SHAMELESS ✔(Damian Wayne Fanfic)

SHAMELESS

Damian POV

"What do you mean hell on fire?" I ask, now intrigued and wanting to know more about the late Valentina Ellington. But I knew it would be hard for her to answer let alone hear me through those light sobs of sorrow.

"My mother, she isn't what she seems. Growing up, her and my father had this relationship that I've longed for, for a long time. It got bad when I turned 10. You couldn't say no to her. People who did  always ended up in unfortunate accidents. Something changed in her and she acted as if it was nothing new. Maybe it was always there, but the things my mother did." A sarcastic smile fell on her face and she shook her head. "The only thing I regret is acting like it never happened. I sometimes wish the cancer would have gotten her first. Maybe the suffering from dying slowly, would make her realize how much she's hurt others." She scoffs, "My life is hell."

"We acted like a perfect family, and some days we were. But deep down we all had our own secrets. The ones that put wedges between us." Valarie finished with a sigh.

I get her. I understand why she wants to run the company. Not just to make people happy and the fact that it has been in her family for years. Her family may have screwed up and damned each other to keeping secrets from each other and the world, it was because of that reason. Valarie wanted people to see that she was strong and to prove to everyone that she could do it. Mostly to herself because the Ellingtons revolved around each other.
No had their independent lives to live and now that Valarie's alone, she has no idea where to start. I understand why my father said I should assist her. Valarie reminds him of himself when he was young and having to learn everything by himself wasn't easy.

I looked at the curly haired woman and she stared right back at me.
"You survived hell for a reason." I said, walking closer to her and kneeling down. "Don't let it pull you back in."

I watched her tongue lick her bottom lip and her eyes staring at me so filled with hope. It was breath taking once I realized what she wanted and why my father asked this of me. Drunk out of her mind she could still speak the truth maybe even remember what I told her.
I watched Valarie's eyes twinkle and they looked glossy. Then a small tear fell from it and slid down her smooth skin.

"Hell is to strong for me." She says and rubs her lips together.
Just as my lips parted to speak the door opened and Jacklyn walked in. She had a bowl of chips with a whip cream bottle and a mug.

"Here." She says, handing me the mug. "Get her to drink this. It'll make her hangover go away and put her to sleep. She'll be out for a while." says Jack as I take the mug from her. I nod my head and Valarie leans forward as I bring it to her light colored lips.

I watch her slowly but surely drinking it. Valarie was so different in this moment. Not the girl everyone was talking about in the papers. Just the bruised and broken one who had lost her family a year ago. My father was right by calling her strong. She was strong enough to hold out her mourning until now. A whole year without her crying and whole year without missing them as much as she would like, a whole year she gave up just so she could focus on the company. I applauded her for her commitment.

"She'll be asleep soon." says Jacklyn once Valarie finishes the last sip. Her head of wavy curls falls back onto the pillow as Jacklyn starts eating her chips.

"Peacefully I presume." I state, but it sounded like a question. Jacklyn nodded her head and continued munching on the chips and I stared at her.

I wanted to ask what she was going to do. I wanted to ask how would Jason feel. So many questions were in my head that I wanted to ask but everything in  me said nothing. My lips wouldn't move because of deep down I knew she wouldn't be honest. Jacklyn was known for secrets. I'm surprised Jason and her lasted this long. There relationship was based on protecting each other even if that meant hurting one another to do so. It always led into an argument between the two but they still mange to love each other through all of the lies. Sometimes it was unnecessary and right now is one of those times. Jacklyn not telling Jason she is pregnant is an unnecessary action and one I don't think he'll get over.

"Ask." I hear her say as my mind comes to but in confusion.

"What?" I asked, wanting her to explain.

"Your minds aura," she begins. "it wants to ask questions but you are afraid or perhaps not ready to ask those questions." She said, then eating another chip that had a lot of whip cream on it.

"What are you protecting Jason from? Whats so bad about the truth that you can't tell anyone? What are you hiding? Why aren't you telling us...me the entire truth?"

A small laugh leaves her throat as she sets the bowl down on Valarie's dresser and fold her arms across her chest.

"If you must know...I did tell him. What he feels as of right now...I don't know. I told him everything, everything I told Dick I told Jason." said Jacklyn, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "I was protecting him from the truth."

"And what truth is that?" I asked, folding my arms as she places her hands on top of her stomach,looking down at it.

"That these children I'm carrying...will cause the end of the world."