It Takes Three to Tango (GxGxG)

Prologue - The End?

"NOOOO!!!" Vi and Caitlyn yelled simultaneously.

Damn...

Silco had raised his gun and...

It was pointed at me.

How did it come to this?

When I woke up groggily and tied to a chair, I didn't think this was what was bound to happen. Amari told me that I had to choose. Choose between the selfish and unselfish choices that were presented to me. She said I knew I would make the right choice.

Jinx muttered to herself as she paced back in forth at the front of the table.

I was mentally panicking because I couldn't see Caitlyn.

Where was she?

What had Jinx done to her?

If Caitlyn was dead, I would have felt it with our bond, but that didn't mean Jinx wasn't torturing the woman I love.

Dammit... Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!

Whatever Jinx had used on me in Caitlyn's house was still having an effect on me and I wasn't able to break through the ropes that tied me to this chair. I was trying so hard to break them and get to wherever my Princess was.

When Jinx abruptly stopped, I was sure she was spiraling.

And...

I was right.

Jinx went on to rant at Vi about everything. Jinx was punishing Vi. Punishing her because she 'abandoned' her. Left her to rot with the rest of the people who were forgotten down here in the Undercity. Left her to fend for herself.

I could understand Jinx's anger, but...

What was Vi supposed to do?

Vi was in Stillwater for 6 years.

6.

Long.

Years.

If Jinx wanted to be pissed at anyone then she should be pissed at me.

I was the one who was here.

I was the one who couldn't rescue her from Silco's clutches.

I was the one who failed her.

Not Vi.

So why was Jinx being so hard on her?

And where was my anger directed?

Silco.

Everything started and ended with that evil, vile man.

Silco was the one who turned on my Dad without a hint or remorse.

Silco killed my Dad so...

Easily.

I didn't understand then.

I questioned why this was happening.

We were all supposed to be on the same side, but we were killing each other.

After that, I saw the bodies of two of my friends under rubble.

My body was in complete agony, but my heart felt like it had shattered into a million pieces.

Silco was the reason why Claggor and Mylo were dead.

The same friends I had looked out for and spent good times with.

The same friends I never thought would leave on without me.

The same friends who were like family.

My brothers...

After that, Dad had picked us up and jumped through the window, so Vi and I would avoid the explosion that just happened seconds after we all got out of the cannery.

My body had lain next to Dad's, but it wouldn't move.

I wanted to do something about it, but my damned body just wouldn't move.

Amari had taken over and made me lay deathly still next to Dad.

I pleaded- no begged for her to let take back control...

But she still wouldn't.

I watched as Vi vanished into the darkness and Powder being picked up by Silco.

He was the reason why Vi spent 6 years in prison.

He was the reason why the Undercity was flooded why shimmer.

That creature was the reason why Jinx was the way she was.

It was the reason why I couldn't turn my back on her.

Jinx's mind was broken.

It didn't used to be so bad, but the shimmer in her system made it a thousand times worse. I used to always smack Mylo upside his moronic head when he went after Powder. Did the same to Vi when she snapped at her poor little sister that one time too. That was when we all barely knew each other and Vi was more volatile than is now. It was the only time I told Vi to put up her hands and fight someone her own size.

Vi learned a valuable lesson that day.

Oddly enough, I somehow earned her respect after that.

But that's beside the point.

Right now, the room around me feels like it's in slow motion.

I could feel the sweat slowly dripping down my back and the hairs of my arms beginning to stand on end. A weird combination, but my body was hot while it pumped adrenaline through my veins.

Why was adrenaline pumping through me?

Well... because Silco had fired the gun he had trained on me.

I could see the bullet moving toward me and I knew it would hit its mark.

It seemed like I wasn't allowed to have a happy ending.

I roared internally.

It was bullshit.

I had just gotten Vi back and we even added our Princess to our rag tag group. They were my pillars. We were a trio, and I couldn't have been happier, but here I was about to be shot by the man I so desperately wanted to kill.

I was being ripped away from my pride.

Again.

If that isn't bullshit, then I don't know what is.

I sent a reassuring smile to the women who I loved more than life itself.

I really did.

My heart beat for them.

My body moved for them.

My soul longed for them.

They were the pieces that completed the puzzle that was our bond. It made me feel whole.

All of them looked frantic and I could see them trying to do something about the escalating situation, but it wasn't to be.

I closed my eyes and waited for the inevitable.

There was nothing I could do now.

Fate was plotting its course.

Who was I to go against fate?