupidest of things in Voltaire's eyes. Like joining that pom-pom squad everyone refers to as the bladebreakers rather than wanting to rule the world, that was one of those stupid things.
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"So what your telling me is that you are prepared to stand in front of an entire court with a judge and a jury and tell them how you were battered, beating, punished starved and put into slavery and then expect them not to give you their sympathetic looks?"
Tala has been staring out the window when he suddenly turned around in an outburst not really directed at anyone specific.
The demolition boys remain silent not really reacting to Tala. The tension has been high ever since Mr. Dickenson brought up the idea of them testifying against Boris.
"That's not how it works in cases like ours, where still under age. They won't put us in front of an entire court room." After a long silence Ian speaks up.
"Of course not, they just put you in an empty room in front of a camera so that they can play it to an entire court full of people later on." Tala bites back.
Bryan has been sitting on one of the chairs staring blankly out of a nearby window with his mind roaming his memories.
=Flashback=
A young Bryan is standing at attention in one of The Abbeys rooms in the basements. A room that is mostly known as Ivan's office. It's not really an office but it's where Ivan works most of the time.
An incident took place earlier, one that will not go unpunished. Four boys were caught but then pointed their fingers to Bryan and accused him of it when in fact Bryan didn't even know what happened.
Bryan knows better than to open his mouth and protest so he just goes along knowing it's safer than to try and explain it wasn't him.
Bryan is mostly used to the punishments and can understand why he was being punished if he failed to do something. But getting a punishment for something he didn't do just broke him.
Ivan lets him stand at attention in front of his desk while he's busy filling in some forms. That's done on purpose just to let the pressure get to Bryan even more then what's already mentally done to him.
After quite some time Ivan noticed that Bryan is most certainly shaking. Not too much longer a tear rolls down Bryan's cheek but Bryan doesn't attempt to wipe it away, to terrified to move. Bryan screws his eyes shut trying to block any more tears, the tears are worse than the incident he is to be punished for.
Ivan rises out of his chair, walks around his desk and stands in front of Bryan. He lifts one hand and wipes away the tear trail with the back of his calloused finger.
"There's no need for crying, you are an obedient soldier, I believe you didn't do it... but the tears are going to cost you."
Ivan gently takes Bryan by his sleeve and pulls him towards the chair equipped with restraints.
=End of flashback =
"Bryan...Bryan!" Ian grabs Bryan by his shoulder and shakes him out of his daze. Bryan suddenly snaps back to reality and swings his fist in the direction of the person who dared to touch him, resulting him knocking Ian to the floor in one punch.
"Wow, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?" Ian asks while he rubs his face where he has just been struck.
"How many times have I told you not to touch me Ian?" Bryan asks in an annoyed cold tone.
"I stopped counting." Ian gets back on his feet not taking that he just got punched very seriously. By now the team is use to Bryan getting violent at any kind of physical contact.
"So?" Ian asks Bryan. "So what?" Bryan asks back, he completely missed the entire conversation. "What do you say about us testifying against Boris?" Ian repeats the question again.
Bryan turns back and stares out of the window and remains silent for a few seconds. "I will never speak; I will never say anything...not a word."
With Kai- BEGA,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':~,':
=Flashback=
I step into grandfather's office with much expectation. I have the trophy I just won for the Japanese championship in my right hand. Grandfather doesn't look up but just continues with some papers.
I step closer to grandfather's desk and place the trophy on the edge in front of him and step back and wait for grandfather to have a look. To me this trophy means a lot, bringing this trophy back would mean I don't have to go back to the abbey.
Grandfather looks up to see what I'd placed on his desk. "So you won." Grandfather says it like I'm busy bothering him. I nod, I feel excited, but I keep it to myself.
"Just put it with the others." Grandfather says like it's of no importance. My hopes have just been shattered, I stay standing not moving.
Grandfather looks back up and gives me an icy glare. "What?" Grandfather demands to know what I'm still standing around in his office for.
"Do I get to stay?" Not like I want to stay here, but it's better than living in the abbey.
Grandfather remains silent for a moment; he looks like he is weighing his decision. "That was the deal." Grandfather finally says.
I step forward to take the trophy off his desk. "You can leave that." Grandfather tells me as he turns his attention back to the papers in front of him. I step back and drop my hands, I feel disappointed. He's going to take this trophy away from me just like all the others. I turn around and leave his office, leaving my trophy on his desk.
=End of flashback =
I'm pulled from my thoughts imagining I hear something. I lean closer to the railing of the staircase and take a look up and find that I'm still very much alone. I take a look at my watch and find that it's almost past 8pm and still I haven't got any word from Boris. I stand up from the step I've been sitting on at the bottom of the staircase ever since I got back out of the basement.
I've been keeping a close eye on its door for a long time to see who comes and goes but I only found Ivan entering and then leaving again. That's when I made use of the opportunity and slipped into the basement. I found the generator room but this time the sign board that reads 'generator room' has magically re-appeared.
I entered, this time without being caught and found the room to be the same as before. I started walking to the back of the room where the door was last time I came into the lower base but to my surprise I found no door.
I took a step back and took a good look and a faint memory surfaced, if I recalled correctly there was only three generators in the room but this time I counted four. The forth one was right in front of where I can remember that door was.
So as far as I can tell they have sealed of the door that leads to the underground basements. Figuring I wouldn't be able to get past it I gave up and left the basement and I've been sitting on this step for the rest of the day.
I decide to walk up one floor and step out into the hallway. I'm going to go and find out why we're not on the plane like Boris said we would be. I walk over to the elevator; I'm not going to walk all the way up to the top floor if I don't have too. I push the button and to my surprise elevator door opens a lot sooner than I thought it would... and with Ivan in it.
I remain standing in the same position giving Ivan a glare wondering to myself, out of all the floors this building has why does he have to be in the elevator I'm going to use.
"I'll take the stairs." I tell Ivan and as I turn and walk away Ivan reaches out and grabs me by my shoulder and roughly pulls me into the elevator and pushes the button to close the doors before he let's go of me.
"No need, there's more than enough space in here." Ivan tells me while further just ignoring me. I disagree with him the air in this elevator is more like... suffocating.
After a long elevator ride to the top floor which seemed like an eternity the elevator finally comes to a stop and the doors open. Ivan steps out like I'm not there and makes his way down the hall into the opposite direction of Boris' office.
I step out and take a look into Ivan's direction and then I turn and start walking towards Boris' office. I wonder what the meeting this morning was about and I'm sure I'm going to find out. He won't be able to keep it to himself since he's been filling me in on everything else lately.
I come closer to Boris' office, reaching out and put my hand on the door knob and start turning.
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End of chapter 28
To be continued...
