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Bullet in the Dark
Chapter 17: Betraying the Night Wolf
Author's Note:
I'm very sorry for the late update; I wrote an author's note but as author's notes are no longer allowed to be posted as chapters, I couldn't inform you all. Once more, thanks for all the support, the reviews, and the friendship. If there is one thing I am thankful of this season, it's you guys.
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"Joe! You're awake!"
Her voice were chimes to his ears, bright, glinting, hopeful.
"Yeah…"
"I was so worried! What happened?"
"I got shot. By your fiancé." His voice was harder than stone, cold…
Her hands clasped into her lap. "Scarl?" A worried expression was shone onto her face.
She knew him… She wanted to protect him… She didn't love him… Who would?
No, no, he was lying…
She still loved him.
She would love him, and he…
He loved her too.
It didn't matter who stood in the way.
He opened his eyes again and looked into her angelic face. "I was sent. I was sent to kill him."
An audible gasp was heard.
"But I couldn't. He knew I was coming."
"Y-you… I can't…" Her voice faltered.
"Don't say you're sorry."
"I-I wasn't going to--"
He heaved a sigh. "Don't apologize for him. You didn't do anything wrong."
He had learned this long ago. He knew what the words were; lies, hidden behind a mask of pity.
Disgusting.
He hated it.
Hated it more than anything he had ever felt, hated the weakness that no human being should have ever had.
"I know, but -- He hurt you so much, he shouldn't have---"
A slamming interrupted her words.
Something was coming; someone dangerous, the bird in her chest fluttered desperately.
It was the end of days.
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Like a cat, a wild cat of the forests long abandoned to grow wild, tendrils of vines keeping it from being explored, so wild, so… alive, so dangerously lusting for one thing---blood.
He wanted to find his prey…
The prey that had escaped him so many times, the very thing he wanted most.
Why was she hiding?
And of course… to find her, he would find the other one, too.
It was just two easy.
Like killing two birds with one bullet.
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Like the ancient Indian god's themselves, the three brothers, Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu, burst into the assassin's home, his little haven.
Imperial, they were the ones that could destroy all.
Their power, their very existence, was proof that there was such a thing as godliness.
Now, 009 was to be punished.
He had been discovered, the best assassin they have ever had.
No matter.
There were always more men to train, always more Night Wolves to discover.
What was one little assassin to them?
Only… He knew everything about them.
Everything important.
He could ruin them.
Which was why he had to be exterminated.
Killed.
Illuminated.
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Shiva kicked open the door, peering into the insides.
Where was the dreaded Night Wolf? The one that had thwarted so many politicians, taken so many lives?
Was it true that he was wounded?
The immortal god of death, finally shot down like a dog?
It was something worth laughing over.
"009!" His voice rang out loudly, his brothers flanking his sides.
In his hand was a gun, like the one, the very kind that 009 used.
How ironic was it… to be killed by the very gun that helped to end so many lives?
He walked into the room, looking for the man that had helped him… so many times.
009 was found lying on the floor, looking pathetically weak, pitifully powerless and forceless. The girl was next to him, her eyes wide open in surprise.
What?
Did she fear him?
Good.
Then she would fear staring down the barrel of his gun.
Delicious fear.
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Françoise's eyes widened as she saw the tall man in front of her start to take out his gun.
Did he mean to shoot them, to kill them?
Wait…
He looked familiar.
Yes, indeed, he was the man that had…
Asked her to dance?
No, it couldn't be, but…
His name was Shiva… A man that was growing alarmingly more and more powerful, and rich.
He couldn't have been, but he was---
"Will we look at this little dancer here…? Françoise Arnoul… Your daddy is missing you very much, you know…" His voice was of a snake's, ominously hissing. "And the little Night Wolf. What did happen?" His voice was a subtle knife, just waiting to twist into the body of the young man before him.
"Sir." He wanted to gasp, so badly. What was he doing here? No… Yes…
He was coming to kill him.
It was the only answer.
"Oh yes, 009… Very good! It seems you have Miss Arnoul eating out of the palm of your hand. Excellent."
Françoise gasped. What did it mean? Was it a mission…? To…? To do what?
No…
He couldn't be another one that would…
Yes…
All the pieces of the puzzle fit.
He used her, too.
Just like everyone else.
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No! It wasn't true!
He want to scream and yell, parade himself in front of her, because it wasn't true.
But oh… It was.
What was he to do?
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