With Robin.

16

"Dad?" Robin asks in disbelief with a sight hint of fear, though he hides it well,

"Robin, my boy-" he says condescendingly, "- I have to say, I never had you down as a traitor" he grins patronizingly while taking slow steps down the broken stairs, "but I guess you and your no good sister are more similar then I had presumed" he add,

"you leave her out of this" Robin snaps, surprising me and by the look on his fathers face he was taken back too,

"watch your mouth boy-" he seethes as he gets to the bottom of the stairs, evidently to close to me, "-lets not make this any harder then it has to be" he says, all of a sudden a arm snakes around my throat and pulls me back into a hard chest making me scream in shock. The man behind me slaps his paw like hand over my mouth, muffing my screams as I fight against his seemingly rock solid grip. Coeur heightens the gun up to my head, I cower slightly feeing tears brimming in my eyes as I squeeze them shut.

I open my eyes just in time to see Robin jumping at the gun making it fly out of Coeur's hand and land next to my feet,

"I will not let you harm her father" Robin spits as he holds his dagger to Coeur's throat, my heart flutters as he says this I knew he really cared, unless the drugs are yet to wear off. The mans grip loosens as I stop fighting against him, to busy taking in the fact Robin had just done that for me, taking the chance I ram my elbow in to his stomach making him release me and hunch over to catch his breath. I grab the gun and face the now standing up right man, who instantly holds his hands up defensively.        

"how did you find us?" is the first question I think to ask, making Coeur chuckle slightly from behind me,

"It's obvious-" he chuckles? coughs, "-you're looking for the moon peals, we knew you'd come here first" he reveals, I curse at myself for being so stupid. The man in front of me suddenly lunges for the gun and judging by the sound of commotion behind me Coeur is doing the same thing to Robin and his dagger, I feel fear fill me and do the first thing I can think of.

I squeeze the trigger. The sound rings in my ears, echoing off the stones and silencing the two fighting behind me. I watch as the man freezes looks at me wide eyed as he touches the circler hole in his chest, that is now dribbling blood. He shuffles back two steps before his eyes roll back and he falls off the cliff face. We're all silent as we wait to hear the splash of the rough waves, I flinch as we do as if I could feel the iciness cutting into my own skin.

I turn to see Coeur grabbing the knife from Robins hand as he's distracted. He pushes the knife against his throat and pins him against a disintegrating brick wall, I run towards him and push the head of the gun to the back of his neck.

"let the boy go or I'll shot" I threaten, Coeur only laughs.

Robin groans in pain as Coeur presses the knife slightly harder on his neck but not hard enough to cause him too bleed out, only enough to make a small bit of blood trickle down the knife. I reload the pistol letting it make the clicking sound. Coeur stiffens slightly and doesn't move a inch,

"I don't want to do this but I will if I have to" I threaten, Coeur doesn't move a little, "step away from the boy" I command, he does as I say begrudgingly. I look at Robin to see him recovering, one hand clutching his throat and the other on his knee as he regains his breath.

"now what, princess?" Coeur asks with a surprising amount of cockiness, I cringe at the nickname it doesn't feel the way it fells when Robin says it,

"shut it" I snap defensively only making him chuckle,

"give me the gun" Robin demands coming to stand next to me, a thin line of blood running down this neck. I pass it to him without hesitating, trusting he wont just turn around and shot me. He holds the gun up to the back his fathers head, much like I had before him.

"leave now and I wont shoot" Robin offers,

"like a cowered?-" he chuckles, "-I'm not you" Robin growls under his breath from the disrespect. In one swift movement Coeur turns and grabs Robins wrist making him drop the gun. I hear a loud snap of Robins wrist making him cry out in pain, I grab the gun off the floor before Coeur has the chance to even see I did. I turn to see Robin fighting with Coeur, knowing what I have to do I hold the gun up and hold follow Coeur's body. It's either him or me and Robin. I have to do this. 

"OI!" I shout over them, making them pause and look over at me. Taking the chance I take the shot, hitting Coeur in the shoulder. He falls to his knees and tries catches his breath, "com'on Robin" I call as I run towards his frozen form, grabbing his hand and running up the steps.