She's My Crystal (Milo x reader)

Chapter Thirteen

MILO'S POV:

I watched Rouke's men basically cradle Kida in this metal coffin-looking crate. Audrey, of all people, was on top of it, tightening the bolts. I walked over there, keeping my eyes on her and waiting for her to look up.

When she did, she looked mad. What did I do?? I'm not taking royalty away from their homeland and destroying their world! I narrowed my eyes at her. "So I guess this is how it ends, huh?"

She looked away and I laughed half-heartedly. "Fine..." I started to walk away. "Yooou win!" I threw my hands up, wiggling my fingers to show my sarcasm. "You're wiping out an ENTIRE civilization, but hey! Big money right?" I shrugged my shoulders, and glanced at (y/n).

Ever since she told me .... I haven't ... I don't..... I don't know how to wrap my head around it. I can't. We're best friends!! And I thought she would be happy if she saw me and Kida being a thing....but apparently not. Girls are confusing.

"Congrats."

Audrey huffed, jumping off the metal thing. She mumbled something, but I didn't quite catch it.

"And Vinny...." I looked up at Vinny, who was a little too close to (y/n) for my comfort. I swallowed my jealousy and broke eye contact with him. "...you can own a bunch of flower shops now, I'm sure your family's gonna be very proud of you, right?"

Vinny looked down in shame. (Y/n) looked sadly at him, but didn't comfort him. She knew why I was saying all of this. This is how Grandfather talked to us when we did something bad.

I was standing across from everyone now, standing with the Atlantians. (Y/n) was on the other side, but only to say goodbye to our 'friends'.

"But that's just it, huh? Money."

"Get off your crying bed, Thatch. You've read the book Darwin." Rouke stepped closer towards Kida's metal container. "This...what we're doing, it's called natural selection, we're just...."

"Helping it along the way." Helga finishes, swaying out her hip like she always does, and spinning her gun around her finger. "Commander, we're ready, by the way." She caught her gun perfectly in her hand.

Commander threw his cigarette and squished it in the ground. "Yeah, yeah. Give me a minute, would ya Doll Face?"

"I JUST GAVE YOU THAT!" Screeched Packard.

Rouke rolled his eyes and sighed, "I know I'm forgetting something...." He looked around, holding up his fingers. "I got the cargo, the crystal, the crew..." He glanced up at me with a crooked grin.

"Ooooh yeahhhh..."

Last thing I know, I'm on the ground, spitting blood. SHIT! That hurt. Ooooh yeah that hurt. He....wooo ouch. He punched me pretty good...

"Look at it this way, son."

I glared up at him. Wait, where are my glasses? I squinted at what he was holding. Hey! My glasses! Oh please don't break them, I just paid them off!

Rouke walked over me and right onto my framed picture, shattering the glass. At that point my heart shattered. He stepped off of it and threw my glasses towards me. I barely caught them, but I did and put them on quickly. I stood up, wiping my blood off my mouth.

"You were the man who first discovered Atlantis, now you're a part of it." He stood with his back towards me. "It's a win win in my eyes."

I looked down at the ground. Oh yeah...m..my picture.. I bent down to grab it out of the broken glass. I sat there, staring down at my picture. It's an old, black and grey, picture of me and Grandfather. I was sitting in his lap, and wearing his explorer hat. I looked at his face sadly, missing him a lot.