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Also, English is not my first language, so my grammar is not as good as I wish it were.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'Blood and Chocolate' that is the wonderful privilege of Annette C. Klause. (Also characters may be OOC, avoiding this at all costs)
Willem's P.O.V.
Axel wasn't a killer.
Sure he was a bit of a dumb ass and a jerk, but he wasn't a killer.
He lived by the law of the moon; kill only enough to feed yourself and your family. He never killed humans intentionally, nor for vengeance or for the thrill of it like many werewolves did nowadays.
Scare them? Maybe, after all when you were a loup-garoux, their fear got to your head and gave you a certain feeling of power. You needed to scare someone, especially when your pack still treated you like a pup and you had a reputation to maintain with 'the Five.'
But he never killed out of pleasure. He just wasn't like that. No matter what he said or did, he never liked the feel of a critter dying within his jaws, or the blood trickling from a meat bags throat. In fact it disgusted him. But nobody ever knew or saw it but me.
It was all a very elaborate mask he hid behind. He had spent so much time perfecting his act, it came to him almost like a second nature. Of course nobody, not even Finn, Vivian, Astrid, or Esmé, could figure him out.
If you had spent a night in his human arms, listening to the deafening sounds of his beating heart, you too, would know that.
Sadly, everyone else thought he was a 'bad influence'. But inside that strong and fearless lycan, was a tamed wolf. Nobody would see the truth hidden deep in his eyes, the way he sincerelysmiled, or the way his pelt shone against the soft rays of the mother moon when rituals were carried out. No, all they would ever know was 'Oh, you mean Axel, the trouble maker.'
The only reason he had killed that girl after the Valentine's dance was because of a stupid kiss.
Vivian thought she cared for him, yet not even the 'princess wolf' was able to stop his death. She could have, mother moon knows she could have. But she didn't. She stood and let them kill him...she stood there and can now live with the fact that one of her pack is dead.
The five never talk about it anymore, if the conversation starts somebody will bring up a different subject and quickly forget it was ever mentioned.
How... how can the throw away so easily the memory, the fact that Axel was once a living being with hidden emotions, concealed fears, and secret lovers? How can they go on living like that wonderful creature never existed?
I hate them, I hate them all, Homo sapiens, for being the cause of his death. For being narrow minded and not accepting the calm 'beast', as the often referred to our kind, within him.
Lycanthropes, for actually killing him. One of their own, a pup they had loved once, a whelp they had seen mature and grow in-front of their eyes. For taking the only person who had ever shown any signs of true love towards me. For taking his body and spirit back to the goddess moon when I still wanted him to belong only to me.
I despise them for not understanding, for not taking the time to know him better, for not giving him the choice to be himself, I hate Rafe, Gregory, Ulf, and yes, even Finn. I hate them for corrupting him and giving him a bad reputation.