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chapter 5: old friend?

Once the camera eventually gets turned back on it's placed in a very different looking room, not the bedroom it had grown most fond of but a simple, fairly small living area, with a long old leather sofa and a chair to match. Sat in this room were both Desmond and Joe but accompanying them was a thin ragged haired girl. She sat there, on the sofa with a cup of tea in her hands. her clothes were a mess, with rips and dirt all over them, she wore a striped blue and white shirt with ripped jeans that didn't used to be ripped. The room stood still until said girl had finally finished the warm cup of tea and placed it on the wooden floor.

"Lovely place you've got here" she smiled innocently but something was off about her and they both knew it.

"Who are you?" They both questioned with intense and firm tones.

"You mean, you don't remember me?" She slightly tilts her head, her gaze falling upon Joe.

"Remember you? I don't think I've ever seen you before" he narrowed his eyes and almost hissed while he spoke. "I don't know who you are so don't go saying that I know y-" before he was given the chance to finish his last sentence she spoke loudly, "so you don't remember me giving you food, free, from my stall in the town square? I know my clothes changed a bit but it wasn't that long ago!" Her tone suddenly changed from innocent and calm to more annoyance and anger.

"That's enough!" Desmond demands "you do not have the right to come into our home and shout at us! Besides we are the ones who just saved you from the guards out there, so I will advise you to start answering our questions before we throw you back out to them"

This loud and overpowering tone making the girl frantically shake her head in agreement. "I'll tell you what you want to know,"

He smiles at her "Alright then, who are you?"

"My name is Scarlet Veitch"

"It's nice to meet you scarlet, so how do you know Joe?" Desmond pushed, now full of curiosity and child-like excitement.

"Well, I saw him wandering around the city a few times, he always looked lost and more than once had passed my stall in the square and stared at the food intently, so, I gave him some, it was obvious that he didn't have any money on him, so I insisted that he take it without paying" She looks toward Joe once more, "you told me you would never forget my generosity" she smiles but then the smile fades away "but it seems you did forget"

Desmond exchanges a look with Joe who then sighs and walks over to the sofa where she was still sat and awkwardly sat down beside her, "Scarlet I didn't forget what you did, I remember and I'm still very thankful for it, I just did not recognize who you were when I first saw you, I'm sorry." he looks down ashamed in himself.

"I still have a question for you" Desmond rudely interrupts their moment, still very skeptical and untrusting of the girl who was sat opposite him.

"Oh yes, of course, what is it?" She tilts her head slightly and looks towards him curiously.

"Why did you knock at our door? You couldn't have known that Joe was here at all so something is off about you and your intentions, why did you come here?"

A stunned look was plastered upon her face as she comprehends his question. "Honestly, I didn't know that either of you were here, dumb luck I guess."

"You didn't answer me, why did you knock on this door?"

She gulps "well, I was in the town square, as usual, just selling my fruits but the guards that were patrolling today seemed to be intensely asking questions to every stall owner about Joe here, obviously, I didn't want to get him into any kind of trouble so instead of lying, I ran, I didn't know if I was going to be able to lie to them, lying is disgusting and a sin."

Desmond sighs and nods, "yeah" He stands up "Joe, a word in the other room" He walks straight past them and into the bedroom. Joe rapidly nods to Desmond "alright, one moment." he replies before standing up himself and quickly running for the camera to carry it into to room with him, gently placing it in its usual spot on the table and then sitting himself down on the bed. "What is it?" he smiles at him.

Desmond slowly closes the door behind Joe "Do you trust her?"

"Excuse me?"

"Joe, I'm asking you this seriously, do you trust her?"

H looks to him confused and nods, "yes, she helped me, how could I not trust her?"

"Alright, if you trust her then so do I but if anything happens I'm taking her out, do you understand me? I will not let anything happen to you, you know that"

He smiles at him and nods "of course I know, now stop being cute, she's probably getting lone-" A loud crashing noise is heard from the other room where they left Scarlet, "I swear if she's also broken one of my cups." He giggles, picks the camera up once again, and opens the door before freezing in place.

Stood in front of him was a small girl, with short hair and ragged clothes who aimed a gun straight at him.

"Joe? What's wrong? You froze" Desmond strolled out the room to witness the scene on the other side.

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