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Luke took a deep breath before knocking on the cellar door. "Valentine I know you're in there, open up!"
Luke waited impatiently in front of the door, it took a long time, he was just about to leave when the door opened.
"What do you want?!" Valentine scowled, he had dark circles under his eyes, like he hadn't slept for days.
"What's going on with you?"
What do you mean?"
"Seriously! we're parebetai for god's sake! I know something is wrong and Jocelyn says that you spend almost all your time in the cellar." That sounded harder than Luke mend, but he was frustrated!
Valentine looked away. "I can't tell you."
"you know that's a lie, you CAN tell me anything, you just don't want to."
Valentine didn't say anything.
"You wanna shut me out? FIne!" Luke turned around to leave, but was stopped by a hand in his wrist."
For a moment luke saw a glimmer of vulnerability in Valentine's eyes. "Wait! I... I... I ehm....." Then it was gone, valentine's face returned to its usual neutral expression. "I'm going on a hunt for the werewolves tonight, Will you go with me?"
Luke sighed. He didn't want to go hunting, he wanted answers, but there is no way he's going to let his parebetai go hunting alone. "What time do we leave?"
"Luke!!!" Valentine shouted before Luke could turn around he felt a sharp sting in his shoulder, In shock he dropped his seraph blade, he tried to push the werewolf away. Then the werewolf just let go.
Valentine kneeled next to him on the muddy forest floor. "Shit! This can't be happening, Luke, can you hear me?"
Luke tried to speak, though he wasn't sure what he would say, it didn't matter, he couldn't get any sound out. His was vision was quickly becoming black.
Strong arms wrapped around him as Valentine pulled him to his chest. "You're gonna be okay." Valentine whispered in his ear.
"Luke can you hear me?" Luke blinked awake. adrenaline was pumping through his veins where was he? where were the werewolves?
somebody said something, a hand on his shoulder, he pushed away and stood up. He was spinning rounds not knowing where he should go.
Another hand on his shoulder, Luke fell to the ground, he bagged away until he hit a wall, arms wrapped around. He knew those arms. "You're gonna be okay."
"V-Valentine?"
"Sshh... I'm here, you're safe, you gotta calm down."
Luke turned around, he hadn't hit a wall, he was sitting against valentine's chest.
Valentine rested his hand on Luke's cheek. "You're okay now?"
Luke just nodded, tried to speak, then shook his head when no sound came out. Tears were gathering in his eyes.
"Hey," Valentine called his attention. "You're gonna be okay." Valentine's voice was so confident, Luke almost believed him.
"I was bitten, wasn't I?" Luke asked when his voice returned.
"Luke..." A female voice said, Jocelyn, Luke didn't know she was there. she crouched down beside luke and hovered her hand above his shoulder before deciding it wasn't a good idea and pulling back."
Luke swallowed. "They're gonna lock me up till the next full moon, and if I become a werewolf, there... there... they're going to..."
"No they're not!" Luke's eyes finally met Valentine's, shining just as confident as they did in school. "the bite probably didn't even take, you're just gonna stay here and we'll wait till the full moon."
"But what if...."
"Valentine is right," Jocelyn tipped in "There is no need to worry about something unlikely like you becoming a werewolf, we're just going to wait till the next full moon, and if you change we'll deal with it after."
Luke swallowed and nodded. Suddenly he was very tired and rested his head on Valentine's chest.
Luke would swear he felt a kiss on his forehead, but it was probably just his imagination.
"You're gonna be okay."