I Knew Better
Song: Still worth fighting for- My Darkest Days
Eli:
I knew better than not to get involved with her. The day the Adler's hired me to watch her, I was skeptical about it all because this is not the job that I am normally hired for. I remember looking at the address over and over thinking how in the hell am I to watch over her when she lives in this skyscraper apartment looking over New York. I got on the internet and scoped out the area to see where in the hell can I crash for a while. At the time I thought it would have been only about a month or so, I never imagined it turning into a good two years or more.
The apartment that I found was taken at the time. I asked the owners if they would be willing to move and it's funny when you fork out enough money people will just up and leave. At first, I only had a few items when I moved in, like the telescope that was one of the first things that I moved in and set up to look into her place. I know it's fucked up but it's my job to just watch after her.
After the first few months, I started to wonder who this girl really was and why did her family insist on someone watching over her. I have met her years ago but there is no way in hell she would remember that, hell I can barely remember myself. However while looking her up, it's almost like she doesn't even exist if that is even possible her family has made sure to keep everything about her life sealed. I watch her non-stop. When she leaves, I also head out and hope to find her on the street to see which direction she goes. Luckily for me she spends all her time down at this dance academy place.
When she is home, I have caught her dancing in the apartment and many, many nights on the roof top dancing. Until one night she has a guy with her and I shouldn't be jealous, or have any feelings for her but something hits a nerve. There were several nights that I even watched how he made love to her and I tried to imagine it was me. I had to force myself away from the fucking telescope before they ever finished.
I have watched her get dressed and undressed. I have watched her drying off from being in the shower. I watch her so much that I can tell you ever brand of foods and drinks that she enjoys as well as when she is on her period. I know more about her than that prick of a boyfriend she has. I have watched them during arguments and then turning around to make up and if it was me I would get rid of his ass all together. I knew the moment he came into her life that he would never be good enough for her.
I have watched them argue. I have watched him place his hands on her and sometimes she fights back and other times she just gives in. I am surprised by the fact that she seems ok with his behavior towards her. I watch all her shows from the far back, top balcony. I admire the way she moves but I despise the way he touches her, the way he looks at her. The moment he came down on her leg, he did it out of spite. I wanted to kill him then but I had to go with her to the hospital. I should have called her father at that time but I didn't because I figured she would let them know anyway. Instead I went back to the apartment hoping he would be there and he never showed the fuck up.
I watched from my apartment the day she got home from the hospital and I knew he was not there so I step into the shower. I get out and walk over to the telescope to check in and she is still asleep on the couch, so I sit down in the chair and have a drink. I dosed off but was quickly startled awake to the phone going off.
I pick it up with a yawn and say, "Eli."
"Where the fuck are you? I pay you good money to be watching over her. What the fuck is going on?"
"She just got home this evening sir. She was sleeping on the couch. I am sure she is fine."
Not even two hours later, my phone is going off yet again. I look down and see his number. "Yes sir."
"Get your ass over here. We need help cleaning up."
Help cleaning up, what the fuck happened. I get dressed in less than a minute and head out the door. I run the three blocks and head up to her floor. At first the apartment seems fine but as I walk into the back towards her bedroom, I see all the blood, so much fucking blood. I start to panic. If she is dead, I know I will be next to go. Nothing gets past the Adler's. This was my one job, the one thing that I was hired to do and I got her killed.
"I need you to fix the cameras. I need you to erase every fucking evidence from the main camera. Once you have that, I need you to arrange a way to act like he left without her of course."
"Yes sir, on it." As I am turning to leave, I see a glimpse of her in the bathroom with her mom. I can hear her talking to her. In that moment, I exhale because at least I know that she is alive. I leave and go to the maintenance room and get rid of all the evidence that he asked me to do. I then go back upstairs and look around the place. I know he would leave with his bag. So I get his shit together. The only thing is, is that I am way bigger than he is. I call up one of my friends and when he shows up I explain to him what I need.
"You want me to do what?"
"Look you owe me man. Just put this on and keep you head down. Never look up at the fucking camera and take this bag."
"What are you getting me involved in?"
"Nothing man...you owe me this."
