I'll redo a plot from CRAZY LIFE WE LIVE that didn't really go anywhere and deserves to be under this one.. This chapter is just a repost.. But with added dialogue


JUNE/2008:

Niko: You remember me?

Darko: [translated] Leave me alone. I don't know you. (English) I don't know you.

Nik:o Yes you do. I'm the one... who survived.

Darko: Niko... Hello.

Niko: [translated] Just tell me why.

Darko: [translated] Why?

Niko: [translated] We were friends. We were all friends. We all grew up together... Dmitar, Dragan, Goran, Mijo... should I go on and name them all?

Darko: We were friends, but I had other friends! Friends that Goran and his guys killed. My fucking neighbors! Because of what? Because of shit. Lies. Fucking lies.

Niko: So that makes it okay. To stab your friends in the back?

Darko: When everything you believe is shown to be shit, you make strange choices, I guess.

Niko: Fuck you! Strange choices?! How much?!

Darko: [laughing] A thousand.

Niko: ... You killed my friends for one thousand dollars?

Darko: How much do you charge to kill someone?

Niko: You ruined me, you fuck!

Darko: I needed the money... I had problems.

Niko: You're a fucking junkie.

Darko: Kill me, then! You fucking hypocrite. Trust me, you'll be doing me a favor. Ahhh!

Roman: Niko - come on, let's go. Let him suffer... He knows what he did. He doesn't look like he enjoys life too much. Come on.

Niko (ignores Roman and guns Darko down, shooting him 13 times): You piece of shit! That was for everyone! That was for me.


Dash can email him after the mission.

KILL: Roman told me you killed your old rival. He says you didn't enjoy it in the end, but guess that's how it goes. Life is complicated..

Positive reply: I guess in the end it was a mercy.

Negative reply: He deserved it.

SPARE: Roman told me you spared your old rival. Your a stronger man than me, that much I can say..

Positive reply: I guess I realized it wasn't gonna solve anything. I had to be the bigger man..

Negative reply: He wasn't worth it..


Meanwhile in Liberty City, turns out Ariena is seen visiting a prison. Wearing her classic blue outfit. Plus sometimes a headband, like Hayley from American Dad.

''I knew you'd come.'' said a male in a orange jumpsuit. Looking about 23 at the least, but hard to say from how unshaved and scruffy he looks. Blonde hair though.

"I wish there was more I can do." Ariena said into the phone, using a rarely heard soft tone.

''Come on Anna, don't be so whiny, no guy likes a whiny girl.'' the inmate said, obviously jokingly. He would also joke about her having an Italian name when she she has no Italian blood, actually has Yugoslavian blood. Niko even teaching her the language as she grew up. Same with Dash, who often swears in it when mad.

''Oh you know you love it Emmett.'' Ariena giggled, finally revealing the guys name.

Ariena puts a hand on the glass. ''I love you.'' she said softly, Emmett doing it back.

''Can't wait to hold you Anna.. Cold and pale as your skin looks, I mean seriously girl, get some sun. Even the vampire lady is tanner than you are.'' Emmett said, obviously still teasing her, but truly meaning the first part. He obviously has a nickname for her as well.

''Ariena, there you are, Katie and Harleigh said you never showed up to the party.'' suddenly came Niko's voice from a distance. Ariena widening her eyes. "Why you at the prison house?"

''...And next time I won't just call the cops, I'll fucking kill you asshole!'' Ariena said into the phone as Niko approaches, quickly hanging up, confusing Emmett, though he noticeably caught on and flips her off when he sees Niko approach. "Just wait til I get out of here bitch!" he shouted out, trying to sound intimidating.

''Stupid creep tried to rob me.'' Ariena groaned as she walked past Niko. Who is noticeably unconvinced by her preformance, looking back at Emmett before following her out.


ONE HOUR LATER:

Niko drives Ariena around in his grey painted version of one of Roman's old cabs, he kept one for a personal car, as did Roman himself who kept it black, they both keep one before the cabs got upgraded as the business did. Pink Floyd - Trail is heard on the radio, right on the ex wife's verse. Ariena started noticing they were repeatedly cycling around LC prison like Niko was scoping it out from a distance. . "Uh dad, what's going on?" Ari finally asked.

"I saw you with that boy, you gonna tell me what's going on?" Niko said sternly. Ariena sighed and confessed that they were secretly dating, but that she didn't want Niko to know.

''Why? Was I being too protective again?'' Niko asked.

''A bit, but no that's not the reason.. His name is Brevic. Emmett Brevic.'' Ariena admitted.

''... like in Darko Brevic?'' Niko asked, quietly.

''Yeah. Emmett forgives you for killing his dad. But I'm worried how you'd react. I mean ...'' Ariena said, almost tearfully. Niko uses a free hand to pat her.

''Baby I only wanted Darko, his wife said she has learned to forgive me, as I have no reason to go after her or her son. They weren't involved." Niko told her.

