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[Aito Satoshi]

His nights had begun on a fast spiral to restless, and even his uncle's potions were not lessening the pain that racked him when he slept. He had managed to stay in the common room for a majority of the night, just staring into the fire with a dazed expression. Even that little, sweet smile that he normally wore was not present in his face. He was all but unreachable as he slowly started withdrawing into his mind. Night after night, day after day, he was growing more unreachable and still trying so hard to fall asleep...and finally if happened.

He was moving, eyes closed, through the castle.

How he managed to get outside without being spotted was beyond anyone's guess. He moved through the grounds with his eyes darting back and forth behind his lids. Somewhere in his mind, he was hiding away. He felt...like a failure. The whole of his heart seemed to be growing a solid shield around it and it seemed to desire to save everyone from his insane ability to screw everything up. He'd slowly started pushing people away and telling even his friends that he was sorry, even though he had no reason to be sorry.

He was disappearing into the waters of the lake, and even the cold was not jolting him from it. Whatever demon had a hold of him, it was not letting him go. The cold was drastically lowering his body temperature, those lips turning blue with cold as his chest submerged. There was the sound of a soft gasp as seaweed wrapped tightly around his limbs and greedily pulled the sleepwalking form beneath the water.

His body went into shock, and for a moment, the strangest feeling of peace and panic started settling over his senses as the shock was building up in his feet.

[Professor Takumi Satoshi]

There were nights that Takumi was thankful for being in the castle, and there were times that he was able to sleep better there than at home. However, this was not one of those nights. Aito's sleeping draughts were no longer working and he had been up half the night trying to figure out a way to force the boy into sleep. He'd gone so long without a spell, and he felt it coming. Aito had come to his office, void of the smile he always seemed to wear, and apologized for...something. What was he apologizing about?

He'd tried to get it out of him, but the younger boy only apologized again before leaving.

What. Was that. About?

He'd been worried, and as the night settled into the trees of the grounds, Takumi was still working on adjusting the sleeping draught when he heard the faintest sound of the castle door opening. Without a moment's thought, he ran up to the main hall and saw what he hoped he'd never witness. His nephew staggering through the grounds with his head lolled back and eyes shut. The older man felt dread building up into his chest and took off after his path, calling out his name through the twilight.

Nothing ever seemed to wake him up, but t wasn't until he saw him moving into the water of the lake that his heart stopped in his chest. "AITO BAE THRESH!!! STOP!! WAKE UP!!" The man yelled, only in time to see the boy slip under the water and not surface again. He swore loudly and took a running dive into the water, gripping his wand tightly. He held his breath and casted a silent 'Lumos' spell to see under the water. The weeds were tangling like a serpent around the young man's frame. He started casting spells at the weeds to sever them from his body, and the way that the boy's head was hanging was causing an unbearable amount of dread in his chest.

It took longer than he antcipated to cut him from the weeds and hoist him onto his shoulder before blasting both of them from the water and landing roughly on the bank of the lake. Takumi was coughing and sputtering, vomiting up an asounding amount of water before turning and crawling over to his nephew's still body. He was so blue...his hands formed over his heart and started pressing swiftly. "Breathe!" The word was as much an order as it was a plea. He had to get the water out of his lungs. He quickly cast the spell to unodge the airways and was relieed to see water expel from the boy's mouth. "That's it, breathe!"

His frame fall back, dark coloring forming on his face as he lay there. Takumi rubbed his eyes and placed a hand on his forehead. He was not alone in his mind. Someone was using Legilimency against him. Quickly, he gathered the boy in his arms and brandished his wand, "Occlumens!" The spell worked for a moment, but then the darkness started again and Takumi looked horrorstruck, "Occlumens!!!" The cold of the air was making him shiver and take his mind off of the attack. His nephew started screaming, loud, heartbreaking, shrieks of agony. "XAYDEN!!!"

"OCCLUMENS!!!" Whoever was manipulating him was either very strong, or very pissed. Aito's eyes flew open in an instant and he jumped to his feet, eyes completely blackened out. "STOP HURTING HIM!!"
Takumi brought his wand down sharply again, "OCCLUMENS MAXIMUS! The boy fell back, pale as death and twice as still.

