TRIGGER WARNING - GORE POTRAYED, MURDER, SOME WORDS, TORTURE MENTIONED, SUICIDE MENTIONED.
ADRIAN POV
(still in fast forward)
We found her.
We looked for long enough to give up but we didn't actually give up.
We were just tired and keeping hope was becoming vain and disappointing fast, so what did we do?
We continued looking without expectations because we could neither give up nor try harder since there was no hope but there was lots of guilt.
But now, my brother says we found her, I don't know how to feel because it feels like my world that stopped when she was gone started running again, I felt like I could breathe again but the breathing came out strained because I was scared of all of this sudden hope being a lie.
Aren't we all scared of lies, lying to others is easy but lying to ourselves through hope, not so much.
Hope.
Funny word.
Forget hope I need to pray and pray that what Lorenzo said is not a lie and even if we found someone similar to her we can only confirm through a test.
That test will decide if my brother's and I will go back to being walking dead men or maybe just maybe, men with a job to guard our princess for the rest of her life because even if we die early we'll still find a way to protect her even in our demise till the end of her life.
ROYCE POV
(Flashback)
(Let's rewind a bit)
My head was spinning but I needed to make a call quickly.
When my officer said we possibly breached into something we weren't even supposed to talk about I was scared but this little girl who is currently outside my office, a harmless little girl could be the one thing that could cause the wrath of the not-to-be-spoken-about family, which I'm not keen on letting happen so I need to confirm something and then make a call that might or might not save my life.
I quickly call my most efficient trusted officer who also happens to be my brother in law.
He's here in seconds as expected.
"Yes Sir?"
"I need you to search on the missing princess of the Vinci Family"
"But Sir"
"I know, I'm not asking you to breach into their system, that would be suicide and your blood on my hands would lead to my blood on the hands of my wife, your sister.
So do not worry I'm not hinting at death but I'm asking you to search up some articles that haven't been deleted or burnt possibly yet and please make it fast, our lives are on the line as we speak"
"Y-yes Sir" he runs out.
I'm waiting in the office with a lot of thoughts running on my mind both positive and negative, maybe that's why people say being left alone or spending time with oneself can be both good and bad in different ways during certain situations.
Knowing it's gonna take a lot of time for him to be back with any information possible, I decided to head down to grab coffee.
Something I didn't like when I first tried it but now I can't go about a day without it. It's not a need, it's more of a must now.
I have to drink coffee everyday to stay mentally sane.
I think a lot of people would relate to this and a lot of other insane people need coffee like my wife but she stopped drinking because she's trying to be 'healthy'.
Who said coffee is not healthy? Whoever that is should be arrested and possibly executed.
I know I'm exaggerating.
But now you know how much I love coffee and need it.
I drink a whole cup in seconds and when thinking about getting more, I get a call.
It's from Shawn, my brother in law.
Instead of picking up, I text him saying 'i'm out for coffee I'll be there in a minute' and tuck my phone back into my pocket and get up but then decide I might need another cup to actually keep me from doing anything stupid today.
So I order for another cup, pay, drink it in seconds and leave.
When I reach my office, there is no-one, but some papers are on my desk and just as I am about to pick them up, Shawn walks in.
"So?" He says probably assuming I read them. "I just arrived didn't read them yet" "Oh okay"
After glancing through them I feel my head spinning for some reason.
It definitely wasn't the coffee.
I mean I only had two cups.
That's normal for me.
"Are you ok?"
"yes, I am just need a minute" I say sitting down
"why don't I just explain it for you quickly"
"why didn't you do that first?" "well…"
"ok ok start"
"So first off we all know what they are actually into right?"
"As in?"
"As in, how they actually make most of their money"
"Oh yes of course, you mean illegally" 'but sadly we can't do anything about it, not that I want to, but I did want to in the past and failed miserably' I mutter to myself.
"What?" "Nothing, you may continue"
"So their most earning businesses that were booming and doing excellently well had suddenly been stopped a few years ago"
"Officer, can you get to the point…" I was seemingly confused.
Everyone was still scared of them and they still are very rich, the only difference is there hasn't been many reports on them if not at all but we all know why that is.
The last time a report was filed and an officer actually decided to take it up, the officer was found dead in his apartment along with photos and a video, audio and documented proof on how the officer used to torture his wife that led to her killing herself.
That scumbag deserved to die, but the person who had filed the report was even worse, he was killed and his body was chopped into pieces and scattered as a trail from the front door of his house to his room where a small door led to a room full of pictures of women from minors of ages 12 to older women up to the age of 50.
As if that wasn't disgusting of both the dirtbags, they had made a deal on using the money they get after trying to bring down the Vinci's for bad disgusting things like opening a brothel just to torture the women who join, there was a whole contract found in the officers nightstand.
Ugh.
Keyword being trying.
Since they end up dead.
No sympathy for jerks like that.
None to give.
(Back to conversation)
"Yes Sir, these said businesses were stopped exactly when the wife and mother of the five boys disappeared but the catch was the family's first female child for generations and only daughter to the couple of already five boys went missing as well"
'Oh dear lord' was my first thought.
Now, somehow it all made sense.
"So they do have a missing princess?" "Yes, Sir"
"But why did they stop the businesses when their mother and sister went missing, there was no reason to, it doesn't add up"
"That we do not know sir, only they can answer your question"
"Very well, thank you officer, you may leave"
"Yes Sir" he says and walks out of my office leaving me to my thoughts again.
I have a hell lot of questions and no answers, but now I need to wait for my final result of confirmation.
I had already sent some hair of the child to the DNA office and now I need to just wait for the results.
All of this for what? is probably the question you want the answer to.
Well at first the child I found seemed normal, a kid who escaped an abusive home, scratch that I mean the home of dirty criminals.
Just a little girl saved, I'm proud yes even though I practically coincidentally saved her but you get what I mean.
But then something happened, it was only for a second but I made eye contact and it felt like that one scene from years ago started playing in my head, I thought maybe I'm just remembering it because well that's how trauma works right. It hits you in the head at wrong times and no matter how strong you are it will come back and show you how pathetic and stupid you are or were, whatever.
But I made eye contact again and tried to smile because yet again the same scene played again, this time a longer version of it as if the shorter version wasn't bad enough.
So, how is this connected to that family?
The answer lies with them.
All I know is it was last year, when a huge war was going to happen between two underworld families.
Now what I mean by that, you must know underworld means well illegal stuff, wrong things, bad things, criminals, all those kinda people and creatures, almost like from another dimension because we think aliens or ghosts are from another dimension what we don't realize is humans that don't follow the rules or more like the rules don't apply to them, their not scared of death so naturally rules don't play of much importance to them, their all creatures from another side of the world, we can't enter even though we know the way, creatures who can destroy human existence but they need innocent or common humans like us for entertainment and so they keep us, to play with us.
They like seeing us running around trying to prove they are the reason of a murder or death of anyone while they sit in their dark homes laughing at us running around like headless chicken. Were just chickens to them but we should be thankful they don't feel the urge to eat us.
Done with the blabbering yes.
So where was I? Uhm so this family has a secret.
I don't know the secret, even the tiniest bit but I do know that this secret is what caused one family out of the two families to be wiped off the face of the planet, their entire bloodline.
Everyone knows who wiped them out but we don't know how or why and we don't have proof so we're stuck here, while they still flourish in their power. They have been pretty quiet for sometime or maybe it's us who have given up on trying to get any dirt on them after failing every single time.
One of our greatest officers known for holding captive so many horrible creatures tried and tried and now he's way too old, retired waiting for death.
And now I shall wait for the long due DNA results.
The only thing I can do now is help the girl and in the process save myself.