After going through the plans with
Celeste, Xavier, Louis, Izabella,
and people I've never seen before
We decided to go to a bar, the ones in
Chicago aren't the same as
in New York, it's a different feeling, the people here are more depressing and
the alcohol is cheap, but it's still a bar.
Celeste is at her house because
according to her we're only here
because we're "drowning our sorrows"
I'm not that miserable, I don't need
alcohol or drugs; the only addiction
I suffer from has brown curly hair,
light blue eyes, an attitude, and is constantly in some type of trouble.
Now I know she's alive, and has
recovered from her injuries,
is she running from me because
she thinks I tried to kill her? Maybe
Louis orders us more drinks, and if
he wasn't I was already planning to.
"So...what's the plan?" Louis asks, the bartender places our drinks in front of
us and slides me a folded piece of paper
I open it and see a number, I make sure
she's distracted and throw it away.
Louis starts laughing and stares at
me like I've done a thoughtless thing
"𝙄'𝙢 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙." he rolls his eyes
and takes agulp of
the drink you're supposed to sip.
"Y'know I love Marceline, she's my best friend and I think I know her better
than most do." I can assume what
he's planning on saying but if it's some idiotic brother speech I'm leaving.
He looks around the room, anywhere
but my eyes, I don't understand why
he's so nervous, I don't care what he has
to say so might as well get it over with
"I'm going to be honest,"
A lie that most people start sentences
with "Marcy likes to have fun,
partying, fucking, drinking, smoking,
even crying." now I know where this conversation is leading
"You can do the same, she's probably having fun with other people,
if you both somehow end up together,
she won't hate you for doing it."
I won't believe that until she tells me, actually I wouldn't even believe her.
The idea of looking at anyone else
the same way I view her is sickening.
"I've stayed 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙙 ever since I met
her, I don't want to think about anyone
else even if she doesn't do the same."
He sighs again and gives me other
excuses, shouldn't he be telling me
not to sleep with anyone, if he is her
"best friend" why would he
encourage me to fuck other people?
Even opening that small piece of paper made me feel guilty, a part of me feels
like I'm betraying her trust and lying to
her, naturally, I wouldn't want
to feel this way, so I ignore any offers
and pretend they never happened.
"Here," I say, grabbing the crumbled-up
paper and handing it to him
"I won't be using it" he picks up the paper using his pointer finger and thumb,
grabbing the corner as if he's going to be poisoned if he touches anymore
"Thanks, buddy," he drops it
on the ground and looks up at me
"We need to-" my phone starts
to ring which makes Louis glare.
Before I answer my phone Xavier walks
up to the bar with Izabella following
behind him and tells me they're going to Russia tonight for various reasons,
none of them are great but if he
wants to leave I'm not going to stop him.
They walk away and I answer the phone, seconds later figure out is Celeste
"Yes?" I hear her clear her throat and speak
in a formal tone
"I have some news, and you won't like it."
the only good news I've received in the
past few months was that Marceline
was alive, other than that it's been bad,
so I'm not worried.
"One of my spies saw Marceline walk into
the Donovan house and never leave, we don't know where-" I just figured out she was alive.
Now she's going to fucking die again, how
does she always get in a situation that
results in her dying?! we need to leave now.
I hang up the phone and grab some cash
out of my wallet, leaving it on the bar top
and walking outside.
"I'm going to New Zealand to get her, are you going with me or not?" Louis hits my shoulder twice and says
"You can't go alone, of course, I will."
I wish I was going alone.
It would be so much easier to talk to
her, she'd probably trust me more, two people could just make things worse
by intimidating her, which would
probably make her run further away;
If she isn't tied up in a dark cell,
in their basement.
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I hate this country.
Besides that fact, the other fact is
that Louis is in the Donovans' house,
I'm hiding outside because I didn't bring any backup and I didn't plan to die.
He's claiming to "work" there, which is supposedly how he got into my building
before we met.
I've already heightened my security
and fired anyone who didn't
fit my or Xavier's standards;
it never should be that easy to
get in and break someone out.
There are two people who run the
front desk, and only
certain people are allowed in the
apartment without having to pass
certain tests. The man and woman
both have photos of who's allowed in.
If a person that isn't on the photos
tries to go on the third floor the elevator and staircase doors won't open
If I'm being realistic, Marceline is
trapped somewhere or hiding with
someone who wants to kill her,
and Louis got shot for not having any
type of proof that he works in the house
I look at my watch and see that it's hit
three hours since the idiot went inside.
I would just leave and go find her myself but Unfortunately, Marceline
will actually hate me if I'm the reason
her best friend got killed,I get out of my
car and walk toward the house.
Before I get in front of the house,
the front door slams open and
Louis comes running out, eyes wide, making him look insane "Go now!"
I see people with guns in
their hands, chasing him.
He had one job.
I get in the car and start the engine, reaching my arm over and opening
the door for him.
He jumps in and the men start
shooting, I push down on the petal
before he can even close the door,
making him almost fall out.
I'm used to working with Xavier,
we're always on the same page
when things like This happen.
