Criss Cross Apple Sauce

Criss Cross Apple Sauce

Flashback:

It all started when the hunch of Kwazi's murder turned out to be true and he was found outside an abandoned building with a bullet nestled between his shocked brows that Mago started to pay attention to the whole situation. Where the crime lord and the right-hand man were nonchalant like it was another day of hearing such a thing, the empire's queen was getting restless.

Certain thoughts hovered over his clever mind and the boy found himself more invested than ever as he dug deeper into the matters quietly. Mago was aware of King's ruthless intervention and his eyes were everywhere whenever he planned anything out of order to get the knowledge or any deals alone with others, so to save his ass, the boy was discreet and secretive and as pretentious as he can be to not get caught until he wished.

The plan worked of course and Mago had learned so much in a short span.

King, Charlton and Lucca didn't notice when the boy would be sneakily listening to them right outside the door while munching on his gum, pretending to listen to music or doing his work on the table when they discussed matters regarding boss and Kangsu. Learning through their words, Mago got enough tidbits about both Danny and Kwazi and their small history, he also learned small about the 'boss' figure, Kangsu and Mr Chris's involvement in many and all matters around them.

From there started Mago's own investigation, on his small journal that the boy made charts and sketches and started to connect the dots from there. The diary was off limits, even to King, and so was safe and secure and that proved to be the biggest stash of Mago's speculations when the boy concluded his statistics as a serious subject that needed disclosure.

The boss turned out to be the main character to which every other person was linked in Mago's journal, he was like the father of all evil inventions that Mago had collected up until now. Following his lead, the baby boy had then charted out a plan to bust their asses for which well-needed assistance was required.

And who would be the perfect pick for that?

Mickey was the only other person who knew what Mago was up to when one day Mago spilled the beans over a plate of barbeque and soda. The other had gaped at him like an astonished fish before he scolded and opposed Mago for poking in dangerous things like that, but then he had sighed in defeat when those puppy eyes, which Mr Xavier has once mentioned, surfaced and Mickey found himself cooing fondly at his squishy soulmate.

Pregnancy has power!!

After a long discussion with Mickey, Mago was nervous for once in his life to talk to King about his plan that he had no business with. The boy was almost scared of the reaction King might show and he had confided in his friend with the concern but then Mickey was there to encourage his best friend with possible outcomes and just like that the problem was settled.

The worst punishment Mago could get was being grounded forever with revocation of his freedom from the mafia matters, since King had warned him from the start not to go out of his direction, but stubborn is Mago's second nature and that punishment didn't sound so bad for the time being.

Mago was ready.

So one night, out of nowhere, an urgent meeting 'Criss Cross Apple Sauce' was assembled in the King and queen's very own domain aka their bedroom, with all the right and important people invited as clueless as the next much to the king's dismay.

The room was off-limits!!

Mago being the host, the layout of the meeting room was up to par with no more surprises whatsoever. Everything in the room oozed cuteness double the amount King had known in the morning. There were blankets, soft toys, pillows and even fairy lights scattered around the floor where the seating arrangement was supposedly made. In the centre was distributed food to munch on, which included all sorts of cupcakes and other colourful stuff, that could give diabetes for even looking at it along with drinks and candies and whatnot.

Mago was so fucking proud of all the efforts he put in the arrangements and he expected nothing but a round of applause from all of his favourite people when they took their respective seats on the ground.

"what is this all about baby? It is past your bedtime, shouldn't you be resting right now?" King addressed the most awaited question since the room was filled with the required people and the door was shut to the world outside. Nobody would have asked if King didn't and that is why the right-hand man to both king and queen darted their eyes to the younger boy, expectant of an answer while Mickey silently watched.

Mago, who sat on King's lap, didn't answer the older right away though instead, the boy took his time and busied himself in biting two cupcakes at a time, smearing the cream all over his face.

Mickey knew the boy was stalling not to fall into any argument with King and for that, he rolled his eyes.

