La Casa de Papel (Palermo) // Translation

07. oro sangre americana

The last few hours everything went normal and Velez is done with the melting. Velez, Denver, Nairobi, Helsinki and unfortunately Palermo have to watch over the hostages now. Unfortunately because you can still see the marks on her neck and it still hurts. She still hates Palermo. Palermo is sitting quiet on the stairs besides Denver but Velez just don't want him in the same room as her's cause 24 hours ago she had an normal neck without marks. Her thoughts were suddenlz interrupted by a voice.

"You can't just tie us up like rats" one of the bodyguards said. Velez didn't answer and just continue walking around. "Hey!" he said again this time he raised his voice but Velez didn't answer. " Hey, beauty. Can you see the marks on your neck? I will leave you like this but on your whole body. Dead, you damn hoe" he said and this time Velez turns around with her gun pointed at his head. She shots two times near besides his head. The hostages starts screaming. Velez was stopped by Denver who pulled her away. Velez dropped her gun and Nairobi grabbed it. Velez sat down on the stairs besides Palermo.

"Are you okay now, tía?" Denver asks while Velez buried her head in her hands. Palermo hit the stairs twice with his stick and everyone went quiet.

"Denver?" he calls. Denver stands up and goes to Palermo. "Get me to Gandía. I wanna talk to him" he said. Denver grabbed Palermo and walks with him to the bodyguard. Denver let go of him and Velez watched everything from the stairs.

"I can't see that good" Palermo said while the bodyguard looked at him. "But I can see that you didn't respect us" he said.

"Well, I think that you're a son of a bitch, a Latino, a one-eyed fagot" he said and Palermo closed his eyes.

"Latino" Palermo repeated and chuckled. "Yes but my teachers were from Germany. From Berlin" he said, grabbed his stick and hit Gandía in the face. Velez stands up and run over to them.

"Denver!" Nairobi called. Velez walks to Palermo and grabbed him without getting hit by the stick.

"Gold in american blood!" Palermo screams while he hits him. Velez pushed him away.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Nairobi said and Denver came to help. Denver grabbed Palermo and pushed him in a other room.

"Hit me! Hit me you son of a bitch!" Gandía screams. Palermo sat on the couch and everyone stood around him.

"Are you dumb?!" Velez screams at him and goes near him.

"Now we're not better than some terrorists!" Nairobi shouted at him.

"You're a piece of shit! You know that?!" Velez screams.

"Get his ass over here! I will beat his ass!" Palermo screams.

"This crazy son of a bitch is the leader here!" Denver shouted.

"You give a shit about what the professor said" Velez shouted at him. Palermo stood up and looked Velez right in the eyes.

"I will explain to you how it works here" Palermo began. "This son of a bitch, who dares to insult someone in the group, will be hit from me. And you, Shut. Up! Or you will thank me for defending you down there."

"I don't need an ass like you to defend me" she said. "I would love to hit you with my gun in the head and be the leader of the group."

"Oh really?" Palermo asks and chuckled. "Helsinki tie her up!Velez looks at him surprised.

"Don't you dare doing that!"she said to Helsinki, who don't know what he should do.

"Hey, Helsi, look at me"Nairobi begged. "Helsi!"

"Oh, Helsi" Palermo said laughing. "Do you really think you could be his wife? Or do you just wanna play mum?"

Nairobi glared at him, turns around and goes to the door but she stopped at the door. Velez and Denver are watching everything confused.

"I'm sorry for telling you that your just the best friend of the gay guy" Palermo said. "I''m sorry Nairobi but it's like that: Helsinki loves me and you will always be his best friend. I'll explain it to you, you should know that cause your old enough. Love...there is always someone who love someone and who is loved by someone. The one who is loved is like a God. I won't say it's bad to be the lover, don't get me wrong. I'm sorry Nairobi." Nairobi laughs and turns around with tears in her eyes. Denver and Velez are looking at each other.

"The only unfortunate is you" Nairobi said. "With your damn boom boom ciao. Just because you didn't wanted to tell the truth."

"Here is the only truth" Palermo began. "Look, you love the fat guy, the fat guy loves me and I don't love anyone."

"You love no one?" Nairobi interrupted him. "Of course not, cariño. You don't have the balls for love. I have the courage, look" she said and turns around to look at Helsinki. "Helsi, I love you, I love you so much that I would have a family with you." Denver and Velez are walking a lil bit to the side so that they stood next to each other. They don't know if they should start talking too. "Look?" Nairobi asks. "That is love. I feel it, I show it. How long are you in love with Berlin now? Ten years?" she said and Velez looks over at Palermo's broken look. "You didn't dare to tell him. And now? Now it isn't possible anymore. He is dead. And now? Now you love her" she said and pointed on Velez.

Palermo didn't look at her but Velez can feel the looks of Denver and Helsinki. "You love her. You want to protect her. You know when she get's hurt in here, you would go crazy. And because of the pain Berlin made, you didn't want to tell her. You're scared that the same could happen again. You're hiding behind your boom boom ciao thing. You were let down, amigo." Velez looks at Palermo. He's sad. He bite his bottom lip, still looking at Nairobi.

"Let's get back to work" Nairobi said and left. Helsinki left after her. Denver looks at the ground. Velez does the same. She's nervous, she don't know what to do after that right now. Palermo sat down on the couch and buried his head in his hands. Denver looks at Velez, asking if she wanna go to. Velez didn't said anything. She left the room without looking at Palermo again.

published:06/09/20

word count:1099 words

edited:not edited yet