Another chapter. I'm probably going to do one for each person, though not in number order, and then let you guys decide if you want me to write more or not.
Full Chapter Title; I may have loved you in the darkness, but that doesn't mean I love you in the light.
Things aren't meant to be like this. They shouldn't be stuck in this endless conflict. She used to love him, but now Six can't stand the sight of him.
"You're a bastard!" she screams at him, throat aching from shouting at him, day in day out. They used to just snap at each other for pointless things, but now the very thought of him fills her with revulsion. "You're a bastard and I hate you!"
"Well you're a b**ch!" he yells back, face screwed up in contempt. "I don't know why I even bothered talking to you!" She punches him. He punches her back. She picks up the vase full of flowers that Sarah got him, the ones he fixes every time they starts to wilt with his healing legacy. He eyes it warily.
With all her strength (which is a lot) she hurled the vase towards the wall, grinning as it smashed and the stems snapped.
John flinches, before turning back to her, a murderous look in his eyes. She almost winces, but instead stands straighter and raises her head slightly, trying to show that she's determined and not scared at all.
But instead of saying anything, he stares behind her. Ella is standing there, seething at them both. She yells at them louder than Six would have thought possible, before running out and slamming the door, making the entire hall shake as it rattles on its hinges.
It isn't her fault. It's his.
She was only ever a cheap replacement for Sarah. He used her, he played her. And it isn't fair – he always was caught up in his little Earth troubles and was completely reckless with his powers, and he got to be the heir to freaking Pittacus Lore, when he couldn't even handle himself in a fight without his human friends getting in the way.
Sure, Sam was her friend, and she might have had a crush on him, but she threw away any chance at a life with him because he wasn't Loric, and John was. She'd actually found herself falling for John, and while they were playing cat-and-mouse with the Mogodorians, she was sure he'd loved her back.
Things are different now. They aren't being hunted anymore, but somewhere along the line her feelings for him have changed. She now loathes him with her very being. She can't stand the very thought of him, his blonde hair and blue eyes and rugged good lucks that make her want to puke.
She storms away from his clenched fists, going into her room and making sure he can hear the click of the lock.
If Katerina was alive, she knew that her Cepan would hate John, despise him the way Six does. He's rubbish at fighting, gets distracted easily and is insistent that his personal affairs are more important than anyone else's.
She hates him.
Her whole life was dedicated towards fighting, and now she just feels lost. She knows nine feels the same way, and eventually she starts going and getting drunk with him, getting into bar fights. But nothing lasts forever, and when John finds out he breaks into her room and yells at her that she's so immature and a coward for turning to Nine and drinks, instead of facing her problems like a Loric.
This strikes a chord in her, because he always runs away from his problems and never faces them. She says as much, and for about an hour all they do is rant at each other.
She's glad Ella's out.
Six sees Marina and Eight going on trips out of Manhattan a lot. It makes her jealous that Eight is so loyal to Marina and vice versa. Neither of them were ever just replacements for some human chick.
One of the worst things about John is that everyone adores him. Everyone knows that he's even the government's favourite. The all-powerful one with the really good looks.
She's sick of him.
Straight after the war, they were fine together, and for quite a bit before, too. Things were so much simpler back then. He loved her and she loved him and they no longer had the Mogs to worry about and they were allowed to stay on Earth and they all got to live together.
It seemed like it would be alright, at first. They got along together, shared a room, stayed up late chatting. But when you spend too long around one person you get tired of them, and they soon found themselves snapping at each other. It turned into full-scale arguments, and soon even compliments turned into the worst fights.
In the end they decided to get separate rooms, but that turned into an argument over who should leave. Eventually Marina turned up and suggested that Six moved into the room next door to her own, which the female grudgingly agreed to. She knows John saw this as a personal victory, so she still loudly chatters to Marina about how great it is that they have rooms so close.
They often go out of each other's way to make their ex miserable. They yell at each other and wreck each other's rooms and when it's their turn to cook, they make sure not to make them a dish.
Six is finding it hard to control her powers. Her elemental ones especially. More than once she has accidently set something on fire with her mind, or heard a storm brewing outside in the midst of an argument with John. She wishes Katerina were here, but Katerina died years ago.
She wishes she were back on Lorien, when things were good and she could get along with John and her parents were still alive and well.
After the war, things weren't supposed to be this way. She was meant to have a better relationship with John, not a worse one. They shouldn't be acting this way, like they're in a game and the first one to try and make up is the loser.
They'd already tried, anyway. They'd gone out on dates, tried talking it out, all sorts. But nothing had worked. They'd just gotten even madder at each other and even more hateful.
She's falling apart, and John isn't helping. All of her crappy life has built up over the years and exploded at John, though it's not as if he doesn't deserve it.
Eventually she is sick of being in the same city as him, and asks the government if she can leave Manhattan. They reluctantly agree, but informing her that she's only allowed for a week and she'll have to have an agent watching her at all times.
"But don't let the others know," she is told. "As of right now, you're the only one allowed to leave Manhattan."
She agrees, because she has to get away and it makes her feel good to be keeping a secret from John.
She stays in West Virginia for a while, in a house the government lent to her. It's so peaceful without the others, and now she wishes she'd done this sooner. She goes for walks and masters her legacies better and wishes she never has to go back. If it was like this Marina and Eight every time they left, she can see why they did it so often.
But eventually she has to come back.
She comes in to John yelling his head off at her for disappearing like that, and Five just stares at her with blank eyes. She mentally shivers at that. Five is just plain creepy when she does that.
Eight and Marina are creeping up the stairs, and Eight catches her eye and winks when he sees her face.
Ella goes up to her at one point, shouting her head off about how effin' selfish Six is for not even telling them she was or what she was doing or what was she doing anyway?
Six doesn't answer that question.
Later, John tells her that he wishes she hadn't come back. He says he wishes she'd died.
This is just more proof that he hates her like he's never hated anything else. She would try and make things better, but that would make her feel like she's losing to him. Plus, she can barely cope with seeing him every day.
He yells at her a lot more after that, and vice versa. They try to avoid each other as much as possible. Just walking past each other triggers some kind of shouting match. Nine is getting sick of it, interrupting their fights to announce that something's going on that they really should see. Six yells at him for interrupting, before apologising and ignoring John's smug smile.
She wants to see Sam, but one of the agreements to stay on Earth was not to see Sam, Sarah, Mark, Malcolm, Devdan, Commander Sharma etc. All of their human friends are to be avoided at all costs.
In fact, Sam was told she was dead. Any humans with romantic relation to a Garde were told that their loved ones were dead. She'd been angry about that at first, but assumed she'd be alright with John by her side. But now she despises him and all she wants is to see Sam again.
But John keeps bringing up how alone she is.
When did everything get so bad with him? When did it get the she can't stand the sight of him? When did it get that he hates her so much to wish her dead?
She doesn't know, but all she can do is hope that things can get better.
But hope can only take you so far, and she's not delusional enough to believe it can fix an already broken relationship.