I Scored Myself A Mate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE9jSVbkvwg - Music for this chapter!

A ruined room, a ruined soul and a ruined stance. Ea did not know what shocked him the most. The trashed study, the fact that is king was sitting on the floor in the middle of this destruction or the look in his eyes, bloody red whites and trails of tears. 

He had found his master hiding in his office behind the throne room. The desk was flipped upside down. The chairs had been probably thrown to the wall and shattered into many pieces and the books had all fallen, once neatly on the bookshelves now their hidden knowledge disrespected, the fire was dead turning the room cold and the golden book opened at a page, together with him on the cold ground, the only thing that shone was its luxurious cover, everything else was shadows and despair. 

"What…" Ea mumbled drawing the attention of his master. He raised his head and looked at him. 

"Did you return Joe to the human world?" Theseus asked him, acting like he wasn't he bringer of this whole mess in the room, like he wasn't sitting on the floor a position not fitting his status and like his face did not mirror the state of his soul. Ripped to pieces, scratched and clawed.

"I did. He gave me this. He wanted me to give it to you." He said and gave him a small envelope. He wondered when he found the time to write a letter when he was unconscious but still he took hold of it with trembling hands and ripped the top taking out the paper. It wasn't a letter; it was more like a note because there was only one sentence in it. One sentence that foretold a dark future. 

You will pay for this. All of you.

He kept reading it again and again imprinting the sentence on his mind. Was history going to repeat itself? Who knew, at the moment his mind was the opposite of clear for him to worry about the words of a teenage boy. He should have paid more attention, worried more but all he could think of was Allias. The way he had looked at him. He disgusted him. He crumbled the small warning and threw it at the fireplace and with a motion of his hand a strong fire began burning, turning it into ashes. 

"Why didn't you say anything? Why didn't you defend yourself? You weren't the one who gave the order so why?" His servant asked him, confused. 

"I was frozen. He always had this look, that dominance in his eyes and when he hated or when he was angry at something he would look at you in that way. You couldn't move or speak, you were left at the mercy of a powerful creature as it was thinking ways of your doom. Sometimes I forgot that, how strong he is, how he doesn't even need to use his powers to make you shiver and he did that to me. I couldn't do anything Ea, I almost couldn't breathe let alone defend myself."

"Yes but you have to speak up! You can't let him believe that you would do something like that!" Ea was angry. "How could he believe you would do it?"

"All this time he has been lied to, he had been put aside and ignored. I would be surprised if he didn't believe it, I mean he…he doesn't know me, we are just…strangers" Theseus said the words that pained him the most fading from his lips. Strangers, what a simple word but filled with disappointment. It hurt Theseus more than anything, to be strangers with the one you had always loved. Such cruel reality and it seemed he wouldn't escape from it soon. 

"You need to tell him the truth!" the boy insisted. That would only pull them further apart. That way Alex wouldn't remember and even worse might go back to that idiot werewolf. 

The servant kicked a few of the books and the parts of the chairs that got in his way and approached the defeated king. He kneeled down and held his hands not caring about the difference of status. He smiled at him and began talking.

"You and Allias practically raised me and your brother. You had always been a goal to me. I would look at you and I would think that that's the kind of love that I want. A kind of love that doesn't need words just a look to show how you feel. Your story has been written in history. Mothers tell it to their children, do you believe that a love so strong, that shook our world would budge at something so small? I want to see that again. I want to see summer again." 

"What if he doesn't believe my words? I am scared. I have never felt more insecure than this"

"Are you sure? Do you remember when they wanted Allias to marry the Disee princess? You look a lot calmer to me now" Ea joked and he laughed. "You almost killed her."

"I sure did. I was young back then Ea, now as I get older I lose my courage" 

"We don't get older my king. We are frozen in time so why? Why are you so afraid? Alex is here right in front of you but you don't take that step to grasp his love"

Yes, he was, he was right there in flesh and bone but he seemed to be hidden behind a curtain. Like he could get only glimpses of his love and that scared him. What if Alex rejected him, he was not Allias after all even if he had many similarities. This person right here had been hurt because of his love, his love for someone else and that was a painful reminder that things were not the same. It wasn't enough for him to just go after him, he was hurt and vulnerable, Theseus could not be so selfish as to do that, no matter how much he wished that. He should help him heal and not think of how much he wants to kiss him, or embrace him. 

He grasped the golden book, his fingertips tracing the well written sentences as he read them. This book had been his comfort for many years, as he waited frozen in time, stuck. He would read it and reminisce the sweet kisses and laughs, hoping to return to that. 

"Do not let that wolf, steal away your happiness. He is using unfair means and he will only hurt Alex more like that, his lies will ruin him. Their kind is different than him. He won't be happy and the same way he saved you many times, my lord you need to save him now." Ea told him meeting his eyes filled with might. He wouldn't allow him to ruin this. Not only for his own good, not only for the love he so much idolized but for their kind too, who seemed to have a chance to thrive again.

Theseus stood up slowly, like he was just getting over a heavy dizziness. No matter how scared he was, he knew as he looked at the destruction he had caused that leaving Allias would cause a lot worse, not only for him, the mad shadow caster but for their golden king and the elven people too. 

He needed to change his approach. It wasn't enough, what he had been doing was not helping anyone and that was a truth he needed to accept. He needed to win him back, he needed to free him from that tyrant who was poisoning his mind and no matter how hard it would he would make sure that Alex would want it. He would never force him to do anything that he didn't want to, he didn't have such power against him but he would do everything in his powers to show him their world. The world he had missed. The world they could bring back only if he remembered. 

"I want him back Ea and I want these dogs out of my house"

"Then do something about it, my lord. Allias is here now so please make sure he doesn't disappear again."

"I am sorry for this mess but you know…"

"I know that I will have to clean it by myself. No one else is allowed here anyways." Ea said with a forced smile but Theseus could swear he saw a vein twitch on his forehead. He could be slightly mad. "Just go, please and leave me alone to deal with …this" he said with a sigh and as Theseus left he heard him mumble,

"Stupid royals with their insane powers and zero self-control. If I had done something like this, I would have been left out in the cold to freeze to death…oh but no! Clean this Ea, he broke the huge table not long before…I will need to make safe proof the furniture. Where in hell is that broom now? A broom? No. I need to throw everything away…oh golden sun please help me not kill everyone."

He couldn't help but laugh. He never failed to cheer him up and he could notice how even Ea's mood had become a bit better since Alex appeared. He tried not to show it so he wouldn't give his self away but Theseus still remembered when he and his brother were children. Allias sitting in the rose garden of the Avgee palace, bathed by the sun as he read them stories. Such a peaceful image and the remembrance of it always calmed his heart. 

He greeted a few servants that seemed to prepare the room for the wolves to settle in since they were holding piles of blankets and necessitates and headed towards Alex's room. He faced the huge door and his heart sped up his hand, the one he intended to use to knock would weaver in the air and he still contemplated if he should do it or not. 

"Man up you, idiot" He told himself and pinched his cheek before he finally knocked the door. 

Sadly, he got no answer. He knocked again but nothing happened and he wondered if the boy was still sleeping. He opened the door slowly peeking carefully inside only to realize one thing.

Alex was gone.

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