The beginning
Present time
I came to his shop, and I had no idea what I was going to say.. well wrong, I had an idea of what I should say. I found him under a car and he was on his guard, as soon as he saw my feet I could hear him take out something and as he rolled out, I saw his gun. But when he saw me, he put it away. "You're back!" He just said as he got up. "I always come back." I said. "Yes, and you always find yourself back to me, except it has been over a year!" He said. "Yes it has, but once I was gone for 7 years and I still came back, 1 year seems like nothing!" I said. "Perhaps not to you!" He said and started to walk, I wasn't sure if I should follow, but I did. He had an office, a small and very messy one. "You should consider hiring someone to clean this up!" I said, because the mess made me crazy, to many years of filing papers for my dad. "You looking for a job?" He asked. "Not sure that would be the best of ideas, who knows what I would find here!" I said and he nodded. "Yeah, who knows…besides, this is my mess, and I find things here! Want a beer?" He asked. "Yeah." I said and he gave me one. "Don't make it a habit of drinking early, it's a dangerous thing to start!" "Thank you!" I then said before I drank my first zip. "I should have said that a year ago, you saved my life...and my dad's!" "He actually said thank you already!" He said. "Well, he has better manners than I do!" Weevil nodded. "How are you?" He then asked. "I have a lot of questions!" I said. "Well, that's not news!" He drank some from the beer and sat down on his desk. "Why did you do it?" I asked. "Save you? Why do you think?" He asked and I looked down on the floor. "Did Jade really leave because you went back you your gang?" I then asked. "No. But you are a smart girl, you knew that!" "The night you came, after she left… you must have started the settlement already, was it so they would stay?" I asked. "I guess it was. Jade was...stable, the mother of my child..the one who stayed!" "Did you love her?" Weevil drank some more of his beer. "As long as you stayed away, yes." I nodded, but I had no words. "But unless you have a question you don't already have the answer to, I don't see why we are talking about all this!" "Because we never did." I stated. "You know… it's probably the worst kept secret in Neptune, something everyone knows, but no one speaks of!" I put down my beer and went up to him. "What do you want from me Veronica?" He asked. "Right now? Right now I want you to hold me, I want to feel something, and somehow you always got me to feel." I said. "Yet… you always left, left for the greener grass on the other side!" I nodded. "I guess I did, but it is not greener there, I know that… just took me time to realize that!" I said and now he also put down his beer and put his hand on my cheek. I closed my eyes, finally I could feel something again. "Don't run away again." I bit my lip. "I'll try not to, I am tired of running!" I said and he leaned in and kissed me. For the first time in 14 years none of us backed away.