Nemo me Impune Lacessit 2.7
Danny Hebert had greeted Beth a good night before he left his office. The woman had been a great secretary and a boon for the Dock worker's Association, always giving out her all and whipping Danny around reminding him of his duties as the head of DWA while also teaching him Korean dishes if she was visiting his home, if Taylor was to be believed the woman likes him.
The man suppressed a snort as he left the building, it wasn't that Danny was a greenhorn on things concerning attraction and dating, he was sure that Beth just wants to help him after he had helped her with a problem of hers when she was a university student and he being a widower to a member of the university was just there to accept the honors his wife would have accepted if she was still alive.
And then when she graduated she decided to apply as a secretary here because of a certain Danny working for the DWA, Danny thought as he remembered sitting down with their HR and was surprised to see Elizabeth Kim in front of him and the HR applying for a job. He shook his head at the memory as he took a bend at a street closer to the suburbs, he sees the sun going down and he could tell that Taylor must have already been back home.
She probably had closed shop, Danny thought as he sits down on one of the chairs of the bus stop. He still couldn't believe that his wife was some sorceress for a group called the Lodge of Sorceresses, and Taylor became a student to them, Danny once laughed at Annette when she told him about herself and was surprised when she cast an aerokinetic blast which toss a person who rudely pinched her butt.
Annette La Croix, that was his wife's real name, it was rather shocking when Annette dragged him to an impromptu wedding ceremony at their fourth date and with Alan and Zoe as witnesses the two were married. Time was so simple and good then, but it was not to last as Danny remembers having heard of a call from the hospital of Annette's accident to a car crash he closes his eyes and shakes his head at the memory.
"Its not worth it to destroy yourself and wallow in self-pity, Annette wouldn't want that for you" Danny remembers that advise given to him by Alan when he was crawling at the end of a bottle and he had ignored taking care of Taylor, something he swore he would never do again.
His bus ride arrived at his drop point to which he steps down bidding the driver a good night before welcoming in the sight of the street in front of him, he strolls at the sidewalk of the suburban area of the city, making a turn he saw a person he never thought was seeing at this time.
Annette's teacher, now Taylor's, Danny thought as he remembers seeing the woman once when she was presented by his daughter "your daughter deserved some break so I left her with friends and I will have to join the rest of my sisters to meet an old friend and ally" Fringilla simply said as she looks at the playground in front of her.
"You seem to not notice me at every given time you were at my house" Danny said as the woman looks at him giving him a slight smile which quickly disappeared.
"I just had a hard time trying to understand why Annette would give up every opportunity that was lain before her just to be with you" Fringilla remarks as she sighs "although I'm not one to question her tastes since I once fell for a Witcher" there was a curl upward to the woman's lips which then lowered.
"I understand what you mean about that" Danny states as he remembers the time a Witcher arrived on their house with a seven year old girl clinging on him and some PRT troopers.
"My daughter is involved with a Witcher" he then states as Fringilla groans.
"So I've heard from her" the sorceress said as she produce a flask at one of her purses and then hands it to Danny "vodka?"
I swore not to drown my problems and sorrows with alcohol not forgo drinking as a whole "It wont hurt I guess" Danny accepts as he drinks and then coughs out when he felt his throat and stomach burning "good lord this kicks different than the usual vodka!" he exclaims as he returns the flask to Taylor's teacher who laughs.
"I'm disappointed Annette chose a lightweight!" Fringilla teases good naturedly as she drank from the flask and both parent and teacher talk of many things, and of Annette, and Danny found out as much that the often cold Fringilla always had a soft spot for Annette, a motherly bond that she was hesitant to show to her student so as not to show favoritism. The night went on until Fringilla returned her flask back to her pursed and then stood up with a spring in her steps.
"I'm guessing it is time for you to go" the sorceress nods at his words as he also stood up.
"It was nice to get to know you Master Hebert" she greets with a slight bow "I can see now why Annette would run away from us"
"Its not my dashing good looks then?" Danny quips as the sorceress gave out a fullhearted laugh.
"No it is not, although I can see the appeal" she winks teasingly as she casts a portal and then walks into it, Danny shakes his head smiling as he left the place, another turn would put him back home.
