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The sun had long ago left the sky, now ruled by the silver moon that casts a beautiful glow among the earth but that not really reaches his eyelashes. It was a beautiful night, but it felt empty, not even the stars shined enough.
Clawd hugs his knees against his chest, hiding his face, ears down as he thinks about the past hours and what they can possibly imply in his life.
"Dude?"
Deuce's voice gets him out of his trance, head up towards the familiar sound. His teary eyes do little to help him hide how he feels when the gorgon takes a seat by his side, looking at the stars for a moment before trying to speak to him.
"So... I heard from Cleo Drac and you had an argument, wanna talk about it?"
Clawd took a second to colect himself so his voice wouldn't betray him.
"I... today she told me she and... Valentine... became friends" he started, that name feeling like poison in his mouth.
"And you two argued about it?" Deuce spoke, softly, trying to gauge his reaction. Clawd nodded.
"I tried to remind her what he did and she told me she wasn't under a spell the whole time... that means she willingly cheated on me with him at the start, and tried to leave him just when her friends told her to, not because she thought about it herself" Clawd continued and Deuce actually fell silent for a moment, looked at the sky again.
"Thought you knew this whole time..."
Clawd eyes widened as he looked at his friend as if he didn't know him.
"You knew?!"
"Cleo told me back then... then I heard they talked to you as well and I thought they also told you... man, now I know why you forgave her so easily" Deuce said, took off his shades closing his eyes to rub them, then put them on once again.
"I shouldn't have assumed, I'm so sorry dude, I did want to ask you but you seemed so uncomfortable when the Valentine topic came up that I... I don't know, I'm sorry" the gorgon spoke, not able to look at his friend.
Clawd sighed.
"I, well, you're right. I did get very emotional everytime we talked about him, I mean, I went to Scaris for her because I felt... insecure, just thinking about him I can't... I..." Clawd's words trembled on the tip of his tongue, Deuce placed a hand on his back, wishing he had insisted more with this back then, wishing he knew Clawd didn't know, not because he wanted to cause a scene between Drac and Clawd, but because he knew his friend deserved to know what really happened before deciding to forgive her. A sigh left his lips, regretting wouldn't change the past, so he focused on now.
"I know he gives you chills, I mean, literally stole your girlfriend, it's normal you didn't wanna know a shit about him back then nor now, I would hate him too, and the Scaris thing, I-" Deuce spoke, but Clawd didn't let him finish.
"It's not that I... that I just hate him for that, it's that I heard a lot of him from what Draculaura said every year when her birthday got closer and I heard so many amazing stuff, they were together like... a week, and he still left that impression on her, you know?" Clawd stopped for a moment as Deuce patted his back to help him ground himself and not lose it right there and then.
"Valentine could have anyone in the world, he looks like he stepped out of a love novel, he's the prettiest boy I ever knew and I didn't want to admit it when I saw him... how was I gonna compete with him? If ‘perfection’ is the only word anyone can think of when looking at him, like he doesn't know the world turns just for him and I would have gave anything to be like him back then for how much she loved him..." Clawd started to vent to Deuce, he knew the gorgon would never use it against him, he knew Deuce would try to understand, not judge. A sob escaped him.
"He screwed up big time and is still able to have her... 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒... " Clawd mumbled and Deuce actually hugged him as he cried, thinking of Valentine made him feel like nothing compared to that vampire, so elegant and pretty, understanding Drac's world better than him.
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This was gonna be just headcanons but screw it, I TURNED IT INTO AN AU 🗣️🔥🔥
