Chapter 106: *Always been a good person*
As Kevin was finishing writing his list, Axel chuckled and said to him, "You are really planning to do all of this, babe... a recovery time is made to rest, not to exhaust yourself further."
Kevin turned his head towards him, and after smiling at him, he rubbed his nose against Axel’s and then kissed him tenderly.
When he ended their kiss, he said to Axel, still smiling, "Everything that is on my list requires no effort on my part... I can go to see Tony using a giant bird, I can coach all three of you without having to fight against you, sorting my inventory doesn’t require any particular effort, and I have clearly written ’to find a solution with Alan to be able to craft our weapons with the Trinium.’ I didn’t write that I was going to start introducing particles in Talisman papers."
Axel laughed heartily and hugged him, saying, "Okay, okay, I got it, babe... By the way, why do you want to go see Tony?"
Kevin answered him honestly, "I need some information to be able to free the Queen and her sister. We don’t have much time to prepare; I need the help of professionals."
Axel looked at him puzzled and asked, "What kind of professionals?"
Kevin smiled at him and replied, "The kind that you can buy with money, and who will be quick and discreet." When he saw that Axel was still perplexed, he said to him, "I need to find either a spy who is already inside the palace and who wishes to help the Queen escape, or an assassin who can go unnoticed and gather the information I need to free her and her sister."
Axel preferred to be honest with Kevin and said to him, "Babe, I don’t think Tony knows that kind of person, though. How and why would he know spies and assassins?"
Kevin looked at him seriously and caressed his cheek, not sure how Axel would react to the truth, "Don’t be so sure, honey. There is some kind of base code for all assassins, and I guess it’s the same here. When Tony told me he knew a lot of people and that if we ever needed to find something, he could make his network work for us... Believe me, honey, Tony isn’t someone as simple as you think."
Axel looked at him a little surprised by this discovery, and he wasn’t sure what to think anymore, "I never thought Tony could be related to that kind of people."
Kevin decided not to take offense; after all, he had been part of ’that kind of people.’ So instead, he chose to teach Axel a few things, "Honey, there are many kinds of assassins, just as there are different kinds of people. Some are good, and some are bad. Some do it for money, others for revenge, or just for fun. Those who do this for money are the only ones who can be counted on; those who do it for fun are generally psychopaths, and those who do it for revenge either die trying to get revenge or stop everything once their revenge is over. But killing human beings for revenge also makes them psychologically unstable."
Axel then asked him, "Were you doing this for money?"
Kevin continued to caress his cheek; Axel hadn’t pushed him away; he seemed only curious, so he told him, "I killed my first targets when I was 15. I was a kind of bounty hunter; unlike other assassins, I always chose my targets myself, and it has always been criminals. Everyone was trying to recruit me to do their dirty work, but I only dealt with the criminals. I have never dealt with politics, except when the politicians became the criminals."
He added, because when he thought about it, he had to kill other people to survive too, "And for my survival, I also had to kill mercenaries, soldiers, other assassins. Sometimes innocent people were involved and found themselves trapped between our fights. I always tried to minimize my social interactions and always chose isolated places as a base, so that there were as few people as possible around me. In my home world, the communication systems were very evolved, and I didn’t need to be present to lead the group of assassins who worked with me. When I became the man to kill, I dissolved our group and played the bait to give them the time to settle elsewhere. The men I trained must still be alive and continue to do what we used to do... When I died, they were all still alive."
Axel nodded; he had never thought too much about it before. Of course, Kevin had never hidden from him that he had been an assassin, and that he had been the best assassin in his world, but oddly his behavior didn’t correspond at all to the image he had of an assassin.
And he finally understood why, even though he had been an assassin, Kevin had never lost his integrity and had always killed only those who deserved it or those who threatened his own survival. He still didn’t know who had made him become an assassin, but he felt relieved that Kevin had always been a good person. Until the end, he had protected people and his men.
He saw that Kevin looked a little tense, so he took Kevin’s hand with which he was caressing his cheek and put it on his heart. He then placed his hand behind Kevin’s head and kissed him passionately. Kevin hadn’t expected this kind of reaction; he had thought that Axel might regret his choice to be with an assassin, and he was already ready to plead his case because he really didn’t want to lose him.
So, when Axel finally let him breathe after that fiery kiss, he asked him, curious to know what he was thinking, "Aren’t you disgusted or disappointed after what I just told you about me?"
Axel looked at him surprised and replied, "On the contrary, I am even more proud to be your man. You may have been an assassin, but you were protecting the people of your world in your way, and you continue to do it here. You also saved us all in this dungeon; without you, we would never have made it out alive."
Kevin then snuggled in his arms. The words Axel had just spoken had touched him deeply; no one had ever understood him better than he did.
