Disclaimer 1: I am not Victoria Forestor.
Disclaimer 2: Some of these will take place in the second book, 'The Boy Who Knew Everything', which hasn't actually been updated on here. *Sighs* And I don't know actually how many people have read it.
He's regained his memories. And maybe that's what hurts him most of all. He remembers it all. The torture, the mind control, hitting her (a feeling of shame always creeps in at this one, as though he could've stopped Max), and the fact he could do nothing. The pain of pulling out his mind chip and frying his brain. Her leaving, at his words. It all hurts, and it won't ever go away.
Sometimes, he wakes up in the middle of the night, terrified, and he cries and he's covered in sweat. He knows that she's there, that he has his father, his mother, his sister back, but there's only one he can check on. Some may have called it creepy, getting up in the middle of the night, just to watch someone, but he has to know she's there. They say he knows everything, but he can't ever convince himself of this truth without seeing it.
She never wakes up- except the times she does, and he always bolts, but she always follows. He knows she cares too much to see him in this much pain. She catches him, asks what's wrong, squeezes his hand, and wipes the sweat and tears off of his face like he's a child. She brings him back to his room, and ruffles his hair, like nothing ever happened. But she's pretending. She's hiding her worry.
"You left me. You didn't even look back.", he says once, his voice cracking, and then she looks up at him, and for some reason she's not startled. The masquerade falls, and the hurt that spreads across her face makes him regret it. But instead of shouting- well, whispering proof that she had to, she gives him the biggest hug he's ever had and buries her face in his chest. It takes him a moment before he realizes she's crying.
He doesn't think he'll ever forgive himself for that. Watching her pain is even worse than remembering his.
So, how was this? I know that not many people still check this archive or have even read the sequel, much less the first. This was from Conrad's P.O.V, and 'she' is Piper, in case you can't tell. It takes place after the second book. I felt like Victoria Forestor didn't go into as much as detail as she could've about his imprisonment and torture from Max.
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