The Reign of Lily Black

Long live revolution

As night falls, Gemini is sitting on the bonnet of the car behind the house when Ruslan comes up and asks: ""Busy day?"

Gemini sighs and says: "I'm Trying to make a living as a criminal. I don't seem to be doing very well."

Ruslan grins quietly and says: "That's why I prefer to live the life of a bandit. So I prefer to be a libertine." That's why I like being a bailiff . And now a rebel queen who protects me even when I have minimal contact with her."

Gemini grins wryly and asks: "Would you give it up?"

Ruslan frowns and asks: "Give it up? Don't you mean I'd swap it for...the current one?"

Gemini looks at the sky and asks: "What difference does it make?"

Ruslan shrugs and says: "What difference would it make?"

Gemini shrugs and says: "After all, being with someone isn't directly trading something for something. You wouldn't gain.. or lose anything directly. It's just that someone would come with you. Until... they don't."

Ruslan grins and says: "I'd be someone who would just guide you down the same shitty path. Just with a bigger curve."

Gemini nods and replies, "Yeah."

Ruslan raises an eyebrow and asks: "And this..."

Gemini shrugs and says: "I'm not saying it couldn't start. But, I also know that a lot of men wouldn't say that to someone they're trying to please."

Ruslan thinks for a moment and bosses around: "To please..."

Gemini nods silently as Ruslan says abruptly: "I..." and pulls the girl behind him and pulls out a small pistol.

Gemini looks at the man and asks: "What are you up to, foxy?"

Marc runs to Ruslan and says: "We're surrounded. Somebody called the Neroni gangsters here.."

"Neroni gangsters..?" asks Ruslan with a frown.

Gemini steps up to Ruslan and says: "Adrian's... wer-mafia men. They must be eliminated."

Ruslan nods and runs with Marc. But before he follows Marc, he turns to Gemini and asks: "Run. As far as you can."

Gemini nods and says: "Yes.."

Ruslan nods and rushes towards Marc until he hears approaching shots and takes the other side, while Irina and Vassili shoot from the other side of the house.

Adrian is sitting trundled unconscious in a metal bed when Gemini comes up to him and shakes him awake.

Adrian glances dazedly at Gemini and says: "What... you...?"

Gemini sighs angrily and says: "You're terrible, Adrian Blanchet."

But as soon as Adrian gets his arm free, he pushes her against the wall of the house, grabs her throat firmly and says: "Revolutions often are, Gemerine." And lets go of her, watching as the girl curls up in a ball and bounces: "It seems I already have my first follower." And lifting the girl's chin, he whispers: "Don Ganthron wouldn't like that very much, but... oh, what the hell. Some of us will live and others... not so much."

Gemini swallows and asks: "What did you do to him..?"

Adrian shrugs and says: "I broke my Hippocratic Oath. Although I never considered myself a doctor.."

Gemini looks at Adrian in horror and whispers, "You gave the paralysed man an overdose... you... you killed him!"

Adrian steps closer to her and says: "You hated him!"