Dear Henri,
I came to Paris looking for Remy and it turns out that Candra has him. I'm meeting her to try to strike some deal so I can free your impossibly mischievous brother. I cannot believe he's putting us through all this trouble for that assassin that I had to convince him to marry in first place. I know the Assassins are lurking around the corner. They want the Elixir as well, naturally. As such, I'm really not sure how long I'll be here. Apparently longer than I had anticipated.
Please, be safe and keep the Guild in peace and business flowing as normal during my absence. I trust you can be the Guildmaster while I'm away. I know you always thought Remy is my favorite one and my successor of choice, but this is me showing that I trust you, my son. Take this chance I'm giving you and prove your worth. I am sure you can do it.
Take care,
Your loving father
Jean-Luc
-O-
23:10
Wolvie, you there?
23:10
Yep, u alright?
23:11
Not really. I can't take this shit anymore. I'm this close to running off. I can't stand looking at his wife for another second, especially after what I've seen.
23:12
So? What do you want from me?
23:12
I was wondering what you'd do.
23:12
Same you're doing.
23:12
Meaning?
23:14
You know you won't leave her because you, we, are loyal people to those we love. You promised him you'd do this, so you just keep doing this.
23:25
You're probably right, as always. Thanks. I miss you, sugar.
23:50
Whenever you need.
-O-
Venerable Tithe Colector,
I come to you with an issue to report and also a request. I ask that you read the following lines with much attention and consideration.
As you may well have guessed this is about that dirty thief, Remy LeBeau. I hear he has singlehandedly defeated you and that may leave us with a common goal: get him to pay for daring to inconvenience both of us.
He came here and I knew that meant he made his way past you. I attacked him, saying that he never should have left Paris and certainly should never have returned. The thief has apparently grown a lot since I last worked with him. Perhaps it was their training, I can't tell, what I know is that he survived my blast. Make no mistake, I was not intimidated by his improved fighting skills and was as eager as ever to use my telekinetic powers against that bastard.
The nerve he has! Would you believe that he has tried to charm me? I am not fooled that easily, you know me, I let him have a piece of my mind. He doesn't mean anything to me and I told him so, but he kept up his insinuations, trying to imply that he once had been someone dear to me. That was a very long time ago, he was never good at commitments of any sort. He's never had any loyalty to anyone but himself. He kept his sweet talk and made the mistake, the terrible mistake of revealing that I had the Elixir of Life.
I knew that's what he wanted, I had been warned by you and your people, as you well know. Letting him know I had it was like revenge, he wanted what I had and I was not giving it to him, unless I got something I wanted from him. I know it was a mistake, it was foolish, but the look on his face when he learned I had it. It was priceless!
I tried to make a deal, like the Thieves Guild always does. He tried to lecture me on 'his' Guild, again, unbelievably pretentious. I am the one who set them up centuries ago and gave them the Elixir and the powers in return for their services. So I told him how I need a new organization to fulfil my needs. So I showed him his father, a bounded unconscious excuse of a man after I had him promise me that he would do anything for me. Don't take me for a fool, of course I didn't fall for that. I had such high dreams for him and me together, but now he seems to struggle between the love for his wife and his X-girlfriend. I know he won't do anything for me as he says, but would go to hell and back if that mutant asked him to. And to prove my point, I asked him to kill Jean-Luc, promising he could have anything he wanted if he did so. That was how I was going to measure how loyal and useful he would be to me. If he was really committed to doing anything I wanted, like he said.
That didn't go well with him, obviously. Remy LeBeau was infuriated and promised that he would kill me for that. Oh the silliness in that man! It's almost endearing weren't it simply annoying.
Just then, Julien the assassin shows up, created some havoc, tries to play Gambit against me. They have their whole family drama that is of no interest for me at all. But the curious thing is that he saved me from Julien, charging some cards when the assassin was out to get me. At the moment, I thought I probably owned my life to Remy and, for this, I wouldn't, couldn't kill him. He kissed me, and I realized that there was still a spark between them. He picked his father up, saying that they were going back to New Orleans to settle things and that's the last I heard from those delicious lips of his.
You must be wondering by now what it is that I want from you since everything seems to turn out the way I wanted it to be. That son of a bitch has deceived me with his tricks. When he was long gone, I reached for my vial of the Elixir, and to my utter surprise it was gone. That fucker charmed me when we were kissing and took the vial from me. I hate him. No one ever fools Candra! Who does the piece of shit thinks he is? I want you to follow Gambit and Jean-Luc to New Orleans and to spread the word to the Guilds that Gambit has betrayed them. In addition to that, I want you to make everyone he loves suffer the consequences of his actions. I want to see his family in pain, and most importantly, I want his wife and girlfriend both killed. I want him to taste their blood in his throat for he's responsible for their deaths. You don't just enrage Candra and expect to get away with that. I trust that you will take immeasurable pleasure in doing this job for me.
If you need any resources, anything at all, let me know.
I'm looking forward to hearing from your success at this mission.
Yours faithfully,
Candra
-O-
Author's notes:
Guys, sorry for the huge gap, that's if anyone noticed at all. I was fussing over this chapter because I don't know how I'd tell that part through letters. So I left it untouched for all this long, and now that I finished Wasting Love, took a look at it and bang, solved the puzzle. I removed the Tithe Collector from the scene with Candra so she could narrate what went down to him (and to you).
I hope you like the chapter and please read and review.