Drabble: Purpose

Disclaimer: The following drabble has content warnings for date rape. Never  explored fully but refered to.

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The first time Tobias discovered his brother was in proximity, Seiran had been caught in the crossfires. Daphne had been thankful about how calm he held himself when they got the photos of her. Quinn had drugged her, posed her, stripped her, cut on her, and worse. All to take a jab at his little brother.

Tobias had mostly kept his calm and focused on helping Seiran recover from the trauma and learn how to shoot. Daphne had however helped him fix the holes he had punched in his wall. There had been many and one broken support beam.

Not to speak of how many of Quinn's agents he'd hunted down after. She knew of three dead.

Daphne had a terrible dejavu when the next photo came. The same size. The same label. Toby. Dropped off by messenger.

The eeriness had come when she found Tobias with the photos spread on his desk. He had skipped two meals. His eyes were red. He had been crying. She thought they were the same photos. Then she realized therd were easily twice as many. Quinn had slightly longer hair. The almost identical girl to Seiran had a different hair style.

He was comparing the photos side by side, disturbing content aside.

"Tobias?" Daphne whispered to her brother.

"... These came today," Tobias pulled off his spectacles, "Its her. Its Wren."

She had expected rage. Instead he began to deliriously laugh. Louder and louder. Daphne blinked as he turned in his chair.

"Didn't think him doing that to her would be funny."

"Oh, it isn't, for that I'll see him dead if I have to have Jackson to do the deed so I don't have to become a kin killer, " Tobias exhaled, "Whats funny is he sent these to destroy me."

Daphne raised a brow. Jackson. Troy Jackson. Tobias almost resented him as much as his brother everytime the man had been reborn. Daphne found him a friend, but Troy's optimism grated her brother's pessimism.

"But?"

"I'd given up," Tobias spoke softly, circling his wrists, "Found everyone else. Your father. His apprentice. All of Camelot. Tessa and her family. Marie. Everyone else had turned up. I was sure that because of all the times I had found and lost her.  I had given up and resolved to waste away. I had lived long enough. I was ready to welcome Death and leave Quinn's destruction to another.".

"But now... " Tobias exhaled,  "The game is on. Wren Baelfire was reborn. I will destroy him. Find her. And protect her as I have failed to time and time again."