Suddenly, his heart felt as if it were breaking. "Wake up! Aito wake up! Wake up!!" His chest was constricting, and he was shaking the boy as roughly as he could with no responce. "Wake up!! Merlin, please wake up!" For the first time in years, the man was crying. "Wake up!"

He heard the softest sound leave his lips, and swuiftly picked up the tall boy and carried him back into the castle. He had to get warm. After this, he was going to teach him Occlumency if it killed him.

[Aito Satoshi]

His mind was not his own and the hold was tight, granted after the last spell that Takumi cast, it felt easier to think. Granted, the presence was still there. Laughing at him. Mocking him. Every word he heard was twisted into dark laughter and his body gave an involuntary jerk. He was lost in the dark, listening to the whispers, the words were stabbing him through the heart bit by bit. "He wants me." "He's mine." "You'll never have his heart." "He's mine." "Can't you hear him? He's crying out for me. Not you. I give him what he craves."

"Stop...stop it....leave me alone..." He couldn't open his eyes, though tears were seeping from the ends of his lashes. The laughter in his mind was cold and calculated. "He comes to me, and he'll never seek you again. You should just go back in that water and stay there. No one up here wants you." Aito's closed eyes squeezed tighter. Maybe he was right...he wasn't tough...he wasn't real strong..he wasn't like him. "Look at this face." Through his mind, he could see Xayden at his happiest moments with Matty. The look of sheer adoration, the love, the way he cried out for him and his heart simly broke beneath his rib cage. "You're weak, nothing, and he doesn't want you."

The hold on his mind suddenly vanished, and he suddenly burst into uncontrollable tears. He felt like he was moving, and opened his eyes quickly, only to see his uncle carrying him. His heart shattered further, Xayden never noticed? That mental manipulation was taking a toll on him. "Just LEAVE ME HERE!" He barked, trying to get away. "I...never want to go back in there again! Just leave me alone! I want to go home! I'll never bother him again!"

Takumi did not listen, bringing him into the castle and down into the dungeon. He was trying to explain the attack he had undergone, but Aito wasn't listening. He felt like his whole heart had fallen out of his chest. "Stop that. You were mentally attacked. Xayden loves you, stop fighting me." Aito thrashed in his uncle's arms and Takumi set him down, and he promptly fell onto the floor and cried all over again. The scar tissue over his heart was killing him and he clutched at it with a tear stained face. "I'm not enough...I'll always share him with his memories. I'm such a push over." Blood started to leak from the scar tissue and onto his fingers from the nervous push of his fingernails and Takumi quickly pulled his hand back.

"None of that was true. Aito, you have to believe me. It was a lie." Aito looked up at him before wrapping his arms around his knees. He really was a joke.

He wasn't good enough for anyone.

[Professor Takumi Satoshi]

What in Merlin's bloody balls was said? This was not the nephew that he remembered over the course of his life. Aito had always been so happy, so loving, whatever was said in the midst of that attack was killing him and he knew that Aito would never tell him. "Listen...I know it doesn't feel like it, but you really ought to believe me. Xayden is probably asleep, Aito. Like you should be. Why don't you go back up to Ravenclaw Tower and go to bed?" "I don't want to go to bed. I just want to stay here."

Takumi frowned, this was insanity. He was getting angry at the fact that that little cockroach just wouldn't leave them alone, but the anger never did him any good. He set a hand on Aito's shoulder and sighed, "Then, at least take a nap in my office. Let me keep an eye on you for the night. If there's another attack, I will need to fight it off." "There's no point in fighting it off, why not just let him desrtoy me? That way everyone's happy in the long run. Xay gets him back, you stop having to babysit me, and I get out of this agony."

Takumi finally bopped Aito in the side of the head with just enough force to startle him. "Knock it off! You know full well that your mother would be devistated, and that your father would be too. Your grandparents would miss you, Ren would be, I would be, and you know damn well that Xayden would be. You can't tell me that he would be happy without you. I will go up there and bring him down here. Do not make me. If you're going to spill your own blood, you will see the pain in his eyes when you do it in front of him, since you can not see it in mine. Stop it."

