The Lost And The Broken (Guardians Of The Galaxy: Rocket FF)

Chapter Three

My slightly pointy ears twitched in my sleep hearing footsteps come near our cell. I quickly woke up and jumped up catching a pipe in my hands and stuck to the ceiling, watching to see what they will do. They broke in, grabbing Gamora waking her. She shouted but they covered her mouth so she was reduced to grunting.

"Where is Draco Sicarri?" One of them whispered.

They all looked around unsettled, "Who cares, lets just get out of here before she does come back." The leader says to them and they quickly drag her off. My eyes narrowed and I drop down in a crouch. I follow after them but keeping a good distance between us and kept to the shadows just in case.

As I walked pass a big cell I noticed from the corner of my eye I saw Quill get up, he made his way towards me carefully walking over the other inmates. I faintly heard Rocket mumble Quill's name. He got near me without knowing I was there. "I'm surprised you'd help her after she tried to kill you." I whispered quietly making him jump. "Yeah well I do have a conscience." He mutters back.

"What are you two doing?" Rocket whispers coming up behind us while rubbing his eyes.

Cute- Goddammit! "Saving her, obviously." We both say at the same time. I jumped up catching a pipe and started crawling on the ceiling to where they dragged Gamora. "What is she doing?" Rocket asked as they quickly followed after me. "I have no idea. But it's kinda cool." He whispers to Rocket. I roll my eyes and slow down so that I'm behind them.

I heard mutters and saw the big blue man with red markings holding a knife and holding Gamora by her throat against the wall. The leader cowering next to him, the three of us stayed in the shadows watching silently. I tensed up and crawled into the room still on the ceiling so that I was above them.

"Ronan killed my family. Now I'm returning the favor." He said going to slash her throat.

I dropped down quickly at the same time kicking the cowering leader in the face knocking him down and landed on my feet. "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!" Quill yelled running in followed by Rocket at the same time. The knife got closer to Gamora's neck and I growled making a stance getting ready to attack.

"You know, if killing Ronan is really your sole purpose, I don't think that this is the way to go about doing it." Quill says quickly and gives me a brief look telling me to back off.

"Aren't you the man she attempted to kill?" He asks.

Quill smiles knowing he has his attention. "Well, she's hardly the first women to do that to me, she also tried to," Quill nods to me making him glance at me then Quill lifts the bottom of his shirt up a little, "Look, this is from a smoking hot Raijack girl. Stabbed me with a fork. Didn't like me skipping out on our sunrise." Quill tells him then pulls down the collar of his shirt showing another. "Right here a Kree girl, tried to rip out my thorax. She caught me talking to another girl. I was trying to get information. The girl I was talking to  had tentacles and needles for teeth. I'd totally be interested in that." Quill sarcastically says and lets go of his shirt, the marked man glares at him. I also did, since no one actually cares.

"You don't care." Quill states obviously. "Look, she betrayed Ronan. He's coming back for her and when he does, that's when you-" Quill moves his finger over his throat.

"Why would I put my finger on his throat?" He asks confused.

"Oh my Gods." I mutter. They ignore me, except Rocket who gives me a weird look. "It's just a symbol for you slicing his throat." Quill says. "I will not slice his throat; I will cut his head clean off." He said tightening his grip on Gamora. "It's a general expression of you, killing somebody."Quill explains to him. "You've seen this before. You know what I mean. Everyone knows." Quill says looking to the man that I kicked in the face. He nodded then turned seeing the marked man glaring at him then quickly shook his head in fear.

"Listen, what he's trying to say, you want to keep her alive." I tell him. He thinks for a moment and drops Gamora letting her fall to the ground but I quickly catch her. "I like this knife. I'm keeping it." He says looking at the knife in his hands and walks away. "But that's my knife.." The leader mutters then quickly runs out when I glare at him.

"Are you okay Gamora?" I ask helping her stand up and she weakly nods to me.

We were walking down a hallway, I was following Rocket. I like being in the back more, better advantage point. "Listen, I could care less whether you live or die." Quill speaks up behind her. She stops walking and turns around facing him, "Then why help Dracora stop the big guy?" She asks.

"Simple," He pauses for a brief moment, "You know where to sell my orb."

"How are we going to sell it when we and it are still inside here?" She asks.

"My friend Rocket here has escaped twenty two prisons." Quill says looking down at Rocket. "I highly doubt he's your friend." I mutter quietly. "Oh, we're getting out, and then we're headed straight to Yondu to retrieve your bounty." Rocket says with a grin.  "Let's split it." I speak up making him turn his head and glare at me. I met his glare with a blank look.

"What, why?" He asks.

"It's either we work together or we fight for his bounty. And we both know we want to avoid that conflict as much as possible." I say putting my hands behind my back. We both had a staring contest with Quill and Gamora watching. He growled, "Fine! I'm not promising we're splitting it evenly." He tells me and I nod.

"I am fine with that, now. Do we have a deal?" I ask holding my hand out.

His lip lifts up in a grimace and he huffs shaking my hand with his paw. "We have a deal.." He grumbles, I smirk feeling accomplished. He then gives me a weird look. "Why did your eyes just flash pink?" He asks me. "I... they did? Oh Gods..." I mutter feeling a little faint, that is very unexpected.

"Anyway... How much is your buyer willing to pay for my orb?" Quill asks Gamora.

"Four million units."

"What!?" Rocket exclaims.

"Holy crap!" Quill yells at the same time.

"I think I need to sit down..." I mumble starting to go dizzy from just knowing my eyes flashed pink, I almost fell but Gamora caught me putting my arm around her neck. "That orb is my chance to get away from Thanos and Ronan ." She explains to them and secretly gives me a worried side glance. "If you free us... I'll lead you to the buyer directly and split the cost amongst the four of us." She tells us looking back at them.

"I am Groot." Groot says appearing, holding the bars with his hands.

"Five ways.." I mumble.

"Asleep for the action and awake for the money as per frickin' usual." Rocket said crossing his arms over his chest glaring at Groot.

Gamora helped me back to our cell and also helped onto the berth, she sat on hers and stared at me while I hunched over holding my head in my hands. "Please stop staring at me." I tell her. "Tell me why you had such a reaction after being told your eyes flashed pink, then I will stop staring." She says to me and I sigh.

"It's supposed to be a secret but you won't take no for answer, will you?"

"I will not." She replies.

I sigh again and lay back onto the berth and stare at the ceiling. "As I've told you before I am a Faunus. Being kind is in our nature or was in our nature anyway. The one thing that made us special compared to other species, other than our abilities, was when our eyes flash pink it means we found our soulmate." I explained to her, I side glanced and watched as her eyes widened.

"Wait you mean that... he's your soulmate?" She asks in shock.

I chuckle slightly. "Trust me it surprised me as well. I never thought I would find mine since our soulmates are usually Faunus as well. It's very rare." I tell her and she nods slightly. "You refer to the other Faunus like they are dead." She says to me and I clench my jaw.

"That's because they are. I was the only one to survive. Can we go to sleep now." I mutter, before she could reply I turned my body facing the wall. I heard her shift and lay down. I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep.