Reaver skipped like down the path until a horde of bandits appeared at there side, what the bloody shadows were they doing in oakfield? It was way past bandit territory. Reaver pulled out his gun and clocked a couple in the head as Benji just thought it was amusing to see the man suffer like this. "Your doing a great job robin!" He shouted with a laugh. "DONT *bang* CALL *bang* ME THAT!" He snapped as he finished off the rest "I'm just here for moral support" Benji said as Reaver Scoffed "like I need moral support, to some people I have none" he laughed. Reaver leaned down at the dead body and pouted "what a shame such a handsome face had to be put to rest" He sighed. "Of course not as handsome a moi~" Reaver snickered as Benji just rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"I don't understand, what happen? You use to be so coy and kind, now your the most cocky son of a bitch that ever existed" Benji asked frustrated at the man.

Reaver stopped and looked at the ghost "the shadows happened, so you really want to know what happen? Because It's not as simple as mere betrayal..my intentions went to hurt anyone, but it was selfish for me to think that" he added "the shadows had me in their grasps about to kill me right there and all I did was beg for them to give me mercy, the shadows don't believe in mercy they only believe in bargains, and there trade consisted a life for a life, but more like a life for a whole town's" he sighed "I didn't know what they were going to do until it was to late" he told him and composed himself "does that satisfy your curiosity?" He remarked.

Benji went silent for a while his words falling short of a mer breathy hmm.

/CHAPTER 9/

Reaver and Benji looked past the hill seeing dead man's peak ahead of them. Reaver taking in a breath "Benji, you can give a man advice?' Reaver asked making Benji scoff "To you? Why should i? What advice do you need" he laughed. Reaver just looked off into the distance slight breeze brushing his brown hair out of his face. "Me and Sparrow didn't end on good terms...You might not believe me but i do truly love the heroic bird..Almost as much as i loved Carolyn, but now i don't think she can even look at me, part of me is so hurt by this but the other part, thinks it might be for the best, it could only end in tears, she's going to grow old and i'm going to stay, me, forever" he told him. Benji didn't even hesitate to give his opinion on this, his opinion didnt come from anger or revenge, it was what he truly believed "I'm not going to sugarcoat any of this so listine Robin, no matter how much you love her you need to let her go, any way possible, your only going to hurt her in the end, even if you didn't mean to, you have before, and it's going to happen again if you stay with her, the minute you save her and she's enough distance away to go on her own i want you to turn your heels like you do and walk the other way, ya hear me?" he lectured him "And i'll make sure of it too, ill pesture you every minute if i have to for you to leave that girl, rather her have a broken heart now then in the future when it's to late, yer a dangerous man Robin, more dangerous than i've seen, you work with things you shouldn't be and one day that going to come at you and bit you in the ass, so don't let her be in the line of fire when it does" he finished. Reaver continues to look off taking in every single word he said, every small detail and pronunciation. "Thank you Benji, let's continue" he told him, his voice held no emotion anymore, he knew what he had to do so he just wanted to get it over with. Reaver walked along with Benji down the path the smell wasn't as pungent as it was years prior when Reaver last visited but still was musty nonetheless, the area was murky and gloomed both of the men's moods down a bit, but Reaver couldn't get any gloomer really. "So….Do you know where they took Sparrow?" Reaver asked trying to mask the pain he had felt when Benji had given his advice, he knew it wasn't some grudge he had against him, it was true advice. Sparrow was going to get hurt even if Reaver changed completely everything about him, which knowing the pirate he most certainly would not. "No, I'm sorry that that the others didn't give me specific details where to find them." he scoffed and took a soft breath "but i have an idea where she might be, up over the hill a bit there is a secluded house, been empty for years, ever since carolyn and me parents died" he informed and Reaver gave a surprised look "What? Why would they take her their?' he asked. Benji shrugged "Because our parents didn't like a lot of other people, so they lived quite out in the middle of nowhere. Probably thought you wouldn't find it" he said. Reaver sighed know realizing he had to face sparrow again once he had made it up the hill seeing the small house down below "Alright, i'm assuming that those ghost friends of yours are going to make it difficult for me to get the hero, so what should i be expecting when i get down there?' he asked the other and Benji just laughed "Do you think i know, its like you said we can't even pick up a pen unless there is some super demonic power that their holding" he told him. Reaver walked down the path slowly taking a look at his surroundings. Once he thought he wasn't going to be disturbed of course the one thing he didn't expect popped out, cocking Shadows. Reaver groaned in annoyance, how did the ghosts even hire these bloody things, and just to get him? He almost felt complemented by that act. "All right, whatever these ghosts told you im sure its not worth bickering about just to kill me, i mean you do know who i am right? Im Reaver, you guys are nothing i haven't dealt with so unless you want to be sent back to to the hell you came from i suggest you run along" he said his voice snarky as ever, but of course the shadows didn't care who he was and was only doing what they were told, and they were told to kill Reaver. Reaver sighed "worth a try" he added before shooting one in the face making it fall back a bit. "Now i want you nasty things to clear" he shouted "Hate wasting my bullets on such worthless things" once he got the Shadow countdown to a minimum reaver broke into the door cocking his gun back read to aim. "Sparrow! I'm here to save you-" Reaver stopped, dropping his arm that held out his gun as he stared at Sparrow who sat crossed legged sipping tea with the ghost of Carolyn. "Oh hello Reaver, nice of you to finally drop in, i see you got my note" she told him. It was obvious she was still mad as all hell but Reaver decided to leave it be. "What in the Shadows is this!" he said getting a bit tense since not only did he have to confront Sparrow but his deceased wife as well. It was one thing when she didn't know of his where about but know that she did, it had elevated to a whole new situation for Reaver. The man cleared his throat nervously not even having the guts to lash out on the hero since the both of them were quite pissed at the pirate. "Yes, well, i see you are in safe and capable hands, i came here to save you and i see that it was a waste of my time."

Sparrow gave an unamused look "No, your going to sit" she demanded and pointed at the seat. "And your going to talk, i think carolyn here deserves a long explanation, dont you?" Reaver stared at her for a minute before actually walking over and sitting down in the chair, there was hesitation but too both of the girls surprise he sat. All three of them were silent for a bit until Reaver spoke up "Your right, she does" he admitted to them and gave another pregnant pause before continuing "And i'll give her one. I'll give the both of you one" he told them. Sparrow herself was quite shocked about Reaver's compliance during this, she half expected the man to just walk right back out the minute he walked in, but he didn't, he stayed. "I guess i should start when with the hunting trip with your brother" Reaver took a deep breath, "When me and Benji were out, we parted ways a bit to see if we could find something on our own, get more coverage of the woods, but i got a bit lost trying to find my way back to the spot we claimed we meet at, i stumbled upon these stones, ancient carving encrypted on them and so on, i had no idea what they were, they were formed in a circle and a stupidly walked into it. Causing it to alert the shadows i suppose, it was mer minutes before they appeared in front of me already slowly engulfing me in blackness, i was young and to naive, i begged for them to stop and spare me but they wanted a trade instead, i was desperate for my life at the moment, but i was only desperate because of you Carolyn, i didn't want to just disappear, having to Raise Alice on your own" he informed the ghost. Carolyn had not had the whole explanation but she couldn't lie that her heart wasn't touched just a bit.

Reaver continued "So of course when they made an offer i accepted, but i had no idea that it was going to do anything that it did…" You could actually see the slight shine of the wet sticky substance rolling down the man's cheek, which was a rare sight but not to the two women, carolyn saw the pirate cry many timed but sparrow only a few when his nightmares would arise and bother him. "I wanted to save you but i was a coward and didn't know how, i was heartbroken a truly was, months on end i couldn't sleep properly, barely could get out of bed, but as you can tell something snapped and i'm not the same men i was back then, im not Robin i'm sorry to disappointment, im Reaver, and unfortunately for you, i'm going to continue being Reaver" he ended. The two women were completely shocked at the story and sparrow stood up about to reach her hand for Reaver to maybe even comfort him but Reaver only denied the gesture."Im sorry birdie, but i love affair had ended, don't get me wrong you were quite the lover this whole trip...but, i'm not someone you don't want to be messing with"

Sparrow blinked a couple times "What? What are you talking about?" she asked confused not wanting to believe it herself. Reaver just gave a small smile, only half of it was genuine, and kissed her forehead "Goodbye, to the both of You" he said and walked out with no other words.

Sparrow advenuttly moved on with her life, being crowned queen definitely took your mind of things. She even met another man having two beautiful children. Logan the oldest out of the two and Amalia the young princess. Sparrow although was getting weaker, her coughing fits grew rash to the point she could stand up without losing her balance and falling to the floor. Sparrow couldn't find herself getting out of bed and it was announced that the queen, was dieing. Word got around quite fast and Sparrows clock was ticking fast. She had great adventures. Sparrow best friend Walter started to even retell them to her well she tried to wait off her depending death as long as she could for her children. One of her servent Clover had walked in telling her a man was here to visit her and he was pretty insistent about it. Sparrow thought that she had told the guards not to let anyone come and visit her because her death was a personal thing and wanted to stay between her family and friends. Sparrow sighed and told the servant to let them in since they were already hear already, what she didn't expect was the man to walk in. he had not changed, even after all these years. The Brown hair swooped to the side of his face, dark grey eyes and pale skin that definitely wasn't a human color. Not even a bit of gray hair course, not a speck of age had shown on the man, and that man was the one and only Reaver. Sparrow had no words at first since she hadn't seen him since their last adventure in oakville which had ended in such a bad note. "R-reaver?" she let out but sparrow was so close to death and so weak she could barely make the words sound audible. Reaver looked saden of course, seeing the women he loved all those years ago that he let go for her own safety, paresh before his eyes. "Look at you" he started "your so fragile, you look like you could snap under the weight of those blankets" he told her "don't even speak, you don't have too, i know your probably still mad at me even if its been all these years, but, i'm not apologizing for trying to watch out for you, i left for your safety, not my feelings" he told her "You really are something birdy, you made a cold hearted man feel something like love again and in return i had to break your heart to keep you out of something you didn't deserve" Reaver looked down at her and he saw that her breaths were getting lighter, it was probably why she hadn't replied to him. "Im going to miss you, i truly mean it" he said sitting on the edge of the bed and leaned down kissing the hero's head before he felt her body still and relax. She was gone, right from under him she took her last breaths and in some way he felt satisfied with that goodbye. Reaver stood up from the bed and looked down seeing a young Logan watching his mother with tears in his eyes "Oh. This must be the prince, and future king" he thought to himself and gave a small smirk and leaned down to the boy "After your done weeping over your mother, how about we have a chat?' he asked with a small chuckle.