Chapter 16
"Gilbert, Matthew, I need your help now." Feliciano peeled off his white gloves. The other two stood up straight wiping the bored expressions off their faces. "It's a mess in there, mind cleaning it up?"
"We're here to be your maids?" Gilbert whined.
"Don't talk to him like that!" Matthew half yelled. Sounding more like a whisper with his already quiet voice. It was intentional to have it sound as such.
"No, no, no, it's fine, really." Feli interrupted the two. "Just take it to the complaints department if you have a problem with it."
"Where's that?"
"Right here, of course!" He smiled as he held up his gun. His smiled dropping seconds later. "I wouldn't want to kill another, it's like killing family. So, please, do what you're asked to do." Both nodded respectfully. "Great! Thank you!" He smiled once again and walked off.
"Damn, he's ridiculous." Gilbert said once the man was gone.
"Hey, he make look like a madman most of the time but he's a soft leader at heart." Matthew gained his attention with the soft reminiscent words.
"You say that like you've seen it before."
"Because I have, that maniac is why I joined in the first place." Matthew smiled. "His brother, too. You could say that I'm a family friend."
"Well, the reason I joined is way less honorable than your reason, now I feel stupid."
"Let's get to work."
Alfred sat listening to what Tino had to say. Saying something about how the mafia is planning a mass murder supposedly. Which seemed extremely iffy in Alfred's personal opinion.
The mafia doesn't work like that, they work carefully. Who would they murder anyway? Their own, perhaps, but that's unlikely and frankly a dumb move. So, it would be civilians but there's no big celebrations or anything coming up any time soon. So, it was just ultimately a rumour.
"I don't know about all that." Alfred spoke his skepticism.
"Me either but you never know."
"It's just a rumour, I bet."
"But you know, rumours only grow."
"What is that supposed mean?"
"It means that you're not going to hear it from just me." Tino walked off to the serve a woman that had just sat a few stools away from Alfred. A brunette with hair so long it practically touched the stool. She smiled at Tino like she knew him meaning she was a good person. Was Alfred drunk or was she real pretty? He looked at her for a good long moment. She looked over at him with emerald eyes and looked to be inspecting him.
"I see you've noticed Eliza here." Tino interrupted his staring. "You should talk to her, you would hit it off well, I'm sure!" He smiled and walked away to serve another.
Eliza was the first to move. She moved to the stool next to Alfred and gave a smile.
"Come here often?" Alfred asked the classic line like usual. He wanted to laugh at himself, honestly.
"Not as much as you, I bet." She spoke a lot like Tino, Alfred mentally noted. She was more playful however. "Tino always complains about you, it's ridiculous."
"Well, he is my info guy."
"What other 'guys' do you have?"
"Well, I have my info guy, my suit guy, my belt guy, my gun guy, and my knife guy."
"Quite a lot of guys you have there."
"Yeah well, I'm the guy." He said with pure pride.
"Oh, do tell!"
"I'm a cop working to crack the hardest case imaginable so I'm the cool guy. I'm also the smart guy because I've managed to calculate where every murder might be. And I'm the hot guy because-drum roll please-" He practically sparkled and glowed with excitement. "I'll protect you any time."
"I'm sure you must flatter all the girls with that charm of yours." Eliza giggled.
"Charming, am I?"
"Attractive too."
"Seems you're flattering me more than I'm flattering you." Alfred grinned. "I might just start blushing!"
"You'd look real cute."
"Oh, really?" He took a sip of his whiskey. "Guess you're going to have work up to it."
"I wouldn't mind that at all."
"Then what do you say we get out here?"
"That's an offer I just can't refuse."
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Yoyoyoooooo I finally updated!!!!
I'm probably going to update more frequently now given that my interest has been restored somewhat.
I uhhhhhhhhhh forgot most of the plot I've built up so I had to go back and look
I know this chapter was a bit weird Eliza and Al?? What??? Watch it closely tho ;0
There's gonna be more depth now since my writing did a 180 and got better
See ya later~!
