Leon leapt off his bed at once and rushed into the master's chambers, he flung open the door and turned on the light switch just in time to see the masked man trying to feed the master a vial. "Who are you?" Xavier asked again and this time, he was on his feet and throwing the blanket off him. The masked man was shocked, he looked at Xavier and then Leon who was at the entrance, technically blocking his escape route. "It's Brian," Leon said and that was his first mistake that night. The mysterious man suddenly moved to the far end of the room, away from Xavier and Leon and towards the window which he'd pulled open slightly. "Brian?" He asked, somewhat disappointed, although he'd had his suspicions, at the back of his mind somewhere, he kept wishing he would be wrong. That his kid brother wouldn't be the one trying to kill him. His only family shouldn't be the one plotting his own death. "How did you find out?" He asked Leon dejectedly. "He snuck into the ensuite earlier to
"What?!" Xavier asked with a stunned look on his face. He moved back from the man who was still by the window, "Brian, that's not you," he said, stating the obvious. Brian was still at the doorway, a little confused, he nodded, "What are you talking about?" He asked with a curious stare. Then he turned to Leon and then the masked man by the corner, "Who is he?" Leon shook his head, "That's why we don't know," he replied. Brian quickly stepped back, he looked at all of them and asked, "Wait, did you think that was me?" He asked. Leon rubbed his head and Xavier looked away. "He broke in here and tried to poison your brother," Leon explained and Brian gasped, "And you thought it was me who tried to poison Xabier?!" He asked disbelievingly. "I didn't know what to think, you were the one who came up with all that crazy talk about amnesia and getting him out of the picture," Leon replied, "After seeing you in the pantry, I came in here and we thought it was you." Brian tu
Xavier looked down from the top floor and noticed that the guard that Gideon had dragged out with him landed on the pavement in an awkward position while Gideon himself was nowhere to be found. Gideon had been planning his own escape from the very first day that he got into the master's room three years ago. He wasn't daft to believe that he would never be caught. He knew one day that someone might run into him and he'd have to make a quick escape - however he had always thought that the someone in question would be a servant and not the entire family waking up to see and harass him. All that Gideon had to do was order that a small clove be made and attached to the main building two years ago. He made sure also that there was a garden planted right below it and that garden had nothing but tomatoes and cabbage, a sort of cushion that expanded down to the left wing of the house. He had attempted a fall from the window twice within the year and both times had landed him in the hosp
It was a convoy that dropped Leon off as he left the Xavier estate. All the men at the gate bowed to him respectfully as the car drove past. Leon was driven to his neighborhood, he couldn't wait to have a good rest after staying up all night just to keep watch over the professor. "You can go back now, I'm good here," he said. The driver frowned at him through the rearview mirror, he wanted to argue that the master said they should take him home directly since he'd insisted on not staying at the estate anymore. "Is there something you want to say?" Leon asked the driver and he decided against it. It seemed like questioning Leon would be an act of disrespect too and he didn't want to be punished. "Of course, sir," the driver said and quickly parked the car. Leon got out and walked a few blocks down to his apartment. He was on his front porch, trying to open the door when one of his neighbors ran to him. She was the same girl from the apartment above whose father had a heart at
Leon felt the girl grip onto his shirt tighter, her frame shaking as she tried to move back. The sight of the monstrous man was slightly frightening even for him but he could tell that strength wasn't really by size but by might and endurance. "Are you ready to run now?" One of the gangsters asked and Leon simply turned to him with a blank stare. They all laughed because they mistook his calmness for cowardice and they thought he was going mute because he was terrified. The first thing that Leon noted about the large man was that he was so used to being intimidating that he made an entrance boldly, going to elicit the dance effect he'd been eliciting from the very first day. "Oh my goodness, please don't hurt him, please, I brought him here," the little girl began to plead on his behalf. One of the gangsters laughed and said that it was too late for her to beg, "No need, the boss is already here and there's no predicting him, you can't tell him what to do," he spat. "Y
Skillfully, Leon was nle to avoid the big man like he was just a chunk of clay. He put him to his left and ducked to the right, making him fall to the ground in the most indecent manner. The gangsters winced as they heard their master fall to the ground with a thud. They hadn't ever seen him in such a position. No one ever withstood him long enough or even had a fight with him. Leon moved away from the man who was now streaming on the floor, he could see from the faces of the gangster that they wouldn't allow him out of the place. "He's down, can I have the boy now?" Leon asked but one of the gangsters sneered at him, "You can't have anything unless we're sure that you've won," the man said and Leon could see a strange smile coming over her features. Before he could turn, he saw a large shadow casted over him and then a punch landed on his left shoulder. Leon yelled out at the impact and the girl began to cry , thinking that Leon would be overpowered. "You just got lucky t
Leon was stunned to find Gideon in his living room. He held the bat a little tighter as he saw the murderous intent in the man's eyes. "Master Xavier's decision had nothing to do with me," he said. Gideon sneered at him, "You're a pathetic liar, you are the one who made him well, that means you foiled my plans and you will have to pay for it." Leon looked outside, it was still dark and he had a sense of deja vu. The day Billy had broken into his house and tried to convince him to work for some man. "I'll act like this never happened if you just leave now," he offered him, reaching onto the side shelf and picking up the telephone. Although it wasn't working and hadn't been for a very long time, he was sure that Gideon didn't know that. "You'll have a hard time making the cops come down to this deserted neighborhood, you know. Not to mention that there's a fire accident downtown and they're all trying to figure out if it's arson or not," he said with a smirk. Leon's eyes
The day was brighter than Leon had imagined, somehow the incident of the previous night with Gideon might have given him the impression that the day would be gloomy and a mess too. But he was very wrong. The sun was up in the sky before it was even mid-morning and some of his neighbors - the girl whose cousin he saved from gangsters the previous day - came with a basket of muffins to appreciate him again. Leon smiled and stored the muffins on the kitchen counter before he left for the banquet. It was almost 9:30 a.m. when he arrived at the Xavier estate. The security guards all showed to him respectfully and led him inside the place. The cab which he'd taken there was paid off and he didn't have to spend a dime. "The master has instructed that you should be given everything you need," one of the guards said and bowed to him. Leon nodded and followed him into the state in what was an open truck. As they arrived at the meeting ground, he was ushered out and into the banquet hal