He never notices a van following him and the moment had take one last step towards another turn which is close to his home, Danny felt a heavy blow on his back, his knees buckled as he fell on the ground, his eyes seeing only red "call Kaiser we've got the untermensch's father!" he heard an unmistakably rough male voice as he turns then saw a gasmask and a bald man whose nose is flattened by a punch and was covered by a bandage.
"You've got no one to blame but your daughter who cavorts with other race traitors untermensch" the gasmask man sneers as he lifted a boot and slammed it on Danny who only knew darkness and dreams of Annette.
Sophia had to admit that Brian and Greg were well-built and muscular for their respective ages, although unlike Brian who had small scars from neck to abdomen and the only major one he has was a burnt scar on his lower ribs, gunshot wound that Greg cauterized during the fight against Coil, she remembers the story and then there's the Witcher who has a collection of them all of which tells a story.
Some of them were closer to get stripped as well although it was mostly Sophia, Emma, and then Lisa not that it was any compromise for the boys who were starting to look for someone to blame for this whole drunken game that resulted in them with wounded dignity.
"Whoever suggests this game rule is a fucking idiot!" Regent complains as he removes his shirt, having been beaten by Dinah. Regent's body wasn't also safe from injuries although unlike the two, his are more tame.
"Don't blame us you were the one who suggests round robin strip Gwent!" Penance argues, well she's only took off her socks, courtesy of Grue beating the COS' medic on their round of Gwent.
"I'm drunk don't listen to me while I'm drunk!"
"Not that some of us are complaining" Tattletale remarks as she puts down a second card and then at the rest of the round she manages to win by swarming her opponent with elite unit cards.
"Now Leet strip!" she calls out as her opponent groans.
"Come on!" the man complains but did so taking off his shorts making him lose the whole game completely as he sulks in a corner his dignity shattered at the laughter his whole naked self seen by everyone while Uber tries to avenge him despite down to his briefs but sadly he wasn't chosen for the round but instead had to play against Tattletale.
"You still need to do some training by the way Leet" Diestra said as she was now playing against Taylor, "go easy on me mom" she said in a cutesy manner as her opponent just snorts.
"I'm not going to fall for that so don't use your powers when we play or I'll cut off your allowance" she threatens as they began to play, not that everyone didn't notice but she was often eyeing Greg while he plays against Emma.
Emma's face scrunched in frustration as she was struggling trying to beat the man before her, although Sophia could see that the red head was more along the lines distracted rather than struggling.
"Damn it!" Emma puts down her cards as she looks at Greg "I don't know why you are beating me on this game! I swear you are cheating!" the Witcher shrugs and then sets back his deck.
"I'm not, I just play a lot on my time in Alamut castle" Emma takes of her shirt earning some wolf whistles and a quick look from Penance who looked away with a blush that she hoped no one saw, but I saw her.
"Oh cut the crap!"
"Still this is a rather interesting rule that Alec brought up" Taylor said as she beats Diestra who takes off her arm wraps, "I thought this game was to see us naked and yet so far you guys all seem to flaunt it" there was some snorts of laughter and a pained cry, although there was a look from the Witcher who is now in front of Sophia shuffling his deck.
"Ready to lose more clothes?" Sophia looks at the man before her and then stares at him, he was only down to his pants while yes she is only down to her underwear, one last game and she would be forced out of the game eventually without having to remove her last clothing.
I can see the appeal, as much as possible the man before her could be seen as at peak height of human biology the same as Brian, he wasn't built like a bodybuilder with those large hulking muscles but rather his muscles were compact, tough, and wiry a result of the brutal training that he did to earn his place as a Witcher then there was also his face, a wild and roguish look there is complimented by his hairstyle which reminded Sophia of Native Americans on a warpath.
"This is a bit cheating though on part of the girls..." Uber said as he beats Tattletale who takes off her shirt, the cheating asshole, "...I mean us guys would only be out of the game when were out of clothes literally while girls would play one last game in their underwear" there were some glares at his direction and he quickly lowers himself down muttering an I'm sorry.
"Ah fuck!" Lisa grunts in frustration as she was beat by Taylor who has by far only taken off her pants "I swear I had you by the fourth turn!" she cries out before joining the losers corner which was just a couch as she was already out of the game.
