.blue is the same old misery

[Xaver]

"Yeah, like-"
"Belain."

He 'hmphed', scowling slightly, even as he tried to hide the stiffness that settled in his spine at the sharpness of Xaver's gaze.
"Fine. Whatever. However, my lord - you must accompany me. Your uncle is waiting for you."
Xaver stiffened, and Turk looked up at him, from where he was, still gripping Xaver's pants at his knee.
"Bring him in then," he said, very quietly, and Belain blinked. "I will not go to him. I am an obediant prince no longer, Belain. Or have you forgotten that?"

Heavy muscles twitched, studdenly anxiously, and Belain, bowed his head, shaking it.
"No.."
"Then go. Fetch him."
"But-"
"Ah - you are right. We have forgotten something. Your apology."
"Xaver?"

Xaver rose, and was suddenly standing. Turk clung to him, his arms wrapped around Xaver's leg, his dirty hair coming to about midthigh, his face pressed into the side of Xaver's knee. Todd's golden wings twitched nervously, and he watched Xaver, his silver eyes wide. Belain glanced from them, to Xaver, to Ginny, and shook his head, muttering an apology before he left, quickly.
As soon as he was around the corner, Xaver sighed, his head dropping as he squeezed his eyes shut, pressing the tips of his fingers to the wound across his shoulder. It burned, and the skin around it was again an irrigtated shade of red, the wound itself an ashen grey. He hadn't donned another shirt - so the ripple through the muscles of his torso were in clear view, when he brushed his fingers to his shoulder.

[Ginny Weasly]

"What a prick..." Ginny muttered, as Belain left the room. She watched Xaver touch his shoulder with concern, "Love?" She asked softly, worry in her eyes and voice.

[Xaver]

"Mm?"

Slowly, Xaver looked up, his gaze focusing, and then settling upon Ginny.
He looked at Laylenn, though, when she looked quickly between them, her young eyes wide, taking Ginny's hand.
"Love?" she questioned, but Turk's voice overrode hers. "You won't let them kill us?"
Xaver looked down at the boy, blinking at him. Then he shook his head, his hand falling away from his shoulder, the goo that Zeil had pasted onto his shoulder smeared, dark, heavy lines of his lifesource trickling slowly down the finely honed, pale contours of his chest.
"No," he said firmly. "You are safe. I will let nothing happen to you. I promise."

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny glanced down at Laylenn and squeezed her hand gently, giveing her a slightly confused smile before looked at Turk with slight wonder.

"We'd never let them do that, Turk. Nothing will happen to you three as long as either of us live, ok?"

[Xaver]

"But he's dying."

Todd was staring at him. Pointing at him. His golden wings twitching anxiously. Xaver's gaze slowly moved to the boy, and when their eyes met, he bit back his response.
His reassuring lie.

He looked away from the boy, in the beginnings of shaking his head when a door closed in the hallway, and multiple footsteps sounded, approaching. Turk, pressed his face into Xaver's leg again, and Laylenn squeezed Ginny's hand back, swallowing.

[Ginny Weasly]

At Todds words, Ginny's eyes focused on Xaver's, until he looked away. She swallowed, but smiled at Laylenn softly, squeezing back.

-Is he telling the truth, love?-

[Xaver]

His heartbeat sounding in his ears, Xaver looked at her.

-He might be,- he returned, very softly.


At that moment, the group in the hall rounded the corner. There were six or so, all tall, fit men, Fallen men, all with greyish, variously tinted wings except Belain, who stood near the back, his still hidden, and the man in the front of the group, of whos wings were as darkly shaded as Xaver's, though tinted with the same reds as Xences's wings. He stopped, and the men behind him stopped. The man, Xaver's uncle, stared at him, dark green eyes looking Xaver over from shoes, to topmost hair, his gaze lingering over the ever-worsening wound on his shoulder.

"My son, is dead."
His green eyes darted through the room, over the children, and pausing on Ginny for a moment.
"Your cousin, is dead. For warning you."
When Xaver stared at him, he grew angry, a blurring mist hovering about him as he stomped his foot, scowling, impressive in the choice of black pants, and shirt, and leather vest, the heavy maroon colored cloak enclosing his thick form billowing with his movements.
"Have you not seen him in so long, Xaver Xian?! Have you been so preoccupied with yourself that you have forgotten your own family?!"

Xaver scowled.
"You have long since disowned myself and my twin. Who are you now to claim family relations, Xaphan?"

Xaphan returned the set expression of his nephew.
"I DID disown you - but my son did not! And now he is dead, because of trying to forewarn you!"
"H-"
"We found him! Run right through the middle, his wings sheared off-"

Xaver reeled, almost taking a step back from the mental blow, though Turk, holding tight to his leg, kept him still.
"That was-"
"How dare you!"
Xaphan crossed the room in a few long, powerful strides, and in an instant a hand was gripping Xaver's jaw, his fingers digging into the handsome lines of his cheeks.
"How you dare forget, I-..."
Slowly, the taller, and slightly broader, man blinked, his gaze flickering again to Xaver's shoulder, even as Xaver jerked away from him, rubbing his fingers over his jaw.
"..What did they do to you?..."

