#stvrfallen

Ezra hummed along to the music playing through his earphones as he walked down the street, taking his time and enjoying the sunshine whilst keeping an eye on his little white dog as it wandered ahead of him, sniffing around and wagging his tail at every person that walked past.

He only looked away for one second and when he looked back Morrissey had taken off running, sprinting down the street and taking a sharp turn down an alleyway, barking as he went. Ezra cursed and quickly took off after him, calling his name to try to get him to stop. He stopped in his tracks when he came to the alleyway though, mismatched eyes wide.

Morrissey had found a scraped up and bloodied girl sitting in the alley, shaking so hard he could see it from where he was standing, clearly terrified. Someone must’ve been after her. 

He slowly made his way towards her as not to scare her and crouched down close to her, looking her over and speaking to her in a soft voice.

Only just managing to sneak the animals that guarded the camp, Tyler slowly crept around the camp being as quiet and careful as he possibly could, peeking into tents to find his father’s. He was lucky all the guards had fallen asleep and the animals knew him well enough not to cause a fuss when they saw him, just went back to doing their jobs when he gave the a quick pet.

Anja quietly made her way over to Ellie’s tent, glancing back at her brother who was still sitting eating breakfast, chatting away to Taygete before carefully lifting the tent flap and peeking inside, sighing in relief when she saw her friend laying in bed.

“Ellie? Is you in here...? Oh! Hello, is you okay? Anja was worried, she didn’t see Ellie at breakfast, Ellie always eat breakfast with Finn and Anja but didn’t today, Anja saved Ellie a seat and everything...”

She made her way inside the tent as she spoke, looking around then spotting a boy sleeping in a bedroll on the floor. She tilted her head to the side before crouching down in front of the boy, studying his face to see if she recognised him at all then carefully touched his hair with a little smile.

The two came up to Pierre’s tent and Ezra stopped before they could enter, standing a few feet away from the entrance. He took a deep breath and turned to Esther, looking very clearly nervous and spoke to her in a hushed voice so his father wouldn’t hear.

Stopping at the front of the house, Rosemary bit her cherry red lip nervously. Was she even at the right house? They had said there would be a light blue car out the front, but there wasn’t a car in sight...she then saw a bicycle the same colour leaned up against the fence and remembered that was mentioned too. Adjusting her handbag on her arm, she opened the white gate and stepped into the garden, closing it behind herself and slowly making her way up to the door, admiring the amount of work that had gone into the front garden and the beautiful flowers right at the front of the house.

She stopped in front of the door and raised her hand to knock, but hesitated. Did she really want to do this? He had been doing just fine without her, had clearly made an amazing life for himself, what if having her in his life ended up tearing that down all because of Pierre wanting to make him as miserable as he could? There was no way her husband wouldn’t find out about this, he wouldn’t be happy, and Ezra and that poor girl would have to suffer the consequences...no. She had to do this, she had waited for long enough, Ezra had gone long enough without a mother, without a family, and she had to make sure the little girl her husband so brutally tortured was okay. She was done with Pierre hurting these children, it was her job to protect them, like a mother should.

“They what? Who? What did they do?”

Ezra rushed over to her and looked her up and down for any damage, quickly wiping blood and tears off her cheeks, pushing her now blue tinted hair out of her face, an unfamiliar colour on her to him. It was obvious what it meant, he’d hoped never see that colour on her. The worry and anger was clear on his face, and he was so ready to kill whoever hurt her, something he never wanted to do very often, or at all.

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 “Me too…I’m sick of this place…”

 Ezra sighed, looking down and falling silent, smoothing out Esther’s skirt and playing with the white lace on the edge. He was so tired of all this. Having to hide the fact that they were together, having to sneak around just to see her, and just being treated in the way that they were at home. He was sure she felt the same. He just wanted to go. It’s not like anyone was around right now anyway…

 He froze for a second then grabbed her hand, looking up at her. 

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Looking up from his phone, he watched people start to make the way out of their classes and start to head to their next class. He'd been waiting almost half an hour for that class to end, whoever passed him in the hall luckily didn't say a word to him. He was surprised, he thought he would look out of place. Apparently not.

He grinned when he spotted Esther, shoving his phone in his jacket pocket and quickly making his way over to her. He would usually feel anxious around this many people, but he was having a good day and only really cared about one person in the room. No one else bothered him.