Circe Riddle (Book 3)

Chapter 41

TW: Drinking, mentions of blood, mentions of killing/ death

(Theodores pov)

It was midnight and pretty much everyone had left. It was just me, Mattheo, and Circe. Indu had left a couple minutes ago. Mattheo was on his fourth drink and he was already getting a little tipsy "I think that's enuff" I told him

Circe came up next to him "I'll take that" She grabbed the bottle out of Mattheo's hand before Mattheo could react then she took a sip. I looked at her "What?" She looked back at me "I haven't had any yet and Mattheo is my brother, it's only weird if you make it. And why waste perfectly good firewhiskey"

"Ok, well I'm going to take Mattheo back to the dorm but then I will be back. Don't do anything stupid"

"Yep"

(Circes pov)

They left and I turned back to the railing and looked out over the castle grounds. I then looked up at the moon and stars, it was almost a full moon. I heard a set of footsteps coming up the stairs and knew Theodore couldn't be back already so I turned to see who it was and I saw Nicholas emerge from the doorway. As he walked closer I could see he had some bruises and cuts on his face and neck, and he looked angry. "What do you want" I glared at him

"Payback"

He came closer and it took me a second to figure out that he was talking about or what he was going to do. "Nope" I said quickly and he was sent flying into the wall.

"What is it with you and your brother and throwing people into walls?"

"Don't come anywhere near me" I declared

"Or what?"

I put my hand on my hip "You don't want to know, trust me" I smiled

"You know I never took you as the drinking type" He nodded at the drink in my hand

"Well there's a lot of things you don't know about me and I'm not going to tell you those things either"

"Well can I at least know how old you are?"

I thought about it for a second "14 as of yesterday"

"So your a 3ed year"

"Nope"

"But I thought you said you are 14 as of yesterday, wouldn't that mean you're a 3ed year?"

"I'm a 4th year, I got moved up a year" I explained

"Can I ask another question?"

"No, and you just did"

"Why not?"

"That's another question"

"Nicholas, Leave her alone" Theodore was finally back

"Fine, I'll leave her alone for now" He stepped away towards the door "You two have fun"

I rolled my eyes and glared at him as he left and Theodore came to stand next to me. I turned to him "I know it happened a couple weeks ago, but did you ever find out who poisoned you?"

His lips formed a straight line "No" He sighed "I'm fine now but I still don't know who did it" He paused "How have you been doing with the siphon and Malachi stuff, like the voices and whatnot?"

"It's been better, haven't heard the voices in a while and my magic is fine, but I still have small moments where I forget things from time to time"

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March passed by without many problems. Mattheo got a couple detentions for fighting with Nicholas. The dance was going to happen on the 31st and it was currently the 28th of March. Theodore and Mattheo were going to go together again "as friends", they didn't want anyone thinking they were together. I was probably not going to go seeing as I didn't have a date and I wasn't going to ask anyone nor did I think anyone was going to ask me.