Queen of Hearts

  Aurora Dougal. 24. Heart manipulation. Codename: Queen of Hearts.  

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Tatiana turns around to see Aurora. She couldn’t avoid her if she wanted to now. She didn’t know how she felt looking at her. She knew that she knew too much, unless that dream wasn’t anything based on truth. Regardless, she didn’t want to cause trouble. So she smiles, moving out of the way for her. “Whatever you want!” She goes over to a different exercise mat, stretching. Her other clones were still doing their thing, but she was sure they would move if needed.

That was easy and almost a bit disappointing. Aurora could use a good fight with someone to get rid of her frustration but she supposed Tatiana wasn’t going o indulge her in that. She took Tatiana’s place but couldn’t help herself to look over her shoulder at the girl. The images of them kissing haunting her mind. It was very confusing and it angered her in some way.

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demetrisfall:

“In areas, yes.” He chuckled, using every ounce of will to keep his eyes above her shoulders.”I suppose it would be easier if I knew your name.” He leaned back against the wall, doing everything he could to relax. There was nothing to be ashamed of nor shame in sharing a shower. They were human and the human body was art. “Of course,” he nodded, “And that’s why I’m here as well.  It seems to work quite well.” He sighed knowing it was best if he apologized for his awkwardness to some degree. “You’ll have to forgive me, miss. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve shared a shower with anyone even just to this degree. I don’t mean to be rude if I have been.”

“My name is Aurora.” she said with a self-confident smile. She watched him lean back against the wall, following his every movement, almostl ike she was eyeing a prey. “What’s yours?” she asked him. The truth was that the strane dream that had occured had really messed with Aurora’s mind and she could use some distraction. Any distraction at all. Even if it just was teasing the handsome stranger in the shower. “You’re not rude.” she assured him. “I see...” she said with a smile. “Are there...other things that have been quite a long time for you?”

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Zadrian & Aurora | Wake me up when it’s all over

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Orion and Akron were indeed a vital part of their lives, and frankly, Orion more important to Zadrian’s livelihood than any other living being it seemed. And the dream only secured those thoughts that were mere ideas in passing beforehand. It seemed, after he threw the files back to the desk, he was frantic, seething through a harsh breath as he tried find any room for error that none of this was real, clue number one being that he wasn’t dead. As major as that was, he still wasn’t quite certain with Aurora and even when she hugged him, he tensed.

He listened to her words, only trying to get to a calmer place, but it didn’t seem likely when all he could think about was her killing him. Still, he finally let out a breath and added, “Oh, they’ll pay alright. That was a nightmare.” He sneered back down at his lovely sister, wanting to believe that she wasn’t going to kill him again. “We are loyal, and we will not bend or break.” Flashes of a dinner party hosted with Kyle and Felix came to mind, and shivers ran down his spine as he finally held Aurora back, wrapping his arms tighter around her.

“We do not bend, we do not break.” she repeated his words. He exhled relieved as he put his arms around her. Feeling reconnected to him again. Though she couldn’t help feeling afraid of her own mind. Was there a part of her that was actually capable of such thing? Had there been any truth to the dream? Or had it been just that? Suddenly she remembered another vital part of it.

“The baby...” she looked at Zadrian, thinking of the ‘gift’ he had given her abd who it had belonged to. Madeline. The girl she met, sleeping on the librar couch. Telling her about her ability to dream the future. “Brother...I might know who is responsible for this.”

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Ever wonder about what he’s doing? How it all turned to lies? Sometimes I think that it’s better to never ask why Where there is desire There is gonna be a flame Where there is a flame Someone’s bound to get burned

Why do we fall in love so easy? Even when it’s not right

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Zadrian & Aurora | Wake me up when it’s all over

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“I know they were!” He pouted, his hands rising to cover his face, before he pushed back his hair, the sudden rise in temper all too apparent as he hopped out of his bed to retrieve the file folders that the bird had gotten for him. He looked over their names, the active stamp covering their information bleeding into his brain. “They are still alive, and they are out there. They need our help. Before it’s too late.” He felt like he was going crazy as he swiped the file back to the table and turning back to Aurora.

