This so exciting, the first friday of 2020. The first prompt of this year and it continues on the last on, working on something new, but have some trouble writing it. It will work out in the end, anyway. Here is new beginning part 1
Part 2
Hero woke up to no pain at all, are they dead? No, villain was asleep by their bedside. They were so cute when they slept, so innocent. Never before they had seen villain like this and they were a little surprised by waking up alive. Villain had actually saved them, did it mean they had chosen them? Hopefully, that was the case.
Hero reached for villain’s right hand and held it while they watched villain sleep. What had hero gotten to not feel any pain at all? Whatever it worked wonders. They were almost free to move as they wished without making a sound.
Villain moved a little, was waking up. So hero drew away their hand, but too late, villain had already seen or felt it. Maybe both. ”What are you doing?” They asked and grabbed their hand and stroke it gently.
”I don’t know… I guess I’m used to hiding my feelings.” Hero confessed and fast changed the subject, ”how is it that I don’t feel any pain?” They said fast and saw villains face light up.
”Some of my own brilliant ideas, it feels great, doesn’t it?” Villain said and chuckled at hero’s expression. ”Everything I do isn’t that bad you know.”
Then villain remembered the day before, what hero had said about a not learning from their first heartbreaking. ”What did they do when they broke your heart?”
Hero stared at them a moment before they broke the eye contact, ”it wasn’t they who did something. Something happened to them” the memories still fresh and the wound still hurts. Trembling by the thought of that day, ”I thought I had found my soulmate many years ago. But it wasn’t meant to be I guess.”
Villain leaned closer, ”you can tell me.”
Hero sighed and tears started to fall, ”I haven’t told anyone what happened. I’m afraid it’ll be apart of reality if I say it out loud.”
”If I tell you something about me, do you think you can tell me then?” Villain offered and hero didn’t look so sure, but they were ready to try anyway. ”Only a few know that I living a lie. My real name is [real name].” Hero fell into shock, didn’t seem to find the words. ”Usual there is a lot more question.”
Hero shook their head, maybe they were kidding. No, they didn’t. ”Shouldn’t you be dead? How… What happened?”
Villain had learned to gesture the confusion away, ”I was saved and saw it as a way to start over. Lived my life, until my brother found out and dragged me into this.”
”Supervillain…” Hero stalked the words one by one while they, ”they are your…”
Villain nodded, ”I only swore my loyalty to them because of that. But they don’t care about neither friends or family.” They explained, ”they leave me alone most of the time. More than before anyway. They threatened to reveal my true identity if I don’t obey.”
”That explains a lot” hero said, chewing on their lip. Villain had never liked when hero mentioned supervillain. ”Do you fear them?”
Villain stared up at the roof before meeting hero’s eyes, ”of course. Not that way you or anyone else fear them. I know them better than anyone else though.” The thought of supervillain knowing about their relationship with hero would make supervillain in the best scenario angry and paranoid. ”It’s because I know them I fear them, we need to keep us secret.”
”Yeah, my colleges wouldn’t take this in a good way either.” Hero said.
”I thought you quit.” Did they just change their mind?
Hero had forgotten the talk about their past. But didn’t really want to talk about it either. ”I’m going to train young heroes instead, from this day and forward I'm not a hero. I’m a trainer.” They cleared up the confusion, ”in the end I won’t leave the organization after all. It was my commander’s idea and I liked it. The others agreed too.” They kept going villain nodded to show they understood.
”I guess I’m not the only one to care about you.”
Hero laughed, ”I’m not entirely sure they did it because they cared, but to keep their best hero. The one who mentioned it actually care though.” Their commander had been a good friend and even like a parent to them. ”But they aren’t going to think this is my choice either.” Hero said and laid their free and good hand on their chest. Feeling their heart pound calm and steady, then hero smiled.
The door opened up and interrupted whatever was going to happen between hero and villain, which made both hero and villain took back their hands ”boss…” Henchman stopped in the middle of a step and didn’t know what was going on or what they were going to say.
After villain gotten to their colder and more distant self they finally said, ”what is it?”
Hero had to lai down and act distant, ”supervillain wants to talk to you.” Both villain and hero froze like the news was a trap, but villain could at least hide their fear.
”Tell them I’m busy and call back later” villain said just wanted to return to theirs and hero’s conversation.
Henchmen backed off a little nervous, ”their here. In your office…” They hawked unsure, and villain turned white.
