[Somewhere in Paris.]
Jake met up with Jack and his father.
"How was she on the ride over?"
"Not good."
"What do you mean?"
"She was slowly shutting everybody around her out."
"Chris told me she hardly responded to him when he was talking to her, on the way she really was quiet and didn't say anything, she just stared out of the window."
"So when we were 500 meter away from mom, I stopped the car and told her we could go back, but she said if she did then she would have lost everything and be a nameless rose."
"Well thanks to you and letting the dogs out she got better, and responded like normal."
"I told mom to let them stay with her during her stay."
During their lunch they gave their father a little crash course on how they met her, why she was suffering from PTSD, that she didn't trust anybody of the medical field, she was the big boss of a gang, had formed a sniper team with Jake's man and that he was absolutely forbidden from meddling in her love life. They also gave him all her addresses just in case.
He listen very carefully to his sons and understood some things about Jemisha.
"But why does she call me a thing?"
"I think the way you handled her triggered a memory of her former stepmother, or the vibe your gave off at that moment was similar to her stepmother."
"Well this is a guess, but before you and mom came out she said she had already lived in an abusive family and she doesn't want that again."
"Although she loves me and Jake, she is not willing to stay and be abused again in order to have us around her. She rather run while she still can."
"And don't think of testing her either, when she was at the Argenti the old fox send out a lot of attempts, even when she left, that fox still tried to take her life and two attempts almost costed her life."
Jack showed them the pictures of her graze wound from a sniper attack, then showed the footage of her brutal stab incident, and her last incident with Killian.
"Jesus Christ…" Richard was in total shock, he is a mercenary by traded but all the attacks were messy and just to savage.
While they were eating Jake got a message from Jemisha with a few picture.
Black Rose: Mom is the best, I really love her.
There was a picture of them cooking together and one where she hugged Jasmin and there was a picture of a gift she got from her, it were two Karambit knives.
Jake showed them the pictures.
Jack smiled. "Look at that happy face of our baby sister Rose, mom really won her heart."
"Now let's pray she can convince Rose for giving dad a chance to apologize."
As they were done eating they left the restaurant and went for some shopping.
Back at the villa where Jemisha was, the two women had a good time. She had talked about her complete past that she recently found out that she was actually the missing daughter of Harvey Argenti, but that she didn't want to go back there even if she had taken down her grandfather she just didn't want to go back there.
Jasmin understood that to her she was abandoned and no matter if it was out of the safety of her life, to her it was all the same.
Jasmin reassured her, that she was now a Conor and if she wanted to stay she would love nothing more if she did. But she did tell her not to turn her back on them either.
'Even thought you were discarded, I don't think you should give them the cold shoulder. I'm a parent myself so, cutting off your father and brother will surely be painful to them. So please do try to form a bond with at least them.'
'Don't worry, I told them I would love to have a bond with them, but I just don't want it be at the cost of my current family, I love Jake and Jack and I don't want to be separated from them, because I have been the happiest ever since they adopted me.'
'That's good.'
'Rose I know you currently don't acknowledge Richard as you father… well you don't acknowledge his existence, but he's truly is sorry about last night, he was even whining like a child this morning and want to stay till you arrived so he could apologize to you.'
'You're brother Jack already told him he should give you the time and space that you need, so he asked me to give this to you as an apology.'
She took the case from Jasmin and opened it.
Her eyes light up and she assembled her new sniper rifle in 20 seconds.
She looked at it and study the whole body of the sniper.
Jasmin giggled a little.
She hugged her new sniper rifle and Jasmin took a picture and send it to Jack.
Jasmin: What do you think? Does she like it?
Jack: Did she do a full body inspection?
Jasmin: She did, she look so intensely at the whole rifle.
Jack: That's a good sigh, it means she finds it beautiful and will shoot with it.
Jasmin: That's a relieve then, it's very hard to give somebody a rifle who is so picky.
Jake got a message from Jemisha and his eyes were wide of surprise.
Black Rose: Bring dad home right now.
Bullet: Alright baby Rose, we will be there in half an hour.
"Well dad you are summoned by your daughter." He showed him the message.
