Athe x Pendrix AU!

*Okay, so this entire page is basically typed with AU ideas for Pathe (Athe x Pendrix) and the rest of the 11. It is either in kist form, or I wrote a whole plot line. Feel free to read and correct gramar! -Snowclaw5553*

## Con!Athe x PlantNymph!Pendrix

*I have no idea what in the world to call this AU. The basics are it’s medieval times with forest nymphs and gay fluff everywhere. -Snowclaw5553.*

### The start of something new ( Pendrix)

My horns had just groan in, and I was so excited to go anywhere I pleased. Well, anywhere in the forest. But everything hand been explored here, I wanted to go to the human palace, at least the outside wall. Ever since I was a sprout I wanted to see that wall. The other trees had descrbed as made out of nothing by hewn, black, rocks. I ran to the border wanting to see the castle when I got there, I faltered.

Yes the wall was there, it was made out of the rough black rocks, but sitting against a tree, was a human. I had never seen a human. They looked a lot like me, except without the horns. He had black hair, long limbs, and tan skin. He looked at the wall and back at a book that he was using a piece of wood to sketch in.

I creeped to the tree and leaded over him so that I could see the drawing. It was a drawing of the border wall of the fortress. It was incredibly detailed with every look out window, guard tower and niches.

“I know your there.” The human said, out of fear I turned into camoflaged bush. He looked right at me. He had blue eyes, and the skin under his eyes was darker. “You think I don’t know when I’m being watched, Sprite? I’m a thief, I have the sixth sense of knowing it.” I swayed with the wind. I was a bush. I had been growing there for several years. I had no idea what this being was talking about. The human sighed. “I know there wasn’t a bush there when I sat down. I turned back, the second I did, the human put a hand to my throat and slammed me against the tree.

This was it, he was going to kill me. I had heard stories about thieves, they got you to do horrible stuff with them, then leave you for dead. The elders had been right, humans where cruel. I started to whimper. He losened his hold on my neck but didn’t let go. There was a high strung chime sound and some rusting in the towers. He looked up, frantic. Still with his hand on my throat, he picked up his sketch book.

“Move, if you want to stay in the forest.“ He took his hand off of my throat, and dove behind the tree. Instead of running, I was paralyzed with fear. As gaurds started walking out of the tower, I felt his hand on my shoulder yank me back. He pulled me behind the wide oak tree, and murmured what sounded like a prayer. Though I wasn’t focusing on his face. With terrifying realization, I noticed his arm around my back. His arm was taught with muscles and noticeably rough with calluses. The elders said that calluses where scars of hard work, something to be proud of. But he was a thief, why would a thief have calluses?

I looked at his face. His face was etched He was know watching the gate scared of being caught. I guess we where both in the position. He was scared of being put in jail, and if any of the elders saw me here, there was no going back. After another out of tune chime. The guards went away. The human breathed out, letting his hand fall from my back, and his head against the tree. I quickly got up after a moment’s hesitation. I rocked on my heels as the human breathed in and out, in and out. He was stressed.

“You look stressed.” I commented. He looked at me with those electric blue eyes. He sighed and stood up.

“Those where castle guards, of course I was jumpy.” He walked away after saying this. I watched the bushes sway where he had excited, then I ran back to the village. No one could know that I met a human today.

........

 The next time I saw him was a couple of weeks had passed, and I had all but forgotten him. I was talking a walk through the trees trying to ease my mind, when I spotted the same human that had been at the castle walls. Instead of drawing walls, he was drawing plants. Every once and awhile he looked up, and jotted down another small detail that made the picture beautiful.

“I thought you where a thief, not an artist.” He didn’t even look up to me.

“And I thought you where a nature sprite, not a rampaging bull.” He answered, delicately placing detail on a leaf that looked like it branch had been broken. I looked at the bush itself. Indeed a branch had almost been broken off, but it was little enough to be missed by the untrained eye.

“Iv’e been meaning to ask you.” I looked at him, and he waved his hand through the air, gesturing me to continue before going back to his sketch. “Why did you save me? You hardly new me, but you saved me anyway, why?” I asked. He put down his pencil in the fold of his book and looked at me. His blue eyes were striking to look at.

“You are a living thing. I kill a lot of living things and get paid to do so, I figure Karma will look better on me if I saved something for once.” His eyes, I had once thought of them as electricity, turns out this ‘thief’ had little more to him. Not wanting to go back to the village right away, I sat down next to him.

“What‘s ‘karma’.” I asked, sounding out the strange syllables. He kept looking at me, and bristled when our shoulders brushed.

“Karma is a being that gets revenge on you for what you've done to others.” he explained. I shock my head. That just made me more confused. I knew a lot of local beliefs, none of them had to do with this ‘Karma’ thing.

“I don’t understand.” I told him. He sighed, and let himself put his sketch book down.

“If you step on someone’s foot and don’t say sorry, then Karma is going to send a person to step on your foot, and they’re not going to say sorry.” That made sense. It also sounded a lot like one of the beliefs, but I had forgotten the name.

“Do you draw a lot.” I said gesturing to the book. He looked down to where it had fallen between his feet.

“Yeah, I’ve gone through three sketch books this year.” He said with a slight laugh. I heard birds twittering in the trees, but I knew that call, it was a meeting of my village.

“I-I got to go.” I stuttered, “Uh, see you around.” I awkwardly voiced, trying to disguise the hope in my voice.

“See you around.” He replied giving me a nod. I smiled slightly and ran into the woods, trying to hide the red heat on my face.

### What if..... ( Athe)

I had always felt guilty about what I done to survive, and just when I had thought I was getting over it, I saved a tree nymph from getting spotted buy the palace guards. A very scared tree nymph that had no idea what the guards would do to him if he was caught. It had reminded me of the time I had taken a being with horns, to the prince. After that, I vowed I would never take a being away from there home ever again, no matter the pay out. Maybe it was Karma’s trick to pull by waltzing a tree nymph with horns into my life. And I had just said that I would ‘See you around’. If I ever met Karma, I was going to flip her off, I was used to her wrath, but this was just cruel.

After a week of going into the forest to escape human contact, and maybe part of me wanted to see the nymph, finally it was the day before one of my riskier jobs. Before midnight, I went to the hill that was behind my house with my sketch book and pencil. I laid down, and for a second, I breathed in. I wasn’t the legendary hit man that would do just about anything for the right price. No, I was Athe, no last name for me to be claimed by, I was my own person. Then, as I opened my sketch book, I heard a rustle in the bushes. I sat up instantly but didn’t draw my knife, no one needed to know who I was right no. Instead of a stranger, it was the same nymph.

When he saw me, he bounded over and sat on his knees, skidding to a halt. He smiled at me, I think he thought I was a friend just because I had talked to him.

“Hey there.” He said brightly.

“Hello.” I said nodding, then I went back to laying down and turned my head to the sky. He crawled over to my left side and laid on his stomach, placing his head on his folded arms looking at me.

“Do you like looking at the stars?” He asked. I looked at him, searching his eyes for a baited question. Of course, he probably didn’t know what a baited question was. I looked back at the sky.

