#ruben001

Location: Shame & Regret 

Angel doesn’t know why she’s doing it exactly, but she is fully aware of what she’s doing. Shame & Regret had been sworn off the very second she’d found out that’s where Ale worked upon his arrival back home. In fact, the thought of burning down the speakeasy and pizzeria with her ex trapped inside had crossed her mind. It even brought a smile to her face, but as of late, she doesn’t feel that way anymore. It’s weird, unmanageably weird. The hatred she holds for him only burns somewhat now, dying down from the raging fire it once was. No one knows she’s been talking to him again, keeping their exchanged words confined to text messages when she’s too high to remember how he’d hurt her. It feels less real that, as if she’s talking to a memory instead of the actual person the memory is attached to. It’s easier. So why is she going out of her way to catch just a glimpse of him now? Part of her hopes he isn’t there. Part of her hopes that he is. What she doesn’t expect, however, is to run into his brother, physically and harmlessly colliding with Ruben Laurent when she isn’t paying attention. Suddenly, she feels smaller than small. This was a stupid ass idea. “Fuck, sorry. Hey. Didn’t uh– didn’t see you there,” Angel says awkwardly, frowning a little at how dumb she sounds.

She was out and about, looking forward to meet and catch up with Emilia that day in town when the sounds started... first it was just distant angry voices and then more of them closer. Yelling and objects breaking and a group of four masked horse riders rode by. Aurora slammed up against the wall of a building when a car swerved from the street onto the sidewalk, almost hitting her, and screeched to a halt before a store. Some angry people began to crowd around to smash at the windows.

Aurora couldn’t believe her eyes. She was frozen in shock and the confusion of not knowing what was happening or what was right for her to do when suddenly, a familiar man started yelling at her from across the street while approaching. ‘You- you’re a Saint, aren’t ya? I seen you during the fires!’ Some passerbyers near him listened, muttering angrily in response. ‘Get her!’

“I don’t understand what-” Aurora debated using the knife in the watch that her father had given her. But she recognized both of the people rushing over to attack her as a friendly, average store owner with a wife. Even the man that yelled at her had been so grateful the day they saved him in the fire. When normally Aurora might have responded to the threat quickly, she couldn’t help hesitating long enough for one of them to start throwing punches. She tried to defend herself too late. The two teamed up and shoved her up against the nearby wall and that was Aurora finally reacted at full force - kicking at one of their groins so he’d let go and then punching the other in the face.