''Well.. Don't matter anyway, I can't bail him out, it's too late for it.. it's all sjeban (fucked) now.'' Ariena admitted, the last part Serbian/Yugoslavian, she and Dash can speak it quite well by this point. And Mallorie is Spanish, so Katie Bellic can speak Spanish as well, as can Angelina, who learned it from Sadie Amber. Sadie and her mother originally were in Nogales, and Sadie joined the Mexican army, later shipped to the American's instead, where she met Victor Vance, leading to her role of GTAVice.

"jezik, mlada damo (language, young lady)." Niko said, fatherly.

"Sorry." She replied.

''... So what then, you're just gonna quit?'' Niko asked in surprise. She nodes. After a pause Niko asks ''You sure you really love him?''

''Yes.. He was only jailed cause he took the blame after I drunkenly robbed a place.'' Ariena said, saddened.

After another pause, Niko does a u-turn directly facing the prison and pulls something out of the car glove department.. A ski mask.

''Put it on.'' Niko said, rather calmly, tossing it onto her lap.

''Wha-''

''Bellic's don't quit baby girl, now put it on.'' Niko said to a bit more stern, Ariena grabs it and looks for the back. Niko grabs a second ski mask from the same glove department, as well as gun. "And take your mothers gun, just in case." Niko said, handing Ariena a Glock17, before taking out the same gun himself.

Ariena nodes, doing her best to put on the mask.

''And make sure to buckle up.'' he continued, grabbing his phone connected to car, switching to Boston - More Than A Feeling.


Emmett Brevic is laying anxiously on the bed of his jail cell. His prison roommate is seen sharpening the back of his toothbrush with a spare rock he found off the stone wall. If you don't know, that really is a thing in prison. Shivs they call them.

''Emmett, you wake?'' the man asked. He's a bald man with a Swastika tattoo on his forehead, he has an orange jumpsuit, brown eyes and he's at least 5.6. Emmett just kinda waved him off, rolling over on the mattress. The assumed neo-nazi became angry and threw the rock at him and he jumped up as the rock landed painfully on his back-head.

''What the fuck Gerry.'' Emmett growled. Emmett has short blonde hair, blue eyes, and the still unshaved long beard and messy long hair.

''Shut up Emmett, now turn around, it's time for you're daily anal.'' Gerry ordered, pointing the shiv as a knife. Which is exactly what it sounds like. Yeah, real charmer.

''I told you asshole, I have a girl waiting for me.'' Emmett said, trying to sound tough but his voice cracks and shakes.

''Nice story'' Gerry snarked, and then stepped closer as he continued the rest in a far more direct and threatening tone. ''But she ain't here is she, and I'm tired of wai-''

Out of nowhere a grey car smashes through the wall, hitting Gerry who smashes headfirst into the cell gates and the prison guard jumps up from his desk, falling off his chair as he was leaning up with his feet on his desk, napping. It was Niko, he smashed his car though the weak prison wall, perfectly timed to the guitar verse after "I close my eyes...". He even made a point of making sure this would happen (wouldn't you?).

''All aboard mister Emmett, toot toot.'' called out the masked Niko Bellic, same ski mask from Packie's bank heist. The other one was just a spare.

''W Who the hell are you.'' Emmett cried nervously. ''Just get in the damn car.'' Niko said annoyedly.

''Prisoner, step away from the car!'' the prison guard yelled, jumping up and pulling out a AP Pistol. Emmett threw the shiv at him, but not actually hoping to hit him, just to distraction him, it worked, the guard jumped out of the way allowing Emmett to run. The guard fires a bullet that bounces off the back seat door as Ariena pulls him in from the other side of the back. Niko back out of the new hole he made just as the chorus is heard playing. More guards burst into the room hearing the commotion, Niko blind fires at them with his 17, but not actually trying to hit them, just scaring them into jumping for cover. No reason to kill them, they are just normal cops trying to do their jobs.

''Do it baby girl.'' Niko orders Ariena, who's also wearing a ski mask. ''Gotcha.'' Ariena said, Emmett thinks he recognizes the voice but is not sure. Ariena throws a flashbang grenade which held onto for just such occasions and flashed it on the guards, briefly blinding them which Niko uses to immediately speed out of there. This way the cops don't know which direction he drove, and less chances of being found.


Once they are clear of some first responding cops, the three finally relax.

''That went well, and we didn't even have to kill anyone.'' Ariana said.

''Well you may of killed Gerry, but they were gonna kill him anyway, you just saved them some paperwork.'' Emmett replied.

''Now, who the hell are you.'' Emmett continued.

''You were always a bit slow weren't you.' 'Ariena teased and removed her ski mask, her blue hair left messy and unkempt from said mask, and her makeup leaves smears all over face, but it was still her, she still looked like her.

''Y You.'' Emmett said in shock.

''Who else.'' Ariena chuckled.

Emmett immediately pulls her into a kiss on the lips, Ariena taking some time to kiss him back before pulling away. A little shy about it being around her dad.

"Uh, anyway, we're laying low in at my house. They never look there.'' Ariena told him.

"Niko right? You shouldn't of done that sir, now they'd be after you guys too."

"I'm use to it." Niko replied.


I only speak English, but I like using Google Language in these stories.. Throw in other languages..