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[ BLOOD ]

Remembering all that happened days before in Perttu's bar didn't help in his humour. Shiva was seeing thru the window of his office. Outside were some motorcycles that belongs to Andrzej and Perttu, and some other from other gang's members. The house was old and big, but wasn't expensive at all as other people thought. The older owner died some years ago and nobody wanted to buy it because was far away from the city and to reach the main house the people needed to pass a whole path around trees that made it look like a forest. That's why the house was perfect for them. Some weekends, Shiva and the Black Four alongside Jan would pass the time there. Some other days, the gang members would stay there before go to their houses. It wasn't a manor, but was big enough to let live there the Four Saints when they decided not to be in the city. And that was the reason why Shiva was so angry and nervous. That day all of the Four Kings, the Queen and the Darker Dragon supposed to be there. But the whole day, Shiva didn't have news from Jan and some hours ago he sent to Azrail and Eren to look for him.

Wearing a simple white sweater and some green jeans, Shiva could look like a man if it wasn't because the make up, the high heels and the jewellery. His deep blue eyes were seeing the central point of the outsiders of the house. It was a circle to let the cars move easily, so in the middle he decided to decor it with a little terrace. His eyes were in that point not because was seeing the beautiful fake flowers or the bank he used to read or spend talks with some of the Four Kings, but because if a car decided to enter he could see it easily. But in that moment the door opened. Shiva turned and she smiled some seconds to then realize the Black Dragon who was enter wasn't the one he was awaiting for.

"Well…" Andrzej sighed. "I see you aren't so happy to see me, my queen."

"Oh, no, isn't that." Shiva gave some steps towards him. "I'm always happy to see any of my kings."

Andrzej gave a quickly kiss and then let Shiva sat in the desk.

"I see you are still worried. I would like to let you know that's unnecessary."

"Of course I'm worried, Andrzej." The voice of Shiva rose up with some fury. "I'm exhausted, I'm stressed, I'm sad and I'm totally worried. The whole day I had being from one side to other without Jan at my side." He sighed. "I know you might think I'm useless without him, but I hadn't pass a year in all this world and sometimes I get very nervous when I need to talk with big bosses."

"Ah, please, don't do this." Andrzej said with a lot of calm. "You are not useless, and I can say you had made a lot of things without him. Today you were nervous because you hadn't have news from Jan."

"And I can't understand why you are so calm. He is your brother!"

"And?"

"And?!" Shiva moved to be in front of him. "My nerves would be destroyed if something happened to my brother. Right now are almost at that point and Jan isn't even my family, and don't even make me talk about Eren and Azrail. Why they hadn't come?"

"Queen, you should know that the family doesn't matter now. If Jan is dead, he is dead and that's all and you will need to keep in this work. He is just another gang member"

"What did you say?" Shiva was astonished. "How can you say that?" Andrzej was almost answering but none of them could expect what Shiva decided to do. A terrible slap made his cheek turned red. "Don't ever say that again. He isn't just another gang member. I don't give a shit about some of the assholes that are outside now, but I do care about some of them." Shiva came close to push his shoulder. "And I'm totally sure that I love you, the Black Four, and I love Jan." Andrzej was totally in silence with those words. "You are not my family, but you are my Kings and I'm your Queen. And I love you and I worry about you. So don't dare to come and talk about any of my Kings as they were just another gang members."

The Black Saint saw Shiva with some calm in the eyes. After some months he took the power as the leader, he was always saying that. Shiva would always tell them that he loved them without hesitation and would give his life for them. Even if was known that Perttu and Eren believed that, sometimes Azrail and Andrzej would doubt about it. Jan never said his opinion about that, but didn't look like he would care. So now Shiva was almost crying because the anger saying those things but slapping Andrzej's cheek as if he was someone else.

"Then prove it." Andrzej said.

"I don't need to prove anything. I know what I feel."

"Well, I'm sorry but I don't believe you."

The leader of the Black Saints just sighed about this. He was so angry, he was almost shaking. But suddenly his eyes grow and turned to the window, almost in the same moment the doors of the office opened with an abrupt push.

"Queen!" Perttu didn't wait to hold Shiva's arm. "It is Jan's car, there is Azrail and Eren as well."

Shiva run alongside the Black Cygnus as the Black Dragon began to follow them. Shiva felt happy for a moment, but the way Perttu talked made her feel a terrible hole in the chest.

