Hugh and William called the cleaning crew to come take care of the mess left in Haythem's wake and a funeral home who was sympathetic to the brotherhoods needs came to retrieve the three left dead. Haythem was locked back up in his cell and Connor took Luna home to get her some rest. She went to bed and slept for 14 hours and when she woke she found she was alone in bed. She got up and went looking for Connor, surprised to see him sleeping on the sofa. She put her hand on his chest, pushing him slightly as she said his name.
"Connor." He stirred but he hadn't woken up and she moved closer, speaking softly now. "Ratonhnhaké:ton" his eyes opened slowly and when he saw her he sat up.
"I was beginning to worry that you had been struck ill by the apple." She moved so that she was on the couch with him, but he shifted, moving so that he was not touching her. She knew he was tired and perhaps stressed, as they all had been.
"No, I'm fine. How are you? I heard you guys rescued Shaun." Connor looked at her, harsh scowl on his brow as he spoke.
"We were able to get to Shaun before he was hurt, but then we found that Juno was no longer inside the computers. Shaun looked at the computer telling us we needed to go back to the pit quickly, and when we got there we found that she was now looking the relics that were hidden away." He stopped, not sure how to continue and Luna shifted, turning sideways to face him, seeing that there was more, he just couldn't bring himself to speak more of it.
"Hey, you can talk to me. I know you're not one to share your feelings, but I'm here for you, I'll always be here. Let me take away some of that pain." She touched his arm gently and he stood up, taking in a deep breath before turning to her.
"What if you are to blame for these feelings, what would you do then?" Luna was shocked by his words, was he upset he cared for her. That made no sense to her so she got up on her knees, reaching the end of the couch where he was standing and she placed her small hand on his back.
"I don't understand, what's going on?" He took a few steps away, turning as his words flew at her like angry daggers.
"You don't understand. No of course you do not. We all stood back in the shadows, we saw my father use the apple against Ezio. We heard his words to you. I heard him ask you who was better with your body, Edward or myself. As you slept I questioned Edward, he told me what had happened between you two. You kissed him, you laid in his bed and held onto him. Did you not wish for him to take you?" Luna was sitting there, tears stinging her eyes as she bit her lip. She was unable to look him in the eye, unable to even speak to him. "And now you have no words. Why? Tell me why I was not enough for you." Her voice was faint as she spoke.
"I was only scared that you really didn't want me. When all of this happened you had yet to do more than kiss me. You have more will power than anyone I know. The morning you left I was hurt and I tried to chase that pain away by drinking. Yes I flirted with Edward and the night I laid in his bed I was drunk, and when I woke up I prayed it was you I was laying next to, but it wasn't so I left. Then he could see how tormented I was. You left and I was angry, there was no way for me to talk to you, to let you know I loved you. Then one day he came and asked me about Caroline his wife, and Jenny his daughter. I could see his pain, and I think in that moment, to me he knew what I was feeling, so yes I kissed him, but then I stopped it." She paused as he looked her over, but she was unable to see a change in his eyes, he was still angry. "Then it happened again, I admit I was weak, but thank god Edward stopped things from going further. They had already gone to far. I'm sorry Connor, but you're no different. I was seeking a way to forget the pain, when you came back from the expedition you refused to talk about what hell happened out there, instead every time you thought about it you sought my body, letting me help you to forget for a moment. That was all I was trying to do but I couldn't because it wasn't you." He raised his hands and he spoke rapidly in his native tongue, and Luna couldn't hold back anymore. She sat back on her heels and cried, her hands over her face. She had no clue what he was saying, but the way he was spitting out his words she knew it wasn't good. He looked at her and he shifted back into English.
"I am nothing like you. I only wanted you to help me forget the pain, not just anyone whom I could have sex with." Her world torn into pieces as she stood on the couch, making herself taller.
"GET OUT. I WILL NOT STAND HERE WHILE YOU CALL ME A WHORE. I have done more than my fair share of bed sharing, I admit that, but that is my past and if you can't look past that then you can get your ASS OUT!" Connor stood tall, he had no clue what she was talking about, she talked little about her past experiences so he was by no means judging her for it, but at the moment that felt trivial. He was upset because she thought about sleeping with Edward, a man who was by blood his grandfather. He couldn't even get to the point of her thinking she could trust his father, and now it didn't matter. He left, the door slamming shut behind him, knocking one of her pictures off the wall.
