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"Are you fuckin kiddin' me, Pearce?"
"Why are you acting this way? Can't you just leave me alone?!" Aiden said.
JB Markowicz, also known as Defalt, has been following Aiden Pearce for a while, he said for studies purposes, which was irritating the Fox quite a bit. What made him even angrier, was that that guy was the first one he couldn't beat up for good; JB always managed to escape somehow and now, when he finally got to capture him, Pearce wasn't going to let him go.
"I told you, it's studies reason! Nothing more!" Defalt continued.
"Am I an object to study to you? You got yourself in a bad situation, you know that?" Aiden said, while advancing toward JB. "Do you even know?"
"I know that you wouldn't hurt someone who hasn't don-" Aiden punched him and that hurt a lot. JB doesn't even remember the last time he got beat up, he was an escape artist, he could say. He even survived the last time he fought against T-bone.
"Do you remember the taunting you did to me at the Ambrose? You did nothing to me?" He took JB by his neck and was looking at him with infuriating eyes. "Those words hurt more then any bullets that got through my body. You don't have any respect for someone who lost someone dear to them."
JB laughed.
He knew what Aiden was talking about, what he's said was unfair for sure, but it was to get him mad and lead him to chase him. How laughable when Aiden discovered he followed a fake Defalt and that JB was still at the club. He went back to the Ambrose days after to finish his work but failed to catch Defalt several times.
"Aiden, can't you just forgive me? I am young...and childish." Jb smirked. He knew how to get on Aiden's nerve for sure.
Aiden was the type who kept cool most of the time, but when someone touched his family he always got anxious and irritated. Irritated, maybe not the right word to use when talking about Aiden, JB thought.
"You are an idiot." Aiden said.
"How mature of you, Fox. Callin' me an idiot, well..." JB caressed Aiden's cheek. "What do I expect from someone that impulsive."
"I swear, I will make you suffer so-"
"I know I know why you're so angry." JB got himself free from Aiden's hand.
"And please, don't ever put your hands on my neck again, it's rude."
JB now walked a bit, then he turned around to look at Aiden again. "You can't stand someone you can't beat, Fox." Aiden squeezed his eyes and then slowly approached Defalt. "You are so used to win, that you forgot how to lose." Aiden reloaded the gun. "But you know what?" Now the gun was pointed right to his head. "I think we are even."
"What are you talkin' about?" Aiden said while in shock.
"I mean, you have your datas back, took your revenge on Lucky Quinn, no? You've beaten the shit out of me several times." Defalt didn't bat an eye, as if the gun pointed at his head was normal.
"You are a fucked up, you know that? All this time..." Aiden removed the gun. "All these years, not even one has dared to not even bat an eye with a gun pointed at them."
"I know, everyone shake in fear when they know Aiden Pearce, the Vigilante, is coming for them! But you know what? I think you do like me a lot! You're complimenting me, Pearce! You can't even look me in the eyes." Now JB's eyes are looking for Pearce's. "This adds to my studies, you like someone you can't catch, such a masochist."
"Shut up."
"You like the taunting? That adds too."
"Stop making fun of me."
"The eye contact is making you uncomfortable, Fox?" Defalt noticed how Aiden started to look somewhere else from time to time. "You can't do that! You're a professional, no? You can't look somewhere else when your enemy is here, right in front of you."
Aiden looked at him for a few seconds, before pointing the gun at JB again.
Defalt didn't even bat an eye again.
"What the fuck..."
"You like it, fox?" Defalt moved backwards. "Do you know why I stole your datas that time?"
"I don't know if I wanna, but c'mon, just say it." Aiden sounded pissed off, he really was.
"Clara kinda made you think that she found the bunker and I got pissed off. So, I decided to reveal her secret. The datas were just there and I needed to catch your attention somehow." He says walking down the stairs.
"Where are you going? And why did you need to get my attention?" Aiden followeed him.
"You still do not realize, Aiden." Defalt stopped walking and turned around to look at Aiden.
He looked in Aiden's eyes for a few seconds and then spoke. "We both don't belong anywhere. We are just existing and getting involved in the fight between Dedsec and Blume. We could destroy 'em both together, no one could stop us." JB started laughing. A broken and creepy laugh and then walked towards Aiden again. "Let's destroy them all, I know you want it."
Defalt gave Aiden a creepy stare for a few seconds, until Defalt laughed again and continued to go down the stairs.
"You are a fucked up."
"I know, Aiden."
Aiden followed JB and took him by his arm. "Don't you think I will let you hurt anyone. I am the Vigilante, I stop people like you."
"Yeah, that's funny." Defalt's eyes looked at the ground. "I told you not to be rude, by the way. Stop pulling at my arm, thanks." JB said. "Bye bye, for now Aiden..." before turning the corner Jb continued. "Oh err..right, don't follow me, or I'll have fixers take care of you. No wait, you would probably take care of 'em, but you know, at least they can slow you while I escape."
JB showed Aiden the middle finger before turning the corner.
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"T-Bone, we need to talk!" Aiden screamed at the phone.
This last few days, Aiden has been following Defalt around to try and catchi him, but somehow, that rat was always able to escape. Ray, after so many times of tracking Defalt down, and that wasn't really the easiest thing to do, just accepted his destiny in helping Aiden on his stupid Rat hunting mission.
"Aiden." Ray was on his bed, with a hand on his face. He was so done with this situation. "You should stop thinking about that rat and go on with your life. Didn't you say you wanted to start again somewhere else?"
"Not before I get my vengeance!" Aiden screamed again.
"Hey hey, I just woke up so please, no screaming on the one." Now T-bone was sitting on his bed. "And please Aiden, we've already been there. Just ignore him, okay?"
"He wish!"
T-bone sighed. "Okay then, listen, this is the plan..."