[Ginny Weasly]

"They tried to do the same thing to him, you idiot." Ginny said, never moving, not even as Xaver's uncle had grabbed him.

"Instead of being so preoccupied with the death of one, why don't you worry about healing another? Before there are two deaths." She glared at the man, her face blank, her voice cool, and gentel, but firm. Control showing through her tones,  a streak of stubbornness in her eyes.

She had avoided anything that had had to do with the Fallen when Xaver had been gone. It was men like this she had kept her son hidden from, although Xences had been the biggest fear.

"And while you are at it, you could help these children." She added, her gaze now going to Belain with a frown and obvious anger at him.

[Xaver]

"Xaver can take care of himself," he said, offishly.
Not even believing it, with this situation, himself.
Xaphan blinked, and stared at Ginny, his green eyes flickering from her eyes, to her red hair, his head tipping to the side, curiously.
"Take care... of them?" He shook his head. "You're insane."

[Ginny Weasly]

"Surprisingly, that isn't the first time someone has said that." Ginny smiled, her eyes smouldering with unleashed anger. "It would be in your best interest to help these children and Xaver. Immediately."

Or what? Ginny didn't know. She knew next to nothing about these people, but the fact that they kept trying to not help Xaver of the kids was making her angry. She was no innocent, she was hardly considered kind. But to not help someone so obviously in pain? To avoid helping starving children for who knows why?

It made her angry enough to accidentally squeeze Laylenns hand a bit too hard, causing the girl to make a small noise. Ginny focused on Xaver's uncle, still smiling, "I strongly suggest you at least get someone in here with medical training. And soon, you don't want more deaths than you can hide on your hands."

[Xaver]

"My lady. He-.."
Xaphan sighed, shaking his head as he glanced from her, to Laylenn, over Turk still clinging tightly to Xaver's leg, and then finally resting on Todd, of whom still stood, his little fists clenched, returning the stare.
"This realm, is at war. Xaver's realm, is at war. I will NOT bring more turmoil to this land by bringing in enemy royalty!"

"We aren't anymore!"
Todd stomped his foot, his arms folding over his too-skinny creature, the golden wings behind him shimmering brightly, with his movements. A few in the hallway, behind Xaphan, murmured to each other.
"Momma and Pop haven't lived together in years!"


Suddenly, Xaver was laughing.
Deleriously so, and the low, gentle murmur of his tones was enough to bring goosebumps to any in the room, but laughing still.
He mopped his hands over his face, and when he dropped them, all traces of a smile were gone.
"Xaphan. Uncle. You know I would give my wings before letting them die."
Xaphan clenched his jaw, and another ripple went through the group behind him.

That, was why Xaver was king of their Fallen realm.
He was never by-the-book. Never predictable. And though he could easily destroy someone, literally, he tried to do things not to be honorable - but because they were the right things, to do. He sure as hell made many, many mistakes - but who didn't, when they had to make so many choices?


"I'd tell them to get Aaro, but it seems you already 'took care' of him."
Xaphan frowned, nastily, then jerked his head at a few behind him.
"Get a healer."

[Cody james]

very good.

[Ginny Weasly]

"Enemy royalty or not, they are still children." Ginny said quietly, frowning.
"If my son were captured by an enemy and allowed to die, I would view it as one more reason to stay at war. Not a reason to give in." She used her free hand to touch Laylenn's hair, a soft smile forming now.

"Nonetheless, I thank you for sending for a healer."


((Cody, PLEASE do not post in RPs that are out of your reach. Although we love compliments, you need to differ them from a regular posts by putting parenthesis around them. Like I have done.))

[Xaver]

Xaphan stared at her, his green eyes shuttered, and confused. He nodded awkwardly.
It was all so odd, to him - Xaver hadn't even really fought back, really. The girl probably had no idea the extent of his, and Xaver's problems.. so she wouldn't understand how confusing it was that Xaver wasn't even firing back...


He had pushed it too far, and he knew it.
Xaver fought it - the ever imposing blanket of darkness that threatened to swallow him, if he let it. He pushed it away, had been fighting to keep it away..
But too much.
Todd turned, and stared at him, and Xaver swallowed, his mouth dry as the blood now thickly trickling down his chest, was abnormally cold. The little boy knew - but how?
It didn't matter, anymore, did it?
It couldn't, not as the concrete tile floor was rushing up to greet him.

Turk let out a yell of surprise, releasing Xaver's leg when he began to stumble, and falling back onto his rump when Xaver hit the floor, sprawled on his stomach, and still. Laylenn squeezed Ginny's hand, then released it, staring. Todd, however, went to Xaver, his silver eyes wide, running a hand through the thick mess of Xaver's hair, and frowning when he got no reaction.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny made no sound, but went to Xaver, dropping to her knees beside him and Todd. She gently touched his face, then went to his wrist, looking for a pulse.

"Get that healer here NOW!" She half shouted to Xaphan and the group behind him.