Mass release: 21/25
※※※※※※
I tried to open my demon wings, but they didn't obey me and I panicked. "Have you gone fucking crazy?" I screamed as we kept falling.
"I'm crazy for you, if it counts," he screamed back, holding me tight.
"You fucking- Fuck, you idiot. I can't open my wings, open yours!" I screamed.
"Oh? I was waiting for you to do that!" He screamed back, laughing, then he turned us the other way around, since he was under me, and he opened his wings when we were almost at the bottom of it.
I hugged him tight, my heart on my throat, and he tightened his arms around me, "You fucking bastard," I screamed in his ears. "You could have gotten hurt. Fucking shit, why are you fucking reckless? You can't jump from a cliff like this, you dickhead. Tartarus be fucking damn it," I cursed. "Go forward, fly lower, but be careful, for Tartarus sake, I can't let you get hurt, you don't know how to wander through the pit edges. You will pass by twenty deadly edges, stop ten feet after you passed by the nineteenth, fifteen feet before the twentieth edge, that's the safe cave, you will pass by many, but only go into that one."
Thankfully, he said nothing, he just hugged me tighter and did what I said.
When we got there, he entered into the huge cave, but didn't let me down, and walked into it, then I sent a line with thirty magical fire spheres in the ceiling of the cave, sending all the bats that were hiding in here away, and none of them touched us in their way out. "Put me down."
He hid his dragon wings, "I don't want to," he snapped.
"I'm not in the mood, you bastard. Put me down."
"I'm not in the mood either. Who knows? You could run from me again!" His voice was bitter when he said that and I clenched my jaw. "What is this place?"
"Secret cave," I groaned. "There were just seven corpses in here, it was way less than in all others, so, I took ownership, and I felt something mine in here that would avoid anyone with love for their lives from coming in here."
"So, you kept more secrets from me," he poked bitterly.
"As if you didn't."
"Wanna weight it out, Mia?" He groaned, walking into the cave.
"That's not my name."
"Neither was it a nickname for your past fake name," he mocked.
I frowned, avoiding looking in his eyes, "You said,"
"I said it was a nickname, but not for your name."
"Then for what?" I clenched my jaw, annoyed with his annoyance.
"I befriended a human last time we were in VHA, he roomed with me, and he said he was from a place in the human realm where mine meant mia, he also taught me many other words. So, I've been calling you that ever since, because you are mine," but there was no warmth in his voice, only anger and hurt. "How deep is this place?" He gasped.
"Just a bit more," I mumbled and he walked further. "Here. Put me down."
"Why are you avoiding my eyes? What are you scared of?"
I swallowed, "Put me down and I'll look at you."
Then he finally put me down and I jumped five steps away from him, "Mia."
"You shouldn't have jumped with me," I glared at him.
"Then you shouldn't have ran," he glared back, taking a step forward.
I stepped back, "I felt cornered, you all brought that to yourselves."
"Cornered?" He stepped closer, I stepped back, "How so?"
When my back hit the wall of the cave, I swallowed, "Stop it."
"What am I doing?" He frowned, stepping closer, cornering me.
"I told you to stop."
"Why aren't you calling my name?" He got closer.
"Because I don't know which way to call you," I hissed.
"You used to," he hissed back, and with his hands at the sides of my head, he looked down at me, too closer. "Or was a millennial enough to make you forget?"
"I guarantee you, I forgot nothing," I said, clenching my teeth, leaning away.
"Yeah? Because you've been acting like you did," he hissed.
"I couldn't stay with you in here," I hissed back.
"Yes, you could, but you didn't want to,' he hissed.
"I... I didn't want to?" My voice broke and I struggled to keep all of my tears in as I threw my bag away, feeling suffocated. "That was I ever fucking wanted, you bloody bastard. You think you're the only one who got hurt because I left? Well, sorry to break it to you, but leaving broke me in a way I haven't recovered even after a millennial. And I'm not..." my voice broke.
I felt my eyes clouded with tears, I tried to look away, frustrated, but he grabbed my chin and made me look at him, "Finish it," he hissed.
I swallowed, struggling, "I'm not... I'm not going to blame it on you, because I know it was my conscious choice that... that did this to us both. I won't blame you. If you want to make my life a living hell and torment me because I left you in here, and disappeared for a millennial, I will take it all. I will take it, even if I hate it, because I know you're in your right, I know what I did, I've been hurting myself because of it for a long fucking time, I know it better than anyone."
"Then why?" He clenched his jaw, hurting, "Why?"
"Because my happiness was you, but I didn't deserve it. Not when my siblings' happiness was weighted against my own, I couldn't... I couldn't do it. You don't understand... if I left, all my duties would fall in Alec's arm, he's my baby brother, I couldn't do that to him, he wasn't even prepared for that, for what I carry on my back. It would be selfish of me, he would her and so would the girls. And... I... my baby sister had just been born when I was send here the second time, Naomi... she needed me, they all needed me... my duties... I..."
"But you were my happiness, Mia," he clenched his jaw. "I've been miserable without you, I've been broken, and I've been... lost... I... it still hurts."