"We have to go"
This was the third time he's said this. I was starting to get very annoyed, very quick. If he was serious about leaving, he would've packed our shit and left already. But no, he kept walking towards the window, pulling the curtains aside while holding a gun to his side, just to turn right around and repeat his statement.
On his fourth round I raised my hand
"If you say it again I might try to stab you" I threatened with wide eyes. If it wasn't for his glare I would've thought he was ignoring me.
"I'm not kidding, Emma. If they find us, the only thing they'll leave behind is gonna be our teeth on the
nightstand" he mumbled and I gagged.
"Wanna be any more descriptive?" I replied before standing up from the bed and coming around and touching Lucifer's arm.
He turned his head towards me, a dark look in his eyes. I sensed the tension by just one look, plus the tension in his body was as obvious as it could get. I wanted to smooth the wrinkles on his forehead or tell him it would all be okay, but I couldn't lie. Not when I didn't know what was gonna happen. We were running for our lives, literally. One second we could be okay, the next we had a bullet in our foreheads and I would leave my sister an orphan. I had to get to her and soon.
"You wanna leave but wont move from here" I mumbled and Lucifer sighed, his eyes wandering down to where my fingers were touching his skin.
I instantly removed my fingers from him as he looked like he was bothered by it.
He caught my small fingers in his hand, and pulled me against him, and a small gasp escaped my lips. Only mere inches between us. I couldn't help but raise my eyes to his, and as short as I was, he had no issues holding my body against his tall figure, making me feel weak and tiny.
"Like it or not, you're my responsibility now. I took that task when I went against my boss" he murmured, and his breath tickled my lips. I swallowed, hard, and my eyes lowered to his lips.
"Don't do that" he said then and my heart jumped.
"Don't do what?" I asked quietly, still trying to tear my gaze from his lips.
"Don't stare at me like you're begging for me to tear your clothes off... cause I will" he said, and my eyes met his quickly.
Did he say what I think he just said?
A warm sensation went down my body and I pressed my legs together, trying to keep my composure. I raised my hand and cupped his cheek, an evil smile on my lips.
"What if I do want you to do just that?" I asked in a whisper and Lucifer groaned under his breath. Then he pressed me incredibly close to his body with a quick jerk that forced a gasp from me.
"Emma, you're playing with fire" he whispered against my ear and the warm breath tickled my earlobe, sending electricity down my spine.
"What if I like fire, huh?" I whispered back. Two could pay this game, and although he may have the pants her, you needed two to tango, right?
"If that's the case, then carry on. But don't back out...cause it'll burn, but baby I promise you, when I'm done with you, you'll be weak in my arms" he said, his lips getting closer and closer.
I pulled him down and his lips crushed mine instantly. The electricity returned, and his mouth took over, kissing me so deep that it literally made me puddle in his arms. My legs were weak, but Lucifer had no problem holding me up as his hand cupped the nape of my neck to press me against him. My hands skimmed down his body, my fingertips touching his scalding skin.
His skin was on fire, and so was mine. Once again, the fire engulfed me and took over my body, wanting his body against mine, his mouth on mine, clawing for more and more.
Lucifer's lips slipped to my neck and a moan left my lips, which I quickly muffled by biting my lower lip.
Then a phone started ringing and he froze.
We both did.
"Luc- "
"Shh!"
I clamped my mouth shut and I opened my eyes. He was scanning the room, trying to figure out where the noise was coming from.
"That's your phone" I mumbled. Lucifer got his arms off me and stepped aside, trying to get to the bed.
"No, it isn't" he responded, rummaging round the room.
"What the hell do you mean its not yours? I don't have phone" I said nervously, closing my hands in a fist.
