Gokudera tilts his head back and frowns.
"Merda. Wanna ignore it?"
"Do I want to? Yes. Am I going to? No. He has the keys and a short temper."
"Goddamn it." Gokudera sighs. "Fine. I just gotta get decent."
"And I hate him even more." Pheonix pecks Gokudera on the lips and slips off the couch. "Yes, I know I'm a perv. Go."
Gokudera smirks.
"If you're a perv then I'm a fucking rapist." Gokudera laughs and kisses Phoenix back. "I'll be back."
"Hurry up." Phoenix smiles as she watches Gokudera jog up to their room before walking up to the door. She opens it and is grabbed by two guards who force her to her knees and cuffs her hand behind her back. Two more guards go into the bedroom and pulls Gokudera, who has only managed to get his pants on, out. He his cuffed the same as Phoenix. "What the hell Reaper?"
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!"
Gokudera thrashes around until Reaper pulls out a gun and points it at Phoenix.
"None of that your Hayato." Reaper turns to Phoenix. "I just know how she's going to react to what I am about to do."
Gokudera grinds his teeth.
"You think that you have the fucking right to just barge in here and do as you please!"
"Yes. See."
Reaper fires off a shot, missing Phoenix by inches. A small trickle of blood leaks from her mouth from how hard she has been biting her cheek. A growl forms in the back of Gokudera throats.
"W-What do you want Reaper."
"To give you this."
Reaper whistles and two guards carry in a very beautiful wooden trunk. Phoenix's eyes widen and she snarls and stands, getting in Reapers face.
"Why do you have that!" Reaper shrugs and Phoenix manages to get her hands in front of her. She slams Reaper against the wall. "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!"
Four guards rush over and pull Phoenix away from Reaper. She fights them and one of them hits her in the stomach with the butt of his rifle. Gokudera struggles to get away from the gaurds as Phoenix falls to the ground couching.
"YOU BASTARD!"
Reaper ignors Gokudera and places a laptop bag on the table before stepping over to Phoenix and picking her up off the ground by her throat. The Hispanic man holds Phoenix a few inches off the ground and smiles.
"Now, little birdy, your first assignment is on the computer. Don't mess up and there's a reward. Mess up and your boyfriend gets shot." He drops Phoenix and tosses Gokudera the keys to the handcuffs. "Nice job on the men by the pool by the way."
Gokudera digs his nails into the plams of his hands as Reaper and the gaurds leave laughing.
"Testa di merda."
Gokudera uses the keys to unlock the handcuffs while Phoenix coughs.
"Damn…where did he…What the hell…"
As soon as Gokudera's hands are free he runs over to Phoenix and sets to work on her handcuffs.
"Are you okay?"
"No." Phoenix rubs her wrists after Gokudera gets the cuffs off her and walks over to the trunk, running her hand over its top. "Where did he find you.."
"Tch. I'm gonna murder that bastard!" Gokudera looks over to where Phoenix is standing over the trunk. "What is it?"
"My parent's memory trunk." Phoenix sits down and traces the words on the top of the stained wood. "Robert and Maria Lynch. May their love outlast the stars." Phoenix sighs. "It went missing though….Where did Reaper find you…?"
"Memory trunk?"
"Another stupid Lynch tradition. The father of the Lynch makes a trunk out of wood from Ireland for the couple getting married to keep stuff in. Pictures and letters and stuff like that." Phoenix continues to trace the words. "I used to do this all the time as a kid…"
Gokudera stares at Phoenix as she traces the words and kneels down beside her.
"Are you going to open it?"
"I don't know if I can…There's so much in here…So many memories…"Phoenix's free hand finds Gokudera's and she interlaces their fingers. "So much pain…"
Gokudera looks at Phoenix and see's the sadness in her eyes.
"We can just put it to the side for now if you want."
"No…I…I'm going to have to face it sometime…And I've got you right?" Phoenix smiles slightly at Gokudera and stands. "Can you help me move it over to the couch?"
Gokudera nods as he stands.
"Sure."
They each pick up one end of the trunk and carry it over to the couch, setting it on the floor. Phoenix sits cross-legged in front of it and takes a deep breath as Gokudera sits next to her.
"Well…here goes nothing…"