30. Nitro

THIRTY

NITRO

"They want me to take the girl, I'm telling them I can't. But they aren't listening to me. The big guy slaps me and says Eros is going to have fun punishing me for saying no." I listen to Emily tell the doctor about one of the times at the park. She did fight them, she did refuse to take the girls.

"I want her to sit in the car going back to where they have her." The doctor wanted me out of the room today, and I told her, do it with me in the room or I'll find a new doctor.

"Is she sleeping at night?" she asks me, and I chuckle to myself a little.

"Yes, like a baby. Now ask her to sit in the car." I look over at Emily, and watch her body. She's shaking, but I'm here once she gets out of this.

"They are walking back to the car, have they covered your face?" The doctor asks.

"No, they let me look out the window, one of the men is touching me. I'm too tired to fight him." I see a tear escape from her eyes.

"Why are you tired?" The doctor asks.

"Eros didn't let me sleep, he hurt me." Her body shifts a little, and there is nothing I can do to help her at the moment. I can't protect her. But I will protect her everyday from here on. "We're going through London city centre, I watch the people walking, they're all happy. Ealing, I see the sign, and we take the turn. The man is kissing my neck, then he tries to hurt me by pulling me closer to him. I'm trying to fight him, but he slaps me hard." Emily touches her cheek, and rubs it for a moment. "It's a house, an ugly looking house, it reminds me of the white house. The car stops and before I can move, the man pulls me out of the car, by my hair. It's hurting, I'm shouting for him to stop."

The doctor looks at me and I shake my head, she's not stopping, so she can stop giving me the evil eye.

"Once you're in the house what is happening?" The doctor asks Emily, who starts rubbing her head from what I can only say is the pain from her hair being pulled

"Ummm-" she stops. Her face frowning, she looks around for something. "A man stands in front of me, Eros. He doesn't look happy, I try to take a step back, but I bump into the man behind me. Eros slaps me hard, he cut my lip-" Her fingers move over her lips, and I see the tears escaping the side of her eyes. "He's shouting at me. If you're not going to do what we want there is no use for you. He slaps me again, and looks over my shoulder at the man behind me. Get rid of her, and the parents. He shouts at them and I feel a pinch in my neck, which hurts." Emily stops again, and rubs her neck. "I'm sorry, let me see my sister, I try to fight, but something is happening. The room is spinning."

Emily stops and the doctor brings her back to the room, and I take her hand to let her know I'm here. That day was the last time she was with them. She refused to take children for them, and she got punished.

Emily takes in a few deep breaths, shaking her head, and looks towards me. "All because I didn't take any children for them, I lost my sister and parents. I lost everything."

"Hey little tiger, I know this is fucked up. But how many little children did you save along the way? You helped-"

"I helped two, maybe three. They got rid of me, and I lost my whole family. They replaced me-"

"Emily, you can drive yourself crazy over this, but you have to remember-" I turn to face her, so she listens to me. "-your sister is out there somewhere, and you need to focus on finding her."

"Nitro, what if they killed her?" she asks through her tears, it's been something we've thought about, and it might be true. But until we know for sure, we can't say if it's true or not.

"Until you don't see a dead body, you can't think like that. She is still alive, you have to keep believing that." I turn back to the doctor who taps her pen on her stupid notepad, which reminds me. I have to come back and get rid of all the sessions, there will be no trace of Emily ever being here.

"Would you like to book-"

"No, I don't think we will be coming back." I stand up, pulling Emily to stand too. "Thank you for everything." Giving her a smile I exit the room before she can say anything. I always booked an extra half an hour, to make sure no one was in the waiting room. The less people who see us around here the better.

"You want to talk?" I ask Emily when we get to my bike and hold her helmet for her, because I see her trying to hold herself together. "You can try and hide things from me, but you should know, I know."

She licks her lips, and wipes the tears away and takes the helmet off me, before finally looking at me.

"I want to go home." She leans in closer to me, and I pull her in for a hug, letting her know I'm here for her. I'll always be here for her.

We have answers, we know who took her, so that same person took her sister. We know where to look, who to ask, and if we get a hit on the print we might be able to get a man to get answers.

Walking into the house, I look over at Esha then to Nyx who is helping her in the kitchen with lunch. He gives me a shake of the head, how long is he planning on keeping Ares?

"What are you cooking, Princess?" I head towards the kitchen, as Emily sits on the couch.

