"So what's your story?"
Louis eyed you with slight worry from his perch on the edge of your bed despite Leos protests that your ankle needed rest, you had stood and demanded he sit were you could watch all of his movements. Who could blame you for not trusting you He had almost killed you with that damn dagger of his and had done a good number on your shoulder that you were non to pleased about.
"Why the hell are you in America and conveniently in the same place as those creepy ass Europeans?" you demanded of him after another moment of silence. He sighed you were one heck of a scary woman; he wondered how long Leon had been forced to put up with your demanding nature
"Get to talking before I kick you out the door and force you to fend for your self." You said threateningly He gave you a look that dared you to try it, You moved forward and Leon grabbed your arm in a strong grip as Ashley squeaked in weak protest apparently not licking the violent atmosphere of the room.
"I told him to spill, he better get to talking!" Leon sighed and glanced at Louis his gaze held something, you weren't sure what but Louis nodded and began to talk Leon let go of your arm and you leaned against the wall you bad leg up resting evenly on the wall to keep the pressure off it.
"It wasn't long after Leon left that I came across more of the Las Palagas, These critters were blowing up peoples heads and eating them from the inside out, I had been about to attack them when some well dressed man walked onto the scene, I stayed were I was and watched. He blew some sort a whistle and the Palagas began to writhe like they were in pain I watched a little longer and the man started backing away and the Palagas followed him. I followed and found out there were a bunch of these people rounding up the Palagas with these odd whistles..."
"Was it like a dog whistle or something?" Ashley asked you blinked and looked at the girl as if she had sprouted another head
"Oh quiet... I have to here this..." You said crossing your arms and nodding your head urging him to go on he nodded
"They loaded the Palagas on to several platforms I didn't understand what was going on until the Palagas were pushed into new hosts, conscious people most of them rather burly men a few of them were women though it was like they had run out of men..." he paused his eyes becoming distant You eyed him you knew that look, you had seen it on your father, a man who had seen something horrific but couldn't allow themselves to show the horror they had felt at the site.
"They screamed didn't they?" you asked he looked up at you surprised Leon and Ashley both looked at you confused
"The women probably cried begged for help... the men fought to get free only to fail while a few just resigned them selves to their fate only to panic at the last moment and scream from freedom...." Louis eyed you again this time more out of confusion then annoyance.
"I know something like that... I seen things, cops, even in Washington aren't pampered and safe from some of the world's horrors... you have my dads look, he didn't have that look till the day he saw my mother murdered." You explained, the Spaniard nodded
"I see, yes they screamed, even the men who had fought screamed. I can't begin to imagine they pain they had been in... After they were implanted with the Las Palagas they all went silent the people with the whistles blew again, an odd almost tune, it's difficult to describe, The Palagas followed them to several helicopters and they left... I made a guess were they were headed and was right, I was able to use my false passport from my days working for the police to get into the country quickly, my guess was right, they came here following you Signore Leon." He said evenly. You frowned leaving the three careful to hide your slight limp you pushed the door open to your own room and began digging thoughtfully through your dresser
"_____?" You looked up Seeing Leon standing at the door
"Ashley needs different cloths.... I got sidetracked..." you muttered as you dug through the cloths grabbing a black turtle neck and a pair of black jeans you tossed them on the bed, Leon was surprised when you kept digging
"Isn't this good?" he asked shutting the door behind him, you felt the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, you could just hear Louis and Ashley talking in the other room
"Those are for me, I can't fight Europeans in my party cloths..." you muttered absently then it hit and you grabbed the first shirt you could and hugged it tightly as if it were a teddy bear
"Oh god, this can't be happening! They have him, they have my dad, and He's all I have left. Las Palagas! Parasites! These things can't be real it's like something out of a horror movie, something that Hollywood makes up to make money, so why is it happening?!" you demanded Leon Watched you for a moment You could feel his eyes on you as you hugged the shirt you didn't notice his movements until his arms wrapped around your shoulders.
