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Feeling yourself become lightheaded from the pressure applied to your throat, you gripped the man's arm once more, though your strength was quickly fading. Your gaze drifted over towards Fugo watching the blond struggle to stand, purple hues narrowed into a harsh glare seeing what the enemy was doing.

"Put her down! And tell me what you did to the others! You bastard!" Raising a hand and pointing towards the man Fugo continued to yell out. "Where did you hide them?!"

The man in question just stared at the blond, a large grin was set out across his face as he folded the paper back up, tucking it away. His grip was still tightly wrapped around your neck and at this point you'd give it a good 2 or 3 minutes till you passed out. Wanting to at least help in some way your eyes once more surveyed the area coming to rest on the garbage can.

"My watch is backwards? Also, I was wearing it on my left wrist, but now it's on my right?" Fugo's statement brought another piece to the puzzle and taking that into account you'd realized that the letters spelling out 'garbage can' was backwards.

This guys stand...

Feeling a new sense of determination you wiggled in place trying to worm your way out of the suffocating grip, your eyes were focused intently on Fugo as you spoke, voice barely above a whisper and strained greatly, "We're in the mirror, his stand-"

Right after saying that you were dropped to the ground, your legs unable to hold you up merely folded and you took in greedy breaths of air. The man let out a hum patting his hands together in mock applause, "Well I guess you're pretty quick on that uptake."

Taking a step back as though to process the new information Fugo stared ahead, "I-it wasn't Abbacchio and Giorno what disappeared...we are inside the mirror!" Taking what you had said he pieced together why the other two had disappeared.

"The question is where did you hide the boss's daughter? That's the most important question, but I'm pretty sure I also need to know why you four came to Pompeii, the city of death. I figured you're here to look for something and if that's the case, you came here to get something that'll help you protect the girl isn't that right?" Resting his hands on his hips the man's gaze shifted from Fugo down to you. "If you turn just up that way, it'll lead you to the famous dog mosaic. Is there something there? Well, I'll be taking it!"

Since you were closer to the man he figured a little incentive should work either for you or the blond. Seeing that you were trying to get up, his stand was summoned slamming its fist into your gut followed by a foot landing itself in the center of your chest keeping you stuck to the ground. The brown haired man then moved to replace his stands foot with his own pointing towards Fugo. "Tell me what you came here for, Fugo! Or I'm afraid neither of you will leave."

Coughing from the sudden blunt force attack you began to faintly taste metal, perhaps a rib had been fractured or something, but that didn't matter right now. Your attention moved towards the blond trying to portray a non verbal message that you'd be fine.

Knowing exactly what you were trying to say the blond clenched his jaw staring the brunette down with a harsh glare. "I refuse!"

"Then die!" The man's stand once again manifested charging towards Fugo before the blond began speaking once more.

"No! You'll be the one dying when you witness my ability! Purple Haze." Now the whole speech would've been perfect, if the stand had actually appeared. But it didn't, leaving Fugo to stand there speechless.

The heel of the man's dress shoe pressed down uncomfortably against you and he merely gave the blond a pointed look, "I see, so your stand is named Purple Haze." He laughed at the expression Fugo made before calming down and casting his gaze down to you, "I don't suppose you'd inform me on your own stand? I mean it's not like you could use it here anyways." Leaning over his knee to stare down at you he reveled in the expression you made.

A scowl spread out across your face but a pained cough quickly ruined it, "Screw you." Your head was harshly kicked to the side after saying that and once again you found yourself struggling to breath.

Man this guy really hated you.

Still confused as to why his stand hadn't appeared purple hues trailed towards where you were, his hands clenched into fists upon seeing how you were once again ripped from the floor and held up.

"Your current location is inside the mirror. I'm sure you can figure out exactly why I dragged you and (Y/N) here." The brunette's stand pointed towards the blond as he spoke, "If I'd brought you in here along with the others who can fight, it'd put me in danger! I control the inside of the mirror...that's my ability. All things in here are objects that have no life. You, (Y/N) and I are the only living things here. That's because I don't allow anyone else."

"I only allowed the two of you, and the two of you alone to come in. Which means both your stands were left outside!" The stand shot forward after the man exclaimed that slamming it's fist into Fugo's face. "This is my man in the Mirror!"

Fugo once again was flung through the air landing harshly against the cobblestone streets, the blonds name barely slipped through your lips, "Fugo..." It was the harsh reality that you couldn't summon your own stand to aid the blond that really got to you.

Clenching your own jaw in frustration and struggling against the mans hold, you mustered up all the energy you had left kicking your leg forward making contact with the mans side. It was a surprise to you that you were able to reach, but you assumed he'd gotten careless with his placement ending up closer to you than at an arms length.

Letting go of you the man held his side, "You little bitch-" A loud noise quickly cut the him off as a part of the rock wall broke apart creating a hole, "Ah, I see. So you've activated your stand outside the mirror. But that doesn't mean a thing!" Seeing that the man's attention had shifted back towards Fugo, you took the time to mentally prepare yourself.

Adrenaline ran through your veins as you kicked out aiming for the back of the man's knee since he's turned to begin walking towards the blond. Right away he fell into a kneel and you took the opportunity to swing upwards with your enclosed hand just below his chin causing his head to snap up.

Watching the scene before him the blond watched in surprise at your quick thinking. Using the wall breaking as a distraction really played into your hand, but he could also tell you were injured from before due to the small trickle of blood leaking from your mouth and the quick rise and fall of your chest.

He realized almost instantly what you were planning to do and wanted to yell objections, though nothing left his lips.

Your eyes met his own and with a soft smile you mouthed a quick 'don't worry' turning sharply and darting off.

Your plan was stupid, it was dangerous and you could get killed!

But the look on your face and the determination in your eyes was enough to let him gain some closure. You were a smart girl, but angering someone in their domain wasn't anything he wished for you to do.

Rubbing his jaw and snapping his gaze towards where you'd darted off to the brown haired man let out a scoff, "Sneaky little bitch, I didn't even know she had it in her to do that." Standing up his sharp gaze drifted towards Fugo, "I severely underestimated the angioletto, but now you have time to think of your next course of action." Rolling his shoulders back and finishing with that he turned beginning to walk off to where you'd gone, back facing the blond.

"I'll be back."

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Y/N:

Y/N really pulled a Joseph, ahah. Anyways hope this chapter was alright!

I'll see you lovely people in the next update!