Orisino didn't know Chris's city that well, he had only being there once or twice in his time inside this hellhole. One of those two times was to bring Aurora here. It was Dink who brought them to a chamber inside a large skyscraper. The main building of the city and Chris home base of operations. The room could be locked from the inside which was in his book a plus, the only downside was, there was only one bed and no couch for him to crash on. Or extra bedding to crash on the floor, nope that bed was the only place they could sleep. He lay Tamora on it and he himself sat down on the end, on the cold concrete floor. But he didn't care, Tamora needed the rest more than he did. She would have died in that basement if Chris and that creep Dink were not there to help him. They had probably seen the fire from this tower and Chris knew where he lived. He hated Marrisa for what she had done, she had cost him a life, almost killed Tamora and stole everything of value in this hellhole. At least according to Dink. All because Lu had told her that Tamora was pretty, and she felt threatened by a woman that she didn't know. Also, the deal that he had made with Chris, of pointing greens towards his city didn't help much either. But he would have done the same thing for her, if she had offered to help him. It only seemed fair in his eyes, it only did not matter anymore. His shack was gone, just like everything he worked his ash of to build. The weapons in his basement will be gone at the beginning of the morning, Chris will make sure of that. He sighed and closed his eyes for a second.

*****

"Orisino." He felt a slender hand on his shoulder. He knew one thing for sure, it was not Tamora's voice. "Orisino." Said the young female voice again. He opened his eyes and looked straight into dark brown eyes. The young woman looked at him with a big smile. The golden blond hair was still held together by a rubber band.

"Aurora." He said, and the dark brown eyes started to twinkle. "Who in the designer's name did you come in here. I am pretty sure that I locked the door."

"Oh you did, but when I heard from Chris that you were here. Well let just say that a locked door can not stop me." Aurora replied, again with a large grin on her face. "Who is the woman on the bed?"

"Tamora, she is my roommate and companion for the last two days." Orisino replied and Aurora nodded slowly.

"So the rumors are true?" She said. "I am glad that you found someone. At least to share that piece of ..."

"Hey, be gentle. Besides that, the piece of thrash is gone." Orisino said and Aurora frowned. "Marrisa burnt it." Aurora slowly nodded.

"I never liked the bitch." Aurora said.

"Hello, missy you are fourteen." Orisino said, and he started to giggle, what did he expect that she would speak proper English. She just shrugged it off and looked at Tamora once again.

"She is pretty, are you sleeping with her?" Aurora asked.

"Would I be sitting on the cold concrete floor, if I did?" He asked in return and she shook her head. "I am not going to force her." Aurora tilted her head slightly, did he see a glimmer of hope in her eyes. For fuck’s sake, she was fourteen, a child. "No, Aurora." She started to pout at first, but then sighed.

"Alright then, have it your way. I really hoped that you would be my first." She said, so nobody here had touched her. That was a relief, but how long will that lest. If she is starting to offer herself to men, he would talk with Chris about that. Maybe he could talk her out of it. "I have being here for four years, Orisino. That means that in the real world I would have being an adult."

"Yes, but in here you are not an adult, you are still fourteen." He reminded her. "You really should be grateful that you are not seen as an adult." She looked away. Forget Chris, he would try to talk some sense into her. "Aurora, do you know what happened with a lot of women in here?" She nodded.

"They get fucked until they can't see straight." Aurora replied.

"Do you really want that happening to you, because it will when you are become sexuality active." He said and she shook her head.

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"No, I do not want that happening to me." She said and she lowered her head. "Why in the designer's name did they send children into an adult prison." He said and she smiled at him.

"Because, the equalizer that is what they call it. No crime will go unpunished." She said with a playful voice. "And with that they count stealing a bag of chips and a can of soda." That was it, that was why she was in here? For some freaking snacks. He knew what she looked like when he first saw her, she looked like a freaking skeleton with a thin layer of skin. She was starving and instead of punishing the ones that needed to feed her, they punished her.

