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"Yeah, that's great man. Good looking out. Thanks." M.M. speaks into the phone while Butcher, Frenchie, Bellamy, and Cass follow behind him. He hangs up.
"Well? Don't leave us hanging." Butcher says, wanting to know how it went.
"Okay, so Deshawn's a brother that grew up on my block, but now he delivers packages." M.M. starts.
"The fast version, please." Cass sighs, rolling her neck around twice.
M.M. looks at her flatly before continuing.
"Yeah, not the part I'm interested in." Butcher agrees with her.
"He ran down the account number and the box containing the V came from Samaritan's Embrace."
Bellamy's brows scrunch together.
"Ezekiel's Supe Charity?" Butcher checks. M.M. dips his head. "What the fuck's that Jesus-thumping, elastic bastard got to do with it?"
Cass snorts, knowing it's naive to think more Supe's aren't involved.
"Maybe we find the girl, we find out." M.M. suggests.
"Yeah. All right." Butcher nods.
"Unless she runs off again." Cass mutters.
Bellamy ignores her, having heard, of course. He always does.
"Great. Let's get started." Bellamy voices.
"Platforms, ground floor." Butcher nods to Frenchie and Bellamy. "I'll take upstairs. Whoever pings her, get onto Frenchie and stick with her til we use the gas, all right?"
As soon as the last words leave his mouth everyone splits up.
Cass squints her eyes in irritation as she snakes through the crowd of people, ignoring whatever P.A. announcement's crackling over the intercom.
Bellamy quickly follows behind a fast-paced Frenchie while Frenchie stretches his neck to search. They turn the corner before Frenchie comes to a stop, halting Bellamy directly behind him.
"See something?" Bellamy tips his head up to look around.
Frenchie looks to his right, Japanese music hitting his ears. "Hear it." He moves his attention from the tv to the store before slowly walking in.
Bellamy looks up at the tv, coming to the realization Frenchie did, and follows him inside hoping the girl is in there.
Frenchie nods to two men that pass them as he scans the room when Bellamy nudges his arm, nodding up ahead at another tv in the back as they make their way to it.
'Tec Store' Frenchie texts Butcher and Bellamy catches himself thinking Cass is going to be pissed she wasn't also informed, though he has no way of contacting her.
As Frenchie turns around he jumps as does the girl under the table and Bellamy snaps his head to look down. The girl jerks like she's about to flea and Bellamy gets ready to dive when Frenchie swiftly crouches down.
"Non, non." He sticks his hand out to the girl and she stops. "It's okay. It's gone." Frenchie whispers, setting the gas down. Bellamy's jaw tenses but he quickly simmers, trusting Frenchie.
"It's gone, you see?" Frenchie waves his hands out in front of him. "We're not here to hurt you." He looks up, nodding at Bellamy and Bellamy slowly nods as well, holding his hands up to show the girl they were empty. The girl seems to ease ever so slightly. Frenchie pauses for a moment. "You like music, huh?" He asks her. She glares back at Frenchie.
Bellamy's eyes move back and forth between the two, ready to do anything at any moment.
"Well, me, too. C-Can I tell you a secret I've never told anyone but him?" Frenchie glances up at Bellamy for a moment before looking back at the girl. Bellamy's brows furrow together curiously. Frenchie swallows. "When I was a boy, my father, he stole me from Mamma. In Marseilles, middle of the night, just broke in, took me. Kept me with him for years. Hotel after hotel." Bellamy listens intently, stomach knotting the way it always does when Frenchie talks about his father... the familiarity makes Bellamy ill.
"Every few nights, take me out for a walk." Frenchie continues on. "Smoke a Gauloise, tell me he loved me, then..." Frenchie reaches down to his ankle and pulls his jean up and boot down to reveal cigarette burns. Bellamy can't bring himself to look again, once was enough. "I tried to run away so many times." The girl stares at his leg before her eyes connect with his. "I jumped buses, trains. Anything to get back to Marseilles. To Mamma." Frenchie's eyes crinkle as he smiles. "But every time, he find me. So I know what it's like to want to go home." His eyes tear up. "You see, I know your secret. You're not a bad person." He tells her. Words Bellamy knows he'll never hear, nor does he deserve to. "Just a scared one."
Bellamy stares at the dirty Asian girl, letting Frenchie's words sink in. He couldn't imagine wanting to go back home so badly, but what he could imagine was how scared she must be.
Frenchie steadily reaches his hand out towards her. "Let me help you. Let us help you." She looks at his hand and Frenchie smiles hopeful.
Suddenly the tv switched channels causing her to jump and Frenchie and Bellamy turn around. She grunts and launches the table at Frenchie sending him falling backward.
"Shit." Bellamy curses, stepping back as contents of the table crash at his feet and the girl takes off as he attempts to reach out and grab her without tripping over everything. Bellamy hastily turns to Frenchie.
"Go." Frenchie hollers and Bellamy takes off, Frenchie right behind him. "Coming through." Frenchie huffs out as he passes the men from before. Bellamy makes it back out to the platform and frantically does a 360 as Frenchie comes up behind him, out of breath.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Frenchie panics.
"Fuck!" Bellamy grabs his head with both hands before roughly dropping them down.
They both just royally fucked up... again.
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Hello, hellooo!! Uhhh, WELCOME TF BACK?!
I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS BOOK IN A MONTH?! HELLO?! When did that happen... Anyways... um wow, I just did not even know that much time has passed lmao.
Butttt, hope y'all enjoyed this chapter!! Next week will be the final part in this episode before we're on to episode 5!! And next week's chapter is gonna be gooodddd, so had to leave y'all on a cliffhanger this week ;)
Hope y'all enjoyed some Cass attitude & Bell & Frenchie's sceneee + Frenchie & Kimiko's momenttt!! Ofc Frenchie told Bellamy his secret, uhhh bf'sss?! But also the fact that Bellamy always has a hard time hearing Frenchie talk about his dad bc of his own shit father... ugh </3
Alrighttt, I'm done lol, until next time, mwah!!! SO happy to be back to this book omg <333