Five rounds was all it takes for Greg to win his round against Sophia and much to her frustrations she was out of the game "I hate this game" Sophia decided as she went to join Lisa and Leet who was still sobbing at his wounded pride.
"Oh cut the shit Leet!" Sophia roars out as a recently beaten Regent joined in.
"Hey don't hurt Leet's feelings he's a great guy!"
There was some uproarious laughter amongst the others as both Sophia and Lisa notices that Regent was fully naked. "Who beat you?" Lisa asked and Regent shrugs but points at Uber who is now against Grue.
Well the game went on until they decided to stop the game since the better players that are Brian, Taylor, Greg, and Dinah kept on getting a draw for every round "now that's done..." Lisa starts as she decided to give everyone some plastic cups, some of them decided to wear their clothes back although some were far more comfortable with just their pants, cue in Sophia, Brian, and Greg.
"Anyone wants to tell some stories?"
"What stories can we tell? I mean everyone knows everyone around here" Leet said and Sophia couldn't agree more.
"Come on guys! This is a party! We should be doing anything that isn't making this place feel like a graveyard shift at a call center office"
"Really?" Sophia asked as she decides to play along and then showed a familiar burn on her shoulder "nine millimeter bullet, grazed me, hurt like a bitch for a week" she boasts as she looks at Lisa who raised an eyebrow.
"So we gonna be boasting about scars then?" she remarks as she raises her shirt and then shows a scar on her stomach "serrated knife almost punctured my intestines" she said as Grue decides to join in.
"Knife cut had to do seven stitches" he said as Regent showed his scars on his hand but was stopped by Diestra.
"No Alec cat scratches are not serious scars to show off" everyone laughs while Regent turns to Dinah clearly annoyed.
"It was a worthy battle though damn it!" although Alec pulled up the left side of his pants then showed a teeth mark on the side.
"You remember that Alghoul we encountered?" he asks Brian who nods, "got my leg almost ripped off by the bastard if not for Emma casting a flame spell"
"I remember you were brought to me crying" Taylor states as everyone laughed at that.
"Yeah, yeah laugh at my misery"
Dinah then decides to remove the side of her shirt revealing a rather nasty claw mark "Drowner at the Brockton bay sewers, I was lucky I decided to climb up, adrenaline numbed the pain but then it hurt"
"I stitched that wound at you" Taylor said turning to Greg who has a questioning look on his eyes but quickly dropped.
"You never told me about that Dinah" he said as the youngest member of the Circle of Steel smiles at his direction.
"Wouldn't want you to worry Dad"
"Now that went heavy" Lisa decides to cut in and everyone decides to change the subject but Greg decides to go and boast his scars or rather one of them turning around he showed an almost ripped out back that was totally marred by a whip as if his flesh was pulled out.
"The Trial of the Medallion of the Eagle School also known as the Dance, all of us had to fight around a pillar defended by senior Witchers armed with whips, it was a modified gauntlet of the Wolf School" he simply said smiling at Dinah as if to say, I'm just worried and I understand.
Curse you Witcher libido!
Greg grunts as the two sets of hands wandered to his upper body, when Taylor decided to pull him over and invited him to her room at the Circle of Steel HQ he was expecting something more to happen and then when he arrived at her room, Emma was there only on her shirt and holding a handcuff and now he was intrigued that was until he was now cuffed in bed and his loins stirring that the two women decided to just settle for cuddles.
The two of them took liberties at teasing him just for good measure, a rub of a shapely leg at his thigh and then a caress at the lower abdomen, did I do something to deserve this torture? he thought to himself not that he was complaining but still.
"Hrghhh" he groans as he felt a pinch on his ribs "Taylor!" he looks at the woman on his right who looks at him innocently.
"What?" he sighs surrendering and looking above the ceiling wishing that there is something out of the predicament he found himself to.
"When you invited me to your room I thought this was it" he states as he felt a tingling sensation on his lower abdomen with which he squirms and twists but the handcuffs kept him in place.
"Well I did, I just want some cuddles just like the old times" Taylor said in a matter of fact tone.
"And you need handcuffs just for that?"
