Twin Flames (Riven x OC)

Riven

Beatrix had been locked away. Not that I minded all too much, but it was still hard to accept the threat that surrounded us, had even been amongst us without any of us having a clue. I'd slept with a girl who was now locked away after she'd killed a member of staff.

It was so incredibly fucked up.

I was worried. Of course I'd been. In the past week that Alex had been back for, she'd seemed so distant. It was strange, to see her tear herself away from me so easily. She'd never managed that before. Something had shifted, like her mind was elsewhere, somewhere potentially dangerous.

It wasn't jealousy that made me dislike how much she'd been around Bloom. At least that's what I told myself. But Bloom was up to things, she'd been there when Beatrix was captured, and I hated that Alex was suddenly wrapped up in something with either of them.

I'd done everything Beatrix wanted. Helped her break into Dowling's office, avoided a mandatory assembly with her, even went so far as to step foot inside the library before Alex burned it all down. And I did it all so that she'd simply leave Alex the hell alone. Beatrix had been curious about her, had wanted to gain something out of her and I refused to let her.

But now I wondered if maybe it was all for nothing. She was wrapped up in it anyway. Though it was odd, to hear her jealous tone at the assumption I was with Beatrix, to now, where she seemed to be working into that fairies hand with Sky's newfound crush leading the way.

Fire fairies. Were they all this crazy? Maybe I just really knew how to choose them.

I was completely fucking clueless to how this even happened, and it bothered me so much. Alex bothered me by not telling me anything. Yet I couldn't necessarily expect her to do so. We were friends at this point, at least I came to call her that more and more as a way to describe her, and yes, maybe I did have a tiny little bit of a crush on her that was absolutely minuscule, but we still weren't at the point where I would get to know everything without even asking.

And I wasn't going to ask.

"Alright, one more time," both of us were exhausted, but Harvey wasn't accepting our defeat so easily. And honestly, neither were we. Me and her both shared that stubbornness and unwillingness to lose, and I knew if I didn't call it a day, neither would she.

Neither of us would accept defeat first, and so we may both need to come to terms with the fact that this task could possibly be never ending.

"Why can't you just tell us how to do it?" I chuckled, leaning over with my hands rested on my knees, taking in more air than usual. We'd been at it for a while. Hell, we'd been at it for a whole week and they still wouldn't give us the simulation of a burned one yet.

It bothered me. I was a good Specialist and she wasn't a completely useless fairy, and yet all they'd let us do for now was practice on tactics and each other. How to avoid and how to work together.

We'd both been thrown into the pond one too many times throughout the week. Neither of us played around. She gave me all she got and I gave it back just as easily. It was fun, sure, but after a while it was also completely draining, having to avoid her flames in order to get to an invisible target.

It would've been much easier with an actual threat coming towards us, even if it was a simple simulation and not actually real.

"Why can't we just have a fucking simulation?" I coughed, taking a sip of water as Harvey gave me a look. No swearing, right.

Neither me nor Alex would ever learn that.

It was weird to be up on a platform without her having a weapon, though in reality it should've always been like this. Her training with me had been a simple outlier from what was usual. Fairies didn't get swords, and Specialists didn't get magical powers.