CROOKED HEART.
chapter thirty-six, the new alpha.
[ season ten, episode fourteen ]
IN THE SHADOWS OF night, revenge stirs
A dark and cruel passion, it lures
Whispers of pain, echoes of anger
In the heart of the vengeful, it reigns
A knife sharp, a ruthless high
To settle the score, an eye for an eye
In the cold remembrance of dead, they fall
To the end of the line, they call
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They get the kids to the meeting point. Daryl forces Brielle and Cori to stay despite both of them wanting to go search for Odessa and Koda. He tells them that he's got it.
So they stay.
And when Yumiko and—
"Magna!" Cori flings herself at the woman, hugging her tightly. Magna returns the hug, slowly, having not expected it.
When they pull apart, Cori looks at her with wide eyes. "How?" She asks.
"We all got out." She breathes out.
Jax stands. "Theo's alive?"
Judith and RJ look to them.
"We all got separated— me, him, and Connie. I lost them during the fight." She shakes her head. "I don't know if they're okay."
Jax deflates.
But then. . .
A sense.
The hairs on the back of his neck stand. He rushes from the cabin. In front of him, stands his husband. Koda sits beside him
Jax laughs.
The two meet in the middle. The grip each other desperately, as if the other would simply vanish. They cry into each other.
Cori kneels at the door, a huge smile on his face as she loves on her dog. She kisses Koda's head, not caring about the stained blood. She then looks up at Jax and Theo. They kiss, they kiss passionately. She hopes to God that her own wife is alive and out there somewhere.
"Mama," a voice says.
All of them look to the door. Brielle stands there, her eyes looking between them. She stops on Theo. "Uncle Theo." She acknowledges him. He stops. His blood freezing. It's the first time she's called him Uncle Theo in years.
Then she looks to Koda. The dog rushes at her, she jumps up, relishing in Brielle's pets.
"What is, Ellie?" Cori asks.
"Eugene just told us that he's been talking to someone on the radio." Brielle informs them.
"What?" Theo's brows furrow.
"From a different community. . . her name is Stephanie." Brielle says. "He wants to go meet up with her."
Cori's eyes widen. Theo's brow raise while Jax's furrow. All three of them stare at Brielle, she makes a face at it.
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