“Whatever that was…whatever that dream was…I don’t care if it was real or fake, it happened. To the both of us.” He muttered through, trying to find some sort of meaning to it all. “I won’t let that happen Aurora. You will not betray me.”

Aurora watched him scan through the efiles, almost feverishly. She had to turn away from the sight of it. She had never realized what could happen if their balance was broke. Orion and Akron were a vital part to that balance. Had that dream be a glimpse of the future? Had it merely been a possibility? Had it been an alternate reality? But most importantly: Were they safe of something like that ever happening again?

She turned back to him as he spoke to her. She looked at his chest where she had stabbed him. ALmost expecting there to be blood on his shirt.  She wrapped her arms around him. “Never.” she said.

“We are in a place full of abilities and someone has clearly been messing with our head. I say we find them and make them pay. Show them how loyal teh Dougals truly are.”

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Demetri turned towards the shower, to hide himself from her eyes. It was not that he didn’t mind the human body, in many ways he saw it as a work of art, there nothing to be ashamed of. It was beautiful, but he did not want to be rude. It was merely out of respect. He didn’t even know this young woman or her name for that much. And the last thing he wanted to do was expose himself or be thought to be gawking at her–he wasn’t. Before, this was something he did time and time again with his girlfriend and before her–with a one night stand every so often. But this was innocent, a simply shared shower and that was all. “S-Sure, if you want to. There’s still plenty of hot water.” He stepped aside, his hand moving down to cover himself. 

“You’re a shy one aren’t you.” she commented while entering the shower shamelessly. She made no effort to hide her body like he did. She didn’t turn or hide. She was made to be seen and had no shame about any of it. If anything she had learned how to use it as her most pwoerful weapon. “Thank you.” she added while turning on the hot water, letting it run down on her. “Nothing heals the soul like a warm shower right?”

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Zadrian & Aurora | Wake me up when it’s all over

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Zadrian shifted in the bed they were sharing, trying to get a read of her face, before he finally just shook his head, riddled with anxiety that Aurora would somehow betray him in such a way that she’d end up killing him once more. He tried to get his own thoughts in order, but it seemed impossible with so many other emotions floating around. And still, deciphering between dream and reality became too much. “Aurora, you have to promise me that that wasn’t you.” And still, he felt like he wouldn’t believe her, because he saw it with his own eyes, everything she was capable of. “You fucking killed me.” He muttered, unsure if it had really been a dream at all. And, by the way she responded, she knew exactly what he was talking about to begin with.

“I...I...” Aurora looked down at her hands, almost as if she expected blood on it. “I don’’t understand. How could we have had the same dream?” She looked up at him, sitting up on the bed and panic rising on her face. “It wasn’t me! I promise! I would never...I would never.”  Though suddenly she remembered another aspect of the dream. An important one that was almost forgotten. “Zadrian...they were dead.” she said breathless. “They were actually dead...” 

She looekd at Zadrian’s face. She had never seen him like this before. Or not for so long any way. With an expression that was so full of different emotions. She reached for his face, to see if he would still let her touch him.

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Demetri looked at the young woman, holding the shower curtain closer to himself. He often forgot the public showers were co-ed, so to have someone else come in, let alone a young woman was a surprise.He’d been showering so early in the morning, he usually had them to himself without fear of seeing another soul. “Sorry, I um–forgot that these were shared.” He stammered, his eyes quickly falling as she pulled off her shirt. “I’ll–I’ll be gone soon.” He chokes out, as he slips back behind the curtain. If the dream hadn’t shaken him badly enough, this was far from helping him. He felt rude for even being in there, for nearly seeing her indecent–it was rude of him. 

