Bleed, Patch, And Keep Moving - An Apex Legends Story

Chapter 120 - No White Picket Purgatory Future

Ajay's tongue was already in his mouth and her legs were wrapped around Octavio before she heard a gentle tapping on the bathroom door. Her hips were pressed against Octavio as she ripped her face from his, "Yah?" She tried to sound casual as Octavio kissed viciously at her neck. "Are the two of you done talking?" Natalie's soft voice came through the other side of the door. When Octavio sucked along Ajay's exposed shoulder, Ajay bit at her lower lip to hold back a scream. "Yah. Yah." Ajay was able to get out before whispering, "Silva..."

Octavio smiled and pulled her hard against him as he sucked on her shoulder until he left her skin discolored from pleasure. "Che?" She sighed and dug her nails into his neck. Her body already ached for him to be inside of her again. "Bien! Then you know the situation with D.O.C. We should hurry, we have a match tonight." Natalie's voice was still soft, but it was tainted with worry.

Ajay's body froze as soon as she heard D.O.C. mentioned. "Silva?" She whispered his name again and as soon as she did she could feel Octavio's body freeze for a moment. "I'm sorry Che." He said as he pulled his head back far enough to look into her eyes. "Yah." She said in a staggered voice directed towards Natalie. Octavio helped her down from the counter and then hugged her. Without asking, Octavio answered the only question that Ajay could possibly have for him, "I'll show you."

They held each other for a long moment before parting their bodies. She didn't know what to expect so she put on a fake face full of disparaging happiness. She opened the door and almost walked smack into Natalie who was standing right at the bathroom entry way. Ajay nearly screamed as her heart skipped a beat. Ajay could see Elliot over Natalie's shoulder, ass up and bare. She shook her head and looked back at Natalie, "Take me to D.O.C."

Natalie nodded, "Oui. Octavio can help get Elliot ready then." Ajay knew, without looking back that Octavio was rolling his eyes at the whole situation but that didn't matter right now. What mattered is that they had a match tonight and she still didn't know what was wrong with D.O.C. If D.O.C. was out for the match, then she was also out for the match and she wasn't allowed to be out according to her contract. A million scenarios ran through her brain as she followed Natalie down the stairs and towards a small room off the main hallway.

The room was more or less a little workshop. On the workbench in the middle of the room was D.O.C. Ajay walked over to the table and looked over her beloved little drone as it lay lifeless on the table. The drone was in a halo of small parts and tools like someone had tried to fix her robot friend, but she knew she was the only one that could fix D.O.C. because she was the one who built her.

Natalie raised a hand to place it on Ajay's shoulder but immediately dropped it as Ajay took a step into the room. It was silent, aside from Ajay's footsteps. Ajay was speechless and drained of emotion. She didn't know what to do or think. Everything was a lot to take in and it all hit her at once. She wasn't in shock, she just had nothing more to give. She had already given so much that she was just empty.

She made it all the way to the table and tentatively ran the fingertips of her left hand along the cracks on the drone's metal frame. As soon as she did, memories ripped through her brain like little daggers, only giving her bits of information but not enough to fill in the gaps. She felt trapped in a box filled with water. She tried to break the glass, but she was just to exhausted to keep trying.

Her hair fell over her shoulders as she tilted her head downward and placed her palms to the edges of the table. She closed her eyes and tried to think of a way to fix this mess... her drone. She knew she had to take it one step at a time, or she would drive herself insane; maybe she already was there. Maybe insanity was the new norm for her.

"Sorry Che. I couldn't fix her." Octavio's words came from the entry way and broke her thoughts, causing her to nod. "I know Silva. I have to. It has to be me to fix her." She was quick to say it and quick to lift her head up and look around the room for the parts she needed. Octavio watched her, "I tried to fix her. I really wanted you to rest but I am just not good with that stuff." He paused, "You know, the waiting stuff. Especially when it comes to you."

