The American And The Russian (Benny Watts) [The Queens Gambit]

Part 16 Pills

I smiled as I climbed out the shower wrapping the towels around me tightly hiding myself away with them

"Can I look now?" Benny asks sat at the table with a blindfold over his eyes the dinner already cooking away the apartment spotless

"Yes Benny" I laughed giving his head a kiss

"Good, my turn while you get dressed" he says throwing the blindfold back with the chess stuff pushed aside Tonight so we could have dinner in the dining table "I hope you saved me some hot water" he complained going to the shower himself "oi!" He asked

"What?"

"I require something don't I?" He asks grasping at the empty towel rack

"Why do you only have two?' I asked

"Because up until this point y/n, I'm single and live alone. Two was mostly because then I can be lazy and not have to wash them as often" he explained I sighed undoing the one I used for my hair and handing it to him "thank you honeybunny"

"Your welcome" I smiled as he began getting undressed for his shower, as I was going to open my bag to get my dress and make up out but as I did my pill bottle fell out scattering the rainbow if pills across his floor

"What are those?" He asks

"My vitamins" I answered quickly cleaning them up

"Vitamins?"

"Ummm... I take them everyday"

"Your- your popping pills?' he asks sounding angry coming over having already removed his shirt where he was getting ready to shower, he tried to take them but I held them to my chest "how long has this been going on?"

"As long as I remember."

"What are you talking about?'

"Everyone in moscow takes them. From birth some of us"

"... They've been. Drugging you?"

"No! There not drugs there just vitamins"

"Y/n. Please give them to me" he asks sweetly holding out his hand

"I need them" I snapped

"You've been hiding here with me over a month, and you've still been taking them?"

"Every day."

"For how long?"

"Since I was born"

"They made you take them?"

"Always"

"Y/n, please tell me what they did to you?"

"Benny please-"

"I want to know!" He yelled "I need to know what they've done to you" he says caressing his fingertips across my cheek bone

"Not tonight,"

"Okay, not tonight." He agreed letting me go I went to turned away heading into the bedroom but his words stopped me "y/n"

"Yes Benny?"

"You've still got hold of them" he says my body frozen with an icy chill

"I know I have..."

"Y/n, honeybunny please... just give them to me" he says holding my arm

"I can't Benny. I need them"

"They'll just be with me. If you really need them you can have them." He suggested I nodded turning back and he took the bottle from me "that's my girl, now you go get dressed for our... little date okay" he says kissing my head before he went off towards the bathroom