Jack saw it. "Wow that didn't take long, instead of being called a thing your now a dad." He said with a sarcastic tone.
They got in to the car and drove home.
When they arrived at the door Jake asked Jack. "Should we warn him?"
"Nah he should be fine, he has to learn and deal with it himself."
"Warn me about what?"
"Nothing dad."
Jack opened the door and Jemisha came running from the couch. Jake and Jack took a step to the side.
Jemisha pounced at Richard and made him fall backwards
Jasmin started laugh at the sight of her husband being topped over by her.
Richard didn't understand what just had happened and looked up and saw Jemisha on top of him nuzzling him.
"The highest form of affection you can receive from her, be happy dad."
She took his hand and put it on her head.
Jack started to laugh.
But Richard out of instinct started to pat hear head.
"I'm sorry Rose, I shouldn't have acted the way I did yesterday."
'Thank you for the rifle dad, I really like it, so you are forgiven.'
"Rose?"
'Hmm.'
"What do you think of a H-S Precision sniper rifle?"
'What the hell… who in the world wants to hold trash.'
Richard and Jack started to laugh.
Richard sat up again and asked. "How strong are you?"
'Uhm… if I really want to I can throw Jack over my shoulder with ease.'
"How accurate are your shots?"
'Pistol or sniper?'
"Both."
'Ask big brother Jake, he took a video of the last time I practice on the range.'
"Then have you been taught how to be a spotter?"
'I have, Jack should have a video of that.'
"Rose why can't you tell me yourself?"
'Well… that because I get in to a very high concentrated state, when I get in to my zone I forget everything that happens around me, but once I'm out of it I can't clearly remember what I have done.'
'But I also suffer from PTSD, and most of the time I do thing in my episodes.'
'Triggering me isn't that hard actually, certain scent can trigger me to throw up and sent me in to anxiety, certain behavior or words can trigger me to lash out, depending on the situation, I'm pruned to bite my time but then my aggressive episodes will be very explosive, Jack told me not to do that anymore because it's very dangerous for my mental health.'
"You said you could throw Jack over your shoulder, what sports do you practice?"
'Taekwondo and boxing.'
"What belt are you?"
'Black belt second Dan.'
"Last question, how many people have you killed."
'Directly or indirectly?'
"Both Rose."
'Do I also need to include people who were beaten half to death?'
"No."
'Let's see… I killed a man and in the woods with a piece of wood, but that was unintentionally and in self-defense, Then… no I shot him in leg and he survived. Then those two drivers in America, but they were indirectly, because James shot them.'
She was thinking really hard because there were to many attempts on her life and most of her kills she could hardly remember because she had her aggressive episodes.
'Oh I made a man stab himself, that's 4, then… I shot a psychopath at point blank, well the European King would count as indirectly so that's 6. Then there was that sniper in Australia who wreck my Arcty, I shot two during a meeting in Venezuela and one hot shot by one of my gang leaders that makes 10, Killian was killed by Loki so that is indirectly and that makes 11.'
'Don't ask me about the Serale family because I have no clue how many died indirectly.'
"Rose?"
'Yes dad?'
"Does it bother you, you had killed so many?"
'It does… because doesn't it make me just a murderer?'
"No it doesn't, while I think Jack already told you but you killed all those people because the attack you first, by how hard you were thinking it didn't seem you were either actively killing people or ordered by somebody."
"So you're not a murderer or a mercenary."
'Then I have a question dad.'
"And what's that princess."
'Let say I found two man that did terrible things, like human trafficking and reaping women. Let's say I found out and I shot them. Would you call that coldblooded or retribution killing.'
"Well princess, that would be seen as retribution, because the death of those two would have saved countless people who would otherwise fall victim to them."
"But from a social point of few people would be divided over something like that, while half of the people would think who cares good riddance, the other half would think it's just a murder and the shooter should be held accountable."
"But even if you did do that, then you should be proud of yourself, because at the end of the day you save countless life's at the cost of two."
Jemisha talk a lot with her new mother and father and after a while she got a text of from Chris.
Mouse: Rose, Marcelo called me and asked if you could meet him later tonight.
