EEEK finished another short fic for my newly created series 'Petals in Gunfire'. Here's the full fic on here but I also uploaded it on my ao3!!!
Julius calls over for a meeting in the main hall of the Church to discuss the goods stolen from one of their safe houses by the Carnales. This is supposed to be a serious mission and everyone must stay attentive, these goods can lose all of the progress they’ve made into taking down the gang. Julius needs to consider on the most appropriate team to attend this, just to go smoothly with no mishaps due to a certain person who can’t seem to follow easily. Everyone gathers and sits on the pews, awaiting for Julius to provide the information they need, however someone is missing.
“Aight, so I hope everyone by now knows what happened and the shit it’s gon’ cause-“
“Fuck off!” The doors of the church smash closed with a vibrating echo, a messed up figure emerging from behind the corner panting and trying to gather their breath after being tossed around and punched by a bunch of hobos - those people seriously need to stop assuming every girl wants to be groped. As they lift up their head, they pause and see everyone stare at them pissed off, especially Julius with that death stare of his, glaring daggers into their eyes. They didn’t know why everyone was gathered around and it surely made them embarrassed to be seen interrupting something that didn’t involve them.
After a bit, Julius spoke up in a gruff tone, annoyed at their entrance when important things are on the line. “Would you mind having more decency to things you are late for? Go sit down, Em.” He nods towards an empty seat next to Dex, commanding them to do as he says. The figure, now known as Emmiline, shamefully walks by the back and approaches the seat next to Dex, giving him a small but unsteady smile and sits with her arms crossed waiting for Julius to speak.
“As I was saying, hopefully you all know that the Carnales somehow fucked us and took our shi’. So I’m sending two of you out to get it back, and it better go well because we can’t afford to have it gone again. This is serious.” Saying that last part, he stares dead at Emmiline, a warning sign towards her. She’s intimidated by this and sinks low into her seat, the embarrassment growing fast within her. Dex notices with the corner of his eye and smiles to himself whilst looking away finding it hilarious however, the atmosphere around the room is really tense so he has to hold it in. The urge of knowing who’s going to be selected for this mission rose within everybody, a few deciding if they should put themselves forward. From the quietness, a voice spoke up.
“I can do it.” Troy lifts his hand up to get his attention, putting himself forward to do this mission. It makes sense as he’s usually the one to take on the Carnales duties. He hoped that Dex would go along with him as well - another amazingly trained lieutenant in dealing with Los Carnales and they are good buddies. Everyone whispered among each other, discussing how he would be fit for the mission, or Dex should go alongside him, etc. However, Julius clears his voice to get everyone’s attention again. Almost immediately everyone turns to face him, going quiet and filling the hall with an unpleasant stillness.
“Dex, you will be selected on the mission. I know how passionate and dedicated you are to this and you seem like the best choice.” Julius takes a pause. Surprisingly he ignores Troy’s insistence.
“With you, I’d like..” he pauses again, this time with a lower tone and directing his eyesight directly at…
Emmiline immediately becomes tense, she looks quickly towards Dex with a confused and worried look, him biting his lip anxiously in return. This is the first real mission since she’s joined and it’s already something she has had no input on so far, making it really hard for a rookie like her. Why was he placing this case onto her when she’s done nothing in regards to the Carnales?
“I need you to go with Dex as this is your chance to prove yourself, I don’t expect failure. From either of you. Dismissed.” Julius makes a nod and retreats towards his office, leaving everyone to discuss amongst themselves what just happened. Emmiline sits idle in her seat, processing the information with a blank expression. This could potentially leave her dead: no further training in armed combat, no defense training either. She needs to stick by him at all times.
Emmiline is interrupted with a firm hand on her shoulder. She gazes up at the person infront of her: Dex. A sigh escapes her lips, directing her eyes towards the floor with a somberness. Dex understands her feelings; he wasn’t in a position like this before, but he feels what she's going through. Dex pauses a moment before speaking reassuringly. “You’ll stay with me at all times, don't worry.” He breaks into a small smile, speaking with subtle teasing to possibly uplift her mood, “never know.. you might learn somethin’ finally.” Emmiline cracks a smile at that but licks her lips to contain it, jokes aren’t going to fix what’s about to happen. She squeezes her hands into fists and looks up sharply at Dex. “Let’s just go..”
Dex’s Raycaster swerves around the corner leaving tire marks behind it, and then makes an abrupt stop on the curb, almost sending Emmi flying forward. Bracing herself using the dashboard, she turns to him annoyed, “can’t you ever drive normal? I don’t wanna end up dead.” At that, she rolls her eyes and proceeds to exit the car. The drive mainly consisted of her hanging on to the handle of the car door and Dex laughing at her terrified face, being childish rather than focusing on a plan prior to their arrival. The errands she runs with him, sometimes, mirror this exact moment - makes them forget their actual task.