"You can be upset you know, you're allowed to be scared, do you have any idea how scared I was? I handled it but I was scared out of my wits, I was in so many situations were I could have died and no one would have stopped the Palagas or Krouzer, or saved Ashley... Thats why we have to keep a handle on our fear so we can save people." He said comfortingly you shivered
"I haven't broken down like this... since mother was killed..." you said softly you could feel a shift in the pressure of his jaw on your shoulder, he was nodding
"What happened?" he asked you smiled; he was trying to get you to forget about your fear by making you talk about something else... You were mildly grateful for it
"We used to live in New York, My dad was governor there, he loved his job and was doing what he could to lower crime rates and he was doing great." You smiled you could see it, kids playing safely mothers talking on porches as father sat inside watching sports or drinking their first beer of the afternoon, those good days
"Things kept going up we could see the happiness of the people, it was so tangible... but there were people who weren't happy with the crack down on violence, We were out shopping, despite being governor my dad didn't like to much conspicuous security he wanted me to live normally so when ever we went out just as a family, mom dad and child rather then the governors family we always went alone... that was our mistake, we were cornered on our way home They hid me behind them but when dad took a swing at one guy another came after me, they planned to kill all three of us... My mom got in his way and the man killed her..." you paused you could feel tears running down your cheeks, you had stilled, why were you saying all of this? Why couldn't you stop talking? He shifted his grip on you tightening encoring you to continue your story.
"My dad went really still, the man he was fighting with started laughing 'You wanted to stop violence in this city and you can't even save your family?' When he said that something in me snapped, I launched at the man who had killed my mother and bit his hand, I took a huge chunk out of it before he shook me off and through me into a wall... I had his knife though and thats what I had wanted, with out thinking about how much I had hurt, I attacked the first man, stabbing him in the stomach three times before he collapsed My dad and the other man had apparently watched because the other man ran at me screaming cause I had killed his friend my dad cloths lined him and he pinned him and I walked over... I..." you paused again
"What did you say to him?" Leon asked you frowned
"I told him he had no right, to get angry, they attacked us, he had killed my mother, and he deserved his death. I cut his face, I left to deep cut on his cheeks and one across his forehead and told him that they were to remember the three live lost, if he ever tried to remove the scars I would hunt him down and give him his partner's fate. He ran away after that and I passed out... I'm not sure how my dad saved me form being arrested, I think he used his influence I had to tell a lot of people what had happened, after that we left New York and came to Washington to ask for a favor from one of my fathers old friends. As it turns out there was work and my father rebuilt his reputation and is now, powerful again..." you trailed off what else was there to say you had ruined your fathers life when you had snapped, that all there was to it. Leon kept his grip on you and you couldn't help feeling safe in two powerfully warm arms.
"Y-you should let go now..." you said lowly almost hating you self for asking him to let go, but you had to, you couldn't get involved with anyone, and there was no way you would even consider getting involved with this bastard. Pushing him away you stood and grabbed another pair jeans you gathered the cloths you were going to wear and grabbed an slightly shocked Leon's collar opening the door separating the door rooms you bodily tossed him inside
"Men, always so touchy feely, Come on you, you're changing out of that dress." You said, Ashley squeaked and rushed into you room and you closed the door with a sharp snap.
"Change quickly." You snapped tossing her the cloths before turning you back on her and pulling out your earrings, setting the care fully on the bedside table you pulled off the scarf and tossed it across the bed, you top and bra soon joined it as you slipped on something with a little more support you herd as soft whimper you turned to see Ashley sitting on the floor still in her nice dress
"Oh great, what's your problem then?" you demanded, turning to her she shook her head
"I thought I was free of this, It's not fair this has to happen to me." She complained, you shook your head
"Life isn't fair thats the way things are youre his daughter, youre a target it's how the bad guys think, no get dressed, You going through target practice, we need as many good shooters as we can get, can you even shoot a gun?" you asked, Ashley shook her head and you sighed
"If we live through this, it'll be a miracle.." you muttered darkly.
No kidding -_-;
Whats gonning to happen next,
Preveiw
you can't stand how safe you felt in his arms so you try to escape your thoughts of leon my teaching Ashley how to shoot, good thing a couple targets just came knocking on your door huh?
