𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚁𝚂

chptr 25,,''

         The next morning, everybody sat awkwardly at the table. Last night, something stirred up when Yuri had came. Anya looked at Yor blankly and so did Loid. He didn't even notice that he was until Yor looked back at the both of them. What's going on? Did I do something? Everything that happened still didn't process to Yor's mind, so she just looked at them. "Is something wrong, guys?" SHOCK! MAMA DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. Loid sighed quietly and Anya started to eat her food. She wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Yor got up and pushed the chair gback in. "I'm sorry, I need to leave early, work is starting to pile up." Loid hadn't realized that Yor was talking to them so he just stared. Anya waved her hand in front of Loid. "Is papa even awake yet?" Yor looked worriedly at him until reality hit him. "Oh, sorry. You needed to leave early, Yor?" Yor nodded and picked up her bag. "Yes, I might be back home late so you don't need to prepare dinner for me!" She waved goodbye and the door closed. Loid looked back at Anya. "Anya, later around 5:00 we need to study a bit more. Your grades are starting to decrease a bit, alright?" "No! Anya doesn't want to study!" Typical. "Come on, your math isn't the strongest. You need to have more practice on it. After school, you can play a bit but then we need to study." Anya sighed and finished her plate, "Fine! Anya will study, but Anya wants to play at Becky's house for the weekends!" Loid looked at her, a bit confused. "Why?" Anya shrugged. "Becky invited Anya and Anya said she'd ask you, papa." "We'll need to ask Yor too. Just tell her the answer tomorrow or something." "Okeh." Anya got up and placed her plate on the counter. She ran to her room to grab her things and her beret, then walking out the door for the bus, not forgetting to say goodbye to Loid. Today was Loid's day off so this was perfect for extra mission evaluating and spying.

  Loid could hear Bond's whines as his footsteps got louder and louder to his door. He scratched the door. "Borf! Booerff!" What could he need? Loid opened the door and Bond put his paws on the floor and looked up at Loid. "You want to go on a walk?" Bond jumped and ran around. Well, this is for the mission.. "I mean, sure then." Loid closed the lights to his room and went to get the leash and a water bottle. "Come on, Bond. Let's go." Bond ran over to Loid and they left the house. They walked down the stairs as they passed by he neighbors. Loid really couldn't handle with them today, so he just passed them as they mumbled a bit more. As they exited the apartment complex, Loid had decided the two of them could stroll around for a while to get Bond's energy out and Loid could focus better on the missions without any distractions. He wasn't worried about Anya and Yor coming home and bumping into them. Besides, Anya and Yor wouldn't be arriving home anytime soon.

    Yor knew that the Garden's men would come around 1:00 to pick her up for something really important, that it needed a car involved as well. Yor wasn't sure what it was but it had to do something with the Shopkeeper if it was this fancy. She tapped her fingernails on the desk as she looked around. Sooner or later, Camilla, Millie, and Sharon decided to show up. "Hey, Yor-San~" Camilla looked at Yor cheekily and laughed a bit when she looked at Millie. Yor looked up at them and smiled politely. "Do you needed something?" "No..we just wanted to know something!" Millie nodded and Camilla basically bobbed Sharon's head. "God, let go of me!" Camilla mumbled under her breath a bit. "So, we couldn't help but find a bit out about this whole, 1:00 thing! Where ya going?" Camilla arched down and bent to look at Yor. "U-uhm..I think it's from my husband.." Camilla got back up and giggled and Millie did too. Millie was about to drop on the ground before Camilla yelled at her. "Gosh, Millie, you're doing this again! Get a hold of yourself, damn!" "Heh.." Yor looked back up worriedly at them. "Is something wrong?" Camilla shook her head and signaled for them to head out. "Anyways, Yor! Have a fun time with your husband for us, mhm?" Their laughter feigned as they got farther. I wonder what's so funny though..

   Around 1:00, the limo pulled up and Yor was off early. She left the hall and entered the limo. "Welcome, Thorn Princess." "Hello, what's the assignment?" The Shopkeeper turned his head and looked at Yor, who was at the backseat. "Hello to you too, Thorn Princess." "Oh! Sorry, Shopkeeper." "Don't worry about it, it's all fine. Your new assignment is around [address]. This middle aged man is torturing children and experimenting on them." Yor gasped softly, this was horrible. "All you need to do is bring him in unconscious, and we'll take it from there. No need for the whole assassination thing this time." Yor nodded as she repeated to herself, don't kill the target! "By the way, his name is Henry Riverwood. He's around 5'8, brown ginger hair, he has dark blue eyes and he should be wearing a suit with a red bow tie. It should be easy to identify him. Use whatever method to get him in the interrogation room, we just need him." Yor nodded and they dropped her off the at the location. "We wish you the best luck, Thorn Princess. Don't let Ostania down." Yor spun her stiletto weapons carefully, around her fingertips, and walked into the lab.

