A New Kind of World

Tessa's mouth quirked up in a smile in response to Victor's reply. He was such a well-spoken man, maybe a bit too much considering his age but that was good, she was really liking Elisa's boyfriend, such a fine young man for her dear daughter.

Meanwhile, Elisa played with the idea of going to an event of such nature in her mind. It was extremely appealing, but was it a good idea? What were Victor's thoughts on the matter? She knew he was far too polite to reject her mother's invitation. They could talk about it later. Absently, she slid her hand across the table to grab his in a loose grip. 

"Oh, look at that, is it really this late already?" The blonde gasped as she looked down at her phone "Time sure flies by when you're having fun, huh?" She shook her face and gestured for a waiter to give her the bill. Given that the place wasn't really crowded, it was brought to them quickly.

"Next time ... " Morgan began saying while he helped his wife to get into her coat "We'd love to hear a little bit more about you, Victor" It proved to be rather interesting when the sentence itself kind of sounded like a warning.

"Don't scare him, dear" Tessa scolded him, though Morgan just flashed her a smile "Anyway, I'm sorry, honey, but I won't be able to make it home tonight, too much planning to do. Unfortunately, because of some emergency your father will be spending the night at the hospital so-"

"Lock the door and windows, I know" Elisa nodded, and for once, there was no bitter feeling wrapping its hand around her heart, on the contrary, she felt relieved for quite a couple of obvious reasons.

"No, it's fine, let's go"

Adam's brow raised ever so slightly at her reaction, but he chose not to comment on it just yet and offered her a kind smile instead when she apologised. She was agitated, he could feel it, as if such anxiousness irradiated from her body. He was curious about it, but above all he was worried. She wanted to leave that place, and he wouldn't try to slow her down if that was her wish, but he kind of wanted to know the reason, wanted to know what could possibly have her that restless, and if he could do anything about it.

"I'm more than eager to try your cooking, Rebecca, so anything would do, though just for the sake of answering your question, yes, I do like chicken" He replied and rubbed his thumb along her hand. "Calm down" He added, a bit softer, he'd rather have her smiling for real than faking it for his sake.

Even though nothing had been said, the young knight couldn't help it but run his eyes through the place once they stepped out of the shop, cautious, as if looking out for some sort of danger. Of course, he couldn't really find it because he didn't know what exactly was he looking for. However, as a knight he had developed some sort of ... "intuition", if anyone proved to have a threatening aura around him, he could sense it, even more if it was towards him.

Still and quiet. That’s exactly the way Adam had remained throughout the whole scene this Nick guy had caused as soon as he made his appearance. Strange, quite an strange thing on the knight’s behalf, truly quite an unusual way to react. Usually, he was fast, fast enough to stop anyone from even touching him or those who were under his orders or protection.

Why? Well there was a reason. For the first time in his life he had truly gone cold with rage, a feeling that couldn’t be seen on his face, but had reached every cell inside his body, from head to toe. The guy had been lucky, there was no magic on this realm, if there had been … well he’d have, at least, lost his disgusting hand already, if not something much, much worse.

Funny how things worked in a way one wouldn’t expect when something actually happened. The brown haired man’s stare was fixed on the hallway ahead of him, and this Nick was was still breathing. Huh, that was truly surprising. Adam had not given in to his impulses, because believe him, right now, his entire body was screaming for him to kill, for blood to be shed.

Normally, he could’ve easily kill him for the offence, for even touching a knight who served the King, but that was not his world, and though he didn’t really care about it, an image of his lady pleading for him not to go popped up on his mind in the least appropriate moment.

Kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him...

Ah, he wanted it, needed it so badly. He didn’t even need a sword to do that in a single move. Humans were far too fragile, anything done properly could mean a fatal blow.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, but was only a matter of a fraction of a second, Adam’s gaze slid down to the finger pressed against his chest before it trailed to the man it belonged to. His mouth did so much as twitch lightly before the corner raised a bit, a warning of what was to come.

Kill him.

The bags fell to the ground.

Not in front of Rebecca.

The thought managed to make its way into his head just in time to stop him from breaking his neck. Instead, he drove his fist into his solar plexus, hard, with a surprising amount of strength he had concentrated into his hand. He felt the skin giving in and contracting. At the same time, he had grabbed that hand of his which he had dared to use to touch Rebecca, and bended it enough to hear the wet crunch that announced the wrist fracture. All of that happening in a period of just a couple of seconds.

“I’m afraid that is an offer I’m inclined to decline” He finally spoke, abnormally calm for what he had just done.

“Well, it seems that we really did worry over nothing” Elisa commented with a sigh as she followed her mother’s car driving off with her sight.

