Chapter two
Thank you for the kind reviews! I know I said I'd bring in alty and Ezio but maybe I'll sneak in malik too, I always loved it when he would get on Altair's case about something.
Disclaimer: Once again, I don't own assassin's creed, but if I did…..let's just say that it would involve stripping assassin's.
Chapter 2
In which things are learned, and Shaun get's a broken nose
Desmond thought of himself as a good person. He had never killed anybody…..until the templars kidnapped him. He had never hurt anybody….well that was a lie, he had accidently punched some guy
in the face after said guy had groped his ass. He had never lied, wait no, he had tried to play dumb when vidic questioned him about being an assassin, like that had helped any. Hrm, uh….he had
never killed an innocent person! But right about now, he sure was tempted to, that kid had better hope that he never met him in a dark alley!
Desmond groaned, it felt like he had taken on a pack of templars and they had beaten him with tube socks filled with cold cheese, like that one time when he still lived with his parents and the other
assassin's in training told him he had to be initiated. He shivered at the memory and cried out in pain as something hit him in the face. Hard.
"What did you hit him for you asshole!?"
"I was just trying to wake him up, it's not like rubbing the snow in his face helped much."
'Ah, that explains why I'm soaked.' He thought to himself as the voices above him continued to argue.
"You still didn't have to hit him!"
"You coddle him too much."
"Coddle?! How so?!"
"The minute he looks like he's in trouble you just have to come running to the rescue."
"I do not! I simply try to stop him from dying! Which is more than you've ever done for him!"
"Please, just because I let the boy get a little scraped up doesn't mean that I want him dead."
"Yes it does! You want to be the one in the animus!"
"I….I simply think that I would be a better candidate."
"So you admit that you want him dead?"
"I never said anything of the sort! You're just putting words into my mouth!"
"Shaun! Lucy! Quit arguing! Desmond's vitals have stabilized; he appears to be waking up."
Desmond took that as his cue to sit up and open his eyes. Lucy rushed over to him with tears in her eyes and grabbed his hand. "Oh thank god you're ok desmond! We were so worried about you, I
mean after Rebecca got kicked out of the animus and you were trapped in there…." Desmond looked around and noticed that they were in a cheap hotel room. "Where are we?" Shaun, who was
leaning against a wall, answered his question. "In a small piece of shit hotel room because Miss Queen of the world here thought that we shouldn't move you anymore than necessary, apparently
riding in a van counts as unnecessary movement."
Desmond could feel the temperature drop in the room as Lucy turned to look at Shaun. She slowly stood up and walked over to Shaun, glaring the whole way. She stopped about a foot away from
him, cocked her hand back, and bitch slapped him so hard that his glasses cracked before they even hit the door next to him. "I'm not going to deal with your moodiness anymore do you hear me?! I'm
sick and tired of having to try and defend every word that comes out of my mouth simply because your "boytoy" isn't answering his phone! Now, I'm going to go sit back down, and you're going to
stand there and listen to me alright?" Lucy hissed out as Shaun stood there in a stunned silence. He nodded as Lucy walked back over to desmond and gave him a look filled with concern. "Now then,
desmond, do you remember anything about what happened while you were in the animus?"
Desmond was still in shock over the fact that she had just hit Shaun so it took him a second to register what exactly Lucy had said, and another second to process it. "Uh, yea, I was in one of ezio's
memories and suddenly got kicked out of it and back into the loading screen. I figured that maybe one of you guys had done something or needed me to go do something else but then when nobody
said anything I got worried and started trying to dive back into the memory and found out that the animus wouldn't let me. That when that damn punk started talking to me." Rebecca suddenly looked
up from some random animus part and just stared slack-jawed at him. "Someone besides us talked to you?" "Yea, he even somehow got into the animus with me and tried to get me out, not that it
really worked though, all he managed to do was make it freak out and start desynchronizing me from Ezio." Rebecca still stared at him in wonder. "I didn't think that….I mean…..how in the hell did
someone remotely hack the animus? It's not possible!" "What if someone used the "animus 1.0"?" Lucy questioned as she held Desmond's hand. 'What the? How in the hell did she grab my hand
without me noticing? Note to self, Lucy moves fast, is sneaky, and could probably take nude pictures of me…..I wonder…never mind, so not going there.' He shook his head as he turned back into the
conversation that was taking place between Lucy and Rebecca.
