Till Death Do Us Part

Once Again

Once again Enoch found himself wandering through the park with a cigarette to his lips and a scarf around his neck. It had been a couple of days since he found himself explaining what he meant and who he was to Mason in that cafe. Between then and now he hadn't slept much, instead he spent every moment he could trying to figure out why that young man was so vastly different from everyone else. Even now he was thinking about it, about him. Enochs thoughts came to rest on the image of those intriguing purple eyes of the young man from the park, then from those eyes his thoughts wandered to the delicate structure of his face and the dark curly hair that framed it.

There was the sudden flapping of wings that jostled Enoch from his thoughts, he hadn't realized that he had paused and his burning cigarette was only halfway to his mouth. he shook his head a little to clear his thoughts but Mason's face was seared into the tall man's mind. He took a long drag and let the smoke curl from his mouth slowly before blowing the rest into the air. The smoke curled around his head as he finally continued walking, once the cigarette had reached its end he put the butt in an ashtray of a trash can. Enoch found a store and bought a cheap prepaid phone and some minutes so he could get ahold of Mason. He made the walk home thinking of what he would say. The darkness of the night slowly crept in and with it an unsettling feeling coming to a rest in his stomach.

Paranoia sets in. Something is very wrong.

Enoch glances over his shoulder. Nerves on edge.

He jumped to the roof of the nearest building, like a hound following its nose, he took off in a certain direction. As he leaped across an alleyway he's hit with the feelings of fear and lust.

Stopping dead in his tracks he listened closely. The obvious sounds of struggle quietly echoed from the alley and, without a second thought, he jumps down into the dark alley stories below landing in a half crouch. Slowly standing, he looks over at the other two people who are there who had gone silent in surprise. The sight before him twists his gut into a knot of rage.

There, hiding behind a dumpster from the sight of the sidewalk was a large man pinning down a someone smaller than them. Their face of the smaller person was being crushed into the trash littered ground and their hips being roughly held up by the man's hands. They were gagged and half naked, clothes having been roughly torn away from their body.

"Let them go." Enoch's voice spilled from his lips in a harsh growl.

"Or what?" The assailant snapped back. The man's hips were flush with the bare hips of the small frame below.

"Or I'll just have to teach you how to keep your hands to yourself." As Enoch's eyes seemed to glow, the last lights of sunset in the sky extinguished by thick ominous clouds quickly growing overhead. The air changed as the temperature dropped and the wind began to howl against the buildings lining the street, for a split second, the sky illuminated with lightning immediately followed by the crackling boom of thunder.

"Just turn away kid." The rapist scoffed not completely sure of himself as the weather changed so rapidly for the worst.

"No," Enoch moved closer to the man and his victim. "A crime like this cannot go unpunished." As the blue eyed man moved closer the criminal pulled away from the smaller person below them. As he fixed his pants he pulls out a large serrated hunting knife. Enoch spread his hands at his sides palms towards the man.

"Tonitrus Lupus." Thick whisps of dark clouds swirled around Enoch before forming into wolf like figures that had lightning for eyes and rippling aross their bodies.