Drift Warden House, Perible, England, Mid
9:12pm
"Reminder that weekdays are early nights again, school starts back up next week so you all need to get back into routine!" Blake called out to all the teenagers in the house as they all answered back with either 'okays' or groans. Blake pulled out his phone as Jocelyn stopped by the staircase "...everything okay?" she asked him as he smiled back at her "Yeah- just got to make a phone call" Blake answered, watching the woman head upstairs before walking through the lower floor of the house himself and stepping out onto the balcony, closing the door behind himself.
He hesitated for a moment before dialling a number and calling it.
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"Blake?" Euanthe's voice answered on the other end as the man leaned against the railing of the balcony "Hey, um... I was wondering if you were alright or not given that the last time we spoke was-" "Christmas, yeah... I've been busy with the shop and family meetings" she told him as his brows frowned a little "On the topic of family, I-I um... wanted to thank you for not telling Jackal about the... losing his daughter thing" Blake hesitantly spoke. A silence passed over the phone before Euanthe spoke "Blake... I told the entire family back on Christmas eve" she told him and instantly, Blake's eyes widened as panic started to rise in his chest "Grandfather and Aristomache are currently keeping Grim, Katalina and Jackal from killing you- the whole family is beyond mad with you, that including Ianthe and the Heaven family" Euanthe continued. "Why didn't you go with them?" she questioned "Why didn't you go with them through that mirror, Blake?" "...I didn't think about it-" "Then what the fuck were you thinking at that moment?" Euanthe's voice slightly snapped as the man closed his eyes "Angelina wanted to go by herself but the boys volunteered and- I didn't want them to but I knew I wasn't going to be able to stop them" he answered. "You still could've gone with them, I would've been fine looking after the others whilst you were gone- fuck, you could've stalled them for a bit so I could go through with them" "And send you to your death?" Blake questioned, not meaning to sound harsh "Three out of four of them are hypnotics, you're not immortal, Euanthe" he reminded her "I'd kill myself if anything happened to you" Blake admitted before freezing a little.
That last set of words he had no control over, they just left his mouth.
What surprised him a little was the fact that he really meant it yet he was a little grateful when Euanthe skimmed pass the comment.
"Blake, you sent two thirteen year olds and one eighteen year old to an unknown location accompanied by the Grey Leader's son- correction, the new Grey Army Leader" Euanthe harshly reminded him "You could lose your job at the school or council, they could kick you off the board- if certain people found out you lost a fucking celestial princess, they'll be asking for your head" she warned him.
"I know-" "Then started acting like you care for your life because you're not immortal either, Blake, you're a human" Euanthe harshly stated "...you have every right to be mad" he admitted "I'm fucking angry with you... and I'm scared for you" she told him "You're the only human in that house, Blake- what happens if there's an attack? or if out of the four of them, Vixen is the one who comes back? what if he comes for Holly? he'll fucking kill you if you're in his way, Blake" she continued. Blake's head lowered as he listened to her "I've told you since the day after that high school graduation party- Vixen got his hypnotic curse from the Light Spirit and if he's anything like his father, he isn't going to care who he has to kill in order to get what he wants" Euanthe reminded him again as though he had never listened the first time. "I'm coming over tomorrow, me and Jocelyn will set up wards around the house" "Okay" he agreed "Then we do what we should've done at the very start and get these kids properly trained with their new powers and abilities" Euanthe stated as Blake silently agreed "Right".
Holly stepped into her bedroom, closing and locking the door behind herself before kicking off her shoes and changing out of her clothes into a new set of pyjamas. She slumped down onto her bed, closing her eyes and welcoming both the comfy-ness of her bed and sleep.
"Hello Holly~" the girl's eyes immediately opened as she jolted up on her bed, freezing stiff as she looked into the darkness of her room to find a shadowed person, one much darker than the nightly shadows surround it, staring back at her with its red glowing eyes "...V-Vixen?" Holly's voice trembled as the figure took a step toward her "How are you here?" "Apparently, my father had been doing some work whilst I was in the Human Realm, instead of stealing starlings, he's robbed from them instead" Vixen somewhat answered, holding a purple stone and blue stone in his hand. Holly's eyes widened a little more "Do you think the Starling of Amethyst and the Starling of Lapis Lazuli miss their heartstones?" the boy darkly questioned as the girl slowly scooted on her bed, further away from the boy "What do you want? Holly forced the question out of her lips as Vixen smirked "Now why the fear, sweetheart?" he asked in a mockingly sweet tone. "Don't-" "Don't what? speak to my girlfriend?" he questioned "You knocked me out and raped me- I'm not your fucking girlfriend" Holly spat, taking Vixen back a little "Was any of it even real?" "Sorry-" "You and me- was any of it real?!" she demanded the answer as his head lowered "No, it wasn't" he answered.
She could feel her heart crack even more as she turned her head away from him, tears stinging her eyes. Vixen sighed, lifting his head as he dared to speak again "I never loved you, Holly" he repeated the answer with a different set of words as Holly kept her gaze away from him "I lied and used you just to get to the Mid Realm, to get close to Angelina and Corey, to dull my curse, to disguise who I really am" he bluntly admitted. "I abused you and hurt you, and traumatised you into distrust and near silence before leaving you behind" Vixen added, taking another step toward the girl as she tightly gripped the edge of the mattress "You were nothing more but a pawn in my chest game with the realms and my destiny.... until I got to know you, the real you" Vixen stated. She tried to ignore him, thinking he was luring her in with another lie "How smart and kind you are, how caring and loving you can be, how much you cared and loved me... or the version of me I showed you" his guilt seeping through his words as he spoke.
"The Death Day Festival onwards were my true colours shining through, my feelings and emotions matching and entangling with yours" Vixen spoke from the heart, his words now coming out as the truth "I didn't like you or love you... I craved every little piece of you and more, I wanted you to be mine and mine alone, I needed your existence by me" he continued. "There is a deep difference between love and what I feel for you" he stated "I love my curse brother more than anything, but for you, my feelings cannot be put into simple words" and that was enough to pull Holly's gaze and attention back to Vixen. He held out his ghostly shadowed hand "So I ask you, my lovely, be mine and I will give you everything you deserve; queen of the realms and the skies that comes with it, I'll worship you to the end of time and the child you bare, I'll give them my immortal life and do for them what my parents failed to do for me, I'll keep you safe and protected, you'll be respected and loved by all" he said, taking another step and now standing right by her bed "And I will never leave your side again" he firmly promised.
Holly shook her head as the tears rolled down her face "...don't make promises you will never keep" she said as Vixen's face dropped "If you really care about me, you'll never speak to me again- you'll leave me alone" "Holly, please-" "I don't love you, Vixen!" Holly snapped, more tears running down her face as she cried whilst Vixen's filled with heartbreak "...not anymore" the girl trembled. The boy's head lowered as he re-tracked his hand and stepped away from her, then his shadowy form faded out of sight, right before Holly burst out into more tears and crying.
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