"Scaramouche!" Valentin opened the door happily with an eye closed smile. He didn't hear any reply.
He began opening his eyes.
"Scaramouche?".
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"New person? When are you gonna stop picking up random kids from the street Dottore really.." Valentin sighed, "Mhm, very funny Valentin, how about you go meet him? I think you'll be quite fond of him." Dottore was looked through papers with a pen in hand. "Alright," Valentin had nothing better to do so he went out to go search for this new person.
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"God I've looked everywhere!" Valentin leaned up against the wall, he had no luck finding this new person. Just when he was about to sigh he heard someone yelling, he, of course, got curious and started walking over to the sound.
"If you don't keep your filthy hands off me I'm going pull your teeth out of your fucking mouth and shove them up your ass!" Someone yelled. Valentin peeked his head over and saw someone he didn't recognize fighting with one of his coworkers, he looked horrified.
Valentin walked over, ears hurting from the yelling. He put a hand on the persons shoulder and..
Got punched!
"Ow! What was that for?!" Valentin winced as he held his nose, "Who are you?" the person asked with an aggressive look, this gave the coworker time to run away.
Valentin took his hand off his nose,"Glad you asked! I'm Valentin, and you?" Valentin smiled.
"I'm Scaramouche," Scaramouche backed away an inch, "Dottore is really recruiting children now? What are you, 14?" Valentin teased.
"I just turned 19," Scaramouche looked away, "Oh, then you're older then me! I'm 17." Valentin flicked Scaramouches forehead which grabbed Scaramouches attention.
Scaramouche groaned, "You're pretty short for someone who's older than me." Valentin spoke, "I think I'm average size," Scaramouche crossed his arms, "No ones really happy to be average size." Valentin mockingly smirked.
"I've had about enough of that mouth of yours," Scaramouche huffed, "Well, you'll be hearing it for probably the rest of your life! Anyways, Dottore usually gives new people special items and whatever..so you should go to his office and get your sweet little present." Valentin let out a short giggle as he waved by to Scaramouche and walked off.
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"Dottore?" Scaramucce knocked, but entered without a reply. Dottore looked over to Scaramouche, "Ah, I was just about to get you." Dottore got out of his seat, "Did Valentin visit you?" Dottore walked over to Scaramouche with a small smile.
"Yeah, he's annoying." Scaramouche rolled his eyes, "You'll have to work with him though, but we shouldn't fill my office with negative comments about other coworkers. I have a present for you." Dottore walked over to a dark wood drawer.
"Oh yeah?" Scaramouche got interested and suddenly forgot all about Valentin and only focused on the present he was about to get.
"Here," Dottore took out a large hat and put it on Scaramouche, it fit his outfit perfectly. "Wow.." Scaramouche had no words, he loved it! "I'm..thank you Dottore." Scaramouche adjusted the hat a bit.
"It's no problem, it suits you." Dottore commented, Scaramouche felt confident in his new hat.
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Scaramouche walked out of Dotters with a confident look and his new hat on, Valentin saw him walking down the stairs and went to him.
"I see you got that gift," Valentin smiled, "Oh god it's you." Scaramouche scoffed and began walking away from Valentin, he just followed. "Do you like it because it adds a few inches to you're height?" He snickered, Scaramouche groaned.
"Could you stop following me?" Scaramouche looked at Valentin with an annoyed looked, "Oh, yeah sure." Valentin replied with a smile.
"Goo--!" Before he knew it, Scaramouche had walked right into a wall! Valentin laughed as he walked in front of Scaramouche.
Scaramouche huffed then began walking again, behind Valentin. "Now look who's 'following'." Valentin kept his smile.
"Whatever." Scaramouche looked away with an embarrassed and annoyed face.
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"Scaramouche..?" Valentin walked over to the body more to get a better look, hoping his eyes were playing tricks on him. But they weren't. Valentin fell to the ground when he realized it, his friend..if you could even call him that, was dead.
"Valentin, we shouldn't be here any longer." Dottore said, just to get out of the room. "Dottore..he's dead." Valentin didn't know what to think, or what to say.
"yes, but--" Valentin interrupted, " 'Yes, but'? Is that all you have to say..? You cared for him too didn't you? Or was that a lie?! Is everything you say a lie?!" Valentin stood up defensively.
"Valentin, I'm sorry," Dottore tried to sound like he had sympathy.
"I can't even cry about my friends death because of you," Valentin teethed, "You should've let me die, maybe you could've 'yes, but' my death instead of his." Valentins head went slightly down.
"You're different Valentin..you mean--" Valentin yelled, "I mean more than him?! Is that what you were gonna say?!" Valentin gripped his hands into fists.
"Scaramouche is dead because of you, Celeste City and Toska Town are at war because of your careless decision." Valentin lifted his head up slightly, he was trembling.
"If you hadn't gone insane and tried to activate that project of yours I wouldn't have left Toska Town." Dottore looked away, "I did that because I knew that Albedo was never going to make a good boss. And I was right, you were wrong. For the first time you were wrong." Valentin looked over to Scaramouches hat and grabbed it.
He held it in his hands and just stared at it.
"This is all your fault." Valentin gripped the hat harder than started walking out, bumping his shoulder into Dottore.
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dottore u suck -Author