"If I do...are we even?"
"Yeah...what the fuck ever, just change into these clothes." I hand him the pants and the shirt. He was even able to wear the shoes. I hand him the bag and tell him to leave.
The place is spotless and I thought I was out of the clear but I was wrong. "Eli, man, what the fuck?"
"I'm sorry sir, it won't happen again."
"We are taking her back home with us for a while. Consider yourself on leave till I say otherwise. You know I should kill you for this right. You had one fucking order, one."
"I know sir, like I said it won't happen again."
That was the first warning.
When Violet returned back to New York, I was excited. There is just something about her that grabs me by the balls. I followed her to the store and I was shocked to see her kill this man out in the open and dump him in the back of the car. She walked home like nothing happened. I watched her kill the cop from across the street. I watched her torture the poor professor. What in the hell happened to my sweet little Violet.
I just had to bump into her. I had to get her attention. I watch her on the dance floor and I just can't take it any longer. I make my way towards her and start dancing. "You mind if I dance with you?"
She practically has to scream over the music, "No." I watch as her lips curve upward into a smile and her eyes glisten in excitement to be able to dance with someone.
We actually dance together, for once we are together. I watch the way she sways and my mouth waters up. I instantly go hard. She keeps scanning me up and down and if she doesn't stop biting that lip of hers, I am going to have to make her stop. One thing led to another and I end up taking her back to my place.
My god, she smells so good. Her skin is so fucking velvety soft and I just want to touch more of her. I know it's wrong. She is a job, nothing more and I am so crossing over the line. As a matter of fact I cross the line several times after that, maybe one too many. I crave her and just don't want her out of my sight ever again. I forced her to eat breakfast before dropping her off at the Academy. I never knew anything was wrong until Mekhi calls me out of the blue.
"What the hell, man. Davenport just called said that she walked out. Is she at home because she is not answering her fucking phone?"
I look around her apartment. Of course she is not here. I head out and start looking for her. I track her down with her phone and she is on a bad side of town. By the time I get there, I hear a commotion on the side of the building and just happen to hear her voice in the mix. She is pushing two guys off of her. Matter of fact they are trying to get her in the truck. I walk over to them and pull out my gun. I don't hesitate to shoot the driver in the head and then the other guy. She happens to fall as I run up to catch her letting her pass out in my arms. I can't believe she is out here and wasted on top of that. What the fuck.
I get her home where she needs to be. What I wasn't expecting was the Adler's showing up.
"We need to talk." Mr. Adler points outside of the room. I look down at her restful body sleeping in her bed. I follow him out to the roof where we can have a conversation without her hearing.
"Eli, I appreciate you bringing our girl home, however you consistently fail doing what you are asked to do."
"Sir, I swear to you. I watched her walk into the building this morning. I went to park the car and sat across from the studio like I do every morning. I didn't see her leave. She must have done it while I was parking the car."
"And you had no idea that she gave all of it up. Do you have any fucking idea how much money has gone into her being here? For fuck sake I pay the Academy good money. I pay Davenport. I pay for this fucking lifestyle and I fucking pay you to watch over her and she keeps getting into more trouble. Eli I should let you go you know that right? You continue to fuck up. All you have to do is watch over her, make sure that she is alright and dammit to hell here she is fucking drunk and let's not mention she could have gotten in the fucking truck and who knows where she would be."
"Sir...I swear to you, I will watch over her. She's safe is she not? I fucking killed the two guys to protect her." I will kill anyone in my power that even tries to lay a finger on her.
"She should have never been in the fucking bar to begin with. Dammit, we pay you damn good money to just do one job."
"I'm sorry sir. I should have been there. I dropped her off at the Dance Company; I watched her walk in before I drove off to park. Look I don't know what fucking happened."
"Exactly, you don't know. I should kill your ass, you know that right? You keep messing up. Because you were not paying attention that fucker, Gabe even tried to kill her."
"And she took care of herself. She handled herself well with Gabe." I raise my voice back at him, knowing what he is capable of doing to me.
He shoots me a glare. "She shouldn't have too. You should have intervened and took his ass out."
