Song~ Smooth Criminal - Michel Jackson



She has been gone for almost ten minutes now and I'm starting to worry. Do I go look for her or stay here and not seem like I'm worried when I am.

Fuck it.

As I'm about to stand up I see Diovanna walking this way- on hand in her pocket, the other holding a smoothie.

As soon as she sits down Ares starts speaking. "What the fuck took you so long?" He all but grits out. She gives him an annoyed look and turns to me.

'Sorry, I saw a smoothie and really wanted one' she signed before going back to drinking her smoothie.

I nodded.

She could have told me, i would have gotten it for her.

Whatever it's fine, she's safe and here.

Is she happy to be back here with us? With me?

Did she miss us?

A punch to my shoulder snaps me out of my thoughts. Wincing and grabbing my arm I turn to look at the owner of the fist.

And it's... Diovanna?

She is hella strong.

I look at her with a what the fuck was that? Look. And she just shrugs then signs 'stop thinking so much you will waste the last of your brain'.

Ouch.

I do have brains actually. I'm a hacker and know a lot more than she thinks. I work for the Italian mafia. Yeah I'm not saying that.

Not telling her that piece of information, I let a low chuckle escape my lips. Shaking my head at her.

We talked for some more time- well I translated for Diovanna. When we all finished eating, we grabbed our stuff and began heading home. Matteo asked us all to play his new game from the mall he got today. So we're all heading to the game room, apart from Giavanna, Sebastian, and Domenico.

Elijah was here when we got home and immediately greeted us asking if we ate and if we had fun. He's a huge health freak, always making sure we eat and are healthy.

Giavanna was still with her friends. We texted her saying we were playing Matteo's new game and asked if she wanted to play but she declined as her and Bethany were at the movies. She did say she would play next time though.

Giavanna was never particularly fond of doing things we liked- playing video games, sports, the gym- she just had different interests. It doesn't matter, we love her just as much.

And of course, Sebastian and Domenico had mafia shit to deal with tonight, like always.

Now Me, Ares, Matteo, Elijah, and Diovanna are in the game room playing Matteo's new game.

The new game is stupid might I add.

It's got a lot to do with Guns and shooting people which we are pretty good at in the real world. But right now, Diovanna is kicking our asses.

"How the heck are you so good at this!?" Matteo asks loudly clicking on the game controller but ends up dying.

She just shrugs her shoulders with a small smile on her face.

After a couple rounds of Matteo's new game we all go our separate ways, Diovanna to her room, Matteo went to the kitchen, Elijah had to go to our family hospital as one of our trusted men were injured, and I'm going to go talk to Diovanna.

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I knock on her door hearing a lot of shuffling around. A lot. Before the door opens. Diovanna stands in the open doorway, tiredness evident in her eyes.

Once she sees it's me she gestures for me to go into her room.

Her room is neat, like so neat it's almost never been used before. Her closet is fully stocked, no evidence of the bags her clothes once came in anywhere.

After looking around I turn back to her to see her observing me. She raises an eyebrow at me. 'Did you come here to look at my room or did you have something to say?' She signs.

Deciding to not have this conversation out loud, in fear of anyone hearing my concerns, incase she doesn't want anyone to know. I sign back.

'I wanted to ask you something' I start off.

She looks skeptical but nods for me to continue.

I rub the back of my neck before sighing, 'why don't you speak? You don't have to answer if you don't want to. I just.' I pause trying to find the right words. 'After not seeing you for almost eleven years, I guess I missed your voice?'

It's true, i missed her a lot. I was young, but i remember playing in the pool with her or playing Mario Kart with her. Her and Gia's giggles that filled the room when we played hide and seek. And then it was like everything changed over night.

Because ur father ripped her away from us.

She looks at me with no emotion, nothing. No sadness, no hurt, no anger, I can't tell if what I said was wrong. If I should have kept my feelings to myself?

"You don't have to tell me. I shouldn't have asked. I'm being nosy, I'm sorry." I apologized repeatedly. I didn't mean to make her uncomfortable, I just wanted to know if something had happened to her. Maybe she needed to talk?

She shakes her head, 'no, thank you Luca. Its,' she stops all her hand movements. 'I promise I'll tell you, When I'm ready to tell you.' she signs.

I let out a breath of relief before nodding and sticking my fist lightly in the air. She fist bumps my hand where I make an explosion sound for both of us.

Leaving her room feeling slightly better about today, I begin walking to my room.

I just hope she eventually feels like she can trust us, trust me, just enough to open up to me.

I hope.



