Anti-Hero || Leah Clearwater

12 - If I lose control?

"Every minute gets easier
The more you talk to me
You rationalize my darkest thoughts
Yeah you, set them free"

Take Me Home - Jess Glynne

After crying on his shirt for a long time, Leah had pulled away from him and, without looking him in the eyes - she had lacked the courage - she had wished him goodnight.

She had slept soundly, a dreamless sleep, and woke up feeling quite rested.

That morning, she wanted to thank him, but as soon as she woke up she realized that Felix was not home. He had left a note on the living room table: "I haven't gone far. Aro has agreed to meet us today. Get ready, we'll leave as soon as I get back."

She didn't expect Felix to treat her differently after the night before, and in a way, she was relieved. She would never have tolerated a tone of pity from him.

He arrived ten minutes later, while she was getting dressed.

Felix was waiting for her near the entrance door, the sunglasses on his face even if it was still cloudy outside.

"Do I have time for breakfast?" she asked him. She had only been able to have a quick coffee.

He handed her a paper bag with a croissant inside. "We walk, you eat."

"Yes, sir," she murmured, following him outside the house.

The air was cold, humid, and since it was seven in the morning, the streets were deserted.

She finished the croissant in just a couple of minutes, she had been eating more and more in those days, and she had noticed that many of the pants that had become looser in the past few months were now fitting her well again.

All the other members of the pack, before their first transformation, had experienced a sudden growth, with a consequent development of their musculature.

Leah, on the other hand, apart from having perhaps gained a few centimetres in height, had lost those slightly more childish curves, in favour of a lean and powerful musculature. She certainly did not complain, since that was probably the reason why she was the fastest among them.

"So, Aro contacted you this morning?" she asked him.

"Yesterday. He wanted to meet us a few hours ago. I told him we were going to be able to meet him in the morning."

"Oh... why during the night? Did he want to meet me outside?"

That was the probable reason, maybe he wasn't so happy to have to meet a shape-shifter inside a closed space.

Felix turned right. They were not going to the office, she didn't recognize those streets.

"We have a different concept of time. We don't care about the difference between night and day."

"Then why you and the others work at the office during the day?"

"We don't."

Leah suddenly stopped. Her shoes made a screeching noise on the cobblestones on the ground.

"What? We usually..." she went quiet. "Why do you go to the office just during the day?"

Felix looked at her. "Keep walking, Leah."

She started walking again, slowly. "Answer me."

"I usually go to the office every time I need to."

"No, you don't," she reached him "These past few days we went just in the morning. I assumed that everyone was working during the day, but I guess that the office is never empty."