Misfortune (Vi x OC)

|2| Welcome to the playground

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I put the cloth around neck over my mouth and kept my head down alongside the others

Zaun was despite the crime rates and the lack of money was a vibrant city to walk through, it was something that I would always be drawn back to whenever we'd sneak off into piltover, whatever light that reaches zaun was filtered through the toxic fumes that surround the entirety of the undercity, as we walked through the streets the neon lights of the black markets and brothel's shined onto the dirt floor making the metal screws on my boots reflect the colours as I walked, the clanking and steam coming from body parts surrounded my ears as it was common for zaunites to replace their parts with mechanical ones,

We walked past the brothel and me and Claggor looked at each other awkwardly "I definitely don't wanna see the horrors that could be in there" he nodded at my comment

Time skip

"Vander learns none of this." Vi says as we all sit around the couches "No worries there. Powder took care of the evidence." Said Mylo "I tried, okay? You don't get it. You're older, you're bigger. It- it isn't fair." Powder crossed her arms "So stick with us! Take a punch or two."

The door to the basement opens and we all turn our heads "Everyone all right?" Vander walks down the steps into our room "Never better." Mylo's tone laced with sarcasm "Good. I don't suppose you can explain why it is that I'm hearing about an explosion and a foot chase topside? Five children fleeing the scene. What the hell were you thinking?" He looks towards Vi "That we can handle a real job."

"A real job?" He scoffed "We got our own tip, planned a route, nobody even saw."

"You blew up a building."

"That wasn't-" Vi was cut off "Did you even stop to think about what could have happened to you? Eh? To them?" Vander motioned to the younger ones of the group sighed "Where did you even get this tip?"

Powder muttered "We just heard it at Benzo's shop." "From?" He asked "Little Man."

Vi stood up from her seat "I took us there. If you wanna be mad, be mad at me. But you're the one who always says we have to earn our place in this world."

"I also told you time and time again, the Northside's off-limits! We stay out of Piltover's business."

"Why? They've got plenty, while we're down here scraping together coins. When did you get so comfortable living in someone else's shadow?"

"Everyone out." Vander tells the others, before I can sneak my way past him he stops me "Not you" he doesn't even bother to look at me "Right-" i mutter and sit on the couch and motion for vi to sit with me but she stubbornly looks straight ahead

"Sit down." Vander asks

"I'm fine."

"Sit. Down."

Vi sighs and plops down next to me "those kids look up to you two." He points to the both of us "Yeah, I know." Vi rests her head on her hand
"Yeah-You know, but you don't know. When people look up to you, you don't get to be selfish." He says, i butt in "Hey hold on-" he cuts me off "You say run, they run. You say swim, they dive in. You say light a fire, they show up with oil. But whatever happens, it's on you guys" he sighs "Just like it's on me what happens to us down here. We make ourselves a problem for Piltover, and they will send the enforcers." "So? Why answer to them? These are our streets. Someone should remind them of that." Vi sits up "You're not hearing me. That path? This?" he grabs her bloodied wrists "It's not gonna solve your problems. Just makes more of them. We clear?" Vander grabs a bottle of alcohol and a cloth and puts a small amount onto it and places it on Vi's cut on her head "How'd you get this?" Vi scoffs "Some asshole was following us. On our side, he was after the stuff" I replied "Who? Where is it now?" Vander questioned and Vi sighed "We lost it." she clenched her knuckles due to the sting of the alcohol "Good. Nothing can tie you to what happened up there. You're gonna have to lay low for a bit, understand?" he said to both of us, we nodded "We're gonna be fine, right?" Vi asked "I'll take care of it." He reassured "Oh, you did put that idiot on his ass, though, right?"he asked Vi and she smiled "What about you Mona? you manage okay?" he asked "Just about" I nodded "Good" he handed me the cloth and I gently dabbed it onto Vi's cheek.