   Loid sat at home and Anya sat with him at the dinner table. Loid left Bond some food so he could eat as well. They had studied earlier to Anya's whines and Loid's dissatisfaction. Anya seemed like she learned something from it, though. Anya chewed on her food and asked, "Papa, when is mama coming back home?" Loid looked at Anya with a stern look. "Hey, don't talk with your mouthful, it's rude for table manners." Anya nodded and swallowed her food. "Ok, but when is mama coming back?" "I'm not sure, sometime late. Don't worry, tomorrow morning she'll be back and you can see her again." Anya nodded and continued eating her food. She decided now would be a fun time to read Loid's mind. To be honest, I miss Yor too. I wonder where she is right now, I kind of want to feel her soft embrace again.. Anya kinda blushed at Loid's love talk. Papa is flirting with mama, but in his head! Anya giggled and Loid looked at her. "What?" Anya shook her head as she got up to put her plate away. She ran off to her room and closed the door. Odd, what's up with her today? Loid finished his plate as well and started to clean the dishes. He looked over at the pictures they had all taken over the course of time. He could only stare at Yor's face. For a few seconds, Loid felt like he was in a trance or some sort of strange twisting in his stomach. He snapped back and finished washing the dishes. Dammit, Loid. This isn't good. I can't start devolving feelings for this family or Yor! This is for the mission, world peace, for no harm. He felt like he needed a second to recollect himself as she did. Loid didn't want to accept that he loved Yor. This was getting out of hand. Loid immediately had looked at the cabinet with the wine for some reason. God..I shouldn't.. He probably shouldn't had, but he saw how "easily" Yor had handled alcohol before, so he thought it wouldn't hurt anybody.

   Now, Yor was running extra late. She had been able to turn in the lab guy, but the blood from all the men she had to fight off didn't come off. Come on, this has to work! Yor didn't want to appear in a bloody dress at home, Loid could've seen! Plus, this wasn't her City Hall uniform so appearing with a black dress in the first place would be awfully suspicious too. Shit..most of it came off anyways, I'll just need to go home now. Yor wiped off the excess blood she could and started to walk home. What would be her excuse? She did tell them she had work, but work at this late hour? Literal servants. Yor walked home and she just decided to go with that the City Hall needed extra clerks for help so Yor volunteered to do so. Loid wouldn't mind simple kindness, lord knows he could use it sometimes towards others.. 1:23 AM wasn't the most late Yor had gotten home before. Sometimes, she came back home around when Loid would get out of bed. She tried not to make a sound when she walked up the stairs to the apartment. She opened the door quietly and the lights were off. Thank god, nobody needs to see me right now. I'll just drop this off at the laundromat. Yor walked into her room and changed into somthing else. She walked to the bathroom and started to take a shower. She walked on with a towel wrapped around herself. Then, Loid came out of his room and rubbed his eye. He saw Yor and jumped a bit. "O-oh, Yor, your back late, what happened?" "Oh- sorry, they needed extra help so I decided to volunteer myself." "Oh, that's ka-kind of you, Yor." That's when Loid noticed that Yor wasn't wearing her usual clothes. "Oh my." Yor looked down and blushed. "Oh, sorry! I just took a shower, I didn't mean to awaken you if I did!" "No, no, it's ok." So he's sensitive to any type of nudity? Yor sweetly smiled at him. That's kind of cute.. Loid couldn't help himself but pull in Yor close to him. Yor blushed at him, finally realizing he was drunk. "L-Loid, are you ok?" Now were the moments that Yor couldn't help but stutter a bit. "Mhm..yeah, I'm ok." He picked up Yor and pushed her into his bed. "Lo-Loid!" He took his shirt off and pinned Yor onto the sheets. Lord knows he could use the kindness now.

word count : 1809

A/N : hi guys! tysm for over 300 reads! I thought we'd only get around 100 or sm! tysm for reading and as always, have a good day/night!