"Pasta. Ares should be home for lunch so I'm making his favourite." I wrap my arm over her shoulder, and kiss her cheek.

"Smells amazing," I tell her, walking over to Nyx, so I can tell him what happened in today's session, and how we won't be going back.

I know we won't be doing anything about the print, or the family until Ares is with us. We need a plan, and it will be better when the four of us are together.

"Esha, would you like some help? I could do with taking my mind off things," Emily asks, and I go to sit at the table to roll up a joint, and see how Tic is getting along today.

"You good?" I ask him, lighting up my joint.

"He...he said we're ev...il." Tic shakes his head, and I look over at Nyx watching him. "We're...we're not nic...e."

"Who said that?" I ask him, he goes through these types of days, he never tells us who he's talking to, but the things he says never sit right with us.

"He did." The same answer we always get.

"Well tell him to fuck off, we kill evil." I take a deep drag off my joint, and watch Emily and Esha cooking, and talking. I'm hoping they both get along because Emily needs someone in her life she can talk to.

Nyx joins us at the table, placing a beer for the three of us.

"What time is my first client?" I ask Nyx, I didn't check my clients last night. I finally got a tattoo sorted on Emily, she wanted the others done too, but that was a big job. If it was a client, I would have told them to split it up, but once she saw my tattoo, she didn't want me to stop. Needed to see the final design on her skin. Before we left to go to the Doctor, she wanted to watch the film, get some cream on her tattoos, and the smile on her face said it all to me. She was happy, and I can't wait to cover her whole body in my work.

"Two, but your last one is at seven." Nyx smiles, rolling my eyes already knowing who the client is. She wants a fucking break every five minutes. So now I drag out her tattoo, which should have taken two, three days top, will now last a week. She has to pay for each day, so if she wants a break she can get a fucking break.

I go to reply but stop when Nyx's phone rings. "Robert-" I look over at Esha as the plate drops from her hands and she walks over to the table. "-We're all here...how bad?" Nyx locks eyes with me, which only means one thing. It's not good, and I turn to Esha.

"If he wants to talk, we talk. Don't ask him what they did? Just be there when he needs you. Esha," I shout her name because she seems to have zoned out.

"I'm listening." I have no idea where she is looking, but it's not at me or Nyx.

"It will take a day, maybe two. We are here for not just him, but for you too." I take her hand to let her know it will be fine.

"Two minutes." Nyx takes in a deep breath, and we all lean back in our chairs and wait for the door to open. He is either going to shut himself off or we're all going to be on edge waiting for him to snap.

"Robert, shut up. You and your brother need to learn when not to fucking talk!" Ares shouts, and we get ready for whatever is playing on his mind.

"Only asked if you wanted a joint," Robert looks at me, and I stop myself from smiling, because Ares is already pissed off, but Robert's face is a picture right now. Annoyed and scared which is making it very hard not to laugh at him.

Ares throws his jacket on the back of a chair, takes the joint from Nyx. "Can I fucking kill him now?" The anger in his tone surprised both of us. "Or when we do, I'm taking my fucking time with him. Slowly peeling his skin-" He takes a very long drag of the joint, closes his eyes, then lets the smoke escape through his nose. "-Miss me Princess?" He leans down to kiss her, and she smiles, as he grabs a chair to sit next to her.

"You need anything?" Nyx asks.

"I'll sort myself out. So what have I missed?" Straight to business I see, but he also knows we won't talk until he does.

I watch him for a moment, as he continues to smoke his joint, and then look over at Tic. "What's wrong with him?" he asks.

"The same thing as always, now talk," I snap at him, so we can finally get to business and take down another family.

"Fucking hell," Ares whispers to himself, hands the joint toot Nyx, and stands up, taking his t-shirt off, and he stands there for a moment then turns around so we can see his back. Putting his t-shirt back on, he snatches the joint from Nyx. "Happy?" he mocks.

He had fun again with Ares, his body is bruised all over, with a few cuts too. He's not telling us, but the bastard did a lot more than just these bruises. He might not tell us today but he will when he needs to talk to one of us.

