New Adventures

[Ashton]

Ashton shook his head. "He doesn't diminish me. He gives me strength. He sees that I didn't do what I did to him because I thought it was right. He sees that I did it to survive, to live. He forgave me, so what if he put a rule. He has every right to make me earn that trust. I lured people to their deaths. Some were over sooner rather than later, some were like him, who we tortured. Who we carved and healed and carved again just so our masters could eat. We did it because we had to. Not because we wanted to. We did it to survive. And he understands that. He promised to keep me safe and he did. He killed the monsters that claimed me out of 'love' for children. He gave me a home when he could have thrown me out in the cold. You didn't even talk to him, or give him a chance. You formed your opinion on what, his rules? We all have rules." Ashton was almost angry now. The feeling of losing his family for someone who didn't understand it, yet claimed he was family.

"If I feel like family then you should understand what I feel for them. I want to know you, I want to understand this..." he waved his hand between them. "This whatever between us because i feel it. I long for it, but I won't leave my family for it." Ashton took a step back the way he came still facing the girls. "I'm going back." He held out his hands and he sang for her. He didn't compel her to come, or to follow. He just sang for the love of family. "You can come with me."