“Yes, especially when I have a job the next day. It reminds me that I am not a complete monster.” I sighed closing my eyes. Why was it that when I closed my eyes, I saw his face nowadays. I felt a tapping on my shoulder, and I opened my eyes and turned to find that he was right in my face. I widened my eyes in shock.

“Your not a monster, you don’t look like one.” He said, not backing up. I moved a little to the right.

“You don’t know me that well then.” He raised an eyebrow and leaned back on his side, and I went back to where I had been.

“Then tell me, I’ve got time.” He persisted. I sighed.

“You don’t want to know what I’ve done.”

“Yes I do.” He looked at me with wide brown eyes, they seemed to switch between brown and green. They had been a soft colored blue when he first saw me, but they had changed. Like is mood, he had been excited to see me, but now he wanted me to tell my secrets. I think he saw it as telling him about myself. But it was more like telling him about my job. I took a deep breath.

“Technically, I’m both an assassin and a thief, I’m hired out for jobs, and how much you pay me is how long I take off.” I looked at him, he just gestured for me to continue. I closed my eyes, again I saw his face, I opened my eyes before his face faded into a bloody scene. “I’ve trapped so many people, killed numerous.” I breathed in. “Once I trapped a sprite, like you, and turned it in. Before I left, I heard him screaming.” I paused letting in sink in “I can’t get the screaming out of my head. After that, I vowed I wouldn’t capture any one, for any price.” after a couple of seconds, he tapped my shoulder and I looked at him.

“Humans don’t like us, do they.” He said, his eyes had turned full on green. I sighed. How I was I supposed to explain this.

“Humans are greedy creatures. So they want to know why you have these powers, others want these powers for themselves. We like you, but we also want to us you. That’s why it’s dangerous for you. They can’t except that that’s how someone was born, they always have to be the best.” after I finished I looked at him, he had turned onto his back and was looking up at the stars, unconsciously making the grass at his feet grow. I turned back to the sky. After a moment of silence, he spoke.

“Your not like them.” I looked back at him, his eyes had gone back to blue. “Your brave, and your protective. Your a good person with a bad reputation. You lied when you said you where a monster.” I snorted.

“I just told you that I took one of your kind to be tested on, and you think I’m not a monster?” He looked at me, his blue eyes almost glowing.

“You’ve learned.” His words where kind, something rare in the human world. For the first time in a long time, I smiled. His eyes widened and he looked at the sky, though I could see the red tint on his cheeks. I laughed to myself and looked back up at the sky. It stayed this peaceful calm for a while. When the moon reached it’s peak, I sat up.

“I should go to sleep, I have a job tomorrow.” I felt a hand on my shoulder, and turned to look at the nymph.

“My name’s Pendrix. What’s your name.” he asked, his words where still soft and kind, but his voice was sleepy.

“Athe.” I replied, he didn’t need to know my street name, my alias I wore as a shield.

“See you tomorrow, Athe.” He said before getting up and waking soundlessly down the hill. For a second I was still, but soon repeated the words.

“See you tomorrow.” All while grinning like an idiot. He turned and smiled over his shoulder, eyes still blue. For a bit I sat there, smiling and wondering if I could make the job tomorrow any quicker.

### You’re still alive! ( Pendrix)

The next day after I got home, I was so tired that I fell asleep almost instantly. I had enough time to say his name one more time in my head, before passing out. That morning my sister, Aro, woke me up.

“You slept in.” She said, I waved her off, to tired to even speak. She gave me a rough shake. “I know you weren’t on the night patrol, so get up.” I groaned curling in my side.

“I don’t want to get up,” I hissed.

“Well guess what, the elders called a meeting, and if you don’t get up your going to keep them waiting.” I groaned again, getting up this time.

“You should’ve started out with that.” I said standing up and combing back my hair.

“Oh well.” She said causally as she left, as if we weren’t going to be late for a very important meeting. I dawned new clothes, and a spring jacket, and ran to the meeting clearing. The chief elder was already there as the last few stragglers, including me, entered the sandy clearing. I quickly found a seat next to my 6 sisters who where talking to each other, when every one was seated he cleared his throat, and everyone went quiet.

“Today, there is going to be an attack on the human kingdom. At high noon today, the most feared con will attack the human king, and hopefully, end his reign. If this con, White Knight, succeeds, we will be able to tear down the Dam, and end our drought!” the crowd went wild, they wanted this, they wanted the king to be killed, I wondered how Athe would react. After this anouncement he said that at noon today we would observe a moment of silence and wish the White Knight good luck.

Finally, at dusk, I snuck out of village like I had done the night before, and started to run to Athe's house in the hills. I don't know what pushed me to go back to him, normally I could control my emotions better, but something in me longed to his face. When I got to the edge of the hills, I didn't see him on the hills. Why wasn't he here? He said he would. Cautiously, I crept down to the house in the center of the hills. There was a candle lit inside, but I couldn’t see much through the one window.

Gently, I pushed the door open, though it was already cracked open. I looked around the one room house, and my eyes fell on Athe’s body. I rushed over and checked his pulse, he was still alive, but only barely. Breathing slightly, but only enough to raise a bloody wound on his stomach, that was weakly held by his limp hand. I sprang into action when I saw it. I somehow picked him up to bring him over to a bed in the corner of the house, and I tripped over something, after laying him down I looked back on what I had stumbled on. And white mask shaped like a knight’s helmet with a black hood attatched. Now that I looked at Athe, he was wearing black cloth from his neck to his ankles, black leather boots, again shaped like a knight’s.

“*Yes, especially when I have a job the next day. It reminds me that I am not a complete monster.*” ,“*You don’t know what I’ve done.*” ,“*I should go to sleep, I have a job tomorrow.*” ,“**The most feared con,**” “**If this con, White Knight.**” Their words rang in my head as I carefully removed the blood stained cloth from his abdomen. I winced when I saw it. Black blood oozed from the wound, if it had been bleeding like this since noon, then he was lucky he was still alive. Very carefully, I started to heal the wound. Normally I did this with plants and broken branches. I would have been easier with a broken bone, I had almost never dealt with a flesh wound, and I almost threw up twice. It was slow work because of my inexperience.

I didn’t mend the surface wound, only the internal damage, before my energy loss made me slump over. I grabbed a chair and sat next to the bed, the bleeding had stopped and had started to clot. I put my head in my hands and took a deep breath. The air was tinted with the metallic sent of blood. My eyelids drooped, I shock my head and leaned back in the chair. What would me sisters say if they saw me now? Probably along the lines of, ‘*Why did you not get us? Your good with emotions, not the body!*’ and back hand me. What I wouldn’t pay to be able to tell them, that I had fallen in love with the most feared con of the human world.

Once my strength returned, and his breathing got steadier, I healed the rest of it and rested before I returned back to the village, though I would have gladly curled up here.

### Okay maybe I like you ( Athe)

The morning after I had pulled off the riskiest job of my life, I woke up in my bed, the wound that should have killed me, was healed up, but tender and hurt like hell when I touched it. A chair had been moved to my side and was slanted a bit. There was nothing else that seemed to have moved, then I noticed the note. The note was made of wood, and etched into it where the words ‘*Will you meet me in the forest tonight?*”. Though it wasn’t signed, I knew exactly who had wrote it.

