Lucifer:

"Trained assassin."

Excuse me!

Repeat that shit one more time.

I guess everyone expressions are the exact same.

Shocked.

Because they both repeated it with terror still written in their eyes.

"Trained assassin."

"A fucking ninja?!" Gianni all but yells.

He came from my ball sacks?!

Of course he would say some shit like this.

Anyone want to adopt a child?

I'll give him to you for free.

Come get his ass.

I'll even pay for shipping.

I mentally roll my eyes. Only my son I swear.

"Anything else on her?" Renzo finally has his voice back.

"Still working on it." Vincent calls out.

"Actually, I might have something!" Leonardo says moments after.

"What is it?" Renzo questions his younger brother.

"Her name is Florence Rodrigues. Her aliases are Red Rose, Fallon Felipe, Onyx Martin, and Marie Romez." Leonardo starts to list off her names.

"What is she?!" Maximus questions

"Obviously a damn ninja!" Gianni retorts.

Seriously? I partially made this kid?

"She's part of the Spanish Mafia or well, is associated to them." Vincent answers. Completely ignoring his older brothers.

"Some more digging around I'll have more." Leonardo says.

"The Spanish Mafia? Aren't they in an alliance with us?" Matteo questions.

Renzo and I both nod our heads yes. Why would they have a hit out on my son for? That question is answered when Leonardo began to speak.

"Spanish Mafia is our alliance but it seems Ms. Florence has decided to make extra money by selling information to other mafias. She's been doing hits for other mafias as well. Meaning...."

"The Spanish Mafia has a fucking rat." Valentino replies.

The boys shake both their heads in agreement. She'll come back around in due time. Until then we'll play cat and mouse. I never lose my prey. Especially when someone is fucking with my family.

My children.

My son.

"Until then we wait for her to attack again. Keep on guard and keep watch. She'll strike again, however, she won't win." Nikolai says my unspoken thoughts.

Now this one, I damn sure can claim. Well, at this current moment. Other times, I didn't help make this one either.

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Gianni:

Lucian is now asleep in his bed; Delilah came in earlier with his round of medicine. The side effect is: drowsiness, dizziness, and zoning out. In other words my brother has the drowsiness side effect and so he's out like a light. Everyone but Alonzo, Maximus, Gemma, and I left the room. They all went to their respective rooms while we just sit and watch our brother sleep. Gems is in the window sill drawing under the moonlight with her ear piece in. She's lost in her own little world and it makes me wander. What going on in her little head? What is she listening to.? Has her music taste improved? Has she learned more artist? What is her favorite genre now? My mind drifts off to a memory of a few months back.

Everyone is seated in the main dining room about to have our lunch served. We sit in our ranks pretty much or what our ranks would be. Dad and Renzo are at the head of the table at both ends, Matteo sits next to the right side of Renzo while Valentino sits on the left. There's a empty seat next to Valentino. Nikolai is placed beside the empty seat and Julian is placed next to Matteo. Alonzo is placed next to Julian as Maximus is placed next to Nikolai. I was placed next to Alonzo and Lucian was placed next to Maximus. Vincent is placed by me and Leonardo is placed by Lucian. There's an empty seat on both sides of dad. Dads at one in because he's head of the household and the Ex Don. Renzo is at the other end because he's the current Don. Matteo is his second in command and Valentino is his third. The empty seat next to Valentino is for the Princess, who is late to lunch. Nikolai is the fourth while Julian is the 5th down the line. The rest of us fall with our age and what our rank would be. Dad has two empty seats next to him because one is for our mother while the other is for the princess. She gets to pick where she sits at every breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She likes to switch it up a lot actually. One day she'll sit next to Val every meal. One day it could be dad every meal, the next day could be a mixture of the two chairs. The princess comes in five minutes late.

"Woah what's for lunch?" she asks as she sits down.

"And them boys back home be talking but I won't get touched." Renzo, Matteo, Julian, Nikolai, and Valentino raps out.

"Stay to myself how I survive knowing who I trust
Knowing who I trust." Leonardo, Vincent, Alonzo, Lucian, Maximus, and myself rap afterwards.

Dad chuckles and Gemma looks confused.

"Huh?" She asks.

"Seriously?" Maximus deadpans.

"You never listened to 'Do What I Want' by Lil Uzi Vert?" Alonzo says shocked.

"No? Should I?" She asks still confused.

"Lucian you're fired on being her music teacher." I call out at him.

"You fucking suck." Nikolai laughs out.