"Emily refused to take the children from the park, so Eros got rid of her. She wasn't useful to them anymore. That was the night of the car accident, wanting to get rid of them all. We've not touched the notepads because we all knew you'd be pissed off we touched and ruined your system. We got a print from the lens, we are letting it run through the system and hope to get a hit, and the commionsor will be dying, and when I kill him, he will look in my eyes and know who killed him." I fill Ares in with what's happening. I haven't once looked into the woman who gave birth to me, the moment she left me there, was the moment she didn't care what happened to me.

Why I do care, that they're living the perfect life, having nothing to fuck up their day, remembering all the fucked up shit I went through. Yes, my mother was a toy for them, but I will never know for how long she was there. Maybe she was there for one month, got pregnant, and they never touched again. Maybe she was there for years, I will never know, and I don't care.

"So what am I looking for in the notepads, we seem to have all the answers for what is happening now. Am I looking for another family?" Ares asks, leaning forward his head in his hand, as he rests his elbows on the table.

"My...Is there anything about my sister?" Emily asks, and it was going to be what I was going to ask, but not just yet. Because we know that Ares' mood is not where we want it.

Ares rubs his eyes using his thumb and finger from the same hand, then stands up. "Yes, your sister." He nods to her and walks to the stairs. "I've not slept in three days, the demons are fucking...give me the day. Esha, you coming?" Without waiting for an answer Ares heads up the stairs.

"Don't lock the door, one of us will be in the house at all times, if you need us, we're there," Nyx tells her, and she gives him a nod then leaves the table.

"He...he's not o...kay," Tic speaks, and I agree with him, but know very well what Ares' is like so we just have to keep moving and hope he will be back with us soon.

"Right, I'm going to start getting tabs on the Comminssor. See if there is a trip out the county when we can take him. No one will ask questions if he is away on holiday with the family." Nyx leans forward, takes a beer from the middle of the table.

"Won't his family report him missing?" Emily asks, which makes the three of us laugh. Does she think this is our first time?

"We will take the family too. Put them in a room while we kill him, then let them free. They won't know it's us." I tap my phone so it lights up to see the time. "I have an hour before my first client, should we get started on another cover up?" I ask her. It's going to take about six, seven months before we can cover all the bad ones up. I could do it faster, but don't want to have her body going through too much, especially because I want to have fun with it in the evenings.

"Tic has a bike to fix up, I don't have any clients for a while. So I'll stay here in case anything happens." Nyx nods towards the stairs.

"Right, let's be normal people for the day, and tonight work on a plan." I get up, grab a beer and Emily follows me over to the shop. Her arms link into mine, crazy but it makes me smile.

"Can I ask a question?" she asks as we move into the shop.

"Yes, I'll fuck you." I smile at her, as she sits on the tattoo bed, and I move to my station. I hear her laughing behind me, which she knows I won't because the shop has walls between the rooms, but it also has windows too. So I could fuck her, if I knew no one would come in, or the shop was closed, but I have someone who could walk in early.

"Why are you not getting Ares to look into your mu-"

"I'm going to stop you there. I don't want to know who she is. She's not my family, she was the woman who gave birth to me, that's it." I don't even turn around to face her as I get everything ready to start on the tattoo on her back.

"What about your sister?" The word sister comes out in a whisper, almost like she didn't want to ask, but a question I'm sure my brothers want the answer to.

"She is living a happy life, doesn't know about me, why would I bring darkness into her life? I say let her continue being happy, and I can hope she has a boyfriend or a family, with a man who loves her." My answer isn't a lie, but it is a little too. I don't want to know her, but I'd like to find her to make sure she's happy.

I turn to face her, and lean on the counter with all my stuff on it. "You want to take your top and bra off, and let's get your back covered up." I've hated looking at the fucked up organisation tattoo. I just didn't know what I wanted to it to be. I designed something to be inked smack in the middle of the shoulder blades. A beautiful rose with soft details around it. My sexy lady needs something beautiful on her skin.

"Look at you talking all dirty to me." Emily jokes, getting off the tattoo bed, slowly taking her blouse off, and I wonder if I do have time to fuck her. My lips curl into a smile, as she turns around looking over her shoulder as she removes her bra. "Shall I turn around or lie down?" she asks with a smile, her eyes moving over my body, and I push myself off the station.

"You can lie down, and I think I can smack you tonight," I say walking closer to her. I slap her ass hard enough it makes her moan out of pain, and makes me smile.

Everything in life is going well at the moment, I've got a girl who is fucking amazing, I've found out who my parents are, and we're going to kill another family. How can I not be happy right now?