I Could Really Use A Wish Right Now (open)

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Avetis sat on the edge of the fountain in the middle of the forum. This place, New Rome, his new home. It felt so wrong. So strange. He fiddled with the wrapper from the hot dog that had been his lunch. So… not him. He hated it here. There were really only one or two people keeping him here, to be honest. He would run free if it weren’t for them. Leave this place never to return. This place had never done him justice. What was to change that now. Sure, he wasn’t dead as punishment for his involvement in the recent events, but he wasn’t exactly welcomed either. He was the one people avoided. Didn’t help that he stood out in a crowd, with his eye patch and refusal to change from his old wardrobe almost entirely. He still favored his old faithful black trench coat. Not exactly normal around here. Back in the office and on the military base, it more like was.

He looked around as a group of kids passed with their wooden swords, seeing as everyone, no matter the age, was trained to fight here. One of them saw him and pulled his friends in the opposite direction a little too hurriedly. Word travelled fast, didn’t it? Word like ‘avoid that man or he might kill you.’ He wasn’t actually the killing type, not anymore. During his Roman legionnaire days, he didn’t hesitate to send people to the infirmary. These days… well, he had people to protect, and part of that was keeping his own slate clean. He was walking free, a citizen, and he couldn’t betray their trust, even if that was the only thing they gave him. He’d come so far in the government. Where he’d finally been respected. Now? Heck, he hardly even saw his own daughter so gods only knew what he even had anymore. No respect, not really any family, the woman he’d hidden his feelings for was long dead. All he had was a tiny apartment, a dead end job, and a smidge of trust on the part of the Senate else he’d be in Audrey’s position right now.

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Word Count: 360
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No charlie wasn't exactly one for following the rules to the letter. She had been told by a few people to stay away from Liam and Skylar. Her dad had told her to do so and to be honest, just because her father told her not to do it, she automatically wanted to. Liam was her Nephew and according to Miyuki, he needed some socialization. So she did a little bit of training with him. He was good. Who ever had trained him, trained him well. Charlie believed in the rules and that rules had their own particular and special place. But when it came to some things, rules were more of guidelines. Charlie pulled her sweatshirt over her tee-shirt. It was March and just because the weather was starting to warm up didn't meant that the wind didn't gust coldly and that they were still in danger of getting a frost over. She had woke up some mornings when they had been doing drills early and have the whole field of mars covered in crunchy and frosted grass. IT was a satisfying sound if she was going to be honest. She loved the sound of things like grass being crunched under foot. Or the sound of the legion marching off to war.

She took a long drink from the coffee she had just purchased for lunch from one of MErcury's shops before sitting down at the fountain. She looked at the man beside her. New Rome was filled with all types of people, but she knew this one's reputation. If it wasn't bad enough he had a horrible reputation, the children that were toting things off to practice, were giving him a super wide berth. She raised an eyebrow as she was greeted by one of her cohort and waved him off, Charlie didn't want to be hanging around her cohort after one of their long drills again. A few in particular had irked her and incurred her wrath. One of them being the said male that had greeted her. She shot him a look of death as she told the boy that if he had skipped out on a drill again she would find him and run him into the ground. She didn't give by what means she would accomplish her threat. Charlie left that up to his imagination. If she was going to pound him in a fight till he was face down in the dirt or if she ran him in practice till he wished he was six feet under, that was up in the air. It depended on what she was feeling if he bothered to piss her off again. "Who does that? Who in their right mind pisses off their commanding officer by skipping out of training and then waltzes up like everything's okay?" Charlie shook her curly blond hair. She said with a growl to her voice. The question was left hanging in the air, but she watcched the man beside her, just simply to observe him.

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Avetis was not in a good mood. He glared with his one good eye at anyone who dared look at him, which probably didn’t help his reputation, but he didn’t care. He was ticked off. Frankly, going from thinking you were respected and looked up to, to learning that your own daughter didn’t want to see you? Some people, that might make them want to eat a pint of ice cream in one sitting. Avetis? It made him out for blood. The only person whom had ever seen him vulnerable as he was now, Mairyse McCloud, was long dead. The only reason he hadn’t locked himself mentally up behind ten-foot-thick walls when she passed was that wisp of a daughter of hers. He’d truly loved that little girl like his own. Heck, he’d treated her like his own even when her mother was alive. But love was a nasty thing. Either you lost it, in his case. Or you were destroyed by it, as was eventually Eve’s case. The first loss had nearly crushed him. He was different this time. He was furious.

Thank the gods he did have a little left. Two, actually. Their names were Hunter and Aoife. Possibly the last remaining – free – members of the old way. Who actually ascribed to it. The only two who gave him any amount of dignity. They still called him ‘sir’ when no one else did. They still looked to him for guidance. Unlike most. So he would keep them close. It was them he had over for home-cooked meals. Treated like family. Because deep down, he really did just want someone there. It just so happened that these two also fulfilled his desire to be respected. He wanted power, and they gave it to him. He wanted respect, and they gave it to him. He wanted… to be wanted, and they did. So he repaid the favor. In fact, maybe he’d go see them today.

The only two others in question were Liam and Audrey. Audrey was understandably unreachable. Like they would allow him to see her. He would find a way though. And Liam, well, he deserved a break. Avetis knew he had been treated poorly and possibly blamed him for it, so he would leave him be just as he was leaving Avetis be.

Then someone interrupted his thoughts by having the nerve to sit next to him. He was not in the mood for company anymore. Maybe twenty minutes ago, maybe if it was someone he actually gave a rat’s ass about, but not this. And then she went and commented about stupid stuff to no one in particular and he rolled his one good eye. He didn’t bother to say anything.

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Word Count: 455
Notes: sorry this is awkward, but I honestly had no idea how to reply to that. o.o