CHAPTER 4

'What happened Scarlet?' Tom asked

'Tom you must promise not to tell anyone what I am about to tell you. Please?'

'I promise...'

'Last time I was here, I witnessed something my father did not want me to see...'

'What?'

'My father is part of a crime mob, he actually murders and wounds people for a living. Last time I was here, my father...'

'Scarlet Christina Ana Perrier!' a deep male voice called from downstairs

'Shit! It's my father!'

'Scarlet? What's wrong?'

'Nothing...' she was crying now 'Just umm...oh god...'

'Scarlet...tell me. Please?'

'I can't, not now... Tom, do something for me?'

'What?'

'My father thinks I'm a whore...kiss me.' It was not a question, but a demand

'Scarlet! Where in Hades name are you?' Her father yelled approaching their door

'What do you want me to do, Scarlet?'

'I told you...kiss me'

The door started to open and Tom found Scarlet leaping on top of him in, what seemed to her father, as he entered the room, a deep, passionate, kiss.

'Scarlet! Get off him now!' The pair stopped mid kiss. Tom opened his eyes and saw fear in Scarlet's face and eyes

'You'll be fine Scarlet,' he said to her in a barely audible whisper

'Get off him!' her father yelled as he pulled at her hair. Once she was off Tom he touched her breast as he pushed up against a wall

'Hey!' Tom yelled, as he got off the bed 'Don't touch her like that! Where I'm from if a father did that to his daughter in the presence of her...of her lover, the father could be...could be killed!'

'Oh my apologies' he replied sarcastically 'You have a lover Scarlet?'

'Y...yes'

'And is he your lover?'

'Um...'

'Answer me whore!'

'What's going on? We heard...Oh god!' Skinner said

By now the rest of the league, and Lucy, had arrived minus Mina and Dorian

'ANSWER ME'

'Yes! Tom is my lover!' Scarlet was crying

'That's what I thought' he let her fall to the ground crying and bleeding from the neck and shoulder where he had scratched her, as Mina and Dorian arrived, Mina, looking rather frightened, gasped as she turned to face Dorian who led her face into the crook of his neck

'So my boy...' Scarlet's father approached Tom, who looked angry

'What?'

'Is my daughter worth what she gets from you?'

'I don't pay her'

'Oh...I see...she pays you does she?'

'No'

'So who pays who? Hmm? Answer me!' Her father said as he leaped at him and as the rest of the league helped Scarlet up

'Are you Okay?' Quartermaine asked her

'I'm fine...help Tom'

Quartermaine, Skinner, Nemo and Dorian all helped Tom get Scarlet's father off him, while Jekyll, Mina and Lucy stayed with Scarlet

'Get off him father...'

'Is he really that special to you Scarlet?' he said as he got off Tom yet never letting go of his hair

'I guess you could say that...please leave him alone...'

'Fine!' He let go of Tom's hair and walked out of the room leaving Scarlet on the floor with Tom and the rest of the league looking on. As he passed the door Nemo whispered something into his ear

'If I were you I would never do that or anything similar, again'

'But you are not me pirate. And if I were you, I would leave me be'

'Like you said, you are not I...bastard'

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