That night I walked into the forest, not sure where exactly he would be. I heard a rustling of leaves, and my hand flew to my back pocket, old habits die hard. Then the bush, that had not been there before, turned into the tree nymph, his arms crossed.

“Your the White Knight?” He asked before I could even open my mouth. I nodded looking to the side not meeting his eyes.

“I’m sorry-” I started before I was knocked backwards and stumbled by the force of Pendrix slamming into me. He pressed his fore head into my neck. I bristled at the touch at first, the instinct of being caught terrifying me in place. After I recovered from the shock, I slowly wrapped my arms around him.

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, I’m sorry you had to see that.” I said aloud, almost choking.

“That’s not the apology I want.” He whispered, barely audible. I sighed. I knew what he meant. I wanted an apology from the idiots that killed my family. I wanted an apology from my teacher for not teaching me how to deal with emotions, I wanted an apology from the now dead king for making me do what I had done.

“I’m sorry I almost died.” He nodded and hugged me tighter. I rested my chin on his shoulder. He seemed to calm down after that. We sat down after our legs got tired and he leaned on me, his head on my chest. I had to tell myself that it was okay to put my arm around him.

“You bristled when I hugged you, why?” He asked, holding the hand I had laced around his back. For a second I was quiet, listening to the crickets.

“For an assassin and a thief, touch means you’ve been caught. If I get caught I ruin everything that I have worked for. It means I will l lose nature, I lose peace, I lose drawing.” I hesitated before finishing, “I lose you.” He looked at me, his eyes wide and a little scared. I had learned that’s that what his eyes being green meant. “That and I haven’t been hugged in a while.” He studied my face. He then smiled slightly and hugged me tighter.

“Then I’m going to give you a hug every time I see you.” He looked back at me with a bright smile. I couldn’t help but smile slightly. That just made him happier and he rested his head back on my chest. I looked at the sky, the moon wasn’t even close to the center. I rested my chin on his head and closed my eyes.

I must have fallen asleep because when I came to, Pendrix was shaking me.

“Athe, we fell asleep! The moon’s at the center:” he hissed in my ear. That got my attention, and I shot to my feet, knocking Pendrix over. That scared me more then the time deadline. I sat back down and helped Pendrix back to a sitting position.

“I’m sorry, did I hurt you?” I asked, looking his face over, he leaned into my hands and for a second held them there.

“I’m not hurt, you scared me a little when you shot up like that.” He giggled a little at the end, though stopped when he saw the concerned look on my face. “I’m fine, really I am.” He said, a little more seriousness to his voice.

“Sorry, I just,” I pulled him into a hug, and he gladly wrapped his arms around me. “Just don’t want to hurt you.” He pulled away from me, then did something I was least expecting. He kissed me on the forehead. There was a tingling sensation in my toes, and I’m pretty sure that squeaking sound came from me. He smiled when he pulled away from me.

“I don’t want you hurt either.” He paused and was quiet for a moment, in those seconds, I could feel my face awkwardly smile back at him “Tomorrow? On the hill?” He asked me. Breaking the silence. I nodded, not really remembering how to form a sentence. He grinned, gave me another kiss on the forehead and ran off. “Bye.” He said over his shoulder, excitement visibly going through him. I waved, smiling at him as he ran into the woods. I don’t really remember when I wondered home and fell on my bed.

### Sister knows all ( Aro)

*I know she isn’t part of the ship, but I can do what I want with this, they’re my characters.*

For two days now, my brother had slept in, and was a little happier then normal. Yeah, he tried to hide it, but his blue eyes gave him away. We where picking berries as one of our chores for the day and as he knelt at a poisonous bush, I was about to scold him, before I realized he was healing a broken branch that I hadn’t noticed before getting back up.

I looked him over, his shaggy brown hair, was a little more combed then normal. He smelled faintly of ashes. Of course that could mean anything, there was a recently charred part of the forest, that him and some of our colleagues where trying to repair.

“How did you know that was there?” I asked, starring at him. He looked at me with steadiness in his eyes. Though the colors where all mixed up now.

“I just noticed it. I’m an emotion healer. If I don’t notice the small things, I might make something worse.” He went back to picking berries after he said that. I know him better than that, he didn’t look you in the eye normally. He had just lied to me.

“Why did you just lie to your older sister?” I asked, picking him up by the collar. Looking him in the eye. His eyes finally choosing to stay on green as he looked me in the eyes.

“I didn’t.” He whimpered. His eyes shifted to behind me, toward a valley, crowded with hills.

“Does my little brother have a significant other,” I fake gasped, “out side of the village?” If possible, Pendrix’s eyes got greener, and his eyes where wide. He started to form an excuse, then sighed and nodded his head.

“Yes!” I dropped him and he stumbled to his feet, then I got back in his face. “Tell me everything!” I hissed sitting him down. Pendrix was slightly scared now because of my excitement, but that was normal. He looked away from me, turning a slighter shade of red.

“Well,“ he hesitated putting a hand in the back of his neck. “I don’t know how he would feel about me telling you.” He looked at me, looking for a reaction. All I did was smile and pump my fists in the air.

“Yes! Are sisters now owe me five dollars! Each! Yes!” I said. He looked at me, mouth open, eyebrows raised.

“You bet on my orientation?” He asked, a little angry making his eyes fluctuate between green and brown.

“Well yeah! What’s the point of having a little brother and not betting on it?” I asked, he just rolled his eyes. “So what’s his name?” I asked poking him on the shoulder.

“I, I don’t think I should tell you that.” He said going back to our chore.

“Hair color? Eye color?” I asked with a slight grin.

“Aro, I honestly think I shouldn’t tell you. I’ll, I’ll have to ask him about it. Now can you leave me alone about it?” His voice was irritated and they kept moving from brown and green. I stopped smiling with the mean purpose of my words.

“Fine. Can I at least tell Athanasia and the others?” I said throwing two rotten berries over my shoulder.

“That I’m dating, or I’m dating a boy?”

“That your dating a boy, of course.” My brother sighed.

“Fine, but please keep it within your little group of yours.” He said glancing at me.

### How much is safe to tell? ( Pendrix)

For a month, I had saved up my free time so I could visit Athe all day. Since that day with Aro, I started saving my free time then, I really was scared he would be mad at me. I did my one chore, alone, and then ran off, telling the Elders I would be back at midnight. I was hoping I got there in time. When I got there, Athe was in his little garden. He was, very carefully plucking leaves from a plant, and putting them in a basket.

“Hey Athe.” I said, hoping over his fence and onto a stone slab. He looked at me with a smile and a shake of his head.

“You could've used the gate, you know.” He said standing up and carefully walking over to me with the basket. When he got to me, he put the basket down, and before he could do anything, I gave him a bear hug. He stubbled back from me, almost knocking us both over. Athe stabilized himself, and wrapped his arms around me, laughing to himself.

“I’m still not used to that.” He chuckled in my ear. I smiled. I felt that I could be myself. He picked the basket back up and we went into his house. It hadn’t changed much since I had last been here. Except light filtered in, and a pot of boiling water was over a pit of a fire. I skirted around the chair that had once held a dying Athe, so instead I sat on the bed and watched as Athe unpacked the basket and put it away.

