Gwen
Gwen parked the car and hopped out nervously. She locked it and rubbbed her eyes slowly, then started to make her way up through the gates of Xavier's school, and headed straight for Mordred's room. She knocked lightly, then decided to just walk in, her body aching from grief.
"Mordred? Vortigern?"
Mordred and Vortigern
Mordred got up from his bed where he had been sitting staring at the wall. Vortigern kept up his slow rocking back and forth, eyes looking emptily out at the world. Sometimes he whispered something. Mordred opened the door and hugged Gwen to his chest, throat aching with all the words he wanted to say.
"Close the door or the butterflies will escape. Don't touch me, please oh god, don't touch me..." Vortigern wrapped his arms around his knees.
Gwen
Gwen's eyes filled with tears as she hugged Mordred with one arm, and closed the door with her free arm. Once she'd closed it, she wrapped both arms around Mordred.
"Oh..." she sighed, and kissed Mordred's head. She rubbed his back gently in soothing circles.
Mordred and Vortigern
Mordred hummed soothingly, still being unable to talk. He reached out for the pad of paper and pen and scribbled a note to Gwen.
So glad you're here. Love you. I can't talk, and Nyx can't seem to fix it yet. We don't know why.
He handed it to her.
"Dirty, dirty, dirty..." Vortigern mumbled, scratching at his hand idly.
Gwen
Gwen nodded. "It's alright, I'm here now..." She kissed him again, and hugged him tighter. "What happened to you? And what happened to Vort?"
Mordred
Mordred's eyes gleamed with rage and he snarled soundlessly.
They raped Vort. He's gone...all strange. Can't seem to wake up. I can feel him in my head, and he's lost. I can't help him. Couldn't help him then either. Nyx said they were putting a chip in my head or something.
He handed that note to her and started scribbling another one.
They raped a lot of the girls. Dem killed two men, and she's still in shock. They electric shocked Tav. They injected some drug into Chels, but Nyx seemed to have been able to heal that. It was all bad. Burning and tests and shocks and drownings. They dumped Theresa into a thing of boiling water.
Another note. Nyx, Sabre, Dru and Spike killed them all very slowly and painfully. I think Spike and Dru turned them and left them ensouled down in the lab. Nyx warded it so they can't escape. They'll die again down there. Starving to death. I'm glad. I just wish I could do something to hurt them more.
He waited for her to reply.
Gwen
Gwen's tears fell from her eyes. "I'm sorry I wasn't there. I would've killed them all for doing this." She moved Mordred's hair from his face and kissed him again, hugging him tighter, trying to take his pain from him.
She looked sadly over at Vortigern.
Mordred and Vortigern
Mordred closed his eyes and hugged her tight, tears finally making their way from his eyes. He'd been living in limbo really. Unable to process.
"Tears watering the earth like blood. Blood everywhere." Vortigern moaned. "Blood, blood, blood...all around. Don't touch me."
Gwen
Gwen kept rubbing Mordred's back soothingly. "Shh, love, it's ok, just let it out."
She kissed his cheek, and letting herself support his weight. "It's ok, I'm here, shhh."
Glancing over at Vortigern, she realised she didn't know how to help him.
Mordred
Mordred wished he could speak, could talk to her. He wanted to tell her how much this meant to him, that she was here and willing to bear some of the strain with him. Vortigern he couldn't help, and not even the professor seemed to be able to. It was all so screwed up. They had only been going out for a day of shopping and a movie, for christ's sake.
Gwen
Gwen led Mordred over to his bed to sit him down. She remained with her arms around him and hugged him tightly against her body, hoping she was in a way helping.
"I felt it when you were hurt," she whispered into his ear.
Mordred and vortigern
I wish that you hadn't had to. Mordred wrote to her.
Vortigern sat up and looked around, a brief moment of sanity in his eyes. "Where's Spike?"
He had to go teach. Mordred told his twin. Vortigern nodded.
"I knew that...or I thought I did." He shook his head in frustration. "I can't see through this."
You will.
"Thanks for the encouragement. Hey Gwen." And then the lucididity faded from his gaze and he said something about blood dripping butterflies.
Gwen
"Hey Vort," Gwen replied softly.
She gazed sadly at Vortigern then at Mordred, and rubbed his cheek affectionately with her thumb. "You want me to stay for tonight?"
Mordred
Please. You know what the worst thing is? He has those moments, when he actually sees us, and then he's lost himself again. It hurts. Mordred wrote.
Gwen
Gwen nodded. "I'm sorry you all went through that."
She hugged Mordred closer to her chest. "I'll stay as long as you need me."
Mordred
I love you so much, my beautiful angel. Thank you. Mordred wrote and then kissed her, running his free hand through her hair.
Gwen
Gwen kissed him back, rubbing his back gently.
"I love you too..."
She felt her tears rolling down her cheeks, but ignored them, closing her eyes and holding on tightly to Mordred.
Mordred
Mordred lay with her in his arms and cried silent tears into her hair, hurting too much for words to describe. Vortigern fell asleep but Mordred stayed awake, feeling the place where his twin should be in his mind like an ache.
Gwen
Gwen rocked Mordred gently, feeling him cry into her shoulder, soothing him with tiny kisses and reassuring words. "It's ok, it's all over now." She traced patterns along his spine, and brushed his hair from his face, wishing that it wasn't hurting so much, wishing she could make it stop.