"Eveyln!" Slaine ran after him, "Evelyn! EVEYLN! STOP RIGHT THERE!" Slaine grabbed his arm and slammed him on the wall, "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BULLSHIT!" Slaine glared into Eveyln's eyes as he held his collar, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

"EVERYTHING!" Evelyn shouted back and that got Slaine, "Everything dad." I have been so alone and confused since these past few weeks. At school, I'm bullied, because I can't read. My powers run out of control and people think I'm disgusting. My teachers hit me, my classmates hit me and now you're hitting me, dad. This is not what I came to you for, dad!" He shouted and Slaine let his collar go. He pressed his hands over his eyes as teardrops rolled down his cheeks,

"All you ever care about is what other people about me. You never ask me if it's true, you just go all ham at me. Maybe I am insane for wanting you for just me, not that bitch Asselyum, no one, but just you and me. Was it too much to ask for, dad? Is my soul too dark for you? This version of me wasn't built overnight. This is experience. This is pain. This is insecurities. This is abuse. This is depression. I had to go through things to get to the level that I am right now. But you ignored it all.

And you knew what you were doing, you knew it would hurt me! But somehow that didn't make you stop. And this hurt, this pain, is the worst, dad. I'm in pain, dad," He cried and shrieked, "And this pain is the worst because now I'm getting hurt by a person who I explained my pain to. You emotionally destroyed me, dad!" He cried and cried and cried. Slaine looked down as his feet as guilt sat over his head and made it heavy. Evelyn's fingers slowly went down his clothes as he fell on his knees,

"Dad, how could you do this to me?" He cried, "I just fucking hate you. I hate you because, for the rest of my life, I'll just be left to wonder why I was never good enough. I was always there for you, always, not her dad, not Asselyum but I, I was there through everything, and what did you do in return?" He looked up at him, "You chose her..." He whispered, "I let you in and you COMPLETELY DESTROYED ME!"

He grabbed Slaine's collar and slammed him on the wall. Slaine looked into his brown eyes, "IF I TREATED YOU THE WAY YOU TREAT ME, YOU WOULD HATE ME!" Slaine looked at his hair, they were drying up, his fingers weren't wet anymore either, he seemed about as tall as him, "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I'M FEELING!" His voice was heavier than before. His fingers seemed longer, he hadn't looked at him properly for a while. He had grown up.

"I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE! FUCK OFF, FUCK YOU! I'M DONE WITH YOUR BULLSHIT! I'M LEAVING YOU AND GOING BACK TO KELGESTER! NOT BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA HURT YOU BUT BECAUSE I AM SICK OF GETTING HURT BY YOU!"
Slaine reached his hands towards Evelyn's face, "I am sorry,"

"And I suppose that is all you have to say?"
"I am not good at words," Slaine said.
Evelyn looked at him, "Goodbye dad,"

And so he left, leaving Slaine behind in that narrow street to lament all by himself, in the dark.
'I hate you!'

"What have I done?" He pressed his temples.

'I just fucking hate you!'

. . .

Jimmy and Axel sat on two chairs, tied up to the chair and facing each other. X stood behind Jimmy and looked at Axel, "I've heard you're good with machines, can you fix a time machine? I heard you have done that once,"

"I did that cuz Ben asked me to," Axel said.
"Well, this time I ask you,"
"Why do you want to fix it?"

"Because I have a planet to destroy, Kelgester,"
Axel looked at him with his eyes wide open, "Are you crazy?!"
"You'll help me with it, right?"

"I refuse," Axel said. A man dressed in black opened a suitcase in front of him filled with gold bricks, "Will this do?"

"I don't put my worth down to a price. You might as well take that a shove it in your ass," Axel said.
X looked at Axel and then at Jimmy, "Did you hear what he just said to me?" A man brought a huge box driven by wheels, filled with Lamprey fishes towards him.

(Note: Lamprey is an eel-like aquatic jawless vertebrate that has a sucker mouth with horny teeth and a rasping tongue. The adult is often parasitic)

Jimmy's round blue eyes turned towards the box, "Your friend there has a chance to save you from this, ask him to help you, you know," X said as he picked up a Lamprey.

"Jimmy!" Axel looked at Jimmy and then glared at X, "You asshole! What the hell do you want?!"
"Fix the machine,"
"And get everyone fucked? No!"

"Oh well then," He loosened his grip and the fish slipped through his hands and fell on Jimmy's shoulder. It slowly wrapped itself around his neck like a snake and using its rows of teeth and tongue, it grinded into the skin on back, drawing out blood and other fluids.