I felt horrible for not telling Luca why. He has done nothing but be nice to me. And weather I want to admit it or not I missed him as well, but I could never tell him about the Russians, let alone the Blood Doves. It would only put him in more danger.

I don't trust my brothers. I haven't seen them in eleven years- things change. But this place in my heart would never let me stop caring about them. Especially Luca or Matteo. My two sunshine's.

After Luca left, I pulled out my laptop and got back to work on hacking the Spanish mafia don's computer. I believe his name is Antonio.

I needed to talk to Lucian but it's not like I new his number so I resorted to hacking into his brothers home computer and writing in the Blood Doves cryptic code with a sentence at the bottom saying "Lucian will understand -Dove".

But, I could only send the message if i could get through the damn firewall.

Their hacker is good, I'll admit that.

But I am just better, it will only take more time to hack.

Deciding to take a break from hacking the Spanish Dons laptop- I'll save that for later- I go to hacking the computer of an assassin from the Russian mafia.

Shadow-hunter

He was in the top ten of the best assassins for the Russians. He often came to the school so I know who he is and what he has done.

Lucia had put him in the pit with me when I was about nine years old. I will never forget what he did. And for that, he is my first target.

He is an easier target because he is the tenth best assassin so he is important but not as important as the others.

I first hacked into his personal phone, going through everything. His text, calls, voicemails, his videos and lastly his camera roll.

Thats odd.

I brush off what I just saw, he's dead and it doesn't matter.

Moving onto his deleted text, I find that in a week and a half, he has a mission.

Shadow-Hunter is being sent to kill a Casandra Hills. She and I are old friends.

She is a very well known assassin, she doesn't work for anyone, goes with the wind and only accepts to kill when the person isn't innocent.

I'll have to kill him before he can kill her. Which means I'll have to show up at the club in a wig and contacts.

Gosh I hate going undercover.

I don't like changing how I look for missions. The wigs are itchy, the makeup is too thick, I don't like it. However, he knows who I am and if this mission wasn't so important- I'd definitely go freestyle.

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Looking at the clock, I realize it's time for diner.

I leave my room and make my way downstairs. Walking into the dining room I see everyone sat in their seats. I sit down and a couple minutes later Joanna brings out the food.

I sign 'thank you' to which she understood saying her app taught her thank you, yes, no, her name, no problem. Odd order to teach those words in but I appreciate her thoughtfulness nonetheless.

Dinner was pretty uneventful, Luca talked about what him and I got at the mall, Matteo went on and on about his new game that I kicked everyone's asses at.

Ares gave a couple grunts about his shopping.

Moody for what?

Giavanna talked a little about her and her friends. Said they had a good time and their shopping and the movie they saw.

Sebastian and Domenico just gave a brief explanation saying they did CEO things.

Oh yeah they have yet to inform me of their extra curricular activities, *cough* mafia *cough*.

Do they think I'll freak out or something?

Oh well, and Elijah did some doctor shit.

When we all finished, I stayed back and helped Joanna with the dishes, despite her protests.

Giavanna said she was going to bed after telling us all goodnight.

Matteo fell asleep watching Finding Dory on the couch in the living room.

Luca was going to do some tattoo sketches then heading to bed. Ares went to hit the gym before going to bed.

The three older brothers had "business" to attend.

When I finished helping with the dishes, I head back to my room picking out an outfit to sleep in.



After picking out my outfit I get in the shower washing my hair and then my body. I shaved and then got out the shower.

I applied lotion I got today. I left my brown hair down to dry. I brushed my teeth and went to bed.

I didn't look in the mirror for too long as my scars were on display but I knew my blankets would cover my whole body.

If someone were to come i would know, it's not like I sleep anyway.

Getting in my bed and leaning against the headboard, I take out the book I stole from the Russians and Blood Doves.

Flipping through the pages looking at all of there plans, I'm astonished and not in a good way. It's horrifying, the torture methods- some have even been tested on me- are crazy.

The new weapons that were being built are insane. And the technology was highly advanced.

I will definitely build it and use their own plans against them.

They made insane devices like listeners displayed as bugs. Watches that can do anything you say. Guns with special technology to only be shot if you are the owner of the gun.

There were so many things in the book to do, and I planned on using every single one against them.

After looking through the plans one last time, I move my head to the side looking at the clock that reads 00:43 AM. I close the book and turn off the lamp on my nightstand.

Laying down and closing my eyes, trying to get the darkness to take me in my desperate need to sleep, to not feel anything.

And for once it does.

If only it didn't.

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A/N: I don't know how to feel about this chapter.

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