Black Rose: Is that the guy you had a scuffle with?
Mouse: That's him.
Black Rose: Uhm… I don't know if that is wise, I mean I did almost put a bullet through his head.
Mouse: He promised he would leave his gang members at home, it would be only you, me, him and his girl.
Black Rose: uhrg he is bringing a hooker… now I really don't want to go. Plus I don't trust what he is saying.
Mouse: Well he send me the meeting place, and you could set up your sniper team just in case.
Black Rose: ahh alright, but do tell him if he breaks his word there will be a bullet flying.
Mouse: Alright Rose.
Jake saw her expression change and knew something was up.
"Baby Rose, what's up?"
'We have to go back because there is somebody who want to meet with me.'
"Who?"
'Some guy called Marcelo, Chris seem to know him, but they didn't seem on good terms, I almost blew his brains out and cut his throat yesterday late afternoon.'
'Well I think I was under a semi episode…'
Jack looked at her. "What do you mean Rose?"
'Uhm well Chris told me to stay in the car, but I opened my window so I could sneak out without alarming the enemy by opening and closing the door. Then I just stayed inside the car just as Chris asked me to. When the scuffle started I kept a close eye on Chris… then I blacked out for a moment, then Marcelo's man arrived and drew their guns and pointed at me I turned him a round and would use him as a meat shield so they wouldn't fire at me.'
'Chris did try to tell them to put their guns down but after Marcelo said the same thing they finally put them away.'
'But when I noticed it was getting late, I threw my mouse at Chris took Marcelo's pistol and dismantled it and left the pieces on the ground.'
'I did thank him for taking care of our pressures and then we left.'
'But seriously Marcelo is an idiot for carrying his pistol on his back, that's way too easy to get stolen.'
They all heard her explanation and Jack patted her head. "So you snapped out of it on your own, that a good thing baby Rose. You are trying to not get ruled by your emotions."
She nodded.
'Well anxieties would be harder for me learn to control…'
"Princess, there is no rush in dealing with your PTSD, instead of forcing or trying so hard to get better, you do need to take your time. And anxieties are the most natural and raw form of human emotions. Well your fight/ flight response is a bit… let's just say you rather fight then flee that's for sure."
"Princess do you by chance remember your position of holding the knife and pistol."
'I do.'
"Show me."
Jemisha stood up and used Jake showing them and using her hands as a pistol and knife.
'Like this.'
She then turned Jake around and they were and she showed them where the pistol of Marcelo was and told them how she got it without him noticing she took it.
"You did well princess, by placing your foot next to the pistol, he would feel the pressure of your foot and the body will send signals to brain and will focus on that part and the person will not notice anything else."
Jemisha gave her new father and mother a hug and she hugged all the dog goodbye.
She left with Jake to go back to the hotel.
Jack stayed behind and showed him the footage of her sniping practice, and what she did on the beach.
"What the hell… this girl is a monster."
"She is so damn accurate, no person in the world could pull that off… all her bullets went through the same hole."
He replayed the video and saw that she had closed of everything around her. Her concentration was so high.
He then showed him what she did on the beach.
Richard was speaking out her hand signals "0.3 degrees left, 2 degrees up, hold, 1 degree down, 0.1 degree right, hold, wind speed light breeze, hold, fire."
"Son…"
"What is it dad?"
"You know she has already out done us."
"I know, but that means my teachings were good, and I'm so proud of her. The shot her boyfriend Chris took their wasn't easy."
"She had faith in him and was confident she wouldn't get hit."
"Oh there is one more thing to show you."
He showed him the footage Jake had taken when she rescued Iris.
'Did you noticed your sister did everything purely on instinct, it's clearly visible she had no training but she can move like that.'
'She is indeed very smart and can think on her feet and use whatever is around her.'
When they saw the last part of her running up to the man and pretended to be shot and played possum and then shot the man.
'Humm… the part from running up to the man till shooting him seems off, with the rest of what she was doing she acted on instinct and was pretty aware, after she saw the gun pointed at her… I would have to say she was triggered.'
"So that's what she meant she could be triggered easily."
Jack nodded.