"You look a lot better than we met." He said and he meant it. She nodded, slightly and sighed.

"Chris is a man of his word, he treats me and the others well." Aurora said, he wanted to sigh in relief. "I will bring you some extra bedding." She stood up and left the room.

******

Aurora kept her word and came back with a sleeping bag. And with some help of the other children a mattress.

"Here you go." A boy age ten said. Orisino has forgotten his name and if he was honest he remembers none of their names. But he was glad to see them, all of them looked better than when he had found them.

"Thank you." He started.

"That is Alex." Aurora said. "It has being years since you pointed them towards this city. And besides that you see new faces every day." Sure, that was it. Not. But he was not going to tell them that. "The others are Justin, Cindy and Jo." Everybody waves towards him when they heard their name.

"That woman is very beautiful." Alex said, or rather squeaked.

"Thank you." Tamora said, she sat right up and smiled at the children. "Do not worry you didn't wake me." She said quickly before any of them could apologize. Aurora smiled at her.

"You are nice." One of the younger girls said. He didn't know how old she was, but if he had to guess. Not much older than Alex. Tamora looked at them and then at him, and he shrugged.

"I already said that they may kill the one who send them here." Orisino said and she nodded. Agreeing with them.

"To be fair, we were all arrested for stealing food." Aurora reminded him. And he shook his head.

"That is not your fault Aurora. Do not forget that I have seen you all when you came in here. You all were hungry, and instead of punishing you. They needed to punish the ones who needed to feed you." He didn't want to sound angry, but he was. He still couldn't wrap his head around the fact that they placed children inside a prison full of murders, rapists and what not. But it was no use to get mad about it now, they were in here and there was nothing he could do about it now. Well he had done something about it, at least Chris kept them safe from harm, and he was feeding them well.

"Well we better go before Chris finds use here." Aurora said.

"To late." Chris his voice echoed through the room. "I already found you, and it was nice of you to bring our guest an extra mattress. But I am pretty sure that this door was locked, and I doubt that Orisino opened it." Aurora looked at her feet, busted. "What did I tell you about boundaries."

"I just wanted..." Aurora started.

"No, it is not about what you want, missy. It is about what Orisino and Tamora want at this point. They are guests, and they had their door locked, that in itself is a simple message." Chris said stern. Aurora nodded slowly. "Go back to your rooms and think about what you have done." The children left the room and Chris sighed. "Children." He smiled. "They are the reason that I have not .... myself." Tamora gasped for air. "Do not worry it will only cost me one life."

"But you do not know how many lives you have." She said and Chris nodded.

"That is true, but that is the beauty of it all. You do not know how long you have to live and when you are in here, that is all you can think about. That is why everybody those what they want, or at least tried to do it." Chris said, and Tamora nodded.

"Speaking about that, before Aurora came in here with the mattress, she was talking about having sex. I already talked to her and told her that this would not be such a good idea. But she is thinking about it." Orisino said and Chris sighed.

"The joys and burdens of being a parent." He said. "Thank you for talking to her, I will keep an eye on her from now on. But you two get some more rest." He said stepped out and closed the door. Orisino turned the lock once again, and then moved the mattress right in front of it.

"So now at least I will notice, when somebody sneaks in." He said with a grin, but Tamora's eyes looked at him, worry clouded those beautiful blue eyes.

"You never told me they were that young." She said and he lowered his head. He had indeed not told her about their age. "It is criminal." She slammed her hand on the bedding. He nodded and sighed.

"At least now I know that Chris sees them as his own. He treats them well and feeds them. You should have seen them on the platform." He said and she shook her head.

"I believe you, that they looked horrible when you found them. Still these are children, and you are right. Instead of punishing them, they needed to punish the once responsible for them." She said and he nodded again.

"Get some more sleep. We will talk more about it in the morning." He said softly, and he lowered himself on the mattress. Doubting he will get any more sleep tonight, but still sleep came for him and Tamora.