Breaking His Concentration (Alhaitham x Kaveh)

Chapter 33: The End (Of Us)

Author's Note
Grab your tissues because the angst is real 😭. Anyways only a few left now! Less than 5 chapters! Also I didn't proofread this chapter I didn't have time so I apologize for the spelling mistakes. Enjoy <3

Alhaitham's POV

I sighed as my eyes shifted to the clock towering above me. I could see the handles swinging, ticking as the seconds passed by. I could feel my eyes getting hazier from every second, not wanting to face what I knew was coming. Tighnari's words made me realize where he was going. I knew what he was doing. And he lied to me. But I also knew that he wouldn't be able to handle what he was going to find in that cave. He was going to see her face and he was going to fall to pieces. And I wasn't going to be there to clean him up. I knew I should be there, I should be there to pet his head and kiss him and tell him everything was going to be okay. But he lied to me. I could handle a lot, he could do anything he wanted to me. Yet for some reason when someone lied to drove me into a rage. So here I was, sipping down the vodka bottle wishing he was here next to me to keep me company.

I closed my eyes for a moment, telling myself the next time I opened them I was going to go after him. I was going to find him in the desert and we were going to make everything right. But when I opened my eyes after a few seconds I found myself picking the bottle up again and pressing it to my lips. Maybe in a few minutes.

Kaveh's POV

Once my vision finally started returning to me my chest felt like a million bricks were being piled on top of it. I was kneeling on the ground, clutching my chest as my breaths came in ragged and short. The first thing I noticed when my vision returned to normal was my hands. Oh my hands, they ached like I had broken a few of my fingers. I was used to being in a few bar fights before but nothing this severe. Even when the guards had beat me in the cell. As my eyes slowly flickered open I realized I was still in the cave, there was stone all around us and torches lit the room. I was still here. How long had I blacked out for? I lifted my hand and pressed it to my head, my head was aching like it never had before.

"What happened?"

I murmured, finally lifting my eyes to the wall that was across from where I was kneeling. And then I saw her. I remembered. I had come here to see Drea, I had come to talk to her and find out what happened. And then I found out that Alhaitham...... Alhaitham had been coming here to torture her. He had been hurting her all this time without me knowing. And then she..... she started talking about my dad. I remember the flashes of anger that had started pulsating through my body, I remembered my vision getting hazy as I raised my hand to punch her. And then everything went black. As my eyes lifted to her I audibly gasped when I saw her body. It looked like she was limply swinging on the chains, her eyes were closed and her hair was caked in blood.

The wall behind her had blood splatters of all different colors decorating the stone in different shades and hues of red. It was almost a beautiful sight had I thought it was paint instead of blood. Her head looked like it was barely attached to her body and I couldn't even see her eyes. Her eyes were bruised and bloodied shut, dried blood was caked on her blood and her nose was twisted in a sadistic way on her face. It looked like the bone had been broken in multiple different places, it had clearly been broken behind repair. Her throat was covered in bruises and a few gashes, clearly someone had tried to choke her. And she wasn't moving. Her body gently swayed from the draft coming down the cave but she wasn't moving. Not an inch. Her injuries were so deep, so severe she must have been dead.

"I see you're finally back."

A voice interrupted me from my thoughts. I turned my head slowly to look behind me, and to my surprise I saw Alhaitham sitting on the ground, his back against the wall closest to the exit. His arms were folded on his body and his eyes pierced mine, he looked like he could strangle me. When did he get here?"