Aito curled into a ball on the floor and shut his eyes. He had a point, he thought...anyway.

[Aito Satoshi]

Feeling him strike him, Aito looked up momentarily before sinking back to the floor. Takumi casted a warming spell on him to dry him and keep him warm. Still, his insides felt so cold. And as he fell back into silent sobs, Takumi went back to work on the draught. He silently shook himself to sleep before the whispers started again. "Lies. It's all lies." "Get up." "Don't go near him. Avoid him."

His body moved on its own, his half lidded eyes completely white as he rose to his feet and moved back outside. "Pointless. You're worthless. No one cares about you. Get your wand." "Accio...wand..." The wand soared from his bedside table and through the castle before nestling in his palm. "Very good. At the very least, you follow directions. Put it to your heart. Cast Mordaxis." "Mordaxis." The tip of the wand against his chest lit up and the pain that followed was enough to bring tears to his face.

"His heart is mine. Mordaxis!" "Mordaxis." He cried harder this time, unable to stifle the cries and he was finally found by Tekumi. His uncle broke the spell again, and Aito trembled weakly. "He's going to kill me...isn't he?" "Not unless someone gets him first. Aito, stop listening to him or he will kill you. He'll make it look like a suicide. Stop listening to him."

"But...but...what are his thoughts, and what are mine?"

[Aito Satoshi]

Day after day, week after week, he was slipping further into the darkness that kept plaguing him. Takumi was trying tirelessly to keep fighting off the mental attacks, only to have Aito disappear after two weeks of the strain. He was not present in class, he was not in the common room, he wasn't eating, sleeping, just sitting in the farthest corner of the astronomy tower, hugging his knees as his mind was being picked apart. Every fear he ever had was pushed into his face. Everything he ever loved was being mocked, ridiculed.

He was rocking slowly in that curled position, his mind was splintered and his whole body ached. His torso was shaking with sobs, though his eyes had long since run dry. He never knew when the whispers wre going to start again and up here, no one could hear his pathetic snivveling that had lowered to scant sniffles though his torso still shook violently. He was losing his grip, the world was dark and he was slipping away.

"Look at you. Pathetic. No wonder it was so easy to claim you. Granted, you've lasted longer than I imagined. Still, it's no wonder that Xayden seeks me. You are nothing, the world would be better off without." Aito felt his body moving on its own and he descended the stairs of the tower with purely white eyes. Dark and dangerous lines formed on the edges of his face as he moved without a word through the castle. "No one even looked for you. So easy. I win." He moved between people, not speaking, unblinking, driven like a puppet beging strangled by his own strings.

He was forced out onto the grounds again and slow steps carried him back to the lake, where he stopped with a jerk. The exact spot where he'd et his love was where he stood, but the place only sank his heart further to darkness. "You really thought you had a chance. You aren't worth the time of day from him. Say it." "I'm not worth the time of day from him." "Good toy. Now, it's time you slip under the water and stop your wretched breathing. Now, apologize for wasting Xayden's life."

He looked up at the castle with a blank stare, cold and emotionless eyes still a milky hue. "I'm...sorry for wasting your time. I'm sorry for keeping you away from who you love and plaguing you with my worthless existence." Just then, all of Aito's emotions suddenly shut down and he raised his wand to the side of his head, "Occlumens!" The extreme lack of emotion mixed with the spell had sent the intruder shooting across his cell in Azkaban.

Aito stood there for a moment as the very real pain seeped into his heart and posioned his soul. The lack of emotion was becoming the only way that he was safe. Maybe a walk in the water would...just stop it. His thoughts were posioned, his heart was broken, and there were no arms to lose himself in. He walked into the lake, standing submerged to his chest. A searing pain shot through him as he lifted his wand again.

This time it was Takumi that spoke. "Wand. Down. Don't you dare. Don't you even dare. Aito, get out of the water. Xayden's been looking for you for days!" He turned, his eyes fully emotionless and full of pain. "He has not. What does he care if some pathetic mongrel shuffles off this mortal coil? He'd be better off." Takumi was holding a flask. "You need to drink this. It will get rid of those feelings. You've fought too long, you've lost yourself. Come on. Please come drink this."

