Black Rose

Leave this place

Heri slowly blinks awake as the rays of the sun hit his face. For a moment, he lays still in early morning bliss before he shifts and hisses in pain, the night before rushing back to him. He closes his eyes as tears form in them and shifts, trying to get up. "Stay your fucking ass still, boy. Don't make me angry." Syl says, him laying half on top of Heri, half on top of the bed. Bru groans awake besides them, blinking at the clock. "Shit, we gotta get going. The room is ganna expire in two hours and I don't wanna be here when it does." he says standing. Sly huffs and gets up, going to the bathroom for a shower. Bru goes and starts to brush his teeth," Wake her up. She better be awake by the time I get out from here." he calls out to Heri. The boys silently nods and scoots over to shake Alice. "Hey...hey! Please wake up. A-alice?" he whispers.

A swift movement and Alice is sitting up, her eyes roaming over the room silently. Her eyes land on Heri and she stares at him. Heri shifts uncomfortably and covers himself, looking down and away,"Why are you staring at me?" he whispers. Before anything can be said, Bru walks back in," Get yourselves fressed. You can shower when we get to our next stop. Let's go." he says, then walks back into the bathroom as Syl comes out of the shower to brush his teeth and Bru goes to shower. Slowly, to minimize the pain, the two children get dressed. After that, they sit silently on the bed until the two men are ready to go. Syl tosses over a jacket to both children and tells them to put it on before they leave. After that, they walk out, Bru and Syl walk while holding the children's hand and holding onto the bags. Once they're inside, Syl starts driving again.

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After some time, Syl pulls over to a McDonald's restaurant and orders some burgers. "Here. Don't give any to her." Bru says after they leave, handing a burger over to Heri and ignoring Alice. Alice, in the meanwhile, stares blankly out the window. As they drive on, Heri shyly tries to sneak over peices of food to Alice but she denies him. "You'll need it more than me, plus you'll be punished." she whispers to him. Nodding reluctantly, he goes back to eating his food quietly. After that, he starts to fall asleep, exhaustion catching up with him and he tilts to lay his head on Alice's shoulder after he falls to sleep. They drive like that for a few hours, Alice silently letting Heri use her shoulder as a pillow and Heri sleeping.

A ringing breaks the silence in the car. "Hello?" Bru answers. "Ah, have you got everything under control there?" a voice says. "Oh, Elkins. Yeah we got it. Hey, you said you were ganna take them to the Franchise right? You want us to just take them there?" he asks. Elkins makes a pleased sound," That's even better than what I had in mind. I'll tell our other...partners about this change of events." he chuckles lowly. "Yeah alright then. Oh, by the way, your little boy toy and her are in trouble. She ran away twice and the second time, he tried to hide her from us by not tellimg us he saw her." Bru says, glaring over his shoulder at the two, rolling his eyes at the sight of them. Elkins chuckles darkly," Oh really? Well, you two are welcome to do any punishments you deem fit, except for body mods and mutilation. Other them that, go wild." he says. Bru hums in understanding and they end the call.

Alice hears all this and a shiver runs down her spine, grateful that Heriel is asleep during all this. The ride continues on into the wee hours of the night. At that point, the two pull over to a surburban neighborhood, stopping at a house that's om the far end of the street. Silently, the two men creep out the jeep and make their towards the house, pausing only a moment to send Alice a warning look, before Bru picks the lock and enters the house with Bru in tow. Alice watches from the car, looking around at the sleeping houses around her. Minutes later, the two me come back carrying something small wrapped in a sag cloth and dumb it into the trunck of the back. Then they go back and collect more of the sack cloths, dumbing them in the same manner before getting in the car and driving off.

After a few hours into the morning light, the car stops at an abandoned warehouse far away from the city and almost smack in the middle of nowhere. By now, the sacks are wiggling and crying with muffled shouts, begging to be let free. Bru and Syl get out the car and then take the sacks into the warehouse before bringing in Heri and Alice. There, they finally see what was in the sacks. A man and a woman are tied to a chair next to each other. Behind them are three little boys and two little girls, also tied to a chair. In front of the whole group is a baby that's strapped to a table, spread eagled. Bru and Syl instruct Alice and Heri to turn the people so that thry make a circle around the table, before laying down some weapons on another table. Once that's done, Bru goes and stands by the table, dragging along Heri with him.