And When Our Children Tell Our Story [On hiatus until I pull my life together]

Chapter 2

Alex's PoV

"Okay, I know you're all probably excited to finally get the job done." I whisper. We decided to sit down at a small restaurant to talk. Quietly of course. "But it'll be very suspicious if hours after we arrive, the prison gets destroyed. We'd be found out immediately." I play with my dress. This shit sucks.

"So what are we going to be doing until we do?" Hercules whispers.

"We'll take turns watching the prison. I need to know if anyone's been released yet or if anyone knew has come in. How many guards there are, as I highly doubt they didn't get more after we escaped. I need to know when their shifts change, if Peggy or Washington are there. Both of them prove significant threats to our operation, and frankly, I don't want to meet up with George again. And I despise the idea of killing him. He was my General for many years, and there's part of me that is somewhat fond of him. And if I could convince him to join us, he would prove most useful." I steal one of John's fries. "I advise we wait a week at the minimum before striking.

"A week? What are the rest of us supposed to do with a week?" Andre asks. I smirk.

"We're in New York. We're disguised. We have a lot of cash. We can do what we want." I grin and steal another of John's fries. He smacks my hand.

"Next time, order your own and stop eating mine." He scolds. I sniff.

"I can do whatever I want." I sass. "You'll still love me. Also because if you stop loving me, then I'll have no use for you and I'll dispose of you." I steal another fry.

"Yeah, but that's never gonna happen 'cause I'll love you forever." He states, kissing the top of my head.

"Forever. And ever. And ever and ever and ever and ever." I sing. "We're going to take shifts in duos. Laf and Herc, Maria and Andre because I don't want to babysit him, and me and John. Don't worry, they'll only run for six hours a day. Three hours in the morning and three at night. I'm feeling nice. We each take two one hour long shifts a day. I'll let you work those out every day. So you can do them anyway you want, you can take both shifts in the morning or evening for all I care. Just as long as you let me know when you're going out and you report back to me the moment you get back, understood? Good. With that out of the way, you may now chatter amongst yourselves." I lean on John's shoulder and he wraps an arm around my shoulders.

"You doin' okay Alex?" He asks me.

"Am I ever doing okay Johnny boi?" I counter. He smiles dryly.

"Fair enough. But really, are you okay? I know you're still under a lot of stress."

"I don't know Johnny boi. I don't. There's no chance I'll crack under the pressure, some operations I've carried out on the battlefield where ten times more stressful than this. But I still have a lot of pressure on me. I have men that are placing their lives in my hands, that's nothing new. But I'm closer to most of you then I ever was to any of my soldiers. I don't know." I repeat.

"I'll be okay 'Xander." He whispers. "We'll stay alive with you in charge, and we'll be able to do it. I know we will. You're such a great leader and strategist, how could we not win?" I allow myself a small smile at the praise. He's right, we'll all make it through alive. Except Andre. He'll be the first to die. Either I'll kill him myself for betraying us at some point, or the cops will get him. Or I'll leave him behind for the cops to take. But I know for a fact at least he is going to die. He's nothing more than a pawn in my chess game. Expendable. "It'll be alright. Soon we'll be free and you won't have any pressure on you and we can do whatever we want." He promises.

"I know." I mutter. Is it possible to marry this man? Well that came out of nowhere. But can I? I would certainly like to. Hmm. I must consider the pros and cons of this. But now is not the time. No, right now is the time to attempt unsuccessfully to relieve myself of some stress and act like a normal human while worrying about taking down the US government. This should be fun. Seriously, I would appreciate some fun right now. Not your idea of fun. My idea of fun. But that ain't gonna happen for a while. Fuck me.

Who the fuck is 'updating'? I don't know them. But you have this now. Please don't kill me for being gone for so long. I've been trying to get this chapter out for a few days and it has been absolute shit. But at least you have something. I will do my very best to update again this week because I do love this story and I've feel awful abandoning it. For probably the hundredth time, thanks so much for reading my shit and for putting up with my bs. Love you all.

-Bottomless

PS Hopefully the chapters will get longer as the story progresses but idk