[Professor Takumi Satoshi]

"Will you just come here? Please? Please drink this. Put your wand down. Look! I know it hurts, I know you're buried in what he made you believe, but it's not true." Takumi was still holding out the flask, two pairs of onyx eyes focused upon each other, one full of pleading, the other of pain. The younger man was slipping further away from him and deeper into the water and he was following him into the waters at this point. "Come here, Aito...please. I almost lost Ren once, I'm not cut out for losing you. Please."

"Don't you understand it, Takumi? No one ever stays. Nothing is forever, but death. Love...it's just a mirage." His voice had dropped to a shaking tenor, a pained whisper, and that was where he could finally get him. "Aito, listen to yourself. You want me to believe that you really think that? We both know you're lying through your teeth. You believe in love. You have love. You love with all you have. Are you trying to tell me that you've been lying to him?"

"I never lied to him!" He was making headway, the voice that spoke cracked softly, as if his feelings were hurt by the accusation. "I love him so much that I've put my life on the line for him and all he wants is...he wants..." "Me. Me. Me. He wants ME. He'll die to be with me, and you'll die in such an unremarkable way that it's fitting for someone like you."

Aito's hands covered his ears and he was screaming again, obscenities, threats, curses, trying to drown out the sound of that voice. "Maybe I'll tell him what I've done to you. Just to see him laugh at how WEAK you are. You are such a waste of space." Suddenly, Aito's hand lashed out and took the glass phial from him and drained the liquid into his mouth before shattering the glass into the inner slope of his wrist. "HEY!" He reached out to grab him, but he just started laughing. It was cold, calculated, and when he looked up again, his eyes were no longer black but a sheer white again, and he was pushing that form from its spot to the rocks above.

"Say goodbye."

"Tell him I love him."

Takumi lashed out his wand, sending up flares, anything to get the attention of someone in the castle. He was too emotionally involved to actually attack his nephew to shield his mind from this abuse and manipulation. "Bloody Merlin...someone come help me...please? I can't save him." Aito was dripping blood from his wrist, and he was swaying slightly on the spot, trying to keep focus. But, his eyes were not focused at all. "It's....cold..."

"Into...the water. GO! Fall!"

[Alleyne Sinclair]

wherever you go, just always remember
YOU'RE NEVER ALONE, THIS IS MY OATH TO YOU

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Alley had no idea what had been going on with her best friend lately. Never in the entire six years they had known each other, the six years they had been friends, had Aito ever really avoided her, and for the past couple of weeks it felt like he'd not only been avoiding her, but Xayden, the love of his life as well. It was really beginning to worry her that he was acting this way. It was worrying her so much in fact, that tonight she'd resolved to wait him out in the common room, thinking he had to come to the tower eventually, at which point she planned to confront and talk to him.

She'd been sitting there for a couple of hours now and still hadn't seen any sign of him, and that was only worrying her more. So when all of a sudden she saw flares spark up into the sky through the window, she didn't even bother looking out to see if her fears were correct, she simply grabbed her wand and her coat, and ran out of the common room, and started heading down towards the grounds. As she made her way out onto the grounds, she saw 2 figures by the lake and started to head in that direction. As she got a bit closer she immediately recognized the 2 people as Aito and his uncle Takumi, and began to run to reach them faster.

As she reached them she realized that Takumi must have been the one to send up the flares, he looked distraught, and Aito? Her best friend's normally dark deep eyes were now white, he was bleeding from one of his wrists, and he was making his way towards the water like he did when he was having one of his night terrors. She ran faster, until she was beside his uncle and just feet away from him. "Aito no!" she screamed, "Please! Snap out of it!" He didn't seem to hear her though. Fighting tears, she looked at Takumi. "what's wrong with him? He's acting like he did during his night terrors, but this different..." Turning back towards Aito, she tried to get through to him again, pleading. "Aito please, its Alley... please don't do this... I've already lost one friend to drowning in this lake..." she cried out, as loud as she could in hopes of making him hear her, "I can't lose you, i can't lose my best friend. Don't do this, you have so much to live for, and so many of us who just can't possibly handle losing you..." She pulled her wand out of her jacket pocket and gripped it tightly, resolved that if she couldn't get through to him with words, she would use the full body bind curse on him so that he couldn't move, and then drag him away from the water herself.