“So what do you want to do today?” He asked while working he was skilled at giving side glances that made you sit on the edge of your seat.

“First I have to talk to you about something.” I said, putting my hand on the back of my neck, nervousness crept into me once again. “I don’t know if you’ll be mad at me or not.” I finished. Athe looked at me, two glasses in his hands with some water from the pot. He sat parallel to me on the bed, his legs crossed. He waved his hand through the air, a gesture I had gotten used to for him telling me to go on. I took a deep breath.

“Okay, so a while back, my sister and me where doing a chore, and she caught me in a lie, and we where close to the valley, and I looked over her shoulder, and she figured out that I was dating someone.” I sighed, that had taken a lot of my stress out of me, but I was still scared at what he would think. I looked at Athe cautiously. He took a small sip from his cup and looked at me with an unreadable expression.

“How much information does she know?” He asked taking another sip.

“The fact that your a guy and that’s it.” He nodded.

“I could careless what people think of me, but,” he hesitated. With his left hand he reached out to me. I put my cup down and excepted his hand, and he pulled me to his chest, and I gladly cuddled into him. “I’m scared for you. Will you get hurt if they know my name? Or the fact that I’m a *human*.” he spat the word like it left a bitter taste in his mouth. I nodded.

“Yeah, I’ll be punished for being in a relationship with you. Only because your outside the village. That just means we need to be careful right?” I pulled away enough to look at him. He brushed a strand of loose hair out of my eyes.

“Right.” he said with a little more confidence. “I wouldn’t blame you if you told them other things. Just not,”

“Your names, or you species.” I cut him off, he was trying to form words with his mouth, but then closed it and smiled at me. I smiled back and cuddled. For a couple minutes we were silent. Enjoying the other’s company.

“When do you have to go back?” He asked, a hint of sadness. I smiled to myself and kissed his chin.

“I have to be back at camp by midnight.” He looked at me, eyebrows raised, searching for a lie, he obviously didn’t know my tell.

“Okay.” He said, sinking into the pillows and I rested my head on his chest. Eventually I guess we fell asleep, because when I woke up, the sun was going down. Athe’s warm breath was right against my neck, and a protective arm around my middle. I turned over on my back to look at him. The once edged face was now squished against a pillow, his lips barely parted while breathing. I turned over again so that I was face-to-face with him. I should go home. I should fo to my sisters. But, it felt safer with Athe.

“You do know that I’m awake right.” Athe grumbled. Opening his eyes slightly.

“Your not that awake.” I said placing my head under his chin, careful of my curved horns so that they wouldn’t hurt him.

“I’m awake enough to open my eyes.” His left arm lopped around me and laced fingers with his right hand.

“Okay, we’ll go with that.” I shrugged. I heard him hum slightly, and press his lips to my head. Excitement flew through me, I couldn’t keep the smile off my face. We waited a few more minutes, until the sun went down.

“You said you had to be back by midnight, do you think you should go.” Unfortunately, I knew I should, but didn’t want to. I sighed and pulled myself away from his embrace. We sat up in unison, he kept his left arm around my middle until we were sitting up, then he retracted his arm. I took a minute to keep my forehead on his chest. I got up relectantly.

“Next week?” I asked as we walked out the door. Our hands brushed, and he caught my fingers, and awkwardly laced his with mine. I took my hand away, and re-laced our fingers more comfortably.

“Woods, or my house?” He asked, squeezing my hand.

“Your house, I don’t want to get caught by my sisters.” He nodded, we where at the edge of the woods now. He reluctantly released my hand, before I went, he gave me a peek on the check. I looked him, he was bright red with a hand over his face looking down. I smiled and gave him a kiss on cheek. Yeah they weren’t the first. But it was Athe’s first time really kissing me. “See you tomorrow.” He took his hand away from his face.

“See you tomorrow.”

### Where is he?! ( Athe)

It had been a week since I last saw Pendrix. I wondered if I heard him wrong. Or maybe he just had something to do with his sisters. I didn’t know, but I was getting worried about him. The last time we were away from the other was so we had more time, was it something like that? I went out into the forest with my ‘White Knight’ costume on, and started following Pendrix’s trail from the week before. Within a minute, another sprite had a stone spear to my throat.

She had blonde hair, and caramel brown eyes. Her horns are what caught my attention though. They looked like a longer version of Pendrix’s horns. They were like bull horns except they sprouted from the middle of her head, and where more rounded. She wore a mixture of furs and vines, she was almost perfectly camouflaged with the surrounding forest.

“Who are you.” She hissed, pressing the spear to my throat. Her voice was a lot like Pendrix’s, except higher pitched, and angry.

“Where’s Pendrix?” I asked calmly. She bristled.

“I asked you first.” I paused, taking a deep breath.

“The White Knight.” I knew my real name wouldn’t pull any weight, and might get me killed. Her eyes went wide and she took the spear away from my throat. She swallowed.

“Can you answer my question now?” I asked. She nodded huridly.

“Pendrix, my brother, was, was.....” she hesitated and sadness filled her features.

“Killed?” I asked, with a little touch of rage that I meant to disguise. She looked ar me, shocked, and shook her head.

“No, no, he was just....” she took a deep breath. “Taken by the humans.” I stubbled forward, and she tried to brace me. I stood up straight and looked at her.

“Do you know of the house in the middle of the valley?” I asked. Realization dawned on her face, she seemed to want to ask a question, but all she did was nod. “I want you, to met me there, with a healer of sorts. I want you to put a pot of water on the fire. There is a medical bag under the bed, get it ready.” I turned away from her.

“Where are you going?” She asked, I kept moving.

“To bring Pendrix back.” I hissed, unsheathing my knife. I heard a small gasp from her. I started walking faster.

.......

I walked with caution on the white marble floor. This was the third time I had been here, yet I knew every inch of the place. It was burned into my memory. I knew when the guards came, I knew when they switched. Most importantly, I knew where the single laboratory was. I snuck down the hall way. Like normal the two guards stood in front of the door, looking straight ahead. Karma may be cruel, but I was angry. I slit the throat of one guard, and stabbed the other in the gut and kicked away his weapon. I unhooked the key from the dead guard and let myself in.

The stench of cleaner assaulted me and I scrunched my nose. My eyes traveled across the room, landing on the old scientist leaning over a chair, with Pendrix in it. I cleared my throat and shut the door. The grey haired man turned around a little to fast and stumbled towards me.

“White Knight! Lovely to see you again!” Under my mask I sneered. “Though was it really necessary to hurt those poor soldiers?”

“Was it really necessary to kid nap that poor sprite?” I hissed back, furious. He backed up.

“You have grown a temper since the last time you where here.” I picked him up after he said that.

“The last time I was here, I killed the most important person in the country, almost unscathed.” His eyes widened.

“You killed the person who gave you a job?” He was panicked now, “Who offered you mercy? How dare you!” I pressed my knife to his gut.

