This is not the first time they have found themselves like ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด - folded over each other.
It is not the first time that there is blood between her teeth, on her lips, along her chin.
Silco collapses on her body, crushing her under his weight -
- he brushes a braid with his fingertips, rubbing it between his thumb and forefinger.
Jinx strokes the hair on the nape of his neck - regular movements, which rise from the space between his shoulder blades to his head.
For a few minutes neither of them move; Jinx arranges her legs back around his hips, just curling her lips when ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ drips on her thigh.
She tilts her face towards him, brushing his eyebrows with her fingertips.
"They will find out." his voice dry, hoarse.
Jinx closes her eyes, placing her cheek against his, releasing a low, throaty laugh.
"The ogre already knows." she retorts, and Silco snorts, trying to lift his face off her shoulder.
"Sevika would never say anything."
Silco just pulls away from her reluctantly.
Jinx looks at him with pinkish eyes, her pupil a round, blackish hole.
And there are questions pending between them - facts that weigh like a sentence.
๐๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ, Silco often said, baring his teeth.
๐๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ, she always ended the conversation, shaking her head like a riotous beast.
And he was silent, Silco, because words were useless when one was born in a world like theirs - when blood was calling and violence was roaring.
Silco seems to sense her thoughts - he takes her chin between his thumb and forefinger, searching for her eyes with his own.
Jinx licks her lips, between her thighs again his co - them.
"Yes." she whispers, because she had always handed him ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ - from the first time they bled together, she still young and inexperienced, to today, grown up and hungry.
Silco spreads his fingers across her abdomen, pulling away from her in a wet, obscene sound.
And she looks at him, Jinx; she brings him to his knees - he, the Eye of Zaun.
She pinches his wrist between cold, sweaty fingers - her heart a furious roll in her chest, frantic.
"If you do this, there will be no way to hide it." she murmurs, and her eyes are huge - innocent for the first time in years.
Silco looks at her, stops.
"What do you really want, Jinx?" he asks, turning his palm up and squeezing her fingers in his own.
Jinx inhales hard, weighing his question carefully.
"I'm not your daughter."
Silco is silent, continues to draw small circles with his free hand on her hip.
Jinx lifts herself up on her elbows, beautiful dressed only in the pale sheen of the dying fire.
"I'm a jinx." she tells him, and Silco smiles at that statement because nothing else could ever genuflect a monster like him.
"If you do..."
Silco tugs at her, lifting her towards him - bringing her close to his left pectoral, inches from his heart.
Silco frowns, remains so - suspended between a question and a confession.
"It stopped because of you." he tells her.
"It restarted because of you." he whispers and there is no uncertainty in his voice - doubt about her.
"It belongs to you, Jinx." he murmurs, touching her temple with his mouth.
Jinx opens her mouth, looks like she's about to say something -
- instead she flexes towards his chest and sinks in, biting and ripping out a moan that has nothing to do with pain.
Silco feels her small teeth make their way into the tender portion of his skin, penetrate up and tear the tissue, leaving her own mark.
Jinx breaks off in a sticky sound, blood and gunpowder in the air - she laughs as Silco presses her on the carpet, parting her thighs in a dry, impatient movement.
And the carpet turn red beneath her - warm.
And she gasps his name, Jinx: she releases a sigh of relief as Silco's teeth sink, a dull ache between her thighs, approaching a sudden orgasm.
And she feels it, Jinx; she feels herself opening under his teeth, on his tongue.
And she is still smiling when Silco takes her face in his hands, kissing her - blood stained and something else.
And she cries as her fears die - they turn to dust and memory.
And she laughs, because he is her everything and her future no longer seems so horrible and dark and empty and ...
๐๐ช๐ฏ๐น.
Silco breathes in her hair, closes his eyes - around her tobacco and leather and ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ.
Dawn will welcome them again as father and daughter - now also ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ.
It started as a game: it all starts like this, doesn't it?
Even the destruction of Piltover, after all.
It had started by infecting small, apparently harmless things: an exchange of roles that had made them no more daughter and father.
Silco had hidden her marks under long-sleeved shirts, black trousers: Jinx wore deeper wounds on her skin and only her eyes threatened to betray their little game.
Anxious. Restless. Excited.
Pain is a dimension they are used to; it's part of their nature and they come back to it every time.
They donโt fear it, they donโt avoid it: they accept it - because every birth is impregnated with blood and black.
Heavy is the crown, poisoned his dark throne.
A big city - metal and glass; monsters and men.
Zaun stood like a bastion of rock and rage in the middle of Runettera, a dense, dark lump of stone and chem prodigies.
Everything died in Zaun, but what survived was merciless - distorted and ferocious.
Sevika watches the king sit beside his ๐ฅ๐ข๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, listening to her asymmetrical, weak breathing.
"She will make it."
The king is silent, he ignores her.
""Jinx is a sturdy monkey; she will not abandon you."
"Strange choice of words." and roars the voice of the king, a caged predator.
Silco brings his clenched fists under his chin, gives her an annoyed look.
"The court murmurs, sire."
"It always has."
A chatty and disobedient offspring, that's what Jinx was.
A small evil monkey who dared to contradict him and escape between his fingers - who allowed herself to think she did not belong to him, by blood and by right.
โIt wasn't hard to find you."
Plotch.
โYou left a lot ofโฆ stuff behind you."
Plic, plic, plic.
Silco takes off his gloves, putting them in the inside pocket of his coat.
โJinx.โ
Splatch.
Silco raises an eyebrow, moving a mushy pink viscera with the tip of his shoe.
โDon't be a little girl."
Plaf.
Silco tilts his chin towards his chest, holding a half-chewed eyeball between his thumb and forefinger.
โI taught you better than that."
A pinkish eye stares at him from the darkness of the alley, studying him.
โThere is grace even in death."