You Win Some, You Lose Some

tattoos together

Claire's pov

as I open my eyes I notice the sun shining through the blinds and hear birds talking on the roof. and I feel peaceful, like everything is just perfect and I'm in a cozy little bubble. I know I sound f*****g crazy right, I've been kidnapped. but in some ways I haven't I mean I basically went willingly and I don't really care. for the first time in a long time I feel like I can breath, it feel good. I feel like.... like I'm free, I feel free like the little birds talking on the roof and I love it.

knock knock

someone's knocking on my door, maybe it's talon. " yeaaahhh?" I say slowly and the door creaks open. a really buff security guy is there with food, a fruit salad, pancakes and bacon. what the hell I thought talon said he was the mafia boss and I should be scared why the f**k is he being nice to me. or maybe the security guy is going behind his back to be nice to me?

"did talon tell you to give this to me?"

I inquire. " yes ma'am he did and by the way you can call me nik." he says and I notice his massive tatto that covers his head it's a snake coming out of a skull. he notices me looking at it. "like it do ya? do you have any, how old are you?" he says happy to talk. " well no I don't have one as I'm sixteen." then a though comes into my head I wouldn't mind a feather tatto I wounder if this guy could help me get one. "I've actually wanted to get a tatto for a while do you know anyone who would take me as a customer?" I say suggestively. " you're in luck little miss, cause I know someone and since your under the boss now your age won't be a problem, speaking of the boss is out for today so it'll be fine if I take you now if you want?" he says smiling. yes ha! sucked in talon I've managed to corrupt one of his men and it's only day one.

with in half an hour I've slipped on some grey track pants and a cute black crop top sitting in the front of a big Jeep next to nik and with in another hour of talking to him about his two daughters Mia and tilly along with his Italian wife Isabella we're there.

"so, little miss, have you thought about what you want?" he asked as we walk in. " yeah of course, I want a blue feather." I say with as much confidence as possible. " wow so you've actually thought about this, why do you want a feather?" I don't really want to tell nik why I'm not sure why, but I dont. "Well, that's for me to know and you to guess," I tell him smirking, as we walk up to the man behind the desk. as he looks up he almost looks like he almost shits himself. " nik mate, what're you doin here I thought you were happy with all your tats he says nervously while looking at me quickly then back at nik. " I am mate, little miss over here would like to get one." he says chuckling. " oh well I'll get trix then as she's the best we have, your lucky you came in today when she's here... trix we have a customer!" he finally says and a very heavily tatooed middle aged women comes out of a side room and when she sees me, she smiles. " ahhhh, a new blank canvas. How exciting this is gonna be fun, how many do you want today?!" she says a bit loudly. "I'd like to get a realistic blue feather done." I explain to her. "do you know where? since your so pretty it'd look good anywhere." she exlaims. " where to you think would look good?" I ask as I really don't care, if she's the expert I'm gonna trust her. " well darlin if your not to modest and don't mind taking ya bra off I think it would look amazing if I started to the side of your one of your girls and then came down and curls to your ribs" she says while looking at my bare middle. oh what the f**k I don't care about being naked infront of another women I'm gonna do it. " yeah you know what I think that's a great I idea!" I say surprising my self with how enthusiastic I am. with in a few minutes I'm in a separate room with trix with these special stickers on my n*****s while she starts the tatto. it doesn't actually hurt that bad I was expecting it to be a lot worse than it was.

