Terror rises and the beast makes you stop entirely, though, unfortunately, the shock is enough to allow Alfie to slip through your grasp and right onto the your aggressor. He immediately goes for the throat, but the horns easily deter him, and he’s snapping at Cerberus’ legs, intending to cripple and hinder.
The minute you unfreeze, however, Courtney’s looming threat is forgotten as you get into the fight yourself, to shove the Houndoom back and to pull Alfie away. Teeth sink into your arm, but it’s Alfie, and you’re using it as a chance to grab him and hurriedly drag him back and away, only to hear Courtney behind you. Your blood is ice in your veins as you pry apart your Pokémon’s jaws to free your arm, and, once separated, his ball is produced and he’s sent back into it, though you stagger away from her dizzily, feet unsteady with your fear-induced dizziness.
You don’t dare speak first, scarlet eyes wide and terrified as you lock sights with the other Admin.
It wasn’t her intention to have him injured, at least not like that, sympathy shooting through her at the site of his arm, the fear in his eyes. It wasn’t enough to subside her anger, the betrayal she felt that he would leave her like that. She couldn’t stop now that she was here, with the contents of his letter still fresh on her mind and further fueling every awful feeling she had, every violent impulse.
She slowly picked up the pace, arm reeled back as she prepared herself, thinking only of her catharsis, of getting what she came for. Once close enough, she swung for his face (hard, but not nearly as hard as she could; she didn’t want to break his jaw). It was Tabitha, she always felt bad about hurting him but he deserved nothing less after what he’d done.
“Say something to me.”
His silence was irritating her more by the second. She wanted to hear an apology, an explanation. She wanted anything more than what he was giving her.
