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Two
Ghetsis was highly agitated to say the least, hearing of the treatment of his little package, meaning his orignal rules had been gone unheeded. He told Paul where he kept one of his smaller guns forged by the Machamp in the smithy he had personally for his team. Regular weapons, one most wouldn't even consider with pokemon to protect them, though why waste one of them when it can be done much quicker with a bullet to the brain. Most, well none before now knew where he kept his guns and he only had one hiding spot for each so Paul was to make it perfectly clear that things would change. He still wasn't too sure what he wanted with the girl but he just knew it, he knew something was off that she wasn't supposed to be a prisoner at least not like that.
Some that had more freedom would even say it was a prison sentence to stay here, they just didn't mind it.
Never the less he was in charge until they got back he was quick to assure him that he kept her diet right. It had been a couple weeks, it was minor torture something they might do to some locked up here the weaker you were the quicker you gave to it. It was always pushed further beyond that was a little too 'cuddly' to keep for too long. Usually it was done without food but then he didn't request prisoners be brought in if people just paid their debts and did as he said he wouldn't need anyone trapped down there to begin with.
He glanced in at her he hadn't said a word about her being sick, though Mars was set to get a lot more punishment he didn't understand. On one hand she got lucky because he tolerated her and gave her more room than Cyrus would have but he told her where he wanted her she knew better. Part of Paul wanted to see what punishment she'd get. Without risking his own, he didn't know if she was supposed to be treated to any torture but 'didn't know' wasn't any sort of reason to get out of punishment.
She shifted as she looked up, her face was red and though he made sure some blankets were brought down for her it was still fairly chilled down here not having anything else to keep warm.
"How are feeling?" he asked softly.
She coughed shaking her head.
"I'm fine...I think."
"The remote still hasn't turned up but the boss will be here soon so you'll be freed and moved to a room."
She sniffed rubbing her nose.
"...What room?"
"One you'll actually like."
"You...really don't know why I'm here do you?"
He shook his head.
"I don't even know your name I only had a picture to know who I was supposed to get."
"You were sent for a stranger?" she asked in a hushed disbelief.
He nodded.
"The boss isn't much older than you are so it's not even a personal debt it's more of something went down with your father and Zinzolin when Ghetsis was much younger. He is traveling but he left the reigns to Ghetsis and when your father failed to pay his debt with cash he was reminded that he had a child." he felt a little bad wasn't like he sat and talked with her he just made sure only food was brought down to her while the others were kept busy.
No need to get too buddy buddy with the boss's...well whatever she was to him.
She pushed herself up she felt a bit weak but being left alone to sleep and sniffle she wasn't as bad off as she could be.
"...What does Zinzolin look like?"
He walked over to bend down and grab the tablet to look through the files on it, finally turning it around to show a profile picture. It was no wonder she didn't see them it was protected information though the Grunts did have to know who they worked for so it was part of the information shared with them one pointless little password with names and photos and all they really needed to know.
"...Uncle Z.."
He stared at her.
"He's your uncle?"
"Well not..not my real uncle, dad told me to call him that and it stuck he came to visit all the time why would he have a debt to him?"
"That's not info we'd get, you'll have to ask the boss he did hand the debt over with the power, the higher up members still talk about it. He was power hungry nothing was enough he fought Ghetsis on it. One day we were called in everything was handed over and he left."
She rubbed her head remembering the jolly guy that would shower her with presents and come play with her. He protected her when wild pokemon were lost to their heat and attacked any human that got too close, she never thought one who would throw himself infront of a trainer's lost arcanine would have anything to do with these people. He worked hard to keep his name hidden, though it seemed most of them did aside from Giovanni he was everywhere it seemed.
"...Why would he hide?"
"Well if you knew him as family, I bet it had something to do with that."
She looked down.
"What is your name by the way?"
"It's Touko."
She didn't have much else to say staring at the photo thinking of how little she really knew about him.
Her only 'uncle'.
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