~HAPPY BIRTHDAY~

Valarie was in a video call when she was interrupted by Roman bursting in her room with an angry expression. Looking up and rolled her eyes at him and looked back at her laptop.

"Oh it was nothing," she says into the headset going back to her notebook writing things down. "The neighbors here are so rude."

Roman folded his arms and sighed deeply pinching the bride of his nose then walking over, slamming her laptop shut. Yanking her own headset from off her head,  Valarie stands abruptly and glares strongly.

"What the hell is wrong with you damnit! I was in an important meeting! Do you have nothing better to do than annoy the hell out of me while I'm working? My life doesn't revolve around you Roman, I have a life outside of this house you know." She yelled pushing past him stomping off to her room

"Don't walk away from me." He said grabbing onto her arm. "You have been blowing off your training for the past week. I won't let you-"

"You won't let me?" she scoffs yanking her arm back. Valarie's hands slam against his face and finishes, "How dare you. I can do whatever I want, I am not your prisoner. You work for me, not the other way around. Touch me again and I swear...your balls will find themselves tied in a knot." Said Valaire shaking her head

Roman sighed and shut his eyes for a minute hearing her heels click on the wooden floors. "Wait."

Her footsteps stopped and turned to face him. Her eyes staring at him intensely with disapproval and annoyance. "What." Valarie asks folding her arms

Expecting an apology Valarie hears him say, "I gave you space because you wern't happy with me for some reason. Why are you still upset?" 

"You re referring to why I said I hate you I assume?" Valarie sort of questions

"No. I could care less the reason why Raqisa. I want to know why you are upset. The real reason, not a lie."

"That stupid name. I hate it so much," She begins brushing her hair out of the way. "I am not Raqisa I am Valarie. I am not some soldier but a person, Roman. I can't be a killer. I won't be a killer. I have been surrounded by death for far too long and to keep having that in my life because someone told me to...I don't even know why I agreed to it." Her voice began to crack as her eyes went to the ground. " I don't even know if I was in my right mind or what in the world made me say yes. Tell The Prime I said no. I won't kill someone because they told me to. I hate you because you are trying to make me like you. You want me to be a killer, you want me to leave behind my emotions like you did. My emotions have been the only thing keeping me from going back to the drunk girl." She begins to cry wiping her tears laughing a bit at how dumb she probably looked.

Walking to her room Valarie fell face first on her bed. She didn't want to think about training because she hated the idea that it would change her into someone she wasn't. Valarie didn't mean to waste Roman's time but he must have know how hard it was going to be for her considering everything that happened. Maybe Roman didn't know how deep the wound went or maybe...Valarie didn't realize how much the wound still hurt.

Wiping her tears away, Valrie picks up the phone to see a missed call from Damian and a text telling her to call him back ASAP.

"Hello?" she said waiting to hear his voice on the other line.

"Happy birthday my angel." He tells her making her spirits lift a bit due to the excitement.

"Wow. I almost forgot." Valaire said as the two shared a laugh. "I can't believe I almost forgot."

"How could you forget?" He asks rhetorically as she went silent over the phone.

"I uh...I don't know." She chuckles. "I just...I just have been very busy. I guess I wasn't mentally prepared to spend my birthday without my family that's all." She said rubbing her eyes to keep them from watering. "I never spent my birthday alone before."

"I did get you a gift. Maybe when you get back I could give it to you." Said Damian

"Aw." She grinned with a hand over her heart. "Thank you. I wasn't really expecting anything at all really."

"I'll give you a call later on. I am appearing at some museum my father invested in to cut the ribbon. I leave in thirty minutes."

"Oh. Well, you best get a move on. I'll talk to you later amante." she said then hung up

DAMIAN POV

"Wasn't I right," said Talia as he hung up the phone. Her arms crossed with that signature smirk. "Your precious Valaire has been lying to you. She's in Gotham."

"That proves nothing. She may have just been getting back and-"

"Don't be naive Damian." Talia spat "The proof is on the screen. But if that isn't enough, I have the league already heading there. Maybe you should go after them if you want to see her alive."

"What is wrong with you? Why is Valarie..." I was at loss for words. They were getting stuck in my throat and it was out of fear. "why do you want her dead? She is innocent why do-"

"I am doing it to protect you, Damian." Talia cut in stroking his face. "You will always be my son no matter what and I will do everything to keep you safe. Even if it means taking what you claim to be happiness."

"Go to hell." I spat pushing past her.

She was my happiness...Valaire was my happiness and I'd gladly go against my mother.

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