He didn't even spare the time to park his car right, Thorn climbed out and stomped his way towards Fernando, while Garrick and Ned stood nearby.
All of the sudden, Thorn pulled a revolver from his coat pocket, Aiming it at Fernando's temple, making Ned hurry to his side.
"First my brother and now you? why does everyone wants to shoot me?" Fernando said nonchalantly.
"Thorn! what do you think yourself doing?!" Garrick asked, "Thorn, just back away please...you don't wanna do this." Ned spoke calmly to the Alpha standing few steps away from them, but Thorn wouldn't listen.
And instead of removing his gun that was pointed at Fernando, he moved the barrel pointing the weapon at Ned's head instead.
"WOAH! WHAT THE HELL?!" Garrick hurried and stood in front of Ned, "You know what you're doing is a crime! DROP YOUR WEAPON THORN!" He added shouting.
"Please sugar, let go of that gun! we cannot settle anything this way!" Muriel who just Arrived with Mallory in her vehicle, came out running towards Thorn, pleading with him but Thorn remained silent holding the revolver.
"Ned has nothing to do with this! why are you pointing the gun at him?!" Muriel asked, he was terrified to the bone, Muriel could feel his lover was blinded by absolute hate, it didn't matter who Thorn shot, it was enough that they were associated with Fernando.
Mallory pulled her own gun, and aimed it at Thorn, "Thorn, you either put that thing down or I'll have to arrest you." She said while pushing Muriel away from Thorn.
"Sister please! do not!" Muriel said.
To Mallory's surprise, someone else came walking towards the group, armed as well.
Jade walked with her own gun pointed at Thorn, "So we're having a gun party?! where's my invitation?" she said sarcastically with Anger smeared on her face.
"Jade?!" Garrick was already horrified by Thorn's actions, now Jade has joined the club.
"Jade honey, your assistance is not required." Ned spoke-up, "Miss Valentino, not you too! Stop breaking the law all of you!" Mallory said annoyed, "Oh hey there Mall! how's it going? I thought you quitted your job!" Jade spoke faking an interested tone.
"I couldn't quit yet...I took a leave, since they said there's an issue with me quitting at the moment, they asked me to take a leave until the problem is resolved, so technically I'm still a cop.
But I'm still quitting too, I think I enjoy Acting more than babysitting lizards." Mallory replied, she deliberately gave that last remark hoping to Turn Thorn's attention to her, but he stayed determinate on threatening Ned's life instead.
"So this whole time, you were on vacation?...not that I care what you were doing, but I appreciate if you do your job then, since your brother's mate wants to shoot my Mother...cuz I might have to show him my support and shoot him back." Jade replied, she was filled with rage, the mere thought that Thorn pointed a gun at her family, made her want to actually kill him.
"What's this pathetic situation? does any of you realize that me and Ned are Literally powerful mages?! we're not fucking helpless.
Hey thick head! You think bullets will scare me Thorn?" Fernando being sick of this situation, marched forward and made sure that he was standing point blank Infront of Thorn's gun barrel.
"Here, you can shoot me! and if you like I can cast a spell first that prevents anybody from interfering, so you can shoot me at ease." Fernando said fearlessly.
"Freddie You're a monster, you know that." finally Thorn spoke for the first time since his arrival.
"Old news...even the Styles didn't wanna deal with a child like me." Fernando said chuckling, "Also what's taking you so long? shoot me already!" he added.
"What the hell are you and Ned doing together?" Thorn asked, "ANSWER ME!"
"Jesus fucking Christ! you should lower your voice! this is a respectable neighborhood, and my brother lives here, I'm sure you remember that!
As for why I'm here, my brother was sick, And I assisted in a spell casting to save his life." Fernando answered, "Faunus was sick?" Muriel asked.
Nodding, "Yeah My twin brother, the noble Omega from the Style family, whom that cursed family tried to set Thorn with once in the past, but instead Thorn fell for his twin brother...me!" Fernando replied giggling, he enjoyed the expression he made on both Muriel and Thorn's faces.
"Why all of this?! Why did you hide our son?! can't you let people live in peace just once!" Thorn said angrily, demanding an answer.
"Talking about our affair? your mate is right here so chose your words carefully...Ugh, you always act like you're the nice guy Thorn, but the moment things don't go your way, you chose violence.
I left you because I couldn't stand you, even though I enjoyed your company in bed." Fernando said.
"Did I ever hit you?! no! did I ever abuse you in any way? I don't think I did ! I treated you fairly and good Freddie." Thorn replied.
"It is true you have never touched me the wrong way...well, until that trap party as your friends call it! you really beated the shit out of me back then." Fernando said.
"Why all of this then?! why did you leave me and hide Tacito from me?! why murder in the first place?" Thorn asked and Muriel was rightfully shocked by Thorn's persistence.
Suddenly glaring, "Hello?! should I remind you Aroon was your assistant Thorn?! he made my life hell as well! He wouldn't let me be with you!" Fernando said.
"Plus, your tongue is your curse Thorn.
Your touch was never violent, but your words stab like a dagger, especially to Those who take it to heart like myself.
