"You're sure he said 'Alex', not 'Mary,' Dominique?"
Dominique Blatt nodded her head vigorously. Gorog threw a fit. For a creature as old as the darkness of men's hearts, he lost himself quite easily in his rage. After all this time! The prophecy promised him a Russo!
Justin- intelligent, capable boy, must have figured it out! Gorog took a breath. He knew what Dominique wanted; the fame and fortune to reappear. The dark angel shook himself steady. Stevie had failed him as well; promising to get close enough to Justin to sway him evil.
His servants were whores and fools.
It would be a long time before Justin would let anyone close to him again. As it was, he stayed home from college to tutor Alex. The two were... uncomfortably close.
"How often is he over here?"
The has-been shuddered in fear, "At least twice a week. But he hasn't used her real name since that night on the phone. He's been really, really careful!"
Gorog squinted, "And the rest of the family?!"
"No one comes with him; he's always alone!"
The monster shook his head. He had been so close! Soon, Alex would be eighteen- and unlike her siblings, keep her powers. Justin, the dark's champion, had lost his due to a technicality he could have prevented.
"You're wrong."
Dominique, thinking about what it would be like to regain her fame, started, "Wha-?"
"He's not alone."
She blinked stupidly.
"Oh, it may just be the two of them. Justin is not close to his little brother out of fear, and he has always believed his parents hated him for his failure. As a nerd, he has no place in the mortal realm, and as a powerless wizard, no place in the wizarding world. But he is not alone."
"Are you sure?" Typically, Dominique would be too afraid to ask such a forward question.
Gorog grimaced forlorn, "Yes... I'm sure. He doesn't have Alex... but he certainly has Mary."
A.N. I didn't like my ending that much. One sharp-eyed reviewer spotted that Justin made a Freudian slip. At the time of writing this, I was having difficulty figuring how to talk about Mary/Alex in the third person. I realized Justin would have the same problem.
There's a whole lot of subtext I wanted to deal with here. Since I never explained most of it, here we go;
Gorog knows he needs a wizard for the Compass, and thinks it's Alex, so he kidnaps her and has her raised in an abusive home in exchange for making Dominique famous. Justin, growing up, goes to the dark side to justify himself.
Gorog realizes on some level he has the wrong kid. Justin wants Alex back, but realizes he can't hurt Mary. The end.
Maybe I should write a sequel...?
