Hi i really like that IF and i actually have a question. Can we have more facts about Nur and Bassir we know one is secretary the other treasurer but nothing else is known like did they also got arrest, they ran away? Also will their be a possibility for MC to take down Vaz (whatever methods) like wouldn't Angel like to arrest a killer while MC will take the willing rival gang members under our protection/ownership? Keno is my New dad change my mind -sarah
sarah, my darling! i had to boot up my laptop to answer this because i have things to say.
let's start with nur and basir. these two are the only two protected by plot armor, so they will always be with you. at least in the beginning; they might choose to leave due to your choices later on. at least they can't die, yay!
now, nur got arrested, but she is perfect with her words and got off without much of an sentence, basically working loopholes and getting off with a slap of the wrist. she does own a legitimate business dealing in bookkeeping, so that helped her a lot. plus lies. she could talk a shark out of biting her in the middle of a chew. she will be your greatest ally, if you play your cards right, but your greatest enemy if you cross her. she'd make a frightening law enforcement officer, come to think of it. she's the most level-headed member of the hdmc for sure, which doesn't take a lot considering how much trauma all these peeps have stacked.
basir is... a character. the only reason he didn't get arrested was because he managed a distraction (the rest of the club going apeshit basically) and just bolted, and has been lying low ever since, working a normal job. he really doesn't pay much attention to 'right and wrong' on societal standards, so he jumps between being a gang member, to holding a normal job by forging qualifications, and gets right back to being a gang member. you know that pink gun gif/meme? that's basically basir in a nutshell, personality wise. funny how a bored bankers makes the best treasurers.
on the subject of angel/vaz arrests. you will be able to take down vaz, eventually, in the later gameplay, the method depending on you choices and which storyline you're following. before that, it wouldn't be that easy because there's no concrete proof that vaz has done anything illegal, only hearsay and circumstantial evidence. there's no paper trail, no cctv footage, and no willing (read also as: living) witnesses. angel did try to pursue it at first, when there were rumors and the former president of 'his' gang died but vaz (or the gang itself, as many say) has superior half of the san maro pd in his pocket, and angel would quickly be told not to pursue anything more. if they didn't have a young child to both protect and provide for, they'd very well continue their investigation in private, but they have no choice but to turn the other cheek. for now.
you will be able to either have vaz arrested, or outright kill him. the águilas rojas will be thankful either way, and it'd solidify a strong alliance between the two clubs. unless you choose to do something else entirely.
believe me, angel would like nothing more than to toss that cretin behind bars for the rest of his life, but the system they work for is crooked beyond salvation.
also keno is everyone's dad, draw up the adoption papers. he will do a little tappy-tap on your head with a book when you're acting up. what could anyone do, throw a punch? can't even reach his face lmao. fella just gonna pick you up like a toddler. i love big literary papa, he can take me to a matinee any day.
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Whumptober 2022: No. 28 - It's just the tip of the iceberg
Welcome to chapter 3 of one of my whumptober stories. this chapter is for no. 28 - anger born of worry, headache. I am so so so ridiculously proud of this story. That being said, please be kind to it, this is my first month putting any of my writing on the internet. I haven't had any feedback yet, so I would really love a comment, even if its just corrections or a list of bits you hated.
Chapter summary:
Eris still hadn’t spoken, hadn’t really moved. Her hand was hovering over her side, shaking. She wasn’t looking at Selene, didn’t seem to be listening. Her unfocused gaze rested on the corner of the room.
“Why aren’t you even listening? Eris, I’m angry, you fucked up! Except you didn’t, did you. You didn’t make a mistake. You chose to lie to us, you chose to betray our trust, and even when you told me to my face that you would do better you still didn’t do anything different!”
She breathed harshly, ignoring Eris’ flinch at her tone, ignoring the way that Eris’ breathing sounded worse than her own, a counterpoint against the silence.
“Do you even care?”
She couldn’t ignore the next flinch.
The next morning, before Eris got back from her morning run–although Selene suspected that it was likely more of a shuffle this time–she and her brother sat down in the kitchen over a pot of coffee to have a talk.
She and Eris hadn’t exactly left things on the worst of terms the night before, but there was something about being in her presence, especially when she was injured, that made it almost impossible to fight with her.
But that was yesterday. Selene had slept since then–or tried to. She’d had time to overthink about exactly how she felt about Eris’ lie. And now she’d had time to force her brother to overthink it too. And because of Eris’ superhuman anti-conflict aura, well, Selene was just going to have to make up her mind to be mad before the conversation even started, wasn’t she.
She had known before she sat down with Janus exactly how it was going to turn out. That was why she had spoken to him at all. He hated lying. Hated the concept of dishonesty and hated the social ‘fuckery’ that went with it. Lying–in all its forms, however seemingly important it seems to the liar–was neurotypical bullshit.
