Seeing through the Flames (Killua x OC) (Kurapika x OC)

Chapter 15

WARNING: There will be torture, abuse, and other dark themes in this chapter. If you cannot handle it, then please skip to the next chapter or skim through this quickly. Thank you.

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It had been a long time since she felt this way.

Ai's skin pounded with heat and fear, adrenaline claiming its fast course through her. She did not want to be around this man at all.

But in the end, what choice did she have? What choice did she ever have? At this point, it was her own choice to be trapped, already wrapped up in the ungiving tendrils of love.

"You are horrible." Staring down at his shoes and dark clothes, Ai exhaled roughly, clenching her fists. "You are absolutely horrible, Chronis."

The man in question merely smiled, chuckling lightly at her words. "Is that any way to speak to a priest, Ai?" Despite the admonishing message behind his words, Chronis' tone remained jovial. Casually taking a step, and then another towards her, Chronis stood imposingly in front of her. Undeterred by Ai's uptight stance and trembling, he stood in front of her confidently, hands clasped behind his back. "But if that's so, why are you submitting your will to me now?"

"I'm not submitting to you," Ai answered immediately, tremors in her voice. "But for now, I need to use you."

"Use me?" Amusement and slight bewilderment sauntered into his tone; unclasping his hands, Chronis swiftly grabbed her chin, forcibly making her face him.

Her whole body went cold. She could do nothing as fear made its marathon.

"Use me?" He repeated, his eyes wide with a manic glint as his grin stretched wide. "I never expected to hear that from you. Just this once, I must commend your insolence. Do you wish to redeem yourself before I correct whatever mischief you have in your mind?"

"I must use you," Ai asserted, her trembling voice mild and low as she continued staring into his eyes with fear and contempt. She felt poison coating her throat and tongue, yet she still pushed out the words causing that horrible sensation. "To extract revenge on my brother."

At that, Chronis actually paused, his jovial expression falling into shock. And then he pulled back, laughing freely with a hand covering his eyes and forehead.

Thoughts and emotions in as much disarray as the insanity of the man before her, Ai stared at him. If she went about this the wrong way, then things would fall apart before they even began. Despair and hope clung at her heart, each beat heavy with emotions damning her.

"You must've met him," Chronis remarked as his laughter calmed down; he slowly removed the hand from his face to uncannily reveal the same expression he held before. "Do you realize now, that he never escaped? How was it? Seeing him?" Excitement and glee were apparent in his eyes as he stepped forward with each question.

"It was horrible," Ai said, taking steps back as she continued looking up at the man with wide frightened, apprehensive eyes.

Nevertheless, Chronis continued stepping towards her until he cornered her against a wall.

"I told him I love him, like a younger sister whose entire world as a child was their brother would," Ai admitted honestly, now no longer staring into Chronis' eyes, being less than a foot away from him. "He told me I didn't love him. He told me I couldn't love. That I neither loved him nor my friends." She then paused, feeling her throat tightening up in disgust as if snakes were crawling her skin. "I... I... This revenge is a symbol of my love for him. He will know that I love him."