La Casa de Papel (Palermo) // Translation

24. que en la vida solo hay

1 month before the hour x

Velez walks through the corridors of the monastery, totally bored. Everyone uses the torrential rain to sleep or have sex, but Velez is neither tired nor does she have someone to have sex with. When she reached one of the balconies, she saw Palermo watching the rain. Velez just decides to move on instead of starting a conversation with this disgusting person, so she turns to leave but immediately regrets it and turns back. What boredom can do to her scares her. Velez goes to Palermo and stands next to him. She puts both hands on the balcony and admires the rain with a light sun peeking out of the clouds with the yellow, orange and pink sunset. Palermo looks at her for a second and slowly turns his gaze back to the sky. He doesn't feel the need to fight her, and neither does she. The weather and that beautiful sunset just add to the peace, quiet and a terrible nostalgia. Palermo starts talking. "They say that when it rains and the sun is shining, a witch gets married." Velez smiles at his comment.

"Yes," Velez replies with a view of the sky. "But it actually means that it won't rain tomorrow."

"Oh really?" Palermo asks who did not know this wisdom until now. Velez looks at him and smiles because at Palermo's answer she remembers a person from her past.

"Yes," she says and looks up at the sky again. Palermo is still satching her and realizes that Velez is remembering someone. You just need to look into her eyes and see her smile slowly fade as if she wanted to return to that moment.

"Who did you remember?" he asks. Vekez looks at him in disbelief.

"How did you know I just remembered someone?" Velez asks with a laugh. Palermo laughs. If anyone in the group had seen them like that, the two of them, at that moment, laughing instead of arguing, they would understand absolutely nothing.

"The way you looked and sighed..." he says and Velez smiles.

"When I explained the meaning of rain and sunshine to you, you reacted just like someone I knew," she says and Palermo becomes curious.

"Who?" he asks. Velez's smile disappeares and she looks back at the rain.

"My ex boyfriend." Palermo recognizes by the change in her voice and expression on her face that it is not a good memory.

"You didn't have a good time with him, did you?"

(...)

Thanks to a conversation with Tamayo that was only possible by hoisting a white flag, Lisbon, Velez and Tokyo now know that the professor is not being held by the police. When the three women reenter the bank to hand Gandía over to Tamayo, everything gets out of hand. "Bogotá let him go," Lisbon yells when she catches him beating Gandía, the main part of the deal that had just been made.

"Leave Bogotá alone," is the only thing Palermo replies. Velez is desperate and tries to run towards them, but Palermo stops her.

"Let him go!" she yells while being hild back by Palermo, but he doesn't let go of her. "We have to hand him over, otherwise the military will come," she yells desperately.

"Do you know how much fun it was to shoot you friend in the head?" Gandía asks Tokyo. "And how I would have loved to shoot the other one too," he continues, referring to Velez. When she hears this, she stops as if frozen and looks at Gandía with incredible anger and fear. "But you didn't give me enough time." Without thinking, Tokyo kicks him in the head, climbs on top of him and punches him in the face, taking out all of her anger at him. Velez no longer has any objections.