"Not my fault she's a horrible student." Lucian says with a shrug.

I was brought back out of the distant memory to Alonzo snapping his fingers in my face.

"Dude, was you even listening to me?" He questions.

"It was like you were in a far away land." Maximus laughs out.

"No. Sorry. What?" I admit.

"We been trying to get your attention for ten minutes mate." Maximus says shocked.

"I was watching Gemma in her own world." I retort.

"More like you was in the small little world she's still in." Alonzo chuckles.

"Fuck you both." I growl out.

Our bickering ends as we watch Gemma getting up from the window sill. She places her drawing on the table on Lucian's side bed. From across the room we can see her drawing plain as day.

She has drawn the trees with the night sky from a window, with her in the window sill. Behind her on the window sill is Lucian in his bed asleep with us three on the couch. She has captured all of us perfectly especially me. I was captured in the zoned out state; when I was thinking about that memory. The bottom of the picture in cursive writing 'To my big brother: get well soon. I love you. Love always Gems'. I glance up to her and see she's crawled into bed and with her hand holding Lucian's.

"Good night Bubbas." Her soft voice rang out.

"Goodnight Sorella." We all three say at the same time.

This girl is talented and has the purest soul of us all.

We watch as she falls asleep instantly. We're now guarding our two siblings in case that bitch comes back. This is going to be a long night yet I still wander....

Does she realize that she has several people here that love her just as much as she loves them? Does she realize that she's our moonlight in the night sky? Does she realize she's the sun poking out of the sky on a cloudy day? Does she realize that she's the rarest gem of all?

We're bless to have a sister like her. We're blessed with the rarest gem of all. I just hope she realizes how much she truly means to all of us.

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Gemma:

Two Weeks Later:

"I found something."

"I found her!"

Those are the two sentences that are being screamed at the moment; that just so happens to wake up Lucian and I. Lucian was able to go home last week and for the past week I've been sleeping in his room or he's been crashing in my bed. Which in return has some of our siblings crashing on our floors every night.

Lucian and I have this relationship that isn't simple for everyone else to see; but to us it's simple. Bub will have his ups and downs with his moods, he'll be moody and hateful one day and closed off the next, and back to Lucian another day. We will argue, fight, laughing and joking, or be cuddled up next to each other watching movies or talking about life. We have an understanding and that's all that matters. We know we'll have each other's backs when it's needed. All people need to know is we love each other. Our sibling bond isn't going anywhere because we're stronger together then we are apart.

In Lucian's words 'You're stuck with me for life asshole so, get use to it.'

"What do you mean?" Gianni asks.

"Go away!" Lucian grumbles.

"Some of us are trying to sleep you butt munches." I whine.

"Did you even hear us?" Vincent yells.

"Yeah you sounded like Woodstock." I grumble.

"All I heard was wah wah wah wah wah!!!!" Lucian grunts.

"We said!" Leonardo snaps at our sleepiness attitudes.

"We found her location assholes!" Vincent whines.

"Where?" Dad asks from his sleep from Vincent's last comment.

"Hopefully in the black hole." I mutter.

"Black abyss." Lucian grumbles.

"In a cave with a caveman?" Alonzo comments.

"Up Gianni's ass?" Maximus says with a snicker.

"Pluto fucking Pluto?" Gianni retorts.

"Is she Mickey then?" Julian questions.

"What the actual hell guys?" Matteo laughs out.

"What? We are just guessing where she would be." Alonzo, Gianni, Maximus, Lucian, Julian, and I comment at the same time.

"No, damn it." Vincent grunts out.

"Fiumicino. You idiots." Leonardo complains.

"The crazy bitch is still in Italy?" Julian questions.

"I mean that's what our computers show doesn't it?" Leonardo asks.

"Looks like it to me." Vincent says with an attitude.

"Will you all shut the fuck up with the attitudes and sarcastic remarks before I shove my boot up all of your asses?" Renzo snaps.

"I don't think he knows basic math. He only has two feet which means only two boots." Lucian mumbles.

"Unless he is a spider." Maximus chuckles out.

"Will everyone shut up so they can tell us what they have found?!" Dad all but yells.

"Simple she is in Fiumicino." Vincent snaps.

"She's in this exact location to be precise." Leonardo says while pointing on the map.

"Leonardo that's like a whole five mile by five mile square?!" Julian deadpans.

"No, look closer at the red dot!" Leonardo whines like a five year old.

"What red dot?" Lucian asks with his brows furrowed together.