Ajay offered Octavio a smile that he couldn't see before she began walking around and collecting everything that she needed for D.O.C. "Silva, it's okay, really." She could tell that he was sincere and that he felt bad, but she didn't have a lot of time to console him. She needed to get her drone fixed before the match.

"Che..." He watched as she began to work on D.O.C. "Pops called." Ajay grew a bit tense as she listened to him, "Why are ya tellin me dis?" Octavio shrugged even though she couldn't see him do it behind her, he continued anyway, "He offered me a position at Silva Pharmaceuticals. Family business blah, blah, blah stuff." Ajay couldn't help but laugh, "Did yah ask him to ride the Octrain?" Octavio laughed, "No but..." He stopped talking for a moment and watched her work on her drone. It brought a small smile to his face.

"Whenever you're ready Che we can get out of here. We could start over and be done with this." When Octavio broke the silence with the leaving and starting over bit, it caught her off guard. She stopped momentarily as she picked up a small screwdriver and then continued, "Yah know I can't Silva." She said it quietly enough so that only they could hear it. Octavio stepped into the room, leaning his back against a nearby wall so that he could be closer to her but far enough away so that she could still continue to work on D.O.C. "I know that. I mean after we get you out of this."

"Does he know we're married Silva?" It was her turn to interrupt him. Octavio looked puzzled for a moment. "I guess it never came up. I guess I just assumed that he knew it would happen someday." Ajay tried to be gentle with D.O.C. as she repaired her, "Ya father doesn't like me." Octavio pushed himself from the wall, "I don't think it's like that Che. He has never said that. At least he hasn't tried to shoot you." He laughed but stopped when she wasn't laughing.

Ajay made it a point not to look at Octavio. She placed her hands down on the workbench and leaned against them. She was frustrated that she was losing focus on her objective and getting upset over Octavio's father. She was a fucking adult and she still let their parents dictate her life but, in all honesty, she was more frustrated that she couldn't bare to tell Octavio the rest about his father, about what Eduardo said to her that night.

Octavio made his way over to her and placed his hands on her tense shoulders, "What are you talking about Che?" She took a deep breath, "Silva. He told me he didn't want me to marry you because of how my parents got their money. He didn't want the Silva name mixed in with the Che name." Is what she wanted to tell him, but she knew that Octavio and Eduardo's relationship was already messed up enough and she didn't want to put more unnecessary strain on it. Besides it wasn't the time to drudge up the past. She was still recharging from everything that she had already told him about her own past.

"Che?" Octavio rubbed her shoulders. She turned around to face him. "Silva. I don think I can live that life right now. I don think you can live that life right now either. Even if we wanted to live that life." Even though she was stuck in a binding contract there wasn't really much alternative for her at the moment. She put on a fake smile and held back tears because on the inside she wanted a life with him outside of all of this violence. The constant worry of her life or his life or her friend's lives' being taken always had her on edge. She didn't need the white picket purgatory and the 1.5 kids. She just needed him.

If she left with Octavio now, then their families would be all over them. Whether it be grooming them to take over the family business, separating them to marry someone else to take over the family business someday, or having them killed. If their families didn't get to them first, then The Syndicate would, and they would be tortured and killed. So, it was would be the same outcome either way.

There was also more truth to this than Ajay told Octavio about, more truth to her contract. Well, it wasn't in her formal contract, but it was in her moral contract and when it came up then she would tell him but it hadn't so she hadn't told him yet. Maybe it would never come up and she would never have to deal with it, she was already lying to herself.

She was afraid of how he would respond to her statement, so she shifted to face him. He smiled at her and placed a hand to her cheek. "I was hoping that you would say something like that. We're having too much fun to quit now, right hermosa." He didn't phrase it as a question, which made Ajay smile up to him.

Eduardo's words always weighed heavily on her shoulders, even as an adult. In the end they were just words, but Eduardo's words held money and power behind them. She knew that if Eduardo wanted to ghost her then it wouldn't be hard. There were things that she didn't tell Octavio because they were things that didn't need to be said at the time. She knew someday that she would have to lay everything out on the table but today was not that day.