AURORA-You ask for love, you get hate. You seek honesty, you get betrayal, you expect happiness and the next thing you see is a sorrow of ocean around you.You’re drowning deep, and the hand drowning you down, belongs to the one you love the most, the one you thought would never do it, but they do it anyway.Just as what I did to him, just as I stabbed him, and just as he stabbed her. A heart aching for love, seeking for affection is lost in a limbo, because that heart has lost his mate bond.The girl died right in front of my eyes, and what does death feel like? Certainly not good, death might be redemption for some but what about those who are left behind?I saw a younger sister in her, a beautiful soul, a lovely heart that was beating for a man who has forever handled guns but now, was ready to grab roses for her, bring stars down to her feet.Arthur who loved teasing, drank the cup of bitter coffee just because she made it, and even if she gave him poison, he’d knowingly drink it
AURORA-He began scribbling on papers, he didn’t notice me entering inside perhaps, was so busy to even glance at me.“Zeus…” I called his name out. He didn’t listen, it felt like he’s ignoring me but, he’s Zeus, he would never do that.“Zeus?” I called again, and still the same response from him. “Zeus, listen…” my slow steps followed him and until I banged my hands on the table he didn’t look up.The moment I did so, his body shuddered as if he was in the zone, and snapping back from it took a toll on him. He gasped and the first thing he did was hide those papers from me.He thought he wasn’t making it obvious but I acted as if I didn’t see it. “Y---Yeah?” he uttered, his eyes looking at something, someone, I don’t know. Someone who doesn’t exist, at least not in this room.He didn’t even try to stop Arthur, not even once, he said nothing as he was leaving this mansion. I however, had no nerve to say anything to him.What could I possibly have said? That I'm sorry but I'm going to
AURORA- Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Our life isn’t normal. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. Our life isn’t normal. Happiness detests me… I'm a detestable person. We’ll part ways, she’ll leave me. She hates me or worse, s
ZEUS-The blood on my hands, it won’t go away, its color is all I could see around, in Arthur’s eyes, in my love life, a dreadful dream I want to wake up from but its impossible because my ghosts are putting me down into a deep sleep.And how ironic, I can’t even sleep, I find myself standing by the window, looking at her, looking at me, while stabbing her and taking Arthur’s dreams away.Was it worth it? Is all I ask myself every day. Was it worth losing my beta? And this fear of losing her as well, losing my heart, my Aurora.I'm scared, she’ll leave me. Just like she did before, she’ll choose everyone over me, again and again and again.My mind screams certain things I don’t want to comply to however, I find myself torn between reality and nightmares. Like what I'm living is a fake world and I need to leave it soon.Because I’ll be stuck in here forever, alone. But there’s this hand which brings me back every night. A hand that I'm scared will fade into my darkness.I know I'm bloc
AURORA-You know what love is? Other than being painful? It’s hideous, and every time I look in his eyes, he’s looking away.Hiding, into a corner, and I know it’s not about Halsey and Arthur, it’s about me. He’s being weird because it’s me.The way his eyes rotate around like if I catch him looking at me, I match his eyes, he’s going to out himself. Whatever is stored in.Forever, not wanting to learn the secrets my dad hid from me, living the life as it is, burying all the curiosities deep down, I lost at the end.Waiting for Zeus to take his time, let him ease around me, giving him the space he forever needed, I never grew inquisitive to know things with him as well.But where did that lead me? The unending path of sorrow, the hurt, the pain, all of it. So, I learned, giving them space is something done in the movies, when in reality you just have to dig out the truth no matter how painful it is.Learn before it eats him up alive, learn before it happens so, that I can fix it. What
AURORA-“Ignore me all you want… but I leave won’t until we have this conversation.” He didn’t turn, his legs bouncing up and down and his hand ticking with the pen, he’s ignoring me.“Zeus…” I walked in his direction. “Zeus…” I uttered again, he can’t hear me, he’s not ignoring me. He’s again gone into the zone, that hideous zone that makes dreading words fall out of my mouth.I saw papers in his hands, again, and honestly now, I'm too scared to know what he’s written on them this time.It’s a death sentence of my sanity in his hands. I find my steps walking, trying to peep, I know I shouldn’t. Not because of him but because my sanity depends on it.And I'm not ready for another, ‘she’ll leave me’ notes. “Zeus…” the pen scribbling on the paper sounded like bells tolling, waiting for me to present myself before the butcher.No, I can’t do this. I placed my hand on his shoulder. “Zeus…” he gasped and crumbled the paper quickly. I saw it, clearly enough that it’s not use in pretending a