“Oh please...” she said, the same smile remaining on her face as she lost her last piece of clothing. “Don’t go out on my account. It’s a shared shower after all right? So I wouldn’t mind acutally sharing it.” she said while peeking shamelessly around the corner. His stammering was rather cute and there was nothing more in the world that Aurora loved than to confuse men with something as simple as her body. She was playing him like the game she all thought it was. 

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Zadrian & Aurora | Wake me up when it’s all over

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He woke with a start, knowing just how scary everything had seemed in the dream, and once he blinked his eyes open, his arms around Aurora immediately felt numb. “Aurora?” He called out, looking over her, concern immediately painting across his face as he tried to understand what was going on. Everything about the dream felt so real, everything that he feared would happen, and in those last moments he could remember, he was dying, at the hands of the woman he loved, the woman who was in his arms at that very moment.

And he couldn’t believe his eyes. His breath was already shallow, and he slowly leaned up, trying to scoot against the backboard of the bed as he watched her. “What the hell did you do?”

As he woke up she moved off his chest, looking up at him as she watched several emotions spread over his face. Her heart skipped a beat as he said her name, just like he had said it right before he had died. And the moment he asked her what she had done, she knew that this strange vivid dream hadn’t just be any dream. He had lived it too, that much was clear on his face. “That wasn’t me...” she said right away, defending herself. She was overcome with guilt and fear. Like she needed to prove that the girl in the dream and the girl she was now weren’t the same person. But she couldn’t help wondering if the reason that it had felt so real, had been because she could actually turn into that person? She had felt a very strong sense of right and wrong in that dream. Telling her that this, the way she was with Zadrian now was wrong. But the real her refused to believe that. She and her other self were not the same. “That wasn’t me!” she said again.

[demetrisfall]

The water rushed around him, the misplaced guilt that seemed to have laid upon his shoulder seemed to wash down the drain. It was only a dream or that was what he kept telling himself. It was just a dream, but dreams didn’t  make life feel as real as that..that held memories, it held something so real that he could almost feel the scar it’d left–there was nothing. He pressed his hands against the wall as he tried to compose himself, shake all of this off. He was fine, nothing happened, no one had died. She was still alive. He didn’t stand by and let it happen. There was to feel guilt over…The creak of the door pulls him back to his thoughts. He turns quickly, poking his head out of the shower. “Who’s there–this, this one’s in use.”

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Aurora walked into the public showers. The dream had shaken her up more than she cared to admit to anyone. It had brought out a certain anger in her. A certain agression. Like she was mad at the universe fo even proposing such a terrible event to her. Killing her own brother over some girl...it was ridiculous. She wanted to prove that she was herself again. That she was actually her. Not the good dream she had been in the dream.

“That’s fine.” she said. “I really don’t care.” she added with an omnious smile while pulling her shirt over her head, starting to undress right in front of the stanger.

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Zadrian & Aurora | Wake me up when it’s all over

Aurora opened her eyes. Her chest was moving up and down rapidly as the events of her dream washed over her. It was just a dream, it was just a dream. Her memory of it however, was so very vivid. The memory of stabbing her own blood. Her own dearest brother. The love of her life. Stabbing him to actual death. That had been her last memory before waking up. Watching his dead body tumble backwards.

She only noticed now that her head was leaning on his chest. In the same position they had fallen asleep the night prior. She was awfully aware of the speed of his beating heart and the fact that it was actually still beating.

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Tatiana felt weird. Like her life wasn’t the same anymore. Sure she felt that since being with S.T.A.R., but this time was different. She didn’t feel as naive as she did a few weeks ago. No, now she felt there was some sort of danger lurking. And she didn’t like it. She remembers vivid dreams of kissing a girl she hardly knew. Of dying for that girl. She needed to clear her head. She went off to the gym the moment she woke up, even more determined than ever. Once she got there she didn’t know where to begin. She wanted to do it all. And so she closes her eyes, focuses herself. And when she opens them there were two more versions of her, staring at her with the same determined look. Hardly any pain this time.

