A Mortal and an Alvian (A Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards fanfiction)

Facing the Trio.

Cover credit goes to xLukesLipRingx.

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For the first-time in weeks, Zayn felt content with his life again. For the first-time ever he felt his mother and friends' words weighed something and that they weren't just the hollow consolations.

He was fully aware of the outcome of his actions, in fact he could almost feel the Trio's fury breathing down his neck. Their wreath wasn't something any Alvian wished to have directed opon them, and Zayn wasn't any different. It was one of the other reason as to why he was continuing his job as a Quietus besides re-establishing His family's reputation regardless the pain he has to endure everyday while performing it. But all this fear evaporated the moment he experienced that warmth through his bones that he got after seeing that mortal girl Perrie's smile. It was all because he excused his brother's soul. Zayn niether accounted the feelings that he felt on witnessing that smile nor does the joy that came along with the fact that he was the sole reason behind it as both were not making sense to him. Only thing that mattered today was that warmth that he acknowledged as contentment that settled in him and which chased all the fears away.

The invisible connection, that Zayn's ingrained black band created with Augustus the moment his time to leave his mortal body on earth came, was pulling at Zayn's heart, sending great searing pain through it and though it was becoming unbearable, something he never experienced before as never before he has left his job undone, it was worth having as if not for this bittersweet pain, the smile on Perrie's face almost felt surreal. It was his painful and yet happy reminder that he holds a heart that a real man should -- mortal or immortal.

For some other unknown reason, Zayn felt great affinity for Earth today and that made him elongate his stay on earth longer than he expected. As he flew around taking in the beauty of the earth, a thought crossed his mind. Had Augustus been the first call by his band yesterday, what would have happened? Would he'd acted as merciless as before and took away that fragile child's life -- a bother from his sister?

Of course, you would've.

A nagging voice in his mind answered and he repulsed from it, loosening his flight control for a second. After regaining it, he contemplated the not-so-appetizing answer. The very thing that stopped me yesterday was the love of that girl for her brother. If not for witnessing that, I'd have continued slaughtering innocent mortals.

It wasn't technically slaughtering.

It literally was! He reprimanded the nagging voice this time. But if it had happened before, then so many mortals could have been saved.

Better late than never.

Urghhh. Since when did this nagging voice started talking?

Since the moment you started having this contemplations.

This time Zayn ignored it and changed his course back to Alven.

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Like so many first times of so many things in weeks, Alven looked beautiful and lively for the first time in weeks, too. Zayn felt like someone filled colors in the black and white painting that the Alven had became since him becoming a Quietus.