"HEY GEEZER, GET YO HANDS OFF MY MAMA" Leo said angrily as he could not believe that the man had the audacity to touch his mother.
"LEOOO-" Elena said emotionally after hearing her son's voice as for a second she thought she was being delusional.
However, as she turned and saw the small floating screen and Leo staring towards her, she realized that it wasn't a dream and that her son was really calling her from the arc ship, as she broke down into tears instantly.
"Leo-" she said softly, before breaking down into sobs as she only kept muttering his name while crying non-stop.
Uptil now Leo did not grasp the situation that his parents were in and thought that his mother was crying because his father mistreated her or something, as he instantly felt his blood boil when he saw her cry.
"Hey… hey… hey…. Don't cry mum, your son's here now, I'll kill the old geezer for you, don't worry. I'll send hitmen-" Leo said in a sweet yet threatening tone as he tried to sound sweet for Elena yet threatening to Jacob at the same time.
Glaring at the old man, Leo let all of his hostility unfold as Jacob only looked back at him with a blank expression.
"Leo…. *Pant*.... We are stuck under rubble. The apartment… it …." Elena tried to explain however couldn't as all the crying made her feel out of breath.
However, once Leo heard the words stuck under rubble, he began noticing the surroundings around his parents as he realized that they weren't cuddling on the floor but were rather stuck under the emergency desk.
"WHAT?" he said, sounding surprised as his heart skipped a beat thinking about how his old apartment collapsed and his mom was stuck under the rubble.
"Operator, how much MP to get someone to save her and bring her to the hangar bay where the Arc Ship will land?" Leo asked the operator, as every passing second his heartbeat only got louder and louder.
"450 MP to save the female, 3 additional MP per day to keep her safe daily until the arc ship takes off 50 days from now. Total cost 600 MP.
If you save both, the female and male, it will cost you 950 MP total" the operator replied, as Leo felt on the verge of saying "Save the female, fuck the male" until he looked at the crying figure of his mother and how his father was rubbing her back in support.
Although he hated the man's guts, he could imagine just how stressful it might have been for both, and how his mother might not be in good spirits, if he decided to leave the old man behind.
'950 MP is a lot…. It will severely affect what tickets we can buy for them in the future….. I don't want her to face the harsh life of sector E' Leo thought, as he felt his hands trembling because of the burden of the choice he was supposed to make.
However, as he looked at her mother and then the rubble around her, he knew instantly that now was not the time to think about saving MP as saving her took priority.
"Leo…. Don't… leave… your… father …behind" Elena pleaded with her puppy eyes and raspy voice, as once Leo heard those words coming out of her mouth, he no longer hesitated and paid the 950 MP price immediately.
"Don't worry I won't…" he said, as the operator informed him that someone will reach Earth to save Elena and Jacob within the next 7 minutes.
"Don't worry mother, someone will come to save you in the next 7 minutes" Leo said, reassuring his mother that everything would be alright, as his words only made Elena cry even harder as she hugged Jacob in joy.
"Did you hear that Jacob… our son will save us…. There is hope…. Our son will save us" she said, as a soft smile spread on Jacobs face when he heard Elena smile.
If he was honest with himself, he too had given up all hopes of surviving and was only holding strong for the sake of Elena, however, Leo saving them from this tough situation now felt like a miracle.
He had no idea as to what kind of men his children had grown up to become, however, based on his limited interactions with them via videocalls, both seemed to be raised the right way.
They behaved like fierce territorial lions when it came to protecting their mother and were clearly working hard to create a new life for themselves now that they had the opportunity to do so.
Overall, Jacob felt quite content with how his kids had grown up to be and couldn't wait to sit down with them one day and perhaps explain as to why he was gone all these years.
Operator : You have insufficient balance to continue this call, it will be disconnected in 20 seconds.
Leo got a reminder from the operator that he was running low on MP and that every minute that the call extended was costing him a fortune.
" Mom, I love you, I only have balance to talk for a few seconds so I'm going to say it all at once.
There will be someone there to save you soon and he will keep you safe for the timebeing until the next arc ship takes off.
Please trust him and not the bozo next to you although I've also paid for him to be safe for your sake.
Also, don't worry about me and Luke, we are absolutely fine here…." Leo said, as he wanted to ramble on more but unfortunately the call disconnected.
Left with only 1.2 MP in his account, Leo expended all the MP that he had in saving his mother to the point where he did not even have enough MP left to skip work tomorrow.
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