AURORA-“The baby sitting in front of me, do you not trust me with my own problems? What am I going through? Is it a disease or something, Zeus… you know we can talk it out.” my tone fluctuated like my heart beat, sometimes it went low and sometimes it went too high.He remained quiet, he didn’t say a thing until I slammed my hands on the table. “What? Zeus? You know I can run other tests on me without you knowing it, right?”He finally shifts his gaze at mine. I see something burning up, his hands came together forming a fist and I can see how hard he is trying to hold himself.“You tell me before I act on my own. You have time till tomorrow morning…” I shouldn’t have said that, I can feel us drifting apart and this didn’t help.You know the relationships that are ruining before your eyes, its so visible that you see the distance building up between them, and you can’t seem to do anything about.The more you put efforts to make it right, something happens and it goes all wrong. So, m
AURORA- “I---I’m s---sorry…” I shivered and moved a step back. “Aurora, remember you stabbed me? A slap is nothing compared to that…”He slammed the door leaving out, I don’t know what just happened. How c---could I… I---I don’t know, when I lost control of myself.“Zeus…” by the time I could regain my consciousness, I left. The room was empty, with no sign of him. I heard the car’s engine rev and he left, it’s him.This is what drifting apart is known as, it’s not the pain, it’s not embarrassment but it’s the damage. The damage is giving us more damage, the past is letting it happen to us.And the guilt is somehow intensified by my hormones, like I want to bury my body deep down than to see myself breathing. Because for me, breathing is a curse and I don’t know if I should have the luxury of it.And Zeus just went away, should I blame him? No, I can’t because it all comes down to my fault. But isn’t distance better than completely being cut off?He was clearly pushing me away, he wa
AURORA-My body is aching, Zeus was merciless yesterday, and I believe I’ve slept for fourteen hours straight. No one bothered to wake me up, and I opened my eyes to find out that a new day has begun.I got up leaving outside, Zeus and I are finally together, and I loved every moment of it. I'm glad he didn’t hate me, I'm glad everything went well, despite the problems we had to go through.“No, no, no.” I heard the familiar voice and whatever sleep I had in my eyes vanished.“Elinor?” I shouted running toward the ground. The voice turned into laughter and I saw Elinor giggling with Zeus, both of them lying on the ground, as Zeus was tickling her.“Don’t ruin it.” my legs stopped on the voice and I turned to see Azrael standing before me.“H---how are you---”“How am I here?” Azrael muttered and walked in my direction. “it was time for me go out of the picture.”“What’s that supposed to mean?” I shivered just by his words.“Elinor found your wedding photos, Aurora. I couldn’t do much.
ZEUS-I love her, and my undying love for her knows no bound. But, I'm insecure, I'm insecure she’ll again choose whatever over me, and can I be blamed for that? Can she be blamed for that?My meanness and her kindness always clash, always. And I don’t believe in opposites attract but fuck. I am angry, jealous and dying every moment she looks at other man, even if it is Arthur, they are bonding way too much now, they need a fucking break.And I am angry because I can’t stay angry at her, so maybe I'm acting to be rude while I don’t give a fuck about my own pride, this girl ate me alive. And as much as I want to drag her to my room, I can’t.“Are you going to fill me up with your silence?” She is so nervous that the dark part of me is enjoying it very much, more than I should. “I wonder if Alfred should serve us today?” I posed a question again but she didn’t dare look at me. so apparently, me mentioning Alfred’s name was not much of a trigger.She wasn’t saying anything and it was now
AURORA-Three more days and nothing, we have nothing on our hand. Zeus is still unconscious, still very much the same, though he’s breathing and maybe healing, we see positive signs but I need more, more than that.We avoided war, not we, Alfred did it. He stopped him pack, the soul sorcerers, the Alpha or Kian for that matter didn’t come after me because Alfred chose to let me go. And they had to listen to him, everyone knew Alfred will single handedly kill the whole pack, or maybe cause severe damage if not that.Arthur is still dying with the pain, the loss of Halsey but nothing can’t be done. She and Dabria plotted against us, Dabria informed the soul sorcerers about my existence and that I have a daughter, she thought I have broken all ties with Zeus, which was right. And that I would have no backup.I am a mother now, and I want to say I get how she felt but I am a selfish mother. And she tried to take my daughter away from me, and nothing, nothing could make me angrier than thi
AURORA-“I knew you’d come back to me.” He smiled and I looked around to see if Arthur is here or not, I am being delusional, of course, he is not here. Alfred took care of him, them.“I didn’t come to you.” I say, without looking him in the eyes. Because I am embarrassed of my own self, of my own stupidity of breaking hearts though it is always intentional.And truth be told, this shouldn’t worry me even a bit, but it does, and it shatters me in ways I don’t expect. Alfred as a being is kind inside that coating of pretending to be callous, he is not cruel, or maybe not to me. Alfred deserves to be loved by someone who truly cares for him. I'm not that someone, I love Zeus and look at the damage I've brought to him, so what will happen to Alfred, who I don’t even love?“You’re not?” He tried to smile, I noticed the dark circles under his eyes, the sleepless eyes that wanted to shut off but he wasn’t allowing them to. The tiredness on his face and the glow of those amber eyes was lost
