enzo.

lorenzo santiago, 22, elite.

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petvincent:

“My apologies, I was actually just trying to keep out of your way, Sir.” Vincent answered politely. He’d just been allowed out of his cell for his free time but he knew impatience wasn’t going to get him anywhere - it was why he’d stepped aside as the elite grew near. Perhaps it had looked like something more. He didn’t want to step on the wrong toes, not when it seemed his own claim was so near.

“that would usually involve stepping in the direction that i’m not heading in.” enzo had only been in the gardens in search of gabriel, but he hadn’t caught his scent so it lead him to believe he was still in his cell, or rented. “you’re rather old looking.” enzo said rather carelessly. “another pet i know is getting old as well,” if not older, he thought. “do you know what the cut off age is for humans like you?” he asked, genuinely curious because he was afraid something may happen to human pets. they got weak and frail in their older years. 

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witchyjasper:

jasper approached the man that was visiting with the slightest caution. he’d heard that he was kind but he’d also quickly learned that not everything he heard was, in fact, the truth. “just denying me so quickly?” he asked, pouting a little bit. it never hurt to be a touch dramatic, right? “and here i’d heard so many good things about master lorenzo from the other pets. shame it isn’t true.” though hopefully it was at least partly true or he’d have just gotten himself into a mess.

“denying you that quickly, si.” enzo turned to look fully at this pet, pressing his lips together tightly. he could smell and feel the magic coursing through the other - it was very faint but it was there. “it depends, if they’re good mannered then they get kindness in return.” it was true, if they were completely fighting him like some chose to do then he didn’t lose his temper and tried to work with them. his father would have his head if he saw him. “what do you want? food? comfort items? books?” everyone was wanting something. and he couldn’t spoil all of the slaves, he needed to put an end to that soon. 

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gabrielofsecreta:

“Sé que no eres, pequeño lobo.“ Honestly, Gabriel was surprised that he remembered Spanish at all, especially because it had been so long since he had learned enough to speak to the boy in short sentences. He furrowed his head but nodded his head. Things would be different in private versus when they were out in public. That much was clear. He took in a deep breath and watched as the man puttered about, getting ready to prepare his food just as Gabriel had done regularly for the boy all those years ago. He made a slight face, “I’m worried my body won’t like anything else anymore.” He admitted. For so long he had refused anything but the tower food, “I didn’t want to keep going back and forth between real food and the tower– It’s hard to miss what you don’t have.” He clenched his jaw and nodded his head. “I’ll help.” That was easier than figuring out what was okay and what was not. He didn’t know who this Enzo was and he was unaware of how much his father had changed him or not.

lorenzo was a bit stunned gabriel remembered any sort of spanish, granted it had been so long since he was apart of his family. the werewolf was bilingual, both languages had always been apart of his household - but he tended to speak english more often than not since it was the most common language everywhere he went. enzo sighs, upset over the time that was lost between them. what did he think? that he and gabriel were going to live with one another forever? of course - he was a naive child. “that’s ridiculous.” enzo muttered. “we’ll try, if it makes you ill i won’t force you to eat it.” he dismisses, gabe didn’t have tasty food in years, the fat, cream, spices probably would upset his stomach now that he thought about it. “alright,” enzo nodded some, gesturing to the vegetables and various leafy greens. “prepare  those, wash it, cut it up, make a nice salad.” enzo would focus on the steak and the potatoes when they were ready. 

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enzo knew his father would not be happy to learn that he was coddling all of the pets around aeternum, and it wasn’t that he wanted to but he couldn’t help it with some of them. gabriel had been his pet growing up and he hadn’t even known it until he lost him and grew older. now that he was slightly older, but young, he could go out on his own. though the more he stayed in the tower the more annoyed he got with some of their attitudes - even when he was attempting to be nice. “i’m not in the mood, chico.” enzo said with sigh. “if you really must bother me, do it quickly.”

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gabrielofsecreta:

Gabriel furrowed his brow but nodded his head, “I haven’t been allowed names… Sir is what I’m supposed to call everyone.” At least the Elite’s anyway and Gabe rarely associated with the other pets. He was constantly on guard, protecting himself and looking out for only himself. Enzo was the only other person he had ever looked out for. Getting to the cabin felt like a blur. Most of the Elite’s who rented him had him servicing them before they arrived anywhere. But this was Enzo and he still felt like the man wouldn’t force such things onto him. “I’m okay… I promise, Enzo.” He nodded his head before they were inside of the cabin. He looked around, unsure of where he should sit or what he should do. “Enzo… I haven’t had anything else but tower food in years.” He admitted. The tasteless slop they fed them to keep them well.

