Unforgivables

Okay so, this chapter was supposed to be up last night but my internet went out on me and didn't come back till this morning, stupid freezing weather interrupting signals and shit.
ANYWAY, I hope you all like it!
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Christopher backed away quickly, finding himself encased in Brian's arms as then man spoke to him. Was this really his father? Could it be true that his father was the one that was hurting all his friends? Haunting every single moment as if he were Christopher's very own subconcious? This just couldn't be! Christopher felt tears well up in his eyes thinking of this. Why? Why would his own father hurt him and his friends in such a way?

"So you are the infamous Christopher Brown huh?" Ace asked and the man turned to him. "I've heard so much about you from so many different people it's hard to remember all of your fabulous stories."

"Ace." Tran said in warning. "We're not here to dig into the past. We're here to get rid of him once and for all. No inbetween stuff."

Ace just smirked at Tran. "Sorry Transient but don't you think that our little Christopher deserves to know the truth? Because indeed his father was a great man but..." he looked back at the man of flames. "In the long run he was nothing more than a spy."

Christopher's eyes widened and he looked up at Brian, who just kind of shrugged. "You think that I would not willingly tell any of you anything you want to know?" the man asked. "You are all disgusting creatures is what you are! All of you! Filth! Running from the government, keeping your powers to yourselves! You are all filth and you will rot within the bowls of hell for your trechery! I will send you there myself!"

Ace waved his hand, a wind knocking away a flame that came towards him. "Honestly, what power do you have? You are nothing more than an image of your formal self. The only reason you are out here is because we call you out here to get rid of you once and for all."

"Is that so?" the smirk in his voice was undeniable and suddenly Edan fell to the ground screaming in the most horrific way any of them had every heard. "Is that not your lover Ace? The child of a prestige family lowering himself to the likes of a common streetrat. Perhaps you just want him for his money Ace. Or should I say Fillin?" he laughed softly. "All those things you see, the pain you feel from just those images you get, he feels them in every bone in his body. I could kill him from just the thought of pain."

Ace clenched his fists and shook in anger. "Ace..." he knelt down by Edan, tears leaking out of the boy's eyes as if he had no control over them. "Kill...him...please..."

"And this boy." the man turned and Gabriel winced a little. "It's so sad to see such a brilliant child be corrupted by these feinds. Nevertheless you shall suffer the same fate as them." he held out his hand for Gabriel. "Unless you choose to come with me. Think about it. You'll be back with the government. Being taken care of and idolized. What more could you want Gabriel?"

Gabriel just stared at the firy hand before shaking his head and closing his eyes. "I will not go back to that! I will not go back and be treated like some lab rat! I would rather die!"

"Then die you shall!" the man yelled and Gabriel was soon on the floor in the same predicament as Edan. "And you," he turned on Elise. "The product of sin. The son of a mafia lord and his ill-fated romance with an Irish whore." Elise turned his head away from the man. "Are you as loyal to Tran as you say you are?" Elise clamped his eyes shut. "Or was your encounter with Nick just purely coincidencial?"

"Fucker!" Elise screamed at him.

"Elise stop!" Tran snapped. "Don't let him get into your head! If you let him into your head he's going to take advantage of your weaknesses!"

Elise dropped to his knees and burried his face in his hands. "Tran...make him go away...please..."

Tran turned back to the man. "Stop torturing them for your own sick pleasure! You call us the sinners! You call us the heathens and yet you are the one breaking into our minds and destroying us just so you can watch! You sick fuck!"

"And Transient." the man turned towards him. "Nick's murderer." Elise's head shot up and he looked at Tran. "You would dare call me sick when you have done the same? Did you not enjoy killing that man after what he did to your dear, sweet Elise? You're just as pathetic as the rest of them, no matter how different you think you are."

"Edan no." Ace told him as Edan began to push himself up. "Don't try and fight it. You're only going to hurt yourself more!"