"There!" Vincent laughs out.

With his finger, he smacks the map and points to this tiny, microscopic, marker barely touched the damn map red dot. They expected us to see that red dot? You would need with a magnifying glass or a telescope to see that. I couldn't even see it with my 20/20 vision. How the fuck?

"You two excepted us to see that non existent red dot?" Gianni asks.

"Like I would need a telescope to see that damn dot." Julian comments.

"Man you could shrink me down to the maps size and I still would not have seen that dot." Maximus deadpans.

"That's not even visible!" Lucian complains.

"I mean it's so microscopic. I don't even think a werewolf or vampire could see that dot with their excellent vision." I retort.

"Viale di Campo Salino to be exact." Leonardo retorts back at us.

"I mean if you're going to hide; she picked the perfect area. I mean, it's all countryside." Matteo mumbles out.

"Wait! She's right here?" Renzo asks while pointing at this nonexistent dot.

Like how the hell did Renzo even know where Vincent pointed at to begin with because I know damn well he can't see that dot.

"Yes?" Both boys question our eldest brother.

"That's just a mile away from our house in Fiumicino." Dad says.

Dad finally found his voice. Praise Jesus. Wait what?

"How many damned houses does our family freaking own?!" I yell out.

"Well, the three you know about. Plus this one. There's ten others in Italy. One in Maldives, another in Japan, three more in....." Nikolai starts to list them off.

"Too many to really count actually. Bird brain will be listing them off for the next six hours." Valentino comments while taking a jab at his twin.

"I guess we're packing up and heading to Fiumicino?" I ask.

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Gemma:

Here we are the next day; loaded up in our family's private plane about to take off to Fiumicino. We're going to be in the sky for about two freaking hours.

Two hours I have to be in this closed off space with all my damn siblings and father. That is twelve too many people for my freaking likings. For the love of everything unholy please Gianni don't test my patiences. I will punch him in the throat and not feel guilty for it. All he does is purposely annoy the hell out of me. Renzo says he does it just to rile me up; one of these days he's going to rile me up and he will leave with a black eye.

Or a busted nose with a tampon up it like Maximus.

Before the plane takes off Julian and Lucian take the seats directly in front of me. Moments later Gianni and Maximus take the seats......

On both sides of me.

Great!

I guess luck isn't on my side today.

When is it ever?

The plane begins to take flight and after the turbulence is over; Lucian digs into his bag and pulls out his art supplies. That's when it hit me; I didn't bring mine on the plane. Lucian looks up from our table with a knowing smirk.

Is there something on my face?

Yes, called a face!

Lucian pulls out my sunflower art bag from his blood splattered looking art bag. It only looks like blood because of his red paints, hence how it got it's name from me. I squeal in excitement and amusement is dancing in Lucian's eyes. He smiles the brightest smile I've ever seen.

I stand corrected.

I didn't think anyone could outshine Nikolai's smile until Matteo did. Now, I never thought anyone could outshine Matteo's bright as the sun smile until Lucian's pearly whites flashes like the moon beaming down in a small opening in a forest tops.

Bub starts to pull out his paints and arrange them on our table.

"I ordered you a snack." Julian finally says.

The attendant places a plate in front of my face and immediately my eyes light up.

In front of me is a huge slice of cheesecake.

"Thank you Bubbie and thank you ma'am." I squeal out.

Julian's eyes begin to water and his left eye begins to twitch. Confusion is written in bold print on my forehead. I furrow my brows and give my older brother a puzzling look.

"It's the first time you called him that since you were little." Maximus whispers in my ear.

Before I could respond to my brother a hand is now in front of my face and is digging into my cheesecake. All that could be heard on the plane is a crunching noise and gasp like whine.

My fist connects into the side of someone's nose.

Gianni.

All heads turn in our direction and the plane abruptly is filled with laughter and Gianni's cries of agony.

"I told you she would make you look like Maximus by the end of the week." Alonzo chuckles out.

"I think she broke it!" Gianni complains.

"It's not broken fratello." Renzo says behind a small chuckle.

Matteo tosses a small object at Gianni, who catches it with his only unoccupied hand. His face turns into a grimace.

"I'm not shoving that unnatural thing in my nose!" Gianni growls out.

Seconds later he whines.

When the plane finally lands our entire family is trying to suppress our laughter because moments after all of us walk off the plane.

Gianni walks out of the plane with that said unnatural thing in shoved up his nose.

That unnatural thing that's shoved in his nose is a tampon.

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