Concealed Love

Chapter- 33 Before his betrayal

                    A child born between a demon father and a human mother who had no love for each other, that was the origin or Jace.

His father killed his mother, right in front of his eyes as soon as he reached an age where he could take care of herself. His mother abhorred the demons as she was amongst the victims who were caught by the demons to give birth to their child and her own son was no exception from such hatred.

His father who considered his children only as tools and future armies never showed him any kind of love. As such the Jace, who was just six years old when his mother died in front of his eyes felt nothing for his mother neither his mother, he neither loved his mother nor hated his father. There may be some pity for the woman but it died before he could even notice it.

As he was brought up with an expectation to become a useful weapon, he indeed became one when he grew to be an adult. There were many who was brought up like him among his environment so he just accepted it as something normal.

He loved no one, he never met a person to love. He was always in conflict with whatever came his way, he was a beast who was never given love, and never in his live did he wanted it. He bore his fangs at whomever he was made to fight against or whomever pick a fight with him and he also got as much scars in return as he had given them.

The first time he showed willing loyalty was towards a man whose face nor story he knew nothing of.

He looked up to him as he was someone who had the power to make all the demons bow before him and control them according to his wish. He desired to become someone like him.

The first time he went into the human society was suffocating, he saw them as nothing but animals. And as he was taught, he saw them as animals who had taken the place that rightfully belonged to them.

His first mission was to kill a woman who had escaped their tent, it was a place where human women were kept.

He agreed without any feeling of opposition, the world to him was a survival of the fittest, not as sweet as the one where the weak meant the poor but the one were the weak is killed.

He searched for the runaway woman and killed her as soon as he found her. That was his first kill and weirdly for him it reminded him of the way his mother died, he flinched a little and went back feeling somewhat uncomfortable in his stomach.

The next time he was sent out for a similar job, he hesitated before going in for the kill and the woman escaped, she was hunted down by his other allies.

The leaders saw his reluctance to kill people and decided to put him in other mission. He was made to go and work for as a cop for a while and after getting their files successfully he went back.

They saw his skill in such works later on and put him in mission that required them to go underground and work among the humans in secret.

When they discovered that Al had been living in this generation as a normal human, they made him go and inspect his surroundings and approach him as a friend.

Jace quickly adapted to his new surroundings and acquaint himself with people who was close to Al and later with the person himself. He reported his every move to the organization while remaining close by his side.

He later got to know much more about the humans and began to somewhat acknowledge them. He realised that Al was a good man, not only him but the people around him were all kind and loved him. Jace for the first time felt empty in his heart, but it was small enough for him to ignore it and keep on with his mission.

Later on, he was made to research a person who was likely to be close to ' the princess'. 

He knew of Ella since the moment he started to realise the goals of his leaders, she was always mentioned and regarded as someone that was necessary for their plan. He saw her once when he went out for a mission, the women whom they called, ' the princess. '

He knew the name didn't mean that she was someone they respect, love and regards as their rightful princess but that was just a title they gave to the woman who was at the middle of their plan. He saw her as nothing special and just a woman who was trying her best to survive, a woman who was as demon as the blood that flowed in her. 

When he was assigned to monitor someone who was with the princess, the person who was the only one to whom she was close to, he thought it would be just another mission among his many ones but that was not really so, what he expected and what he met with was far from each other and completely in contrast. 

The person whom he saw at first was a girl who was as innocent as a child, at first he saw her as someone who was ignorant and unknown of the dark side of the world. But as he researched more on her he found out that wasn't the case at all. She had none of her parents, she herself was nearly a victim of the accident if she had not been luckily saved by the princess and brought up by her carefully. 

As he went on following her around from the shadows, he found her many sides, she suffered, she cried but it was always alone, however when she smiles and laughs it was always with others. Slowly he understood a bit of her character, she was indeed innocent but not without scars and flaws.

She seemed to calm the minds of those around her, she embraced her flaws and her scars and made sure she does not hurt someone the way she was hurt.

She seemed like a better version of himself, a person he could achieve to become. She made him reflect at his own life and think twice about his character. She was slowly spreading her lights on him and he was slowly willing for it to enter.

The first time he approached her was purely instinct without any hidden plots. She was holding a big box, that was much too heavy for her and when she tried to put it down to rest she nearly stumbled, he rushed out of the shadows and helped her regain her stability.

After that he quickly vanished, the next time was when she came to their company, she had recognised the face of her helper and came to helper and incidentally their friends knew each other so they got closer.

His superiors found out about it but instead of giving him warnings they encouraged him to get closer to her and also eventually to Ella. It was the first time he ever wanted to oppose an order given to him but he went along with it.

His actions and behaviours towards her was never an act, along with his feelings which he used to deceive her as well as himself in the process. Telling himself it was just to approach her, he used the opportunity to love her.

He carried on his life mingling with the people who was his targets, he followed Jonathan when he was on his way to deliver a card to Ella, he was informing Al's schedule when they targetted and attacked him. But even so, he was never satisfies with his accomplishment.

For the first time in his life, he wanted to be among them truthfully. He wished to be with them sincerely but looking back at his past he knew he was not fitted for his wish.

When he was finally asked to pull out and betray them right at their faces, his resolve wavered, he didn't want them to hate him, he didn't want her to hate him. He wanted to retain at least a small bit of her affection, he said his goodbye to her and before that for the first time in his life, he sincerely showed his love and told the first love of his life that he loved her, at that moment he admitted to himself that he really did love her.

He went to Ella, betting his life on her, he went back to his people, his superiors and bowed before them, he himself considered his acts as a disgrace to his previous believes but he did not regret the choice he had made.

He was ready for any consequences that was coming his way, he looked up at the man he had always admire, the person he had sworn loyalty to and before the other had said or accused him of his faults and his betrayal he said to him, " I, Bane, your subject, have betrayed you my Lord. "

The name which he almost never used or was never called to as, the name that really belonged to him before he turned into Jace was the name given to him by his mother who cursed him with his name was Bane.