~Evermore~ (Twilight x Yor)

Chapter-23 ~ Utter Betrayal

Twilight was paralysed... he could not believe it! The woman he swore to love and protect was standing in front him, holding a blade to his throat. And the even more painful thing was that he could not express how he felt or he would expose his identity.

"Yor..... Why?", he spoke softly.

Yor stared into his eyes, "I couldn't sleep last night.... you know. I kept thinking what was the right thing to do and then I remembered why I started all of this... to serve my country and protect it and my brother. It's so painful for me to do this..... I can't let my emotions get the better of me. But... there is an escape route under the table. Quick, before the guards come."

He pretended to punch her stomach and she pretended to be hurt. He got up and straightened his back.

The ministers also got up in panic and started to head towards the exit. Desmond was the slowest one of them all due to his injury. They all headed out in panic and Loid did nothing. Soon, Desmond was the last one left in the room.

There was one thing no one knew in that room, Twilight was still armed. He still had a pistol inside his left boot.

He said, "It's time for me to leave now. But... before I do that... I just want one person in this room to know something. And you very well know, who I am referring to....."

He took out the gun and aimed it at Desmond,
"You are a demon, you belong in hell."

BANG!

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Twilight suddenly fell to the ground. *What the hell? What's happening.... I-m I-*

A woman in a black hat was standing at the door with a taze gun in her hand. Twilight was barely able to keep himself conscious, let alone speak.

She re-loaded her tazer and shot at the woman who was laying beside Twilight and pretending to be hurt.

"Ha-Handler?"

She entered the room and walked towards Desmond who was standing in a corner with his back stuck to the wall.

"Good. Westalians, you tried to kill me and now war is all you'll get. Nothing but war and deaths of your men. Madam please escort me to the nearest hospital... I am will bleeding. Thankfully, my heart wasn't damaged.", said Desmond.

Handler threw away the tazer and looked straight into Desmond's eyes, "Mr. Desmond, don't worry. I am here to escort you.... to hell that is"

She picked up Twilight's pistol....

BANG!

Desmond was shot in the head and dead, Twilight who was barely able to keep his eyes open, saw all this.

"But... why? Handler?"

She smiled, "I am sorry Twilight. I just had to kill him myself. He was the one who called out for the war before and my own daughter was killed due to him. Rest assured, I have avenged her. No.... we have. I couldn't have done this without you, Twilight. You were the reason I was able to pull this off and enter the building as a negotiator. Also.... yes, Twilight. I was the mole... it was me who hired the garden on you, to get rid of you because the HQ would've never let me go on the field to carry out this mission with you alive. And remember that file? That file, if released, would've caused Desmond to be jailed for lifetime. But that man only deserved death. You don't deserve all this Twilight, to be betrayed by your handler and the woman you love... Yes, I know about that. And for that, I really and truly apologise. The Ostanian Guard are about to storm this room any minute, Twilight. And don't think about using your eloquence to get out of this situation under the case that they immediately don't shoot you. This room has no cameras and therefore none of us have any proof. I'd like to make this encounter seem a bit real..."

She shot the gun at her own abdomen at a non-vital point and fell unconscious.

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6 hours passed.

Twilight woke up in a very dim-lit room. It was completely silent. No noise at all. The room was very compact and dull. The only entrance to the room was a huge bulky iron door.

As soon as he woke up, he was half-dazed and thoughtless. He did not know what to do or think. His mentor and wife had betrayed him. His daughter, still at home doesn't know where her own father is. Even though the mission was completed successfully, Twilight did not feel the usual joy he was supposed to.

He got up from his white bed and went near the wash basin and looked himself in the mirror. He stared straight into his own eyes. And at that moment.... at that very moment... everything hit him at a same time. For the first time since he became a spy, for the first time out of acting, he shed a tear. Not just one tear, another, and another and another... he started to cry. He had never expected this to occur.. at least not from the woman he dearly loved. He created for a minute and then stopped.

He went back to his white bed and sat on it. He then glanced his eyes all across the room until he saw the camera. As soon as he saw the camera, he got up again and started glaring at the camera.

"I am awake and ready." , he said.

After 2 minutes, he heard noises across the hallway behind his door. And suddenly, he heard the loud noise of his door opening.

Inside came 3 men, two familiar faces and two then a new person.

Yuri, the assistant director of SSS and a third man whom he had never seen nor heard of before. As soon as Yuri saw him, he clenched his fists and gave him a death stare, to which he did not choose to react.

The assistant director spoke, "Good afternoon, Twilight. I know we have met before, so you know who I am and you also know your brother-in-law and presumably the fact that he is an SSS agent. However, you don't need to get concerned about that both of us. We are just here to see you, your investigation and interrogation will be handled by the director himself."

The third man then took out a cigarette and offered it to Twilight, "You'll need one before we start. And yes, I am the director."