One of the tenets of the household was that no member should have to deal with such a smell, a rule that was created to protect said neurotypicals as much as their long-suffering housemates. It was a rule that Eris herself had been all too eager to agree too. And here she was, swanning around, breaking it.
For weeks.
And so Selene was angry, and self-righteous about that anger, and only the teeniest, tiniest bit worried. So, like, mostly not at all. Because she was mad. Because you can’t be worried about someone lots and mad at them lots. Because those are the rules. Totally.
Anyway, for her master plan to work, she needed to feel completely justified in her anger, and when the twins agreed, it was basically scientifically impossible for them to be wrong, so, here they were.
“She lied, that’s bad, why are you asking me how I feel about it when you already know how I feel about it?” Janus was always straight to the point. It made conversations easier, usually.
“I don’t know, I guess I feel weird being mad at her,” Selene said.
“Why?”
“Well, she apologised…”
“So? She lied. Which is wrong. We don’t do that to each other. I’m angry.”
Selene sighed and shuffled around on her chair, “Yeah, I know, I guess, but she was really nice about it? She said she lied because of her and not because of me, and that she was trying, and that my feelings were valid-”
“She still lied-”
“-and she was hurt and she even thanked me for helping with her wound. Like, she doesn’t do that. Like, ever,” she said.
“Isn’t that the problem though?” Janus said.
“Ugh, yeah,” she replied, “I’ve just talked myself out of being angry though. Ugh, why couldn’t she have come back while I was still properly worked up? I’m gonna make myself mad again.” She stood and started pacing around the kitchen, her coffee mug abandoned on the table. Janus did not abandon his.
“Do you need me for this bit or can I go get on with work?”
She looked at him harshly mid-step, then deflated a bit, “No, I’m good. You can do whatever.” He raised his eyebrows in silent question, and she restated, “I mean it, really. You’re probably better off not around my bad vibes anyway.”
“” “” “” “” “” “” “”
After another few minutes of pacing and angry half-muttered ranting and elaborate gesturing, Selene decided she actually wasn’t mad. Well, she was, but like, she couldn’t get herself to feel it. Why did emotions have to do what they wanted instead of what you wanted? It’s rude!
So instead, she made herself a slice of toast, stuck it between her teeth, and started doing–far less agitated–laps of the house. She was on her second pass of the upstairs landing when she heard Eris’ distinctive jimmying of the lock; her key was half bent on one side, but it worked, and she said she was too attached to it to let it go. Selene peered down to watch.
She seemed okay. That was something at least. And while she was moving in a kind of shuffly way, it was only shuffly compared to Eris’ usual purposeful stride. She still looked tired, but got all of their (slightly overcomplicated) handshake right as they crossed on the stairs, so she wasn’t dying at the very least.
As usual, after a run, Eris went straight to the bathroom, door left slightly ajar. As usual, the shower turned on a moment later. As usual- wait. No towel on the door handle. But Eris always got in the shower without waiting for it to warm up, because she had cold showers, because she was weird. So she hadn’t realised she had no towel.
This was an emergency. Not because anything was wrong, really. But because the last time Eris had forgotten her towel, she had just walked to her room without anything on, and Selene had seen and had a minor gay crisis, which was… overdue, in hindsight, but Eris was basically her older sister and was legally her guardian now so that was gross and disgusting and horrible and- yeah an emergency.
“Eris?” Selen nudged open the door, snagging a towel from the cupboard on her way. Her eyes were closed, thank you very much. There would be no repeat of the last incident, her poor baby lesbian heart couldn’t take it, “I’m just throwing a towel on the floor, not looking, don’t worry, your modesty is intact!”
There was a sound, so she knew Eris had heard her, but it didn’t come from the shower. In fact, it was less of a snort at her stunning sense of humour and more of a cut-off whine. Like someone was in pain.
Selene cracked open an eyelid.
Well Eris wasn’t naked. She didn’t have a shirt on, which was a non-issue, they trained in just sports bras all the time, but the fact that the discarded shirt on the floor was covered in blood? That was about to be very much a problem.
“Eris? Why is there blood on your shirt?” She was seeing red now. Ha. Eris had said she was sorry, she had said she would be careful, right? And here she was going for a run with a puncture wound in her side, the day after receiving it. She was an idiot, and she needed to be reminded of that.
“You are such an asshole, Eris!” So she was a bit more aggressive and a bit less understanding, sue her. “I thought you said you were sorry! Did you ever mean it? Did you mean any of it? You told me you were sorry and then you go and split the stitches I put in your side and don’t even tell me about it!”
