The Last Seven Lives

Alek's Love Revealed

Me: Alek...what are you doing with my favorite teddy bear?

Alek: *looks up* I just want to hug it! It's so adorable!

Me: Okay! Here's the next chapter from-

Alek: -my perspective! Ha! Beat you to it! Fallon does not own me or TNLOCK! She just came up with the plotline and any characters she can think of that aren't originally in TNLOCK!

Alek's POV:

My brother?! No! This cruel young man couldn't be my brother, but before I have time to think he shoots something at me. I dodge and attack him. "I don't have a brother!" I let my love for Chloe and my Mai instincts guide me as I punch him. I get him in a full mount and he tries to flip me since I'm not posting. "Of course you wouldn't remember me! Our parents sent me away when you were born because you were the son they always wanted!" I quickly post as I feel myself rocking back. I must admit that Zane has skills, but I still have complete control over him and he knows it. "What do you mean?" He tries to overpower me again, but ends up on his stomach with me still on top of him. "I was always getting into big trouble, but I was the only son they had so they tolerated me and my looks. I didn't look like you. That is the kind of son or daughter they always wanted."

He stays silent for a moment and stops struggling. "There is something you might want to know, brother." I roughly knock his head into the floor. "What is it, you filthy traitor?" I see the corner of his mouth pull up into a wicked grin. "Your mate lost another life tonight." I am so stunned that he's easily able to flip me. That's when I hear it. Chloe's heartbeat. I know it's her without even looking, but Zane is too preoccupied with me to notice the angel silently approaching him. She pulls him off me and throws him against the wall. He curses as he tries to stand and realizes that he broke a leg. Then we're both beating him up. Finally, Chloe grabs a knife. I stand back and she thrusts it into his chest. We're both breathing heavy and that's when I notice her shirt. I tenderly touch her stomach where the red is still coming out. "Lie down on my bed." She nods and goes to my room.

I call the Mai hospital for Valentina and Jasmine and then get the first-aid kit to help her. When I get to my room she has her shirt off with just her bra keeping her covered. My heart skips a beat, but I stay professional. I look at the wounds and finally decide to pick the bullets out with my claw. She winces a lot, but urges me to get all three out without hesitation. When they are finally out I take a vial out of the first-aid kit and pour it into each hole. She sighs with relief. "What is that? It's so soothing." I dab at the edges and then get a damp cloth to wipe away the dried up blood.

When she's finally bandaged up I answer her. "It's a potion to sterilize the wound, take away the pain, make the accelerated healing speed up even more for serious wounds like that, and soak up any traces of poison." I smile and then realize the potion could save Jasmine and Valentina. I get up without warning and grab the vial as I leave. I go to Valentina and Jasmine and start tending to them in the same way I cared for Chloe's wounds. I wash all the blood off Jasmine's stomach and nearly break down when I see how bad her wound is. I tend to her for fifteen minutes and when I'm done she is all stitched up and fast asleep in her bed. I tend to Valentina next and she's hardly with me as I take the dart out and try to get some of the potion into the tiny hole in her shoulder. I finally hear her start to breathe and I sigh in relief and look at the time. The Mai will be here soon to take them away.

I walk back to Chloe and she looks at me questioningly. "I gave Valentina and Jasmine some of that potion. They will be fine...I hope." I feel my expression darken as I think of how I found them and Chloe looks concerned. I close my eyes and feel two warm arms wrapping around me. I hesitate as I remember what I heard her say to her mom and realize she's still not wearing a shirt. I finally give in and hug her back with joy overflowing in my heart. We stay like that for what seems like an eternity. I don't care if she just pities me. I will take whatever I can get from Chloe. I love her so much and all I want to do is break away to kiss her forehead, her eyelids, her cheeks, her soft lips. Then someone knocks on the door. Chloe smiles. "I'll get it." She starts to leave, but turns to me when she realizes she isn't wearing a shirt. Her face is super red and I laugh. "No! I will get it." I open the door to the four Mai men and they take my family. I stare at them as they're carried out and hope that I will see them happy and healthy again.

Chloe and I eat and watch movies all night. We're having a great time until Chloe's mom texts her. Chloe smiles and slowly starts to cry as she reads the text. "My mom knows what I am! She never wants to see me again! She says Amy can come get my stuff and give it to me!" I put my arm around her and she snuggles closer to me. As she buries her face in my shoulder and cries I sooth her and vow never to leave her ever again. Even if she isn't in love with me I'd do anything for her. From the day I met her I found myself falling in love with the blond beauty. Then we stopped talking until the day she threw my basketball right into a trashcan too far away for any ordinary human. I nearly kissed her that day to test my theory that she was Mai, but Jasmine stopped me and Chloe ran off. When we actually did kiss it felt so good and I never expected her to close the gap the second time. Then we kissed on the rooftop and I felt everything coming into alignment. When I heard her say she loves Brian I wanted to die. I wanted The Order to find me and rip my heart out.

I look down at Chloe and she's fast asleep. I smile as I imagine that she wanted to fall asleep with my arms around her. She mumbles and sighs. I turn the television off and start stroking her hair. "No! I love you! Stay with me!" My hand freezes as I hear her talking in her sleep. Of course she's talking to her human. She loves him. Silent tears drip down my face as I realize she will never be mine.

AN: What do you think? Please comment!!!