Trigger Warning⚠️- Talks of death, murder and suicidal thoughts. (there is no specific portion of the chapter as this whole chapter revolves around this topic, so please read forward with caution)

2017 (America)

Xavier's POV

"Hey, dad come on please. It'll be fine. You're going to be fine." I pathetically stuttered out, as I tried to apply pressure on the two gunshots my father had suffered, the assailant was already dead on the ground a few feet away from us, I had practically unloaded my entire magazine into the guy.

This was a mistake, a stupid mistake that we had somehow not seen coming, we should have known that the the russians would double cross us, those bastards couldn't keep their fucking word.

He was dead, I knew it, everyone knew it. His chest had stopped moving, glazed eyes perpetually open. But I was still a kid, I didn't want my father gone, I needed him. Needed him to be there for me for my brothers...my brothers.

How the hell was I supposed to explain this to my brothers, how was I supposed to tell them that the strongest man we ever knew, the entire fucking backbone of our family was gone, his body now nothing more than skin and bones, the man with the biggest fucking heart was now just the house for a heart that didn't beat.

"Sir." a voice came from behind me, Cameron had spoken, "We need to leave. The cops would be coming." Cameron had been working with us for years, he had been around for as long as I can remember. At this moment I was reminded of how he used to talk to me when I was child. He used that same calm voice adults use when trying to stop a kid from crying after they scraped their knee.

I was 23 years old yet I still felt like a kid, like a lost kid who was put in a situation he couldn't handle so his brain just started to shut down on him. "I can't leave him here." I spoke, his body was getting cold. Cameron kneeled beside me "We won't leave him here. I will take him to our hospital, but you must return to your house, to your younger brothers, they need to know about this, and I believe it would be best if they hear this from you before anyone else."

Once the body was being taken away the initial sadness that had washed over me was now being replaced by the numbness, my body going into autopilot as someone helped me up and took me to our car, I sat in the backseat while one of our workers started driving towards our house, my eyes were downcast when they caught sight of my hand and my t shirt, both covered in blood.

I wasted no time in zipping up my black hoodie to stop any blood from showing. Once I entered the house it was silent. Until I saw Alex walking out of the kitchen with a glass of water in hand, I immediately put my hands inside my hoodie.

"Hey you guys are back. The others already went to bed and I'm done with my studies for the night so I'm also going to bed, you and dad can explain what happened today, tomorrow morning." Alex didn't wait for my response as he was climbing up the stairs to his room, and I being a fucking coward I was didnt stop him.

I could have told him right now, he was the eldest among the others, telling him would have been the easiest but I couldn't do it. When I reached a door I had opened it thinking it was my room, that was the intention but instead I had accidentally walked into my father's room.

With shaky steps I walked inside, everything was left exactly as it was. His files spread across the table, a half full glass of water, and a small bowl of only the pink starbursts which he tended to eat during late nights.

it was the stupid candy, the fucking candy that broke me and I fell to the floor, hand pressed to my mouth as I tried to smother the sound of my sobs, hot tears spilled from my eyes as I desperately tried to scratch the image of his dead unmoving body from my mind, how the fuck was I supposed to go on now.

For me it felt like the world had now stopped, I was stuck in some limbo where every emotion that a human could fall was being felt by me at the same time. The pain was too much, I wanted to get rid of it, I wanted it to stop, but it just won't fucking go away. I wanted to scream and tear the entire fucking room apart.

I don't know how this happened, when I look back at my next actions I still have a hard time trying to figure out how it all happened but one minute I was crying on the floor, the next thing I remember is me sitting on the table with a pen and paper, writing a letter to my family with trembling hands and a tear stained face.

Within the next five minutes I was walking out of the house with one purpose in my mind, I was going to kill myself.

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Sophia's POV

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die please. Sophie, please." I cradled her body against my chest, lily was crying, the four stab wounds she had suffered were draining the blood from her fast. My eyes burned from the tears that flowed non stop, my throat scratchy from the screaming and begging.

"You-you're not gonna die okay? you'll be fine. you're gonna be fine." I brushed the hair from her face, light blood spreading from my fingers to her forehead. My parents stood before me. Looking down at me with disgust, most of which was directed at my little sister, their own daughter, but they didn't care about that, all they cared about was the fact that she was a 'sinner' a 14 year old deserving of the punishment of death for the crime of loving women instead of men.

"Please don't lie to me sophie. Not right now." I wanted to tell her to shut up, but even she knew that after tonight she would be gone, tomorrow morning I would have no sister, no family. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry darling." I whimpered, she didn't deserve this, not in a million years.

Her breathing was slowing down but she managed a smile at me. "It's okay, you tried, but guess what?" "What?" I breathed out. "When-when I get to heaven, I'm gonna make a move on Br-brittany Murphy." I laughed at her through my tears, of course she would say something like that in this moment, "You'll knock her off her feet."

Lily laughed as well before coughing, her eyes drooping and her grip on my loosening, "I love you." she spoke, and I pressed my lips to her forehead, "I love you too, darling." And I stayed that way until her breathing stopped. The moment my parents realised she was dead they broke the silence, "Finally, the fucking drama is over, get started on dinner now sophia, and do clean yourself up." With that the both of them left the hall and walked out to the living room.

My eyes burned red with rage. It was their fault, they had done this, and they were going to pay. I gently laid lily down and stood up on wobbly legs, walking up to the ax that hung on our wall, dismounting, I stared straight ahead and walked into the living room.

I left the house moments later, with blood dripping from my body and three dead bodies left behind, with one purpose in mind, killing myself.

