P2 A Kidnapping in Pixels
(NOT A PR0MPT)
I liked the hero kidnapping villains child, will you do a second part of it? @extrabitterbrain
I think this is the one you’re talking about. In which case- yes, I will gladly continue it :)
(because I don’t know enough about the tagging situation, I’m going to give warning of...“heavy ‘bad medicine’ usage”
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“What are the alarms going off for?” Hero asked Sidekick.
The two were at a desk, overlooking screens. Sidekick sat in a chair with poor back support while Hero stood as a semi-circle.
“I don’t know. All the cameras are off.”
They weren’t off. If the cameras were off then the monitors would be pitch black, not fuzzy grey. Fuzzy grey meant the cameras were busted somehow- still connected by a wire, but not working.
“What order did they go out in?” The sequence of their outage would tell them where whatever was causing the problem was going. Maybe it was a pesky raccoon.
Sidekick shrugged. “I didn’t get here until right before you did. We never have problems with the cameras here. You think the kid did it?”
With a scoff, Hero straightened out. The kid was in a room playing with cards and trying to make a tower of them. And after that, she’d be toying with magnets, trying to understand why, when she put them together, they wouldn’t cling. She wouldn’t know that opposites attract. “The kid’s occupied.”
“Villain?”
“We just took the kid. He wouldn’t be back for her already.”
“Unless he cares about her…and I do.”
It didn’t take Hero or Sidekick a moment to twist their heads to the doorway, to Villain- who was currently tugging his sleeve down his wrist, tidying it.
“How did you-” Sidekick started, but Villain was quick to cut them off.
“You have my child. If you take me to her, I’ll be swift in taking your heads. Otherwise, you can have fun breathing in a washing machine while your limbs are swimming around you.”
Sidekick’s eyes bulged at the threat, unsure of Villain’s seriousness.
Hero didn’t seem to mind the threat. “She’s safer with us. Why else would we have taken her?” So, she’d admit that she kidnapped Villain’s child, and she’d be even more stupid to defend herself for it.
The nonchalant attitude filled Villain with such a fury, he was surprised his hand didn’t shoot out to choke either person in front of him. This was his child, his life and blood.
“You’re really going to believe that when I’m finished with you.” Villain had a thirst for blood now. And at this point, he wouldn’t have cared if his daughter walked into the room and witnessed the bloodshed. Someday, she would understand. She’d remember the terror of being stolen and missing her father. She’d remember the way her father came to save the day. Villain wasn’t a hero to nearly anyone, but he would be to his little girl.
You think she’s worse off with us?” Hero questioned with a short laugh. “I’m sorry, but that’s a real funny joke you suggested. You can’t possibly think a drug dealer can have a child and expect to be able and care for her.”
“Do you know why I sell drugs, Hero? Why it’s so necessary for me to?”
No, she didn’t, and no excuse he came up with would mean anything. The kid wasn’t even five years of age yet. How would she feel years from now when she learned her own father ruined life after life after life? If she even survived that long. Being a drug dealer for long enough would eventually make Villain a target instead of a provider. Someone might very well kidnap Villain’s daughter for more sinister reasons than what Hero was.
“When her mother died, all the money went to, not me- with her own damn child- but her sister. We had nothing, Hero. This was my only option. Lives lived and lost be damned. I’m saving my little girl no matter what I have to do.”
“You’re going to get her killed.”
“I’m saving our lives,” Villain persisted, and he turned his back on his so-called enemies.
Sidekick said, “We want to help you, Villain. You and your daughter.” But he wasn’t listening to them. He was staring down the hall, head turned, silent. Then there was a sniffle.
“I don’t just sell them,” Villain said, then paused, and paused, and paused…
“You use them?” Hero guessed- to which Villain nodded slowly.
He faced Hero and Sidekick once again. “Keep her, but please- please make sure she knows her daddy’s trying. I didn’t mean to become this person, Hero, Sidekick.”
“We know.” Sidekick nodded, eyes squinted in an attempt to prevent their emotions from peaking out. “We’re going to help you be the dad your daughter deserves.”
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