№14|I Did It To Keep Her Safe
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“You did what?!” Summer hollered in anger, tugging on the ropes that bound her to her chair in Emmanuel’s office. “We know you’ve been with Christopher, romantically.” Dizzie stated.

“And we just want to make sure you didn’t give any information to him about us.” Emmanuel continued. “You didn’t,” Shawn looked at her suspiciously, “right?”

“Of course I didn’t!” Summer scolded, “all he knows is that I work with a gang, we have a whole no work talk policy; we don't talk about work too much because we both do things that aren’t very moral.”

“Has he said anything about his job?” Dizzie asked. “All I know is that he told Cruella that he’s a journalist, which he is, but he’s working with some lady on a big plan,” Summer sighed, “he’s told me a million times he’s never wanted to do this, he didn’t want to hurt people the way he did Cruella.”

“Who’s the lady?” Emmanuel questioned further. “He didn’t feel like saying her real name, but he said they were related.” Summer shrugged, Emmanuel eyes widened, “we gotta get in touch with Hex.”

A fiery fist collided with Christopher’s face for the umthenth time, “why’d you do it, huh? Why’d you hit her?!” Hex yelled, Christopher was too weak to reply, his head drooping, “answer me Christopher!”

An uppercut shot Christopher’s face up, blood spilling from his lips, “I didn’t want to…”

“Don't tell me that shit! I ask why you did it!” Hex threw him across the room, the clair breaking up the ropes that held him still remained. He laid on his side, opening his swollen eyes slightly to see Hex angrily marching towards him, “you knew how unhappy she was!” he stomped on his ribs, “and you just let it happen!”

“You think...I was...happy...doing this?” Christopher managed to say as Hex stomped harder on his ribs, making him jolt up in pain, “I didn’t know...all the repercussions of...what I did.”

“Did you think that after I found out you punched Cruella I wouldn't go after your head?!” Hex punched him in the gut, sending him flying across the room again, “hearing her tell me how much she was suffering is something I never wanna hear her say again.”

Christopher didn’t say anything and closed his eyes, hoping the pain would stop soon. “Say something you monster!” Hex could have sworn there was smoke fuming from his nostrils.

“Hex,” Gabriella stood between them, “calm down, he can barely stand!”

“But he-” Hex began but Gabriella slapped him upside the head. “You’re just mad at him because of what he did to Cruella, and so are we, but he has to know something about that door in Catania’s office and we’ll never get an answer out of him if he’s too weak to talk.”

Hex glared at Christopher before scoffing and walking into what used to be Cruella’s old room she shared with Christopher to calm down.

Gabriella stood in front of Christopher, “hi, I’m Gabriella, the angry fireball that was pummeling on you was Hex,” Gabriella helped him back into the chair, “we’re not trying to hurt you, Saree,” she pointed to the vampire in the corner who was cleaning blood out of her fangs, “she can see into a person’s soul, she says you have a good soul, it’s just misguided and confused.”

Christopher stood silent, looking down in shame, “so either you can calmly talk to me and the rest of the Golden Dragons, or,” she turned towards the room Hex was in, “we call back in fireball.”

Christopher quickly shook his head at the mention of Hex returning. “Okay, good,” Gabriella nodded slightly, “now we can't untie you because you might run away,” Gabriella pulled upa chair, sitting backwards, “but why don't you tell us why you punched Cruella and why you’re doing this.”

“I didn’t know...I didn’t know Marmalade was connected to that gang...or Edgar was connected to yours, let alone be your uncle!...I didn’t know what was happening or who’s lives I was destroying...I just had to follow orders.” Christopher felt tears forming.

“I didn’t know Cruella was unhappy...I never wanted that...I love Cruella, I really do, just not romantically and it hurt both of us to be together.”

“I get Cruella but why you?” Ector asked. “Catania told me I had to date Cruella or else she’d get hurt.” Christopher’s tears brimmed, “I didn’t even know till tonight that she was involved with the Rebels!”

“She?” Matias raised his eyebrow in suspicion. “Summer. Summer Martinez, she’s my girlfriend.” Christopher replied. 

Matias sighed quietly to himself, he met Summer at the party earlier that night, they bonded over their love of Harry Potter books. Matias was considering asking her out on a date but the look in Christopher’s eyes told him it probably wasn’t the best idea.

She was pretty cute too. Matias shook his head. Oh well, I hope she’s happy with him at least.

“So, this entire time you were dating a Rebel, and didn’t even know she was one, and you know about Marmalade but didn’t say anything?” Alonzo questioned. “Summer and I have a whole ‘no work talk policy’ since we both do stuff that sometimes isn't very tasteful.” Christopher explained.

“She told me she works with a gang, I just never thought it was the Ruby Rebels, if I did I would have never gone through with Catania’s plan! I swear! I love Summer too much to ruin it over some stupid plan!”

“The only way I found out she was a Rebel was when I was walking home from getting some Chinese take out when I saw Summer and that wolf boy over there talk,” Christopher said, motioning to Matias, “I saw Cruella to but she looked so happy with Hex I let it be.”

“Apparently not because you crashed the party.” Saree muttered. “I only did that because my stupid dragon instricts kicked in when wolf boy was flirting with Summer. I couldn't barge in there and knock wolf boy away from Summer because it would look suspicious since you thought I was so happy with Cruella.”

