A rush of light filled the icy and bleak room with a sense of warmth, although all hope had drained from it. A lataren held firmly in his grip, and a stern look on his face told Daniel he was not to be messed with. Alexander felt the urge to hurt Daniel, but he saved his anger, a tight frown on his old face held the boundary between the calm aura and angry, cold atmosphere. A pit formed in Daniel stomach, he shook, hating the silence but waited for Alexander to speak. He looked up at the man from his fallen spot on the wooden ground, rubbing his finger against his palm until the point he thought the skin would scrape away and bleed.
"What did you do with it?" Alexander demeaned, the expression not changing but it screamed his frustration with Daniel.
"I don't know." Daniel replied simply, struggling to keep his voice from shaking. His hand made a violent shake that traveled down his arm to his spine. His mind twirled for a moment before coming back to one thing, he didn't know why Alexander was this angry with him. He understood what he had done, he had good intentions and would return the key! What was it so wrong?
"Don't lie to me! Give me the key." Alexander held out his brittle and worn, yet slender hand out, but Daniel did not move. Instead he remained tucked beside the desk and the many coffee brown pages of the books scattered about him in a flurry, his hand clutching jacket and the other scraping away at his palm. The young man's face held a sort of fear that Alexander could sense very well, but it did not make it's self present on Daniel face. His face remained still, slowly nagging away to his fear, but still.
"Your lies shall only make the situation worse, give me the key." To truth, Daniel didn't know where the key was. He had misplaced it somewhere. Somewhere.
"Alexander, I'm telling you the truth. I wouldn't lie to you." Daniel's voice shook yet again as he tried to stand, but felt the force of Alexander's firm attitude. But he would lie, he would very well work behind Alexander's back if it had a potential to himself. There were two flaws in Daniel's personality that he would never admit to himself, he was selfish and naïve. Oh, so very naïve!
Alexander's frown twitched and he sneered, "Daniel, this will end with punishment if you do not submit yourself, rebelling will not get you anyway." Come quietly or otherwise.
"I don't see what is so important about the key-" "What it is so important is not..." Alexander had no words to explain why or why not the key was off any sufficient importance, or it would mean revealing something he didn't want Daniel knowing. The real question was not were the key was, but what the key held and what it opened, what it unlocked, what secrets it kept, and what it will reveal that is so well hidden behind Daniel's minds eye.
Alexander had about enough of the waiting and before Daniel's fingernail could hit blood on his pale palm, he was struck hard. Then lifted off by the hair, feeling brown strands being ripped from his head. The lantern clattered to the ground and Alexander threw Daniel against the side of the desk hard his body tumbling to the ground beside the heaps of books. The man growled something in a language Daniel was not familiar with and went into the next room. Daniel lay there for a moment before regaining some train of thought after the attack. His head hurt both from questions unanswered and the blood pouling from a small gash in his forehead, which now marked the corner of the desk. A hiss escaped from his dry lips and he fled the room as soon as the baron's voice boomed from the other room, behind the slightly opened door and dim candlelight, ordering him to leave the corridor before he hurt him anymore. Daniel left without a second thought.
Well, that was...Fun? I like to maintain Alexander's bad side as well as his good nature. And it is very, very hard for me to keep characters, well, in character when I try new things with them. So, I am making these drabbles in hope of improving my character studies, writing and just have fun with the pair. (Some chapters might be OOC and fun, others might be strictly based on keeping them IC .) Just testing characters. I may keep this as unfinished, for this may end up a bunch of Amnsisa drabbles. If there are any mistakes I missed, feel free to tell me. I usually skim though the work after I'm done. Or just not reread at all until its been up for 3 days. Something I will strive to improve...