“no soy todo.” enzo breathed out, feeling almost annoyed that these people in this tower programmed gabriel to act like such...a robot, almost. he wasn’t sure how to even explain it. “don’t call me that. not unless we’re in public or something, and the situation calls for that.” but for now enzo had no plans on going out into public any time soon with gabriel. enzo had started cooking shortly after losing gabriel, he didn’t have the human to cook for him anymore but luckily he had learned quite a bit from the slave and picked up on a lot of stuff. “you can never go wrong with meats and potatoes. yeah?” he pulled out some packaged veal steaks, and began seasoning it. he preferred his bloody, practically alive. but he could appreciate cooked food and the art of it. soon he had the steaks on a broiler, and the potatoes boiling. “then this will be a treat.” his throat tightened though at how it sounded, like he was...pampering the human, it just made him feel awkward. “it shouldn’t be a treat.” he mumbled. he couldn’t believe gabriel hadn’t ate anything but food from that tower all those years. “do you want to help me?” he asks, seeing at how gabriel just looked around - as if wondering if he should sit, or if he could sit at all. 

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gabrielofsecreta:

Gabriel wasn’t sure that Enzo understood just how scared he was of the man’s father. The only thing that had kept him marginally sane in that household was Enzo and his duty to the boy. Having that purpose had kept him fighting, had kept him coming up for air when he felt like he might never be able to breathe clearly again. No one got him out of this tower this easily, but he found himself going along with the man as he dragged him from the cell that had been his home since he’d arrived at the tower. He wasn’t sure a claim was a good idea, but he would spend his 48 hours with the man. “I don’t need anything, thank you, sir.” He slipped into formalities out of habit.

“you don’t need to call me that...” he told gabriel quickly, he was hardly a sir, he was only twenty years old and given their history he didn’t want to hear it. “sir is my father.” he mumbled. “you call me what you used to, you know, enzo, or little wolf even if i’m not so small anymore. lorenzo is fine too.” he always thought lorenzo was such a mouthful and that it didn’t sound cool, but he felt he finally grew into his name. the two of them walked side by side, and soon enough they were in a carriage and stopping outside of the small homey cabin in the middle of the woods where he felt most at home. “you need to eat.” enzo tells him, motioning him out of the carriage. “and you look tired.” it was clear it upset enzo, but he’d keep himself collected. this was all his fault. why did he have to be such a needy child? so needy that he couldn’t sleep without telling gabriel good night. they entered the cabin, it was nothing special but it was definitely nice and furnished with handcrafted furniture. “make yourself at home. i’ll find something for you to eat, okay?” he says as he walks off towards the kitchen in search of food.

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gabrielofsecreta:

Gabriel still wasn’t fully convinced it wasn’t his mind playing tricks on him until Enzo wrapped his arms around him. He was no longer the small boy that huddled with him in the middle of the night. It wasn’t okay– and he wasn’t it ever would be. Gabriel hated this situation, hated that Enzo had been forced to realize things that had been hidden from his as a child. His father’s punishments and beatings that had left Gabriel slower some days and hidden beneath baggy clothes. He wanted to tell Enzo to go; beg him to just let Gabriel pretend that he wasn’t as broken as he actually was. A man scared of his own shadow and closed off from everything emotional. “He’ll come back and have me killed if he sees us together, Enzo. You know that.”

“then by law he will be prosecuted.” if gabriel was his under a claim, it was official that gabriel belonged to him as if he were a piece of property. and as sick as that made him, it was the protection that he needed. “i don’t think he would kill you...he’s not completely heartless.” enzo loved his father, he was his father - he was trying to keep him from heartbreak should anything happen to gabriel and he died, or at least that’s what he’d been told. “come on.” he pulled away and tugged the other along by the hand until they were out of the cell, hardly caring about who watched. “i’ve rented a cabin outside of the tower, we can stay there for the alloted forty-eight hours, and talk about what else needs to be done to ensure you don’t spend another night alone in that cell.” enzo waved a hand at the guard, he had already paid for this rental long before he arrived at gabriel’s cell. “tell me what you need and i’ll get it for you. food, clothes, water, anything.” he speaks quietly as they move towards the exit. 

