Hello! So I know some of you are getting really sick of Niko but relax things will soon turn out how they're supposed to. Please keep reviewing!
Emily/Amanda's POV same day
"Where were you?!" I shout at Nolan as he enters the manor.
I called him a few minutes ago and he said he was with a friend, for what I know he has no friends.
"With Aiden!" He answers startled. Oh that friend, I think. "What's goin' on?"
"Niko" I take my phone out of my pocket and hand it to him. "While you were too busy with-" I stop to clear my throat. "him, Niko was at her house and she got a phone call."
He grabs my phone and plays the video from the cameras he placed at her house.
"What do you want?" She says as she answers her phone. "I told you not to contact me anymore...u huh, I know- I know I owe you money...okay I'll be here all day. Don't ever call me again." She hangs up.
"Can you trace that phone call?" I ask even though I know the answer.
"Yes but isn't it easier to wait and watch if he goes to her house?" He replies.
"Let's do both, okay?" I suggest. "You get that phone number and make that person talk, and I'll spy on Niko all day. I'm more than sure this person has something to do with Niko's 'mission'"
"Okay." He answers and I start backing away to get my stuff but he stops me. "Wait, there's something I need to tell you, it's important."
"What? What happened?" I start getting worried.
"It's about Aiden." He clear his throat and continues. "I, I think that maybe his memory is coming back to him."
"Why would you say that?" I ask sternly.
"He told me about this dreams he's been having of him working as a bartender and training and fighting." He explains.
I think about it for a few minutes. How can this be happening? Is this really happening? If his memory comes back my last chance at a relationship with him is over. This can't be happening, oh my god. I have to make sure this dreams are actually memories and I'm going to use Nolan for that.
"Nolan, you have to tell me everything, okay? If you have to insist on him, you do it."
"I will Ems, trust me." He smiles sympathetically. "I'll go now, I have a person to track down."
"Thanks" I tell him as he opens the door. He gives me a reassuring smile and leaves.
I go up to my room and change into my black sporty clothes in case I have to get more physical today. I search through my closet for my weapons bag, I grab my car key and my phone, and I'm ready to go. This is the first time I've gone out in a month, Nolan has been doing the groceries for me. Why have I been hiding? Well that's simple, I've been dealing with Harriet's death on my own because I'm weak and I couldn't stand lying to Aiden in his face in a moment like this. I know I'm being selfish, I know he needs me but I would just end up ruining everything. So I've been in here, mourning Harriet, mourning the life I could have had if Victoria hadn't done what she did, mourning the good and happy moments that I had with Aiden before everything changed.
I need to stop being so emotional, heartless Emily has to come back, that's the only way to get what I want. I get on my car and drive to Takeda's.
I parked near Takeda's neighborhood and walked my way to his house about four hours ago and nothing has happened. I've been hiding in her front yard and spying on her through my phone but she's there doing nothing at all. If it was an enemy coming to my house I would at least carry a gun but she hasn't grabbed any kind of weapon yet so this must be an ally of hers. I still need to know who that person is, I thought Nolan would be done with his part by now. And as if my thoughts had been heard my phone starts ringing.
"I was starting to think you bailed on me." I whisper as I press it to my ear.
"I'm sorry this guy is as stubborn as you." Nolan jokes. "Took me while to figure out how to make him spill but I finally did and he spoke."
"What did he say?" I ask.
"He's a drug dealer. They aren't working but she owes him money because he did her a favor." He answers.
"What favor?"
"She offered him money so he wouldn't tell anyone about their deal. What was their deal? I don't know he hung up on me. Do you want me to track him and take care of that?" He asks me.
"No, you've done enough. He's supposed to come here anyway, thanks Nolan." I reply.
"Anything for you and Bond." He stays silent for a few seconds, then speaks. "Ems is it me or the some of the cameras are being turned off."
"What?" I check my phone and three of the seven cameras we placed are in black. "It's not just you."
I hear a car pulling in and I look around to find a black car parked in front of Takeda's house.
This must be him. "He's here." I tell Nolan. Then out of nowhere every camera turns off. "What the hell?!" I whisper/ shout out.
"She knew we where watching her all along, she turned them off herself. Damn it!" Nolan shouts through the phone.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it." I answer and hang up.
I sneak closer to the entrance still hiding behind the bushes. I watch as a man gets out of the car. He walks towards the door and as he gets closer I catch a glimpse of his face. I know this person, I've seen this face before...but where? Then my brain makes click and I remember who it is, he's the guy who sold Victoria the poison. Wait what is he doing here? Does, does Niko have anything to do with Aiden's incident?
The door opens before he even gets the chance to knock. Niko steps out, takes a stack of dollars out of her pocket and hands it to him. "Take that and don't come back. We never met, we never talked. Now go!" She says.
"Deal." He answers and turns around to leave.
Niko closes the door behind her and I follow the guy from my spot behind the trees and plants. He gets inside his car and I run out of my hiding place and storm inside of his car. I take out my gun and point it at his head.
"Remember me sunshine?" I say.
"Who the fuck are you? How did you find me?!" He shouts scared.
"That's not important, what's important here is that you tell me everything I wanna know." I answer.
"He won't say anything." I hear a familiar Australian voice behind me as I feel the end of a gun being pressed against my scalp. "Get out of the car" she orders me.
And well as you can imagine I don't obey. I turn around and kick her in the stomach. She falls back on the ground but quickly stands up and grab me by the hair. I growl at how hard she's pulling my hair until she throws me out of the car. Before I can do anything the car starts moving,and with the door open and everything, he leaves.
