The Eyes of Fate (Currently in Rewrite)

Chapter 51

"You're going to tell them how we met?" Fang asked Oracle, ignoring her joke. "I thought you said you'd never speak of it again?"

"I trust them, Fang." she gave him a small smile, gesturing at the rest of them. "They know me, the real me. They're not going to judge me based on my past. Besides, they've already told me theirs."

Sentinel noticed that her eyes never left Fang's. They were having an entirely different talk that Sentinel wasn't privy too. 

"Very well then." Fang said, shrugging. "You know it ain't gonna bother me." 

"I take it there's a bit more to this than just 'how mommy and daddy met' then?" Vyper asked.

"Probably explain why you two were so close when we first met too." Ranger added.

"You're both right." Oracle said, nodding. "I know I've told all of you that we met when Fang was hired to kill me, right?"

Sentinel nodded, as did the others. Fang took a drink and turned away from the fire so he was staring out into the darkness. Oracle looked at him and shook her head before continuing.

"Well, he was hired by a politician that I was blackmailing. I told him that either he'd remove himself from politics forever, or I'd leak all of his disgusting, child molesting pictures and videos. I'd done it to others before, dozens of them. Sometimes cheaters, sometimes just their rotten business practices. One guy liked to buy hookers and choke them until their hearts stopped, then fuck them while they were being defibrillated." 

She shook her head again and took a deep breath.

"The thing is, I wasn't always as good with tech as I am now. I had a teacher, who was teaching me everything he knew, but he told me that I should always use my abilities for good. Getting awful people to stop doing what they were doing seemed the proper way to honor him after what I did."

She looked around then, and must have seen Sentinel's confusion written on his face, because she chuckled at them.

"Sorry, let me start back at the beginning.

"When I was growing up, my family didn't care too much about me. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't abused or neglected or anything, they just didn't seem to be very invested or attentive to me. Because of that, I spent a lot of time out of the house. It's where I discovered my love of herps, from being outside so much. When I was tired of searching for frogs and stuff, I went for the library. I made friends with a guy a few years older than me who was at the library more often than even I was. He told me his name was Red Fox, and he was always on the computers. 

"As time went on, we got really close. I started calling him my big brother, and he eventually showed me what he could do with computers. Turns out, Red Fox was a hacker, and a good one. I asked him if he'd teach me, and he said he would. I wasn't very good, but he was a patient teacher, and I got better with time. By the time of our incident, I could practically make a computer dance with a handful of keystrokes." 

Oracle hung her head, and she sniffed a few times before going on.

"Big Brother only had one rule: I was not to get on his computers without him around. I didn't understand why though, I knew what I was doing. The problem was, I only know the software part of it. I didn't realize how important certain hardwares were in keeping people from finding you. 

"I was cocky. One day, Big Brother went to the bathroom before my lessons. I decided to go ahead and get everything set up on the browser for him, since it would save time. I thought he'd be proud of me, but as soon as he saw what I'd done he freaked out. He yelled at me, saying I didn't know what I'd done, and that I had to leave. He said I could come back in a few days as long as nothing bad happened."