Dex follows by opening his door and stepping out, placing his keys inside his coat pocket after locking the car. He catches up and walks alongside her, looking at the building in the distance and then at her.
“See, now, what I think is best is that we split up: you go for the roof, I go for the ground floor as it’s most expected that the Carnales loonies are there. Just get rid of anyone that’s on the roof and keep watch until I tell you to come in, ‘ight? Should be easy enough.” Emmi raised an eyebrow, intrigued by his trust in her. Going by herself to an area that might be infested with enemies is a worry for her, but without a gun as well? It’s surprising Dex is allowing this despite his exact words being ‘you’ll stay with me’. Either way, she didn't want to split up from him. In fact, she's fucking terrified.
“Oh, and,” Dex lifts his coat and pulls out a VICE 9 from the waistband of his jeans, “here, you’re lucky I brought two.” Dex chuckles and hands the pistol to her to which she takes it to inspect and holds it in her hand. It’s almost as if he read her mind or something that he just happened to have brung another gun. “Thanks, um, let’s do this.” Emmiline nods her head, mainly just reassuring herself that they are ready to go and she doesn’t need anything. Yes, that’s right.
The two come up to the building of the factory, attentive for any chatter or noises coming from inside or around the area, however it’s all just the sound of engines and clanks of metal from the conveyor belts surrounding the area. Dex signals with his head towards the stairs on the right of him to Emmiline, in turn she nods and slowly moves to the landing of the steps, taking a breath in and moving up the metallic steps. Dex’s eyes lock onto Emmiline’s figure until she disappears from his sight, having that moment of worry over her but he gets out of it quickly - she can do it. Dex approaches the door with caution and placed a firm hand on the handle. He counts down from three in his mind and bursts in. Shots are thrown, grunts and angry comments surround the room but as always, Dex easily silences the enemy, finishing off with shooting a bullet through a guy’s head on the ground, making sure he’s dead. Dex looks around the place inspecting for any more Carnales to deem it safe enough for Emmiline to come down.
“Emmi! Get down here!” His shout echoes through the floor of the roof and sort of startled Emmiline. She rushes down the steps, mostly because she feels that something might happen if she doesn’t arrive to Dex in time, but also to check up on him as she didn’t have any guys up on the roof with her. As she turns the corner, the heel of a rifle meets with her face, forcing her to be knocked back onto the floor. Emmiline grunts and placed a finger on her bleeding nose, feeling it all gush out and droplets hit the floor. Looking up, she finds the perpetrator to be one of the Carnales - fuck. A kick of his leg was heading towards her head again but she quickly moves her upper body to the side. She looks at his leg terrified at how close he was to hitting her. Distracted, she doesn’t notice his successful side tackle as he forces her to lay uncomfortably on the ground whilst he overpowers her on top.
“What you doing here, little senorita?” He positions himself better on top of her, using his feet to move back and lock her knees in place and then he wraps one hand around both of her small wrists above her head. He moves his head close to hers, Emmiline squirms to move away from the man’s gaze but it’s no use. “Being alone around these parts is un poco peligroso…” he glides his thumb across her bloodied mouth slowly, dispersing shivers in her body. Emmiline admits to herself that she doesn’t know how to get out of this, every point of her body is secured by him and makes it impossible for her to escape. Closing her eyes, she accepts defeat and just hopes he doesn’t kill her before Dex comes.
As if her hopes are answered, the guy relaxes immediately; the grip holding onto her wrists loosened up and his body falls on her. She becomes tense and gasps noticing that blood from his chest is pouring onto hers.
The body is removed to the side of her and it reveals Dex looking down to her with disappointment. “You’re bad at this, you know that?” He holds out his hand for her to grab, wincing as he gets a better look at her busted nose. “I don’t wanna admit it but, yeah.” Emmiline rolls her eyes and takes his hand to be lifted up, stumbling a little as the impact of falling twice left her body sore. Unexpectedly, he guides his hand towards her mouth and attempts to wipe off some of the excess blood but it became too dry to even make a difference. Emmiline backs away slightly from his hold, creating awkwardness between them for a moment. Dex clears his voice slightly before speaking. “C’mon, I told the crew to pick up the stuff so we don’t have to deal with it. And also, sorry for not sticking with you, it had to be done y'know?" Emmiline shrugs her shoulders, not bothered by that anymore as it's all over.
The two then walk together back towards his car in silence, Emmiline embarrassed slightly for not being able to defend herself and Dex reflecting on how he could’ve handled it better, quickly forgetting about their awkward interaction a few moments earlier. As they get there, Dex is quick to open the passenger door for her, attempting another slight gesture of kindness to her and giving her a small smile, but she slides into the seat with no expression. He is stumped but quickly goes to the other side and settles down. Before starting the car, he turns and asks her a question.
“I’ve been thinking — aren’t you too young for this?” Emmiline breathes deeply and sinks into her seat, shame arising within her.
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