Et tu, Brute?

[Nox]

Nox heard Cruz calling him but he was still so pissed off he just ignored it. Right up until the point that Cruz walked into his room and started asking a thousand and one questions. The answer to all of it was simple "I'm leaving." He kept stuffing his clothes into his bag. He'd need to take a few other things too. He'd lived out of bags most of his life, it was the first time he actually had stuff. Granted most of the stuff was weapons related and his fathers, but it was still his.

Nox pushed past Cruz standing the the door but Cruz was solid. The boy had learned to stand up for himself and Nox looked at him straight in those sparkling fucking blue eyes of his. "Please move."

Cruz laughed. "I didn't expect you to be nice about it."

"I don't have to be. I can think of several things I can do to make you move. Least of which is kiss you." Cruz winced and gave ground and Nox pushed past him. "Never thought kissing a boy could come in so handy."

Cruz stalked behind Nox as he went about grabbing his things in the dojo. "Talk to me Nox. Where are you going and why?"

Nox stopped in the middle of the dojo floor and rounded on Cruz who stopped suddenly and was staring wide eyed at him. Surprised? Nox didn't care as he almost yelled. "You want to know how your fucking father betrayed me? Do you? Do you really want to know he took something I asked him to keep safe and gave it to someone else to use it against me. As fucking leverage."

Nox went on. "Not only is your father now part of some crime syndicate involving the police. This group of people wants to know how the Atharim work. They want to know all about gods and how to control them among other things I'm sure. Is that really what you want to know?"

Cruz stared at him wide eyed but he could see the anger rising and Nox grabbed the power even though it hurt to do so. The power was the only thing he could count on. There was no such thing as friends. Cruz looked flustered, afraid and then the power fled from his body, the anger was still there on the edges you could hear it in his voice, "What did he take from you?" but he was non-threatening now.

Nox wasn't going to take any chances the power raged through his body and the pain lanced at his memory but he floated in nothing. "He took the EM weapon that Aria used on me before I had to kill her," Nox said in a distant cold voice. He'd never heard himself sound so focused and far away at the same time it was strange being in this emptiness but it was clear here. Nothing mattered only what him and the power.