"Oh come on Greg we read about the legendary trait of all Witchers even if they're sterile" Emma said as she pinches a sensitive part of his skin which made him turn his head on her with a glare, "so the handcuffs are for just in case, we want our virtue intact after all right Taylor?" really? Greg raised an eyebrow at that.
"Yes we do" Taylor agrees as Greg closes his eyes then.
"Fuck..." he drawls as the two women at his sides only giggled, this will be a long night.
"You still wear that necklace I gave you by the way" he observes to the woman on his left, it was something he bought at Lord's square market, a rare pure silver medallion shaped like a violet flower, he still remembers Emma smiling brightly when she took it from his hand and wear it on her.
"I did, it was something that fooled me into thinking we could have been something more" it made Greg flinch a bit at her words there was some bitterness to it although it was fading, "I would have been open to sharing you with Taylor as long as you are honest to us" she said as he felt her hands then caressing his chest.
"But now I just want the cuddles" Emma said as she dug deep to his side and he felt her smile, he would have been smiling too if he hadn't felt another pinch at his side courtesy of the woman on his right.
"Taylor!"
"What? It couldn't be all sweetness and sunshine?"
Where did she learn this thing? "That's not a thing!" fingernails at his left side made him just surrender and accept the whole night for what it is "fuck, I'd take a cockatrice at the sewers at any time than this..."
Night passed by and then come morning, Greg was left on the bed handcuffed, cold, and frustrated, he turns at the door which opens revealing Lisa "rough night?" she enters with a cocky smile that Greg wanted to wipe off with a punch.
"You tell me about it" he said as he looks at her "you gonna help me out of here?" Tattletale shows him the keys of the cuffs.
"Not that I would want to meddle but seriously Greg you have to be smart to see that not everything is too good to be true" she said as she approaches and then removes his cuffs.
"I wish it were true" he grunts and Lisa laughs "laugh at my misery will you" his friend shakes her head.
"Man you're in a relationship and yet you still don't understand your significant other! That is hilarious!" Lisa cackles as he sits at the other side of the bed. "Did you ever had any relationship prior to Taylor?"
"What's with that question? No I didn't have any"
"That's it? No sex? No one night stands? No ventures to the red light district here?"
"None, I was too busy, although I flirted around with Emma but that's when I was with Taylor then"
"Strange from what I always experienced with Esme and Jan you Witchers aren't lacking in the promiscuity department" Lisa said as Greg looks at her.
"Really? You fucked Esme and Jan?" that was new, Greg didn't expect that his friend had slept with both his brother and sister.
"To be fair Esme is more of a passing fling and Jan was a drunken dare" he gave her a look which she just shrugs "I don't swing in any way but I sometimes experiment"
"Still..." her tone then became serious "...we are talking about your predicament"
"I don't know what to say Tats, I mean when me and Khalid first came here on Brockton bay, I thought that I wouldn't meet again that little girl I made a blood bind with so I decided to consider myself open and flirted around Emma, it wasn't until she mentioned Taylor's name that I tried to distance myself and reconnect with Taylor more that was until you and Dinah went in" Coil, Greg had to fight an urge to clench his fist.
"Well I'm not an authority on relationships but from what I understand you met Taylor first and didn't expect to meet her since it was childhood and some stuff, and then you met Emma and pretty much played around her feelings that's fucked up if you looked at it any other way"
"I didn't-"
"Greg if reciprocating a person's flirtations isn't playing around then what is going serious for you?" Tattletale sighs as Greg finishes putting on his shirt "well from what I can understand the two are giving this a try" she indicates the whole bed, "what they are trying to say is don't take it for granted, so my advice stop pussyfooting around and talk to them straight" maybe I should.
"Thanks Tats" he said as he stood to face his old friend.
"Hey you help me away from Coil its the least I could do"
As they approach the door there was a scream, Taylor's voice, Greg looks at Lisa as they quickly went towards the direction of the scream, there they saw Taylor with a note on her hand which had a swastika and Empire 88 on it, on the floor was the ring of Taylor's father, Danny Hebert.
Author's note: so yeah as much as possible I was fighting whether or not should I release this chapter since I was planning for the last part to be continued at the next chapter since it should include a talk about Rachel and why she left so yeah leave some review if you want, also in SB I would kind of release some kind of a Story Development since I kind of wanted to share how this fanfic came to be.
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