Victim

|14| Who are You?

Blaze' frail fingers found their way to the marble door. He smoothed out his black and green suit and slicked back his hair. A woman around the age of eighteen opened the door. A baby was in her hands, around three months old he guessed. The baby's hazel eyes reflected his own. His eyes traveled to the woman and he smiled.

"Hello Alexandria." He said softly. "Miss me?" Alex bore a look of concern on her face.

"H-How do you know me?" She asked. Blaze' face fell.

"Dria, are you feeling well?" He asked. She stepped back, cradling the baby in her arms.

"Who are you?" She asked. Blaze came closer.

"Blaze Katz." He told her. Her eyes looked at him with confusion .

"I don't recall knowing you." She spoke huskily. Blaze took her hand.

"Then let me prove it to you." He leaned in closer, but she backed up.

"Please don't touch me or my baby." She told him. Blaze brushed his hand over her cheek.

"Dria. Please. Don't you remember me?" Alex stared at his emerald orbs. They looked familiar. His scar on his right eye seemed to ring a bell.

"I-I don't know." Blaze held her hands in his. The question slipped her mind before she could stop the words. Alex gently touched the slice on his eye. "What happened?" She asked. Blaze looked at her with a sad expression.

"I-I don't really like to talk about it much." He said, pulling her hand away from the right side of his face.

"If you don't want to talk, I understand." Blaze gave a smile but grabbed her hands.

"You deserve to know." He touched his scar and grinned. "I wasn't in the best relationship with someone." Alex looked at him sympathetically.. "If I didn't do what she wanted, she'd um- hurt me. Verbally and physically." Alexandria tightened her grip on Blaze's hand. "One night, I didn't have the guts to do something to someone, in doing so, I earned this scar." He pointed to the red slice on his right eyelid.

"Does it hurt your vision?" Alex asked.

"No. I can see perfectly. Plus, it's just a scratch now." He smiled. "But moving on," He started. "Dria, remember a mansion?" Alex nodded slowly.

"Yes? It was all run down when I exited it." Blaze looked at her weirdly.

"When was this?" Alex looked to the child and back to him.

"After I found out I was having her." She gestured to the baby in her arms. "I-it's all a blur." Blaze took her by the shoulders.

"Dria. Focus. Who did you tell after you found out you were-" He gestured to the baby. "Expecting." Alex closed her eyes.

"There was a man."

"A man?" Blaze inquired. The baby gurgled and grasped her finger.

"Yes. He had uhm. Blonde-ish hair?" She asked. "He was angry and he held up a cup of liquid and-" She held her head. "I can't remember anything else."

"YOU'RE WHAT?!" The man yelled at her. Alexandria backed up.

"Pregnant father." She repeated. The dirty blonde stared at her in disbelief.

"Who's child?" He asked. Alexandria shrugged.

"I don't know." He pulled his hair and paced around.

"The press are going to have a field day when they find out." He opened a cupboard and pulled out a vial. He poured it into a teacup and handed it to Alexandria.