Never thought I'd find you here

Alastor saw the struggle in Kichi's eyes. He was fighting a war within his mind against someone the dark brute couldn't see. Was it himself? Or another ghost of the past battling him? The bitterness in Kichi's eyes was cold and volatile, amplified by a lifetime of pain and loss. It reminded Alastor too much of himself. The screams of his long dead siblings echoed in his head, remembering how helpless he had been to do anything about it, how it had twisted and warped him into the monster he had become. Lurid had done that to Kichi. When they'd been a "family", he'd at least had the ability to care for Kichi, to play with him and teach him and show him the love and support Al had never had. He had a chance to keep Kichi from going down the same path he had. But then Lurid had stolen him away—stolen him and abandoned him. And now Kichi was forever changed because of it. It made him hate that pallid bitch all the more for what she'd done to them both.

Kichi asked him a question that felt like a knife being plunged into his heart. Blood ran cold and hot at the same time through is veins, and the dark-furred wolf just shook his head. "I don't know if she ever loved either of us..." he admitted in earnest. "Once there was a time I would've said yes, but now... now I'm not so sure." Does that mean Kichi didn't know what happened to his real parents? Had he sussed it out on his own, or did he still hold to the belief that Lurid had adopted him out of love and a twist of fate? Lurid had been possessive of both Alastor and Kichi. Had she loved them? Or had she merely wanted them for her picture-perfect family? He'd never know the truth, he supposed...

"Kichi... do you know what happened to your parents? Your real parents?" It was a big risk Alastor was taking revealing this to the angry young man, but he deserved to know the truth. Lurid had hurt and betrayed them both. Kichi needed to know the extent of that betrayal.


"Alastor"