AURORA-I woke up, my eyes burning from the poison, probably the side effects of wolfsbane, but I was breathing and was back in our mansion.I was back home, safe and breathing, in my own room. The first thing I do is look for Zeus, I want to see him. his wound was closer to his already healing heart, plus that poison was made for primordial not a normal werewolf.My breathing went erratic, and I paused before entering his room. There was no sign of Elinor here, she was not back, and was safe with Azrael, this gave me some peace of mind and I gulped.I don’t want to have bad thoughts and barged in, my heart heaved a heavy sigh and it got stuck in my throat, I couldn’t move and only saw him lying lifeless on the bed.“Zeus---” I etched, my voice not coming out firm and my lips wobbled as I took a step not having energy to move further. I tried to smile, “Zeus, I know you’re angry with me.”I didn’t want to believe the sight before me, I was in denial and wanted to stay that way forever
ZEUS-Death? What is it? Death is the look Aurora had on her face when I let go of myself, when I said things, I wanted to regret but didn’t.When I said I hated her because for a moment I actually wanted it to be true, but I can’t, I can’t hate her. She will be the death of me yet I won’t be able to hate her, she gave this life a life so, why would I hate her if she takes it back?But only after Arthur’s taunting I realized that I was complete jerk for the girl who was again sacrificing again her happiness because of me, so that I can breathe, and I hated my life, myself to be this helpless.All the arrogance I had in me, about being the strongest, rigid and stout, it all crumpled into a piece of paper later on dumped into a bin.Aurora is forever gonna choose everything over me, saying it her duty to keep me safe, what am I doing? This girl lost her world, the beautiful life she had before she met me, I ruined it. I became the death of her happiness and yet she’s doing her best to k
AURORA-“Somewhere safe… for now?” Kian teased and my nerves tensed up with fear. The dread of happening something to Elinor made all the possibilities to think numb in my brain and I paralyzed.I looked at Alfred who promised to keep Elinor out of it had nothing to say, but for some reason, he was just as shocked as I was however, I wasn’t foolish enough to believe him, or his fake reaction.“I always love having an upper hand, especially when Alfred is dumb enough to gladly listen to all the ranting you do. we wanted power and fear in our enemy’s eyes gives us that.” Kian almost snorted.“You are of no use, we need soldiers and not those who defy us. You became a rebel the day you stood up before me, we don’t want that shit. Henceforth, I’ll train Elinor or I’ll kill her there’s no third option.“W---what happened to Azrael?” I gasped for air, I failed, like every time I failed and nothing, nothing went my way, I failed.“He’s alive… barely. So, either you back off or see her die. W
AURORA-“Hurry, we need to leave.” He muttered panicking.“M---Mirage and Ian, they’re inside.” I say still looking down on the ground, processing the reality.“Don’t worry about them, they escaped too---”“Where will we go? They will come after us, he will come after me, he will kill you. no---, Zeus you have to go back.” I shiver merely from the thought of seeing Zeus de---.“Aurora stop being like this and just come home.” “He’ll make sure, I don’t have a home. This is bad.” “Aurora, I'm trying to fight here for you, I don’t want my daughter to live without a mother, when she clearly has one. Do you get it? I'm not as strong as them, but I have the power of love, now stop looking down on me and just hold my hand, dammit. My pride has a limit too.” I looked up as he extended his hand, worry cascading his face, his eyes glowing, mine as well, I missed him and he’s before me.I got up and hugged and firmly, my whole body trembled under his touch and my dead soul awakened. I missed h
AURORA-It’s here, my death, my end, standing and the door and I just invited it in. I'm here sitting in this wedding gown which feels more like a death bed.I'm getting married to Alfred Hestia, in order to survive, in order to see those who I love breathe, I love Zeus, and I miss him, I just want to see him one last time and could even trade my life for his one look.I feel my bones shattering just as my will and Zeus is my only redemption. “Come here…” Alfred pulled me closer, his eyes fixated at mine and whenever I look away, he forces my gaze back to him.His eyes are making me feel naked, the way he looks at me, and the way he licks his lips like he wants to devour me, his smile tells me how victorious he feels right now, and his laugh is like he gives no shit about this world.I didn’t take up on the fifth tier, it was a good thing I didn’t see Mirage here. He probably listened to me, and I'm glad he did so. All I see is one vow and the Aurora who smiled, the Aurora who lived w