There's an Empty Road to Rediscover

*Tiburtius* · 12-05-2015, 10:41 PM

Tiburtius couldn't believe what he was seeing. Or better yet, what he was hearing. Or not hearing anyway. This wasn't the Bacchus he knew. The last vivid memory he had of his brother, prior to him leaving with Abby of course, was him playfully challenging him at the last fight training that their mother had called. Actually, now that he thought about it, Fiori hadn't had a single training of any kind since Bacchus left and Vitus and Archy went missing. A little touch of anger got stirred into his mixture of confusion and worry that was about to swallow him whole. Their mothers had been missing his brothers all of this time and now Bacchus shows up out of the blue and all he had to say was "Right."

He gaped at his brother as he suddenly turned and started to walk away from him without another word. For a moment all he could do was stare at his brother's back in shock. "Bacchus... Bacchus, wait!" he called after him, his touch of anger suddenly bubbling up into an all out rage. Tiburtius was never one to be angry, especially at a member of his family. He had done nothing but try to fill the void his missing brothers had left for his mothers. How many more times would he have to see their sad smiles as they spoke of them or memories from their childhoods? How many more times would he have to walk up to their den only to quietly back away when he heard one of them tearfully talking about failure?

He ran to catch up with Bacc and then fell into step beside him, trying his best to keep his anger in check. It was impossible to keep some of it from slipping into his voice though. It was all he could do to keep from grabbing Bacchus by the scruff and shaking him. "Right? Right? That's all you have to say? Every time a season passed and you didn't come home they were crushed. Mom hasn't called another fight training since you left. Ama started studying so hard to keep herself busy that she keeps making herself sick. The stress was tearing their marriage apart and all you can say is yeah, right, and ask about fucking Absinthe?!"

He hurried ahead of him and spun around in front of him to face his brother and look him in the eye, blocking his path and refusing to let him by. His whole body was trembling with anger and as he spoke his voice became hushed and pained. "They hope every single day that you and Vitus and Archy will come home. Hell, I hoped you would come home. We all love you so damn much. And you don't even care. I don't know what happened to you out there, but there is no reason for you to treat our mothers like this. You're going to just walk away from us again?" He stopped with a sudden shake of his head. "No. You know what? I'd rather you just leave. If you're just going to disappear again I'd rather you just fucking leave."

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