Without You 
Chapter 4- Danger.
By Mako-chan Fan
Makochan_fan@hotmail.com

Author’s Notes:
Sorry if this fic took too long to be updated. School has 
been taking up my time, and then there’s tennis practice, 
too. I’m tired, stressed out, and no time for writing. This 
is actually the first weekend that I don’t have homework. 
Anyway, on with the fic... reviews please...
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RING!!!

Doors were pushed open and classrooms emptied as the bell 
rang, indicating the end of the school day. Students- girls 
in navy-blue skirts and white blouses and boys in the same 
dark blue pants and white shirts- filed out of the room and 
left for their rides. 

Blessed Mary Private School was one of the most prestigious 
and expensive schools in Spain. Many students here are 
children or related to rich and powerful people of the 
nation, meaning Lita and Triton go there, too.

The two children met up in the hallway, and together they 
walked toward their waiting limo. Three burly bodyguards 
stood close to their transportation, waiting for their 
arrival. 

“Wuzzup, Ted?” Triton greeted one of them as he opened the 
passenger door. The two climbed in and the raven-haired 
guard followed. The other two black-suited men rode in 
front, one of them driving. They left the school and went 
to the direction of the hacienda.

“Hi, Teddy!” The little girl happily greeted after her 
brother, glad that school was over. 

“Hey, kids. So, how’s school?” All the bodyguards were 
quite fond of the two children, as they have been with the 
Bloom family for some time, since Triton’s birth, to be 
exact. 

“It sucked. I’ve got homework again,” the boy unhappily 
answered.

“I don’t! Hahaha!” his sister laughed, glad to be free from 
homework.

The boy sulked at her. “You’re not helping, you know.”

“I know,” Lita taunted.

“Okay, you two stop that. I don’t want the two of you 
fighting anytime soon,” Ted advised.

The two children quieted down and watched the scenery go 
by. Lita opened her lunch box and took cookies out. She 
took one and offered her brother and Ted one. Getting 
bored, she looked at the mirror behind her seat where she 
can see the cars behind them. A black car was behind them, 
going to the direction their own car was going. A few 
seconds later, she sat back on her seat and watched the 
scenery again. 

She saw her brother move. Triton pulled out the mini TV 
included in the car and switched it on. The two kids 
started watching cartoons. A few minutes later, she looked 
back. The car was still behind them. She shrugged to 
herself. Nothing to get suspicious over. She watched with 
Triton some more. The cartoon show was over when she looked 
behind her again. The car was still there. Now she was 
alarmed. It had been tailing them for the last 20 minutes.

“Umm, Teddy, do you notice that the car behind us has been 
following us for a long time now?” she asked the raven-
haired guard, a little apprehensively.

The man, alarmed, talked with his comrades about the 
situation. All three men looked at each other. Ted stood up 
and moved in the middle of where the two children were 
sitting. He looked at the car and saw two men sitting in 
front of the car. The two unknown men must have known that 
they have been seen. The passenger then rolled down his 
window and pulled out a gun. Ted’s eyes widened.

“Get down!!!” He pushed the two children down the car 
floor. Several bullets hit the limousine just as the two 
children and Ted crashed down the floor. The two children 
started screaming and crying, terrified of what was 
happening to them.

James and Scott, the other bodyguards who sat in front of 
the limousine, opened their doors and crawled out of the 
car. They took out their own guns and started shooting at 
the car. Ted, while shielding the kids using his own body, 
took his cellphone out and called more bodyguards and asked 
for back-up. 

They heard a loud shout and the shooting from the enemy 
stopped. It was a sign that the man was shot. The car then 
left, knowing that they were in danger of being caught.

“Are you guys okay?” James, the brown-haired driver and 
guard, asked Ted and the children. None of them were hurt, 
but the two kids were still crying. 

By that time a crowd was gathering. A few seconds later, 
the police came and investigated the scene. Another 
limousine then arrived, containing Isabella, Pierre, and 
Peter. The three hugged the two scared children, who 
started crying again when they saw the adults.

As they all rode the limo back home, the two children, 
exhausted from crying, slept. The adults talked quietly so 
they wouldn’t wake up or hear what the topic was about.

“Damn it! I’d get it if they want to hurt us, but not the 
kids!” Pierre cursed.

“What are we going to do now?” Isabella asked the two men, 
worried about their situation. 

Peter made a decision. “Your family has to leave pronto. We 
all know how OZ works. They’ll stop at nothing to get what 
they want. I think you should head to L3.”

“Okay. But I just can’t leave my companies unmanaged. I’m 
going back to the city and tell my colleagues that I’ll be 
gone for some time. I have to put all my business on hold. 
We also have to warn our parents. They’re in this as much 
as we are. God, I hope they’re all right,” Pierre prayed 
worriedly.