King, on the other hand, wasn't having any of it as he tched annoyed and carefully took the cupcakes away from the boy to place them back on the tray. He cleaned Mago's face gently with a kerchief while he kept his eyes locked with the boy's roaming ones.

The way Mago was averting his gaze, trying to dodge King's fixed and dark eyes, said something that King knew instantly he wasn't gonna like.

"you either talk baby or your play meeting is over" King came with a straight face and Mago quickly looked at him in the eyes. The room went silent for a minute long as he contemplated his options while the others looked at the couple with awaiting eyes. Then Mago looked at Mickey and locked eyes with him for a brief moment, they exchanged a silent conversation before the older nodded and Mago heaved a sigh.

Well....

"Now, promise to not get mad before I finish what I wanna say..." Mago started with a slightly pleading-whining tone as he looked back at King who narrowed his eyes at the younger. That sentence was enough to say that he wasn't gonna like what was coming, he looked up at his own sources for any hint of where this was going and found both Lucca and Charlton clueless before he trained his eyes back at Mago.

And then, he nodded.

In all honesty, the matter regarding boss, Kangsu, Mr Chris or any other didn't belong to Mago or his domain of work at any level. The affairs at the site or other business matters had nothing to do with those notorious people or their doing but then certain things that the boy learnt at the port had changed his mind.

Kangsu's influence was not fully over yet, there were occurrences at the port that led back to the old man and his loyalty. People still meddled in his work, though not directly, but there were ways and those were effective.

For instance, there were a few important documents that went missing for days only to be found in one of the site office's drawers like a fucking magic trick. It didn't come out as a big deal but correct to Mago's rising suspicion it was only the start.

Following those magically missing and found documents were the frequent accidents at the port which induced notable damage to some parts of products coming out as eventual delays in orders. The baby queen wanted to toss it aside as uncertainty of the situation and business risk, which everyone at the end of the day did, but then it happened again and again and then again for Mago to pay more heed to the situation.

But without anyone knowing.

Such occurrences were not to be ignored when you were Edward Mago, the boy, after noticing many of a few incidents back to back, started to take quiet and hard notice of it and refused to let it be discussed with anyone to make it a big deal, especially King.

It would be a huge mess and King wouldn't let Mago handle things on his own.

The days weren't far ahead when Mago caught the words 'dubious activists' that were active around the manor, from Charlton, even after Danny's death it made him more alert than he previously was with his precious strategy-making and secret investigation about what was going around the mansion.

Along the lines of learning about Kangsu, the boss and those suspicious people involved in the supposed planning of the crime lord's murder and Mago's abduction, Mago also learned about the approach King and Charlton adopted in order to deal with the situation.

And well.....

Truth be told, Mago wasn't impressed.

Sneaking, following and then attacking were old school in his opinion, it took too much resources, expense and distraction Besides, the boy was laid back in nature and the style wasn't much of his thing. Instead, the luring technique is what Mago prefers. The baby boy believes in the charms of when the villain falls to his own demise bewildered and helpless and has nothing left to do other than watch himself getting ruined, the pace gets to be yours and the resources aren't wasted either.

Under the light of such an approach, the baby queen had come up with a purposely half-made, disoriented plan where they let their guards down enough for the opponent to seek benefit and play dirty but in reality......the crime lord and the trusty right-hand men keep a hawk eye over the situation not to let it slip.

And Mago holds the strings to his heart desires...

But the case here was different.......It wasn't any stupid Pumpkin Head or grumpy bitch Mr Chris that had to be lured into the trap. It was the boss, the ultimate mastermind behind all the losses King had suffered, the rebel groups, the attacks, the moles in the manor, the corruption and the list goes on.

That shit was risky as hell and could flip at any side if luck wasn't on their side but that wasn't even the biggest concern of Mago.

The biggest concern was the reaction of the crime lord and how was he going to take the plan of Mago when the boy was done talking.

Because by the look of it, King didn't like the way things were going.