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It was funny just how quickly things tended to go wrong for the young Burman. Just as he had believed that he had found happiness with someone, it seemed as though that was always when fate decided to mess with him in the most painful of ways. There had been something bothering Aito, that much had been painfully obvious to the older male. While he had tried his hardest to try and get Aito to talk to him, it had ended with his young lover avoiding him. He could not remember the last time he had spoken with him. He could not remember when the last time he had been allowed to kiss or even hold him and that was steadily breaking his heart.

Did Aito not love him anymore?

He was beginning to think so. It was just a few hours ago that he had decided that he would speak to Aito about their engagement and where they stood as a couple before falling asleep. Much to his surprise, he had dreamt on this night; though his dreams were far from pleasant. The dreams were dark and filled with vivid images of his ex love Matthias Ojanpera hurting his angel again and again.

He lay there watching in helplessness as it went on and on, it was when he heard his name being screamed in pure agony that Xayden jolted awake, panting heavily in a cold sweat.

His body shook from a mixture of absolute rage and fear. He had been absolutely terrified of his dream, scared that Matthias would somehow manage to get his filthy hands on Aito and hurt him again ever since that one incident where Aito had almost died. After that incident, he had sworn to protect Aito from that little terror, even if it ended up costing him his own life in the process.

It had taken Xayden a while to calm down enough to begin to think rationally again. After that dream, he wanted to see Aito again more than anything. He just had to be sure that he was okay, if Aito got upset with him because of it then so be it. Creeping out of his bed with his wand in hand, he slowly and quietly made his way to Aito's bed, his body freezing and his blood going cold when he saw that his bed had long since been abandoned.

There was a darkness that seemed to surround Aito's bed, as if there was some sort of dark magic that had been cast on the boy. The aura was strong, almost suffocating and much to his horror, it was one that he recognized both from his darkest nightmares and from his worst memories.

This darkness that he felt had always been linked to Matthias.


Xayden's thoughts raced just as quickly as his form did, running out of the common room and hurrying down from Ravenclaw tower as quickly as his legs would carry him. If Matthias was here then he had Aito. Someone was going to get hurt and he would die before he let that person be Aito again. His mind and body were both on autopilot as the followed both the suffocating darkness and the sight of flares all the way out of the castle and to the lakeside when he saw a sight that broke his heart all over again.

His angel, his beautiful and beloved angel was making his way to the lake, obviously about to drown himself. The darkness that he had often felt around Matthias now seemed to surround Aito, making it obvious to those that had known the Fin, that he was somehow playing a part in this in one way or another.

Aito was bleeding from one of his wrists, his blood dripping down slowly and staining the grass. His beloved's friend Alley and his uncle Takumi were standing there watching him in helplessness, afraid to attack Aito in fear of hurting him. Matthias had really planned this one out well.

If he was angry before, now he was absolutely furious with the Fin.

"AITO!!!! STOP IT!!!!" His deep voice shouted out the name of his love, desperation filling his tone as he ran towards him, pulling him back and away from the water and into his arms where he held the younger male tightly, not daring to release him.

" Aito please. I know you can hear me. You have to fight him. I know that he's in there with you, hurting you just like he did to me all those years ago. Love you can't let him win. You can't let him have your life. I can't live without you. I love you more than anything. Please love please. Snap out of it. Please."

His grip on Aito tightened, before his eyes filled with rage at seeing the beautiful darkness of his lover's eyes morphed into a dull white. He felt fear grip him for a moment before his resolve strengthened and he spoke again, this time to the monster tormenting Aito.

" Matthias. I know that you're in there. I don't know how I do, but I know. Enough with these games. If you want my life then come and get it yourself. Leave Aito alone and stop being a coward. Come and attack me directly. I dare you."

