Chapter Two
"I hope you know where you are going, you scheming old fence"
"I always know Bill always my dear!"
The slums of Paris were where we were walking through now. Well Bill was dragging me as I still felt ill and half dead but still having my pride refused Dodger's offer to be carried.
We came to a tumbled down house that, without a second glance could have been identical to the one we left behind in London.
Fagin knocked on the door then muttered through a hatch that opened "Tell them its an old...friend"
Seconds later the door opened and we made our way inside.
There sitting in the furthest corner was a man younger than Fagin but older than Bill who greeted Fagin with much enthusiasm and then a woman with hair the colour of flame came rushing forward towards me and then circled me like a vulture.
"And what" she bellowed to the man at the table "Am I supposed to do with this?! Look at the state of her! Why it will be a week or so before I can even tell what she looks like let alone what group to put her in!"
Having heard this talk before from various pimps over the years I started to back away but bumped into Bill who once again it seemed was blocking my escape.
"Why, She is as timid as a mouse!" Then glancing up at Bill she started to bellow again "You own her at the moment do you? Well I hope you weren't expecting to much for the trade off of her, even I treat my girls better than that! But thn you always were a rough one"
Always? Did she know him?
I looked round at Bill to see if he was gonna defend me or if I was gonna have to shout at the woman my self and saw he was glaring at her with a very distasteful look in his eye. He then marched up to the man sitting at the table grabbed hold of his collar and said in a low and threatening voice "Call your woman off will you before I put her out of her misery"
A sudden dawning hit the man as he looked up to Bill "Mr. Sikes how nice it is to be in your company again" Bill's grip on the man relaxed
"Thenardier I see your still in the sorry state you were 3 years ago."
Just then the door flew open and in bounded a girl of no more than 14 summers and cried "Your here! Oh I've missed you so!" And with that she ran over to Bill and flung around her arms around
"I hope you know where you are going, you scheming old fence"
"I always know Bill always my dear!"
The slums of Paris were where we were walking through now. Well Bill was dragging me as I still felt ill and half dead but still having my pride refused Dodger's offer to be carried.
We came to a tumbled down house that, without a second glance could have been identical to the one we left behind in London.
Fagin knocked on the door then muttered through a hatch that opened "Tell them its an old...friend"
Seconds later the door opened and we made our way inside.
There sitting in the furthest corner was a man younger than Fagin but older than Bill who greeted Fagin with much enthusiasm and then a woman with hair the colour of flame came rushing forward towards me and then circled me like a vulture.
"And what" she bellowed to the man at the table "Am I supposed to do with this?! Look at the state of her! Why it will be a week or so before I can even tell what she looks like let alone what group to put her in!"
Having heard this talk before from various pimps over the years I started to back away but bumped into Bill who once again it seemed was blocking my escape.
"Why, She is as timid as a mouse!" Then glancing up at Bill she started to bellow again "You own her at the moment do you? Well I hope you weren't expecting to much for the trade off of her, even I treat my girls better than that! But thn you always were a rough one"
Always? Did she know him?
I looked round at Bill to see if he was gonna defend me or if I was gonna have to shout at the woman my self and saw he was glaring at her with a very distasteful look in his eye. He then marched up to the man sitting at the table grabbed hold of his collar and said in a low and threatening voice "Call your woman off will you before I put her out of her misery"
A sudden dawning hit the man as he looked up to Bill "Mr. Sikes how nice it is to be in your company again" Bill's grip on the man relaxed
"Thenardier I see your still in the sorry state you were 3 years ago."
Just then the door flew open and in bounded a girl of no more than 14 summers and cried "Your here! Oh I've missed you so!" And with that she ran over to Bill and flung around her arms around