Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

[Nox]

His shirt was dry, and there was a puddle on the ground from the water. He grinned at his sister as she played hostess, she was good at it. She turned around and hugged him tightly, he wrapped his arms around her and put his check against the top of her head. He'd missed her.

She let go and the questions flew. "What happened after you fell out of the plane, Nox? Who's Aria? What do we have to talk about? Why aren't we going home? You act like this is home now. So many questions I don't know where to start."


Aurora sat down on the palette and looked up at him. Nox joined her. It was going to be a pretty long discussion if it went anything like the talks he'd already had with Aria. And he knew that there would be many more like this in the future.

Nox grinned at his sister. "Slow down, Aurora. There is plenty of time to go over this."


Aurora punched him in the shoulder, "Come on, tell me."


Nox laughed. "I woke up in the hospital, a few weeks after they found me. I was in a full body cast, broke nearly every bone in my body. Was laid up for months, and then a few more while they watched me. I didn't know who I was, and my wallet gave me very little information other than numbers on my phone."


Aurora nodded, "How did you remember?"


"I started remembering things when I met this guy. He was showing off to some woman, and he was using his power. We got in a fight, it hurt."
Nox laughed. "I was newly released from the hospital, I was still all sorts of sore, but I found out what I was that night. I got more answers when I met Aria."


Aurora interrupted, "Aria. You've mentioned her before. Why did she help you? Who is she? Why are you hanging out with her."


Nox glared at his sister, she was being jealous of a person she had no clue who was. He was beginning to remember why they fought so much. He took a deep breath. "Aria ran into me in the tunnels, I was practicing, monsters attacked, she saved my life many times during that fight. Because of that fight, she knew what I was and who I was wasn't hard to find out for her."


He stood up and started pacing. "You don't remember what we were either, I take it. We are Atharim hunters, Aria is too. She showed the file they had on me. She read about missions."
Nox stopped and turned away from his sister, tears welled up in his eyes and he fought away the pain. "She told me how Mom died, she showed me the report. I had relived that moment during the fight with the monsters."
His voice cracked with the sorrow. "She told me it was okay, that there was nothing I could do. She told me about you. I'd been dreaming about you for weeks. I called you."
The anger was there in his voice. "You weren't there when we got there. So Aria took me to the Atharim headquarters and I became a full fledged member. It's why we are here in Moscow."


Nox walked away from Aurora and when he was a few feet from the door he turned around and sighed. "And this."
He waved his hands around his body, indicating all of this, the place, him, Moscow, "Is home because I've never had a bed of my own, a place to hunt without having to scrap for a living. Because I've friends, something I've never had before. Aurora, I'm not going anywhere. The Atharim here is much different than the States. I can have a home."
He stood staring at her, waiting.


Edited by Nox, Dec 17 2014, 12:36 PM.