Somewhere in the shadows, while you’re dancing with your Queen...

Aurora kept hearing an awful sound and didn’t even realize that she was the one that was screaming. Screaming and crying as she held Tatiana’s lifeless body in her arms, her hands covered in the girl’s blood. Her ears were buzzing and none of this seemed real. 

stands the Devil waiting for the chance to cut in....

And that awful poem was stuck in her head like a song on repeat. Like Zadrian was screaming the words at her while laughing, like her image of him was mocking her and her grief. “Wake up, wake up...Taty, please...” she cried, while rocking her. But she knew Tatiana wasn’t going to wake up. 

So when the Devil asks you to dance, you better say never...

Aurora cried out her brother’s name in pure rage and desperation. Even though she had the gift of manipulating hearts, he had crushed hers. Slowly Tatiana’s body slipped from her hands. “I’m sorry...I’m so sorry...” she whispered. She should have known better than to underestimate her brother. A cold demeanor crawled over Aurora, her eyes going lifeless as she managed to stand up. She moved through the hallway like a ghost, people whispering because she was covered in blood. She didn’t knock when she arrived at Zadrian’s room. She just opened the door and stood there, utterly defeated.

because a dance with the Devil, might last forever.

Kyle was shaken up. He was torn in his loyalties. He didn’t want to disappoint Zadrian. He truly didn’t but he didn’t have the strength to take Elizabeth from her mother’s arms either. She was his. Not Zadrian’s or Aurora’s but his. Yet he had created a plan in which she a vital piece. Without her everything would fall a part. Too much had already happened for them to go back on it. Sylvie had lost her wings. Grayson nearly his life. Only Tatiana and Aurora were left to deal with. The program was closing in on them and they had to leave. Soon. 

Kyle stepped into Zadrian’s room. Knowing he was about to break character. Because the next four words were ones Orion would never say.

“I can’t do it...”

Sylvie approached Zadrian in a very matter of fact way. She had a couple files clenched against her chest. 

“I found what you were looking for.” she said in a soft voice. The files of Orion and Akron Dougal were safely in her hands. He hadn’t forbidden her of reading it. So she had. And she was suddenly a lot more aware of this family and their secrets and the horrors they had lived through. But also of the horrors they were capable of.

Aurora opened her eyes. Her chest was moving up and down rapidly as the events of her dream washed over her. It was just a dream, it was just a dream. Her memory of it however, was so very vivid. The memory of stabbing her own blood. Her own dearest brother. The love of her life. Stabbing him to actual death. That had been her last memory before waking up. Watching his dead body tumble backwards.

She only noticed now that her head was leaning on his chest. In the same position they had fallen asleep the night prior. She was awfully aware of the speed of his beating heart and the fact that it was actually still beating.

Kyle had tried to prepare Felix the best as possible. Funnily enough he felt for the boy, who was here all alone and confused. He knew that Orion had cared for the younger Akron too. It was a good sign that Kyle felt the same. He also knew that Zadrian had never been fond of the youngest brother, which meant he wasn’t sure how tonight was going to go. He didn’t know if Zadrian was looking for the roles to be devided in exactly the same way or for actually a better dynamic between the oldest and youngest.

Kyle had given Felix one of his suits to wear. It had taken Kyle a while to get used to them as a poor street rat but appearing in anything less than that for such an important meeting would be an absolute offense among the Dougals. 

“Now remember everything I told you...” Kyle told the boy, while fixing his tie. “Let him do the talking. Answer his questions. Be respectful. But don’t be too timid either. Brag about your power a bit, show that you’re worth being here.” Kyle said. He shot Felix a smile. “If he isn’t pleasant to you, don’t panic. Just hold your own. And know I’ve got your back.” he assured the kid before he knocked on Zadrian’s door. “And no slang. Make sure to speak properly.” That had been one of the biggest challenges for Kyle when he had started out.

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Sylvie wandered over the black market, looking for certain supplies she needed at the nursery. After the battle they were low on stock on a lot of things and since the shield was up around the base there were only certain hours one could leave to do things like this. Most weren’t allowed to leave at all. Sylvie had permission as a nurse to go out and get what they needed. Even though New York was on edge, the black market had always been a sort of neutral place if one was careful enough. There were stuff there that both sides needed after all and it wouldn’t do anyone any good to start fights here. That’s why the Black market, next to the graveyard, was one of the relatively safer places of New York. Even though it didn’t have a written agreement of neutral grounds such as the graveyard, it was much like a gentlemen’s agreement. Though when Sylvie saw Zadrian there, staring right at her, she was overcome by fear. She didn’t think him to be the person to go out for his own supplies, he would likely send people for that. So why was he here now? And why was he looking at her like she was the prey, again.

Kyle had turned out to be quite the creation due to the combination of the powers of the Dougal twins. They didn’t have to constantly use their powers on him to make him to their bidding. It wasn’t like he was obeying them all the time but more like something had created an illusion in his mind in combination with wanting to please them that caused him to grow fiercely loyal towards the Dougals. Especially towards Orion and Zadrian. Kyle was still Kyle in many ways, just a little darker and with different motives and values. Those matched those of the Dougals now. It was like he was the fifth sibling and the fourth brother in this scenario and he was sitting at one of their outrageously delicious and luxary dinners. Sitting there eating rather bored as family matters were dicussed as if he had heard nothing else his whole life. “Akron, stop being a little shit.” he hissed to the youngest brother as he did something that annoyed Kyle, they couldn’t get along all that great. He was pretty sure Akron felt threatened by him. Kyle continued to stuff food in his mouth while briefly looking at the oldest Dougal who was talking.

Aurora was running out of breath but she was so close now, she couldn’t give up. She had been running through the S.H.I.E.L.D. base trying not to get caught. Everyone wanted her head. It had been chaos. A friend had tried to hide her, Mason had tried to retrieve her. And then Theon, from her point of view, had let her down in the worst way possible. Thinking that she would have betrayed them was the highest form of betrayal to her. And she had realized that there was only one outcome. Something she had probably already realized for a few days but only now dared to admit to herself. She would return home, to Hydra and her family and never leave them again. It’s where she belonged. And those who had broken her heart could expect the same treatment from her. The Dougals weren’t raised to be forgiving and she didn’t take this let down lighty. Like she didn’t take anything lightly but always way to personal and emotional. She had lost Mason along the way and was on her own now. She had managed to make it outside the S.H.I.E.L.D. base which was the furtherst she had gotten so far. Once outside she realized the chaos of it all for the first time. The fighting people, the screaming, the lights, the panic. They almost overloaded all of her senses. She almost got desperate. How as she going to get through this fighting crowd? There was no time to think. She had to keep moving. So she started running again, avoiding where the fight was the thickest and ready to drop anyone with her power that came to close. That’s when she saw him. “Zadrian!” she called out and ran towards him.