She was very lost in her workout when someone approached her….well them.

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When Aurora saw Tatiana a certain shock moved through her body. This had been the girl that had made her give up everything in the odd dream she and her brother both had. Apparently they had not been alone. It was obvious there had been something weird and real about that dream. This girl had made her kill her own beloved brother. Aurora couldn’t help to meet her with a certain agression. Like she to prove to both her and herself she wanted nothing of that. Perhaps most of all prove it to her brother. That she would never betray him. “Are you almost done” she snapped. “I want to use this.”

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Zadrian & Aurora | we do not bend, we do not break

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God, wasn’t she beautiful. Most knew of the superficial way Zadrian had treated most women, especially Aurora. She always did look her best in red though, and so the surprise was all there. With her gaining his attention, he had no doubt in his mind that this was best decision for all, and as he continued to undress her with his eyes, she approached him in such a seductive manner, he could barely contain himself.

She drove him wild, that much was already known, but in a way, this was the only form of love he could show now. Even with the child he wasn’t sure how he was ever going to love something that didn’t actually belong to him. But Aurora, he knew belonged to him. He knew he could have her with just a wink of an eye, and a twist of the wrist. He was all hers, and nobody, nowhere was ever going to be able to stop him.

As she took the lead, he was actually quite easy to fall into her trap, as he locked lips with her. Groaning into the kiss, he knew he hadn’t done this in so long, and the fact that she was wearing his favorite dress felt all so right. There was no chance in hell that he didn’t belong with her, and she belong to him. They were made for each, and it seemed like even with the push and pull they allowed theirselves, they would always fall into their old habits. And as such thoughts crossed Zadrian’s mind, he kissed her back, fiercely and passionately, pressing his lips against hers, and grabbing her at the waist to firm press his body against hers. The warmth succeeded in spreading across his entire body, and it had been a long time since he had been this close to Aurora. It was sincere trust for once, and his hands roamed past her hips and around to her ass, groping it slightly as he whispered against her lips. “I fucking love you Aurora, and I don’t care who knows. We deserve to be happy now.”

Aurora could almost lose herself in this. Losing herself in one last sinful moment with the devil. Being his had been her identity for so long. Tatiana had taught her who she could be on her own. Who she could be without him. But now Taty was gone and for a moment Aurora felt lost and not sure who she would be without her or her family. But she also knew that the man she was kissing was her own blood and that he was the murderer of her lover. 

Yet they were like a force of nature. They were so magnetic. Push and pull. And he was saying all the things she had wanted to hear before she had escapd his grasp. 

She also knew him so well. Knew that he always went straight for her ass first when he groped her. Allowing her to push him passionately into the wall. She locked him in there, lifting one leg up around his hip. “Remember when we were kids...” she said breathlessly against his lips. “I was five years old...” she continued between the heated kisses, her arms in his neck. “And I fell outside in the garden...”  One of her hands slowly sliding down as she kept distracting him with words and and tongue. “You picked me up and carried me into the house...” she said, thrusting her hips against him. “And you put a bandaid on my knee...And told me...” She kissed his neck. “That you would always be there to take take care of me when I was hurt...” she sucked in her breath and abruptly stopped the kissing and looked in to his eyes. “That was the most normal moment we ever had...That’s how I wanted to know you. And that’s how I will always try to remember you...” She looked at him as there was a brief moment of silence, one in which she later often wondered if he would have seen it coming, even if it was just for the smallest of seconds...And in that moment she stabbed him firmly in the chest with the knife she had been hiding on her upper body. She looked at him all the while she was doing it, didn’t break eye contact for a second. She gasped, as if she was the one who was being stabbed and she hold on to him for a moment. Almost tenderly, like the lovers they had once been...before she finally let him go.

