Thanatos eyes sliced into Evie as the words replayed themselves in his head. His voice was almost like a growl. “You’re his wife?!”
Evie pushed Apep out of the way. “NO!” She screamed, to which Apep laughed.
“Ah, ah, ah…we made a deal.”
Hanging her head low, she looked back at Thanatos, with tears in her eyes and said, “Yes.”
Thanatos felt the wind knock out him, hearing it for a second time. Where he’d known Apep to be a trickster, to learn that the love of his life gutted him, and he could hardly look at her.
“I should have known that you would have tried something tonight. You weren’t as wise as you thought.” Apep waved his finger in her face and she swatted it.
“I just wanted to see him one more time.”
Apep scoffed, “For what? Sentimental reasons?” He covered his heart, “Aww…give it up princess, the plan failed.”
“What plan?” Thanatos looked from one to the other.
Apep smiled in glee, “To get you to love her of course. I told her it wouldn’t work. Reaper can’t be thrown off his game.”
At the sound of Apep calling him Reaper, Thanatos winced. “Is that why you call me that?”
Evie could hardly talk, she cried uncontrollably, and Thanatos knew the answer. “You played me.” He felt his anger growing inside, “For what? To control me? To take over?! What Evie? What?”
“IT WASN’T LIKE THAT!” Derrick rushed into the room.
“Evie we’ve got to go, Apep is here.” His words stopped when he saw Apep glaring at him.
“I should have known she got help from you, you mangy little maggot,” he seethed.
Thanatos couldn’t believe it, “You're in on it too?”
The look on Derrick’s face made the room spin. He backed against the wall, the betrayal ripping through him searing everything in its path. “Why would you do this to me? I don’t even know you.”
“But I’ve known you for a long time. Thanatos you’re my soul tie. Please, I’m begging you to believe me.”
He wanted so badly to believe that his Poppet would never hurt him this way. But one thing he knew was to take people at face value. Looking around the room, everything seemed to finally click. Her powers, Apep, everything. All the walls he tore down, rebuilt themselves immediately and he felt himself become angered once more.
“You’re a fucking little liar,” he fumed at her. Evie grimaced, but he was only just beginning, “You thought fucking me, and saying anything I wanted to hear would work? You’re disgusting, fitting for his wife.”
“Wait a minute Thanatos-”
He glared at Derrick, “And you, my brother worshipped you, and you betrayed him as well.” The sight of both of them made him want to vomit.
Apep’s smile only widened, “Enjoy it princess, I told you the reaper had nothing good inside.”
Evie straightened her back. “I want to go.”
Thanatos’ laugh cut through the room. He walked over to her, an evil look on his face, “Enjoy the spoils of your deal poppet. They may call me the devil, but at least I didn't sell my soul.”
Evie’s movements were so quick, Thanatos couldn’t catch it before her hand collided with his face. She stood squared off with him, not backing down, her own eyes seeming to darken.
“I risked EVERYTHING to come here tonight! EVERYTHING! Because I NEEDED to tell you something. Because I need you! And I was hoping you needed me too!" Her words were angry and frantic, "I thought that maybe if you tried you could love me-”
“You have nothing to say to me worth hearing, nothing worth me even attempting to love.”
His words like ice, caused tears to form in her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. “They may call you the devil, but I call you a hypocrite.” Her body shook in rage. Thanatos eyes widened as he backed away from her. She followed him, continuing to taunt, “What’s the matter? Is the big bad reaper afraid of little ole me?”
Thanatos turned and grabbed her by the arms, his claws digging into her, “Don’t provoke me, leave.”
As the blood trickled down her arm, Evie didn’t break matching his anger with hers. “You want so badly for someone else to be the monster then fine, but don’t you dare call me a liar until you admit all of yours.” He slowly loosened his grip, but she stepped into him, making his claw tear into her flesh. “Come on Reaper don’t back down now. You show me yours, I’ll show you mine! You’re a hypocrite! I may have sold my soul, but you sold your heart. You don’t get to judge me for my reasons!”
The heat palpitating from off Thanatos, his eyes so black they looked like craters telling Evie he was no longer there. “You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.”
Evie laughed, “You know that I do. I can see right through you because I AM you. I'm cruel, angry, and vengeful. I kill and I enjoy it. I am your penance from the Gods, what you DESERVE in a soul tie. An ugly thing, your perfect match in every way."
He tilted his head and seemed to look in the depths of her, “You're nothing like me, you laid with my enemy. You mean nothing, are nothing. I will never belong to you.”
There wasn’t much he could say that would push Evie over the edge, but at that moment, he ripped her apart. Backing away from him, Thanatos saw the pain in her eyes as she turned to Apep.
“I want to go,” she repeated.
“Not before I kill this little maggot,” he spit at Derrick.
She raised her hand and soothed his face. “I want to go home,” she said, her words making him smile immediately. Glaring one more time at Derrick, he placed his hand on the small of her back.
Evie stopped and without turning around, she spoke to Thanatos. “I never betrayed you, not like others around you. When you find out the truth and what could have been, I really hope you suffer.”
“What are you talking about?”
She looked at him coldly. “Why don’t you ask your father.”
Thanatos stared at her wildly. Using his father to hurt him was low, and he seethed that she could do it. “You show your face here again, you won’t make it home. I’ll make sure of it.”
Evie flinched at the sincerity of his words before allowing Apep to lead her away.
“You have no idea what you’ve done!” Derrick shouted at him.
Thanatos grabbed him by the neck and raised him from the ground, “Stay the hell away from my brother,” he said dropping him hard to the floor, the impact breaking his leg.
As Derrick screamed in agony, Thanatos cracked his neck, before storming out of the room. Through the laugh and merriment, his blackened mass parted the sea of people, as he left the mansion for good.