Edan pushed himself up onto his hands and knees, panting and sweaty from the effort it took because of all the pain holding him down. "Gabriel!" Alexis snapped as Gabriel began to push himself up in the same fasion. "What do you think you're doing? He's trying to get to you! Don't make it worse!"

"No!" Gabriel yelled and slowly pushed himself so he was standing. "I'm tired of being pushed around by these people! I wont stand for it anymore!" he stumbled a little but pushed Alexis's hand away when the guy tried to help him.

"Edan?" Ace asked him as the boy stood also. "What do you think you're doing?"

Edan winced as he stood, nearly parrallel to Gabriel. "I will not be your lab rat!" Gabriel screamed and slowly Elise stood as well. "You will not control me!" Christopher took a few steps forward, shrugging Brian's arms off him. "You may send me to the bowels of Hell but I will take you with me!"

Gabriel's eyes turned completely white and his body began to glow again. However, unlike the first time there was no angelic apperance to this look. He looked ready to kill, and none of them doubted that was what he was going to do. Ace backed away a little as Edan closed his eyes and began to glow as well. A circle of fire shot around Elise and Christopher's feet, seemingly encasing their lower halves.

"What is this?" the man screamed and gripped his head. "What kind of demon are you?"

Tran grabbed Ace's arm and pulled him back away from the four. "Brian! Alexis! I suggest you get back!" he yelled at the other two and they moved back from the four. "I guess that Gabi is the first of us."

"So it would seem." Ace agreed.

"I will destroy you." Gabriel muttered to the man, his voice seeming to amplify through the room. "I will hurt you just like you have done all of us!" he held his hand up. "You do not deserve the life that you were given! Nor the family that you had!" a bright white circle began to glow under the man's feet. "This is for everything you've done!"

The light shot up in rays and the man went ridged with pain. The fire vanished in smoke and Christopher opened his eyes just in time to see his father standing there, just as he had remembered him. The man smiled at him and whispered 'thank you' before he was incased in the light and vanished.

Everything slowly went back to normal and the four fell to their knees. Gabriel set a hand on his forehead, as if trying to remember what had just happened. "Gabi!" Alexis ran to him and dropped down beside him. "Gabi are you okay? What happened? What was that?"

"Don't as so many questions." Tran told Alexis as they helped the others up. "I think it's wise for us to leave this place right now." his eyes fell on the window and they saw guards running past it. "Once we have found a safe place we'll talk." he glanced at Ace, who simply nodded. "We'll tell you everything you need to know."

"You mean all the stuff you should have told us already?" Brian asked him. "This is a bunch of bullshit! We're getting everything out in the open, right now!"

Tran glared at him. "You think this is the best place? In the middle of a government base after what just happened? Don't be foolish! Now, we're getting out of here, finding somewhere else to stay, and then, and only then, will we talk!"

Brian just looked away from him. "Come Edan." Ace lifted the boy bridal style in his arms. "I suggest we get out of here now, before those assholes can get in here and cause trouble."

They were all tired, all annoyed, all completely confused, and all completely aggravated. Walking through a forest in the early hours of the morning was not something that they needed to do. However, that seemed to be all they did do. Walk, fight, argue, run. Had their life just become that of a hampster in a wheel? Just running around in circles with no end or destination in sight. How could that be? How could they seemingly come so far and yet...be absolutely nowhere?

"A cave!" Edan smiled happily and grabbed Ace's hand, pulling him along. "Come! We can finally rest and get some sleep!" his stomach growled and his face fell. "Though...I guess we don't have any food huh?"

Ace just smiled and set a hand on Edan's shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll get you something to eat in a little bit okay?" the boy beemed brightly again and they headed towards the cave. "Well, at least it's cozy."

Edan shifted a little closer to Ace. "It's kinda dark in here huh? Can we find some where else please?"

"You're such a baby." Ace told him. "It's even day time and you're scared of a cave?" Edan pouted and turned his head from Ace. "Ha, now you're really a baby."

