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Alek didn’t believe a word that Neri was saying and truthfully, he wasn’t sure the other did either, at least the way the witch said it didn’t sound all that convincing. He tried to piece together what happened that night, he remembered leaving Neri, finding Cloe, he remembered shifting and fighting - but then things got dark. Darker than a horde of zombies piling on top of people. “There was a fire, I think.” Alek remembered the screams, remembered the heat, the man that stood amidst it all unaffected by it. “I remember burning, when I came to I was a crisp.” He looked down at the burns on his arms, the gnarled burn that etched across his skin. “The Eye showed up and then everything went black again.” He wasn’t sure going back for his brother had done any good, maybe Alek had only made things worse, he didn’t know. Couldn’t know. “My brother, Andreas-” he didn’t want to ask for help, or for anything, not if it meant Andreas might end up in the cell across from him. His brother was important, he had a destiny, Alek was…. Maybe this was how things were always meant to turn out. “tell him I died.”
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This wasn’t the witches business, he absolutely had no right or claim to be so upset by his organization catching some Lycan to do their experimentation on. But then why did he suddenly feel so powerless, what was this heat on the back of his neck and behind his eyes that screamed at him to do something about it. “I never should’ve let you run back into that fucking party,” the young witch seethed out through gritted teeth. Eyes pointedly looking downwards for he was scared that if he made eye contact with the defeated stare of probably his only - friend? acquaintance? rival? he didn’t know what to make of their relationship but what he did know was that for some dumb as fuck stupid reason, his heart we beginning to make him feel things for the stray wolf, that threw all his plans straight into the garbage. “Andreas?” he repeated the name; as though by doing so it would seal in his memory. “Is he a wolf like you?”
Neri shot a nervous glance down the hallway when he heard some noise. “I’m sorry you ended up here - even you don’t deserve this.” More foot steps and Neri looked like he was about to jump out of his skin. Quickly he reached through the bars careful not to touch them and let his hand rest on Alek’s face while he whispered the same incantations from all those other times previously. “I’ll be back to check on you...don’t let them y’know-” he wanted to say, ‘break you’ but he knew it would be more difficult than that and decided against it. “I need to go.”











