EPISODE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR
THEME: Finding peace
MOON STONE FORTRESS
It had been three days since the Rogues invasion and Juno’s death. When Jaylen got a call that Jayden was conscious, he had practically rushed down to the infirmary driving at a high speed. Every day since Jayden got admitted, he had been visiting his brother for long hours and sitting next to him till the Iotas comes around to tell him visiting time was up.
Things were beginning to go back to normal, however everyone still had a gloomy look on their faces. It was bad enough that Jayden wasn’t awake yet and they had no idea how he might react to being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
However, Jaylen had made up his mind to stand by his brother which ever way it is. He wasn’t going to let another enmity breed. He was tired of having to fight an enemy that is not just anyone but his own brother.
The moment Jaylen entered the private ward assigned to Jayden, he saw him seated up with a blank look on his face. Jaylen stood by the door frame for a long minute.
“Have you come here to mock me? And remind me of how pathetic I am?” Jayden said, still not looking at his brother.
Jaylen inhaled as he walking towards the chair reserved for visitors. “How are you feeling?”
“Great, just great.” Jayden mused sarcastically.
Still not giving in to his saucy attitude, Jaylen sat down and crossed his leg. “Have you been eating well?”
Jayden glared at his brother. He hated how unresponsive Jaylen was to the questions directed at him. When Jayden woke up, he had expected to see his twin brother coming at him with some vicious accusations and letting him know how terrible of a person he was. But to his disappointment, Jaylen didn’t look in the least annoyed with him. Instead he seem like someone who was more concerned about his wellbeing and it only made Jayden feel more guilty and it made him want to explain himself.
“I had no intention of invading the Fortress. I would never do that to dad and jeopardize all my hard work too. I had only intended to get the Rogues help in order to have Lorelei kidnapped. Juno was in love with me and I used that to get her to do that shady deal for me. I could have protected her at the point of death but I was too selfish.”
Jaylen gritted his teeth at him. “What made you think kidnapping Lorelei would have been easy for you either? And then you decided to partner with the Fortress enemy? Jayden-”
“You can’t blame me!” Jayden yelled as he got all defensive. “I wasn’t exactly thinking and I only intended to hurt you so bad. All you did was return to take everything away from me. Even if I wasn’t going to become the Alpha, I at least deserve to be with the woman I want but you took all of that away from me. It’s all your fault.”
Jaylen sniffed as he was losing a hold of his temper now. “Shut the fuck up, Jayden! When would you get to admit your mistake for once in your lifetime? You are always faulting others for what was all your doing. You had access to all of dad’s companies, a privilege that not everyone would ever get a chance to have but nothing ever satisfied you! Did it?”
Jayden pointed a finger at him. “It is easy for you to say when it is not you that was told would become the ruler of a whole Fortress and have had to work so hard towards becoming the person but ended up not getting it. All of a sudden you arrived and it was all handed over to you. Did you ever pause to think how damaging that was to my mental health? I am always the bad egg. Fine! I admit it. I am uncouth, crazy and selfish. How about you then? Mr two goody shoes!” He spat in distaste.
Jaylen swallowed hard as his brother’s words began to sink in too. It was true about his assertions. They were too preoccupied about how it would take a toll on Jaylen and had forgotten Jayden too had been cheated. However, it still wasn’t any of their fault. The Moon Goddess had played her game well over them. It is a game of chess where the Queen can move in different ways and not taken by the swirl of the competition and gets to win whichever way she wants.
“And you expect me to take the blame for what wasn’t my fault too? I was dragged into this shit earlier than you were. Come on brother, you sent me out of my birth home when I was barely old enough to handle shits myself. But did I hate you?” Tears laced at the corners of his eyes. “No! I tried to understand why you would do such thing to me. I never fought against anyone, all I wanted was some acknowledgement and be made to feel loved amongst the family. Did you make me feel welcomed? No! All you did was make my life miserable and try to give me more scars than intended. I did nothing to you brother. I never hated you nor was jealous of the fact that you were going to become the Alpha. All I wanted was for my twin brother to love me but what did you do? You made me the fucking enemy!” Jaylen sobbed as he pulled roughly at his hair.
He continued. “And here I still am, still being intentional towards you. I don’t want no fight or drama man. I just want want my brother. I want my family to be complete. You know this fucking Alpha thing is sacred, I would have given my whole fucking life to you man and deep down within you, you know this Jayden. So why do you keep doing this to me? Our closest friend and more like a sister, Juno is dead because of your irrational thoughts. Aren’t you tired already? I am tired brother! I can’t do this no more. You know what, say whatever it is you want, say trash to me, I won’t budge but I want my brother that we played together like best friends in the world till age ten to come back to me. And I will make sure of it man!”
After wiping at his tears, Jaylen stormed out of the ward. Jayden had his head turned to the wall as tears ran down his face like an opened dam. Sniffing hard, Jayden knew the end of their feud era had to come finally and maybe he would eventually do find peace too.