fate | CL fanfic

twenty two

As soon as he was able Charles had managed to get every staff member, housekeeper, maid, chauffeur, security guard into questioning by either him or his brothers who were more than happy to help out after hearing about the threats.

And they were harsh.

Charles found the time sheet of everybody in the house at each time, it must have happened whilst we were out today. They also checked the security footage to see people coming in and out but conveniently it was wiped, so that person knew where the cameras were.

It was suspicious to say the least and so Charles decided the safest thing to do was send me to live with Kika and Pierre for the time being in their Monaco apartment that was like fifteen minutes away - we couldn't tell anyone in the house where I was going and Pascale had to drop me off rather than anyone working in the house.

"I know this isn't what you want but it's for the best." Kika promised me, passing me her clothes to change into for bed. But we all knew I wasn't going to get much sleep after the chaos of today, "Goodnight Eva.."

Kika, Pierre, Pascale, Lorenzo and Arthur are the only people that know the full extent of what happened and it's going to stay that way for now.

"Good night guys, thank you for letting me stay here.." I mumbled back as I walked down the hallway to the spare bedroom, I was grateful their apartment was on the top floor. I wasn't stressing about who would appear in the window.

I couldn't sleep when Charles was gone for longer than ten minutes most nights, it made me nervous quickly. I wanted to help to look for clues as to what happened, where this note came from, who had been listening to our conversations in bed?

I pulled on Charles' hoodie that I stole before leaving and a pair of slippers, hours had passed by now and I still wasn't getting any sleep. As I walked out into the main living room of the apartment I decided an icy cold drink was a good idea and headed towards the sink.

"Couldn't sleep?" Kika asked when walking out to the kitchenette also, she turned to look at me, the sweat on my forehead must have been as obvious as my red eyes.

"S- something like that." My voice faltered as I wiped my face with the sleeve of his hoodie, "I'm just paranoid- more than usual."

She nodded solemnly holding her arms out wide for me, "That's okay, that's normal," she explained "Why don't I come and sleep in your room with you?"

"Don't do that to Pierre, I'll be okay." I told her but she wasn't buying it for a single second, she shook her head adamantly.

She refused, "No im coming with you."

I shook my head at her, "I appreciate the offer, but if something happened to him now- the guilt will never go away. So please stay with him."

"Nothings going-

"You don't know that Kika. Trouble follows me." I told her truthfully, because it really did seem to.

"Eva-

"Kika, if you could just lock my room from the outside then I will be able to sleep," I promised her "Can you do that for me?"

When we kept going back and forth with what to do Pierre came out of his bedroom, hair all over the place and told us we were being silly and we all ended up in the spare room together in the bed, the apartment double locked and the window locked.

They slept like babies.

Me on the other hand, I'd stolen Pierre's phone from the bed side table he had left it on before falling asleep and kept texting Charles. I hadn't had time to get a new phone after mine was smashed in the office.

And that is how this mess happened

pierre
there's no way this apartment is safer than home

pierre
it's me it's Eva

pierre
please take me home

pierre
I'm scared

pierre
i can't sleep again

pierre
i need you

pierre
please bring me home charles I don't feel safe here at all. the wind is so loud and I'm over thinking every little noise

pierre
i know you thought this was for the best but I can't cope

pierre
please come get me

pierre
please charles I can't do this anymore

I'm a cloud, I collect all this rain, all this emotion and every once in a while I'll let some out but that's very rare. One of these days I'm not going to be able to contain anymore rain and that's when the storm comes.

When thunder and lightning will be heard for miles, when I finally get to release this pain. But it's not over, it never is, the cycle of pain and emotion always starts again and never ends. When Charles doesn't reply that's only the start.

When I woke up with a headache that maybe wasn't the worse one I'd ever had but it was up there I knew it was self induced. Staring at the phone screen for hours waiting for a response practically drove me to illness.

Though I thought it was just mental.

"Ah she wakes," Pierre announced "We're making pancakes, how many do you want?" He asked kindly to which I just shrugged and he took that answer.

They were being so kind and opening their home to me whilst I'm a little brat who doesn't want anything to do with this, I stood up from the bed and racked the spare bedroom for paracetamol which I took and headed to the kitchen for breakfast, "Eva! So, you gonna tell us what happened last night?" She asked with a serious face.

"Oh," I sighed, the fucking texts "I was just missing him I guess, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have taken your phone pierre- it was an invasion of privacy."

"Oh no- not that," Kika shook her head passing me a plate "The walking up and down the hallway, I thought I was making it up but pierre heard it too."

"We were all in the same bed Kika, how would I have walked up and down the hallway?" I replied my heart in my throat thinking about it.

"Well no you left the bed for ages last night, you didn't say anything you just got up and wandered out - assumed you went to the bathroom so I didn't question it.." Kika shrugged her shoulders

I had no recollection of that whatsoever but it wouldn't surprise me, whilst I was pissed at Charles I needed to go and splash my face with cold water from the bathroom sink. That sounds plausible.

Pierre then argued, "I feel like she was back in bed by the time the pacing in the hall happened, the steps sounded heavy."

"Don't say that, she's already paranoid!"