Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 198
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[Inside the Oddsion]
Tobias returned to his room, unable to keep himself in a place or keep his mind at rest. He was having a mind battle before, but now it’s a full-blown war inside his head.
He wanted noise, so he hired escorts last night, but now he doesn’t want it anymore. The noise in his head is clawing at his chest too.
He feels sick, and he hates it.
He popped to the whiskey bottle on his bedstand, took it and drank directly from it.
He organized auction for her?
He lowered the bottle and stared into space till he could only see one of the art frames on the wall.
Then, his brain stung…
“9.9 Billion! I didn’t make it ten cos I’m the only one for Seraphina.”
The statement rang in his skull, and he grabbed his head.
The whiskey bottle slipped away from his other hand, crashing on the floor loudly.
“Damn!” He clenched his jaws, grunting again.
He slightly went down, and even his eyes hurts, but slowly, the ache disappeared and became dull.
“9.9 Billion?” He muttered.
“That was what Vince bid at the action you organized for Seraphina.” Yalda said, coming in.
Tobias straightened.
“Vince bid 9.9?” He scoffed. “I guess I underestimated that bastard.”
“You said this same thing back then too, that you underestimated him.” Yalda sighed, pointing a flashdrive at him. “Here, the handlers tried to gather Seraphina’s time in this place, you should watch.” She said.
Tobias took the drive, and Yalda left the room, leaving him to stare at the drive for so many minutes before he inserted it in his system.
He sat on the bed edge and pressed play slowly.
It started from when he carried her in his arms from the private jet to this place and set her down in this bed, how he changed her clothes to an oversized pyjamas and lay her to sleep. When he made her breakfast in bed and she rejected.
When Grimm was taking her around the house.
When he promised to swim with her and fucked her in the pool hall against the wall…
“Fûck…” He stood, taking the laptop with him. His eyes are wide as he watched the rated video.
He dropped the laptop and dipped his fingers in his hair.
“I dated? Me?” He shook his head, scoffing again. “This feels illegal….”
Then, he got a wall notification.
DEAN IS HERE.
He shut down the laptop and left the room, meeting Dean at the first floor where he waited in the middle of Yalda and Jude.
“I should have forgotten you along with the memories I lost…” Tobias remarked, but Dean didn’t reply.
He simply walked up to him and lifted a blow to his face.
Tobias caught the blow before it could hit his face though.
He brought the hand down and pushed Dean back.
“Where do you think this is?” He smirked disgustedly. “Your amusement park where you get to slap tags on carousels? Do I look like a fucking carousel?”
“You poisoned me! You definitely did something to me!!” Dead yelled at his face. “I’ve been visiting my doctor for weeks now. I’m infertile, Tobias. You sent me a bicycle and a note during my wedding with Kelly, and you mocked me that I might not be able to birth. When you came to the Precinct, you told me to focus on my sperm! What did you do to me?
Tobias laughed sickly, satisfactorily. His hands went into his pockets.
“Finally you figured it all out. Damn, you have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for this moment and the look on your face, and needles to say…I love this look of helplessness.”
“What did you fuckin do to me!!” Dean yelled like a frustrated child.
“After you took Kelly and I slashed you and you both didn’t die, I made another plan to increase your pains, so i hung her demented mother under the city bridge. And you? You’ve been obsessed with having your own kids since we were young. How else would I punish you?” Tobias narrated with another laugh.
“What?!” Dean’s eyes widened.
“I paid your hostel janitor to poison your tea, and you drank three cups that day. The poison was in all the three cups. Unless you climb up to heaven and have a one-on-one meeting with God, you’ll never be able to impregnate a woman.”
“No….” Dean shook his head vehemently. “No you wouldn’t do that to me!” He shouted shakily. “You wouldn’t do that to me!!”
“Says who?” Tobias blinked innocently. “Says you, a twin who has always choose to be my enemy?”
“I did nothing to deserve poisoning from you!!” Dean roared.
“You didn’t only steal that bicycle, Dean.” Tobias spat. “You stole my Christmas shoes, thrice. You stole the Christmas cap too, though I didn’t like the Stupid caps and wasn’t planning to wear them, but you still stole them! You threw my textbooks in the school pool so many times…
“You once mixed pepper with my body lotion and had me down with red stinging skin for weeks. During new year when we were six and grandparents came to visit. They came with the tiramisu cake. You didn’t like the cake, but I did, and because of that, you urinated on the cake and called it a mistake!
“After our parents death at age 10. Saint was defending me and trying to talk to you, but you slapped him twice, motherfucker. How dare you even lay your hands on Saint!? Huh? How dare you? You thought I forgot?”
“We were 12 years old when you connived with Vince. Vince captured a snake in a jar for you, and you released it under my bed. I got stung on the ankle, and Uncle Will is the only reason I didn’t die from snakebite cos he had an antidote in hand! And you said you did nothing?”
“You did nothing to deserve childlessness? Huh? Say that to my fuckin face again!!!” Tobias punched Dean in the face, and Dean fell back.
The Odds just watched silently as Dean landed on the floor.
“All because of your stupid mentality that dull people don’t deserve sweet good things, a mentality you got from Vince in school and started tormenting me with it! Should I continue?” Tobias kicked Dean in the face, and Dean groaned.
“You’re the brilliant one, and of course you should be able to establish yourself easily, but you had to steal my Empire immediately I went to seminary cos you believed I didn’t deserve it! You even sold the empire to your Vince, and I had to start fighting you to take it back. What did I ever do to you? Nothing! I simply existed as your dull twin, and you hate that fact!”
