A Hybrids Tale: Hollow Hearts

2, hurting

Hunter's pov

I saw her this morning, walking out of the bathroom in her towel and heading into the closet to get dressed as normal.

I watched intently as she moved around picking her outfit, getting dressed she walked out looking at me with the most beautiful smile on her face.

I tried to reach out for her, but I couldn't feel her, then she just vanished, like smoke she drifted away.

I had to see her again, grabbing my whisky from the bedside unit I was annoyed to find it empty, this was the key to being with my love again this glass bottle had been the only way I'd been able to see her.

I push myself up from the bed, staggering across the room stepping over the shards of glass from all the broken bottles, holding onto anything I could reach to steady myself. I reached the door swinging it back into the wall as I headed towards the stairs.

"Hunter" I heard my name being called behind me, it was my mother, I continued my descent down the stairs listening to her feet quicken behind me to catch me up.

"Hunter did you hear me?" she asked grabbing hold of my arm, keeping me steady until I reached the end of the staircase.

"What do you want mother?" I slurred, pulling my arm from her grasp.

I heard her sigh out loud "look at the state of you Hunter" she began once again, I sighed and rolled my eyes, I couldn't be bothered with this s**t today.

"Go annoy someone else mother, I just need a drink then I'll be out the way" I continued my journey to my office, swaying side to side I never recalled my office being so far down this hallway.

"That's it, I've had enough of this Hunter, when are you going to get a grip, just look at yourself, when was the last time you even showered" she screeched as I finally made it to my office door, fumbling with the handle I somehow lost my footing and fell through the door.

Regaining my balance slightly I managed to grip hold of one of the chairs at my desk, manoeuvring slowly around it I dropped myself down onto the seat.

It was then I noticed Dom and Evans both sat staring at me.

"Hunter nice to see you" I could hear the sarcasm in Dom's voice.

"Maybe you both can talk some sense into him" my mother looked towards Dom and then to me.

I quietly laughed to myself "pass me the whisky out the bottom drawer" I pointed to the drawer looking at Dom.

"Don't bother, there's none in there this house is now alcohol-free I've got rid of every trace until you pull yourself together" my mother answered from next to me.

"And how exactly do you want me to do that mother, what you expect me to just forget about her" I seethed.

"She left you Hunter it's about time you open your eyes and realise what's going on..." she fought back.

I stood picking the closest thing up I threw my chair across the room into the wall shattering it to pieces.

"she didn't leave" I shouted. "She didn't leave" I repeated to myself as I staggered out of the office back towards my room.

Ashley's pov

"We need to find Trinity fast or at least find some sort of clue regarding her whereabouts, Hunter is losing it, it's not going to be long before he's completely lucid," Dom explained while he takes off his shirt, laying in bed he wraps his arms around me pulling me closer to him.

"If only there was more we could do, I can't help but think we are missing something, I just can't put my finger on it." I don't know what it is but I get a gut feeling every time I speak to anyone about Trinity something is not right.

"I don't want to believe the whispers but I'm beginning to think maybe she doesn't want to be found" Dom croaked, rubbing his eyes.

"You can get that thought out of your head Mr! she wouldn't have just left, she was so happy that day" I may not know where she is but I know she wouldn't have left.

As we lay in each other's arms waiting for sleep to take us we started to hear banging, it became louder and louder.

"s**t, it's Hunter what's he doing now" Dom panicked getting out of bed and pulling on his trousers as quickly as he could.

we both got to Hunter's room in seconds, upon entering we couldn't believe our eyes at the state of it. broken bottles everywhere, the desk was broken that held all Trinitys beauty products, Hunter appeared carrying a pile of clothes placing them on the bed.

"Hunter what's going on?" Dom asked him worriedly.

"She didn't leave me" he whispered, it broke my heart to see him like this I felt hopeless.

"Hunter" Dom tried taking hold of his arm to slow him down but Hunter stood back holding up his hands in defeat.

"No, Dom you don't understand, look" he motioned to all the clothes and shoes laid out on the bed. "Every item of clothing I bought her is here, every pair of shoes she had is right here, she wore a long dress with 4inch heels the day she went missing, tell me if your planning on running away through the forest would you do it in a dress and heels, no, she would have changed or at least took some clothes.....I didn't do anything wrong, tell me if I did something wrong, she was happy wasn't she? she couldn't have just left...."

Hunter dropped on the bed thinking over everything, I could see in his face a thousand scenarios were playing over in his head.

I took a deep breath and walked forward taking a seat next to him slowly, taking hold of his hand I held it in my lap, he turned to me, I could see the tears brimming In his eyes he looked completely broken.

"She is my best friend, I miss her so much and I know you made her so happy, the smile on her face sparkled every time she spoke about you, she didn't leave Hunter" I wiped a tear from his cheek, as he nodded accepting what I'm saying.

"But while your in here doing this, she is out there somewhere and we don't know what she is going through, she needs us! she needs you! we have to bring her home before it's too late. now you need to pull yourself together for Trinity's sake, go get showered and I will start cleaning. It's time we got the old no-nonsense Hunter back, let's find her and bring her home" as I said the latter part I looked around the room knowing it was going to take me several hours.

"Thank you Ashley" he whispered.

”Don't thank me just bring my best friend back home" He nodded and got up slowly, walking into the bathroom leaving me and Dom to tackle the room.

"Well that's the most anyone's got through to him in a while.....you couldn't have given him that talk a couple of months ago," dom said in a low tone to avoid Hunter hearing.

"Dom he's hurting he just needs time, now go get me the broom and some bags this is going to take a while" looking around at the mess then back at Dom seeing he's not moving "what? you said you were gonna clean it, I'm tired please don't ask me too....." his child-like voice didn't faze me, the look on my face must have given away my current mood "fine I'll go get them two minutes" he stomped out the room, I couldn't help but smile at him he's so emotional when he's tired.