There's a thin line between being straightforward and rude, but you hide behind the mask of truth that you only speak of it, simply to gain the opportunity to degrade those around you with your so called straightforwardness." he added explaining.
"I degraded you?! when the fuck that happened?!"
"Plenty times dear, and you're too dense to notice, but it doesn't matter...Why dwell on the past, when you have Muriel now?"
"Can we all just go inside the house, sit and talk like civilized people?!" Mallory spoke-up, "Please Jade, Thorn..lower your weapons and let's pretend this never happened." She added.
"If he drops his first!" Jade replied.
Grabbing Thorn's free hand, "Sugar, I hate to agree with Fernando, but he is right...The past is in the past." Muriel said.
"What about the triplets?" Thorn asked, "We will see them soon, sugar." Muriel replied kindly.
...Some time later...
"I have to take these?" Fernando said holding the prescription, "Yeah, we can get them on our way back...Your injury thankfully is mild and it's normal to suffer headaches after an injury like this, so some painkillers and Diuretics will do the job." Ned replied.
"Sucks to be human." Fernando said chuckling, "Are you fully a human? I mean Faunus can literally shift into a cat." Ned asked.
"I'm not exactly human...witches aren't considered humans nor monsters, we're something else." Fernando replied, "And the cat thing?" Ned asked.
"Our dad, *Chuckling* he was the cat shifter in the family, I resemble my mother more." Fernando replied.
"The violin...you inherited your love for it from her right?"
"And so did Tacito, from me."
"Nothing you do is gonna wipe your record clean...But At least try to fight it."
"You mean my urge to kill all of you? yeah Sure? easier said then done... though I'm done attacking pretty omegas that are stealing the men I like left and right."
"I can even smell your sarcasm Freddie."
"What do you expect? I'm okay for now, but soon I'll do something that I'll regret.
Besides, there's so many times I acted on my free will, without being driven by magic." Fernando said.
"What do you mean?" Ned asked.
"Although the spell had a hold on me the first time, and made me think evil!
But it was definitely my personal decision to kill the Styles, Lucius and Aroon back in England...actually I wanted to kill Aroon but ended-up accidentally killing Lucius instead." Fernando replied.
"You're telling me, you were under absolute no influence?"
"Yeah, I wanted to do it."
Sighing, "Freddie...you wanna know why I'm treating you nice?" Ned said.
"Yeah, you've been freaking me out!" Fernando replied.
"I could tell, you barely got treated like a human before...you were with Thorn in the past because he was gentle and loving, Despite that he always ends-up saying some stupid shit."
"I did like Thorn, I even considered marrying him...but Aroon made sure I don't stick around.
And after he learned that I got pregnant, Aroon wanted me to abort the child and leave Junglaya, he said he'd arrange for me to be a Derora citizen."
"Aroon wanted to trade an unborn child for Lucius?"
"Yeah, He promised that if I got the abortion and broke-up with Thorn, he would forgive me for what happened to Lucius...And I tricked him into believing I did just that."
"And when he realized you gave birth to Tacito, he wanted to get revenge on you."
"Yeah...."
"What's the matter with both of you! i didn't Think Aroon was capable of doing stuff like that!" Ned said frowning.
"Aroon was like my little brother...i betrayed him to save his life without realizing that I was gonna be the one to end it in the future." Fernando replied.
"What can I say...I just wish, you guys never resorted to revenge, at least not in these dramatic ways! I mean, fire and agonizing spells and shit!
You guys could've settled matters with a game of Football." Ned joked.
"I wish, I guess you really lose yourself with dark magic." Fernando said.
"I have a request for you Fernando." Ned said grabbing his attention, "I guess you want your kindness to be payed for, finally." Fernando joked shaking the prescription in his hand.
"Not really, but I hope you do me this favor." Ned said, "I might be an asshole, but I hate to be in debt, especially to my rivals." Fernando said, "What do you want?" He asked.
"Is there a way you can help Garrick retrieve his memories?" Ned asked.
"Aside from the recreation of the memory with the strongest impact on him?...hmm, first of all, is there a possibility that he might be cursed?" Fernando asked.
"Cursed? as in..."
"Can't possibly remember his past life, even if you recreated that one memory...he won't be able to remember."
"Why do you ask such a thing?"
"During the time I dated Garrick, despite his pure Aura...it felt like he was under many dark spells.
Usually if the subject is someone like Garrick, and you would cast a dark spell on them, their aura would protect them immediately...when your daughter attempted to retrieve his memories using a dark spell.
It wasn't her incompetence that hurt him, it was his aura protecting him from her magic." Fernando explained.
"I'm kind of disturbed, now that I remembered the fact you stalked Garrick during his first weeks of the academy...but putting that aside, where you going with this theory?" Ned asked.
"As children, Pure-Aura people are vulnerable to attacks by dark magic.
Their Aura at that time isn't strong to protect them and is unstable, if anything were to happened, it might stick forever."
"So if someone cursed Garrick to not be able to remember his past life as a kid...the curse will still affect him even when his aura is stabilized?"
"Pretty much so."
"Why bring this up in the first place Freddie?"
"Ned...have you ever wondered, where did your mate come from?"