"And I told you, she had come home and he was not with her. I didn't see him come in with her and he didn't. He must have arrived late. I should have been watching. I will admit I should have been. I told you and Mrs. Adler that I am truly sorry. Mekhi, she is home. She is safe. I swear to god that I will not let anything happen to her."
There is a loud crash near the door and we both turn to see her looking back at us with huge tears in her eyes. The look she gives her father was one thing; the look she gives me is unforgiving. Fuck she knows now.
"Vi...sweetheart you are awake." Her father stares at her for a second and then looks back over at me. "We are done here. You should leave now."
I am frozen on her body expression. I try to search for what she is really thinking about inside that head of hers. I blink away when she finally opens those sweet lips of hers to talk. "No...finish your business with Eli or whatever the fuck his name is." And with that she turns and leaves. I was about to go after her when he stops me.
"What the fuck was that all about?" he says with a low growl.
"Nothing."
"The fuck it's not! There is something going on between the two of you isn't there." I don't reply back. "You know just because I know your father doesn't mean fucking shit. You said you dropped her off at the Academy, why? I get why she is upset with me but why would she be upset with you not unless she knows you on a personal level." He reaches over and grabs my collar and pulls me into him. "What is going on with the two of you and don't fucking lie to me?" He grits his teeth.
"I...I think I am in love with her sir."
He pushes me up against the wall and pulls out his gun. He doesn't hesitate to place it right up under my chin and put his finger on the trigger. I stare into him as he glares back. I know in this moment that he could easily kill me and wouldn't think twice about it. "What the fuck did you say?"
"I..." I can feel the beads of sweat form on my forehead.
"Choose those words wisely my friend."
"Sir...it's true. I love her. I just hope she can forgive me for what I have done."
He presses the gun all the way up under my chin, jabbing me so hard that I can feel it practically in my mouth. I almost didn't hear Mrs. Adler talking him down. "Mekhi...I know you want to do this but you can't. Let's at least hear him out, alright. Come on now put the gun away there is no way in hell that you will kill Jaspers' son. Mekhi put it down."
He growls and I know he wants to do it but her hand wraps around the barrel of the gun, forcing him to pull away from me. "Talk and it better be good."
I clear my throat and gather my composure. I lean back against the wall and gather my thoughts. "I didn't plan to fall in love with her alright. When she came back home, she was going down a dark path. I watched her kill a guy in a parking lot and a cop a few weeks later. It's like she is out to take people out that disrespect women. Look I thought if she had someone like me to fall back on she would stop killing these men. She almost killed Professor Williamson but left him in the hotel for his wife to find him there. Look she is going to continue to do this and I can't see her getting hurt in the process. So yes I introduced myself to her and it was going great till you two had to show up and now she knows that I have only been working for you two. She will never forgive me for this shit. Hell maybe you should go ahead and kill me. Just do it already but you tell her she has to stop this rampage of killing people."
"He is not going to kill you, Eli. Your father and Mekhi have been friends forever and he will not hurt Jasper. At the moment we just need to make sure that she is safe alright. She left her phone here and no one knows where she is."
"Dammit to hell, that girl knows how to drive me mad. She is a piece of work that is for sure. I will search all the places that I know of alright. You guys stay here and when I find her I will call you A.S.A.P. alright."
Mekhi shakes his head and I know he really doesn't trust me however all I have to do is prove to him that I really do care for her. "You find her; you call us immediately."
"Yes sir." I run out of the apartment complex and start searching of all the places that I know of until I finally find her at the park. I want to go up to her and explain to her everything but I don't, instead I stand behind the tree line and watch her cry until she doses off prompt up against the tree. I let them know where she is and that I will keep them updated. I watch her for hours until she finally wakes up and starts to walk back to her apartment.
Once she is back in the door, I head back to my place. I know I shouldn't watch from the telescope but I just have to make sure that she is going to be alright.
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Author's Note: Well there you have it...Eli Foster. Guess you never thought that he was actually Jasper's son who just so happens to be Mekhi's best friend. So of course Mekhi won't kill him.
What are your thoughts about Eli? About Mekhi hiring him to watch over Violet? Do you think she will ever forgive either one of them?
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