Against his principles

Dàmn, my body hurts! Reid groans in pain as he open his eyes but he was blinded by the fierceness of the light so he close them again.

Where am I? Slowly, Reid open his eyes again but he was shocked at the scene before him.

He saw a younger version of him playing in the familiar garden of his previous famiglia before he was became part of the Lumière famiglia.

"Reid! How dare you ruin my flowers again!"

"Hey! I didn't ruin them!"

"Liar, you obviously plucked them!"

"I did not! They plucked out of the soil themselves!"

"Do you think I'll believe you, you moronic, useless of a kid!?"

Reid watch as his younger self and his childhood friend exchange insults and he feels a little overwhelm seeing the familiar scene in front of him.

"Cole." he whispers his childhood friend's nickname as he clenched his fists.

This is the day where....

"You're such an idio--- ah!"

*Bang, Bang, Bang*

There was a sudden series of explosions inside the mansion.

"What was that!?" Cole almost cries in fear. "Are we under attack!?"

"Crap! Get down, Cole!"

"Reid!"

Reid jump in his seat with fright as he tries to catch his breath. He can hear the beating of his heart as he close his eyes tightly to erase the image of his nightmare in his head.

No, it wasn't a nightmare. It was a memory.

"And here I thought I'll have to torture you until you wake up."

Hearing the familiar cold voice of the woman he just fought, Reid force himself to look up and there he saw her. She was still wearing her outfit earlier but her wounds seems to recieve treatment. The same as his situation, Reid notice the white bandage wrapped his shoulders, and he was shirtless.

Both of his arms felt numb because his arms are both tied at the back of steel chair, the same as his legs, it was also tied behind the chair. Did she really think that he was a gymnast for her to bend both of his arms and legs to this extreme?

Great, now the ruthless Queen has caught me and I'm going to die. Go figure.

"I'll just ask you a few question after that I will not stop you from escaping."

Reid eyes immediately lit up and answer without hesitation, "Really? If it isn't against my principles then I'll gladly answer all of your questions!"

Aisha's mouth twitch as she watch helplessly at the man who looks like a kid who's excited to open his present given by that fatty old man.

Does he have no loyalty whatsoever? Couldn't he struggle for a bit?

Aisha's shoulder slump down in disappointment. She thought she could get some excitement while torturing him but who would've thought...? Psh, boring.

"First question, what happened to the Rauce famiglia?"

Aisha just get down to business and asked. Before she and Alfred left at Nicolette's place, Tom said that it was the Rauce famiglia who gave him information about her orders killing his wife and son, and manipulate the other traitors.

It was strange, excluding Alfred and the mafiosi who recieved the orders, no one knows about her orders annihilating Tom's wife.

Oh, wait... that person too.

Aisha bit the inside of her cheek to surpress her rage.

"Well, the Rauce famiglia might did something against our famiglia's rules, that or they possibly offended the Boss so the Boss himself went there to deliver them into their deaths." Reid answered as if it wasn't a big deal telling to their famiglia's enemy what's happening in his famiglia.

The Boss of the Lumière famiglia? Aisha asked in her head. Rauce famiglia is just any other small and weakling famiglia, why did he personally went to the Movowac City just to punish them?

Indeed, Reid was the reason why she went to the Movowac City but since she was going to the Rauce famiglia's territory, she might as well pay them a visit and demand where in the hell did they got such an insider information about the annihilation order.

And so she sent a message to Alfred and ordered him to capture all of the members of the Rauce famiglia but what Alfred found was a bunch of dead bodies.

"Why did your Boss did that?" Aisha continues to ask seeing how cooperative Reid is.

"No one knows. Boss can be a little weird most of the times. Only Skyler has the ability to understand how Boss' brainwaves works." Reid shrugs his shoulder as he reveal a helpless look.

After the mission he was tasked, he was going to spend his night with bunch of beautiful ladies but he was interrupt by his Boss sudden command and orders them to accompany him to Movowac City. In the end, Boss just use them for a dramatic entrance and takes all the fun by himself so he has no other choice but to seek some fun in the bar but that too was interrupted by the woman in front of her.

Aisha raised her brow at his answer but she believed him. Not because of the sincerity of his tone but because the chair he was seating didn't release high electric voltage that is lethal to human body. It's the same as polygraph examination or lie detector.