“I killed him because he was the cause of the first sprite’s death!” I hissed “Now it’s time to kill it’s murderer.” I plunged my knife into his belly. He gasped for air and I took out my knife. “Now, tell me what you did to the new one, and I’ll make your death less painful.” He told me through pained breaths. Slowly, I slit his throat, dragging it out on the pure reason because of what he had already done to Pendrix. I dropped his body and washed the knife, washing the blood from the iron. I cut the leather straps holding Pendrix’s body and he slumped to the side. I picked him up, with his knees bent over my arm, and I began to run.

Somehow I made it to my house without being spotted, when I got there, no less then 7 sprites where there. I set Pendrix on the bed before turning to the one I had talked to before.

“7 sprites? I though I said *a* healer.” The only other boy sprite, who was probably as old as the scientist, spoke up.

“First of all, they are all healers except me, and I’m the lead Elder so I came anyway. Second of all their his sisters. There aloud to be here.” He studied me with grey eyes and murmered to himself, “I didn’t know the White Knight lived so close.” Pendrix‘s sisters had already started healing him, taking turns extracting the toxins out of his veins. The leader waved me over to a corner of my house.

“Why did you do this?” He asked, quietly, staring at me, and I could have sworn that his eyes where glowing. I couldn’t tell him the whole truth, that Pendrix had been sneaking out to see me, but I could tell him part of it.

“I’m repaying Karma.” His expression twisted into a confused look. “I did something bad to your kind, I’m making up for it.” I clarified. His eyes widened.

“What did you do?” He hissed.

“I don’t what to talk about it.” I said

“What did you do to my people?” He growled, low enough so that I could here him. I sighed, there was no getting around this.

“I stole one and gave him to the prince, ten years back. I vowed I wouldn’t take another person, or sprite again.” I said, looking at the ground, I was ashamed of that act. He smacked me across the face. My masked hitting me against the check, for sure leaving a bruise.

“I deserved that.” I said looking him in the eye again.

“That’s for taking the nymph,” now he gave me the proper term, “my gratidude is for not doing it again, and saving Pendrix.”

“Thank you for your gratitude.” I said, then went to the pot of water I kept over the pit, and lit a fire.

### What happened? ( Pendrix)

*Warning, poorly written fluff awaits those that read on. I tried.-Snowclaw5553*

Nightmares rocked my sleep, though I could not wake up. Ever since that old guy attacked me in the forest, I hadn’t been able to wake up. More sharp pains as needles stuck into me, I heard a moan of pain and someone barge into the room. I opened my eyes, but everything was blurry. A man was holding the little scientist my the throat, there was groan of pain, some gasping after a muffled conversation, and then I passed out again, trapped in other hellacious dreams.

I woke up again to someone running with me in there arms. I was held underneath my knees and held across my back. Who ever was holding me, their hand was holding my head to their chest.

“Hold on Pendrix, just a little longer. Just to my house.” Athe’s voice was horse and he was breathing heavily, he was moving fast and body felt lite. I tried to talk back to him, but my lips felt numb, and I went back to my nightmare state.

The next time I woke up, my sister, Brenna, was standing over me, holding a cool cloth to my head. My fingers ran over the soft cotton sheet. Wait, sheets? My sister? Why was I at Athe’s house, and why was my youngest sister here. My eyes widened as I thought this and Brenna noticed I was awake.

“He’s awake!” She hissed across the room, and then 6 sister where all leaning over me, trying to get a good look at me.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, give the boy some space.” I heard the lead elder say from across the room. Oh was I in trouble. My sisters backed away from me and the leader came towards me. I caught a glimse of a figure in the corner, entirely dressed in black, with a white helmet on. Athe.

“How do you feel, Pendrix.” the leader asked me, and my eyes looked back at him.

“Fine.” I croaked, my throat hurt, and so did most of the muscles in my body. I saw Athe move to the pot of water over the fire place. Instead of coming and giving to to me himself, he gave it to Nikolai and she came back to me. She propped me up in a sitting position and gave me the water to drink. My throat still hurt, but less so with the water down my throat. “Just fine.” I repeated, my voice sounding less tired. The leader nodded. Nikolai put the cup of water down and gently put me back in a lying position.

“Then I think it’s time to leave. You will be staying here until you are able to walk. Aro will be staying with you.” The rest of my sister said good bye to me and left with the leader. Athe calmly shut the door after them, and Aro came over to my side.

“You gave us a scare there Pendrix.” She smiled at me, then yawned. “I’m going to go out side and sleep.” Athe turned to her.

“Are you sure about that?” I could hear the shake in his voice.

“You saved my brother today, I think I can trust you.” She said going out the window, and pulling the doors shut. For a second we were both silent. He looked at me, I could see his electric blue eyes not moving from my face. He sighed.

“Scared is an under statement.” He breathed taking off his mask, his normally perfectly combed hair, sting up all over, a small bruise on his check. He moved to the bed and sat on the edge looking down at me. He put his hand near mine, but offered me a choice, to curl my fingers into his hand, or to leave it be. I reached my hand out as best as I could, and he quickly held it, giving it a little squeeze. He smiled and so did I, this is all I had wanted, just him and me. Of course it would be better if it hadn’t been after me getting kidnapped.

.......

“I like you better without your mask.” I said, with a rasp to my voice.

“So do I.” He murmured, raising my hand to his lips and pressed them there, keeping his eyes on me. I looked away, my face burning hot. He immediately took my hand away. “Was that not okay? He asked, panicked.

“No, no, it was fine.” I looked at him, his eyes were wide, and a little fearful. “I promise, it was okay.” I reassured him.He had twisted so that he was facing me, fear pricking his hair on end. He was scared of messing up, I hadn’t known that until now. He still had a hold on my hand, which I was grateful for. Though my muscles protested to it, I brought his hand to my own lips, and actually kissed the battered knuckles. He looked down as a red tint krept across his face.

“Was that okay? I teased. He cracked a shy smile.

“Yeah.” He said. Looking back at me. I smiled to him, and something brought him down a little closser. I reached upwith my other hand, grabbed the collar of his shirt, and kissed him on the lips. Like when I had first started hugging him, he tensed, but soon leaned into it comfortably.

We both parted so we could breathe, and he looked at me with those same electric eyes, that a couple of minutes ago had looked at me from across the room. After a moment he sat back up.

“Do you want some water.” he asked me, the other hand moving to the side table where the cup was. I nodded my head and he helped me get into a sitting position and handed me the cup of water. I took a sip from the wooden cup and swallowed before putting the table. My muscles still ached as I leaned in and kissed Athe again, eyes closed. He didn’t tense or hesitate this time. He wrapped and arm around me, holding me up right. Every couple seconds we parted for a breath. The only thing that did stop us was the fact that my muscles in my back started to seize up and I could sit up any longer.

I leaned on Athe’s chest, trying to cover my grimace. It felt like knives where digging into my back.

“Are you okay Pendrix?” Athe asked trying to pull away so he could see my face. The pain was almost unbearable, I shook my head no. He forced me to lay down again, and the pain dulled to a low throb. Panic was emblazoned on his face.

“Do I need to get your sister.” I shook my head again.

“I‘ll be fine.” I breathed, between the kissing and the pain in my back, I was short for breath. Aro popped her head in and looked at us. Almost immediately, Athe shielded his face with his right hand, still terrified of his identity being found out.

