Alcmene Argent
I stare out worried and anxious feeling like I've been sitting patiently (alright, I have been swearing and arguing in my head with myself, pacing and growling.) for what feels like hours. Then I feel Eli's adrenaline and fear as though he is fighting. I hold my breath terrified and then I feel something. His resignation and slight fear and a fuck ton of pride as he falls weak and disappears.
That scares me, stopping my heart for a second, and he's gone. It makes no sense; he can't die but even when he sleeps, I can feel him. It confused my beasts to them either pacing and mourning like my wolf and dragon or like my vampyre and phoenix standing silently in shock and denial. But that not the only thing that worries me, Eli is an amazing fighter and he had everyone with him, and they aren't as good so if he…lost I refuse to call him dead what became of them and for an hour straight I stare at the moon shutting down.
Then I hear a voice.
That's Azazel and I'm positive I'm hallucinating but then I hear it again perking me up my head snapping in the direction I heard it from, "Alcmene are you here?"
And I take off and sprint in that direction and I get about a hundred yards before I notice I lost my supernatural speed, and it worries me Is it just a mourning period and my beasts are lazy and pulling away or am I becoming weak from…
I finally see the group and hug the twins glad they're safe distracting me from that thought. I check them out for injury and glad when they don't have a scratch. Then I walk over to Persephone and Matt and hug them and check them as well for injury and then to Jackson, the newest prison…escapee. I smile slightly at that thought.
We are free.
Then I force a smile to them and lead them to the cave I had been staying at for the night.
They all curl up and near the front next to the other and I fall asleep staring at the moon overjoyed my pack is safe. But then I remember my lost mate and silently mourn because I might never see him again…
Elijah Asminioslykos
The room is dark, and I hear nothing except a steady drip from far away. I'm not dead. That is contradictory because it means that however low the chance is there is still a possibility I can get back to my mate, Alcmene.
My sun and moon.
But it also means first I will have to live through my worst nightmare from before her.
My father.
…
A long time ago before the virus with my mom he was the average father. Smiling and always having fun with me. He and my mom were so in love it was gross to a six-year-old. Then the virus came out and it turned out Mom had cancer and it weakened her immune system and she was one of the first to die.
That's when he changed.
Don't get me wrong I changed, I was nine and they were close, but he went from depressed to evil. I wasn't really paying attention as too how or why, like alcohol or drugs, but one day I came home, and he acted like he was before mom nice and happy. Looking back, it was extremely suspicious, but I was hopeful that I would get my dad back.
"Go get the football, kid."
As I walked inside the kitchen to get a snack. I froze dad hadn't asked me to get the ball since before...
He's back, my dad is okay, normal. It makes me joyful I almost run down the stairs. When I get downstairs to find the football but then the lights went out and the door locked. The air suddenly became hard to breathe and I passed out.
When I woke, I found myself in a cave near the house which mom had always let me explore. For a moment I could imagine that she was here, and I fell asleep after exploring but the chains around my ankles and wrists kind of broke that vision. Then my dad walks in. I start to get hopeful he would save me from these chains but it becomes obvious that he was the one that put them on when he just smiles at me and starts chuckling. I start crying and that's when he grabs the rocks.
He throws them at me and taunts, "Don't you want to play catch. That's what you asked." And when he finishes, he tells me, "If she never had you, she would have been stronger. She would have had more food." Then he leaves.
My broken, bloody, and bruised body still chained in the cave. He did it continually with different types of torture every day. Then he would have me do jobs punishment was torture worse than normal if I did it, I got a prize. I became his soldier emotionless and obedient. My training was done when I was fourteen.
To him I was perfect, so he sent me to school, and I was strange, but I became extremely smart. The night after I graduated high school, he told me his plan and I almost thought I had my father back. "We are going to move way in the desert and find a cure for Guillotine-V and make sure others don't become like Moira." He stated almost like a normal human being.
I would've smiled had I not had my training, but it gave me hope that he wasn't completely evil. Then he had me kill someone who wouldn't tell him the cure after only a month.
He isn't human or have any good as I have since learned. He hurt me, my mate, and too many innocents.
He will pay.