Night Thief

Chapter 37: The Explanation

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-Victoria-

When James stopped the horse we we're far away from guild's hideout. The house looked beautiful the white stairs going up to the door, with the stable under the stairs hiding away, I jumped off the horse and then James done the same and leaded the horse to the stable hiding the horse away before locking the gate.

"Shall we?" James asked me I nodded and then he started walking up the stairs and I followed him. He knocked on the door and waited until we heard a faint voice, then we heard wood being moved from against the door. Then the door opened showing us a young women, she smiled to see James but not to see me.

"James who is this?" She looked at me before looking back at him.

"Honey you can trust her, she's here to help us." James said to the women who I assumed was his wife, she doubted before opening the door wide enough for both of us to walk in. I grabbed him by the arm before he got into the house.

"I never said I would help you." I whispered to him.

"You're gonna have to now if you want to know the truth." James said getting out of my grip and walked into the house I followed him and closed the door behind me. The house was lit up beautiful, there were chairs against the wooden table, the stove was lit and there was vegetables sitting in a basket near the stove.

"Daddy." I looked to see a little boy and girl running up towards James. James picked them both up hugging them both making them both laugh.

"James why don't you and the children get the rest of the vegetables from outside, while I talk to her." James' wife said James placed the children down and the both held James' hand as he led them out.

"Now what's you're name?" The women asked me.

"Victoria." I answered her question.

"I'm Eleanor, my children Cristina and Enzo. Eleanor told me. Why did her name seem so similar?

"You have beautiful children and a home." I Complimented her, Eleanor nodded thanking me. Then the back door opened and James and the children ran in with the vegetables.

"Close the windows and the doors now Eleanor." James said closing the door behind him and locking it, the children went near to were their toys were and sat down covering their ears. Eleanor closed the windows and locked the door before running over to her children who were on the floor. James still had the vegetables in his arm as he grabbed my arm pulling me away from the window moving us both to the side.

We heard shouting coming from outside and then screaming. What the heck is happening out there? Then guns were then being fired, I looked at Eleanor and she was just as scared as the her children. While Eleanor was trying to calm down her children the guns stopped and the shouting got quieter as they started moving away. James moved around me too see if anyone was out there.

"It's alright children their gone." James said looking back at Cristina and Enzo, they both looked up before standing up slowly. Eleanor then walked over to James and taken the vegetables off him that were still in his grasp, she placed them near the stove where the other vegetables were.

"What was happening out there?" I asked looking at James,

"Soldiers come 'round people's home and take anything they want. That's why we need you're help." James said to me.

"I didn't agree to this but I need answers first before I do anything." I told them, James nodded. James looked at Eleanor and she nodded and then told the children to go into their room and play. Cristina and Enzo picked up their toys and they both ran to their room.

"Go on what's you're first question?" James asked me.

"How did you actually get involved with the guild?" I asked him.

"It started all before, when I met Eleanor. I fell in love with her but she was meant to be married to my brother but it never happened. And I asked Eleanor to run away with me, start a new life away from everyone we knew. And when we did our first docking was here Italy, at the time we didn't have no money or a home and I promised her I would do anything for us both to have a good life, and I was a craftsman and a blacksmith and the guild needed amour and weapons so that they wouldn't bleed to death after a knife wound, they asked me. I give them amour and weapons, they give me coin which was the thing we needed most." James finished his story, and then I realised what James said at first. That Eleanor was meant to get married to someone else. Wait Eleanor was the girls name that Sparrow was meant to marry, but he didn't marry her.

"Wait Eleanor how old were you when you were meant to be married before James?"

"Seventeen why?" Eleanor asked me. Sparrow that lying bastard.

"You have a brother James. How old is he?"

"Twenty five?" He said getting concerned. I'm going to kill Sparrow when I see him.

"And how old are you many I ask?" I asked James

"Thirty." James said then realising what I've just done. I'm going to kill Sparrow when I get back home.

"What's going through you're head?" James asked me I shook me head I felt betrayed by Sparrow lies, why lie to me?

"That I guess you're brother is a lying arsehole and I want to kill him." I admittedly said annoyed.

"Victoria how do you know Sparrow?" That made Eleanor eyes widen and look at James.

"He's the leader of the Brotherhood." I told them both the truth.

"Of course he loves the attention." Eleanor said in a sarcastic tone. James looked at her.

"I'll go tend to the children." Eleanor said walking away from us. James sighed.

"I'm sorry you had to find out this way Victoria." James said to me. No Sparrow is going to be the one that's sorry for lying to me.

"So you're the older brother? Not Sparrow?" James nodded.

"Victoria the only reason he did this was to protect us, when I ran away with Eleanor her family wanted to kill so Sparrow toke my age and said that I was him and that I was his younger brother so me and Eleanor could go. He been like this ever since, it's to protect people, Victoria he lied to protect you." James said.

There was then a knock on the door making us both go silent James walked over and unlocked the door. "A letter for a sir James." James was handed the letter and then thanked the man before closing the door. He looked over the front of the letter that it was addressed to and then looked at the back to see the symbol on the back.

"It's for you."