“Why don’t you need to call me?” She hissed.

“You where listening?” I panicked. The only emotion Athe showed was fear as he reached for his mask to put back on. Unfortunately for him, my sister was one of the fastest nymphs in out villige. She soon had his face in her hands and was peering at him through slitted eyes.

“You have black hair and blue eys.” She muttered to herself, and then she came to my side, leaving Athe on the floor kneeling. He shook his head.

“Is this the guy you’ve been seeing?” She questioned, excited, hoping to be right. I looked at Athe, who was standing up again. He shrugged.

“Yeah, but you can’t tell anyone!” I said. She looked between us. She looked at me, raising an eyebrow.

“I promise to keep a secret, from everyone except our siblings.” I sighed and put my head deeper into the pillow.

“Aro, please.” I moaned. She chuckled at my petty excuse for a beg.

“Fine, little brother, I won’t tell.” She turned away from us. “Of course if I hear anything else, I might let it slip.” she snikered.

“Give me something to throw at her!” I ordered Athe. He gave me one of the slipper-like things off of his feet, and I throw it at my sister, it didn’t hit her because she was already out the window. She closed the doors again after giving me a wink. Without speaking, I waved Athe over to me, he obediently came. I tapped the bed space on the other side of me, and he very carefully climed over me, and eased himself onto the space, wrapping his arm around my middle, gently. He rested his head on my shoulder, and as best I could put my forehead against his, and fell asleep.

### Why are they welcoming me? ( Athe)

After Pendrix got better, I escorted him to his village along with his little sister, Brenna. Aro had kept her mouth shut, and I kept my mask on. Pendrix kept stealing glances at me and when Brenna wasn’t looking, holding my hand and it squeezed before letting go again. They where teases of sorts, either that or he was trying to calm me down. At almost every rustle my hand went to my knife, ready for a fight. Before we got to the village, Brenna started doing cartwheels and hand-sprung her way into a patch of densely grown bushes. Several tracks came in and out of the bushes. The entrace.

Pendrix stopped. He had spent two weeks at my house with his sisters changing guard every day. They had slept outside at night, and we had other make-out sessions along with me sleeping besides him. Pendrix leaned on me.

“Thank you for saving me.” He whispered. I wrapped my arm around him in a half hug.

“Anything for you, love.” I whispered back in his ear. I pulled my head up and looked at him as he looked me. He was smiling and he carefully put his head under me chin. I couldn’t help it. My heart had grown used to him being there. The week he had disappeared had been bad enough, but to know that he had been taken, and tested on during that time, I had been shaking when I came to my house, barely visible, but extremely shaky. Finally we parted and Pendrix was about to go into the bushes, when the leader came out, and Pendrix backed up.

“Good your both here.” he said cheerfully. He took us by the wrist and dragged us into the bushes. The clearing in which he dragged us to, was set up with numerous huts larger then my house. It was also deserted. Pendrix soon got a nervous look on his face.

“Why are we having a meeting?” He hissed to the leader, who was now dragging us to a hallway, like thing, where the noise if people talking drifted towards us.

“You’ll see Pendrix.” He said. My mind instantly asked, ‘*Had we been found out?*’ ‘*Had Aro told?*’ If we had been found out, what would happen to Pendrix? I looked to Pendrix, his eyes were a deep green. he didn’t look at me, just with wide, deep, green eyes staring at the back of his leaders’ head. When we where at the end of the hallway he let go of my wrist.

“When I look to you, come out of here.” My eyes darted to Pendrix. He shrugged his shoulders, he didn’t know either. I nodded, not sure what I was getting my self into. He let go of Pendrix’s wrist and told him to follow. Pendrix swallowed. The leader walked confidently out into the clearing of what looked like an arena. Bad memories swamped me. The faint stench of sewer and human bodies uncleaned filled my head. I put the heal of my palm to my forehead. The ache of old memories almost making me pass out. I couldn’t hear what was being said. I shook my head vigorously, I needed to focus.

“-and the hero is with us now, every one welcome the most feared con of the human world, the White Knight.” The leader gestured to me. His voice had been respectfull, not full of commentary that the arena spokes’ person had been. I took my hand away from my head and started to walk out. Respectful applause greeted me as I walked into the light. When I got to the center, I stood next to Pendrix, who had been watching me, clapping almost silently along with the crowd.

“You okay? You where holding your head.” He whispered so I could hear as the leader talked some more to the crowd.

“I’ll tell you later.” I promised in the same hushed tone. Then the leader turned to me. Had he heard what we had said. No, he was smiling.

“The elders and I have decided, that if you want to, and can become an honorary nymph. Only if you want to though.” The offer was tempting. But I didn’t know what all it entailed. I glanced at the other ‘elders’ they all had grey hair and some were wearing disapproving looks.

“What does it require of me.” I asked, looking the leader in the eyes.

“For you it requires one chore to be done a day, and to know your face.” My eyes widened and I knew I stepped back. The only two people that knew my face, and lived, where Pendrix and his sister, know I was being asked to reveal it to more than 100 other nymphs. “It would also mean you could come and go as you please.” Tempting, very tempting. I glanced at Pendrix. His eyes where a mixture of blue, green, and brown, not really sure of what he was feeling. He looked me me in the eye, and nodded. Either encouragement, or a silent plea to do it. I sighed, my words ringing in my head. ‘*Anything for you, love.*’ It was true. Anything, and I mean anything for Pendrix.

“I accept.” I voiced. I glanced over to where the other elders where, some of them clapped along with the crowd, others sneered. Pendrix smiled slightly, his eyes deciding on blue.

“Excellent!” The leader said. “All that is needed is for you to take off your mask.” The last time someone had told me to take off my mask, I had back handed them and then slit their throat. I saw Pendrix mouth ‘It’s okay’. I shakily raised my hands, hooking my thumbs under the end if the hood.

‘*Freak!*’, ‘*Scum.*’, I had chosen this mask to prove to people that I wasn’t a helpless son of a thief. ‘*Disappointment.*’ my dad’s words rang in my ears as I raised the hood over my neck. ‘*Never take your mask off in front of someone you don’t trust, your mask is your face.*’ My teachers words hissed as I bowed my head, getting the mask over my chin. I took a deep breath. ‘*I like you better without your mask.*’ Pendrix’s words where a welcome break from the others. I took it off. The sun light almost blinded me, the mask shaded my eyes enough for me to see what was in front of me, without the sun in my eyes ever. Now, it was like the entire world was made of light.

“I call this meeting to a close.” The leader announced. He then turned to me and shook my hand. “Congratulations.” He welcomed. The other elders then stood and welcomed me, some where a little more happy then others. After they where done, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to Pendrix who was smiling widely.

“Welcome, White Knight.” Then he made a face. “I don’t like those words coming out of my mouth.” he said giving me a bored look. I chuckled.

“Good, I don’t like them coming out of your mouth.” I replied, letting go of his hand. He went back to smiling.

“Will I see you around?” He asked, a hint of flirt in his voice.

“You know where to find me.” I shot back at him. Then I was tackled by two of Pendrix’s sisters. Pendrix started laughing as he tried to scold his sisters.

