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A Heart's Promise	By : Evilevergreen Category: +1 through F > Codename: Kids Next Door Views: 6282 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Ten: Crumbling Trust

“Are you all right?” Were the first words out of Gavin’s mouth as he heard the SUVs drive off. He sat up on his knees and checked over Abby’s body. She was trembling, but to his relief she was uninjured. “W.B.!” he immediately yelled when he heard no sound from upstairs.

“I’m fine!” Wally yelled back as he began his way downstairs.

Gavin checked his pocket and pulled out his cell. He pushed a speed-dial button before placing it between his ear and shoulder. Both of his hands than went to Abby’s face as he tenderly wiped away the tears she was softly shedding. “Frank,” he spoke to his right-hand-man. “It’s Gavin. Look I need you to send a few guys over to Kuki’s. Make sure she knows I sent them. She’ll understand,” he instructed. “Then I need you to personally check on Joey. I want him on the next one out along with Kuki because were about to have ourselves a fund-raiser-”

“Fund-raiser!” Wally eyes grew wide at the word. He knew it was a codeword for something far less innocent. “Gavin, you can’t-”

“Shut-up, W.B,” he told him as he put his cell back in his pocket. He then looked up at his cousin, there was an anger residing within Gavin’s eyes and it was far more than what Wally had witnessed upstairs when he had been accused of being with Abby. Wally knew to be silent. “I tried doing this your way,” Gavin’s voice was harsh. “I left them alone and they did exactly what I told you they would do,” he explained. “Now we’re going to do this my way. Understand?” Wally simply nodded. “Good.” He then turned his attention back to Abby, his voice once again becoming gentle. “Abigail?”

Abby eyes looked around at the damage done to the front of the house. “Gavin, why would someone-” she couldn’t get the words out. “Why would?”

“It’s alright,” he said as he helped her off the floor. “Come on. I’ll drive you home.” He then grabbed his keys before looking to Wally. “Grab a few of our things and Joey’s, but don’t stay long, they may come back,” he told Wally. “Then meet me at the center.”

Wally looked to him curiously. “Why the center?” he asked him. “There’s still police tape all around that place.”

“Don’t question me W.B. I know what’s best for us.”

Wally was taken back by Gavin’s response. He had never been blown off like that before, but he decided to shrug if off, chalking it up to the fact that Abby was still in the room. Though he did think she was too far in shock to actually be listening to them. “Fine,” Wally finally responded as he as he made his own way back up the stairs.

“Shouldn’t you call the police?” Abby asked in a concern voice. “Those people just tried to kill us!”

“Everything will be taken care of.” Wally heard Gavin say to her.

OoOoO

Wally waited patiently inside his car out in the parking lot of his center. When he, Joey, and Gavin had first came to the States the center was where they spent a lot of their time, so much so that Gavin ended up buying the place for him. The center used to be a great distraction as Wally would come to teach his boxing classes, but the police shut down his center after the shooting.

Wally finally stepped out of his car as he looked at his center; he hadn’t been here in so long. He had truly missed the place. “What’s that?” he asked himself as something caught his eye. He walked up towards the front door only to discover that the police tape covering it had been tampered with. “What the hell is going on?” Wally asked himself as he realized something was up and he wasn’t in on it.

Soon Frank and Andy pulled up into the parking lot. “W.B.,” Frank called as he walked over to him. “Gavin told us to meet him here. A fund-raiser?” he asked curiously. Wally then explained to the two what had just occurred at his home.

“And how’s Joey?” he asked when he was through.

“Concerned that he had to be check on, but wise enough not to ask questions, as always,” Andy explained. Wally only nodded his head in response.

A few minutes later, Gavin pulled up made his way towards his trusted people. He said not a word as he walked pass them and ripped the police tape off the door. He then got out the extra set of keys Wally had made for him incase he ever lost his own. With the doors open he walked inside and headed towards the back where the offices where located. Wally, Frank, and Andy followed.

To Wally’s knowledge, Frank and Andy had never been to his center before, so he was surprise to see that they knew exactly where they were going. Wally only watched as they each went to a corner of a one of the offices and started to rip up the carpet. “What the hell are you doing!” Wally yelled immediately.

He went to stop them, but came to an abrupt as he found Gavin’s hand on his chest. “Honestly, W.B. don’t be so naïve. Do you really think I bought this center just for your sake and your ‘kids’ as you ridiculously put it?”

Wally’s attention was then turned back to the two in front of him as he heard a cracking sound. They had torn up one of the wooden planks lining the floor. After the first the others easily came up.

Hidden under the floorboards were several large trunks, but Frank and Andy were able to pull one up easily. Gavin then reached inside his shirt for the necklace he usually wore. Around the chain was an old looking key. He tossed it to Andy, who easily caught it before unlocking the trunk and flipping open the lid.

“The fuck!” Wally yelled as he pushed his way passed Gavin when the contents of the trunk came into view. “How long have these been here?” he asked his cousin angrily.

“Don’t be upset,” Gavin told him. “I made sure they were in a place where your kids couldn’t found them.”

“I don’t care where they were. I don’t want guns in my center,” Wally told him heatedly. “I want them gone.”

“Don’t get all self-righteous on me now, Wally,” he began as he walked over to the trunk and picked up one of the hand guns. “Because there used to be a time when you enjoyed this,” he explained.

