There's darkness within all of us.
The kindest people. The quietest people. The funniest people. All of us.
We hide it. We push it down and forget it.
Until we can't anymore.
Today, Talia got a show of my darkness. Of the anger that's been consuming me from the moment she arrived.
Acting innocent.
Both her and Thomas.
What I would give to beat the crap from both of them.
Talia and Thomas showed their darkness to me a long time ago. Talia's ability to manipulate and persuade, and Thomas's ability to make anyone fear him.
I fear going into too much detail about him will send me into a panic. Just remembering some of the things he tried or did to me makes my heart race and my hands get sweaty.
My birthday is off to a wonderful start.
"Williams," I jump at the sound of the voice. "Tell me what you know about him." It's the presence of Gene that makes me take a step back from the fencing of the library balcony.
There are lines on his forehead, eyebrows creased downwards shaping a face of anger. It terrifies me for a moment before I'm suddenly no longer scared. "Look-"
Before he can say anything more, my fist meets his nose in greeting.
He writhes on the ground, moaning and groaning in pain. I too share a tingling sensation in my knuckles, but I barely feel it from the overwhelming anger that clouds me.
"The audacity you have to even come near me after what you pulled." His hand pulls away from his nose slightly. It's bloodied slightly, however, I don't feel bad one bit.
"It wasn't my fault!"
"Wasn't-" I cut myself off by sputtering nonsense in disbelief. "Wasn't your fault?" I nearly scream. "You assaulted me!"
"Only because I was blackmailed into doing so!" He yells. "I never wanted to hurt you, (Y/N), but my reputation means more to me than anything else!"
"How the fuck were you getting blackmailed?" I toss him onto the bench in front of me.
He still grips his nose tightly as he runs his fingers through his messy hair, which looks like it hasn't been combed for days.
"I..." He's reluctant. "Ivy has a sex-tape of me." I cringe, turning my head away slightly. "She threatened to release it... unless I got nude photos of you."
My face molds into an expression of disgust and bewilderment.
Ivy.
Ivy wanted nudes of me? What the-
"Why?" I press, grabbing onto his collar.
For once, Gene is the one to look at me with fear.
"I didn't know at first, but then I overheard Ginny talking about it," He begins. "She wanted to release them so that the Ro'Meave- actually- all of your current friends would be... disgusted with you."
The words friends and disgusted plunge my heart into my stomach. "She just wanted anything that would get Garroth away from you. I only agreed because then she wouldn't release the video of me... and you'd come back to the Shadow Knights."
I probably would've just killed myself.
I definitely would've.
"So, you drugged me, stripped me half-naked, wrapped your hand around my neck-" He flinches. "Just so you could get photos of me?" It doesn't make sense.
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HIDDEN PAIN 𐦍 GarrothXReader
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