so this is love

Venom had nearly always been the strong and steady one of them all. She was the one he had depended on most when he felt his own life being pulled out from under his feet while he began to question everything he had ever been taught and believed. It was almost frightening in a strange way to see her like this—so broken and so utterly in pain. That only made him want to hold her tighter and help her keep the pieces of herself together the same way she had done for him. It was his turn to return the favor. The sob in her voice broke his heart and when she pressed her face into his fur he lifted a foreleg to wrap it around her shoulders, pulling her into him in a tight embrace.

He nearly missed what she told him and even when he did hear her it took him a long moment to process it. He left me. It didn't make sense at first. Her husband almost didn't even come to mind, but he ultimately didn't know who else could possibly make her this way with their leaving. Hattori had always seemed so loyal and now he left? It felt like perhaps he was missing pieces of the story or as if he had missed some signs somewhere along the way, but either way he was baffled and infuriated. "He... He left? he said softly in disbelief. He thought about the conversation they had a while back when they had touched on him saying how she needed affection and love, not just duty, and he suddenly wished he had pushed her harder on that. He wished he had done something more sooner so maybe she wouldn't have been so blindsided.

He shifted to wrap his other foreleg around her, hugging her tight and tucking his head down over hers while he tried to keep the furious anger that threatened to bubble up in him at bay. Anyone that hurt his sister would never be forgiven in his mind, but to think that Hattori had everything—a devoted wife, beautiful children, a pack to lead with her... and he would just throw all of that away. That thought baffled him and made him even angrier. "Venom... I'm so sorry," he said quietly after a few moments, unsure of what else to say. He didn't feel like anything he could say would really take away the pain or hurt that her former husband had caused her, but all he could really do was try. "He never deserved you... Your devotion, your love... He never deserved you and he never realized what a gift he had been given." Plague nuzzled the top of her head, comforting her in any way he could think of.

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