Chapter 6: A Good Man?
With Ahsoka alone with Faith and Ashildr, Alex used this time to search for his brother. He wondered just what the hell he'd gotten himself into. He couldn't believe that Sky would do something like this. Scratch that, given the chance, Sky would do something exactly like this. He hated himself at that precise moment for not seeing Sky's change so suddenly. His half brother was so determined on his mission of ensuring Darlene's ressurection, that he didn't stop to think about what consequences might come from it.
Whilst it didn't take long, it certainly took Alex more than a few minutes to find his brother, and he couldn't help but feel as though he was being watched. Not by the various species that inhabited the street. But by the someone else. Something else. The Trickster and his brigade maybe? Whether or not this was due to his paranoia of learning of the Trickster's return. Alex couldn't help that particular feeling.
Almost without looking, he ran into his brother on the next street and they fell down on the cobbles. Alex checked if there'd wasn't any injures, there wasn't but still it couldn't hurt. He was also weary of his recent discovery of regeneration. And what else could possibly trigger that.
Sky stood up and brushed some of the dust of his clothes. He coughed and looked at Alex in shock and dismay. It too, a while before any of the brothers said anything, but it couldn't be helped. Given the history that the two shared, and what Sky planned to do.
"How long?" Sky asked regarding how long it took for his disappearance to be noticed "how long did it take?" When faced with this question, Alex contemplated his answer very carefully. Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time might cause his brother to snap, and that couldn't happen, given Sky's current mental state.
"Five, ten minutes maybe?" Alex said and at this Sky smiled and looked at his brother with a strange new sense of respect. Which was weird because this was one of Sky's good days. And when Sky went back to normal this scared Alex because it was like having his brother back.
Then again it was his own fault that Alex had lost Sky in the first place. Everyday for the past second Alex thought about the day they went to Skaro, home planet of the Daleks. The day they lost Darlene and how it was all his fault. After all he was the one that Darlene convinced to let his friends come with him, when actually he needed to go do it alone. Darlene had convinced him all too easily.
And he should have ignored her. Maybe that would have saved her. Maybe that would have saved them all. There was no dwelling on that now. It was in the past and Alex needed to focus on the present. Which meant stopping the Trickster and finishing his deal with Sky.
"I shouldn't really be surprised" Sky chuckled and he paced across he cobbles. Once he helped Alex up he got out all that he wanted to say "I've just been so focused on my own mission lately, I didn't see the fact that they would actually miss me" they referred to Ahsoka and Faith, which in fact they didn't notice that Sky was gone. Only Ashildr did.
"They're your friends Sky" Alex said hoping that the good half of his brother would stay "even when you did half the things that you did, at the end of the day, they're your friends" he smiled at him proudly and said "and I'm your brother" at this Sky flinched and Alex said "no prophecy is going to hold that back from us"
"The thing is" Sky said which really surprised Alex. "It already has. I read the prophecy myself" Alex remembered when he found Sky going through the prophecy that had destroyed their lives. Faith's prophecy "it's set in stone" Sky continued "I will turn to the Dark Side. Become the Dark Brother" he paused and looked at Alex for a good long moment. "Now look me in the eye and tell me honestly, do you still believe that after everything I've done, since Darlene's death. That I'm still a good man?"
Alex thought long and hard as to the answer for this question. The truth was he didn't know, so in all honesty he voiced his thoughts out loud and stammered "I..." He struggled to find the words "I don't know" at this Sky smiled and said simply
"I thought not" he never found out what Alex had to say after this because at that exact moment a new figure appeared out of nowhere, dressed entirely in a black robe from head to foot. His face was half covered by his hood and his mouth was the only thing that showed.
The Trickster had returned...