Eris still hadn’t spoken, hadn’t really moved. Her hand was hovering over her side, shaking. She wasn’t looking at Selene, didn’t seem to be listening. Her unfocused gaze rested on the corner of the room.
“Why aren’t you even listening? Eris, I’m angry, you fucked up! Except you didn’t, did you. You didn’t make a mistake. You chose to lie to us, you chose to betray our trust, and even when you told me to my face that you would do better you still didn’t do anything different!”
She breathed harshly, ignoring Eris’ flinch at her tone, ignoring the way that Eris’ breathing sounded worse than her own, a counterpoint against the silence.
“Do you even care?”
She couldn’t ignore the next flinch.
Eris shifted from her position leaning against the bathtub, and backed away from Selene. She didn’t look sorry. But she didn’t not look sorry either. She just looked confused, and startled, and sort of sad. Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes as she shook, flinching away again as Selene tried to close the distance.
“Please don’t be mad,” she said weakly.
Selene stopped in her tracks. In an instant, all her anger melted away and left a sucking hole in its wake. She had just shouted at her best friend. Actually shouted. In anger. But she only felt worried, really, a fluttering feeling that nestled next to her pulse, raising it, blurring the lines between fear and anger. One is just easier to deal with than the other.
Carefully, like she might with a startled animal or a crying child, Selene moved towards Eris.
She didn’t like the way Eris curled away from her against the wall, and she didn’t like the quiet whine that escaped Eris’ lips or the way she clamped down on it instinctively. Most of all, she didn’t like the way her pupils were dilated, her hands shaking; the head injury was far worse than she had originally thought it was. Fuck. Well. Okay.
“I’m going to touch you now, okay? Please don’t be scared, I’m not going to hurt you, I just want to get you somewhere more comfortable. Alright? Eris?” She reached forward, cringing away as if it might lessen the pain of seeing her best friend flinch away from her touch, “Oh, no, I’m sorry, it’ll be done in a second, just let me-”
It took them a few minutes to move the short distance from the bathroom to the sofa, leaving Eris’ bloodied shirt discarded on the floor. Once she was settled–and thankfully looking far less afraid and a little more coherent–Selene put a large sticking-plaster over Eris’ wound. It was sealed enough that that should hold, for now, and her priority until it didn’t hold anymore was not causing her any more pain. Ever, preferably.
In fact, she should probably give her something for that. Nothing too strong; she didn’t want to worsen the head injury, or make Eris more disorientated, more afraid. But something.
“Hey, E?” Selene kept her voice gentle and low, and was rewarded with a little flush of relief when Eris didn’t startle again, “If I get you some paracetamol, can you take it for me?”
A gaze far steadier than it had any right to be after the last few minutes held hers, assessing quietly. Hopefully her head was clear enough to make an informed decision about her own pill-swallowing capacity, but Selene wasn’t entirely certain.
Eris nodded and Selene let out another little sigh. It wasn’t as much pain relief as either would have liked, but something is better than nothing.
Pills sourced and swallowed, the two curled up against each other on the sofa. Selene put on some movie in the background, not really caring what it was, as long as the warm weight against her side stayed there.
It wasn’t fair, really, that Eris could be so much a comfort to her even when hurt, even after lying, even after being so uncharacteristically, terrifyingly afraid. It wasn’t long before her thoughts drifted away from pain, and she was lulled to sleep by the soft steadiness of Eris’ breathing.
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Some time later, Janus came into the living room, stopping dead in his tracks as he took in the scene in front of him. His twin and his surrogate sister, one of whom had been enraged at the other, who had lied to them, were lying on the sofa, a film playing in the background.
Eris seemed to be awake still, with Selene curled tightly into her side. It was weirdly cute.
Eris caught his eye over the back of the sofa and motioned slowly to the remote on the side. He looked at her flatly, then rolled his eyes and nodded. Grabbing the remote, he turned the volume of the TV down a bit before passing it over, and whispered to her, “I thought she was mad.”
“She was.” She looked distant for a minute, then shook her head, “I… I didn’t react super well to it. Think I scared her a bit, actually.”
“You yelled at her?” The shock was clear in Janus’ voice.
“No, no, I would never, don’t worry. She actually yelled at me. The, umm, headache was worse then, and I’d split a couple of stitches and she walked in on me in pain and… I got confused, scared. I thought she was gonna…” She breathed deeply, and Selene nuzzled in closer in her sleep, “Clearly not anymore. We should talk about this though, all three of us. It was shitty of me to lie.”
“Yeah, it was,” Janus said, “But Lenny shouldn’t have yelled either. That’s just as much against the rules. She’s clearly not mad anymore.” He began to walk away from the pair, leaving them to their peace, “You’re right, we should talk about this, but you both should sleep first.”
He paused in the doorway and looked somewhere over her shoulder. “And I’m not angry at you either.”
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