Expectation colors her gaze, a wry smile, eyes unfathomable and glimmering from the darkness around them that stirs in stark disquiet.

The words have the desired effect of rendering him speechless in personal turmoil. Indecision tints his features that are tense and hinted at helplessness. The gaze from amethyst is coolly complacent and mildly taunting. Nothing belies the trembling anticipation at tasting a sliver of victory.

Aerrow leans forward to take her lips in a kiss, soft and tentative. She can sample his reluctance and the bitter aversion behind the sweetness; it sends frissons of delight through her body. He caresses her lips gently, almost placating.

'This kiss tastes so good-No-winning tastes even better.'

Abruptly she pulls away, wearing a pleased expression, one that rarely shined through the twisted shadows that portray dark emotions on alabaster skin, "Not bad. But you really did hurt my feelings." A mocking, caustic laugh in her voice and she makes a face that is supposed to be demure but it doesn't fit on her vile demeanor, "Which is why I think you can make it up to me by consummating our marriage. Now" Tone hardening to silk-coated steel to stab into him.

A strange numb iciness drenches his body, limbs move woodenly offering no resistance to the touch, as frigid and biting as the highest point on the ceiling of Atmos. She leads the way. Sharp amethyst eyes pierce his soul through a metaphorical shattered mirror, distorted and disturbed, and he can perceive himself suffocating and bleeding among the pieces.

'I have to do this. I have to keep them safe.' The thought is a small comfort. It keeps alive the belief in himself. The self that is noble and self-sacrificing. It chains away the repulsion, his loathing for her. The gravity of what he is about to surrender leaves him with a feeling of vertigo in his chest. Wordlessly, she sits on the bed and falls on her back. Dragging him on top of her. Mesmerized in drugged and horrid fascination by the play of shadows and sly wickedness on her face. Breathing is uneven and shallow; he swallows thickly the sandpaper lodged in his throat. 'I can do this. I can-do this thing-for her-to her.'

Sweat dots his hairline and the skin of his palms. The roar of a blood in his ears is distracting. Her breath on his face singes like the warm sizzle of an energy blade. Violet orbs cackle and flash, eyelashes flicker in morbid amusement. A sinister, on the thin precipice of sadistic, smirk dances on her lips.

'It is one thing to kiss her but when the kissing is a precursor to something entirely different. Something I am not ready for-I don't want to share it with her of all people.'

"Why are you dawdling? Aerrow" A thread of irritation in her demand, eyebrows arch in a gesture of impatience. Nails bite into his forearms. A wince of displeasure and Aerrow eyes her warily. Unsure, perturbed and alone.

Lips carry the faintest suggestion of a sneer and it dawns on him that without meaning to-he has indulged in her sick kind of foreplay. His distress is her aphrodisiac. Face smoothens to blank stone in quiet resolve to hide the tumult of emotions that winds his muscles into thick coils. Hard, jagged emeralds glitter down at her.

'Piper, I care so much for you. What would you think if you saw me now? Could you forgive me? Could my friends forgive me? I wish you guys were by my side. I need my friends. I didn't think it would be so tough being away from them -obsessing over the constant danger they are in. I'm going mad. She is driving me insane."

"Aerrow!" Voice penetrates through his thoughts, severe and forceful. He tenses because of it. "What are you waiting for?" There is such a wealth of emotion in his eyes that she can't pick any individual one vying for dominance.

'He must be feeling so weak and impotent. His world crumbling into ruin around him. Now he knows how I had felt after the destruction of my Terra. Useless, pathetic –both him and me for trying to live our wretched existence despite having lost everything and everyone that made us whole.'

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