"What?" Xavier asked, when Mickey stood there and glared at him for over a minute
"'What?' That's all you have to say. You could have gotten all of us killed because you hesitated!! I thought you understood that this place was kill or be killed!!" Mickey said angrily
"Look I'm sorry ok. I won't hesitate again." Xavier said and Mickey looked down before looking even angrier
"Oh really now!! I would have believed you if your hands weren't trembling so much!!" Mickey said and Xavier looked down at his hand, which was trembling violently, and quickly grabbed it.
"You need to get your shit together, because things are only gonna get worse from here." Mickey said as he could see Maria rushing over towards them while carrying the bag. She had heard a bit of the conversation, and after seeing the fight, she could guess what they were arguing about.
"Is everything alright?" Maria asked
"Just peachy." Xavier said and walked past her towards the man named Toby to pull out the dagger. As his hand neared the dagger, his hands trembled violently, and he gritted his teeth. Mickey walked over and pulled out the dagger, before silently handing it to him. Xavier hesitated to take the dagger as it was covered in blood, human blood, and Mickey pushed it into his hands, before walking away. Xavier looked at the bloody dagger in his hand before wrapping it on his leg with a dagger. He silently walked past Maria with a dark expression on his face.
"Uhm, do you wanna talk about it?" Maria asked in a gentle tone
"Mind your own damn business." Xavier said harshly
"I was only trying to help." Maria said sadly and Xavier sighed, and decided it didn't matter anymore since he might die any day now anyway.
"A little over a year ago, my friends and I made a plan to rob these rich assholes that lived on the north side of the city. There place was pretty isolated, far from the police station and they had quite a bit of security, but nothing we couldn't handle. We snuck into the mansion at night and stole pretty much everything we could find, and of course, the alarm went off, but we already planned for that. As I was making my way out, I ran into a young lady, around my age. As she was about to scream for the guards, I took uo and knife and...and stabbed her in the chest. And she died." Xavier said, his breathing unsteady and his chest feeling heavy, and he quickly tried to stabilise his breathing before continuing.
"When I was supposed to leave, I-I hesitated, which is how the cops caught me." Xavier finished and he looked at Maria to see her reaction. He expected her to have a horrified look on her face, but instead, she looked like she was thinking about something.
"By any chance, was the family you robbed the Omeilie's?" Maria asked, which took Xavier by surprise.
"Y-yeah, I think so." He replied and she nodded her head.
"I thought your story sounded familiar. The girl you stabbed is named Amelia Omeilie. She had long blonde hair ans blue eyes right?" Maria said
"Yes, but why would I want to know that? That just makes things worst." Xavier said, his mood becoming foul
"Amelia didn't die, infact, she became even more famous after that incident. She's been using that incident to garner public sympathy. And her father even used the incident to launch an operation to take people off the streets and throw them into facilities. But it was scrapped a few months later because people found out that they were being used as cheap labour." Maria said, and Xavier looked at her in disbelief.
"B-but, a stab to the chest is a fatal injury, and I was convicted of murder!! I got a life sentence!!" Xavier said enraged, and Maria backed off.
"S-sure, in most cases yes, but the Omeilie's are super rich, and they have access to technology that normal people don't have access to." Maria said, and Xavier gritted his teeth, and Maria could see the veins in his head bulge, which made her jump. Hearing what Maria said had alleviated most of his guilt, but his trauma was not that easily erased.
And neither was his rage.
"Thank you Maria. Thank you for telling me this." Xavier said
'But I'll have to verify this myself. If I ever get back to Earth, I'll have to pay the Omeilie's a visit.' Xavier thought with a glint in his eyes.