Coda part 2 of 2: Mikhail
Mikhail meets Wyatt a rainy afternoon in San Francisco. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Mikhail was looking for him. Mikhail was planning on asking for help, because things with the Source has quickly taken a turn for the worse.
But he doesn't, because Wyatt's smile and quick glances makes Mikhail feel overprotective and loved. Then they start talking and quite quickly the idea of asking Wyatt for help goes out the window. Mikhail doesn't want to acknowledge that he's lied to Wyatt, and quite a lot at that.
After they meet for the first time, Mikhail decides to shelve the idea and even though he said that he would talk and meet up with Wyatt again, he decides not to. He wants to protect Wyatt from demons and darklighters, the Underworld and the Source, even though he knows it's the stupidest idea that he's ever had because Wyatt's already in the thick of it.
He breaks though, and really wants to see Wyatt again. He spends more time than he'd like to admit looking for him, and when he finally does find him Wyatt's face bright and happy.
Then things start moving. Wyatt says that it's like Mikhail has decided to open up, and Mikhail agrees. Then he tells Wyatt a redacted version of what happened with Chekhov. It feels nice to finally talk to someone about it.
They get closer and closer, and they text a lot. They tell each other the most insignificant things, like what they had for dinner and what it looked like. (Once, over the phone, Mikhail tells about the dinner he just had and the weird-shaped broccoli, the weirdly-colored potatoes and the funny-shaped quorn. Wyatt can't stop laughing, and Mikhail tries his hardest not to look at the room he's in. He doesn't want to see the scorch marks, the blood and the bodies.)
As Wyatt gets more and more harried and Mikhail starts drinking more and more, Mikhail realizes that things are going quickly downhill. It's not just their relationship (because that's what they have, and the age-difference that only Mikhail knows about feels weird to him and he knows that Wyatt is weirded out by the fact that you can easily learn all about skeletons from Mikhail's body), but Mikhail's relationship with the Source. He's changed. Somehow, he's come to the conclusion that the body he's wearing has too much influence, and he wants to get rid of it. Mikhail knows that he's on the fast track towards the Demonic Wasteland, because every single word that comes out from his mouth just serves to make the Source angrier.
The few things that he's let slip to Wyatt lays the foundation for their first row. It's quite simple, Wyatt thinks that Mikhail should stop working for whoever it is that he's working for. Mikhail tries to explain how impossible that is without making it sound like he's in the Bratva.
Then the Source gets it into his head that he should be Belthazor, so he starts antagonizing him. Mikhail thinks that the plan is doomed to fail, because Belthazor has already been the Source once and Mikhail sincerely doubts that he'll want to be the Source again.
Except, it works.
Now, Mikhail has to help the Source kill Ben's family, just to prove to the Source that Mikhail doesn't have any emotions and for the Source to prove that he no longer is influenced by Ben.
He's in a hotel room in San Francisco, washing the blood off his hands. He feels desperate, strangely enough. He normally doesn't, usually murder calms him down. But now, even when his hands are scrubbed raw and he knows that there isn't a speck of blood on him, he decides to take a shower as well. After having used up all the hot water, he decides to give up. He won't feel clean for a while. That's okay. It will have to be okay.
Then, just as he's put on a robe and laid down on the bed, remote in hand fully intent on channel surfing until falling asleep, there's a knock on the door.
Mikhail gets off the bed, slowly, and opens the door. Wyatt's standing on the other side of it, looking furious.
Wyatt starts throwing out accusations, and Mikhail does the same thing. They just yell at each other, going nowhere fast. That's when Wyatt yells about Mikhail lying to him about being an innocent. That's when it goes quiet. That's when Mikhail summons his crossbow and Wyatt puts up his shield.
A minute later, Mikhail dies, shot by his own bow. Wyatt's eyes are watery, and so's Mikhail's. They had just kissed, for the last time.
Mikhail feels free, and he realizes that he is. There's nothing that the Source can do to him now, not when he's finally dead.
Not when he's in the Demonic Wasteland.
AN: That's it guys. For this time. You see, as I thought I was finally finished with this story I came up with the plot for the sequel, and you may have noticed that I built up for it in this coda. So, I might start writing it, but no promises! Anyhow, if there's something that you'd like to see, as usual, tell me. Also, if you liked this chapter, tell me!