[Aito Satoshi]

Aito could hear people talking, but none of the information could reach his mind. It was too far clouded in shadow. He only stood there, frozen to his spot as a puppet whose Master had yet to pick up the strings. The blank and emotionless face turned to Alley as he heard her speak, but offered nothing. Takumi, on the other hand , shielded her with an arm, "It's a Legilimens attack. He has to fight it or expel them. Whoever it is, is good at what they do, but Aito has the potential. He can block it. He just needs to! Block it! Expel it! Cast the spell Aito! You can do it!"

"I'll just keep coming back. You can't block me forever, can you?"

His body jerked back toward the water when he heard his voice. His voice. Followed by arms locking around him as tight as he could manage. The voice in his mind seemed vaguely perterbed by the fact that he was here, expecially since it was giving him strength. There would be little chance to truly off him without taking the Burman too, and that was not what he wanted. Unfocused, milky eyes lifted and the voice that shuddered from Aito's throat was something akin to being strangled as he choked out a soft word, "Occ-avada-...OCCLUMENS!"

The force blasted both the Fin in his cage and the Japanese boys flying back. Aito could only fall back as far as Xayden's embrace would allow him to. Breath came in swift, jagged gasps with blood forming on his lips. "Quick! Give him this!" Takumi rushed the flask over to him and helped the younger man usher it down his nephew's throat, massaging the length of his throat to guide it down."It'll block the attacks and keep his mind sealed off as long as he's got it in his system. Occlumens doesn't last forever. He isn't going to feel very good for a while, he's been fighting this for weeks now."

The glass shards were wedged deep into his flesh, and his hand was beginning to get cold. "Mm...cold..." He was talking, and his eyes were opening, they were still unfocused, but dark as normal. "Alley, do you remember ever singing to him when he was younger? That may help calm him down and bring him back. Xayden, keep a hold of him. Talk to him, re-assure him that all the sludge that little cockroach was filling his mind with was nonsense. Re-assure him you love him, talk about the wedding, anything. I mean anything! We need to get this out without slicing the artery more and without severing all of his nerves." Takumi eased the boy's left hand back and nearly turned green at the sight of the glass sticking precariously from that pale flesh.

Dark eyes were fighting to stay open as the pain seemed to radiate from the inside, "Moushiwake gozaimasen....." (A formal apology for severly screwing up.) His voice was weak, tired, still low as if he still didn't quite believe he deserved to breathe.

[Professor Amaterasu Kuang]

Amaterasu had been patrolling the second floor. She wasn't a big fan of patrolling, but at least it was only one floor and not multiple so she couldn't get lost. On second thought it did help her get to know the school a bit better, so maybe she wouldn't get lost quite as often. It was during this patrol that she noticed sparks while passing a window. She looked out curiously and noticed two...no three people dawn by the lake and head the distant sound of shouting. What on earth...?

She squinted slightly and was able to identify one of the people as Takumi, who had been the one to send up sparks. She could also recognize Aito, but the whole scene looked off. Something was definitely wrong. She took to her heels and made her way down to the main doors as quickly as she could before striding quickly across the lawns towards them, noticing they had now been joined by a fourth person who was holding onto Aito it seemed but their backs were towards her. She was still a few feet away when she started to speak "Takumi, what's going....on. Oh..my.." she said as she finally came up to the group. The first thing she noticed was Aito's bleeding wrists with shards of glass embedded into them in Takumi's hand.

“What...happened?” she asked, moving closer to look down at Aito's wrist. “Is this glass curved?” she asked quickly yet softly. She knew a spell that she used to use when she got hurt on the Opera set, but they had to get the glass out first. She had no idea what was going on, but she did know that he was bleeding far to much to wait.

[Alleyne Sinclair]

wherever you go, just always remember
YOU'RE NEVER ALONE, THIS IS MY OATH TO YOU

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Aito was looking at her, but she could tell he wasn't really seeing her, and maybe wasn't even really hearing her, and it hurt her heart. her first instinct was to rush to him, try to reason with him up close, but before she could do so, Takumi was shielding her with his arm, speaking to her. ""It's a Legilimens attack. He has to fight it or expel them. Whoever it is, is good at what they do, but Aito has the potential. He can block it," he said to her, before yelling at Aito to fight. Alley bit her lip with worry, her eyes never leaving Aito, praying to god that he truly could fight this, she didn't know what she would do if she lost him. He had been her best friend since their first year, she could still remember times of playing and laughing together, and the thought of life without him was just... well it was just plain unthinkable. No, she refused to let those thoughts enter her head, he could fight this, she knew he could.

