The room was deathly silent that seemed to last forever until the man dared to say something.

"Did he?...is that when-

"No...that didn't...happen till later..." she cut him off firmly while struggling to speak as her head was turned to the side as she avoided eye contact.

"Why didn't you tell Caesar what he did to you in the past Iris?...it could have prevented what he did you later on?" he asked seriously.

She huffed.

"Everyone always asked me that...why did I never tell him...even after Onyx did...the deed...I knew he would try to kill him."

The man raised an eyebrow at this.

"I'm having a hard time believing you didn't want him dead Iris?" he asked skeptically.

"Trust me I wanted him to burn after what did to me and...other things he did..." she practically growled as she ran a hand through her hair.

"Then why didn't you tell him?" he asked clearly wanting to know the answer.

She turned her body around to face him straight and to stare right at him.

"Because there was tension in the village after Caesar killed Koba, others were beginning to question him and where he stood, While most agreed with Caesar's ideals the others...if they witnessed or heard that Caesar punished an ape for something they did against a human...I was trying to prevent a civil war from happening..." She struggled to say.

"But it did happen, in the middle of an upcoming war...and even though you tried there wasn't much you could do to stop it," the man said plainly.

Ape Village 3 years ago

Iris looked at the ape who smiled at her with a sadistic grin in shock and horror, Onyx removed the hand that was covering her mouth and slowly traced his leathery rough hand down her skin, to her neck only for him to grab her neck tightly causing her to gasp, her hands now free gripped on his arm tightly while glaring at him.

"How.. are you-

"Still Alive..." he cut her off.

She nodded.

He hooted a little in laughter and then squeezed her neck tighter and pushing her against the rock more making her close her eyes and grunt while feeling the rock wall stabbing into her back when she opened her eyes again she saw the apes face was close to her now.

"After Koba killed...Pope, he took rest...of apes and brought them...back to village"

Iris wasn't really surprised considering apes follow the highest branch so after Koba killed Pope the rest of his followers probably followed Koba back to the village with little protest, Iris didn't stay that long after Koba killed Pope to figure out what happened afterward.

Onyx the leaned forward and brought his head against her exposed collarbone, causing Iris to lift up her head up high and grunt in disgust, he could feel her skin against his face and hear her heart race reacting to him, causing him to sigh in content, he then brought his head back up to look at her and his eyes caught her neck and collarbone more specifically the scars on them, he smiled at them his eyes also caught bruise handprint left by Red.

"Red...was rough on you...wasn't he," he said plainly.

"Your no different you sadist..." she spat at him while glaring daggers.

He grinned at this.

"I was surprised...during that time...that Moon never took you...even though you...were his mate," he said as he stroked her scars with his hand making her shudder and groan.

"You sick bastard..." She said raspily while gritting her teeth.

"In the end...his love for you...was his end..."

Iris could no longer take the ape touching her anymore so she hit him in the throat hard and then grabbed onto his shoulder and rammed her knee into his chest hard causing to knock the wind out of him and causing him to bend over to catch his breath making him let go of her, she took her chance and ran far away from him.

Iris found herself sitting by a log near a firepit but not too close to it due to her slight phobia, she stared at it in a daze While putting her hand into her pocket and took something it was a black rock tied up in a string making a necklace, she looked at it sadly.

Flashback 9 years ago

She struggled, fought, scratched, and but the men who dragged her down the dark stoned hallway but it proved futile, she had been at this hell for about 2 months and still had been defiant and because she of that they had punished her in different ways but this time they decided to put her solitary confinement.

They opened a metal door and threw her inside then shutting it on her, she got back up and started to kick and hit the metal door but it proved useless and only hurting her hands.

"YOU BASTARDS!" she screamed.

She then looked at the small stoned cold room which it's only light came from high above from a small opening that was barred.

She then started to kick the door again.

"It no use...you just stop..." a rough voice told her.

It made her stop what she was doing, she realized the voice was coming from the room next to her

"I would know...I've been here for a long time.."

"Really? And who are you?" she asked irritated.

"...Moon..." he replied.

End of Flashback

Iris's hand tighten around the rock and then angry tears started to fall down as she winced her eyes.

"Iris..." a voice snapped her out her thoughts she turned to see it was Caesar.

"Are you alright?..." he asked.

Hey, I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long time and my son has been sick for the last week an a half so so I felt like shit :(... But anyways we feel better now and I would like to thank asassian Faith for giving me the Idea about how to subdue Onyx :)