Song ~ Jungle - Emma Louise



TW⚠️ Nightmare- The little girl in front of me shivers. Whether she is cold or if it's from fear I can't tell. They put the gun in my hand telling me to shoot.

"No! Please! I'm begging! Please don't kill me! Whatever i did- I'll make it right!" The girl nothing less than a year younger than me begs.

"I can't! I won't!" I shout throwing the gun to the floor.

As soon as the words leave my mouth a punch is thrown to my already bruised face. I hit the floor with a loud thud.

"Take the girl away!" Ilya- the Russians second in command- shouts about the girl I was supposed to kill.

He turns to me and as the ten year old girl I am- I can't seem to hide the fear I have.

He smirks at me. "You not cooperating just makes this so much more fun. Let's go" he says before grabbing my hair and dragging me away.

To the torture room.

When we get in there my hands are tied behind my back and my feet are tied together. I'm stripped away from all my clothes fully exposed to these predators.

I cry, begging them to stop, praying for them stop. But they don't.

A prick in my neck makes me see spots and for a minute my vision goes black.

When I regain consciousness, I feel lighter, the pain isn't as bad as they beat me.

But one thing is off, there is someone new in the room. Squinting my eyes, i gain hope, hope that he would save me.

Father.

"Dad! Dad! Help!" I scream as they beat me.

But to no avail, he only makes it worse.

He grabs a nearby knife and slashes from my right shoulder, over my chest, down to my hip. I scream in pure agony.

Everything burns, it feels as if I'm on fire.

I cry, and I cry, and cry.

That day, all hope left my body of ever getting out of there.

~End of Flashback~



I jolt awake, gasping for air as a tear slides down my face.

I feel bile rise in my throat. I jump out of bed and rush to the bathroom throwing up everything in my stomach.

How could my own blood do that to me?

After about a minute, someone comes in my room, I can hear them but I'm to busy being hunched over the toilet.

A warm hand rubs up and down my back, pulling my long hair out of my face as I continue throwing up.

When I feel that I'm done I lean back on the person in here, not caring who it is right now.

"Come on let's get you cleaned up" I think... Domenico says.

He gently helps me stand. He grabs my toothbrush, putting on the toothpaste for me. He hands it to me and I graciously take the toothbrush from him.

When I'm done he helps me get back to bed laying me down, he sits next to me.

"I was checking on all of you before going to sleep when I checked you weren't in bed but I heard puking sounds coming from your bathroom. I promise I'm not trying to invade your privacy" he explains before getting up to walk away.

Before he could get too far, I reach out and grab his hand. He turns around to look at me.

I grab my phone typing,'thank you.' it reads.

Dom just smiles at me, "of course, I'm always here if you need anything." He states, "goodnight."

I nod my head rolling over so I'm facing the window. The click of the door makes its way to my ears and I let my body fully relax.

I just stare out the window, gazing at the stars unable to let sleep overtake me.

Unfortunately, not being able to sleep means only being able to think. This leads to one question, why?

My own father, sending me away. Till this day I'm unaware of if it was really my father or if I hallucinated it was him who did it.

I mean could my own father really do that to me? Send me away somewhere he knew the enemy was? He didn't despise me that much, did he?

Did he ever hit my brothers too? Maybe when they stepped out of line?

Or did he only carry this hatred towards me?

Why?

I let the never ending questions consume my mind, unable to make the voices stop.

~/~/~

I turn over away from the window to check the time on my clock.

5:45 am.

Yeah i didn't go back to sleep at all.

I roll out of my bed and head over to the bathroom, using the toilet and walking back to my closet to get clothes for today.

After brushing my teeth, I hop in the shower- wash my body and my hair because I was really sweaty after my nightmare last night, I also wash my face.

I get out, drying off looking in the mirror. I notice a couple bruises still there and some cuts too. Nothing too bad.

My back has been healing really good and no infections have developed.

I apply some cream on my back and on a few bruises to help them heal faster before I pull on some black jeans, a black undershirt with an oversized shirt on top with a pair of Nike Air Max's.

I blow dry my hair, leaving it down. I pull on some rings, my necklace, and a couple earrings.

I think I wanna get another piercing. And maybe some more tattoos. But that's for another day.

When I finish getting ready I head downstairs to the kitchen.

Domenico and Sebastian are making coffee in their suits while Elijah is cooking.

Elijah turns around putting some food on a plate when he notices me, "Morning Diovanna." Elijah says smiling softly at me.

I give him a nod with a small smile, heading over to the fridge and grabbing a Monster before going sit on a stool in the kitchen.

Before I could even open the damn thing it's snatched away from me. I turn to look at the culprit.

Elijah.