“Okay 1) wolf boy has a name and it’s Matias,” he said referring to himself in the 3rd person, “and 2) we weren’t flirting, we were talking about two things; Harry Potter and her boyfriend, which I now know is you.”

“What?”

“Yeah, she’s in love with Harry Potter, I mean who wouldn't-” “No! I mean the fact she was talking about me! We agreed not to talk about each other because of me dating Cruella.” Christopher muttered.

“She never mentioned you by name but she was lonely because she said you two couldn't talk for a while because of personal reasons but she really misses you and very very vividly described what’d she do when you get to see each other again.” Matias smirked slightly, “then again that was after like 3 really hard margaritas.”

Christopher chuckled, “yeah, I’ve seen her chug an entire bottle of scotch before and be fine but when it comes to margaritas she gets drunk really fast. So, even though I was pretending to be angry at Cruella for being with Hex, I was mad at Matias because I thought they were flirting.”

“I didn’t mean to do what I did to Cruella! Honest! It’s just...Catania...she…” Christopher scrunched up his fist, “her magic can possess the souls of anyone she’s seen before, it can just be a picture and she controls you like a voodoo doll!”

“It happened on time one Summer because she found out about her and Hex being all cute without me stopping it so she literally made Summer stab her side with a stake knife at dinner on time!”

“The stab was so deep she was in the hospital for 4 days!”

Mama bit her lip, hugging Christopher unexpectedly, “Gabinna, untie him.”

“What?!” The Dragons yelled. “He’s not a bad person, he was just misguided, I’m sure he knows more about where Marmalade and Edgar are, right?” Christopher nodded, Mama smiled “call Emmanuel and tell him to let go of Summer.”

“Let go?! What happened to her? Is she okay?” Christopher began to worry. “She’s fine,” Mama chuckled, “you dragons are so cute when it comes to your mate. We just had Emmanuel ask some questions to Summer, that’s all, your mate is safe and sound.”

Christopher sighed in relief as Ector untied him, he walked towards his room, trying to keep his distance from Hex, “u-um...He-Hex...do yo-you think... I could apologize to Cru-Cruella.?”

Hex stood up from the bed, staring him in the eyes, “sure, but punch her again and I’ll make sure you never see Summer again.”

The dragon gulped, “hehe...sure thing.”

Later on that night, Summer and Christopher were very happy that they didn’t have to hide their love anymore, so much so when Hex and the other met up with Emmanuel, Dizzie, Shawn, and Summer at Hex’s house, Summer immediately pulled him onto the couch and the two have been locking lips ever since.

“So, he was dating Summer the entire time and he was only working with Catania to protect her. He also didn’t know Summer was part of Emmanuel gang until the party. And he might know where Marmalade and Edgar are?!...damn, that’s a lot of info to take in at once.” Cruella gasped, trying to process everything.

“Take your time, Marshmallow.” Hex kissed her forehead, “now that the dragon found his mate we don't have to worry about him getting in the way.”

Cruella smiled, “Christopher,” Cruella got his attention, “I know you wanna get back to sucking the life out of Summer so I’ll make this quick, so I want you and Summer to have the apartment.”

“What about you?” Christopher asked concerningly. “Hex,” she looked up at him, “do you mind if I move in?”

Hex hugged her tightly, “of course Marshmallow!”

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“So this is dad’s house?” Carlos asked, interrupting Cruella’s story. “Yep,” Cruella nodded before CJ smacked him, “shut up! The story is getting good!” CJ scolded as Cruella continued.

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“You’re gonna love it here Cruella!” Hex cheered. Emmanuel chuckled, he couldn't wait till they found Marmalade so she could hug her like that. “Um, Cruella,” Chistopher bowes, “I’m really sorry for causing you pain while we were going out!”

Cruella chuckled and raised him up, “you don't need to apologize, I’m sure you were unhappy being away from Summer and all.”

“Yeah,” Christopher blushed, “I really missed her. And I promise to tell you all I know about Catania to make up for all I did!”

“Thank you.” Cruella nodded slightly. Chistopher sat on the couch, placing Summer in his lap which surprised her a little, he rested his chin on Summer’s shoulder, “so, what do you wanna know?”

“What did Catania ask you to do in the first place?” Dizzie asked. “She wanted me to make sure Marmalade and Edgar stayed locked up till the time was right.”

“So she has Marmalade and Edgar?” Emmanuel scrunched up his fist. “Yes, tomorrow night, at 10pm Marmalade's family is scheduled to pick up Marmalade and take her back home after that, she’ll kill Edgar for his bounty.”

Cruella froze, “wh-what?”

“Cruella, what’s wrong?” Hex asked delicately. “Sh-She can't go back to our family! Th-they were horrible!” Cruella’s eyes coated in fear.

“Our?”

“She’s my sister! We ran away and changed names when we were younger along with my little brother. But, I don't want to get into specifics.” Cruella shook her head, “tomorrow night, we’re stopping her plan! No matter what!”

~A\N~

Sorry for the short chapter 😬! Normally they're not this short. But we are reaching the end of the first arc there will be 3 arcs and I've already am one chapter away from finishing the second arc but I'm still sticking to my schedule of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

Anyways! How did y'all like the twist with summer and Christopher?! Good? Bad?

Did this arc seem rushed?

Wish me luck cause the Libra Awards are putting their results today! I'm in fantasy!