Order of Scorpions

by Ivy Asher

Scorpions always have each other’s back. Skull and Scorpius may not know it yet, but our watch begins now.

I have to sit here, still and silent as they try to destroy something too wild and beautiful for the savage world they live in.

“You’re my brother and I don’t want to hurt you, but she’s my mate. If you don’t move, I will fuck you up,” I warn.

“Letting her go is a mistake. She’s ours! She belongs with us!”

I don’t believe in signs, but I do believe that stupidity is a choice.

“I feel it here. I have since I saw you sitting in that bastard Bruin’s quarters covered in blood, looking as though you’d burn the world to the ground. I knew then that I’d happily light it all up right alongside you if that’s what you asked of me.”

it’s time to get back to the truth I do know about this world. I am the only one I can really count on, and I need to figure out who the fuck I am and what the fuck I want, and I need to do it soon.

This is fun, and the stars fucking know I could use more of that in my life.

Maybe all any of us can do is offer justice when we can. We can attempt to right the wrongs that fall into our path. Nothing more, nothing less.

I embrace the vulnerability of bearing my soul, because I know it’s safe with them, that it always will be no matter what.

We are the dealers of death that creep from the shadows. We are the owners of each other’s destinies. We are the Order of Scorpions, and our reign begins now.