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Third person POV

Xavier had reached the bridge first, he was stood on the railing, looking down at the river below. It was a big drop, if he were to jump it would be like landing on cement, he wouldn't stand a chance. He took a big breath, lifting his right leg up, he closed his eyes and just as he was about to lean forward a hand wrapped around his wrist pulling him back.

Xavier fell to the ground with a thud, he looked up to see a woman, her hand still wrapped around his wrist which he roughly yanked away. "Who the fuck are you?" he asked, "The women who saved your ungrateful ass from jumping off a bridge!" "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I wanted to jump?"

Sophia scoffed, "Well you can't expect me to just let that happen in front of me and not do anything." Xavier looked at Sophia, examined her appearance and spoke with an air of attitude "Oh please, you don't get to lecture when you literally came here to do the same thing."

His statement left Sophia silent, he was right. If she hadn't seen him here already she would have jumped off the roof herself. "Why'd you want to do this then?" Sophia had asked Xavier, who had taken a deep breath "My dad got shot and died in my arms." he spoke bluntly. opening his jacket to show his blood stained t-shirt.

"You?" The question is now directed at sophia. who sighed "Well... my parents stabbed my sister to death because she came out to them as a lesbian and then I watched her slowly die and after that I killed my own parents using an ax." Xavier had stared at Sophia after her confession and after a while the only thing he could say was "Shit."

Sophia laughed slightly at his reaction, "Yeah, total shit."

"My brothers are still at home." Xavier spoke, making Sophia look towards him, "I didn't even tell them that dad is dead. Just left a fucking note on his desk and ran out." Sophia didn't say anything but walked towards him, and sat down right next to him.

"Then go home. Look I just lost my sister and it hurt so much that I wanted to kill myself, and I don't know about your brothers but I know this is going to hurt them losing their father and brother in the same day without even getting to say goodbye, it would destroy them."

Xavier sat there thinking, thinking about his brothers, about how they would react to not their dad's but to his death, Dante and the twins were still so young, he knew they would be devastated. Abramo Marino was a good man, and a good gentle father but xavier knew that his father would have yelled at him for leaving his family like this, he would have scolded his for making such a stupid and rash decision.

Looking to his side "What about you then?" he asked sophia who just sighed, "Me? I've got nothing left, my life revolves around my sister, I have no other family, no boyfriend, no job, nothing to fight for." Xavier cocked a brow, "Really? nothing at all?"

"Well... There is a man I want to kill. Alexei Sokolov. He is the man that influenced my parents, he turned them into the heartless monsters that killed my sister. I want him dead." Sophia held an angry expression, pure hatred swirled in her eyes. The man was the reason her family was destroyed.

"Come work for me." Xavier said suddenly and when Sophia looked at him confused he explained, "I can make sure you get your revenge, you come work for me and I'll make sure that Sokolov dies." "Why?" was Sophia's question.

"He's also the reason my father is dead." Sophia stared at him, "Who are you really?" she asked, Xavier didn't answer, got up from the ground, extended his hand out to her, helping her up as well.

"I'm Xavier, I'm the man who's going to help you get justice for your sister." After a moment Sophia finally let his hand go, "I'm sophia."

Both of them survived that night.

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(London)

Katherine's POV

I opened the door to the house as quietly as possible. I didn't want mom or Jason to get angry again. After last night my body was still hurting like a bitch and I didn't have it in me to endure any more of it.

My test score results were still clutched in my hands, history was one of the subjects I wasn't very good at, but I had gotten a full score in this exam, I had been so excited at school, even the teacher had made a special announcement in class because I was the only one to get such a good score.

I was prepared to book it straight towards my room as soon as I entered but as I was passing by the living room I stopped, on the couch sat my mother, she had a cigarette in one hand a bottle of beer in one hand she was watching some random channel.

I don't know what came over me, deep inside I knew this was a bad idea but I still went up to her, with the test sheet in my hand, "Mom" I spoke weakly, she snapped her head towards me and out of instinct my body tightened itself the way it usually did when expecting a hit. "What the fuck do you want?" she spat towards me before taking a drag from her cigarette.

"I got my test results today, I got a full score." I kneeled before showing her the paper. she didn't even spare a look before she scoffed and turned her attention back to the tv. "I don't give a shit. Get the hell out of my face."

I felt an almost betrayed feeling, how could she just not care. Somewhere I already knew this would happen but I still had the tiniest bit of hope but the woman crushed it, I hadn't moved from my position beside her, which I guess angered mom because the next thing she did was yell at me while pushing me back, my head narrowly missing the corner of the coffee table. "Didn't you fucking hear me you bitch! I said get the hell out of my face."

I quickly got up and ran towards the attic/my room, slamming the door shut. I aggressively rubbed my eyes trying to get rid of the tears before they actually fell. fuck! fuck! fuck! I hated her so much.

I couldn't help but let my mind wander to my father, the father who I hadn't seen my entire life, the father who gave me up to this horrible woman, I hated him too. Hated him for not wanting me, hated him for giving me up to this vile woman.

I could have made him proud, I would have made him proud. I would have been the best daughter but that asshole didn't want me. well, fuck him.

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so....what did you guys think??

I had wanted to write about xavier and sophia for so long and now I finally did it!!

what did you guys think of their backstory? did you like it??

PS- a fun little observation, I had never actually disclosed kate's father's name throughout the entire book. this is the first time I have referred to him by name.

also I am on a roll so do tell me if you guys have any other scenarios or parts you want me to write bonus chapters about??



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