after 3 hours she's done and it looks a amazing it's a tad bigger than I thought it would be but it's fricken awesome. after admiring my new feather in a long full length mirror trix turns to me and says " do you have a look you're going for cause I could see you with I diamons on the side of your nose and a couple more ear peircings?" I guess this place does peircings too. "do you really think so which parts of my ears would you do?" I ask looking at my face in the mirror. "well I'd do ya seconds and then in the ear you don't lean on the most I'll do your helix and traggis which are these bits here" she points to the top of my ear and then to that little bit that sticks out near my ear hole. " and then I would put a stud in your nose on the other side of your face to balance it out. and you have the perfect button nose for it too!" she says excitedly. "what do ya say?" well Dam if I've already got a tat why not a couple peircings. " yeah, I think it's a great idea do whatever you think looks good." I tell her as she starts getting things ready and I lie back down on her seat. the one that hurts the most is my nose and my traggis the helix isn't too bad and I barely notice my seconds. I end up with a new pair of silver feather earings in my first peircings in my earlobe that I've had since I was 18 months old, then I get some sqare cut emeralds set in silver in my new seconds, my taggis gets a white gold heart and the helix gets a white gold feather to match my tatto.and of course my white gold nose pericing with a cute diamond the diameter of a small pea. I really like them they look good and trix was right when she said the green emeralds would make my blue eyes stand out. she also gave me a few other jewellery pieces so when they heal I can change them to match different outfits or my moods. when I walk out and look around to find nik I find a very angry looking talon yelling at nik outside the shop then nik gets in his car and leaves. s**t I hope talon wasn't to hard on him cause I really like nik. anyway trix tells me everything's free of charge and I should go to talon as he's probably waiting for me. which is good cause I don't know how the f**k I could pay for all this anyway.

as I walk out the door talon turns around to look at me and his jaw literally drops he looks like I genuinely have shocked the living hell out of him. HA! I hope I have.

Talons pov

after dealing with some business s**t I come home to find claire gone along with nik, like what the f**k he's my best guy there's no way she could have beat him in a fight. she must have distracted him or something. I walk up to one of the guards outside the house " hey fuckface where the f**k is claire and nik, huh! where the f**k are they!?" I yell at them, I mean it's their only job for crying out loud make sure no one gets in or out. jesus christ! "last I heard, boss, they were going to get a tatto" he spoke up. what? why would claire want too see nik get a tatto it dosent make sense. I pick out my yellow lambo and peel away from the house and within no time I'm at niks regular place. but I can see him in the waiting room. without claire, why, where is she. what the hell is wrong with him. I gesture to him through the window to come out here and he does. "what the fucken hell do you think your doing and where is she!" I demand as soon as he steps out. he smiles and then comes out with " she's gone to get a tatto she was talking to me about mine and told me she wanted one so I bought her here, don't worry boss they have the best doing it for her, trix is doin it." he says casually. and I stand there and process it for a second. she's so beautiful and innocent looking I can't imagine her with tatts, and what it's of and where it is. "right that's it I'm goin in, right now to stop this shit." I tell him as I start to walk towards the door again. " I wouldn't do that if I were you mate, little miss has her girls out to get the tatto done and they're probably nearly done now anyway it's been hours." he says. oh. my. God. is she getting a tatto done on her t**s and if so why is it so big that it took hours to do. and it sure as hell better not be a rose cause I see to many of those on girls and it's so unorginal and boring. "what the f**k man you let her get her t**s tattoed, would you let your daughters do that, you know what never mind, just piss off your done for today I don't wanna see your face!" I yell at him. he turns around, gets into his big Jeep and leaves, good so he should. and as I turn around I see her. she's in track pants and a cropped singlet, her chestnut hair is falling down her back to nearly her butt and I notice a big blue feather coming out from her crop top and curling towards the top of her ribs then I see her face. her nose has a diamond nestled in it, her earlobes are glistening with white gold and gems and then she has a couple other peircings on the higher and inside of her ear one is a love heart. so cute. what the f**k no I'm angry at her and nik for going and getting a f*****g tatto and peircings without asking me. "get. in. the. f*****g. car.......now!" I say through clenched teeth seething as I climb into the driver's side.

"why the f**k did you decide you could get a tatoo without asking me?!" I yell at the windshield as I speed off I can't look at her or I'll stop being angry. "oh, daddy, im sorry I forgot to ask your permission on what I can do with my body." she says trying to be sarcastic but it turns me on big time making me think of that dream last night.

I look at her Dam well I guess she's right and I f****d up. I told myself that I was gonna treat her right and that meant treating her as my equal which would mean not getting angry that she modified her body. I mentally sigh. I have to say sorry. " look, I'm sorry ok, I'm used to only dealing with my men. and then when you were gone I thought you'd found some way to kill yourself. I just... I care about you ok?" I tell her " thanks for saying sorry but why the f**k would you care about me" she says confused. I look into her eye's and she looks away quickly. "why don't you want me to look you in the eyes?" I ask. and after five minutes of looking out the window she says "our eyes are the portals to our souls" she says and her voice cracks half way through. f**k I think she's crying. why is she crying. "claire, look at me"

".....no......"

