Chapter Four

three'o'four am.

It's a good thing I have trouble sleeping sometimes or Quatre would've been standing outside for quite a while. I had gone outside to have a drink; it's from my own flask, the only thing I've boughten for myself in the last few years. No one really knows that, which is how I like it.

I saw him standing near the alleyway entrance staring at the building, he didn't seem to notice my approach, and I reached out and put my hand on his shoulder. He just blinked and his eyes refocused on me, they swam with unshed tears. I pulled him into a hug, and then lead him into the building.

I by passed going into my office, chances are pretty good he'd be really uncomfortable there. I took him into the communal room and lead him to the cozy. The moment I sat down he started to cry. I rubbed his back, letting him cry out all that he's been holding in for so long. When his sobs quite down to hiccups, I ask him to tell me what's been going on.

Quatre lets out a shuttering breath, wipes the tears off his face with a sleeve. "I came out to my family and friends seven almost eight months ago, my friends are great about it, and to them I haven't changed at all. But to my family… I'm the only boy, I have lots of sisters… and my father is determined to have his only son married to some girl who has good connections."

He sighs at this, "my mother ignores almost anything about this, but my dad… he sets me up to go out with all these girls, he said I'm just shy, he'd help me passed it, a few months ago, he set me up with a really nice pretty girl named Claire, at the end of the date I told her why I wouldn't date her again. She didn't believe me. I didn't know it until later but she has very low self esteem. After our date she shaved her head, ripped up all her dresses. Her parents put her in an institution, she's medicated most of the time." Tears fall silently down his face, "he has no right setting me up, with girls, so when I found out what happened to Claire, I yelled at him, screamed, raged at him, his attitude didn't change at all. I just went on another date today… I can't do it anymore. I can't live with him its suffocating…."

I cleared my throat, well that did explain a lot. "Alright, so no worries Cat," I nod my head at him, "tomorrow we'll go get your stuff, you're moving in here. We'll work you hard; no one gets an entirely free ride. Sleep here for the night I'll wake you in the morning." I lay him down on the couch grab a blanket from the shelf and cover him up. I lean down and kiss his forehead, as I do with all the others. "My names Luca Noin." I walk to the inner door and roll it closed.

I lean against the door thinking how I'm going to pull off taking him, an upper class boy from his parents. Its easy with everyone else, the wouldn't dare try to stop me, I have a strange reputation for being tough, rumors fly all over about what I did for work before coming to Sanq. I one I find the funniest is that I used to be an assassin.

I wander out of the warehouse for that drink I need it now more than I did before. Half an hour later I go back inside, and head for my office, I sit at my desk, feet up, head resting against the back wall no closer to a plan about how I'm going to do this that I was before the drink.

Knocking on the medi-door, pulled me from a half sleep that I was in, "yeah?" I say my voice all ruff, from thirst and lack of sleep.

Ramses opens the door, and walks in. She gives me a once over, wondering what happened. "Quatre, is sleeping in the cozy, but I guess you already know that." She states with her brows raised.

I nod; "I found him outside last night," I then explained what happened, what he had told me. And also about the fact that I was positive that he was upper class.

"Noin, we don't do the upper class, no one from the lower class will second guess you, if you try to take him away they probably arrest you." Ram said. "How in the name of hell are you going to get him out of there?"

I smile, and stand up. "Balls and sass."

Duo Misfit.