Suddenly out of nowhere, she heard someone shout "AITO!!!! STOP IT !!!!" She knew the voice, and therefore found herself to feel just a bit of relief, as she realized she knew who was coming before she even saw him. Aito's boyfriend, his betrothed, the man he loved, their housemate Xayden Andrews. As Xayden held tightly to Aito, and spoke to him, telling how much he loved him and needed him, and that he had to fight this, Alley crossed her fingers, hoping beyond hope that even if she and his uncle couldn't get through to him, that Xayden could, oh how she prayed, so hard. When he spoke again, this time to whoever was doing this to Aito, calling him Matthias, Alley gasped. Was that who it was? She was pretty sure everyone knew of the Fin, and everything he'd done before being expelled. She found herself getting angry at this revelation, how DARE he hurt her best friend, how dare he. "AITO!!!" she yelled louder this time, "I KNOW YOU, YOU ARE ONE OF THE STRONGEST PEOPLE I KNOW!! YOU'RE STRONGER THAN THIS, I KNOW IT!! FIGHT!!! PLEASE!!!"

And then suddenly, what they were all hoping and praying for happened, Aito fought. His voice came out softly, though seemingly torn, uttering one word. "Occ-Avada-...OCCLUMENS!" And with that, Takumi was dropping his arm that had been holding her back and rushing forward to Aito and Xayden. And quickly, he helped Xayden to force Aito to drink something from a flask that she truly hoped would keep his attacker out of his head, he said that while it was in his system it would keep Aito's mind sealed, and Alley couldn't help but breathe out a huge sigh of relief. When Takumi stated that Aito had been fighting this for weeks, Alley could feel tears surfacing in her eyes, so that must be why he had been avoiding her, he had been suffering, and forced to do things he didn't want. She hated knowing someone had been hurting him for so long and she hadn't realized or been able to do anything about it.

Takumi then spoke to her, asking if she remembered singing to Aito when they were younger, saying that her singing may help to bring him back. Did she remember? Of course she remembered. Being as avid a fan of music and musical theatre as Alleyne was, she loved to sing, and she could remember endless moments when she had sung to Aito. Nodding at Takumi, she said, "I... I remember. I'll try." She ran through her mind trying to decide what to sing, what would help most to ease her friend's pain. As she thought she heard Takumi tell Xayden to just talk to Aito, about the wedding, about anything. Gods she hoped these things would work. Suddenly the right song came to her, "The Way Old Friends Do" by Abba. It was one of her favorite songs, and she had sung it to Aito many times in the past.

Making her way closer to Aito, and kneeling beside him and Xayden, she softly began to sing. "You and I can share the silence... Finding comfort together, the way old friends do... And after fights and words of violence... We make up with each other, like old friends do," reaching out, she grabbed one of his hands in hers as she continued, "Times of joy, and times of sorrow, we will always see it through... I don't care what comes tomorrow, we can face it together, the way old friends do..." During her singing she barely heard another professor arrive and speak, she didn't care. The only thing that mattered was Aito, and bringing him back, so she sang and squeezed his hand tightly, tears slowly falling down her cheeks, as she thought to herself "oh please let this work, let this work..."



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Wearing: Uniform Tagged: Aito (Takumi, Xayden, Ama) Lyrics: The Oath- Cher Lloyd ft. Becky G.
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" Love..I know that you can hear me. Please fight him. Please send him away I don't want to see him hurt you anymore. I don't want him to hurt you like he's hurt me in the past. You have to be strong, you have to send him away. Do it for Alley and your uncle. Do it for me." His grip on the younger male tightened drastically when he heard Aito speak in a soft voice, that sounded almost as though the other was being choked as he tried to utter the spell that he needed in order to send the other away. He heard Matthias take over him for a moment, trying to get him to utter the one spell that would rip him away from the world before finally overcoming the Fin and sending him away from his mind.

