Loca, Spider Monkey

28. Not Quite My Enemy (Alec Volturi x Reader)

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If anyone in the Volturi gave you a hard time, it was Alec. They weren't particularly fond of humans yet Alec seemed to make his thoughts clearer than anyone else. The only reason you were kept around was your gift that Aro suspected was something to do with electricity. It was dangerous, but not exactly necessary. So suddenly rumour has it around the castle that you're the part of his collection that's simply for fun rather necessity.
You were expected to practice your ability whilst the others trained.
When Demetri and Felix discovered you most certainly weren't practicing, they made sure to drag you into the training room every session.

"You mean you want me to be the test dummy for the hand buzzer?" A guard, Simon, deadpanned in boredom. It was no secret that no guard wanted to be left with you. Frankly, the feeling was mutual.
You sucked on your teeth, forcing down the annoyance. Quickly, you put your hand on Simons arm. Simon groaned, falling to the ground.
"What we say nowadays is, 'Congratulations, you played yourself'. You responded, feeling a little smug.
He glared at you and no one caught the small smile fighting it's way into Felix's face.

"It's not going to be much use to us if you can only do that through touch."
You grimaced at the voice approaching you. You turned your head to face Alec. "Not much use being human either, if you haven't noticed." You responded and Alec's scowl deepened.
"He is right." Demetri agreed. "You'll need to practice projecting it, or being able to use it all over your body."
"Thanks Alec." You said with a clenched jaw now that he had guaranteed you more work. Alec hissed.
"You two are genuinely at each other's throat all day aren't you?" Felix said, looking between you both.
You scoffed. "He's the one with the problem. Some of us weren't given the gift of mist moulding powers."
"I could only use my gift through touch when I was human. Unlike you, I put in the work to make myself better and actually useful whilst you saunter around expecting something from everyone." Alec snapped.
You shook your head. "I've only ever asked one thing from anyone. I asked you to treat me with some form of decency and you can't even manage that." You glared at him.
Alec stepped forward but Demetri quickly got in the way. "Right, you two. That's enough. As cute as this is, really, we've all got work to do."
"He won't even tell me how he managed it." You said in annoyance. "For all I know, I should just stick my finger in a plug socket and hope for the best."
"Be my guest!" Alec growled.

That training session passed and you got nothing but more and more frustration as a reward. You felt as though you had tried almost everything when your previous words came back to you. You turned to the empty plug socket by the door in one of the many living rooms.
It was stupid, you knew it was but in that moment it was all you could think of that you hadn't tried. Quietly, you got off the couch, moving to the socket. Nothing was plugged in and you were sure you had gone crazy when you flicked the switch on, seriously considering the idea. Even more so, there wasn't anyone to stop you.
You began to talk yourself into the idea. Surely it couldn't hurt. Your gift was electricity! So surely it wouldn't hurt you...or kill you for that matter. You slowly, put your hand closer to the socket. However before you could touch it. Someone had walked in. Although you were still moving your hand closer since their reaction time was quicker. There was a gasp.

"(Y/N)!" Alec's voice rang in your ears.
Less than a second later cold hands roughly grabbed you by the arms and dragged you away from the socket faster than you could blink.
"What in the hell are you doing!?" Alec screamed at you. "Have you gone crazy!?"
Finally you registered what he was saying. "What?"
Alec grabbed your face, forcing you to look at him in the eyes. "Look at me! Are you out of your mind!? You could have killed yourself. You could have gotten hurt! Why in the hell would you ever do that to yourself!?"