“Those were different times,” Wally whispered. “You needed me.”

“I did,” Gavin agreed. “But I never asked you to do anything. You did it all on your own accord,” Wally shivered at the smoothness of Gavin’s voice. “You were brilliant at it, you know. I’ve never seen anyone with an aim like yours. It was poetry in motion to watch you handle weaponry as if you had been doing it for most of your life. Don’t you miss it, W.B., even a little?” Gavin held out the gun.

Wally’s eyes became locked with the silver metal before his hand slowly began to reach out for it. “No!” he yelled suddenly as he took a step back, running into the desk that was behind him. “I’ll never pick up another gun.” Wally’s eyes looked pleadingly into Gavin’s as he shook his head from side to side. “Please don’t make me.”

Gavin immediately lowered the gun. “I’m sorry,” he said feeling ashamed. He knew how his cousin felt since the incident and knew he had no right to ask this of him. “I’ll get someone,” he told him. “You can go to the safe house with Joey and them, until I finish things here.”

“No,” was Wally’s answer. “I didn’t abandon you then, and I know I have some issues, but I won’t abandon you now.”

Gavin smiled. “I knew you wouldn’t.”

“Yo, Gav.,” called Frank. “About your fiancée did-”

“Fiancée?” Wally interrupted. “You mean Abigail?”

“Yes. At the house I asked her to marry me. She said yes,” Gavin lied, as he paid very close attention to Wally. He was looking for any type of sign he may have missed when they were back in the house. Because for some reason, Wally’s very first reaction to his accusation seemed a bit rehearsed to Gavin, he had to catch him off guard.

“Congrats, man,” Wally said forcibly before smiling. “I’m happy for you.”

“Thank you,” Gavin replied with a passive face. He then turned to Frank and Andy. “Well, let’s get to business shall we gentlemen?”

OoOoO

Day was breaking through the windows as Wally sat up and stretched in a foreign bed. He had spent the night in a hotel room. Since the Senthos knew where they lived their own home wasn’t safe anymore. Gavin had ended up staying in a different hotel across town, but it didn’t bother Wally none, he needed the space.

“Fiancée,” he said to himself as he washed his face in the sink. It didn’t make any since to Wally. He knew Abby wasn’t happy in her relationship with Gavin, but then again, he also knew how badly she didn’t want to her him. Had she agreed to marriage out of guilt or out of spite because of how he had treated her the other night?

Wally loved his cousin and he knew Abby made him happy, but he knew from experience that life with Gavin wasn’t always rainbows and butterflies. He knew he had to talk to her. He had to know if she was doing this because she wanted too or for reasons he didn’t know.

It was later in the day as Wally arrived at Abby’s home. He knocked on the door and waited patiently. A tall black man in his mid-thirties opened the door. The man looked at Wally curiously, but greeted him kindly.

“Is Abigail home?” Wally asked him.

“Yeah, hold on,” he said closing the door behind him as he went to go look for Abby.

A moment later, Abby meet Wally at the door. “W.B.,” she said in way that made him think that he wasn’t who she was expecting. “Where’s Gavin. Is he alright?”

“Gavin’s fine,” he told her, but then said in a lowered voice, “but I need to talk to you. . . privately.”

Abby shook her head. “I can’t get into this with you again, Wally. You made your feelings know very clear the other night, remember?”

“I didn’t mean those things. It’s just that Kuki-”

“I’m not Kuki,” she cut him off. She then sighed. “I know the history between you two, Gavin told me, but I won’t have you taking the anger you feel for her out on me.”

“I would never do that,” he reassured her. “I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.” He cupped her face. “Just come with me.” He pleaded. “I won’t keep you long.” Abby began to shake her head again. “Abby, please,” he whispered.

Abby stared at him for a long time as she wondered why she couldn’t detach herself away from him. “Alright,” she replied.

OoOoO

Gavin was in his car, driving towards Abby’s house. It was a little after one. He needed to talk to her and express the importance of why she had to leave town. He had tried talking to her last night, as he was driving her home after the shooting, but her mind seemed to be on anything else other than what had just happened.

Gavin knew that at the beginning of their relationship they had been seen together alot. Anyone of his enemies could easily link her to him, and like the rest of his family, he wanted to make sure she was safe when he retaliated against the Senthos in the next coming days.

He had thought Abby knew he was coming over, it was what they had discussed last night, so he was a little surprised when he was told she had already left for the day. “Yeah,” said the man Wally had spoken to earlier who had happened to be Abby’s eldest brother. “She left about an hour ago.”

Gavin nodded as he thanked him. He was about to turn around and give Abby a call on her cell, but something made him stop. “Did she leave with anyone?” he asked her brother.

“Yeah, some blonde dude.” He kind of made a face as something came back to him. “In fact, he kind of looked like you but-”

“Shorter.” Gavin finished his statement.

“Yeah.”

“You’ve been a lot of help. Thanks again.” Gavin made his way back towards his Thuderbird. “Bastard!” He yelled as he hit the stirring wheel with both fists. He then gripped the wheel tightly as he took long, deep breaths. "Maybe," he began slowly as he thought out loud. "Maybe it's not what you think." He then laughed as his hands loosen. "Of course it isn't. W.B. would never do that to me. I just need to stop doubting him," he tried to convince himself, but soon found that he was speeding down the streets, heading towards the hotel Wally was staying in.

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