Edan turned on him. "Jerk!?"

"Make a fire." Elise said as he walked up to Christopher. "Go on."

Christopher looked apprehensive a moment before he nodded. Biting his lip he concentrated before a small spark showed on the ground and a small flame began to burn. "I don't think I can do it yet..."

Elise just smiled and the fire began to burn higher and brighter. "No worries, it takes practice is all."

"Well?" Brian asked Tran as they sat down around the fire. "You gonna tell us what is going on or what?"

Tran just smirked. "I believe every single one of us has a story to tell." an awkward silence fell over them. "And I believe it is only fair that we hear everyone's story. Why don't you tell us your's Brian?"

The guy just glared at him. "What is there to know? I've spent the better portion of my life in a mental hospital because they thought I was insane. Before that I lived in the valley with my mom, grandpa, and little sister. There's really nothing else."

"Elise?" Tran asked the boy sitting between him and Brian.

The boy lowered his head a little. "My...my father was part of the Italian mob and...and my mother was a prostitute...just like he said." he fell silent a moment. "They were honestly the nicest people ever. When my dad died my grandpa wanted nothing to do with me, so they sent me to my uncle beacuse he owed my father for all the things he had done before. My uncle...he was a cruel man." he took a deep breath. "I tried my best to be good for him. But, even then I could do nothing right. My cousin died a year after I went to live with them. After that things got worse. Every time I did something wrong it was ten times worse. He'd hit me for the stupidest things. I hate him so much..."

A silence passed over them, as if for that moment in time they had all reflected back on someone or something that had made them feel the same way. "Your turn Tran." Brian told him.

"I was born in the Netherlands." Tran told them. "We moved here about the time my brother was born because my father got a good job offer. My brother was ten when I killed him. We were swimming. He was the first person who ever went into that darkness and the first person who died there. That night the rest of my family joined him. I'd already been in that government laboratory. They'd shoved so much medication in me that it wasn't any surprise it took me so long to finally be able to do anything. Though, my father saw it as just being weak."

Their eyes fell on Ace and the guy sighed. "Well, honestly there's nothing real special about my life either. My real names Fillin and my mom named me after my grandpa. I hate the name cause that guys a douchebag. Even before I went into the government he'd always shoot me up with some kind of drug just so he could beat me and have me not remember when I woke up." he sighed. "Then at that laboratory they shoved me full of so many meds I don't even remember being there for most of it. After that I've just kind of been wandering around, slipping away from the government on day at a time." they looked to Edan but the boy was staring at the ground. "Edan."

The kid jumped and looked up at Ace. He scooted closer to the man, hugging one of his arms and sort of hiding his face in it. "Ace..."

Ace slid his arm from Edan's grasp and wrapped it around Edan. "It's okay Edan. No one here is gonna think anything bad okay?"

Edan just nodded his head a little and stared at the fire. "My...my mom died when she gave birth to me. My father...he was a busy man...so he hired a nanny to take care of me during the day." they boy turned his head into Ace more. "When I was six my dad died...well...I killed him...I guess. The only person I had was my nanny. I didn't have any other relatives so I went to live with her and her family." he went silent a moment. "Her...her husband was a bad man. He beat her children all the time. He told me I was to pretty to be a boy. That...that a lot of people would mistake me for a girl. He...he..."

"Hey." Ace wiped away his tears and lifted his head to make Edan look at him. "Every things okay now alright? No more tears over him."

The boy nodded and snuggled into the older guy. Gabriel kind of shifted as their eyes fell on him. "It's...it's a long story...my life..." he barely whispered. "It's hard to explain it all..."

"We have time." Tran told him. "Go on and tell us Gabriel."

"Well..."

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The next chapter is for all of us who are a fan of Gabi, who's life revolves basically around death, drugs, and sex! Ohemgee! *gasp*! I less than (<) 3 him!!! Ugh...I'm tired and going to work. Peace.
-Kay