Shadows: A Tauradonna Collection

Drabble: The creation of a monster

Rating: T

Summary: On a relaxing date, Blake and Adam encounter a gang of racist humans who try to blame them for a missing wallet. Both try to avoid the trouble but nothing goes as the planned. After that night and a traumatic experience, a wicked, dark and hate seed starts growing on Taurus' heart, making a monster inside and outside of him.

Warning: Violence and angst, not explicit content but there can be mature references.

Also, I hadn't used the headcanon of Adam having scars behind his mask until now and I wanted to try it. Also, I changed the narrator, this time I'm using Blake's POV because it fits the drabble.

Answers to the guest reviews and petitions:

Miko: I know, I have been calling the kidnapping stuff since Volume 4 chapter 5 and it may happen but a volume after and maybe on the finale, because at this slow pace... Pray for Kali.

cupcake739: Thank you! Hope you enjoy the others as well.

novichae: I already have an idea for that, so consider it done. I'd also love to see a redemption arc in RWBY.

maiermaid: Of course, dear. I even have a drabble planned with Beauty and the beast references to one scene but I'd love to write a Beauty and the Beast complete AU. I'll start it once I have posted all the other drabbles I have been petitioned and my own ideas have been posted.

emmaleewhittaker: Added to the list, expect blood. You know I love your ideas.

That night Adam and I went to a pub to relax from our strict routines on the White Fang. He knew the place, a bar, were faunus were welcome and served, but not too clean and legal.

We had decided to go out. It wasn't my idea, he told me that I didn't know much about the world and that he would show me everything I needed to know in that terve too.

The smoke of the cigarettes of the customers filled the air. Adam was used to it but I wasn't, even though I didn't complain. I held his hand, following him between the crowd, like a child who fears to get lost in city streets. Somehow I felt protected beside him.

We arrived at the upper floor of the building, where they had pool tables. We went to the last on that was free, besides a gang of tough and drunk guys who started at us for being faunus. Of course, the fact that the owner of the pub allowed the faunus to came, it didn't mean that the customers did too.

He lent me a billiard stick, I took it.

"Do you know how to play?" He asked.

I shook my head, I had never stepped on a pub before and less played pool.

He explained how the game worked, rules and practiced a little bit with the stick. When I inclined my body to reach for the balls I felt the gang staring at me. I glanced back at Taurus, who was defying them with a rough look because they dared to stare blatantly at my legs and curves. That evening I chose a more revelatory outfit and I had my hair tied in a ponytail.

He was boneheaded so he approached me and helped me hold the stick properly, passing his arms around me, marking me as his. The guys seemed to catch the message. I was not going to lie, they seemed older and were far more intimidating than Adam. Luckily they kept playing their own game and left us alone.

I caressed Adam's hand that was ungloved this time. He glanced into my golden eyes and I did the same, staring back at him. Unconsciously, my hips leaned to his body as I was expecting more contact.

"Let's pay for another round." Proposed one man of the gang besides us. "Hey, I can't find my wallet!"

We snapped out of it and glanced back at the man who was frenetically searching for his wallet. Suddenly one of his friends pointed at us.

"Faunus! You stole it, don't you?" Accused with racist prejudices.

Adam chuckled. Of course, he hadn't stolen his wallet.

"Pal, I don't have your wallet, you can check me if you want." He replied with his hands on the air, showing that he had nothing to hide or be afraid of.

The man checked him, his jacket and pockets. Obviously, they didn't find it. Then their eyes were on me once more.

"Wait. We need to check your little kitten too." Said one with a mischievous smirk.

I had a goosebump before his hands could reach for me, Adam put his own on the man's chest, pushing him backward.

"She has nothing to do with this. I told you we didn't steal your wallet."

The man pushed him back too and soon started to argue and fight. I tried to stop them for they were five and Adam was just one. They had punched him on the face and on the stomach and fell to the floor where they kept kicking him.

"Stop! Stop!" I yelled in panic.

One of the gang turned and trapped my hands, making me walk backward until my back hit the edge of the pool table.

"Let him go!" I cried.

He ignored me and chuckled while turned me to make me face the table. He put my hands behind my back and immobilized me pushing my neck down.

I heard Adam whimper and scream in pain while the tough guy's hands touched all parts of my body. No inch of skin had been untouched by the filth man.

Adam had passed the rest of the month on his own dorm, locked inside. I only talked to him being on the other side of the door. He didn't want me to see him as he thought the scars of the fight made him look like a monster.

The sadness soon became hate and rage. He hated the humans and the isolation was his only solution for then. Of course, it didn't last forever.

I went to his room after dinner to bring him some food since he didn't eat much. Normally, he would tell me to leave it in front of the door so when I was gone he would take it. But this time I didn't plan to make it that easy.

I wanted to see him, I needed him. He had forbidden my entrance to his dorm but I was willing to break his rules. I didn't care if he was angry about it.

I knocked two times and there was no answer. I heard closely through the door but there was no sound from inside of it. He wasn't showering or snoring asleep, just… absolute silence. Despite that, I knew that he was inside drowned in her own pain.

"Adam, it's me." I tried. "Let me in, please."

More silence. I tried to open the door and luckily it was unlocked. I stayed with the door mid open before entering.

"I'm gonna enter." I advertised.

I closed the door behind me and left the dinner on a table that was close to the entrance. It was all dark but due to our faunus traits, we could see through it.

He was sitting on the edge of the bed with a weird mask covering his face. Later I knew he made that because he didn't want me to see his face. A face that he hated now.

"Adam..." I whispered before running up in his arms.

He embraced me and I held onto him as if my life depended on that. I noticed the lack of love and care in him so I made sure to give it all I could, caressing his hair and rubbing his back. I had a slight suspicion that he was silently crying.

I looked up steam and saw the horrible mask that was hiding his face. I tried to touch it but he put his face away from my curious hands. Instead, I caressed his jaw and slowly moved my hand up until I got to touch the mask's edge.

I took it off with no sudden moves. Nothing could make me be afraid of Adam, at least not in that moment. I felt that he was like that because of me, it was my fault.

Then I saw them, the deep scars that were near his eyes, crossing his nose and tainting his forehead. He closed his eyes as I caressed each of them with my fingertips. Like a painter with his skin as a canvas.

He put his hands on my waist and pulled me towards him, making me sit on his lap. I didn't break the eye contact with him, I wanted to show him that he wasn't disgusted with the scars he had for the fight on the bar.

"Someone so beautiful doesn't deserve to be with a monster." Spoke Adam calmly.

"The only monsters were those guys on the bar."

"And they ended creating one."

He was wrong and to show him so, I started leaving quick kisses on his face. He shivered but didn't complain. I didn't know from where I got the courage to kiss him for so long and so many times. I felt like I owed him.

And like a hypnotized butterfly, my lips met his. He froze but didn't pull me away, so I kept kissing him, barely knowing how to since it was my first time. When I was out of air I pulled myself away from him but his hands stopped me and pushed me to his chest, wrapping his arms around me like a snake with its prey.

"This mask will be my face from now on. A Grimm face that will end with those who see us as monsters worse than Grimm."

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