TW : Violent.
That morning, Ashley and Kevin was invited for a breakfast in a hotel room with Nathan who was knows as Matthew before. They were sleeping at a hotel and given a change of clothes by the man.
"Please have a joyful breakfast before we're going to meet the President." Said Nathan. He looked different wearing a black suit and slick back hair. Usually he parted his hair side partly and looked neat.
Ashley and Kevin looked at each other. They were reluctant to eat because they were hold as hostages by the enemy. Kevin eat first as he was hungry. Ashley sit quitely and watched them eat.
Nathan stopped chewing. He felt Ashley was looking at him through.
"I know how you felt about me. You want to kill me right now." Nathan took a butter knife and hold it in his hand. He looked at Ashley in the eyes.
"Give me the command and I will stab my eyes immediately." Said Nathan without hesitant.
Ashley clenched her fist. She has never kill a people in her life before. Nathan would be the first one. She tried to. She wanted to. Despite her feeling towards Nathan, she felt sad that she does not want to continue to kill him.
"You can't?" Asked Nathan. Kevin just looked at them silently.
"You shouldn't have a feeling towards me." Said Nathan.
"My feeling to you is only hatred." Ashley replied.
"Then why you'd stop?" Asked Nathan. He scoffs. He sipped the cup of coffee after feeling relieved.
"Pitiful.." Said Ashley.
"Huh? Can you speak up Princess? I can't hear you."
"You are pitiful.. You are not worth dying. You should be living with feeling pitiful." Ashley said in a mono tone.
It made Nathan stopped and looked at her. Her face, her sharp word, her expression were not far from Mr President's attitude. They are high rank that has never feel of failing and pitiful. They are just the same.
"You and Mr President are the same kind. People like you will never understand. Using powers to kill and destroy other people's life. And people like me has to clean up the mess that you did." Nathan let out his thought.
"People like you are just a puppet to him. He won't recognized you. You are just a tool. He can throw you away anytime." Ashley throw a fire into fuel.
"It has been nice talking to you Princess. If you excuse me, I have to go first." Nathan stand up and turned away.
"A tool is only a tool and licking the boot first before crawling up to the top. Right tool?" Asked Ashley.
That's it. This kid never learn. Nathan got mad and walked towards Ashley. He grabbed her by the neck and tried to strangle her. Kevin got shocked and almost run away but he was stopped by the guard beside him.
"You and your family should have died instead of mine!!!" Nathan's eyes is full with desire to kill. Ashley kept her stance still and pulled Nathan's hands to stop from strangling her.
"Sadness." Ashley looked into his eyes.
"You are just a helpless kid back then. You can't even fight. You let them die. You blamed me and my family? Pitiful. That's why you shouldn't have licked my grandfather's shoes in the first place." Ashley read his history through his mind.
Nathan gasped. He yelled out hard at Ashley and his neck vein almost popped out. His eyes were red and couldn't contain his tears anymore. He felt down on the ground puking. Hating his old self. Feeling helpless. Even though Tedius Moon has killed all of his family, he still worked under him to serve him for all his life.
Ashley's hollow expression made her unregrettable. She kneeled down and faced Nathan. He looked so fear.
"Your family must feel grateful for you being alive and find a justice for their death. But you went to your family's killer side. Will they still feel grateful for you being alive now?" Asked Ashley.
Their eyes locked. Ashley read almost everything that Nathan's want to say, what he feel, what his thought. Ashley also read his thought about the plan for today. How he will kill her. She understand that it was a part of the plan. And suddenly she read that Nathan was not conscious all the thing he did was never going to pay his family a justice.
Ashley patted his shoulder.
"You have come along this far for your family.. Then that it is enough reason for you to kill me. If you felt satisfied after killing me and pay justice to you family, then, please let my father and brother go.." Ashley took a knife on the table and put it in Nathan's hand, asking Nathan to kill her.
"Ashley, no.." Kevin cried. He didn't know how to stop Ashley and Nathan anymore.
"It's okay. Just like you said, there can never be a happy ending in every story right?" Ashley smiled. She looked tired.
Nathan couldn't even hold the knife properly. He wants to stab her but he can't. He felt like Ashley just saved him from his miserable mind. She made him realized of all the thing he couldn't express out. He never felt so ease and calm. As much as he wants to get his revenge done, he didn't have a courage to kill Ashley because he feel like he needs her.
Nathan throws away the knife and hugged Ashley tightly.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!! Forgive me!" Nathan cried so hard that he sobbed. He almost squeezed the little girl into his arms because he does not want to lose her. Ashley didn't push him away and just smiled and patted on his back before lost her consciousness. Kevin stayed quiet and cried in his seat, he didn't know what to do because he doesn't know what Nathan will do to him and Ashley.
Nathan carried Ashley and put her on the sofa. He caressed Ashley's hair and fixed her uniform collar.
"Hey Kevin," Nathan called.
"Y..Yes.." Kevin stuttered in his cry.
"Do you want to live?" Asked Nathan.
"Yes... I-I do.." Kevin nodded earnestly. Nathan smiled. He looked calm but no one know what was he thinking that time.