As the door slammed, Luna collapsed down onto the couch and wailed. She had never been more hurt than she was at that moment. She had kept herself together while he was there, but she couldn't do it anymore as she wept openly. Claudia was the only one, besides Rebecca and Shaun who knew about what she had done in her past, how she used to get her information and how she completed her contracts. After she left the farm at 16 Luna and her mother spent two years in India and while her mother was busy working as a nurse for long days and even longer nights, Luna found something else that peaked her interest. By the time she was 18 she had become quite efficient in the Kamra Sutra, training with some of the other women there, learning how to use pleasure as a weapon. While training she had only "practiced" with one guy, and she'd grown quite fond of him. She knew it was simply because of the physical connect they shared, she didn't love him nor he her, but the sex was amazing. This was where her bad habit of using sex as a coping mechanism had originated.
Soon a knock at the door cut through the apartment, she laid there refusing to get up. She heard a key in the lock and she started to wipe her cheeks as she sat up. As the door opened she saw Claudia and Rebecca both walking in. She lost it again, and Claudia rushed to her side. Rebecca came over, sitting on the coffee table as she spoke to Luna.
"Claudia call me when she heard Connor and you having a screaming match. I left Shaun alone to come over, so you know I care about you, but I honestly have no clue what's going on. Did you sleep with Edward?" Luna's head dropped back as she let out a loud sigh.
"NO. I thought about it, yes. I mean god look at him, he is so fucking tempting. But my heart was somewhere else." Claudia brushed her hair back before putting her arms around Luna's shoulders.
"Connor just needs time to cool off, I'm sure he will come around." Luna looked at her then to Rebecca shaking her head no.
"I don't want him back here, not for a while. He fucking said I just wanted to have sex with whom ever I could basically. He may have just said I was a whore, some slut who slept around." Rebecca knew Luna was ashamed of her past, of what she was able to do.
"Connor knew about that? About India and Vijay and then all those contracts?" Luna looks at them with tears streaming down her cheeks.
"No. He was talking about me wanting to have sex with Edward. Now I admit this is going to sound way worse, but he was pissed that I wanted to screw his grandfather. Oh God that makes me really sound like some filthy cum dumpster." Luna grabbed one of the toss pillows off the couch and used it to cover her face as she screamed into it. She then fell over on her side as she cried, taking in deep breaths of his scent left on the pillow he had laid on. Rebecca got up and headed to the kitchen, grabbing three glasses and a bottle of wine she found on the counter. She came back in the living room, opening the bottle and pouring the three of them glasses as she spoke to Luna.
"Hey, you are going to sit up here and you will drink this glass of wine, and we women are going to get drunk and vent all of those nasty feelings out. Men are such pain in the asses, they say they love us unconditionally but sometimes I swear they just look for shit to get pissed about." Luna dropped the pillow, knowing if she didn't Rebecca would keep talking and she would soon get into some of Shaun's habits and Luna didn't need to hear about his kinks.
By the bottom of three bottles Luna was feeling better, still hurt, still upset he was gone, but better because she was nearly drunk. It was now early evening and she looked at Rebecca, then to Claudia.
"OMG Becks, let's take Claudia out to the cave. I want to go there now. Come on, let's put on our push up bras, our short skirts and go to the bar. We can sing and get drunk without paying for a single drink, come on." The three agreed and Rebecca who was still sober called Shaun, telling him where they were going and he made a few calls of his own. If the girls where going out, then there needed to be a few guys there to watch out for them.
Two hours later Shaun, Yusuf and Edward watched Rebecca, Claudia and Luna walk in. Rebecca had changed into a pair of tight jeans and a black shirt, Claudia had put on one of Luna's slinky little dressed on and Luna had on a tight jean mini skirt and a leather corset. Her heels where bright red and so here her lips and Edward had never seen her look so wild. Rebecca lead them over to the other side of the bar and Yusuf stood up as he watched a few guys walk over. After a few drinks Luna took the stage, and what came next blew them away. She sang a very sultry edition of Get Stones while flirting with guys in the front row and when it was over she simply walked off the stage and out the door.