I stand up and grab one of Niko's leg bringing her down. I kick her in the stomach harshly and she grabs my feet bringing me down with her. She's on top of me now, kicking and punching. I roll us over and bring my hands to her neck to end this. I start pressing harder as she battles to free herself.
"What. Do. You. Want?" She manages to ask and then starts coughing.
"Oh don't act like you don't know, how are you involved with that guy?" I spit.
She hesitates before answering. "Okay, let-" she coughs. "let go."
I'm not stupid, she could attack me if I let go so I step on her chest to keep her down as I let go of her neck.
"Speak!" I shout.
"I owed him money." She says glaring at me.
"I know that, you owed him for his silence. What is that about?" I press harder.
She coughs and replies "I didn't buy anything from him, I made him sell something to someone else and keep quiet about that!"
Then everything falls into place. Niko-Niko's the man the drug dealer was talking about! The one who was to supposed to be gone, the one who threatened to kill him if he didn't sell Victoria TTX, the one who...saved Aiden's life. But why? After everything Aiden's done to her, why would she save him? Does she really love him that much?
"You're the one who did that?" I take my leg off her body. "He said it was a man."
"Well he lied because we had a deal." She states the obvious as she stands up. "Now you know the truth, happy?" She laughs sarcastically.
"Why were you hiding it? Why didn't you tell Aiden?" I ask. "You'd be his hero."
"Because of that! Because I was afraid that he'd hang out with me because he felt like he owed me something!" She shouts at me. "I just wanted to start over."
"How come you never visited him before he woke up?" I ask.
"That's what you think that happened." She points at me. "I was there every time you guys left, till that one time you caught me. That's why I stopped hiding, because I knew you would search for that person every single day."
"You were the one who had his ring." I say as everything sinks in. Niko saved his life and she didn't tell him because she didn't want him to feel obligated to like her? It pains me to say this but Niko's being a better person to Aiden than I am. "Why didn't you kill Victoria instead of giving her a slower poison?"
"Because it seemed fair, he killed my father so he deserved something back, but I didn't know it would be like this. I feel bad about that every single day but I made that choice and I can't take it back." She answers.
"It's fine, you saved him anyways." I point out and turn around to leave.
"Wait! Emily wait, please!" She grabs my arm to stop me. I turn around and she continues. "Don't tell him, I'll tell him when I think it's time I swear."
"As long as you keep my secret, I'll keeps yours." I say. I look for my gun that went flying through the floor when she tossed me out of the car, pick it up and start walking away.
"Ems, what the hell happened?!" Nolan says as he enters the manor. "Your face, your arms!" He says as he takes in my appearance.
My arms are covered in bruises and face has a few cuts from the fight. I guess even though I was Takeda's favorite, fighting with his own blood isn't an easy thing to do. My back hurts too from all the tossing and falling. I know for sure that I don't look okay but I hate admitting it, another thing Takeda taught me 'never show weakness'.
"I'm fine, but a lot happened." I motion him to follow me as I walk towards the living room.
"What? All I know is that she disconnected all the cameras and I couldn't see anything after that." He complains as he follows.
I sit down on the couch, which is the only furniture I've got in this room since I gave all Grayson's things to charity. I Was supposed to redecorate a while ago but with Harriet's death and so much thinking I just wasn't feeling it. Nolan sits beside me and looks at me with a waiting look on his face. I stare at him blankly for a few seconds before loosing it. I start sobbing and he bring his hand to my back to rub it.
"She- she deserves him, Nolan" I between sobs. "She deserves him more than I do"
Nolan doesn't need me to tell him who, he knows who I'm talking about all too well. "Why are you saying this, Ems?" He asks softly.
"She saved him, she saved his life." I bring my hands to my eyes to hide from the world. "She's the reason he's alive and I'm just a little liar in this whole thing!"
"Ems, I don't know what happened and I'm not going to pressure you to tell me, but I do know one thing for sure and that's that you'll always be his one and only. Everyone knows you belong together." He brings me close and hugs me with one arm.
That's what Aiden told me once, I can't but remember that beautiful memory.
Flashback
"You and I we've called it quits so many times," He says as he looks at me in the eyes and I can't help but grin slightly, he's the only one that has that effect on me. "but we haven't been able to make that state really, have we?"
I look down awkwardly, another one of his effects, but he makes me raise my head by penetrating those deep ocean eyes on me. "And that's because we fit, we belong together."
I blink just to make sure I'm not dreaming, but when my eyes open he's still there, starting at me with so much love. Oh god I love the way he looks at me, the way he touches me, the way he talks to me, just the way he loves me. I run my fingers through his hair and slide my hand through it landing on his cheek. He move his head in my hand and kisses it.
"I know." I finally answer as I step closer.
He brings his face closer and I shut the space between us taking his lips in mine. It feels so safe, it feels so good, it feel so right.
"What if I'm not though? What if I'm not the only one?" I tell Nolan after having my own little dream. "What if we don't belong together?"
"You're wrong, you'll see." He kisses my temple just like Aiden used to. "Are you gonna tell me what happened?"
I nod as I whip a tear off my face. "So it all started when the guy got there..." I start.
After a couple of minutes I finish telling him everything. Then we stay like that all night, sitting and thinking, and eventually, we fall sleep.
I hope you liked it and please review! Oh and also tell me if you're liking the flashbacks or if you wanna suggest one, that would be awesome :)