"No way, never. Are you stupid baby? What if they kill you, they hate your guts right now......it won't take them long to finish your existence from this world" King gritted his teeth as he delivered his words. The hold of his around Mago tightened and the baby boy quickly turned to cup his lover's face.

Charlton and Lucca also shook their head; no words were said but they believed their majesty to be as stupid as the plan he just spurted out.

How could he just say that without considering the depth of the risk behind the situation?

That was plain stupid on Mago's side and King was right.

"They won't kill me, trust me" Mago stated confidently, he rubbed his chubby thumbs up and down King's cheeks to calm him but the older glared at him like no tomorrow. He huffed and pulled away from Mago's hands and held those small hands in his own large ones.

"I don't trust you sweetheart" he replied with a beat

"why not" Mago asked with a whine, making Mickey cough at his back.

"Because this is absolute nonsense. I have only one of you and you are pregnant with my child......just because you think it is right, I won't put you in such cruel danger and lose you." King declared with voice laced with finality, he glared at Mago as he gently started to push the boy down from his lap so he could stand up from the ground.

Mickey watched them with concerned eyes while Charlton and Lucca shuffled to their feet.

"end of discussion here, meeting dismissed" he announced loudly but then Mago reached out and pulled the older down on the ground again and quickly climbed up on his lap like a small king he is and secured his arms around King's neck.

"no, it's fucking not. Here me out king..." Mago started again.

"no ....I have heard you enough. Kangsu isn't your concern so I will deal with him my way. He is just a leech that mooches off the empire and nothing more but if.....that goes out of hand.....then I will end him once and for all" Charlton agreed with King on that. Kangsu was just a harmless, overconfident leech that could be taken out with a flick of a finger but that could be an understatement if betrayal becomes that pumpkin head's priority for which he knows no bounds.

But Mago wasn't having any, the point of his wasn't clear yet and the boy wasn't ready to stop until he made it clear. The grip of small hands around King tightened and he looked up with his big eyes that had King weak in his knees in seconds, the boy knew the effect and found the right time to attack.

"but killing him isn't an option. Besides, that way, you won't get to the boss and that man is my concern" the boy murmured brushing his thick lips near King's neck and cuddling closer to the man. The older groaned under his breath and looked up to meet eyes with the rest of the three looking back at him.

Until one of them dared to open his mouth in front of the crime lord...

"c-can you elaborate, my majesty" and of course, it was Lucca since after his very logical soulmate, only Lucca was the one who was intrigued enough to make sense out of Mago right now. king glared at Lucca from the corner of his eyes, not for speaking but for encouraging Mago in a way, and the man quickly averted his eyes back to his chip bag.

"of fucking course Lucy...." Mago chirped and bounced after he got his first response and Mickey smiled at his friend openly "....Look, Danny and Kwazi both had intentions of hurting us one way or the other right? And before we could get to the depth of it and bust that ass of boss, both of them were killed..." Mago stated as a matter of fact and all the older in the room listened quietly.

"it shows to me that the man who they refer to as boss is a coward fucking bitch that is scared to face King of all people. Whenever he tries something that backfires, he kills his own men because he is scared shitless to get caught. What a bitch does that to his people? " the boy continued to prove his point.

"You mean, he will hide and play because he is scared?" Mickey asked curiously and Mago shrugged.

"That's not a play Mickey because that bitch has no fucking balls to begin with. All I am saying is that he will continue to corrupt the empire and weaken it by implying disasters over what we salvage until he is brave enough to show his freaking face" the baby boy completed as reached out to fish his favourite sour jelly strip from the cane basket.

The few minutes Mago was quiet, his words started to sink down the active brains of the Crime lord, his men and the soulmate in the room as they shared approving looks with each other.

The meeting called by the plump majesty, seated in his king's lap, held after all some importance other than a fairy tale theme and obnoxious food choices.

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Don't go people

The next chapter awaits your attention

Sayonara~~~~