“Aless! Brenna! Get off of him!” He stuttered as he laughed his head off. One of them grabbed my head and started feeling it, as if she was searching for ticks.

“W-what are you doing?” I asked.

“Looking for your horns.” She answered, unashamed. That only made Pendrix laugh harder.

“He, he does’t have horns Brenna because he is a human.” Pendrix laughed.

“Yes, and now that we gotten that figured out, can you please get off of me?” I asked twisting as best I could to look at the little nymph.

“Oh, I’m sure a big strong human like you, could get up with out her getting off.” Pendrix teased. I glared at him, that inky made him laugh some more.

“Yes, except there are two on me.” I hissed. More laughing. Except it wasn’t from Pendrix. Aro picked Brenna off of me, and one of her other sisters took Aless. I quickly got up and on my feet.

“You should have warned me I was about to get tackled.” I told him. He just grinned.

“But then I wouldn’t be laughing.” He replied still giggling. I rolled my eyes with a smile. He was fun to be around. “So, do you want your chore to be done with me?” He asked.

“Yes.” I confidently said. I wasn’t going to tell him I had another job tomorrow.

## Modern School

*This might be just a couple of paragraphs, I’m not sure how far I want to go with this yet. -Snowclaw5553*

### Something’s wrong ( Athe)

For the first days of school, Pendrix was noticeably happy, though with more prominent dark circles under his eyes. This summer, we had been either at his house, or mine. Even when the other went home, we had texted constantly, I didn’t even care that I got shocked.

But know, he hung his head when he walked, I could hear snickering behind him and he stayed as close to me as possible without breaking the school’s stupid PDA rule that we had gotten busted for last year. If he thought I didn’t know something was up, then he was wrong. The kicker was, it only got worse after his choir class, the only class that I wasn’t with him in. The first couple days he had come out of the room, grinning from ear to ear. Now he almost ran out of there.

“So how was your day today?” I asked on the way home. He was wearing my hoodie and our fingers where intertwined as we walked to my house.

“Good.” He said, his answer short, almost curt, but he kept a firm hold on my hand, and I could see his eyes where switching between brown and green, but not blue. Normally his tell was looking me in the eye, but the other one was his kaleidoscope eyes that switched with his mode.

“Your eyes say otherwise.” I remarked and he looked at me. They where filled with fear and silent screaming for me to help him when they where green. On the other side when they where brown, filled with rage, and screaming period. Finally he sighed closing his eyes and somehow squeezed my hand tighter.

“School’s just been stressing me out.” He said leaning on my shoulder.

“Well then let’s get to my house so we can calm down.” He nodded, smiling as we kept walking.

### Athe, don’t kill him ( Pendrix)

After I had to lie to Athe, I really didn’t feel good. I was not looking forward to that period in school where I had to get to my choir class, without Athe. I really wasn’t looking forward to going back to the main hallway. I knew Athe knew something was wrong, but I didn’t want him to get in trouble. I went to go down the hall way when I felt a hand in my shoulder. I looked behind me to see Athe.

“Is it okay if I walk you down?” He asked politely. I knew that he was doing it to see what was wrong, but again, if he found out, he might hurt someone and then get in trouble for it. I didn’t want that to happen.

“No you don’t have to, Athe.” I said, giving him a pleading look. He studied my face for a lie.

“Either way I need to get a drink.” He said shrugging, “Mine as well walk half way.” I nodded, he walked half way down with me and broke off at the water fountain. I was given a little hope he might not do it today. I was wrong. About three thirds down the hall way, Axo turned out of his class room and stopped me, followed by at least 6 others.

“Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in, a piece of smelly trash!” Axo taunted, I tried to not let it get to me. I tried to ignore when I heard Athe choke on his drink. I tried not to let the fake laughing of Axo’s friends get to me. I looked over his shoulder to the choir room.

“Axo, I don’t want trouble, so if you please-” I almost got away this time, but instead, he slammed me against the wall, I winced physically and bit my tongue when I almost whimpered.

“Don’t ‘Axo, please’ me, scumbag. Your so weak, you can’t even get into a real sport.” I heard soft foot steps but I didn’t look from Axo’s cruel face. The crowd giggled at his stupid joke.

“If Athe saw this, he would have you running laps for the rest of the year.” I hissed. He slammed his hand into the wall, I flinched.

“Athe would bow to me if he knew what I could do.” He smiled cruely.

“Yeah, make his precious little ‘Pendrix’ cower in fear!” One of his friends jeared.

“Say, where is the Oompa Loompa now.” Another one laughed, he stopped laughing when a hand clapped down on his shoulder. Though not one of the football players, or basketball players at our school, but he was one of the strongest and smartest kids in the school. The only two people that weren’t afraid of Athe, were me, and his father who was the principal.

“Right here.” Athe hissed. Axo whipped around to look at him, still with his hand on my shoulder. He quickly plastered a fake smile on his face.

“Hey Athe, buddy!” He faked, I rolled my eyes. “So what’s going on?” He asked. Athe pushed Axo’s friend out of the way and the rest gave him a wide berth. They had all fallen silent. He was now standing in front of Axo.

“Let. My boyfriend. Go.” He said through gritted teeth, glaring down at him. Axo looked back at me, then to Athe.

“Oh this is your boyfriend? I’m sorry about that. I thought he was some one else.” He said letting me up and laced his hands together. I quickly moved to get out of that circle. Axo’s friends, who probably hadn’t know of my relationship to Athe, got out of my way. One even tripped while getting out of my way. I turned around to see Athe slam Axo against the wall.

“If you ever touch him, or say another word to him. I will hang you from the flag poll in nothing but your underwear, got it?” he hissed. He didn’t wait for a reply, instead he gave me on last look. A look that I knew meant that we would talk latter, before he went on to his class. I also turned around and quickly went to choir class.

### Why didn’t you tell me? ( Athe)

We meet up after class and again, he ran out of choir. He gave me a smile, and I couldn’t help but to smile either. I glanced behind us to see Axo walking out of his classroom, he saw me and bristled, I just glared at him. I turned back to Pendrix.

“Let’s go to study hall.” He gladly went along with me.

After school, we started walking to Pendrix’s house. Since his sisters road the bus the two blocks, and it took them an hour because the bus took a different route. So we would be the first to get to his house. Except gossip always was heard at his house, most things weren’t private.

“So, why didn’t you tell me about Axo.” I asked, hesitant on my words. Pendrix’s head was bowed, watching the ground, his eyes switching from various greens, and browns.

“I knew if I told you, you would do something like you did today. I didn’t want you getting in trouble because of me.” He replied, reaching out for my hand, and hooking his pinky with mine.

“Hey, Pendrix,” I said abruptly stopping forcing him to stop and look at me. With my other arm I gave him a hug “I’d get into a lot of trouble to save you.” He returned the hug after a second and we continued towards his house.”

