The Queen's traitress

49 years before banishment

POV Flinn

"Ava! Ava! Let me go you brutes! I'm going to end you!", I snarl although I know that they have the advantage right now.

"Your little girlfriend is not going to help you this time you whore!", one of the man says before kicking me in the chest.

I look at the street at 4 meters of where I am right now. If I could attain it, they wouldn't dare touch me again. 

But the alley is narrow and it's dark and nobody wants go in a damn alley in the middle of the night although they hear screams coming from it.

I know why, self-preservation. Ava warned me that I had none and that I should work on that while she was gone but she's a soldier, so if one of us need self-preservation it's not me.

Albeit, I guess it would have been pretty useful for not getting stuck in an aller with 5 men and 2 women kicking me and lashing their hunger on me because I slept with their lover, or with them I'm not sure. To be fair, they were all screaming at the same time.

Something is burning my arm and I scream before looking at what the fuck the just put on me. A silver dagger? Really? Where did they found that?

The burn brings tears to my eyes and I try to block the sound from things outside until I hear a familiar voice.

"What the fuck do you thing you're doing?", Ava snarls and I smile through the pain and let myself faint.

She'll take care of it. She always does.

"Wake up dickhead."

Okay the, I guess she'll take care of the bad guys but she won't carry me to our house. Fine then. 

I open my eyes and I see her smile but I know that it's forced because it just looks a little too tight. And her eyes look watery.

"I knew you would come. I could have handled them you know, but I felt like you would want to avenge me.", I say in a hoarse voice and I want to cry of happiness because she saved me and she's here and she didn't die on her mission, but I just smile.

"I hate you Finn.", she answers but it sounds oddly like I love you.

I look around and see the corpses of the 7 faes that attacked me. 

"You didn't need to kill them."

"You know I did. I thought I was too late. Please promise me that next time you sleep around, you fuck with people who knows what they are getting themselves into."

I take her shaky hand and kiss it in a vain attempt to calm her, although I know she won't be calm until we are both at home.

"I will."