Lucifer looked over where I was standing, his eyes slightly wide
"I left my phone behind, Emma" he said. I wasn't quite grasping what he was trying to say but he seemed pretty alarmed with this
"Okay then you just forgot you brought it along- "
"No Emma! I didn't bring it for a reason! It's traceable!" he shouted, tossing pillows and blankets on the floor. I stayed quiet, my heart pounding as I watched him pull the duffel bag from the floor onto the bed, dumping the content on the bed. Three guns hit the bed and I widened my eyes
"What the fuck!"
Lucifer ignored me
A silver flip phone dropped on the bed mid ring.
Lucifer straightened up, realization all over his face
"No..."
I frowned, stepping closer to the bed we had shared last night.
"What?"
Lucifer snatched the phone from the bed and hit a button to answer the call before putting the speaker on his ear slowly, his eyes on mine.
I don't know what was said that had Lucifer frowning, tension rolling off him.
"Come get us then" he said after ten seconds holding the phone, then he dropped the phone on the floor and pulled his gun, aiming at the vicious device
"Lucifer-"
He shot his gun four times, the phone blowing up into million pieces.
Silence
"Pack up. We gotta go. Now"
~.~.~.~.
"Please"
"We can't, Emma, it's too dangerous. Please understand" he told me for what seemed like the fifth time.
We had been driving for an hour now and the more we drove the antsier I got. I didn't know where we were but I knew I needed to find a way to make sure my sister was okay. The thought was killing me.
"Where are we even going?" I asked quietly, turning my face towards the broken window. The wind was leaping at my hair, the chilly air freezing the tip of my nose in an oddly satisfying way. I never really liked winter, especially when I lived in a world where electricity was a luxury. But In the darkness of the night, the kind where I'd have to wrap my sister with three blankets and comb her hair till she fell asleep, a thought would always cross my mind.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
It was what kept me going. It was something that reminded me that this fight would end, that we would be okay. The night could only last for so long. That was from a song, I think the singer was Britt Nicole.
"Emma"
I blinked and turned my face to look at him. He was holding something out to me in his closed fist. I frowned and opened my palm.
He dropped the item quietly and turned his eyes back on the road
"Lucifer-"
"Just take it, Emma" he said in a grunt and I stared at the delicate gold necklace I once found in the room when he dropped it back at the house. The same opal necklace he had been so interested in getting back.
"This was my sister's, wasn't it?" I asked quietly, using my fingertip to touch the delicate opal teardrop there. Lucifer didn't answer, but I saw him clench his jaw. I knew that reaction. He didn't want tell me the complete truth, but I could put two and two together.
"You guys had something" I said it more like a statement than a question and Lucifer twisted his neck slightly, his eyes still on the road, but in silence.
"I can see whats happening here. Look how you get every time I mention my sister. But what I don't get is...who...how was she killed? Why?" I asked everything at the same time, like the words just kept spilling out. Lucifer's hand tightened on the steering wheel.
"You have to tell me. I can take it" I reminded him
Lucifer was very hesitant, I could see that. The tension rolled off him in waves but he was gonna have to talk to me at some point. I knew that I had stopped him from telling me anything else the night before, but I was ready to know.
"Yes. I...Mel and I were, well, together. If we can even call it that" he said and I turned my body towards him.
"It's called dating" I said with a raised eyebrow, but he chuckled humorlessly.
"I don't think gang members use the term 'dating'. But I guess you're right. Anyways, I had been in and out of foster homes my whole life, until I ran away. I was seventeen I think. Young and stupid, got involved in this business real fast, and before I knew it I was earning my place within the Sin Disciples-"
"What the fuck is that?" I interrupted, and Lucifer glared at me from the corner of his eye
"What the fuck do you think it is?" he said back, and I scoffed but ignored him. Fuck you too.
"Y'all a bunch of walking petty puns, aren't ya?"I mumbled. Lucifer ignored me.
"When the group was taken over The Boss, he brought Mel with him. She was eighteen-"
"Two years ago?" I cut him off
"If you interrupt me one more time I-"
"Fine, fine!" I threw my hands in the air slightly and clamped my mouth shut. Lucifer sighed and kept his eyes on the road. Something told me he was glad he didn't have to look at me in the eye.
