The Dog Fights | Damian Wayne

chapter 40

I grin as I saw nikkita rise from her bed with extreme bedhead. "Breakfast in my room." I laugh before I headed back to my room. I left the door open for her and gathered the food to the table. Damian sat in his seat drinking tea from his cup.

Nikkita stumbles into the room and sat at the table but becomes nervous when she notices Damian. "Nikkita this is Damian." I introduce. Damian nods in acknowledgement before fixing a plate. 

I made Nikkita her plate before mine. Nothing was said as we ate but Nikkita was first to speak after finishing her plate. "Have you decided?" She asks quietly, I stiffen at the question. I shook my head not wanting to answer her. 

"I really think you should-" She starts. I roughly place my cup on the table making a loud 'clank' sound threw the flat. "I already told you I think you should decide your own name." I huff angerly. She opens her mouth to most likely argue but Damian beats her to it.

"Elysia." is all he said. My eyes widen before snapping over to him. His face is void of expression but his eyes were soft as the look down on Nikkita. Shock filled my body as I watch the two.

Damian who hates everyone but his animals and well...me is looking at this girl with soft eyes. "Elysia?" She repeated. I glance over at Damian with a shocked expression. He ignored me as he watched Nikkita. 

What shocked me even more was the fact that her face lit up with excitement. I quickly shot my gaze over to Damian who calmly drinks his tea but shoots me a smug smirk when he catches my gaze. I glare at him harshly but I quickly masked it as Nikkita look grin over at me.

"Is it okay that he chooses?" She asks, I swallow harshly unable to answer. "He is your..." She trails before her face twists in confusion. "What are you to each other?" She asks innocently. I felt my heart drop to my stomach.

I never thought to put any kind of label on us. I mean it was only last night did he kiss me and mumble a bunch of Arabic at me! I glance at Damian for some help but he's mid sip of drinking his tea. "Well...um...we are..." I muttered.

"It doesn't matter." Damian spoke up making me jump in my seat. "I think your a little too young to understand this yet so I think it would only be harder if we tried to explain it to you so for now lets just say Anubis and I are vary close." he explains.

I felt myself relax as Nikkita nods in understandment. "but does that mean-" She starts only to be cut off by Damian again. "That just means that Anubis and I will be taking care of you for now on." He finalized.

Nikkita quickly nods and goes back to her plate but a see a shy smile place its self on her lips. "To answer your question before hand..." I speak up. "I think Elysia is a beautiful name." I answer. I see Nikkita grin.

"I'll make sure to change it for you so don't worry about it." I add before going back to my food. The rest of the time we ate it was in silence. No one spoke a word until Damian took his plate to the sink, soon after I finished as well.

Nikkita, now Elysia, finished her plate right after I did. I washed the dishes quickly before looking over at Rand who stood by his empty bowl. I smile apologetically and filled his bowl quickly. Rand wasted no time as he ate. Little bits of kibble fell from the bowl but he is quick to eat those too.

I stretch out and move over to my racks of clothes. Elysia dismisses herself to her room and just as she closes the door. I grab the closest hanger and chuck it at Damian. As expected he dodged. "I can -not- believe you." I huff as I aggressively look threw my clothes.

"You didn't want to pick so I did." He excuses picking up on the subject quickly. "She should have got to pick herself. I wanted to give her something I never got." I snap. "Do you not know how naming a child works?" He scoffs in return.

I glare at him sharply "She's thirteen Damian" I growl, "She can pick herself." I repeated.  "But she wanted -you- to pick Anubis. your giving her this new life and as such she sees you as her mother." He  rebutted harshly.

"She sees you as her mother figure wither you like it or not and for you to push her away like you do is disappointing. I expected more from you Anubis." he snaps. My eyes widen and I felt my heart sink to stomach.

I felt my white hot anger run cold. Is that how he wants play fine. "You better hope those stones your throwing at me hits because I have bricks for you Wayne." I sneer coldly. Damian didn't have to say anything.

 The look he gave me was enough. Because for once those emerald green eyes weren't soft. They were cold, cold and hard as they glared at me. "and what brinks would those be Anubis?" He scoffs as if its almost -funny- that the thought of me saying something could possibly hurt him.

"bricks like the fact its almost funny -no- hilarious that you think you know what it means to be a mother let alone know what it feels like." I scoff. "Your mother treated you like a solider!" I laughed at him. I open my mouth to continue but his hand slams down on the table and one leg breaks. 

"Shut your mouth right now." He growls. I let out a short unamused laugh. "like hell I will." I sneer. "Why don't you get your stuff and leave Damian." I snap as I threw my hands up in the air. Damian's eyes shift, they flash in something I couldn't catch before they plunge into a deep, dark color.

I stiffen at the sight of them and I felt my heart pick up in speed. Damian took a long stride over to me and I shift but hold my ground. He continues to make powerful strides over to me and I felt the tension grow unbearable.

I manage to hold my ground until he reaches me. We stand chest to chest but I still have to look up at him. I'm only able to hold a gaze with his dark eyes for a few seconds before I pull away only then did I feel my feet no longer touch the ground.

My vision quickly turn upside down as I'm thrown over his shoulder. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!?!" I scream at him. "Taking what belongs to me and leaving." He stated harshly.

I felt my mind thoughts still. I didn't say anything as he continues to the door. He notices my silence and changes his direction. I felt him place me on what I could assume the bed. I sat there still frozen in thought. Damian kneels in front of me his hard green eyes now soft. I see a little guilt swell in them.

I feel his rough hands take mine, his thumbs rub small circles on the back of my palms as we simply stare at each other. We didn't say anything as we sat there. I finally gathered my thoughts and let out a sigh before taking my hands from his and covering my face.

My hands however were moved away quickly and his warm ones cup my neck as his thumb supported my head to look at him. His eyes now filled with more quilt than before. I bit my lip as I felt the tension in the air build.

I open my mouth to say something but its quickly covered as Damian crashes his lip onto mine. This kiss is quick and harsh but its deep. I move my lips against his in the pace he set while I grip the back of neck in a attempt to keep myself grounded.

Only when the need for air arose did we pull apart. (1)"أحبك " He mutters lowly. I let a small huff before giving him a small smile. "I still don't know what that means." I whisper. Damian simply smirks at me smugly. I let out a airy laugh before sighing "I'm sorry" I whisper. 

Damian sent me a small rare smile. "All is forgiven Anubis." He replies in the same small fashion. "Now that our disagreement is settled a...acquaintance of mine would like to talk to you." He smirks. uh oh.

(1) I love you