"Oh thank goodness. I really didn't want to kill your boyfriend."
Alexel's face turned to a soft pink shade and she smiled softly at the idea. It would have been nice if that was the truth. A nice illusion to keep her from reality... but life wasn't an illusion and she knew what the truth was. "You don't know how much I wish it so...." she said quietly, almost inaudibly. Facing the ground and her weakened state didn't help it to be louder, either.
But, who knew? Sidaj was a witch, Jira was a vampire — they could have heard it. But she wouldn't have minded in the slightest.
"I have no emotion for anyone."
That was a lie. A complete, utter lie. Alexel grit her teeth and finally looked up, unable to believe what he had just said. After seeing their little 'family' and knowing the stories, it was so hard to believe that he held no emotion for anyone.
"That's a lie and you know it..." the fifteen-year-old said, looking straight at Jira with no fear in her eyes. She felt in her heart that what she was saying was the truth, and she wasn't going to go back on her beliefs. "You hold no emotion for anyone? Then why did you save Catherine, give her a home, and make her your student? Not only as a vampire, but as a blood melder. If you hadn't felt a little twinge of compassion in your apparently 'emotionless' heart then you would have left her on the streets to die, and you KNOW that's true!"
Tears of anger and sorrow mixed together began to fall from crimson eyes that actually looked like they were alive. "And I'm sure you would have gotten rid of Cordelia by now if you hated her as much as you seem to," she said. "And Nyuu, too. You saved her and allow her to live with us. If you had no heart, then why didn't you just leave her on the streets, too?! Not your problem, RIGHT?!"
She was upset. The exhaustion, anger, confusion... it was getting to her.
"And me..." she ended. "You saved my life THREE TIMES. If you don't call that having emotion, then I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL IT!"
She couldn't stand up anymore. Alexel's legs trembled and she fell, but she still looked at him, tears falling like acid from her eyes.
She watched as he began to go into the ground, and had one more thing to say. "Go on. You go into that ground just because you're bored. You have no emotion for anyone... yet you allow us to live... nice way to contradict yourself, Jira..."
She knew she might get hurt for that statement. But, to be quite frank, she was sick of not standing up for herself.