A/N || I reread Neverseen. And I'm officially rekt.

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  The entire world now knew that the Council held dark secrets. Well, excluding the human world.

  Hiding behind the disgustingly beautiful facade of how advanced of a race elves are, the Council always had their dark secrets. The drakostomes were the worst of all. It wasn't hard for you to imagine the burden the late Councillor Kenric had to face hiding such a terrible secret.

  But now, all was solved. The plague was cured by Calla's generous sacrifice. Her Panakes was the most beautiful thing the elves and gnomes had ever set eyes on. But the Neverseen were still at large.

  You lived with Sophie at Havenfield, your parents had been part of the Neverseen. The Black Swan generously offered for you to live with them at Allevuntere, as they did with Tam and Linh, but you declined and took Sophie's offer. You also encouraged Keefe to live in Havenfield with you and Sophie, due to your massive crush on the blonde Empath.

  You didn't know Keefe as a child, you had been oblivious to the true personalities of the five friends who saved the Lost Cities until the event of Fintan's "death". Your parents revealed their alliance with the Neverseen, and attempted to kill you. But the group came to your rescue. Keefe took you under his wing and you helped him through the hardships he went through.

  His bastard of a father.

  Finding out his mother was part of the Neverseen. Though you shared his guilt, you had more of it stored within. As your parents had been part of the Neverseen a few years before you were born.

  Then finding out she was possibly dead.

  On top of that, she was the creator of the idea to make the gnomes suffer. And apparently she had been doing it all for him.

  You were with him every step of his depression...

  And now, he was gone.

  You had just gotten home from an early wake up call walk through Mysterium. Just for Sophie to look at you with all the devastation in the world cloaking her brown eyes. You stared back with your own concerned [YEC] eyes. You thought the worries were over until the Neverseen attacked, maybe for a few years you'd have a break from drama.

  You looked at her neck, a form of disgust contorting onto your face as you realized she wore the necklace Keefe made for his mother as a child. One of the beads seemed smashed.

  "Keefe.."She choked."He joined the Neverseen."

  Your immediate reaction was a laugh. But as she looked at you with all seriousness, your feelings turned into anger. There was little to no sorrow. Repressed anger. Red blurred your vision in clots. You tugged violently at your [YHL] [YHC] hair, screaming at the top of your lungs.

  Keefe Sencen, the one person who could share your feelings, was gone.

Your POV

  I was enraged. Not at Keefe. Not at myself. At her.

  "YOU!" I angrily pointed at Sophie. Her eyes widened in fear. I could hear Grady and Edaline dropping everything they were doing in the kitchen.

  "This is all your fault! If you hadn't existed, none of this would've happened! Lady Gisela wouldn't have joined Neverseen. Alvar wouldn't have been so jealous of Fitz always going out to look for you! Hell! The Neverseen wouldn't exist in the first place! So hey, do me and the rest of the world a goddamn favor and just go OFF YOURSELF. You've got lots of skills and talents. I'm pretty sure you can figure out how in that empty pretty little head of yours!"I ranted.

  Sophie shrunk down smaller with every word.

  She ran upstairs to the room in order to flee from me. But to no avail. I ran after her, barking my bitter words so she could hear everything I felt.

  "And to think! He came to you! Sophie Elizabeth Foster. One of the most unstable elves to ever exist! Right before he left. And you went and ruined it all! Poor Biana. She could've had a chance! But you just have to jump in with your annoying imperfect perfection. Your mysteriousness. Your intelligence. Your power. YOUR EVERYTHING.

  BECAUSE OF YOU, GIRLS LIKE ME WON'T GET CHANCES WITH BOYS LIKE KEEFE."I gasped and covered my mouth immediately.

  Not in shock of all the bitter hateful things I said, most of them I found pretty true. But the fact that I just admitted I liked Keefe. In a way, I implied it.

  I bolted into my room, which had been Jolie's old room. I sat on my bed and locked my door with telekinesis, staring down at my sweaty palms. Contemplating about what I had just done.

  Keefe was gone..

  I had to accept that. I never had a chance anyways. I, [YN] [YLN], a pathetic [YT], am no match for Sophie Foster. I was never going to get Keefe in the first place. Maybe if I had admitted my love for the heartbroken Empath, he would've had more of a reason to stay.

  Stay with me.

  And away from them.

  To me, there were always two types of enemies in the world.

  Those who just want to watch the world burn...

  And those who just want to watch your world burn.

  In my book, Sophie would always unintentionally be Enemy Number 2.

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  For the rest of the day, I laid unmoving. Finally realizing it was stupid of me to pin Keefe's betrayal on Sophie all because I was really jealous.

  I had more in common with Keefe than she did with him.

  I suppose this was my unfortunate way of coping with guilt. Ranting. Letting all my truthful anger out on people who didn't deserve it. Then just contemplating the rest of my life in silence, sitting still.

  Tears spilled down my face. He was gone. I'd never see his beautiful smile again. His messy golden hair. His icy blue eyes that locked me into place. His jokes. His laugh. His everything. It was all gone with him. And I couldn't blame anyone but the Neverseen. Just like everyone else.

  I turned in bed, moving to face my back towards the door. I clamped my hand over my mouth as tears continued to escape from my [YEC] eyes. My [YHL] [YHC] hair had already become matted, as if I had been in my room for an entire weeks without moving once.

  I just stared out my window. Lost in thought. Not realizing anything was happening until the sky turned dark. I blinked multiple times, my eyes in literal physical pain from plain out staring. I winced but didn't move when I realized why I was here. Keefe was gone. It was like a hammer that nailed me back down whenever I got loose.

  It's okay honey! He'll be fine.

  SLAM

  We'll save him. Sophie won't let him stay there.

  SLAM

  He's gone. There's no use...

  My brain was a lost cause now. There wasn't any changing my mind. [YN] [YLN] was gone too. I left when Keefe betrayed us all. But I felt like he truly only betrayed me. The one who begged him not to conform to what Alvar and Brant had done. To be like Jolie, not dead, but resistant.

  I heard my door creak open. I huffed."If you want an apology, I'm not giving you one. I wasn't lying."I muttered. I felt a hand touch my shoulder. But it wasn't Sophie's.

  I looked back and my eyes widened.

  "Keefe?" I rasped, my lips parted in shock. My [YEC] eyes filled with tears.

  I couldn't bare to see him in the official Neverseen outfit. The long green cloak. The band on his arm was enough to throw me into sobs. He looked so tired. As if he hadn't slept in forever. Red eyes, he must've been crying. Chapped lips. He shivered with hunger.

  Keefe collapsed to his knees. He dragged his hand through his tangled hair and wrapped his arms around my waist. Crying into my back. I turned around so he was crying into my lap. I ran my fingers delicate it through the blonde mop. Wiping tears off his cheek with my thumb.

  "I'm sorry for leaving you. I love you."He sobbed. I stopped touching his hair.

  "K-Keefe..you what?"

  "I l-love you [YN]. I don't want to betray you. But I have to. I..I w-was ma-ade for this."He repeated, his voice quivering.

  I lifted his head, cupping it in my [ST] hands."I love you too Keefe..I forgive you. But you have a choice. You always had a choice."I stuttered.

  His icy blue eyes shivered as they locked with my own. I felt his knees go even more weak."I don't have a choice! This is my destiny. My mother raised me on this. I didn't know it until now..Please don't hate me."

  "I could never hate you, Keefe Sencen."

  He kissed me passionately, I loved the taste. Even if he was currently dehydrated, I could never ask for more than this."I'll be back for you [YN]..I promise. I'll fight for you."

  With that, I blinked, and he was gone.

  Gone off to the Neverseen.