The redhead leaned her back against a wall while she waited for her car to be brought too. They wouldn’t be that lucky next time, that was for sure, her father had made that extremely clear. At least her mother seemed to really like Victor, and her father didn’t dislike him, he was just being the usual jealous/overprotective dad.

“Hey there’s a good thing, we’re closer to the mall now” She suddenly stated. She wouldn’t worry over that, because right now it could be said that they ‘won’ that ‘battle’ and she had the right to relax instead of being concerned about the next one.

(Yay! Adam wants to go to prison so badly xD)

"Rebecca" Adam's voice was soft, soothing, however his eyes were not at all convincing, just a pair of angry slits. She had managed to drive him away from the scene, but only because he couldn't bare to have him near her any longer, much less if he took into account the effect his mere presence had on her. "Rebecca" He repeated again, his hands finding their way to her shoulders.

He leaned in to press a quick kiss to her forehead, one of his hands worked its way to her face, while the other fell on the door's knob. She tried to get him out of there, she didn't want him to kill that bastard, but, unfortunately, that was something he couldn't do, a request from his lady that, for the first time, he simply couldn't fulfil. He had been so powerless before, he hadn't been able to protect her from Malik properly, and the price he had to pay for such a thing had been extremely high. Now, there was this mere man who still caused her so much pain, and from that ... from that he was able to protect her, never mind what was to fall on him if he did.

"Stay here" He ordered her.

I'll finish what I started.

His hand fell from her face and he slipped out of the small room - changing room, he absently reminded himself - before closing the door behind his back. He was surprised Nick could even speak after that kind of blow to such a sensitive part of the body, where a multiplicity of nerves gathered, but surely he wouldn't be able to make it far, the damage he had inflicted was not minor at all. He had threatened Rebecca, and that was yet another thing he couldn't let slip.

Busy ... She wouldn't call it exactly busy, more like weird. The day was yet to come to an end, and she had classes tomorrow, and they still had got plenty of time to go shopping, and ... Victor's hand made its way into hers, automatically, her gaze laid on him. She loved that smile. Forget it, she could always miss a day or two, given that, actually, he hadn't missed any classes while she was inside the book. Going home meant some time alone with her knight.

"Let's go home" She declared as she felt her face break into a grin, which grew a bit wider upon being complimented.

She thanked the valet, flashing him a kind smile, took her keys and climbed into the driver's seat before she drove off. Things were much more peaceful there, no danger, no one chasing after them, and that proved to be effective when it came to dissipate the anxiousness that had been constantly present on her heart before, it made her forget, she didn't really think that her friend and her knight were not having the same luck as them.

"Cut it out, dude, the man may be a bastard but he really needs to go to the hospital"

Adam did so much as to look at the guy who tried to intervene, who in response stumbled back a step, finding the brown haired man's gaze almost sharp enough to draw blood. Boy, he was really causing a scene, with Nick yelling breathless and kind of incomprehensible obscenities while the knight easily held his good arm against his back. He didn't had to search for him too long, turns out he appeared on his own will trying to attack him and catch him by surprise. Coward. Had Adam not been a trained knight, he might had been struck, though it was not the case.

"Now then, how about I make sure you don't ever touch her again by breaking all your fingers? One ..." He bended the black haired guy's index finger, he yelled "By one" Now, Adam wasn't a sadistic person, if he had to, he killed quickly and tried his best in making it painless, but unfortunately for Rebecca's abuser he had his own dark side too.

"You ... I will ... " Nick could barely speak, his face white with pain and fear, even though moments before it had been bright red with fury.

"There they are, hurry!"

"Hey! Let him go!"

Adam turned his head to the side, lightly, a man in uniform approached them, sort of slowly, his brows furrowed. The hall, which had been packed earlier, was surprisingly rather empty by now. People tended to either avoid fights or gather to see them. To think that not much had passed since he had left his lady on the changing room. He had just made haste, and this Nick guy had been quick to appear.

Her father would've not been pleased to see the way Elisa was driving at the moment. With only one hand on the steering wheel, that is. However, as always, it didn't matter to her. She really didn't feel like letting go of Victor's hand, though it was very distracting whenever she felt his lips brushing against her skin, it tickled her, though it also sent different kind of sensations to her spinal cord, as always. She was slowly getting used to those things, even though she would've never thought that just a simple touch could ever feel like that.

"Rebecca and I go to college" Elisa replied "We are students, and that's a place where you take classes where you are taught a lot of things about a certain ... job you want to practice in the future" Lately, she wasn't that much satisfied with her explanations, but it was just so difficult to explain such things to someone who knew nothing about it, not even the basics "I'll show you later" The black haired knight accompanying her to one of her classes, how would that turn out? "I've got classes tomorrow, but I can miss a day. Instead, we can go shopping"