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gabrielofsecreta:

Gabriel had made Enzo happy as a child and maybe that had been everything he’d been meant for. Twelve years of looking after a child who had needed it. He felt like crying and cursing the world. He told himself he wouldn’t let things get to him anymore, he no longer had anything left to devote to that. But seeing Enzo again was like being reminded that he would never have anything. “I tried… I tried to protect you, Enzo. You don’t deserve this. You don’t deserve to know.” He just wanted Enzo to believe that the world was perfect and that Gabriel wasn’t. Before he could stop it he was crying. “I didn’t want this. I didn’t want you to see this.”

he smelled the salty tears long before they started falling, he smelled the bitter smell of sadness growing inside of the human. he had to brace himself before coming into the tower, before seeing all the rows of cells lined up with a single human or half-breed inside. it was a cold place, a cold, cruel place that gabriel had been at for the last eight years. “i’m okay.” he said immediately. of course it had come to a shock to him to see all of this, to see how different gabriel actually was and that he was treated as such he expected it when he found out about the pet business in aeternum. he loathed his father even more now to know this was where he had sent gabriel. carefully, the wolf reached out and tugged the other close, wrapping his arms tightly around the human. remembering those nights when he had been scared because of a storm or something else so silly - gabriel was the one who embraced him. “it’s okay.” he whispered, frowning slightly. “please...don’t blame yourself. let me...let me take you with me. i want to make this better. let me make you better, it’s my turn.”

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gabrielofsecreta:

Gabe didn’t comment on that– choosing to not speak about how he had believed he would only be able to remember him as a child. Until this moment, Enzo had still been the twelve year old he’d been taken from. He’d tried to write a note before he was pulled away, but hadn’t had the time. Enzo was the only other creature on this planet he had ever loved; and losing him had made Gabriel into the bitter slave he was now. He had been defeated by losing Enzo and it showed in his face. “I should have been more distant– It wouldn’t have hurt you as bad. I’m sorry.” He would continue to apologize for leaving the man, even if it had been against his will. At the response of taking him back Gabriel was quick to shake his head. He was no longer the Gabriel Enzo had once played with as a child. “I’m not him– I’m not that pet anymore and you are not little.” He leaned his head back, not wanting to look at Enzo’s face. “You should keep your memories pure.” If Enzo took him in, he was sure to notice all the subtle damage that had been done to him since he was a teenager. He could fool a boy into believing he was whole, but he couldn’t fool a man.

lorenzo knew this was going to be more complicated than he had foresaw it to be. he wasn’t exactly sure what he had pictured - some happy reunion that would have went perfectly. but it was clear years out in this tower had wore the human down, he wasn’t as he remembered him to be. he looked strung out almost, no longer hopeful, there was no spirit in his eyes. did enzo make his days brighter? “i was a child. and you made me happy, being there when no one else could be.”distancing himself from him would have confused him when he was a child. he sighed, this wasn’t gabriel’s fault. it was his fathers, and no one else’s. “you are him. you’re still gabriel, i’m still me. i’m just older.” enzo pressed, stepping into the cell now he moved closer to the pet. the one he shared a home with the first twelve years of his life. “my memories have already been tainted, gabriel. you couldn’t protect me from the truth forever. i was young, i didn’t understand, but i understand now.” what was gabriel so afraid of? “i’m taking you out of this cell, okay?” enzo cleared his throat, it was more of a statement than a question.

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gabrielofsecreta:

Gabriel felt like he was insane. Enzo was here, staring at him, telling him that he had sought him out. A hand shifted back through his hair, brushing over the scar that had occured when the boy was eight. “You got big–” His voice was soft and a flash of loss crossed his face. What had the boy been like as a teenager, what were his hobbies? So many missed years. Gabriel pushed a hand to his eye, keeping himself from crying either in relief or despair. “And you’re no longer a runt.” He swallowed roughly. “I think you are even bigger than me now.” His face screwed up slightly, “I’m sorry– I must have done something wrong, little wolf. He never told me why.”

