[AWUOR]
"Hey, sis. Look who I brought. I figured if you were real you'd already know that the man I came with earlier wasn't our father. But not to worry, we'll open the door so you can see Father dearest," Dom's voice interrupted Hawi's empty thoughts.
Awuor Hawi Sicario didn't say anything, even when the door to her little prison was open. Instead, she just got out and stood on the side, like she already knew that this was what they had expected of her. So much was going on in her head.
Hawi was trying to connect one too many dots whirring in her head. The man she had meant to hate was standing there, in silence, looking at Hawi like everything was just fucked up. He didn't even have the desire to live anymore.
Alpha Sicario had changed a lot.
His eyes that once had life, were empty and lonely.
His heart was clearly broken, and he looked worse than anything Hawi had thought possible. The father she knew had always been a warrior with a strong spirit, but the man before her was different, new to her even.
She hadn't thought there would come a day when the great Sicario would be looking like a warrior who had suffered through all the seasons of war. He was in terrible shape and Hawi felt her heart sink into her stomach.
This wasn't what she had expected, but then at this point, it was safe to say her brother was more than willing to prove to her that not everything was what it seemed.
"You must really be desperate. Is he the mole you went to look for?" Hawi asked coldly as she took in the appearance of her father. She could smell his natural woody scent, something that broke her heart.
Malika was right.
Her father was held here. Her father was being tortured and had no way of getting out; and now that she looked at her brother who was alive and well, Hawi knew that their father had been innocent.
There was more than met the eye with these two and how she wished she could make things better for him.
"Well, what do you think, huh, Hawi? Anyway, we broke his legs so he couldn't run away. How's that for the worst?" Dom said and Hawi almost broke her facade.
Her brother had become something else, not to mention Jer was smiling sinisterly like he knew something the Sicario siblings did not. He was too calm and seemed to be enjoying whatever interaction the brother and his supposed sister were having.
"Oh yeah?" Hawi said absentmindedly, as she thought back to Rukiya's words from two years ago, a conversation that she should have paid more attention to, and one that should've been an eye-opener to her and everything else she had experienced.
But was Hawi too late for this realization?
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"Because he expected me to find my way back home," Awuor said, realizing hitting her so hard that she was in shock. Rukiya looked at the packless alpha, and hoped that she now understood what this all meant.
"You have to find out why the alpha would do that, and why he wants you to go back home, when he knows your idiot of a mate is the temporary alpha of the pack. If you still want to break the gates of Sicario, then you can go ahead to Alpha Awuor.
"However, at least try and think of the sacrifices your parents have made. Sure, they were not so conventional about them, but they did it in a manner that would allow you to identify yourself. You survived in the free lands where the rogues roamed.
"You survived the gas Adolf released. You survived the clog of penance. You survived a lot of things, and if you wanna ruin it, that's your choice alpha.
"At least my mother and I tried to keep you sane," Rukiya said to Awuor, before she began walking back home, with her call for bananas not slowing down anytime soon. She had to keep up the act and she had to give the banished alpha a choice.
Maybe whatever Rukiya had said was true, but did that matter now?
* [End of Flashback]
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'Shit, Ruru was right?' Hawi asked herself as she looked at her father. This wasn't the way she had thought she would meet the senior alpha but goddamn, what the hell had just happened?
"Hey, are you even listening to us, Hawi?" Dom asked when he noticed that Hawi was just staring at her father with a blank face.
'He's never called me Hawi,' Hawi thought to herself as she turned to her brother, the realization dawning on her a little too hard, as her heart shattered to pieces.
Her real brother was dead, definitely murdered.
Whoever this was... was an impostor.
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[A/N]
* Do you think Jer killed the real Dom?
* Is Dom really dead or is Hawi holding onto straws?
* Why is Jer constantly smirking?