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Zev's jaw set, his mouth forming a thin line, as he looked through the window of Caleb's cell. The glass set into the cell door was small, barely six inches square, offering a narrow view into the room beyond. Its thickness, too, dampened sound.[break][break]

What Zev saw through the window surprised him. Bee's reports had been straightforward, updating Team Rocket's upper brass on Caleb's physical and mental condition. Apparently, though, they'd left out some particular details.[break][break]

From what Zev could see, Caleb was chained to an uncomfortable bed. One end of the chain attached to a thick collar around his neck.[break][break]

He was also completely naked, his body covered in bruises and small cuts.[break][break]

A wave of disgust rolled through Zev at the sight — but no pity, no concern. Here was his own flesh and blood, his brother, reduced to nothing. Another man's plaything. A failure. Zev almost couldn't believe that the man in the cell shared his last name.[break][break]

As far as he was concerned, Caleb no longer deserved it.[break][break]

Zev opened the cell door and stepped inside. At once, he noticed the Alakazam in the corner and the metal chair nearby, previously out of sight from the window.[break][break]

Wordlessly, Zev closed the door behind him. Then he walked over to the chair and sat, facing Caleb. After a moment of silent watching, he finally spoke, his voice thick with derision.[break][break]

"It didn't have to be this way, Caleb. But you defied me, and now look at you."

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From the moment he'd woken up in BARNABY FINCH's hellscape of a prison cell, he'd known that it was only a matter of time before Zev would show up.[break][break]
Therefore, it did not shock Caleb to see his brother, the older man's mouth turned down in a sneer and his blue eyes narrowed with contempt. Perhaps if the Ranger had been more alert - the bruises and cuts less fresh - he might have felt the apprehension befitting Zev's utter disregard for his own kin, but when Caleb heard the familiar voice, turning slowly as if his body were made of molasses to face its owner, his first thought was: finally. The beginning of the end of his suffering.[break][break]
"Zev," he croaked, his own voice hoarse from disuse. "Nice of you to pay me a visit."[break][break]
Perhaps he ought to have felt ashamed of his current condition, but he lacked the energy to feel anything save for that small spark of hope. As long as he let Zev gloat - allowed him to claim his victory and parade it around in front of Caleb - then they would be even, and there would be no more reason for Rocket to keep Caleb imprisoned like this. His brother would kick him while he was down then send him on his way.[break][break]
It was expected. It was how this was always supposed to go. It was what Caleb had realized would happen the second he'd heard that Zev had put his name back on the Rocket hit list.[break][break]
How wrong he would remember being, later.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Aug 15, 2023 15:34:01 GMT

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Caleb's quip only earned him a deeper scowl from Zev. Blue eyes narrowed as they focused on Caleb's face, looking for fear and finding none of it. In fact, his expression conveyed only relief.[break][break]

At that moment, Zev realized Caleb did not understand the true depths of his danger.[break][break]

"You're pathetic, Caleb, and a huge fool," the elder Harcourt said, his words dripping with venom.[break][break]

"And you always have been. Innocent little Caleb, trying to protect me from the kids at school. Blind little Caleb, trying to convince yourself I was just like the rest."[break][break]

Zev sat back in the chair, his arms draped over its arms, his legs spread wide to assert dominance. When he spoke again, his voice had hardened.[break][break]

"Why do you think you're here?"

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POSTED ON Aug 18, 2023 1:42:19 GMT

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Caleb had rolled completely over now, had shifted himself into an uncomfortable sitting position - awkward, due to the chains, but serviceable. He faced his brother with the full weight of his current exhaustion. Play his game, he reminded himself. Let him be right, like he always thinks he is. It's the last hurdle before release.[break][break]
Why Zev felt the need to mock Caleb's attempts to care for him growing up were lost on the Ranger, however. His mind was moving sluggishly, a half-step behind Zev's banter. The other man's tone was acidic as he made a throne of the simple metal chair.[break][break]
But Caleb did know that Zev was not like other people. That had become abundantly clear in Hoenn. Zev had chosen to believe Caleb brainwashed by the League rather than accept his younger brother's autonomy, his bravery. Zev had hunted him relentlessly, obsessively. That wasn't normal behavior; it was unhinged, the way Zev thought he had some measure of ownership over Caleb and his choices.[break][break]
"I'm here because I stabbed you," Caleb answered, weary. "I'm sorry." He met the pair of blue eyes across from him, the twins to his own. "I mean it, Zev. I regret hurting you. I should not have done it."[break][break]
If BARNABY FINCH had been there to continue assessing whether or not the Ranger was lying, he would find that, in that moment, Caleb meant it.[break][break]
It was a genuine apology, despite all of the equally genuine pain that had led him to do it in the first place.