A scowl makes its way to my face. "These are bad for your heart" he says putting it back in the fridge. Then why was it in there?

Wasn't he just cooking? Health freak.

I throw my hands in the air before leaning my head on the counter top.

I hear a couple chuckles come from my older brothers but I don't care. I mean if it's such a health hazard, why have it in the fridge?

Elijah clicks his tongue, "you'll survive, drink some water. Or juice, those are both good to have in the morning. Besides you need a real breakfast to start the day off right." Elijah says going back to cooking.

I lift my head from the counter- rolling my eyes about Elijah's statements. Domenico and Sebastian look rather amused about the whole encounter.

Domenico gives me look as if saying "are you okay? Are you sick?"

I shake my head and point to myself then give him a thumbs up.

He nods seeming to understand and goes back to his breakfast.

"Diovanna" Sebastian's voice rings out gaining my attention. "Me and Domenico are going to handle business, Luca should be going to the tattoo shop..." he pause's looking at his watch "now" he finishes.

And on cue, Luca runs down the stairs still pulling on a shirt fumbling around with his keys and his shoe laces untied.

"Bye! I'm late!" He shouts. He may be the owner of the tattoo shop but doesn't want to be late anyways. Or that's what he told me in the car.

I want to laugh at his retreating figure but refrain before turning back to Sebastian.

"As I was saying, Elijah will be coming with me and Dom. Giavanna is going to her friend Bethany's. Something about a girl emergency, whatever that means. Matteo is going to play basketball with Emilio. So Ares will take you to get school supplies." Sebastian tells me.

I give him a thumbs up in return.

~/~/~/~

Domenico, Sebastian, and Elijah left. Giavanna left when Bethany showed up to pick her up. Matteo also left in a Lamborghini saying something like "see you later alligator."

And im looking for Ares to get this shopping over with.

Heading to the house gym I see him punching a bag. I turn the lights off and then on gaining his attention. He checks the time, cursing under his breath.

"Sorry I didn't see the time, let me shower and I'll take you shopping" he says grabbing his phone and other things before going to walk out.

I follow him to his room and before he can shut the door I walk in, finding his bathroom I look under the sink finding a first aid kid.

He raises an eyebrow at me.

I motion for him to sit, he does.

I grab some Cotten pad and rubbing alcohol putting some on the Cotten pad.

Gently grabbing his hand, I start cleaning the blood off his knuckles. The action causing him to wince a little.

When I finish, Ares thanks me and I make my way out his room and into the living room to wait for him.

Deciding not to sit here in silence, I switch on the Tv which happens to be already on a channel. Miraculous Ladybug? Never seen it before but it seems pretty interesting.

Ares comes down a couple minutes later seemingly amused by what I am watching right now.

I don't care.

We walk to the garage where there are millions of cars. So, so, many.

It's like car heaven.

I smile brightly wanting to squeal with joy.

Looking through the garage, I see a 2020 Yamaha YZF-R6 motorcycle. I look back at Ares who has a smirk on his face watching me.

"You like cars?" He asks, almost coming out more as a statement.

I nod my head a couple times, I mean could you blame me?

I probably look like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. It's car heaven- literally.

I quickly pull out my phone typing. 'Please, please let me drive this one.' I asked.

"You can drive?" He asks. Probably surprised a private school let us learn to drive over there. It was never by choice but useful nonetheless.

I nod.

I love driving, especially when I get to speed. "Alright, only because you're my sister and you look like you know what you're doing. Giavanna almost crashed last time" he says with a chuckle.

I smile walking over and grabbing a helmet off the wall before grabbing the keys off the other wall.

Ares gets on a different motorcycle, grabbing a helmet and the keys also.

When my helmet is on and my hair is tucked in. I start the motorcycle up hearing the engine roar to life. It's been so long.

I wait for Ares and when we're both ready we exit the garage and then the gates of the house.

On the road, I notice it is completely empty and there are no other cars.

I look over at Ares signaling to him that I'm about to speed down this road.

I don't think he got my signal because when I speed up and start going down the road he frantically starts to try and catch up to me.

We speed for a while enjoying the feeling of riding on down the roads swerving in and out of cars.

We reach the mall and go straight to the Vera Bradley section and get me a simple black backpack.

We then go to school items section getting some paper, pens, and a binder.

When we're done, I throw everything into the backpack, throwing it over my shoulder and we drive out the mall.

We end up getting Mc. Donald's on the way home.

I love Mc Donald's.

Overall I had a lot of fun with Ares. He told me i could use the bike or any car I want at anytime. We hung out for a little while eating our Mc Donald's.

Eventually Matteo found us eating Mc Donald's and whined like a baby about how we didn't get him any. But we still like him so it's okay.

After a while I went to my room to work on the plans for my next mission.

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