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Xavier
"Are you going to cry?"
"You're helping so much Francis." I sighed. "How about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up."
"I was just asking to cause you've been sitting here staring at that picture for four hours now." He walked across my office. "Your fire is dying out. What happened to that fury that you had when all of this first started?"
"Francis I missed the birth of my children." I said.
"And they'll miss their entire lives if you keep neglecting the main problem." He circled my desk slowly. "They're still missing and the longer you wait, the farther away they and the chances of you ever even seeing them get slimmer."
"I will find them, Francis. Make no mistake." I stood up from my chair.
*****
Gwendolyn
Persephone managed to find some old timey baby carriages. Those ones that used way back when they didn't come with straps.
Yeah those.
When Miranda finally turned up four hours had passed.
"Miranda, you ok?" I asked.
She shook. "Would it be too much to ask for a hug?"
I wrapped my arms around her. "Of course not."
She sniffled. "You remind me of Natalia."
"Who's Natalia?" Serena asked.
She let go off me and I stripped the blanket off of Serena's bed.
"Natalia was my older sister. We came here together but she usually shielded me from all of it."
"What happened to her?" I asked, wrapping the blanket around Aliyah and placing her in one of the carriages.
"Some guy shot her because she was a double agent." She said blatantly. "Not long before you came here."
I took the blanket from my bed and swaddled Xander before putting him in a carriage. "What did you say to Marquis?"
"When?" She asked avoiding my eye.
"When you were arguing just now." I said. "I know you said something about his sister."
"It was nothing for you to worry about." Miranda said and the door slammed open.
Catalina and Macy stepped into the room. Their hair is a bright yellow today.
"You two look ridiculous." I said, shielding my babies from their beady, little eyes.
Catalina rolled her eyes and glared openly at Miranda.
"Marquis said that we have to be in the same van, so we can take turns with the babies." Macy said.
"Their not toys and if you don't wanna lose every single one of your fingers I suggest you don't test me." I folded my arms.
"Whatever." Catalina rolled her eyes.
Miranda sniffed loudly, like she could smell something foul. "Do I smell a bitch?"
Catalina's glare became white hot. "I don't know but It sure does smell like a skank in here."
"Hey. Calm down airhead." I stood between the two of them. "There are children present."
The door slid open again another woman stepped into the room.
"Let's just have a party why don't we." I said sarcastically.
"Master wants to see the both of you. He mentioned a special treatment." She spoke quietly and could barely be heard through the hijab she was wearing.
It covered everything but her eyes.
Catalina scoffed but followed her sister out of the room none the less.
The woman watched them go and then put her ear up to the door until their footsteps faded.
She turned back to us and whipped off the hijab, shaking out her tangerine curls. "Oh my gosh. It's hot under there."
"Ivana." Miranda greeted her.
"Miranda, Gwendolyn." She nodded at each of us.
"About time. So how are we getting out of here?" I asked, ready to go.
"Oh we're not. Not today anyway. My job was to find you." She explained. "They weren't keeping you in the same place that I often work as a two-faced maid, so I had to find out all the rest of their locations. We're going to torch all of them."
"Aww. Baby's first fireworks." I said.
"Besides, I love a good gun show every once in a while." Ivana said. "Xavier's even given Miranda special permission to shoot, but not kill, a certain pair of airheads."
"Why not? They snitched on my sister!" Miranda demanded.
"Their Father is one of the three branches that Wells corporation was built off of. Kill his daughters, we lose his support. Therefore all of the merchandize he has provided such as computer for every cubicle. If you just shoot them, but not kill them, we can say they got caught in the crossfire."
"Would that even work?" Miranda scoffed.
"Maybe. Maybe not." Ivana said. "Now I don't have much time so it'll take us at least a month to set all the bombs and know when to set them off. We're blowing up this one in twenty-four hours."
"A month?!" I asked. "Why couldn't we have just left now?"
"Because he wants to end this forever." Miranda supplied.
"Precisely." Ivana said. "So the longest you'll be here is maybe two and half months."
"No." I flopped down on the bed. "You don't know what could happen in all that time."
"Marquis will have nowhere to go but in the open. Once he's exposed we surround him and aim to kill." Ivana said.
Serena cleared her throat.
"Oh yeah. Ivana, Serena. Serena, Ivana." I introduced the two of them.
"Hello." Serena said politely.
Ivava gave her a nod in response. "I know who she is. Xavier gave her a job too."
"So everyone gets a job except me?" I asked.
"He told me to tell you, be safe, he loves you, can't wait to see you and so forth." She rolled her eyes. "Now, I want to see the babies."
I moved aside and she peered into the carriages. "So?"
"They're cute." She said. "You and Xavier mixed together make some good offspring."
"Thank you, I guess."
She stepped away from the strollers and started to wrap the hijab around her head. "Well, it was nice to see and meet all of you But I have to go plant a bomb before they find that guy strapped to tree in the backyard."
She smiled before disappearing out the door.
Seconds later an alarm went off and two henchmen burst into the room breathing heavily.
One of them spoke into a walkie-talkie. "They're still here."
Marquis's voice responded. "Bring them out to the van. We've been compromised."
"Yes sir." The guy said and nodded to his partner.
The guy pointed his gun.
Miranda nodded towards him and I looked closer.
I looked back at her and nodded. "Miranda you wanna help me with these strollers?"
She grabbed Xander's stroller, pushing it out the door first. I nudged Serena to follow and she took Aliyah's carriage.
"Alright let's go." The last guy rushed me.
I stepped closer to him and brushed my hands across his chest. "I know we just met but I have to say, you are handsome."
"Thank you now get moving." He said.
I whispered in his ear, touching various parts of him. Picking his pockets.
"As much as I'd love that I should inform you that I'm gay." He pushed me away and shoved me out the door.
"Hey now. She just gave birth, show a little respect." Miranda said.
I walked slowly behind her and when they weren't looking I slipped a letter opener into her hand.
She and I switched places and she broke off from the group with the excuse that she had to use the bathroom.
We boarded the van and she joined us at the last second. The carriages were placed in between us in the windowless van but we could still see each other.
I tilted my head as if asking a question and she nodded.
It's done.
*****
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