“that’s what generally happens when you grow up, gabe. can’t stay a child forever.” he smiled softly. he should have known this would be a shock to the other, so he allowed the man to continue to talk about how much he’s grown. no longer the runt, no, he grew to be big and strong thankfully. he wasn’t as strong as some other pack mates but he certainly could hold his own now. “maybe,” he chuckled, nodding at the guard to open his cell - his heart clenched in his chest when the other blamed it on himself. “i’m going to stop you right there.” he said gently, but firmly so the other knew there was no room for argument. “it was no one’s fault. my father simply saw how attached i was, and being the way he is, he separated us before it got even worse. though at that point i was already pretty damn attached.” enzo was heartbroken when he woke up one day and went to find gabe and he was gone. his father told him gabe had ran away in the middle of the night, and for awhile he believed it till he over heard him speaking of gabe being in the tower. “that doesn’t matter now. i’m here. i want to take you back. i want you to be with me again.” when enzo wanted something, he got it. he didn’t plan on taking no as an answer - and he didn’t care how selfish that was. 

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gabrielofsecreta:

Enzo. Gabriel stared at the man, his face shocked and unsure of what he was seeing. It couldn’t be Enzo. He didn’t want the boy to be here. This place ruined people, took away the good and turned them into monsters. Enzo wasn’t a monster and he had hoped desperately that some of what he had taught the young pup had stuck. “Enzo…” He tested the name on his tongue. “What are you doing here?” He whispered out the words. He’d been sent here for a reason, far away from Lorenzo. The child had grown into a young man. Tall, handsome, strong. “You shouldn’t be here–”

“I’m not the family pet anymore.”

“what do you mean what am i doing here?” enzo asks the other, the same puppy like expression on his face like he was when he was younger and confused. tipping his head to the right slightly, he stared back at the human. “i wanted to see you again...” enzo cut himself off when the other told him he shouldn’t be there. and it stung a bit, it was as if gabriel wanted nothing to do with him - but that couldn’t be the case, could it? “i’m an adult. i can do what i want and go where i want.” he wasn’t weak, small and sick anymore either. he could travel more now, go where he pleased. “no, you’re not. thankfully.” enzo shrugged his shoulders. “but that doesn’t mean you didn’t leave an impact in my life. i was devastated when he took you away.”

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gabrielofsecreta:

After the festival, Gabriel was pleased to be back in his cell. Back where the noise wasn’t too loud and where he was often overlooked. At least here he wouldn’t have to worry about pleasing the Elite’s he had no desire of pleasing. Somehow it was comforting to be back in the place he knew he would be in until he died. The place that had become his home. The pet was feigning sleep when he heard the soft voice and furrowed his brow. Not many called him Gabe like that, he looked up and found himself staring at a young man. One who looked far too much like someone from his past. “Yes, sir?” He asked quietly, knowing better than to assume it was him. It couldn’t possibly be him. “Do you desire me to service you?”

he didn’t recognize him. though gabriel looked the same, just aged a bit. he definitely looked a lot older and he wondered if that was due to the taxing life he had lived. it angered him to see gabriel so...down. he could smell despair, sadness. “no,” he answered immediately, nose scrunching at the idea at first. “and i prefer enzo. at least from you.” enzo curled his fingers around the bars of the others cell door, waiting for any sign of realization of who he was. “you have to remember me, don’t you? we only spent twelve years in each others company.” granted he knew he must have looked a lot different. he was no longer a small child, he had grown into a young man. “let me take you out of here.” he says as he glances towards a guard near by waiting for his word to open the door.

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it had been eight long years since enzo had saw gabriel last, maybe even a little longer. it angered him when his father was cruel enough to take away his human - all because he was friends with him. looking back on it, he had been so young. he knew little to nothing about pets back then, but now he saw what the truth was. they were nothing more than toys, his father told him getting attached was the wrong thing to do. especially when they were so fragile, and mortal. but gabriel had always been there for him and looking back on it he realized the kind of life he lived with them. gabriel wasn’t like other pets. so he sought out to find him now that he was older and a little bit wiser, and ended up in aeternum tower. “gabe,” enzo said softly, staring in at the sad sight of the pet in there on the worn out cot. he was just glad to see the human wasn’t dead, they were so susceptible to disease.

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