Auto

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No one had seen or heard from Grim in weeks. Auto knew he got captured by the Bellas, a couple weeks before that day. Grim told him, nothing unusual happened- they beat on him, threatened him.

Of course, Auto believed him; they didn't lie to each other.

Well, he was wrong.

He finally cracked. Auto took one of their enforcers. Auto tortured him mercilessly.

"Wait, I give up! T-they tested a new product on him they call it Jekyll and Hyde. Splits a person so they are ruthless at night and normal in the day. It's like a roofie-you don't remember anything the next day. I-"

"Who gave it to him?"

"Rosa. Please kill me."

Auto scoffed. His clothes were drenched in blood, blood was splattered on his face. Flesh under his nails, body parts and various tools at his feet.

"Y'know my best friend could be dead by now. You better hope he isn't. And if he is, you better hope you're dead by the time i find out."

"I will make every second of the rest of your life filled with agony. This is a walk in the park."

Auto got cleaned up, his mind whirling. He knew he couldn't have done it. Grim and Auto have been through a lot. They'd been together at their darkest moments.

Their fathers were best friends, see. They had the same twisted sick outlook on life.

Act like a b***h, get f****d like a b***h.

That was their motto.

Rape wasn't something they did. They didn't want hear about it, didn't talk about it if it was on TV they watched something else. They didn't order it-so he knew Grim didn't do that.

If he had told him, Auto could've tried to find an anti-dote sooner.

It's like a roofie. You don't remember anything the next day.

That made more sense. He kept asking What Happened?

Why didn't he mention it sooner?

It couldn't have been embarrassment. That's impossible. Being stabbed with a needle is nothing compared to being forced to suck a d**k.

Yeah, embarrassment wasn't it. Maybe he didn't remember. They were testing it, on him.

Which meant it wasn't stable. f**k.

He had been acting weird. He would leave at like twelve and come back at about nine.

What had he been doing?

He didn't know. The only reason he knew about Tonya was he was laying on her.

Every night.

Shit, this was bad.

He had to get his hands on that drug.

Pacing in his office, he called his associate.

"You heard of Jekyll and Hyde?"

"What's in it?"

★

His Rebecca, his scientist, and friend gave him the report.

"This is s**t is f*****g horrible. It's pure poison. It's a mix of a roofie like element, and then there are some form of hallucinogens which with a hint of psychoactive agents, and some other s**t. Auto what is this?"

Auto pursed his lips. "Some s**t that's gonna get a lotta people killed."

"Is there any way you can make an antidote?"

Rebecca winced. "It has so many elements, the antidote itself might be poison. But I'll try."

Auto nodded, dropping a kiss on her forehead. "Appreciate it. Say hey to your family for me."

"Auto are you coming over to entertain my husband?"

"Hell no."

"Then I ain't telling him s**t. He loves you for some reason."

Auto grinned, lingering in the lab. Rebecca had always been like a little sister, and they mutually just platonic.

He didn't have Grim, and he couldn't talk to Frankie yet. Rebecca noticed something was on his mind.

"What's up?"

"A lot. Um, I'm expecting twins in a couple months. I think I'm starting to love their mother and I just lost my best friend, so..."

Rebecca said nothing for a few moments, digesting the information. "What's she like?"

Auto smiled thinking of her. She made him get this warm fuzzy feeling, that he hated.

Rebecca smiled softly. Finally. He met the right one. If Auto trusted her enough to admit he was falling in love then Rebecca liked her. Hopefully, she could make the dope get out of the drug game.

Luck can only carry you so far.

"God, she's just... Everything y'know? She's multifaceted, she's intelligent, she's sweet, and kind, and mothers everyone she meets, but she's also cunning, perceptive and very dangerous especially when it comes our the kids."

Rebecca nodded with a smile. She couldn't wait until the wedding.

"And she's so beautiful. She smiles at you like you're the only person in world, and it's just, you feel like you are someone with her. Like you can be something."

Auto scoffed. "I never thought I could be anything. Nothing but a f****d up spawn of the devil. I thought I was a content being who I am. I thought I would run the game until the game ran me. Now I have dreams.,"

He looked at Rebecca with a light in his eyes. "Can you believe it, Becca? Dreams! I always loved building things. Put things together with my bare hands. Just like I liked taking them apart. I told her that one night and you know what she did?"

She shook her head.

"The next day she made me build a crib. She gave me some wood and paint and tools and told me to build a crib fit for her angels. And I did. I actually did. I had fun. I was relaxed. I felt satisfied."

Auto's belly felt like a furnace. He felt odd.

"I think I love her Becca. Of course, I l love our kids. But..."

Auto sat at one of the desks.

"Y'know Grim loves her. She lectured him, gave him cookies and let him watch SpongeBob and take a nap."

Becca laughed. She couldn't imagine big, buff, brooding Grim watching SpongeBob. She would literally pay to see that.

"One day, after we get the kids home, you can come by and meet her. Just... Don't eat the cookies."

Auto laughed. There was so much on his chest, and he couldn't stop talking.

"I miss him. I'm worried about him, Becca. Frankie said that he'd come back when he was ready and that he'd never go too long without her cookies, but she's scared too."

"Tonya is worried about him. I think they were...hooking up, and I know she likes him. But, for Christ's sake, he raped her, Becca. He didn't mean to, he didn't know he did it but he did. That's all he will ever see, is that he did. I need my best friend."

Auto blinked back to the present, clearing his throat.

"Anyway. Thanks for listening, Becca. I better get home to Frankie and kids. I'll see you soon!"

"Yeah soon!"

At your wedding, she smirked. Then she began making plans, and arrangements.

Finally another woman. I wonder how she feels about red velvet?