BREAK FREE [TPN X Male!OC]

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"Zan.."

The said male turned his head around to see a familiar face behind him. "Lucas-!" He immediately stood up and smiled. The older male looked a bit surprised to see Zan in good health before smiling.

"How are you? Have you been sleeping lately?"

"Ah, yes! I've been taking care of myself."

"Did Oliver or Zack talk to you about it?"

"Y-You knew..?"

Lucas chuckled. "Of course, I knew. Oliver tells me everything that's happening while I'm in the hide. I see, that's great. Zan, just remember you're very important to us. All of you are important to me." Lucas puts a hand on top of his head. The gesture was kind and genuine.

Zan smiled as he was being treated as a child. "Understood."

"You know, Gillian had been a very strong fighter. At first, she wasn't so sure about handling a weapon but her will was encouraging her. She mentioned something about protecting you and the others." Lucas smiled down at him. Zan couldn't believe what he had just heard. "It seems like you had become her very reason for joining forces with us, other than her revenge for her sister. With that, I am doing my best to teach her everything I knew so she wouldn't regret joining us."

Lucas made his way to a chair to sit down, Zan quickly helped him because he was wobbling on his way to the chair due to his injury. "Thank you. One day, we will destroy this very place and escape with everyone. And when that time comes, whatever may happen to me, you, Zack and Oliver must lead the children to the human village. No matter what it takes." He told the younger male. "Lucas-! Don't say that, we will- all of us will go to the human village."

Lucas just smiled at him. "I doubt our escape wouldn't go smoothly as planned. There will be sacrifices to be made, Zan, and that's a fact to be expected. If the worst comes to worst, I'll protect all of you. I did promise you guys that. No matter what, you guys come first." He then gestured Zan to come close to him and the younger one complied. When he's close enough, Lucas hugged him, "All the things I do for all of you, because I love you." Zan's grip tightened on the older one's tattered cloak.

"We love you too, Lucas."

Unseen by the two, Oliver was listening behind the closed door. He can't accept this. If anything, Lucas is priority.

"You conducted a meeting without me?" Oliver scratches his head as Zan looks at him with suspicious eyes. "Yeah, it was kind of an urgent meeting especially with the harvest coming up and you were probably busy. It was all about the monsters' information about their masks and how to tear it off of them. Harvest is coming up and I just had to tell the team about it." He explained briefly.

"Then, tell me about it. I'm on my way to the sickbay or are you busy?"

"Not at all. Sure, I'll tell you about it." Now this isn't Oliver. He hasn't lied to anyone before and Zan didn't know he was capable of doing it. He has been upfront and does what is best for everyone. Right now, this is for the best.

Oliver had explained and informed Zan about today's meeting and dissected information for him to understand completely. "I see. The next training will focus on taking their masks off?"

"It might take awhile but we'll get there." Oliver hummed before sighing. It was a tired kind of sigh. Zan chuckled at the gesture, "Hang in there, my dear leader." Oliver pouted and Zan was oblivious of the red tint covering his cheeks. "Please, don't call me that."

Zan smiled in mischief and thrust a finger on his cheek. "Why is our dear, independent, strong and reliable leader wearing such a face? Chin up, king!" The clad in light garments teased the albino. Unable to take it, Oliver covered his face. He doesn't know what he looks like right now and he doesn't want to show. "Seems like you guys are having fun."