She didn't care much about the Rauce famiglia. Being the weakest famiglia, they must'd become desperate over power and hence they plotted against the De La Torre and if they succeeded they might gain authority and respect over some famiglia.

What Aisha was concerned about was how did they manage to have such information and gave it to Tom, wherein Tom's home was unknown to all?

Realizing that it was useless to ask anything about the Rauce famiglia, Aisha starts asking the main questions. The reason why she wants Reid.

"Next, why did the Lumiere famiglia's main family attack the Cavelli's main headquarters?"

"Aren't your weaklings attacked that night too?" Reid asked back with an innocent expression.

Aisha pursed her lips but didn't reveal anything in her expression that may give away the fact that indeed her mafiosi attack the Cavelli's main headquarters too.

Reid's guess was correct but she's not going to confirm it. And it wasn't a surprise if they know that those mafiosi are indeed from the De La Torre famiglia so Aisha disclosed the idea of asking him. Also, asking a question will give her away already.

"Your answer." Aisha demanded as she keep her face stoic and void of any emotions.

"I don't know, I was just tasked by Boss out of the blue. Like I told you, he's weird and nobody could guess what he's thinking. One moment I am about to thrust and then the next I was riding in my motorcycle with only my jeans on and headed to the Cavelli's headquarters."

Aisha almost sigh in frustration, her efforts of kidnapping this guy are wasted!

"Then does your Boss has some kind of resentment towards Rafael Cavelli?"

"Ah, yes, of course," Reid nodded a couple of times before he grins merrily. "Boss hated the Cavellis to the core."

Hate the Cavellis? Aisha was confused. What did the Cavellis do to make an enemy like the Lumière famiglia's Boss.

"Do you know why?"

"Sorry," Reid's grins widens as he look apologetically in Aisha's direction. "I already said that I will not say or do anything against my principle and exposing my comrades, a Boss at that, informations is one of my principles."

Aisha's grip to her katana tightens that it starts shaking.

Against your principle, my ass!

Seeing Aisha was starting to get angry, Reid gulps numerous of times until there's no saliva left in his mouth.

"Last question, does your Boss wants to annihilate both the Cavelli and De La Torre famiglia?"

If the Lumière famiglia really wants to have a war against the De La Torre, then Aisha must prepare greatly for it because the De La Torre famiglia can never win against the Lumière famiglia and see if negotiation is possible between the two famiglias.

Reid suddenly laugh out loud when he hears Aisha's question. He didn't mind if both of his arms and legs are getting strained because of laughing too much.

Aisha felt insulted by Reid's laugh and so Aisha pulls out her katana and slash Reid's body upwards, from his abdomen to his chest.

"Fuck!" Reid cough some blood as he felt an unexpected pain in his front body.

"I hate it when people laugh at my face." Aisha said in a serious tone. She swish her katana to get rid of Reid's blood before pushing it to her saya.

Reid wants to glare at the woman in front of him but he wouldn't want an another wound in his body so he just shut his mouth up but his eyes wanders to her saya and couldn't help but to feel confuse at the structure of her saya.

Although, he is not a swordsman, he is familiar with the structure of all weapons and Aisha's saya's structure is a little different to the usual saya of the katana.

"Don't make me repeat myself." Reid was snapped back into reality and answer almost too quickly.

"Cavelli will surely be just another famiglia in history but the Boss daren't to harm the De La Torre."

Aisha furrows her brows and Reid mistook it as she didn't believe his words and almost cries as he convince her, "It's the truth! The Boss himself gave his order to never do anything against the De La Torre famiglia or else they will suffer greatly!"

"Do you know why?"

"How can I know?" Reid wants to cry out, he's getting lightheaded because of losing too much blood and plus, he can feel something weird in his body.

He needs to get out of here ASAP[1].

"Okay," Aisha suddenly stood up from where she is sitting. "You can go now."

"Really?" Reid was delighted by this but he was confuse when Aisha turns her back against him and walks towards the door. "Wait, aren't you going to release me?"

Aisha looks back at him and say in an innocent tone, "What do you mean? I just say I will not stop you from escaping but I didn't say anything about helping you escape." And with that, Aisha leaves the room and Reid was alone to gap at her.

What the actual fvck!?

[1] As Soon As Possible.