Dean stood, tears streaming out of his eyes already.
“And you know the funniest part?” Tobias laughed. “The Vince who planted the mentality of dull people don’t deserve sweet things in you, he’s dull as fûck too. You wrote most of his exams for him despite the fact that he was three classes ahead of you! Yet, he directed you to hate me, and you listened because you’re a fool, an idiot, a stupid bitch!”
“Enough!!!!” Dean yelled in tears, veins decorating his forehead.
“I’ve not even started!!!” Tobias yelled back, voice breaking. “I became a cultist and formed a brotherhood not because I needed a crime family, but because I needed people around me. I’ve never loved being alone even as a kid, but I pretended to love it and played all day at the graveyard. I wanted to play with other kids too and share my toys with them, but no one was willing cos you poisoned their minds, so they avoided me.”
“Spiders and butterflies and snakes were my only friends, and I hate being alone like shit! Yeah, I’m admitting it to your face that I’ve always hated the idea of alone! So I formed my brotherhood, and they’ve been with me except the few unfortunate ones who died for betraying me. I’m fine now, Dean. I’m fuckin fine, and in the future if I want it, I’ll have kids and will listen to the sound of my babies crying for me to carry them, and I’ll smile while feeding them on my laps, but guess who’ll die alone? You, Dean. You!”
“We’re twin brothers, Tobias…” Dean let out more tears. “How could you…”
“Throw him out.” Tobias ordered, colder than avalanche.
Odds didn’t even wait for the orders to get slack. They grabbed Dean by both sides of his arms.
“Leave me the fûck!” He struggled.
“Leave me alone!!!!”
“Tobias! Tobias!!!”
His cries faded outside as the door was closed after him.
“Vince didn’t die in the river six months ago, Wrath.” Yalda said. “The divers searched for his body after they found you. He wasn’t found, meaning, someone saved him, and knowing his persistent personality, he’s definitely coming for us. We’ve been preparing weapons for you, and for us.” She smiled.
“Where are they?” Tobias asked.
He was immediately led to the room next to the lift where a line of weapons lay on a really long table.
Guns. Long and short knives. Hand explosives. Machetes.
But as usual, he’s only interested in the guns, so he picked them one by one, trying them out.
The first gun is medium sized, slightly heavy but with a sharp sound when he shot at the wall.
Second one is light, but the sound isn’t ear-piercing enough.
Third one doesn’t only shoot bullets, there’s a space for explosives too.
A two in one.
Fourth one is a familiar gun, and immediately he picked it up, his palm recognized the feel.
“Mayhem?” He faced them.
“Knew you’d recognize it,” Yalda grinned. “I and the weaponeer made a little upgrade to it. Now, it’s lighter with more bullet spaces. Also…you should pull the trigger.”
“Ok?” Tobias faced the wall, cocking the gun and pulling the trigger.
He released the bullet, and it flew to the wall, ramming inside like a normal gun bullet.
“What’s the special feature?” He asked, disappointed.
His disappointment became amazement when the wall cracked and broke with a large hole after three seconds, sending bricks across the floors and other walls.
“Damn!” Tobias laughed, lifting the gun again. “I mean….yeah.”
Yalda laughed. “I knew you’d like it.”
“Of course,” Tobias stroked her hair.
“How old is Yalda?” Estelle whispered beside Jude.
“She’s twenty.” Jude sighed.
“What!” Estelle gasped. “I’m older than her with three years?”
“Yalda is the youngest here, but also one of the most brilliant, and obviously Firstie’s fav. Don’t try to disrespect her cos of her age, Estelle.” Jude muttered.
“I wouldn’t try that!” Estelle shook her head. “I’m just shocked that she’s that young but she looks so mature, and she acts mature and cool too.”
Jude smiled.
“Do you like her? Romantically?” Estelle suddenly asked.
“The fûck are you saying?” Jude faced her. “She’s lesbian!”
“Oh…” Estelle awkwardly nodded. “I totally forgot that.”
Jude rolled eyes and looked away.
Estelle looked at him and looked away too.
“By the way, Black Rose Capitals and Wrath Investments Empire are hot in the business market right now. You’d be shocked with the amount of work we put in to make sure we stay on top, especially Jude and Estelle and Zaine and….in fact, everybody else here.” Yalda reported.
Tobias looked around and nodded at everyone of them.
“Even if I die today, I know I died good.” He said.
“Out of point, but now I know why you insisted that we should all move into this Oddsion with you. Your Fear of Abandonment will never be triggered again.” Jude said.
“Even when he was in school, we all stayed together in his off-campus hostel apartment.” Zaine said.
“We’re going nowhere, at least not till we witness you getting married and having bundles of children.” An Odd said genuinely.
“Is this the part where I get emotional and start crying?” Tobias said, and most of them bursted into laughter.
“We were just saying!”
“We never wanna see your tears, Wrath. Never.”
“It’s always and forever, this brotherhood of Odds.”
“We wouldn’t possibly leave our father. Even your future kids will be the second born, we’ll be your first children, always.”
Tobias smiled without planning to, carefully hanging the upgraded Mayhem on his shoulder.
“Y’all will get increment of pay per mission from now on.” He said.
The shouts that took over the room afterwards was deafening.
Each of them picked their favorite weapons from the table and began shooting at the wall with it.
A shooting of thanks.
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