" please look at me."

she turns her head and there's silent tears rolling down her face and she looks like she's ready to block a hit she's so tense. what the f**k has her mum done to her.

"what's wrong?" I ask gently

"nuh-nuh-nothing." she says crying.

" tell me so I can make it better, I promise." I tell her

" no one can fix it." she says sobbing

" just tell me so I can try."

" it's my soul!" she crys at me sobbing

I'm confused is she a Christian or something, no surely not other wise nik would know.

" what's wrong with your soul?" I ask quietly looking at the diamonds around her eyes falling down her face.

" it's broken so much I think it's gone and it's been gone for a long time, and it hurts so bad it's like all of me is just gone and I'm nothing, I feel like nothing and it hurts to be nothing the only thing I can feel is pain and I'm tired of it I want it to go away but it won't." she starts off yelling and by the end of it she's barely able to talk. s**t she's right I can't fix her soul, or maybe I can I dunno maybe I should talk to a doctor about what to do about it.

" hey, your soul isn't gone cause I can see it in your eyes, it might be broken but it can be fixed I promise you we'll fix it."

I look into her eye's, and she's right I see a great emptiness in them and it hurt me too. and I, talon the boss of the mafia, cried for a girl with a broken soul.

she looked up and saw me as I let a few tears slip down my face for her. " I swear to you claire I will help you to no end to feel again. I promise." then I turn the car around and go back to the tattoo parlour. after she stopped crying she realised we were back at the tattoo place. "why are we here?" she says through hiccups. I look into her puffy red eye's and say "I'm going to get a tattoo. do you wanna come in with me?" As I got out the car she followed. when we got in there I tell trix " wanna get ' I promise' on my heart written in cursive" and I look at claire and when she smiles my heart does backflips. I think she might be the one. in no time I'm laying down in the chair while trix is doing my tatto, I never knew getting one on your chest could hurt so much and i grunt from the pain trixi laughs and tells claire to hold my hand and she does. while Claire's looking at the tatto trix winks at me. Dam is it that obvious. after the tatoos done I tell claire to wait in the car for me while I do something. I'm gonna ask trix what jewellery I should buy her. "well doll I think an anklet would look cute on her" she says walking over to the anklet jewellery. " you f****d up with her is that why she was crying or what happened, you forget your anniversary?" she says with an eyebrow raised. " oh, nah she's not my girlfrien-" I start "but you want her to be? she does look like a keeper for you, ya know I could see ya's getting married in a few years, why was she crying" she says while I look at the anklets. "umm well I don't think she would want me to say exactly, but it's family stuff." I say dimming it down. I see a anklet with a infinity symbol laid with diamonds "do y9u think she'd like that one" I ask her, I don't wanna get claire something she doesn't like "yea that's perfect" she says happily putting it in a little box and handing it to me " bye, see ya another time doll" she yells as I walk out the door.

Claire's pov

after watching him get his promise tatooed I get in the car and wait. I seriously don't understand why would he care about me or why he even wants to help. but I'm starting to like him, he's growing on me and his personality isn't that bad I guess. but what will he do when, if, I'm fixed. will the throw me out or what, what comes next after that. Dam it shut up claire just take it one day at a time or whatever. as I'm thinking talon gets into the car with a massive grin on his face. he's so cute. "what're you so happy about" I ask him returning his smile which makes his smile even bigger. I hope his face dosent break. he's suck a f*****g goof. it's cute though, so, ya know. anyway he pulls out a box and gives it to me. "what's this?" I ask uncertainly. "open it and you'll find out." I put us my impression of a private school princess to be scarstic again " okay dadddyyy!!!!" I say and he laughs so much his shoulders shake. I open the box and there's a dainty anklet with the infinity symbol on it. I love it, would be an understatment. " wow....uh..thanks" I say looking up to him smiling at his dark brown eyes.