Her Name Was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius (A ToG High School Au)

Aedion loves gossip

Aelin POV

I was just sat talking to Lysandra and Aedion when Elide burst into my room. She looked amazing, but her face was filled with worry and panic. I heard Lorcan, but she shut the door really quickly.

"Elide, c'mon, tell me!" He said from outside the door.

"I've told you already, it's not my secret to tell! Now please go away, I need to talk to Aelin and Lysandra about some girl stuff." She shouted to him.

"But Aedion's in there!"

"Aedion hears this shit all the time. You don't need to worry. Now go away and I'll text you later."

"Okay, but you better text. I love you." Elide couldn't keep the grin off her face as she responded.

"I love you to." We heard his footsteps, and once they had faded we sprang all of our questions onto Elide.

"Since when did you two say I love you?" Lysandra asked.

"Aren't you supposed to be on a big date with Lorcan?" I asked.

"Why are you so worried?" Aedion asked at the same time. Usually Aedion loves to gossip, but of course he was being deadly serious now.

"I have to talk to you two, Aelin and Aedion. About... Celeana." Oh. Oh. This must be serious. I guess she doesn't know that Lysandra knows about everything. But what could be so urgent?

"Don't worry, she knows everything. She was there for half of it." Aedion and Elide gasped, looking at Lysandra, who just nodded. Aedion shifted in his seat, looking kind of nervous. Lysandra had probably threatened him for something and he passed it off as an empty threat.

"Oh. Okay. I have questions, but they can wait." Elide started pacing, shaking her hands. She was frowning like crazy. Something must have been up.

"So go on, what's got your panties in a twist?" I asked her.

"So I was out on my date with Lorcan. Everything was going smoothly, the food was great, we said I love you for the first time, he refused to split the bill, and then we left the restaurant and this dude was staring at us. It looked like he had been watching us for ages. Lorcan said it was Arobynn Hamel. How he knew that I have no idea. But..."

Shit. Shit. That was not good. Not good at all.  It was like even the air tensed. Any good mood we were in previously changed.

"What did he look like?" Lysandra asked. Of course, she had only seen him the other day.

"Tall, but not as tall as Lorcan. Quite muscular. Long-ish red hair. Mid to late thirties."

"Yeah that's him." Lysandra and I said at the same time. It seems like in the year since I last saw him he hadn't changed a bit.

"Fuck." Aedion breathed, saying what we were all thinking.

"But what would he want with you and Lorcan?"

"Maybe he knows I'm friends with you two." Silence hung in the air. Everyone was worried. I was also pissed he ruined Elide and Lorcan's date. Lorcan may be a bitch, but if Elide loves him, then I could be happy for them.

"What was the thing Lorcan wanted you to tell him?" Aedion asked, remembering Lorcan's words.

"Well, he may or may not know you have ties with Arobynn, Aelin. And he wants me to tell him what I know. But I'm refusing, that's your secret to tell, not mine." I relaxed a little bit at that.

"Thank you. I know it's hard keeping secrets from the man you love." I looked at my hands as I remembered Sam, and how he never knew my real name, who I really was.  Tears welled up in my eyes, but I refused to let them fall. Lysandra looked at me, knowing exactly what was going through my head.

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Rowan POV

Lorcan slammed open the door of our room. Fenrys Gavriel and I were haning out, Connall and Vaughan off God knows where.

"Date. Elide. Maeve. Hamel." He panted as he shut the door and sat down next to Gavriel.

"What?" We all asked him. Oh. It was his big date with Elide tonight. He had been worrying about it for weeks. By the sound of it something went a bit wrong.

"I was on my date with Elide. Everything went fine. Until we started leaving. Arobynn Hamel was there. Watching us. Does anyone know if he's scheming with Maeve again?"

Maeve. The evil bitch that basically ran all six of their lives. It all started a couple years ago.

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2 years ago

We were all friends long before Maeve. We always have been. We are so close, some would think we're brothers. We certainly foght like it sometimes. But one night, things got very wild very quickly.

It started when we went to a party one night. We had all gotten pissed out of our minds and no one was thinking straight. We went out and someone provoked us. He was looking at us funny, sizing us up.

"What do you want?" Lorcan yelled at him, trying to act all tough but his words came out very heavily slurred.

"I want to know why the fuck you are so stupid as to get as drunk as you are." He yelled back. Things escalated quickly, and soon it was a flat out brawl. Usually he wouldnt stand a chance against us six, but we were drunk. He got in a few blows on all of us, but we ended up knocking him out. But we didn't knock him out. It was Gavriel who noticed he wasn't breathing.

"Fuck. Oh fuck. What are we going to do?" He started to panic, we all did.

"Well well well. Look like someone messed up. You idiots killed Wesley, Arobynn Hamel's personal bodyguard. You had better hope he doesn't catch wind of this." We all turned around, and saw her. Maeve. She made a deal with us, she'd clean the mess up and made sure we never went to jail, if we worked for her. We all agreed, bit knowing what she would have us doing. It was the worst thing we ever did, accepting that deal. Although, Connall doesn't seem to mind doing Maeve's dirty work.

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The present

"Rowan? Earth to Rowan?" Fenrys was snapping his fingers in front of my face, I must have zoned out.

"If Arobynn and Maeve are working together again, we are in big trouble. I don't want to know what they'll have us doing." I said. It was true. Together, they do despicable things.

"Should we tell the others?" Lorcan asked.

"We'll tell Vaughan, but not Connall. I'm sorry Fenrys, but you know he worships the ground Maeve walks on. There's no doubt he'll tell Maeve immediately." Fenrys nodded solemnly in agreement. They may be twins, the only actual brothers out of us all, but he knows what Connall's like.

"So it's agreed." Gavriel said, and we all nodded our heads.

"I guess we just hope Arobynn was passing by." Fenrys was being sarcastic, we knew there was no chance of that.