The Anonymous (fanfic)

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After Ace left, I still couldn't forget what his father and the lady in the shop said. He was definitely hiding a lot of things from me. But I couldn't let him know that somebody had told me his possible real name and had accused him of killing the dearest person to me. I wanted to know more and I hoped that the lady contacted me again.

It was midnight, around 2 am that I felt thirsty, only to realise there was no water in the jar in my room. So I went out and navigated through the dimly lit hallways, till I reached the kitchen. But as soon as I passed the huge metal doors, through which Dom had come out all bloodied and stuff when the first day I had come here, heard someone whimpering behind it. It was soft and barely audible and if it wasn't for the dead silence of the nightly atmosphere right now, I never would have heard it.

I went close to the doors and put my ear next to it, trying my hard to listen what's happening. There was definitely somebody in there and they were in pain. Soft cries were escaping their throat and it sounded like they didn't have much time to live. "Do you need help?" I whispered.

The cries stopped. I felt someone drag themselves across the floor. "Help...ple..ase.."

That voice. It was the lady from the store. Stunned, I tried to open the doors but it didn't budge, obviously locked. "J.L.?"

"Ye..s.." She croaked out.

Alarmed and panicked, my mind started whizzing through hundreds of possibilities of why she ended up here. Was she someone who was trying to harm me and they found her? Or was she someone who was trying to stop the harm which was coming for me and they found her?

"The door is locked so I can't open it. I will still try to hack the code of the door." I murmured urgently. "Please hold on."

I went into the dial pad which had a bunch of symbols to open the door. My fingers started working, as they brushed over the buttons and before I knew it, the sound of a lock clicking filled my ears. I had managed to unlock the door. The door slowly swung open and as soon as I saw the insides, a gasp left my throat.

The lady was on the floor in a crouching position and blood was surrounding her. Her body looked beaten terribly. Her wounded face looked up at me and the pain in her eyes was so evident that I felt my heart wrech. Why did they do this? Was Dom a part in this? But why?

I hurried to her and held her against my arms. She was barely breathing. A lot of scars had been inflicted on her body which were oozing our and staining me with them. "Tell me what happened." I asked worriedly.

"They...wi..ll..kill me..." She gasped out. "tomo..rrow...get..me..out of here...please.."

"Why? Try to tell me something." I begged.

"Ales..sandro...is..m..y...bro..ther.." She told. "He..ki..lled...our..mother and...your..mom."

"But why? Why would he do that? Is it really true he killed my mom?" My voice was breaking, I was breaking.

"What the fuck?" I jumped back at the voice and turned back to look at Dom, a dark look on his face. He came forward and pushed me away, dragging her back inside. She started screaming, begging me to help her. But before I could do anything, somebody covered my mouth with a cloth and my world went black.

- - -

When I woke up the next day, I was furious. I barged into Ace's room and bellowed, "Fucking bastard! Why are you hiding things from me?"

Ace calmly looked up at me, his watching me from below his glasses. "What are you talking about?"

"You better tell everything to me or I will-" My breathed heavily, so much anger heating my face. But I was done with his lies, I needed to know who she was and why she was killed and what she was talking about.