"-nobody knows where that old model is besides me, you, Shaun, princess, and now, Desmond." Rebecca replied as she fidgeted with a wrench. "Who's princess?" Desmond questioned as he
managed to slip his hand out of Lucy's. "Oh, he's this prodigal genius that the templars tried to kidnap, but we managed to scoop up before they had a second chance." "Second chance?" "Well, vidic
approached him privately but he turned down the offer." Shaun sighed and picked up his glasses from the floor. "He's the son of a famous software designer, and he has an IQ of over 200.
Unfortunately, he lacks a bit of common sense, so he'll sometimes do stupid things, like say, hack into the animus, notice that you were stuck and try to solve the problem himself instead of calling us
for help." Rebecca surged off of her chair and marched over to Shaun. "You think that little brat hacked my baby?!" Shaun took a step backwards and nodded. Rebecca's eyes darted around rapidly as
she considered the thought. "Well, I suppose he could, and I would much rather have him hack my baby than some filthy templar scum…..Desmond!" She cried out as she turned around.
"Did the boy in the animus get offended easily; have long hair, and a girlish figure?"
"Um, yes?"
"Did he have grey eyes?"
"Yes?"
"It was artemis then! Oooooooo!! When I get my hands on him I'm gunna ring his scrawny little neck!!!!"
Desmond blinked owlishly at Rebecca and slowly inched away from her. "Is he related to Altair also?" "No, he does look a lot like him though huh? We thought that he might be a possible candidate,
but it turned out that he isn't a descendent like you." Lucy explained as she stroked Desmond's hand with her thumb. 'How the fuck does she keep managing to hold my hand?' Desmond thought to
himself as he attempted to detach his hand from Lucy's. "Did anything else happen?" Shaun questioned as he moved towards the bathroom. "Uh….yea, I was about to sock the kid when Altair grabbed
my hand, and when I looked back at artemis and Ezio was holding him." The room was silent and Lucy's hand fell limp as she stared in amazement. "Shaun? Are you sure you didn't hit Desmond to
hard?" Shaun came out of the bathroom with a wet washcloth pressed to the side of his face.
"No, but I don't find it hard to believe that desmond saw his ancestors."
"You don't?"
"No, you see, it was probably all just a hallucination."
"A hallucination?"
"Yes, maybe desmond got kicked back to the loading screen because the memory fragment was corrupted, it's happened before, and from there he just somehow got desynchronized and here we are."
"……..did Lucy hit you too hard?"
"I'm just saying that it's a possibility…"
"Well it's not, your just in deniel like me and Rebecca."
"Oh I suppose your right,and I also suppose that the templars will suddenly just stop trying to kill us and give us all the pieces of Eden right? Because that's how everything works in your world isn't it?"
"……..your being sarcastic right?"
"Oh good job desmond! You're such a genius! You deserve a round of applause!"
Shaun began clapping his hands as Rebecca looked at Lucy. Lucy's eye was twitching as she stood up and walked over to Shaun. She looked him in the eyes as he stopped clapping. "What are you
going to do? Slap me ag-" Shaun was cut off as Lucy cocked back her fist and let it fly straight into his nose. A crunching noise echoed in the room, followed by a thud as Shaun hit the floor. "Now then,
Rebecca? Will you please go start the car?" Rebecca nodded eyeing Shaun as she edged towards thedoor and slipped out into the descending gloom. "Now then desmond, I'm sorry to ask you this so
soon after having been kicked out of the animus but could you help me drag this jerkface down to thevan?" She asked ever so sweetly. Desmond nodded as he slowly walked over and picked up
Shaun's feet. "Make sure to try and drop him on the way there ok?"
Sorry it took me so long to update!
Ahahahaha! Poor Shaun, I love him so much but it's just too much fun to have Lucy beat the shit out of him.
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Also! I require a beta! If anyone is interested please tell me.
Ryka