"KEEFE SENCEN! GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW!" Keefe looked up from where he was drawing and Ro looked up from sharpening her daggers.
"What did you do?" Keefe shrugged as he stood up and walked away. Keefe hoped his father wouldn't do what he normally did. Ro would hear and Keefe didn't want anyone to know, besides he could handle it. Keefe walked in the kitchen and saw his father standing there redfaced.
"Can you explain what this is!?" Keefe looked where his father was pointing at the stained kitchen counter.
"uh- a counter? Keefe heard his father grit his teeth.
"Not the counter you idiot! The stain!" Keefe looked back to earlier that day when he had spilt a elixer he had bought for a prank, no matter how hard he scrubbed it wouldn't come off. Keefe knew if he told his father he would get punished so he lied.
"Uh no i don't know." Lord Cassius grabbed Keefe's hand and spat,
"liar! You get one more try Keefe." Keefe started panicking, Ro was only a couple Rooms away! What if she heard?
"No! I swear i don't know!" Lord Cassius smacked Keefe across the face, shoved him down to the floor and started kicking him. Keefe let out a whimper as his father landed a well place kick to his ribs. After a while Lord Cassius stopped kicking him and snarled
"get up." Keefe slowly got to his feet, holding a arm over his stomach.
"Did. You. Stain. The. Counter." Keefe bowed his head.
"Yes." Lord Cassius shoved Keefe into the table.
"i knew it!" Keefe, who had no warning, slammed his head on the table. Keefe let out a whine and curled up on his side. Lord Cassius started kicking Keefe again and Ro walked into the kitchen.
"What on earth are yo-. What the heck?!" Ro shoved lord Cassius back and jumped in front of Keefe.
"this does not concern you princess." Lord Cassius's tone was cold as he stood up and straightened his clothes. Ro looked murderous.
"When you beat the crap out of your son, it does concern me." And with that Ro turned around, gently picked up Keefe and walked into the bathroom not looking back. Ro set Keefe down on the decorative sofa and started shuffling through the cabnets. Ro pulled out a elixer that read 'achy break' and tipped it in Keefe's mouth.
"Take off your shirt." Keefe who had remained silent the entire time avoiding eye contact, looked up.
"What?! No!" Ro looked at him unimpressed.
"I need you to take your shirt off so i can asses your injurys, but if you want to be difficult i'll just call Elwin." Keefe pouted as he carefully pulled his shirt off. Ro gasped as she saw Keefes back loaded with bruises and cuts.
"oh my gosh! Keefe i don't even know if i can patch this up alone. This is bad. I need to call Elwin but i can make an excuse." Keefe's eyes filled with tears and he looked down.
"Okay." Ro gently pulled Keefe's imparter out of his pocket and hailed Elwin.
"Hi Keefe what's u- oh Ro hi is Keefe ok?" Ro shook her head.
"No we need you over here like now. He fell and hurt himself real bad." Elwin nodded and hung up. Ro set the imparter on the sink.
"ok i said you fell." Keefe nodded as Elwin walked in the bathroom door with his satchel.
"That was fast." Ro said as Elwin dug through his bag.
"Yeah. Gosh Keefe how hard did you fall." Keefe looked away and just shrugged. Elwin gave Keefe something that made the bruises disappear and the cuts heal over. Elwin looked Keefe up and down before narrowing his eyes.
"Yeah, i'm not buying it. What really happened?" Ro raised her eyebrows and looked at Keefe. He was staring holes into the ground.
"Keefe?" Ro called. Keefe looked up.
"Nothing happened Elwin i just fell. Thanks for coming." Elwin raised his eyebrows but nodded anyway.
"Okay call me if anything else happens." Elwin walked out the bathroom door and glittered away. Ro sat down on the couch next to Keefe.
"I covered for you but we need to talk. What the heck was that Keefe? He was kicking you! Thats not ok!" Keefe met her eyes.
"i deserved it. I stained the counter and lied. It's my own fault." Ro's jaw dropped and she looked at Keefe sadly.
"There is nothing you could have done to deserve that Keefe." Keefe blinked.
"We need to stay somewhere else. We can't be in the same house with him." Keefe nodded and said.
"we can stay at alvars old place. I have a crystal to it." Ro nodded and Keefe fished it out of his pocket and glittered away with Ro.