He groaned in pain and clenched his eyes tightly.
"Jimmy!" Axel shouted.
"What do you say now?" X asked.
"Fuck you!" Axel roared.
X smirked and took about another Lamprey from the box.

"I will ask again, Axel,"
Axel looked at Jimmy, "No,"
And he left the fish on him again. Soon, there were eight such Lamprey on Jimmy's body. Axel looked at Jimmy. His blood dripping on the floor, his eyes turning red from holding his tears back.

"Jimmy..."
"I can still go on," Jimmy said.
"But I can't," Axel said and looked at X, "I'll do it, let him go,"
"Excellent," X smiled and left the room. Soon, the ropes surrounding Axel moved back into the chair and he ran towards Jimmy.

"Jimmy!" He pulled the parasites out of his skin. He shivered in pain, "Why did you do that? It's Ben's pla–"
"Shush. We will figure something out for that," Axel said as he pulled out another one of those Lampreys.

"FUCK! THIS HURTS!" Jimmy shrieked.
"Just six more, okay? Oh my God, you're bleeding so much..."
Jimmy looked at the ceiling as fog left his mouth, "I wish Lupin was here right now,"

.

Lupin lay on a warm, cozy and fluffy bed. Slowly, he felt gentle dawn light on his face. His long white eyelashes matched his white hair. His cheeks were red, his breathing was calm and regular. Veronique touched his pale and puckered lips and he opened his eyes.

"Veronique?" It was morning. He had just woke up. His voice was rough. He rubbed his eyes and slowly got up as she continued looking at him.

"What are you looking at?" He asked.
"I wonder what I look like in your eyes?"
He leaned his face closer to hers as she lay on the bed, "Overthinker," He blowed air on his forehead and smiled. He got up while she just lay there, staring at the ceiling, "Now then, where is my jeans? And get up, we got Ben to take care of,"

"Yes!" She got up.
"Veronique,"
"Yes?" She looked at him.
"I also need all the evidence to prove that Ben had been captured and tortured."
"I can get the tapes from the laboratory cameras,"

"Great,"
"Lupin,"
"Yes?" He looked at her. She took his hand and slipped a ring into finger.

"After this," She looked at him, "Can we please just run away from here? X will kill me if he knows about this,"

'Oh God no...'
He smiled, "Of course,"
'Fuck, now I'm stuck.'

She smiled back at him and held out her hand which already had a ring in it.

'This woman will have it hard.
I just hope I don't break all of her.'
"Let's go,"

Veronique went inside the laboratory with Lupin, "You get him, I'll get the camera hard disks,"
"Okay,"

She opened the glass chamber, all the electrolytes liquid drained out and he fell down. Lupin removed the wires from his body and held him into his arms. He was unconscious and light like a bird's skeleton. She got all the tapes and made her run towards the car where Lupin was already waiting for her with Ben laying on the back seat.

"Take him to the tower room, I'll be right back,"
"Alright," Lupin said and took Ben away. He laid him on the bed and checked his vitals, he was alive, just starving. Lupin gave him some liquid nutrients and patched up some minor injuries. Then, he warmed his feet.

Veronique walked into X's room. He wasn't there. He was busy with Axel and Jimmy downstairs. She opened the safe and looked at all the gold inside. She picked out a gold suitcase and filled it up with the gold and money. She took away all the files of X's past criminal records and stuffed them in too. On her way back, she stole the car keys and ran down.

She reached the parking lot and started the car. Off she went with her blonde hair waving in the wind, leaving her dirty past behind and excited to start a new life with the one she truly loved.

"I'm sorry, X, but us traitors, we never win," She smirked as she flew into the dark sky with the flying car. The sunrise welcomed her freedom in all its glory. It was a new day.

It was Loan's coronation. Everyone had been waiting for it, the good, the bad and the evil.

She reached the tower room and threw the bag at Lupin. He opened it and saw all the gold, the future currency and those files. He looked at her and she hugged him, "We won," She smiled.
"Not before I give all these tapes to Andreas tomorrow,"

"Alright,"
"Why all the money though?"
"So that you don't work," She smiled.
He laughed, "I love working so don't worry about that. You should go freshen up,"

"Yes, I'll take a bath," She smiled. Lupin worked on Ben's wounds while she removed her human suit and sat inside her bathtub. She poured some body wash on her arms and rubbed them gently and saw they began shedding their colour. The water turned purple and she got up.

"No way..." She smiled, "I'm pregnant!"

-To be continued

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