Title: Killing Innocence
Fandom: Xiaolin Showdown
Characters: Rai, Kim, Hannibal Bean, The Guard (my oc)
Prompt: 065:Passing
Word Count: 714
Rating: PG
Summary: Rai's in jail for something he DID do, but is being punished for something he didn't do.
Author's Note: Y'know, after 'The Return of Master Monk Guan', I always felt that HB never really took his revenge on Rai.
The room was cramped. No windows, a door, two chairs, and a table that looked like it took up everything. Not really an ideal a place for a claustrophobic. Not that she was one. She just like the feel of it. It was suppose to make a prisoner feel like there was no escape, but it also made the visitor feel like there was no hope to begin with. She didn't like it one bit. But it was not her that was in this hole, but rather the man she thought she loved.
She heard the door open and a guard walked in, dragging a tall Brazilian by the arm and placed him in the chair in front of her. The Brazilian in question didn't see who it was that sat before him until he raised his head to face her. His face lightened up and became surprised.
"Kimiko?" he asked.
"Hey Rai," she responded. He let out a breathe of air.
"For a second I thought you were my lawyer." She put on a smile. He's still the same.
"How have you been?"
"Just peachy. How about you?"
"I'm fine. So, when do you think you'll get out?"
"On good behavior, I'd say three to five years."
"That's all?"
"Well yeah, armed robbery is something not to joke about."
"Why'd you do it?" He averted his gaze to the ground.
"I dunno. My life has been hell ever since we left the temple. And since everywhere I go, everybody thinks I'm some sort of scum from the bottom of their shoes, might as well live up to it." He shrugged. She looked at him and couldn't help but feel pity for him. She reached over to him and grabbed his hand. It didn't feel smooth anymore, but rather rough and dry. He looked up at her and let on a smile. He squeezed her hand.
"So, what brings you here?" he asked. She hesitated for a second.
"U-Uh... Rai... I just... I have to know."
"Know what?"
"Did you... Did you really kill that guy?" His eyes widened and his mouth agape.
"What?"
"The guy you robbed, he was found dead a few minutes after you left." He let out a sigh of disbelief.
"Kim, you know me, I would never do something like that." She looked away from him. "You believe me, right?" She didn't answer him. She wanted to believe him, but there was a little part that didn't.
"Come on, visiting hours are up," the guard said as he grabbed Raimundo's arm and dragged him off the chair.
"Kimiko, you have to believe me, I didn't do it," Raimundo said sounding desperate as he was escorted out of the room. Kimiko let out a sigh as she got up and left the room a few minutes after him. As she was walking down the hall, she passed another guard. She stopped him from his walk.
"Excuse me, could you please tell me how it looks for a Raimundo Pedrosa?" she asked.
"Raimundo Pedrosa? Oh geez, it's not looking really good. He might get the death penalty," he responded. She let out a gasp. She felt her eyes starting to sting. "Look, I'll tell you what I tell every convict's girlfriends, let him go, he's not worth your time."
"I know, but I can't help but love him." He looked at her as if he didn't want to upset her.
"Look, why don't you go on home. I don't want to see a pretty face like yours around here," he said and, like Kimiko, she left with the intention to never return.
The guard continued on his way but took a turn into a dark hallway. He stuck out his arms and had an evil look on him.
"Moby Morpher," he said and his form shrunk to the size of a jelly bean and his skin turned maroon. Little sprouts of hair came out of his head and body. He laughed an evil laugh as of one of Hannibal Roy Bean. He hopped down the dark hallway and found his Ying Ying Bird. "Ah Ying Ying, in twenty four hours, Raimundo will be dead for killing that innocent man. Even if it was me that used the Moby Morpher to look like him to kill that man he robbed. After that, I have my revenge."