Somewhere in Time by Maksim Mrvica
A couple of weeks had passed and things looked as though they were starting to calm down in Gotham. In those weeks Viola began to learn all about guns, different types, different ways of holding the gun when firing, which bullet went in which gun, types of bullets, how to load, fire and clean a gun. That was with Lilly, who loved guns like they were her children.
Viola also began to learn knife combat, learning and training in Marina who taught her stances, ways of blocking, deflecting and attacking. When to move back from a hit and move forward to place a hit.
With Victor, it would be re-capping the gun information and showing the knife combat. Also with Victor Viola learnt hand to hand combat and continuing to aim and fire with a gun. It was hard and brutal, but Viola was enjoying it.
Today was a rarity, it was sunny in Gotham so Victor decided to train outside near the house. "Your stance is wrong, if it's raining and you do that type of stance you'll slip and fall from the water, giving your attacker a moment to hit or kill you." Victor scolded, walking over and correcting her footwork. "Remember, has to be-"
"The same width as my shoulders I know, it's hard to instantly do when you're about to advance on me." Viola huffed.
"You let it be hard to do, to be honest, I'm quite surprised how hard you don't know your lefts and rights."
"Cause I-" Viola began then stopped.
"What?" Victor asked curiously.
Viola huffed again, "I…I have dyslexia."
Victor stared at her for a moment, "Okay…I feel like this should all make sense."
"Cause everybody thinks dyslexia is about the difficulty to read and write. Mine is hard to tell between lefts and rights, I can't describe my feelings or a situation well, I can't even explain stuff clearly and to the point, it takes me ages to finish a story." Viola listed, "I have trouble reading on white paper and I can't write down what I'm feeling to trying to explain. It's more my memory, there is a spectrum of dyslexia that not a lot of people know about."
Viola had explained while going to sit on a piece of discarded log. Victor joined and sat beside her, both looking out to the view. "Now I get it, how it takes longer than usual to remember the process of guns, the lefts and rights and the music sheet paper." They were a nice shade of dark green.
Viola chuckled, "Yeah, did you just think it was to make it look pretty?"
"No…a little," Victor replied sheepishly. "When did you find out?"
"When I was ten, my tutor picked up on a few things and with the help of Falcone we found out. He didn't care, it was just something that made me…me. I have difficulty from time to time with it."
"Why?"
"I feel like when I'm talking for a long time people aren't really listening, just staring at me to be nice. So I don't really speak much, just when I need to, or have to."
Victor looked at her and saw the same person from five minutes ago. "Don't feel like that with me, okay, everything you say is of high value to me." Viola looked from the grass to him and smiled, making Victor smile back. It was contagious. He stood and held out her hand, "But this won't get you out of training."
Viola laughed and accepted his hand and stood, the pair walking back to their space closely with their index fingers holding on, like the last link in the chain. Finally letting go, Victor smiled and nodded when he watched Viola take her stance correctly. Taking his stance, they began their training once more. Viola begun to get the upper hand, but swung her right arm out to high, allowing Victor to grab it, twirl her around so her back collided into his chest, he still holding her arm as it went around his neck, his other hand resting on her stomach, gently and painlessly holding her in place.
Both were breathing hard and how long that period of training went on for, Viola looking down at her and Victor's bare feet. Slowly looking up, Viola lifted her head to see Victor looking down at her, both suddenly feeling time slowing down. "Victor…" Viola whispered.
"Viola, we…I…" Victor stumbled, actually stumbling over his words. "You're jumbling my brain." He mumbled, placing his head in-between her neck and shoulder.
Viola chuckled, "Sorry." They said nothing for a moment till "I don't want to move." Viola whispered.
Victor lifted his head and place his forehead against hers, "Viola…we can't…"
"Why?"
"You're the ward of Don Carmine Falcone for one. Two there's a war brewing," Victor was right, just a few days ago word went around that Maroni's restaurant was hit. "Lastly, I can't let you get hurt."
"With you around, I won't."
"I can't ensure that fully…dammit, Viola," Victor to a breath, "How about, we go slowly about this?"
"What do you mean?"
Victor released Viola to turn her round to face him fully, "We see what happens. We…go out, spend more time together…see what happens."
Viola smiled, "So, courting?"
Victor laughed, "Yeah, courting."
Viola slowly nodded and smiled more, "Okay, we can court."
Both laughed, "Don't make it sound weird," Victor said in-between laughs.
"I'm not I'm-"
Viola was cut off when a henchman a few feet away spoke out, "Sorry, Don Falcone wants you both to accompany him to a meeting. He's beginning to leave." The pair both a step away from each other as the man began to speak, the pair releasing their entwined hands that they didn't know had done.
"We'll be there," Viola replied. Once the henchman was out of earshot Viola whispered, "No rest huh?" Victor chuckled as they made their way back to the house.
Once changed out of their training clothes, they were in the car with Falcone and on their way to the meeting. Falcone took note of the two sitting closer together and seeing Viola with a gun for protection. He knew Victor and his right-hand women were training Viola, he didn't mind, in fact, he was more than happy to allow it. But their closeness was something different, something Falcone wasn't sure he minded or not.
Reaching their destination or an empty warehouse, the car came to a stop and Falcone got out first, followed by Victor Zsasz and Viola last. Walking up to the alliances of Don Falcone, Viola and Victor stopped a few feet, letting Falcone walk on a bit more to stand next to Fish Mooney, who was in front of the rest of the group. "I know your families are upset, but tell them everybody has a piece of the Arkham project." Falcone spoke out loud, "It was a business decision. We didn't lose, Maroni didn't win."
"Maroni thinks he won. Maroni thinks he won a great bet." A man spoke up, pushing himself of his car and sauntering towards Falcone, waving his hands about. "We need to hurt him.
Falcone replied instantly, "No."
"If we don't push back now, he-"
Falcone cut the man off, "Nikolai that fool will think what I want him to think. No push back. Not yet."
"In my country, we say the fool will bite the King, even if he has teeth," Nikolai replied.
"Can the folklore Niko, we are not in your God forsaken country. We are in Gotham, where we have plumbing, electricity and Don Falcone is the boss." Fish Mooney cut in.
Viola was watching and listening to the scene in front of her unfold, and felt Victor beside her lean closer, "Do you think they screw each other in their spare time?" He asked in a joke, hinting the pair arguing in front of Falcone.
Viola smirked, "If they do, it will explain this atmosphere they are giving when arguing. Let's just hope it's only screwing." She replied.
"Do you think she's still planning something?" Victor whispered.
"I'm not sure, but since the Wayne's were killed, she's been a little too upbeat and calm about this war," Viola whispered, finally turning her gaze from the scene in front of them to Victor, seeing in his facial expression that he understood what she meant.
The pair turned back to the scene was Falcone called for silence. "There will be no blood here." He reasoned. "We need each other, we're family." What Falcone couldn't see, and Viola would be too late to stop, is that some family members, care for nothing except power. Even if it means tearing the family apart.
Oh, family drama will ensue next chapter, you can be sure of that. Will still be a while till Viola and Victor make that next step, but it will be worth it. Also, as of 01/17/2017, I have uploaded all the chapters for this story onto this site, as a present for being so patient. Enjoy all these chapters and I will try to upload soon since my dissertation is slowly coming to an end! I will answer reviews soon, till then, please favourite/follow/review! It helps me a lot, thank you!