"Bro hurry the fuck up!" Louis squeals, slamming the car door behind him.
"да ладно, придурок, ты что, никогда
не водил машину?!" I shout
while I look back to see if there are any
cars following us. I see one black SUV,
I'm assuming they have more on other streets, about to cut us off.
[ ᴛʀᴀɴsʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴏɴ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴜᴍʙᴀss,
ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴅʀɪᴠᴇɴ ᴀ ᴄᴀʀ?!]
Getting out of this isn't going to be fun
but if that's a lake in front of us it will
work, we're going one hundred
miles per hour, headed straight for
a bridge, with a large lake under it.
"What the fuck are you doing?!" I press
the button on my car door, rolling down
both of our windows "Когда мы войдем
в озеро, не поднимайся с воздуха,
пока мы не окажемся под мостом!"
[ ᴛʀᴀɴsʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴡᴇ ᴇɴᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ
ʟᴀᴋᴇ, ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴜᴘ ғᴏʀ ᴀɪʀ
ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ᴡᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇ!"
He stares at me like Im insane and
starts laughing while crying like
he's a child, it's incredibly annoying,
I hit him and shout
"Перестань плакать, как сука,
смирись с этим." He stops for a second
and then starts crying even harder
[ ᴛʀᴀɴsʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: sᴛᴏᴘ ᴄʀʏɪɴɢ
ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ʙɪᴛᴄʜ, ɢᴇᴛ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ɪᴛ.]
"I don't know Russian!"
This was the worst idea I've ever had,
coming to a dangerous place with Louis
is like giving someone who hates you a shotgun, a passport, and
two million dollars for secure travel.
Like the idiot he is, right before
we go over the railing of the bridge
he grabs the wheel and turns it.
It was already too late, he made the
car flip over, our situation has now
gotten even worse because an idiot tried
to do something right; at least he tried.
The car starts to sink and I instruct
him how to get out and go under
the bridge before the water fills the car.
I struggle to push myself through the window, considering my muscles and
how tall I am, it's not that effortless.
I manage to get out and start to swim toward the bridge, I hold my
breath for a while before coming up
for air. The men were trying to shoot us...while we were underwater
Things like this don't intimidate
me anymore,
I doubt Louis will die and I'm
preferring to think he can swim,
if he can't I'm not doing anything,
I'm not helping him
after that little problem he caused
When I come up I see that Louis is
already up, breathing heavily "That was insane, you're insane!" he shouts,
I laugh and swim closer to him "Hey?"
he looks at me and says "What?"
I put my hand on the back of his head
and hold him down under the water.
I look down at my watch and see
that we need to head to the hotel,
but if I'm being logical they
ran his face in the database and are
already at the hotel waiting for us.
eventually, he accepts his fate and
stops struggling, so I let him back up,
he starts gasping for air and manages
to say "What the fuck" he coughs and struggles to regularize his breathing
I swim toward the staircase
connected to an alleyway filled
with crates "Don't fuck up
my plans and maybe you'll live."
He scoffs and follows me, I get to the
stairs and try not to slide on the moss
of whatever the fuck is covering them
I pull off my shirt and try to get
some of the water out of it,
I already know my phone won't be
working which means I have to find
a different way to contact Xavier
Sometimes they have phoneboxes by the
ports so that seems like the
reasonable thing to search for right now
"Are you going to ask me if I got any information?" wasn't that the whole point?
I wait for him to speak,
or for him to realize that I expect him to
tell me without me having to ask.
He sighs and finally gets up the staircase
"I know where Marceline is."
Good, otherwise that was a waste of
my time "and?" he doesn't answer he
just scoffs and stops walking
"Do you ever think of anyone else?!"
the raise in his voice caught me off guard
but I don't show it
"Yes, I do, it's exhausting."
"It's like you just expect everyone to give you whatever you want-" I disagree but let him continue "-Have you ever thought that maybe people struggle to get you these things?!"
I nod and keep a calm voice
"Yes, that's why I pay them."
He glares at me and continues walking
"My mistake, did you want money? Do you 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 any money?" He stops and turns
around to hit me, I catch his fist and shove
him back, laughing at his poor technique.
"No." He says "But maybe a thank you for
my information." I roll my eyes and find a phone box "I'm calling Xavier, stay here,
don't die." He crossed his arm and swiftly walks ahead of me "I'm not a dog and I don't want to stand alone."
I can't decide if he's more amusing, pathetic, or annoying,
but Marceline likes him which means
I have to, and when he shuts
up he's not horrible to be around
Before I put in his number Louis
says "She's in Russia." She's trying
to run from me, she wouldn't go
there, that's an idiotic statement.
Although I can't be sure of anything.
"Who is this?" Xavier asks in an angry voice, do we all sound like that?
"It's Aleksander, I'm in New Zealand
and I need a plane, Marceline
is in Russia, don't let her leave."
he laughs and I hear yelling in the
background "Okay, go to the
tarmac by the nearest airport"
I hang up the phone and explain
everything to Louis,
trying not to let my excitement
show on my face or in my voice
This hunt was quicker
then I thought it would be,
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