"You're her copy, it's unbelievable. Aside from the fact she had shoulder length hair. She was one fierce fire cracker I had to teach how to behave. She was close to The Boss, he pretty much raised her after your father gave her away when she was a baby" he paused, and I kept my mouth shut. I couldn't, and wouldn't, believe my father had given my identical twin sister away as a baby to pay his drug debt.
This wasn't some twisted Beauty and The Beast mojo...
"Then she was killed"
He just said it like it was nothing. It sounded bittersweet coming from his mouth
"She was caught...selling information to another gang" he said it slowly and I saw the way he tightened his hands on the steering wheel. I swallowed for a second and looked down at my hands. I can't even imagine...
"Who killed her?" I finally asked and Lucifer sighed, like he knew the question was coming but was hoping I wouldn't.
When he didn't say anything I looked at him, expectant.
"Lucifer"
Silence.
"The Boss ordered me to kill her" he said and my eyes widened up
"What?"
"He was testing me. He told me I had to prove my loyalty to the cause. But I..."
"You killed my sister?" I asked breathlessly, and he turned his wide eyes to me
"Of course I didn't! I was in love with her, Emma-"
"So why would you-"
"If you would've let me finish my goddamn sentence" he said, glaring hard. I clamped my mouth shut.
"The Boss told me to kill her to prove my loyalty. I refused, so he took matters into his own fucking hands and shot herhimself" he finished, and I frowned. What? Okay now I was fucking confused. So The Boss raises her, and then orders to kill her? I shook my head, trying to get rid of the thoughts
"And what happened after?" I brought myself to ask. Lucifer shook his head quietly
"The Boss said he admired my...'courage' to say no to him, and that I had showed my loyalty to Mel, by not choosing to kill her.He said he needed that loyalty, so he twisted it and then made me the leader. As fucked up as it is, Mel's death gave me my spot. He gave me the very one thing I didn't want, costing Mel her life" he said quietly, and I couldn't help but feel nauseous at the thought.
How fucked up...
We fell into a deep silence, my eyes set on the gold necklace that had been my sister's once. Thousands of thoughts crossed my mind, Lucifer, my twin sister, The Boss. I haven't met the man yet and he seriously gave me the creeps. I've always tried to fix problems in my head, since I was young. I would bump into a situation where everything seemed to be completely lost, but my brain would work marvelous ideas and by the time the mini panic attack was ending in my brain, the solution would pop up and ta-da, problem solved.
I wasn't finding a fucking solution for this whole shit.
I was taking deep breaths, my hands opening and closing around my sister's necklace, but my brain seemed to have no activity.
"Take me to see my sister" I said, and I saw Lucifer turned his head towards me
"What?"
"My baby sister. Take me to see her" I said in a low voice.
"Emma, we already discussed-" I turned my body towards him so fast he jumped a little, but his hands stayed on the steering wheel.
"No! We didn't discuss shit! You decided, you said, you made the fucking decisions. I am not losing another sister. I need to make sure she is fine. So Take. Me. To. See her" I said slowly, my eyes wide, fist around the necklace on my lap.
Lucifer was quiet, jaw clenched, tight grip on the steering wheel. He seemed to think for a moment, his eyes looking around and I could almost see the smoke coming from his brain from the hard thinking.
Then he sighed. Deep.
"Fine. I'll take you to see her"
A smile broke out on my face, but Lucifer turned his head to me
"Wipe that smile. The only thing you're doing is putting your sister in danger" he said and I frowned
"I-"
"I'll take you to see her, but we have a small detour before that happens" he mumbled, stepping on the gas in time to make a u-turn.
"Where are we going?" I asked quietly, rubbing my sore arm. Lucifer clenched his jaw
"To find the son of a bitch that put the tracking phone in the bag"
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