The Darkness In Us

Johannan's Tale

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Uldren's POV

We arrive at the Tower safely thanks to Ares. Bela fell asleep and despite the fact that I'm her boyfriend, Ares didn't let me navigate the ship. Talk about trust issues, but I can't blame him.

Bela takes Johannan to the Vanguard room and throws him on the table and he knocks into Cayde who stumbles a bit but pushes him off. Johannan groans in pain and Bela crosses her arms.

"Whoops. I'll have to work on my aim." she says. I can't help but smirk, she's quite chaotic.

"You broke the damn panel!" Cayde says angrily. She nods.

"Astutely observed, Cayde." she says calmly with a small smile, reminiscent of Ikora. He huffs, slightly frustrated.

"Right. That's coming out fo your bounty payment." he says. I raise an eyebrow.

"She doesn't need to pay for a damn thing." I say, draping an arm over her shoulders. I can see Cayde's eyes narrow with anger.

"When did you two get so close?" Ikora asks. I look at her and to Bela, who nods, smiling at me.

"Since she became a friend and she's now my girlfriend." I say proudly. They nod, Zavala has hi eyes furrowed, Ikora simply observes us and Cayde...he looks like someone hit him across the face.

"You're going out?" he asks. Bela nods. "I was going to talk to you today..."

"I know, Cayde. Can you maybe not talk about this right now? We need to interrogate Johannan." she says quietly.

"Oh? So now you've got two on the hook huh? I see you're still a heartbreaker. I mean I can't blame them. You're a nice piece of a-" he was interrupted by Bela, who threw a dagger that whizzed right past his ear and embedded itself in the wall. The hilt, was lightly touching his ear and he fell silent.

"Talk when we ask you to, Johannan. In fact..." she says, walking over to him and pulling duct tape from her belt. She pulls about six inches worth of it and cuts it with her teeth.

"Wait. What are y-" he starts to say. Bela quickly puts the tape over his mouth and smiles, pressing it down to secure it properly.

"There you go. Let the grown ups do the talking kiddo." she says. She turns to us.

"So. Who wants to interrogate him first?" she asks. We all raise our hands and she sighs.

"Fine. You can all interrogate him. But I'm the enforcer." she says, wheeling him forward so that she could stand behind him. She rips the tape off him and he hisses in pain.

"Bitch!" he says, looking at her angrily. I move forward but Cayde grabs me and pulls me back. She kneels in front of him and pulls his tongue out of his mouth, holding a knife to it.

"I'll cut your tongue off of you keep being uncooperative, Johannan." she says.

"Guardian." Zavala says warningly.

"You want answers, this is how we do it." she says, looking at him over his shoulder. She let's go of his tongue.

"So start talking. Tell them what you told me when I caught you." she says. He glares at her but the prospect of possibly getting tortured, makes him scared enough to talk.

"That armor was stolen from me. Look let me just...go back. It's a long story, but bear with me...and sit down, honestly. " he says. I look to Bela and she nods, gesturing for us to sit. We do and he sighs, reluctant. One look from Bela is what it takes for him to begin his tale.

"Alright...I guess I should go back to the very beginning. Only then will you understand the entirety of it." he says. Bela smiles a bit, pulling a chair, spinning it so it was backwards and she straddled it, her arms resting on the backrest. She put her head on top and nodded to Johannan.