Speak of the Devil

by How Like a Winter

50 Theme challenge centering around Esau and Jacob, occasionally including others such as Claire, Richard, Ben, and Ilana. Sometimes contains slash, but with a warning beforehand. COMPLETE.

36. Ashes

36. Ashes (conclusion of the last)

Jacob bit his lip and sat back in silence when Esau raged, hurling nearby objects around the room and once at Jacob's own head. He couldn't meet Esau's eyes, just stared blankly into the fire, knowing that he had just destroyed Esau again and there was no pleasure in it at all. For now, Jacob could only wait out the storm and appear as calm as possible.

It wasn't easy. Esau attacked him with the harshest words that the humans knew of, and Jacob gripped the arms of his chair so hard that it hurt, and swallowed back the pain that he knew Esau felt tenfold. Esau said that he that wanted to see Jacob in that fire, nothing more than a pile of ashes, and when had Jacob become so cruel, to not only the humans but his own brother. Jacob couldn't reply, he had no answer, just as Mother had no real answers when it mattered most.