Emotions rushing in her veins and the sound of the car parking and don't even count how the doors were already open to let them pass, made Shiva's tears go out. She stopped with Perttu and Andrzej in the edges of the stairs when the beautiful old car stopped exactly in front. Nobody came close to the car, not even she and the two Black Kings. But the door of the co-pilot opened and Shiva took a deep breath that sounded like a terrible gasp. It was so deep that Andrzej felt scared and couldn't move when Shiva placed her hands in her own face.

"Eren!" she yelled.

The Black Saints that were around couldn't believe that yell. It was like someone perceiving the dead of someone close to them; even one of the gang members said later it was like a mother losing her children on her arms.

Shiva didn't wait, she almost fall for her high heels so throw them and run in bare feet. When she reached the door of the car, she didn't wait to enter and take in her arms the body of Eren.

"My Andromeda!" she began to cry holding him close and falling to the floor to put him out of the car. "Eren, my Eren!" Shiva held his bloody face and kissed his lips to then hold him closer to her chest.

Some sounds went out of his mouth to then take a deep breath.

The other Black Saints now didn't wait to come close and help Shiva to stand up with Eren in her arms. They couldn't believe her face and not even his face. Eren was full of blood, but his eyes opened a bit and his mouth was trying to speak.

"Fuck!" Shiva turned to the car hearing someone else. "Ah! Fuck! It hurts!"

"Perttu!" the leader yelled as she placed Eren's body in the arms of the other Black Saints that were trying to help the Queen. "Call to the hospital, we need to go!" But she didn't run to the interior of the house.

Again, in front of all the members of such messed gang, Shiva ran so quickly that didn't care her bare feet over the rocks and the dirt or his sweater full of blood. The leader opened the door of the pilot to throw another gasp and hold Azrail's face to kiss it.

"Azrail? Are you ok?!"

"No! Of course I'm not!" he yelled.

"Let me help you." Shiva placed his arm in the back of the Black Pegasus to help him go out. "My Azrail, what happened?"

"Shiva! Open the trunk! Open it!"

"Andrzej, help to Azrail."

The Black Dragon, as almost everyone that were around, was surprised in how Shiva was moving everything. Indeed he was showing something that their old boss never showed. They didn't know if it was because Shiva was a woman, they didn't know if it was because all the stress of that day, but Andrzej then remembered the words she was always saying to them. She loved them.

Shiva leaved Azrail in the front of the car in a careful way, he had his fingers and one of his legs broke and some blood was dropping from his eyebrow. The leader then enter on the beautiful car and push a button to let the trunk's door open instantly.

As Eren was now in the floor recovering a bit, Azrail was being helped by Andrzej, Perttu finished a call and was moving to take the keys of another car. He said that using the car where they arrived could bring whoever did that to the hospital and finish their job at least with Eren who was in a terrible phase between faint and still wake up. But everyone stopped whatever they were doing. Again, a terrible scream made them feel shivers. Their eyes turned to Shiva who was almost in a shock, but moved after some seconds to the interior of the trunk.

"Help!" he yelled as he began to pull a body. "Quickly! Bring the car!"

A dead body fall to the ground and some of them could realize was Jan's driver. Shiva let part of her body enter again to the car trunk and pull out another body, but this time he was more careful.

"Jan… my beloved!" she was astonished. "My Dragon, please, Jan!"

As he did with the other two, Shiva didn't wait to kiss Jan's lips over and over and then pulled his body out of the interior of the car with help of the other Dragon. He never realize it, but he felt a clench in his chest. Maybe he didn't care about his brother, but now he did… and was terrible be available to see himself in such condition. He saw himself full of blood, with his hair cut and some terrible scars over his wrist showing that maybe some handcuffs were there and some terrible marks in his neck that made him feel a rope that never was there in his own body. Indeed, seeing his twin in that condition was terrible. Even so he was almost in a shock, he took a deep breath and tried to look in another direction.

"Help me to bring Eren and Azrail." Perttu left a beautiful blue car in the back of the other one and moved quickly at side of Andrzej. "The hospital is waiting for us, my queen. Let's go."

"Perttu…" she saw him with tears in the eyes. "Please… I can't… is he…" she was shaking and they could see her hand in Jan's neck. "I can't."

The Finnish young man placed his hand over his neck and, without expect too much time, held Shiva's arms to help her to rise up.

"He is alive, so let's go now!"