”You led to my office and left them alone there!” Villain yelled loud and there was fear in their voice. Enough to make a shiver of cold crawl through hero’s spine. ”In which world did you think that was okay?!”
Henchmen protected their face with their arms, ”I didn’t have a choice. Everybody know they doesn’t take a no as answer.” Henchman explain and backed off even more, almost out of the room. But villain gestured them to come back, a little bit calmer. ”They caught me off guard.”
”Supervillain does that” villain muttered. Maybe all those times they refused their call had caught up to them, ”stay here and make sure hero is safe. Lay low, hero.” They ordered, henchman would do exactly what they wanted. But hero didn’t seem to like the order. Looked like they was about to protest, ”I am going to handle this. But if supervillain finds you here were all screwed, don’t play hero know.”
Hero laid back again and nodded, ”I have actually meet supervillain before.”
Hero chewed at their lip again, ”pretty bad. They trapped me and throw me out in the middle of the ocean.” They remembered it far too well until this day, ”I’ll don’t make a sound.”
Villain laid a reassuring hand on henchman's shoulder, ”this shouldn’t take too long.” Then they left the room, knew they had to keep henchman quiet about what they had seen.
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Supervillain leaned back in villains chair and had their feet up their desks. Supervillain did look like at home right their and villain didn’t like it, ”what do I owe this pleasure of your visit?” They greeted coldly and really distant.
”Do you avoid me, brother? You of all people must know what it feels like.” Supervillain said without really mean it, it was just to get villain out of balance. Which didn’t work on villain.
Villain only leaned towards a shelf, carefully watched if something was out of order. There was a book that wasn’t on the right place, some of the men could have snooped around, but supervillain would never do that mistake. ”I’m just busy and it must have slipped my mind. Hero has been a real pain this few weeks.” Villain excused themselves, ”what is it this time? A new plan of yours?”
Supervillain didn’t reveal any feeling of anger or revenge at all. ”Yes and no. Did you know that hero is signing off? A certain source gave me that information, did they say anything about while they were here?”
Villain sighed. Of course, they knew about their encounter with hero, ”I heard and they confirmed it. Short before I throw them out of a window.” They lied, but didn’t their wall show any weakness. ”I’m not sure if their dead or not, but frankly I don’t care.”
Super villain smirked at the thought that villain possibly had killed hero in cold blood, ”one less obstacle I need to think of if they did die.” They wouldn’t forgive that lie if they knew the truth, villain would be in real danger if that’s was the case. Hero was nothing compared to supervillain or their men, who watched villain with hands on their guns. ”You wouldn’t dare lie to me brother, right?”
Villain scoffed, ”I know better then anyone what you’re capable of. So what reason would I have to lie?” They asked sure, steady voice and no uncertain clang or anything like that. ”Is it enough about that goody two shoes hero, do you have all day? Because I don’t.”
Supervillain swiftly moving down their feet and leaning forward. ”I do have a new plan and you’re the last piece in the puzzle. Are you in?”
Villain caught their eye, ”it’s not like I have something to say about the matter.” They had never had, others may have. But not villain, know they didn’t want too much attention either. ”What do you want me to do this time?” They had done so many things for supervillain, but now hero had changed everything without knowing it.
Supervillain put a phone on their desk, ”for now wait for my instructions. I’m not in a mood to share this time.” They mused, ”this is my masterpiece and there will be no one to stop me.”
Villain hadn’t heard them say that about anything before, not sense when they were young. There was every reason to be afraid when they looked like that, what role would they have in this? What would happen to the city or maybe the world? Villain couldn’t even imagine.
Supervillain rose up and walked until they stood in front of villain. ”Little brother, it would be wise to answer my calls or at least call back.” Their smooth voice and whisper was only for villain to hear, a reminder of what they had to expect if they didn’t do as told. ”Answer next time” they gestured to their men that it was time to go and before villain knew they were gone.
Now when villain was alone, they didn’t dare to move until they knew no one watched them. Hopefully, that fear had been hidden while the meeting had been. Anger made them smash the door shut and their breath was deep and heavy. What had they done when they choose to be with hero? What had they expected to happen? Happily ever after? Life wasn’t that easy.
They saw the book that wasn’t right, one of their many notes. Plans they hadn’t plotted yet or just knew wasn’t doable, how much had they been able to see while they had been here alone. The drawers were still locked, what a relief. Opening the second one and grab a little book, a photo of hero fell out. Their hero, at ones they calmed down. ”I love you too,” they said to the photo. Couldn’t stop staring at it, until they finally saw the phone supervillain had left.
