『 Broken Promises 』The Promised Neverland Ray x OC

S i x t e e n

"You're so catty." Ray remarked with a smirk.

"And you look like a cyclops. Do you even have another eye?" Phoebe picked up the piece of hair that was covering Rays right side of his face.

Ray flicked Phoebes forehead and walked away from her, grabbing a lantern on his way out.

Phoebe growled and rubbed at her forehead.

The two of them walked outside with each other.

"Ray had every right to get mad." Dons voice came into ear shot for Phoebe.

"Please, forgive us." Don and Gilda bowed.

"Will you?" Norman turned to Ray and Phoebe.

Ray growled and scratched his head. "Yeah I forgive them. If the worst happens I'll figure out how to deal with it. But he punched Phoebe....and Norman." he glared.

"Oh, Phoebe!" Don stressed and rushed towards her.

"Are you-" he reached a hand out for her but Ray stepped in the way.

"She's fine." He glared, showing his teeth like a predator.

Don looked to Phoebe.

"I'm fine Don. Just try to take control of your emotions next time. Oh and..." Phoebe smiled and you could barely see her dimples, then her smile fell and she stepped around Ray and got in front of Don.

"If you ever use Harper again, bad things are gonna happen." Phoebe growled with a dark smile on her face, Don shivered and everyone noticed.

Then her natural, beautiful smile came back.

"I should...also apologize. Sorry." Ray said nonchalant.

"Yeah...me too. I'm sorry. I should've said something." Phoebe frowned and she felt her heart shatter.

"Now that you two know the truth. I need to confirm something before we continue. The outside world is full of demons. If we mess up, we die. Knowing that will you still come with us?" Emma held onto her lantern tightly.

Don and Gilda both looked to each other and nodded, then they both put a fist up to their chest.

"Of course we will!" They both said in unison.

Emma's eyes sparkled.

Phoebe felt a presence behind her, she turned around and noticed that Ray had turned around too.

They both looked to each other with the same worried facial expression.

'How odd...'

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"We're going past the fence to climb the wall so that we can inspect the outside right? What about the tracking devices?" Gilda asked.

"Well, we make sure they don't look at them!" Emma smiled.

"It'll be easy, all we need is a distraction. We'll create a situation where they can't check the trackers." Norman smiled back to Emma.

"But how do we do that?" Don asked.

"Rays working on stalling mom now, he's giving her false info to throw her off." Norman grimaced.

"Even if Ray manages to keep mom busy, what about sister Krone?" Don lifted his arms to his sides.

"Yeah if she finds out then we'll be shipped out immediately right?" Gilda asked.

"Don't worry, I have an idea." Norman reassured.