I followed the two men back to their apartment. It was still hard to wrap around my head that, that man had been killed. I was grateful for Nicolas saving my life but, did that man really have to die? I didn't necessarily feel guilty but that guy must have had a family, right?
'Didn't Andrew kill someone once?' I asked myself, then it hit me, the memory..
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"Don't fucking touch her!" Andrew said as he continued to punch the man who try to grab me and run off with me. Andrew had the man pinned to the floor of the dark alley way, punching him harder and harder. I stood against the wall, terrified. I could hear my brother's punches starting to break the bones in the man's face.
"Andy, stop." I whimpered. But he didn't hear me. The tears started to pour down my face more and more. I could see the blood pouring out of the man's face, the sound of bones being broken. Again and again and again. "Andy stop it!" I screamed, more tears running down my face.
That time he listened and he stopped hitting the man. He turned to face me, his hands, his arms, pants and shirt were covered in blood. He looked back down at the man and took his wallet from his pocket and walked over to me and grabbed me, dragging me down the alley.
"Andy, we need to help him." I said through tears and he stopped and knelled down to look at me. "That man, just tried to take you, he would have hurt you and not given a single fuck who you were important to. Evee, listen to me, don't feel guilt for scum like him. Men who try to hurt women are animals and will get what they deserve in the end." He kissed my forehead and whispered, "No one will take you from me, you understand Evee?" I nodded at him and he grabbed my hand and took us back to the apartment.
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.."Are you okay Ever?" I snapped out of it when I heard Worick's voice. I turned to him and nodded.
"Well, we're here so come on up, we'll get your bag and take you to work." He said with a smile as he walked up the stairs of the building we were now in-front of. I must have really been lost in my memory, I didn't even remember most of the walk there. I followed up the stairs and walked through the open doorway to see their main living space. It wasn't much, some book shelves and a coffee table in the middle of the room with two green couchs. To the right side was a wooden desk, a chair, and a phone. There were also two other doors off the main room.
Nicolas had come from another room as he walked through one of the doorways that was connected off the main room I was in. I assumed he came from their kitchen as he was holding two bottles of Perrier water. He motioned them towards me and I shook my head. He nodded and moved to sit on the couch. Putting the extra bottle on the coffee table, he finally say back on the couch and open his bottle.
I kind of just watched as he did all of his actions. Every movement he made was being permanently marked into my brain. 'He really is quite a looker.' I thought to myself.
"Found it!" I snapped out of my trance when I heard Worick call out as he opened the door to the same place Nicolas had come out of.
"Sorry for the wait, I left your bag downstairs in the kitchen." Worick said holding out my bag to me. 'So that's where one of the doors lead to.'
"It's okay, I'm just glad none of my stuff got stolen." I said as I took my bag and wrapped both straps around my shoulders.
"Listen, you sure you wanna go into work after all this shit?" Worick asked me again. He looked really concerned. "I really need the money, so yeah I need to go. I'll try to explain to my boss what happened and hopefully he won't try to fire me."
"Alright, then let's head over. The Blue Moon right?" Worick asked.
I nodded verifying the answer to his own question.
"Alright," Worick kicked the back of the sofa to get Nicolas' attention.
He signed to him and Nicolas nodded. He finished off the bottle of Perrier and stood up and picked up his sword that was leaning against the couch to the left of him. He strapped with to his waist and picked up the extra bottle of Perrier and handed it to Worick.
"Let us get going." Worick said as he walked out the doorway and down the stairs. I followed behind him and Nicolas followed in after.
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We finally got to the bar when I saw that there were cops, everywhere. There was 'caution' tape, tapped across the front entry.
"What the hell?" I ran over to the front entry, but as I tried to get through the tape, I felt someone grab me and carry me away.
"Let me go! I fucking work here!" I said kicking and yelling at the man who was carry me away from the front door.
"Woah Chad relax she really does work here." Worick said as him and Nicolas came into view. The man turned to face them and put me down.
"Kid, you do know the point of 'caution' tape is for right? It means do not enter!" He yelled at me.
"Can you just tell me what happened?" I asked with slight annoyance in my voice.
"Mr. Larson was shot and killed this morning. People say they saw a group of men go in, heard gunshots. No one stuck around to find out what happened." The officer told me.
I was in total shock. 'You gotta be kidding me, this shit isn't happening right?'
"You alright Ever?" Worick asked.
"No I'm not. I was almost raped and killed last night and now my boss is dead and I'm out of a job. This isn't happening right now, it just isn't." I said as I slum down to the ground and sat there with my thumb rest on my jaw and pointer and middle finger rested on the top of my forehead.
"What's your name kid?" The officer asked me, looking down at me.
"Ever Castillo." I said looking down at the ground I was sitting on.
"Chad, listen she's been through a lot the last 24 hours, let Nico take her home and I'll head down with you to the station. I'm sure you already have something for me to do down there anyway." He said with a charming smile. 'What do these guys do?'
"Fine, but I'll be in touch kid, you and your co-workers need to come in and answer some questions." Chad had said to me. I looked up at the older man and nodded. Worick signed to Nicolas what I assumed was him telling him to walk me. Nicolas nodded and offered me his hand to help me up off the ground. I took it and stood up.
"See ya later Ever." Worick said with a smile and a wave. "Thank you Worick." I said with a wave as I followed Nicolas out of the crowd of cops.
As we walked away I tapped Nicolas' shoulder to get his attention. He turned his head and asked slowly so he could read my lips.
"What did Worick mean by you two being 'Handymen'?"
"We get rid of bad people. B-bad people have lots of death wishes." He said, his voice deep and distort.
"You kill people?" I asked him. He looked at me and nodded.
"Does that scare you?" He asked looking down at me. My heart started to race I looked up to him, staring into his eyes.
"No."
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Fanfiction*Discontinued* Her parents were killed when she was four, her brother disappeared when she was fourteen, and her guardian passed away when she was eighteen. Ever's life has never been perfect, in fact, life for this twenty-four year old woman couldn...
