La Farfalla - Giorno Giovanna x Zeppeli Reader

Thirteen: The final straw on the camel's back

You sat on one of the chairs in the pilot booth with Leone, sobbing quietly. Your face turning red from crying, you sat back facing the man so that he couldn't see you crying.

Leone frequently glanced at you, and didn't know what to do to stop you from crying.

"I guess all of us have to experience shitty things in our lives" He said, you sniffed.

"What?" You muttered. "What happened to you?" You raised an eyebrow, still sitting back facing him.

"I...was a cop." He confessed.

"Really? Why did you end up here?" You asked, slowly turning around.

"I became a police officer after graduating high school, back then I was very sincere about protecting people." He told.

"But I was wrong about something and soon realized that my job had a lot of contradictions." He continued.

"As you can see, police officers risked their lives to protect the people but people are not very grateful. Always trying to get out of punishment and sometimes even accusing the officers for not doing their job."

You sat quietly, listening to the man's story.

"What happened next?" You asked, your eyes glittered with anticipation telling him to continue with the story.

"Only if you promise not to tell anyone about this. I only tell you because you are a girl." Leone said jokingly with a smirk.

"Promise, a Zeppeli always keeps their promise." You exclaimed with a cheekily grin.

"Brat." Leone huffed with a half smile before continuing.

"It was that one night while I was going on a patrol and came across a man working with a prostitute, that motherfucker told me that him and the girl were just trying to help her father repay his debt."

"He quietly handed me some money as a bribe, I was conflicted as to whether or not I should take the money."

"And you took the money?" You asked.

"Quiet. Yes, I did. But [Name] you have to know one thing." The man said "The streets are full of people like that, even if I did send that guy to jail he could easily pay off the lawyer and judge to get out."

"In society, money is everything."Leone muttered.

"One night, a thief was reported breaking into an old man's house. Me and my partner arrived on the scene and split up to trap the thief."

"I entered the house and caught the thief trying to escape through a window, that guy was the one I accepted the bribe from." He said "As we talked, I became more and more swayed by his reasoning and not knowing that the guy began to withdraw a gun."

"Before he could shoot me, my partner burst in and also got shot instead of me." Leone told.

"At some point, I joined Passione and worked under Bucciarati."

"I'm sorry for what happened." You said, fiddling your fingers quietly.

"So what happened to you?" He asked you. "I have already told you mine, now it's your turn."

"Right." You chuckled

"I was born in Rome." You began." My dad was Giuseppe Zeppeli"

"The writer?" He asked, you nodded

"My mother was Beatrice Beltramo. They were that kind of cheesy couple you saw in the school hallway." You laughed softly.

"Pfft, tell me about it." Leone chuckled, remembering his highschool years.