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POSTED ON Aug 18, 2023 14:01:54 GMT

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Sitting up, Caleb looked even more pathetic. The chain kept him from arranging his body comfortably. Now that he faced Zev, the elder Harcourt noted more cuts and bruises on Caleb's torso and face.[break][break]

Zev did not look away from his brother's face. In it was a weary resignation, but also a sliver of resolve.[break][break]

The Rocket Beast's eyes narrowed. To him, a genuine apology meant nothing. It was merely a string of words uttered to placate him so that Caleb could scrape together some respite. Such an exchange had played out many times before, all the way back to their childhood years.[break][break]

But no more.[break][break]

"You shouldn't have, no, but you did. And you can't take it back. Not with words, and not here in this cell." With whatever Bee was doing to Caleb, Zev implied. "You crossed a line, Caleb. And I've thought long and hard about how I'm going to punish you."

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POSTED ON Aug 22, 2023 3:05:23 GMT

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"Punish me?" Caleb echoed. "As if I'm not currently being punished?"[break][break]
There was something off about the way Zev was looking at him. The disdain wasn't new, nor was the disgust as Zev's eyes racked over the cuts and bruises Barnaby had left during their last session. No, it was the way Zev didn't seem to be gloating. If anything, he struck Caleb as frustrated, as if Caleb were missing an obvious point he was trying to make.[break][break]
Gone was the brother who gave Caleb second chances precisely because they endeared the younger to the older. Gone was the sense that Zev could forgive, if it meant an obedient return to the hitman's definition of normalcy. It was as if a spell had been broken, and along with the acceptance of Caleb's defiant escape from Kanto - sans brainwashing - there came with it a reciprocal understanding: Zev, too, could change his ways.[break][break]
A cold, awful dread began to creep into Caleb's gut. He tried not to let it show on his face.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Aug 22, 2023 14:31:18 GMT

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Zev's eyes flickered briefly over the cuts, scrapes, and bruises scattered over his brother's body. They settled again on Caleb's face and the confusion nestled in its exhausted lines.[break][break]

"This has nothing to do with me," Zev said, pausing to let that truth sink deep into Caleb's bones. "I simply let him have you."[break][break]

Him being Bee, of course. Zev knew better than to reveal the names of any members of Team Rocket.[break][break]

Once again, the elder Harcourt looked around the cell: at the hard cot that served as a bed, at the lack of other furniture, at the cold walls and harsh lights. At the Alakazam in the corner, always watching.[break][break]

Zev finally turned his gaze back to his brother. Nothing existed in his cold, cruel eyes: no empathy, no sorrow, no pain. "No, I think your punishment should fit your crime."[break][break]

He leaned forward in the chair, resting his elbows on his knees, lacing his fingers together before him.[break][break]

"I'm leaving you here to rot. I don't care if he keeps torturing you until you wish for death, or if he kills you tomorrow. You betrayed us, Caleb. Our family."[break][break]

In one fluid motion, Zev stood, ready to leave. He towered over Caleb, a dark shadow against the ceiling lights.[break][break]

"You don't get to be my brother anymore."

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POSTED ON Aug 23, 2023 0:50:52 GMT

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I simply let him have you.[break][break]
The dread grew. Zev hadn't explicitly ordered this? But he put my name back on the hit list, he - [break][break]
Hunting a traitor was an open sport. Zev had merely created an opportunity, and BARNABY FINCH had seized it.[break][break]
What the fuck did Barnaby want with me, then? Caleb thought. Why him?[break][break]
They'd fought in the Ultra Deep Sea, and Caleb had nearly beat him; besides that, Barnaby had no real reason to care about Caleb - to wish to harm him like this, as if it were personal. Was he some kind of sadist who enjoyed doing this sort of thing to any Rocket prisoner? Or...[break][break]
He does remember, Caleb's brain demanded, convinced. He remembers something about us, just like I do, and it bothers him.[break][break]
Zev was speaking again. Caleb listened to the words with a helplessness akin to someone staring, fixated, on a particularly nasty murder, unable to tear their eyes away from the gruesome and devastating result of such a violent act.[break][break]
You don't get to be my brother anymore.[break][break]
Caleb froze, his breath catching in his throat, heart hammering against his chest.[break][break]
"Get to? But we are brothers, Zev," he insisted, the echo of the child that had looked up to a monster disguised by love. "We'll always be brothers. You can't take that from me, from us."[break][break]

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POSTED ON Aug 23, 2023 13:03:07 GMT

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"Brothers don't stab each other, Caleb," Zev snarled, a sudden fury gathered in his face as he glowered down at the chained man. "When you disappeared without a word, I followed your trail because we were family. We belonged together."[break][break]

Rage trembled Zev's arms, made the knuckles of his clenched fists bone-white.[break][break]

"But you refused and refused and refused me. And then you stabbed me when all I wanted was for us to go back to the way things were."[break][break]

But he did not strike Caleb, not like he had in the past. The younger man was used to physical violence; his body was riddled with evidence of it.[break][break]

No. What Caleb would suffer now was an emotional sundering.[break][break]

"So don't be a little fucking bitch when faced with the consequences of your actions. You did this to us. This is all your fault."[break][break]

Exhaling sharply through his nose, Zev took a step away from Caleb, turning toward the door. Turning his back on the man he used to call brother.[break][break]

"When you die alone in this place, the only person you'll have to blame is yourself."

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