Lightbringer | Kai Parker Fanfic

Sixteen

"What."

My voice is barely a whisper as my face falls. My brain shuts down, playing his last words over and over again. Luke. Did he say Luke?

The Gemini witch grins at me. "Oh, I'm sorry, did you like Lucas? 'Cause... I didn't; he was always so serious and–"

"Shut up," I cut him off, pressing the knife a bit deeper against his throat. "Shut. up."

A frightful silence stretches as the news sinks in, the way he used past tense when talking about him makes it too final. It can't be right, though; he's lying. "Rick, call Jo. See if she's okay and get me Luke over the phone."

Rick obeys at once while I don't leave Kai out of my sight. The witch only moves a bit in order to get more comfortable under my body with a suggestive smile. We don't speak but he watches my reaction intently: my chest is rising faster now, as I try to keep unwanted tears from clouding my view. His Light has changed, though I can't see any of Luke's in it. It's not possible.

From behind me, I can hear Alaric's low voice over the phone but I can't make out the words. My hands start shaking at the thought but I push it away. It can't be happening; not to Luke.

"Wait, did you have a thing for my brother?" the witch asks with an exaggerated frown. "Cause, I think he was gay, you know– Oh, wait, is that why you asked whether I was gay when we met? Because you couldn't handle one more disappointment?"

"Shut. the hell. up."

He fakes a pity face and I really want to silence him right now, mostly by killing him, but if there is any truth to what he said... No, it can't be true. Alaric is going to confirm that any second now and it'll be my green light for killing him. So I keep silent as I wait, and wait, and wait. Until I sense Rick's weary hand on my shoulder and I want to scream with despair.

"It's no use, Andy. He's telling the truth." And just like that, the world collapses.

"See?" Kai shouts, sounding a lot like a child saying 'I told you so.'

"No..."

"Andy–"

"Not him." I try to think of something; fast, but all that comes to my mind is Luke's laughter and his smile. I saw that smile this morning, right before he went to meet with his dad. He was right there.

"You can't kill him, Andy," Alaric tells me in a low, sad voice that I hate. "He won the merge; he's the Gemini leader now. The power and lives of his whole coven are linked to him; if you kill him, you also kill Jo and Liv, and... dozens of other people; good witches, Andy."

I close my eyes and the first tears roll down my cheeks. We're too late. I'm too late. Because I was busy having fun with some guy and now my friend is dead. Luke–

I let out a scream of rage that turns into a sob as I stab the knife into the grass, right next to Kai's head. I'm too late.

"Not him."

I bury my face in my hands and Rick's squeezes my shoulder, murmuring that he's sorry, but I want to scream again, yell that I don't care about sorry; I want a solution to this. I want a plan, I want someone to tell me that we're gonna fix this.

A ringed hand brushes my thigh and I jerk up, meeting a blue gaze.

"While this is extremely entertaining, and though I love that you're straddling me right now, I actually have somewhere to go; coven-leader things to do, so..."

He trails off and winces like he hates to interrupt our meaningless little chat but he's gotta keep going. I glare at him while I rise to my feet, and as he starts getting back up as well, I use all the human strength that I have in the punch I throw in his face. Rick starts when Kai's face violently hits the ground. I hear him chuckle as I step away and I need all of my self-control not to go back and gut this guy. It starts raining and I run a hand through my hair, wanting nothing more than to be with my friend right now.