The throwback from the spell was enough to make Xayden growl softly as they both stumbled back a bit before he managed to steady the both of their forms. He would not allow Aito to fall and hurt himself even more than he already had. Xayden leaned down so that he was sitting, gently cradling Aito's injured form in his arms, his hand moving to wipe away the blood that had leaked out of his mouth. His eyes burned and he blinked rapidly, trying to prevent the tears that had built up in his eyes from falling. His heart ached in his chest, rapidly breaking the longer that he stared down at his poor angel.

Aito's uncle ran over to their side along with the young woman that Xayden had come to know over the time he and Aito had been together as Aito's best friend, Alleyne Sinclair. Xayden was told to give something to Aito, something that he did with absolutely no hesitation. He was helped by Takumi, who gently rubbed Aito's throat to be sure that the younger male swallowed the potion. It seemed as though that would help Aito by blocking Matthias from his body for as long at the potion was in his system, something that made him somewhat relieved.

His angel would at least be safe for now.

" Babe....please don't apologize to me. Don't talk just listen to me...I don't know what it was that Matthias told you but I just want you to know that it's not true. I love you Aito. I love you more than anything in this world and life. I will always love you. You are my everything and I need you to be okay. I need you to be okay so we can go back to normal. I need you to be okay so that we can have that wedding and get married. I need you to be okay so that we can have our life together and eventually start a family together. I love you so much Aito and I need you to be okay because it has to be you. It has to be. I can't do this without you. I can't live in a world without you. You are my life, my love, my reason for breathing. You are my everything. I love you more than I love life itself Aito Bae Thresh and nothing will ever change that"

[Professor Takumi Satoshi]

Of all the people that could have showed up to this fiasco, he was relieved it was Ama. Takumi took a deep breath and looked over at her, "I have never been more happy to see you in my entire career here." He gestured her over quickly and tried to explain the situation as best he could. "There is a Legilimens attacking him, from Azkaban. Our family if full of Occlumens, but...this Legilimens is persistent. He's trying to kill him. The glass if from a phial I brought him to help him gain his mental fortitude to cast the proper spell. I don't think it's curved."

While they were talking, Aito focused on Alley as she was singing. He was trying to sing with her, but words weren't coming up with his lips moving and his fingers were pressed feeblyto Xayden's arm and when he started speaking, he focused on him with heavily glazed over with the crushing agony.

He did love him...

It was all he could do to not cry again.

How stupid was he to not believe that?

One of those blasted tears slid down his cheek from the corner of his eye and he looked over as the jagged glass jutting from his skin and he felt a whole new wash of pain through him. "Ah! Get it out!! Pull it out!! It really bloody hurts!!"

[Professor Amaterasu Kuang]

Amaterasu nodded as Takumi explained what was going on. A legilimens could attack from that far away? That was a fairly terrifying thought…but not one that she had time to deal with at the moment as Aito started yelling about the glass hurting. She pulled out her wand quickly, “Takumi could you please try to hold him still? I know a small spell that might help the bleeding stop…but I need to pull the glass out first.” she asked softly, moving closer to Aito’s wrists.

She stroked the boys arm in a calming motion for a minute as she spoke her next words, “Aito, hold as still as you can for me, ok sweetie? I’m going to get the glass out.” she said in a soothing tone, give both Xayden and Ally and look as if trying to tell them to help hold him still. She waited a moment more, hoping the boy would be able to relax slightly before slowly starting to work the larger pieces of glass out of his wounds with a skilled hand. She had to this several times while on the set of the opera when either she or someone else got hurt, so she was fairly good at it by now.

As soon as she had worked all the pieces out of one wrist she picked up her wand yet again, mutter a healing spell. “Occulto” she said softly and the wounds took on the appearance of having an invisible bandage over them. “Velo.” she followed it with, spinning her wand in a circular motion as some gauze appeared and wrapped itself around Aito’s wrist. “It’s a quick fix…but it will help stem the bleeding…” she explained, moving on to Aito’s other wrist.