Chapter 10 – Broken heart

One day at Riven`s bar, Darius and Yasuo were having a drinking contest, supported by Draven but in Talon`s account. The raven noxian stood behind their contest only paying for Yasuo though. As he felt asleep on the table drinking too much, Riven and Draven didn`t know who win, but Darius wanted to prove how brave he is trying to stand up held by his brother, Draven. Talon came at their table to check if Yasuo was really sleeping, poking his brush hair with a lame face.

"Hey, you!" Darius chokes on Talon`s shoulder while Draven helps him stand. Now Darius got two supporting shoulders.

"Yes?"

"Aren`t you that guy who sticks with Katarina Du Couteau?" His voice was stinky and funny.

"I`m her brother...in law." Talon lifts head to see that intimidating glare of Darius who never seemed to melt not even when he is drunk.

"Mhm." Right now Darius didn`t seem so scary because he was drunk, so Talon gave him a little credit for a short talk, while Riven disappeared from the scene crowding through the Black Rose hoodied guys and leaves something under the bar stand. She just received a message from Talon and she knew who she had to give it to. Katarina.

As time passed away since Swain visited her, informing about Talon`s betray on her family, Katarina started to wonder what was the thing he couldn`t tell her back then. And this weird letter from him, sent through Riven made her be suspicious. Yet he stood around Du Couteau mansion and kept an eye on her. She knew she was rude with him, but he didn`t deserve her kindness. No one deserves her kindness. She wanted revenge for everything that happened to her father and her pretty face. Right now, even her favorite demacian, Garen, was nothing in her noisy thoughts.

As she was staring outside in the night, at the plain starry sky, Cassiopeia comes in crawling and lifting to see the sky with her sister. Both were silent, only Katarina gave her a pathetic tired stare.

"What is it, Kat?" The snake woman had a brilliant gaze at the night sky, not wanted to be interrupted by her sister.

"Great noxian strategist came here."

"I know." Cassiopeia smiles delighted don`t turning to face Katarina yet, while the red hair was about to start telling everything. Her lips remained cracked wanting.

The serpent ignores the real problems. "It`s a pretty night."

"Why...? Why are you so happy, Cass?" Katarina`s eyes were sad and tired.

"I made up my mind. If I can`t be who I was before this curse, I will use what I already know about people and their desires. " Cassiopeia doesn`t want to see her sister`s pain.

"W-What?!" The red head woman was surprised and in the same time disappointed.

"I know you want to get a hand on Talon, but he was always a stray dog..."

"I want to kill him." Katarina interrupts her snake sister`s line, clenching her fists in the edge of the window, remembering when Talon came in and slept over night in her bed. If she only had the strength to kill him in that Christmas morning, she would be spared of thinking how to find him now. Though the rich red head was too shy to return in Riven`s bar in a while. "I won`t hold back! He is hiding something from me! My dad`s last words before he was gone!"

The serpent woman covers her mouth hearing her sister`s voiced desire. She never thought that her little red head sibling will turn against her favorite childhood human toy. She remembered when they were young and they were training in the yard on the mannequins and she was rude with him. She even remembered how rough their hands were and how they used to patch each other`s wounds like brothers. How could Katarina turn into such a heartless person? Cassiopeia wondered for herself in silence, cupping her cheeks on the edge of the window. "Kat. You were rude with Talon since when you were little. I thought you changed at some point, but killing him is like your father gave him a chance for nothing."

"He lied to me!" Katarina growls in anger. Her flushed angry face and the red scar on her eye made her look almost as scary as Darius.

"Do you think he will ever hurt you?"

"I don`t know."

"Did he ever hurt you?"

"No... but he`s annoying." Katarina started to be more concerned by her sister`s paced voice.

"Even if I didn`t show that I like his person in our house, he was nice with you when you are rude with him."

"He had no choice!" Katarina regains her anger on Talon.

"No. He could leave anytime back then, but he stood here with us trying to get stronger. He would never do anything bad to us. He respected out father way too much..." Cassiopeia starts to feel sad now remembering about her father and moves aside in silence on her hands. It was hard to keep the snake tail after her and Katarina`s mood was too much to deal with. She hated to play the wise old one with her sister, because the red head was too stubborn since childhood.

"Ugh... Cass... I`m sorry." Katarina sighs looking in her sister back.

The little red head daughter couldn`t stay without running after midnight at Riven`s bar. Her sibling feeling told her that Talon might be there, leaving the most probably.

Indeed. Katarina arrived just in time, when Riven closed the bar and Talon was outside looking for something or someone.

"You idiot!" She appeared from the night darkness right under his eyes to his astonishment.

"Kat..."

"I came to end all the business with you." Her shinning pale eyes carved inside his soul and he stood there waiting for her further move. "What is it that you can`t tell me what my father said back then?!" She comes closer almost whining and starts shaking his shoulders.

"What...?" He tries to not look at her affected reaction.

"Yeah...! I planned to kill you if you won`t tell me! My father entrusted you and you can`t tell me?!" She yells more at him, punching his chest with sadness and anger, but not enough to hurt him.

"Kill me then." He parted his arms with a cold expression.

"B-But this way, I will never know what my dad entrusted you with." She hesitates to punch him and stops her palms on his chest slowly moving to his neck to struggle him.

"Pretty accurate." He looks over her, as she was looking down, yet being so close of him. Her fingers around his neck didn`t seem to have the desire to hurt him. They were only cold on his skin giving him a sore shiver, but it was fine with him. "So? Are you going to kill me or not?" He gets his annoying manly attitude against her, but she wraps arms around him pulling him into a hug. She might be crying, his eyes were too scared to check it, but the poor noise she made like sobbing made him worried. So he hugs her back silent waiting for her weak moment to be gone. Still in his large perspective, he thought that she wanted to make him speak this way, so he didn`t give her more credit. He felt bad for her, but this is everything he can do right now. He rubs her back slowly feeling that her whole body was cold. Only her anger mixed with pain made her heart pulse fast and loudly.

"Please return home..." She huffs in his chest, hugging him even tighter. "Let`s be a family again. Cass is home with me now too. You are the missing one..." She assumed that her father is dead and so Talon realized that Katarina understood. He wanted to say something but he couldn`t. After all he didn`t know if he was dead or alive, but it was hard for him to take her words as a death spoiler.

"Kat..."

"Please..." She whines more opening her eyes and staring into his face. "Please, Talon..."