*Kind of shorter then normal, but still nice and sweet. I GOT TO WRITE ANGRY!ATHE, I’M SO HAPPY! -Snowclaw5553*

## Modern School AU (bullet points)

* Both of them having to get reading help because of their dyslexia.
* Pendrix losing his mind in a different language class.
	+ ‘I CAN’T READ ENGLISH AS IT IS!’
	+ ‘NOW YOU WANT ME TO READ SOMETHING ELSE?’
	+ Athe trying not to laugh at his boyfriend because he’s supposed to be the stoic one.
* Athe getting electrocuted by the computers for no reason.
	+ Both of them trying their hardest but almost failing computer science.
	+ Both of them having their dyslexia worsened by the bright screen.
* Both of them hating math even though their the best in the class.
	+ Besides Potix.
* Athe getting straight A’s when it comes to aerodynamics in science class.
	+ Pendrix being clueless in it.
* Them tacking physics class and trying to understand what in the world is being said.
* Athe has a blue highlighter.
	+ Pendrix somehow always getting nothing but pink highlighters.
	+ Him being absolutely angry about it.
	+ Them switching highlighters for a day.
	+ “Those are my notes.” “No there not.”
* Chemistry just being worse for them becasue they cAn’T READ THE SMALL PRINT ON THE TABLE!
	+ Pendrix making the picture bigger because if Athe does, he might blow the printer up.
* Getting really competitive with each other during Gym class.
	+ Both of them trying not to stare at the other after wards.
* Athe is in the science boll, beta club, and Honors club.
* Pendrix is in choir, track, and beta club.
	+ Someone (very possibly Axo) starts bullying Pendrix for being in choir.
	+ Athe finding out and going nuts.
	+ Much to Pendrix’s protests.
* Both of them (along with the rest of the 11) starting the Greek club.
	+ It eventually starts turning into random rants about greek mythology.
	+ All of them took the ‘Who is your godly parent’ test and got their cannon parents.
	+ Even the Anemoi.
	+ They unanimously like Hestia.
	+ Pendrix is kind of horrified that he is ‘related’ to Eros.
	+ Axo is banned from it.
* Them going to the exact same college, though being in different classes.
* Kicking their roommates out of the room a half hour before the other one comes.
	+ When exams roll around, Pendrix is cool and collected.
	+ Athe isn’t.
	+ He has insomnia for a week and can’t fall asleep for more then a two hours in a row.
	+ When they get found out by their respective roommates when Athe is sleeping on Pendrix’s lap because of the exams.
	+ Pendrix doesn’t freak out, but instead challenges them to judge, or tell anyone.
	+ After exams things go back to normal
	+ Kind of.

## Modern Fantasy (Bullet points)

* Pendrix is a dragonborn
* Athe is a cyborg.
* When they first meet, Pendrix has been hidden from other magics for the entirety of his life
	+ Athe malfunctions when near electricity.
* Athe tells Pendrix about the other magic creatures.
* Pendrix (who has claws, teeth, and a tail) has to be really careful because he doesn’t want to hurt Athe.
* This is one of the only AUs Pendrix is taller than Athe.
* Athe has a mechanical arm and leg, along with a monocle looking thing over his right eye.
	+ He also has a chip in his back that is responsible for his malfunctioning.
	+ He can’t remove it, or he will be paralyzed.
		- ..... Or die.
	+ He’s already killed the person who implanted him with it.
* Everything of his is colored light blue and black.
* Pendrix only speaks one language.
* Athe can speak most languages.
* He can say ‘Hello’ ‘Good bye’ and ‘Go to hell’ in all of them.

## Disabled!Pendrix X Bulied!Athe

### Again with this ( Athe)

I started running to Pendrix’s house. For some reason he wasn’t at school today, I hoped he wasn’t sick again. I ran around the corner and skidded to a halt. Pendrix’s older sister, Hyria, was getting out of her car and going into the house.

“Hyria!” I yelled and ran to their house. She had stopped and looked back at me. When I got there I skidded to a stop and started trying to catch my breath. She looked me up and down.

“First of all, where in hells’ name did you get that bruise?” She hissed at me, coming back down the steps and tilting my head so she could a better look at the bruise under my eye. In truth I had gotten into a scrape with the ‘monster gang’. They where mean kids that didn’t like it when things didn’t go there way. They didn’t go to school, and they had abushed me on the way to school today. I was just lucky they didn’t go through my pockets for cash this time.

“I tripped and fell on the way to school.” I lied, that was always my go to lie. I never told any one what I had done to keep Pendrix safe. Hyria starred at me through those terrifying blue eyes. I swallowed.

“No, you got attacked again, didn’t you.” Anyone, except Hyria. I sighed and nodded. She shook her head. “That was a stupid thing that you did, making that deal with the Monsters.” She grabbed my wrist and pulled me up the stairs. “Let’s get that thing iced down before you go and see Pendrix.” Damn.

“He’s sick again?” I whined pulling my wrist away from Hyria and following her. “What does he have this time?” I asked.

“Bronchitis.” She replied, unlocking the door.

“That’s the third time this month!” I complained as she lead me into the house. As normal it was litered with blankets, pillows and pencils. The ripped furniture spilled of stuffing. I sat down on the couch.

“I know, now wait here, I’ll get the ice pack.” She told me and disappeared into the kitchen. I felt sorry for Pendrix. He entered the month of September fighting off the disease. Not two weeks ago he had ended his second sickness. Now he was starting it all over again. Hyria gave me the ice pack and a granola bar. “We’re going to the hospital.” She headed out the door. When we got in the car, Aless and Brenna where waiting for us.

“Hey Athe!” They greeted. Always excited to see me.

“Hey.” I replied simply, pressing the ice pack to my face.

“Did you fall again?” Aless asked. Even his younger sister knew my lie.

“Yeah, hit my face of the side walk. I was lucky I didn’t ground in rocks.” I lied. My finger nervously tapped my fingers on my knee as we drove up. Going inside the hospital, I didn’t run like the first time I did. I had been extremely panicked when my best friend’s sister told me that he had laryngitis, and that he could die from it. This time I kept in step with Hyria and got a visitor tag. I was pretty sure the hospital staff knew I wasn’t a family member, but they always let it slide. The second we got out of the lobby, we started running, Pendrix’s sister where all in track, so they where really fast and very good at maneuvering past people. I, however, was poor at maneuvering and jogged along the edge of the wall.

We got to Pendrix’s room after jogging/ running up two sets of stairs, before we went in we caught our breath.

## Disabled!Pendrix X Bullied!Athe (bullet points)

*I honestly have no idea what I'm going to do with this.*

* Pendrix gets sick easily and bruises badly.
* Athe has been a target for bullies since the first grade.
	+ He can defend others, but not himself.
	+ It’s actually how they met in this AU.
	+ Pendrix was being bullied for his disadvantages.
	+ Athe started causing a scene that some how ended with Athe getting a black eye and two others with broken bones.
	+ Not Pendrix, he got out of there.
	+ The next day he sat down next to Athe and started talking to him.
	+ They’ve been inseparable ever since.
* Athe always has an elaborate scheme to get out of a scrap with bullies.
* Pendrix knows a lot about Greek mythology, and loves nothing better to be on the couch and rant about it to Athe.
* Athe is one of the smartest kids at the school and normally helps Pendrix keep on task.
* He loves listening Pendrix rant about Greek mythology.
* They are about 14-15 in this AU.