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Zadrian & Aurora | we do not bend, we do not break

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He smiled back appreciatively towards her, and even though it felt all wrong, it was also so right. He knew this was the only way things would ever turn out right, and frankly, there wasn’t another plan he had in mind. In fact, if things hadn’t gone according to his plan perfectly, he felt like he would have failed, and he didn’t want to live with that behind him. So, after he receiving the baby once more, he placed her in a crib, something that he had one of the scientists retrieve for him, along with other necessary equipment to take care of the child while the plans had been put into action.

With Aurora gone, he finished everything he needed to do, ready to leave at a moment’s notice, and ready to regain the reputation they had lost as Dougals. He had his new family, with the two original remaining members in the clan going along for the ride, along with the replacements, treated as such, and would never fill in the shoes of Orion and Akron, but for now, would get the job done. 

Once everything was complete, he spotted Aurora in the jaw-dropping red dress, his personal favorite on her, and he was more than ready to rip it off of her too. Licking his lips as she spoke, his eyes undressed her as the material clung to every curve of her body. “Fuck.” He muttered, feeling a warm sensation run all over him. “Aurora. You look absolutely beautiful.”

She smiled at him, almost lovingly so. She had her seductive act on but her heart was grieving. Not only for Tatiana but for all three of her brothers. Whom in her eyes, she had already all three lost. She grieved for her family. She grieved for their youth. She grieved for the horrors they had to endure. She grieved for the people they had become. 

The way he looked at her was so familiar, it almost made her homesick. Maybe ignorance was bliss. People learned to love their chains. Wouldn’t it have been better to have lived a life with him, unknowing of the truth...All four of them together. A baby to care of. Money to spend. Their love to share. The world to rule. It certainly seemed like the easier option at this point but that had been before Zadrian had killed the one she had loved.

She walked towards him. Knowing they had to be close for the next part. She wanted him to lose himself in her. Partly for her distraction to work, partly because maybe deep down she granted him one last kindness. Even after everything. 

She grabbed him fiercely, her hand in his neck and pressed her lips on his. Kissing him passionately. Once she had wanted nothing more than these lips, now she noticed that kissing them felt like a goodbye, She was so very aware that this would be the last time she would ever kiss him.

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Zadrian & Aurora | we do not bend, we do not break

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He took the baby back with gratitude, and as she stated she needed to change, there was the return of all confidence in her again. She was his all over again, and he was going to take it. Being able to grab onto Aurora and take her with him was all he ever wanted, and having the child as security was the best measure he could have hoped for.

“Thora.” He repeated, a soft smile puling at his lips. “I love it, and I love you.” He stated back as gracefully as ever, something he had lost without her by his side. She was the best part about him, and while it was hard to admit, he hadn’t felt the same since she abandoned the family, and now, it was like none of that ever happened, none of that dreaded stuff had happened, and Tatiana was no longer in the picture.

“Perfect.” He uttered back, only imagining what sort of outfit she would choose to leave in. “I’ll be waiting for you to return, and we can happily leave this dreadful place.”

She smiled at him as she handed the baby back. Sadness in her eyes but that was another reason why she had to change. Once she dressed the way he liked to see her, it would be all he could see. She turned around to leave her room but froze in her steps as he told her he loved her. She halfy looked over her shoulder and after a moment of silent said: “I will always love you too, Zadrian...” And would later not be sure if she had just pretended to mean that or really did...

She left the room. Once she was out of his sight she had to hold on to the wall. Being careful to not go into full panic mode as the grief hit her again. She clasped on to her stomach, like she was going to throw up. But then she straightened her back. It was time to rid the world from the monster their parents...their father had created. She walked to her room and dressed out of her blood covered clothes. It was ironic how red had always been her color. She opened her closet and took out her long red dress. Zadrian’s favorite. Impractical to escape in but she wasn’t going to escape after all. But it would be fitting to wear it as she ended their story once and for all. It would be fitting that it would be the last thing he would see her in. 

Before she returned to Zadrian’s room she payed a visit to the institute’s kitchen. They had a golden rule. A sacred vow. And she wouldn’t break it. She would be dam sure not to break it. Once she descretely hid the object she stole on her body, with some trouble, she finally returned to Zadrian’s room. She took a deep breath, knowing she had to get close to him and  focus all his attention on the one thing that gave boys a one track mind.

