Day: October 31, 2018

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“You were grieving.” They still were, both of them. But… he didn’t remember much about his Uncle Nate from before Aunt Kathy died, but he knew Viv did. He knew his cousin remembered her dad before and after losing her mom. This wasn’t the same as losing a spouse, but he still didn’t want Hawk to think of them like that and he definitely didn’t want Milay to only know them like this. “But we can’t… We have to try… It’s never going to be okay but the kids still need us.”

August sighed heavily, curling in on himself once more. Even shifted, he couldn’t seem to feel anything but a deep, unsettling coldness that clung to every inch of his being. His teeth still felt weird in his mouth after finally being able to shift out of leopard form, the canines too sharp. It was just another reminder of what was lost. 

“I don’t…I don’t know how.”

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“Fine, but they need you. I can’t… do this alone.” He was barely holding himself together and it was only the fact that there were two other lives depending on him and August that had kept him from completely losing it. “You won’t hurt them. You wouldn’t hurt anyone.”

He let out a pained whine, millions of fights between the two of them still utterly clear in his memories. Chase had told him for years that the key word was always yet. 

“I’ve also never needed to be kept in chains before either.”

As soon as he turned 18, Zia legally changed his name from Christopher Carden to Zia Daniels before just leaving home. He had found a stack of letters his dad had sent to his mother (Helena only kept them because they had tips for dealing with his affinity for fire) and it really set him off. Mostly because his father asked about him constantly, wanted to be there, but Helena had always told Zia that his dad wanted nothing to do with him