Indestructible Fate

Chapter 2 - Revenge

[James's perspective]

Revenge! That's the main thought on my mind at the moment. Not only was Cult making fun of my mum's death and insulting my family, he was making a big show of it.

He knew I angered easily so he silently fed the fire of my rage, and then he brought on crowd to watch as I tried to kill him so I would get into all the trouble.

I realise how lucky I am that it was Lupin and not Snake that came to stop the fight. But I still hate Cult for trying.

I think David can probably sense it too, unlike the others, David has known me my whole life. he may as well be my brother, but his parents died long ago and I've never asked about it.

"We might have to go soon," says Estella breaking the silence.

I nod my head. But I don't really want to leave. I love it here. It has always felt somehow separate from the rest of the world. And it has so many memories linked into it.

I look to my left and see the old poplar tree that my dad planted as a sapling a while after his half-brother died.

I used to think that the scattered fluff that came from the tree was parts of Uncle Billy's spirit and I would come up here - when I met David he started to come too - and just sit and watch the fluff swirl around in the wind like fresh falling snow. And sometimes I could imagine it form a ghostly form of my uncle.

I never knew my uncle, but I made my own image of him over the years, based off the stories Dad was always telling me.

My favourite story was how they were once convinced that their uncle, Dervish, was a werewolf. It always made me laugh every time I made him tell it to me. Now?... Not so much. I was young back then, didn't know what the real world was like.

My eyes absently follow a larger piece of fluff as it comes to rest on the stream and gets carried down the rapids and washed over the edge of the cliff.

I remember how that almost happened to me when I was three. Back when dad wasn't always away, working a job, we used to come up here and make little boats out of leaves and twigs and we would send them down the river and sometimes I would chase them. One time when I was doing this and I fell into the river and rushed through the rapids. Mum had grabbed my foot as I had started to fall down the cliff and dad had grabbed her around the waist before she fell down with me. When I was ten, dad told me this story and he had told me 'when Reni started to pull you back up we were both expecting you to be bawling your eyes out, but we were very surprised to see you weren't crying at all, far from it. You were clapping your little hands and laughing like a maniac, with your eyes shining madly.' I still remember some of it. I remember the icy rapids and the sheer thrill of the gushing wind on my face as I went flying off the cliff.

I others get up and I automatically follow them, walking at the back with David at my side.

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[David's perspective]

The bell goes just as we get back to school and the girls split from us and we go in different directions. We make our way to our next class with Lupin and I think they have a study period now. When we arrive I spot two spare desks, one in front of the other and I sit in the one behind so I can keep an eye on James.

"Right, Bruce, Loid; take a seat and we will begin," Professor Lupin says to the twins.

Everyone starts unpacking their bags and James unzips his awesome hunting duffle bag.

I've always envied him in that way. His dad is so cool and sometimes he lets James have some of his old gear. He even helped James forge his own sword when he turned fourteen. I wish he was my dad too.