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After everything that happened, he was disgusted and ashamed to find himself buzzing with anticipation, and his heart ached just as it had back then at the bar.
Or as it had when they made their deal.Or when Alastor tore him apart.
Love was a cruel mistress, he mused, despite this being no such time for musing.“There you are,” came Alastor’s lilting, filtered speech.
Vox was lucky to have already collapsed, because his knees weakened at the sound of the man's voice. Through all of this, sentimentality gave way to the burning humiliation and rage again. Who the fuck does he think he is, showing up here? For what? To rub it in his face? He growled lowly in response.
“Come to finish the job? Cause I’m pretty damn sure that guy you just reduced to atoms was gonna do your dirty work for you.”An old-timey laugh track crackled through the air as Alastor came into Vox’s full view. “Quite the opposite, my dear.”
He knelt and surveyed Vox with a strange tenderness. “I’m here to fix you.”