Deadlock

(Past Thomas/ Maven ,canon divergent)

"A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays."

For Thomas, death never comes. He is constantly evolving in a cocoon of pain as he drifts by in fighting and running. A ghost and not a living being. That is until a touch of fate and a handful of his own vengeance and misery bring him on a pathway that may transform the creature he has become back to something more human. Or someone else entirely. All the while he has never forgotten who loved him once and killed him first...