One Of the Loveless [Kaya/Sebastian]

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He had seen her for the first time since she had been nothing more than a loving toddler, one whose smile had once had the ability to light up his entire world. Oh how much she had changed in that time that they had been apart. Those eyes, those beautiful blue eyes that had once been the exact reflection of Daphne's had grown so weary, so cold. That face which had once been so soft and kind had grown hard and cold with the pain of heartache, but perhaps the thing that had hurt him worst was the fact that the smile, that beautiful smile was gone, dead with the passing of the seemingly cruel time. He had seen it in that photograph he had been shown by Ren Satoshi, but he had not wanted to believe it and had come to see for himself, staying at the inn at Hogsmeade until he had accidentally stumbled across his niece shopping on this particular weekend.

He had seen her and had found that the emotions he had tried so hard to cover were taking over and had quickly ducked into a small alleyway, protecting himself from the view of others as the tears he had tried so heart to fight began to break free.

He had failed both as her relative and as her godfather. How dissapointed, how angry Daphne and Roderich must be with him as they watched their daughter experience whatever pain that she had, over and over again until she had turned into that cold shell of the girl that she once was, a mere shadow of her former self. She had turned into that because of his failure to protect her and her brother and that very realization was more painful to him than any sort of physical pain that had been inflicted on him during his time as an auror.

His breath came out in short and shallow pants as the pressure of the pain that he felt began to overwhelm him, cutting him deep inside of his chest and grasping at his heart in a hold that he knew he would never be able to escape from. The large and strong form of the Hungarian slumped against the cold, hard material of the building that he was using as refuge from the stares he knew that he would be given, a quiet whisper, a quiet wish and prayer to the angry souls of Daphne and Roderich to forgive him as the tears began to fall at an even more rapid pace, multiple amounts of the small and salty drops falling onto the cement and staining it, secretly knowing that there would be no mercy left in their hearts for him. He would suffer from this pain for the rest of his life, something that he would be willing to accept later on in life.

He would suffer through anything, as long as it meant that the two who he loved more than anything else would one day forgive him. Until then, he would just suffer in silence as one of the pained, one of the loveless.

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It was such a nice and pleasant day outside that the professor had decided that instead of staying inside and working when he did not have to, he would be taking a walk to the small village of Hogsmeade to enjoy the sights of the students enjoying themselves outside of school as well as see just how much things had changed since the time that he had been a student sixteen years ago. A small smile crossed his lightly painted lips as the warm and pleasant scent of the sweetshop filled his senses and coaxed him inside for a moment where he had bought a small supply of treats, some that he would use to reward his students for a job well done and others he would keep for himself to enjoy at the end of the school days.

At least that had been his plan until he walked past a small alley, stopping as he heard the sound of someone crying, causing a light frown to replace the smile on his face and that brow to furrow the slightest bit before he turned to face the alley, making a careful step forward, one careful step after another until he found where the source of the quiet sobs was coming from, his tender heart beginning to hurt with the slightest bit of pain as those soft eyes ran over the form of the person who looked beyond all hope.

The tall form of a man was slumped against the wall, his large frame trembling with some sort of unknown pain as the man seemed to whisper and pray to two people who went by the names of Roderich and Daphne, begging for forgiviness for all of the things that he had done to wrong them until he could no longer form coherent words as his pain took over and reduced him to sobs. Immediately, the small man stepped forward, moving until he was in front of the man and crouching down directly in front of him. A soft hand reached forward, hesitantly until it made contact with the soft flesh of the man's face and began to gently wipe away the tears that ran down the man's cheek, smiling softly when that surprised dark gaze moved to meet his own kind blue one.

"I do not know why you are crying, nor do I know what the troubles that you are facing are but I do know that such a nice day should not be spent hidden away in the darkness." The small smile grew for a moment as he continued to wipe away the tears that continued to fall down the handsome stranger's face. " Come with me. Come and join me in the light for only a short while and I promise that I will help you forget your troubles at least for now." His hand finished wiping away the tears and he turned for a moment, rummaging through the bag that carried the sweets that he had bought from Honeydukes before pulling out a solitary Chocolate Frog and moving to place it in the surprised man's hand with another one of his kind smiles. "Eat that first. Chocolate always makes people feel better when they are sad." He stood then, brushing dust off of the skirt that he was wearing and waiting until the man had consumed the chocolate before offering him a hand to pull him up and smiling again. " By the way, my name is Kaya Blanc, mind telling me what yours is stranger?"