Isabella’s cellphone rang. 

“Hello? Yes... uh-huh... yes... what? What? What do you 
mean? When? No... oh God, it can’t be!” she let go of the 
phone and started crying, looking shocked and pained.

“Honey? What is it? What’s wrong?” Pierre asked his wife 
worriedly. It took a lot for Isabella to cry, as she was a 
very strong and a very tough girl. But she didn’t look like 
one now because tears were streaming down her face.

She looked at the two men with teary eyes. 

“Our parents. It’s our parents. Oh God. They were heading 
back from a trip to Asia when...when their plane was shot 
down. Their plane cr-crashed somewhere in the Middle East. 
The police believed it was caused by some hijackers, but I 
know it isn’t true.” She sobbed, hurt that her loved ones 
died so rapidly. 

The two men sat there quietly, hurt and shocked by the 
news. No one foresaw that OZ would be working on them 
quickly and painlessly. They could not believe that their 
parents, the ones that gave life to them, were not gone.

Peter left his condition before Pierre did, and logic came 
back to him. 

“We have to move fast. Pierre, do whatever you have to do. 
Isabella, come with him. He might need some of your help. 
The kids and I will be waiting for you in the base. Just 
come straight to the base after you two deal with work. 
We’ll just send you to wherever it is you all are going 
with one of the planes in the base.”

The limo drove back into the city and left the couple to do 
their jobs. Peter woke the two kids when they got to 
Peter’s decoy mansion. The two were traumatized, scared of 
what had just happened to them. 

As they got down to the underground secret base, the place 
was busy. People were everywhere, working as fast as they 
could to finish their projects before OZ infiltrated the 
place. Bodyguards were in front and behind them, alert and 
keen-eyed. They stayed in Peter’s office, waiting for the 
arrival of Lita’s and Triton’s parents.
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Back in the city...

Pierre put the phone down, relieved to know that the 
station would manage without him for a few months. Isabella 
was sitting on the couch in his office, waiting for him to 
finish his impersonal phone-meeting with his colleagues.

“Are you done, let’s go. We have to get out of here as fast 
as we can. We don’t even know if the kids are safe or not!” 

“Don’t freak out, Isa. They’re in the base with Pete and 
many bodyguards. I’m sure they’re safe. Now come on, OZ 
might track as down before we even get out of here.”

They opened the door to leave when they met face to face 
with a gun. Holding the gun was a lieutenant from OZ. His 
ugly face looked even worse with the smirk he was wearing. 

The two were thinking of attempting to take the gun from 
him when he broke their thoughts.

“Uh-uh. I’ve got men with me. Trust me, you wouldn’t want 
to do that.” To prove his point, five more men, all big and 
muscular, appeared behind him. The OZ soldiers walked 
inside, and the Isabella and Pierre were pushed back inside 
as well.

The lieutenant put his gun down and wore a sinister smile. 
“I trust you know why this is happening right now.”

The couple stayed quiet.

“You know, we can work things out. You and your little 
family don’t have to run away from us if you work with us. 
Private Manning, what have you found out about the Bloom’s 
account.”

One of the men behind him answered. “Sir, we found out that 
the account is worth $40 billion dollars. It’s under the 
Bloom name in the Swiss Bank. We have also learned that the 
only way to get the money is to have the pass. But it is 
not a password, sir, but an object.”

The lieutenant looked back to the couple. “You see, we know 
a lot about you. If you cooperate, you and your children’s 
lives will not be in danger any longer. All you have to do 
is give us the money that you have and all will be even. 
After all, you were planning on betraying OZ and the 
government you’re living under.”

“Never!” Pierre answered acidly. 

The highest-ranking military man’s eyebrows raised.

“No? Well, then. What is your pass. I’m sure you just want 
us to get the money ourselves, right? So then please, just 
give the pass to us and we’ll all act like this day never 
happened.”

The offer sounded so tempting to them. But they knew better 
than to trust OZ. Although the offer looked sweet, both 
Pierre and Isabella knew that it was really bitter inside. 
Besides, to tell what the passes were are to endanger the 
lives of their children. Both Lita and Triton had it but 
never knew of its significance.

The lieutenant’s face turned malevolent. He didn’t like 
traitors, and these two were two tough bastards. 

He held the gun, its pointer right in the middle of 
Pierre’s forehead.

“Tell me.”

Pierre just looked at him square in the eye.

The trigger was pulled a moment after.
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Holy crap! I actually have time to work on this! Hehehe, 
I’m so freakin’ happy!!! Anyway, don’t you like the 
cliffie? I actually have a good one!!! What do you think of 
the story so far? Please e-mail me and review!!! The next 
chapter will be out sometime this month, I swear it!