Eloise Donovan the bilingual teacher and one of the HeadMaster's bodyguards but tonight she is just Eloise.
She was on her coach drinking a can of beer, and petting a cat in her lap. Her hair was still wet from her bath she just took. As she put down her third beer and put on some reading glasses as her cat yawned in her lap. She had papers scattered on her coffee with her holophone open with notes.
She picked up the cat. "Oh Wise One what should I do?"
"Meow." The cat's tail wagged. There was a knock on her door, she turned her head pulling out a gun and looking through the door hole. It was Quinn.
Eloise opened the door. "Hello Sir."
"Donovan can we talk?" Quinn look defeated.
She crossed her arms. "Why do you want to throw another cup at me, HeadMaster?"
"I want to say sorry and you were right?" Quinn lowered his head down.
"I never say I was right, I had a theory about Susannah being Peace Lily." She sighed.
"This was your first time meeting Peace Lily how can you tell?" He asked.
"I have a photo graphic memory." She answered him.
Quinn tilt his head. "You never told me that."
Eloise laughed. "Cause I never brought it up." As the two sat down, Quinn looked at the coffee table full of papers. The cat jumped onto his lap.
"Wise one." She chuckled and picked up the cat.
"Wise one?" He asked. "The day you hired me I found him as a kitten and I kinda name him after you." Eloise moved some of her hair out her face.
The Wise one meowed, Quinn petted under the cat chin as it purred. "HeadMaster you know I like you right?"
Quinn's lip flinched. "And I cannot give you that same feeling."
"Why? I know we are a few years apart but-"
"That is not the issue Ms.Donovan. I can't ruin someone else's life." Quinn squeeze his hands.
Eloise looked shocked by that statement, as he walk out her room and close the door.
"Hey Sir." Mr.Orchid waved.
"Yo." Luther said. "Hey." Quinn walks away from them.
"I haven't seen Susannah in a while." Orchid stated.Quinn stopped in his track.
"She is grounded." He whispered.
"No way little Quinn grounded that crazy." Luther laughed.
Orchid blurted. "It's weird hearing that in a sentence, Susannah grounded."
Quinn cross his arms. "For the best, we stopped the drugs in the Underworld."
"You were in Donovan's room?" Luther leans on the wall. Quinn walked away, "Yeah we talk."
Luther scoffed. "Yeah talk?"
Quinn hit his hand on the wall where Luther's ear was. "I know you have a crush on her, but too scared to say it!" He barked. Luther put his hands into fists. Quinn stomped away leaving the teacher and librarian alone in the hallway.
"Damn I own Dewberry ten gems." Orchid pull out a cigarette.
"Don't forget you owe me thirty." Someone was behind him. "Holy bonna!" Orchid yelled.
"We have a problem, where is Quinn?" Phoenix places her hands behind her head. Orchid lit the cigarette. "He went to break room one."
"Shit!" She starts running as Luther and Orchid follow behind her. "What is wrong?" Luther asked.
"Vortex Seed President is going live on air." She answered.
"Okay and?" Orchid was confused.
Phoenix groaned. "Vortex seed aka Silent Thorn is going live on the Underworld Air!"
Luther ran faster. "So not bonna!" In the break room, Quinn sat behind the couch that the students were sitting at.
"Hey HeadMaster." Seraphine waved at him. "Hello Seraphine what are you guys watching?"Quinn sighed and loosen his tie.
"It's about a Floating Island and weird stuff happening." She explained.
Quinn sighed. "Sounds like a good show." Then the TV starts buzzing then a logo pops up.
Esper pointed. "What UC?"
"Underworld Channel they do it Incase of emergency or a new gang show up causing trouble." He explained to them.
This is the Underworld Channel with Silence Thorn's Leader. Runa step up.
"Hello all my name is Runa Prime the owner of Vortex Seed Company and the Leader of Silence Thorn."
"I'm here to share a secret that a few gangs know about the Belladonna and its history."
Susannah was also watching it.
In the year 2024. A plant that cures any illness or disease was found, but that plant can also kill at the same time. If it is used in the wrong way, or in the wrong hands.
Wars broke out cause of this plant many lives were lost and some turn evil cause of these plants.
But out of nowhere the plant die off. The climate was normal no one use chemical to let it die off, it just disappear slowly until it was history.
"The truth is the Belladonna is a person but they were lost in history but I do know they started a family and they carry the Belladonna gene." Runa smiled. Susannah backed away and fell on her knees. So when Quinn and Phoenix were talking that day.
"Patients were found in abandoned buildings with their limb amputees also beautiful but when they woke up they ask "Where is my field of roses?" Phoenix's voice echo in Susannah's Head.
"I was once married to one and had a daughter with him she was nine when I lost her ten years ago."
"That bitch!" Quinn barked. Clover covers his mouth. "I knew it." Then a door slammed open as Susannah stepped out walking toward him.
"Susannah?" Quinn whispers as he step in front of her. She was still silent.
"Lily?" He called her nickname but it still didn't work.
"Tell me this isn't true?" She whispers. Quinn tried to hugged her back she push him away.
Susannah cover her ears. "I want the truth!" She yelled.
"I can't!" He argued. Susannah's eyes turned a cold glare at him. "Why?!" She screamed back at him. Quinn stay silence.
Susannah's face was covered in tears. "Y-Yes you can, you want to protect me, right?!" Susannah bite her lip as it starts to bleed, she tugged on the end of her shirt.
"I want answers!" She cried out to him but no words came out until.....
"I just can't....." He lowered his head down.
Susannah punches his chest but not too much to crush his chest just enough to knock him off his balance.
"Is that why Chamomiles hate you?" She punched him again.
She punched again. "Is that why my Grandparents don't talk about family history with me?"
She punched him again as she stared at him. "Is that why you don't talk about my Mother?!"
"Lily please?" Quinn couldn't look at her.
"The Belladonna plants are those my limbs?!" Susannah grabbed a hold on his shirt. Quinn pulled her closer to him.
Susannah started sobbing in his chest. "My life is a lie!" She mumbles in his shirt, trying to curse him.
"I'm sorry Lily..." Quinn let a single tear go down his cheek. Dying Flower: The fleeting nature of Life.