Wanted : A MiniCat Fanfiction

Chapter 31 ~ The Release Form

Z POV: 

I jumped up, yanking on my armor, and then rushing to the armory room to grab my weapons back. 
I tied my hair up in a messy bun and ran back to Tanner's room quietly. 
Tanner bumped into me and pulled me into the bedroom. 
"Tanner, Tanner..." I started saying. 
"I know you're eager, but you have to keep it down, Evan hasn't been notified of exactly what happened yet." Tanner said.
She walked over to her computer and continued typing.
It was a form of Release.
She hit "print" and yanked it out of the printer, signing it and handing it to me along with a pen. 
She smiled.
"All you have to do is sign here and he's gone. If Evan signs it, too."
I looked down at the paper. 
I picked it up. 
A form of release. 
If I signed this, Tyler would be exiled and disgraced among all assassins; he would be in the lowest class. He wouldn't be able to show his face around here ever again. 
He and Mini would most likely be separated; a higher class assassin could never bond with a Disgraced assassin. 
I looked at the paper.
Now was my one and only chance, after all those years of hell and Tyler's abuse, to finally actually get rid of him, to expel him from one of the only families he had left.

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I grabbed the pen and signed it as fast as I could.

(Just kidding, *Z laughs evilly*)

 >:)

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Z POV:  

I looked at the paper and grabbed the pen.

I then I scooted it across the table and broke the pen.  
Tanner looked at me, confused.
"Z?" She asked me.
"I could never do that to Tyler." I whispered. 
"He almost killed you, Princess." S he said to me.
"If there's anything you've taught me, Tanner, it's that loyalty and family are the two most important things in the world. And when I was little, Tanner, when I was a small little girl, with no hope in the world, with nothing but the clothes on my back, you took me in and taught me the rules of the house. You gave me something that I'd never really had much of... A family. And all these years, while you trained me, and ignored all the negative comments that people would give you about taking care of me, you believed in me, you made me who I am today. And I'd be damned if I didn't look up to you or listen. You're my madre. My best friend. My everything. You always will be. And even in times where I want to just leave and completely hurt everyone in our family, I listen to you, although you are not speaking. And you'd tell me, madre...." I smiled.

"Family and loyalty are a privilege, not a right. So protect them all that you can.  They'll do the same for you some day."

She grinned and hugged me.
"My little girl. I'm so proud." She said.
"Now, do you want to go talk it out with Tyler?" She asked.
I nodded.
"Okay then," She said. "Let's go." 
Before we walked out the room, she grabbed another copy of the Release form. 

We walked to Tyler's room. 
He was asleep with Craig in his arms.
I guess they made up. 
I pulled the blanket off of them and Tyler's eyes flipped open, Craig rolling over to the other side of the bed.

Tyler jumped up.
"Get out!" He said.
"Not so fast. Sit your little ass back down." 
My mouth almost dropped open from Tanner's use of language.
It was rare to hear her speak like that. 

Tyler looked at Tanner, shocked, too.
But slowly and hesitantly, he lowered himself back down onto the bed. 
Craig rolled over and sat up. 
He smiled at me and waved.
I let out a tiny grin back out to him and then turned to focus on Tyler.

"What the hell do you want, Z?" Tyler asked. 
I grabbed the form from Tanner and held it up to his view. 

"This is what I want. You see this?" I asked.
He nodded.
"Do you know what this is?" I said to him.
He shook his head. "What is it?"
"It's a form of Release." I smiled.
He looked at me with shocked yet concerned eyes.

"No, Z. Please don't." Craig almost started to cry.
"It's okay, Release me. I don't give a fuck. It wouldn't do anything." Tyler said over him. 
"It won't do anything?" i laughed. 
"Tyler, first of all, you'd be stripped not only of this family, but your belongings and everything you worked so hard to build up as an assassin over all these years. You'd be looked down upon and targeted. It'd be like an easy target walking through a hallway full of bullies. You wouldn't even be allowed to have Craig in your life anymore. A Disgraced isn't even allowed to own their own shelter." I said.
"You'd become an outcast, Tyler." Tanner whispered.

Tyler looked at us, with his mouth open for what seemed like several seconds.

"You're going to do this to me? Why?" He almost started crying.

He grabbed Craig's hand and Mini covered his mouth, crying. 
Tears escaped his eyes and he pushed up his glasses to attempt to wipe them away.

"Then we can both just leave completely." Tyler said, his voice cracking.
I shook my head.
"You both would know too much. We'd be forced to kill you."  

Craig grabbed my hand.
"Please don't do this."

It was quiet. 

And then the sound of my ripping the paper filled the room.

Tyler looked at me as the ripped, torn pieces of the paper fell to the ground.

Five words came from his lips: "Why did you do that?" 

I looked at him.

 "Because, Tyler, ho many times do we need to tell you?" I smiled and pulled him closer into a hug.

"You never leave a family member behind."