“Hey...” she said a little omnious, with a hint of a playful smile on her face.

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Zadrian & Aurora | we do not bend, we do not break

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As she saw him tear up, Zadrian only smiled softly, handing over the baby with care and comfort. She was going to be treated like a queen, and would get the whole world handed to her on a silver platter if he had anything to do with it.

As he watched Aurora hold her for the first time, Zadrian’s mood turned around, and while normally he was a bit more unforgiving and resistant to feelings, this was enabling him and moving him to such a new place that he wasn’t sure what to do with himself. And when Aurora spoke about her happiness, Zadrian had been fooled.

“I’m so glad you like her.” He said with a shaky breath. It was like they couldn’t finally exist outside of this place, finally become the happy family they had once dreamt about before all the abilities showed up, before both of their parent’s death, before any of the tragedy struck them. “What would you like you name our child?”

Aurora had t ocontrol every muscle in her body not to flinch as Zadrian came near her. Holding the child was a good distraction. She tried to focus all her attention on the baby girl. Aurora had learned how to lie from such a young age in attempts to keep her father happy. No one ever seemed to have realized that about her. Her brothers had always seen her as the victim and always underestimated her for the woman she had become. 

She looked at him when he asked her how she wanted to name the child. For a moment she was overcome with a genuine emotion. When she had been pregnant of Zadrian’s baby before she had lost it, she had thought of this. And it was the only name that could slip of her tongue with ease even though it hurt having to say it out loud. “Thora.” she said, keeping the tradition of their unusual names.

She swallowed, knowing she had to hand the baby back to Zadrian. Because that would show him complete trust. That would show him that she would return once she left. And she would return. She defintely would. “Let me just change and get my stuff.” she said, since her clothes were covered in Tatiana’s blood and that would set one of them off sooner or later. “And then we can start our new life. Together.” she said.

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Zadrian & Aurora | we do not bend, we do not break

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“This is your child.” Zadrian said in an impossibly sweet voice, his eyes making contact with hers. His lips curled into a smile, innocent and plain as day as he stared. He cooed the baby with his smile, rocking her back and forth while trying to entice Aurora into the fact that this was hers now. “I’ve made some arrangements, and she is all yours Aurora. Our own child. Our future.” 

It was the least he could offer her, and hoped that this last string pull would help bring her back to his side. “We can live happily together Aurora.” He still played the innocent card, hoping for the love of all that was good, she would buy into it. It was the only thing they had left.

“We can be free, sister. I’ve made the plan, but I could never leave without you.”

Aurora tried to swallow her distaste but perhaps also a little more than that. She could envision this life with him. Because it was what her old self had always wanted. A child. She would never have one of her own. And this gesture of him, was one of the grandest he would ever make. Maybe if she hadn’t tasted the world, hadn’t seen the light, hadn’t learned to see right form wrong...if hadn’t just killed the person she loved. Maybe then she would have actually felt happiness to have this future with him. She would be blind and careless to the fact they would take someone else’s child away. Yet the fact he was so convinced he could still tempt her, bribe her like this..showed that he was the one who was truly blind. But she was also painfully aware it was the only way he knew how to show that he cared. And if she wanted to pull this off, through all the hatred and the pain, that’s what she needed to focus on right now.

She looked at him again, a little suspicious at first but then slowly taking a step forward. Silent tears were still streaming down her face, she couldn’t lock everything out. Very carefully she took the baby from his arms.

“Y-you really did this for me?” she asked him in disbelieve. She looked at the child, that was still so very young and yet had already been touched by the devil. She looked at Zadrian, making her tears of grief seem to be tears of happiness. “I can’t believe you did this for me. You do love me. I can’t believe how blind I’ve been to it. You’re the only one that truly knows me. That truly loves me.”