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JJ shrugged as he walked past the boy. if he was cold, it did little to bother him. in fact, it probably made people leave him alone, which was exactly what he wanted most, so it was a good thing he was cold. he went into his room where hot food was waiting and changed into sleep clothing before eating. he went straight to bed once the tray had been cleared away, giving his body the rest it needed, even if his mind had no desire for it.

JJ woke an hour before sunrise, a habit he had retained since his childhood, and got himself put together. he shaved, for once, and checked the time. there was enough to get some work done before breakfast and he went to his lab, happy to have it to himself again. he worked until the maid knocked for him and then ate his breakfast. at eight, he went to the hallway, but the boy wasn't there. he frowned, but waited. at fave after, he knocked on the boy's door. no answer. his temper flared and he opened the door, ready to beat the boy for his tardiness, only to find him gone. he stood very, very, still for a long moment before shutting the door and going back towards his lab. it was better for him that the idiot was gone. he never wanted to train a snot nosed brat to begin with...he stopped out in the courtyard and sighed. however, the king would be displeased to find he'd run the boy off after a single day. he turned to the gates and questioned the guards.

they had let the boy out that night and his frown deepened, but he'd never given orders to keep him here. he searched for half an hour, talking to people and asking around. finally he came to a house he knew all too well. all this time his anger had just grown until he was to the point where he was no longer in control. he opened the door and found the boy in a bedroom, sleeping on some s**t of pad. he lifted his hand and the mattress with it, slamming it up again the wall, pancaking the boy between the pad and the wood. "Good morning," he said softly, his voice deadly calm.

"You are sorry?" JJ asked, in that same voice, his eyes snapping with with fury. "You are sorry?" he lifted the boy and slammed him back against the wall, face first, "sorry for running away in the dead of the night like a coward?" a twist of his fingers had the back of the boy's shirt ripping away. "sorry that you hide from me?" he extended his hand and a riding crop formed, "or sorry that you chose this place of all places to hide? did you see it in your vision, is that why you came here?" he used his full strength when he brought the crop down across the boy's back, satisfied with the angry red welt left behind. "it is no coincidence you came to this man's home after seeing those visions," he brought the crop down again and again, lacing the boy's back with red, "did you think it a joke? what that man did? did you think me too weak to return to this place?"

JJ froze, his crop held high, ready for another stroke. "you what?" he asked, his voice soft, unbelieving. "Lived-" his eyes widened as he released the magic holding the boy up, the crop vanishing. he'd heard the necromancer had a son, but hadn't been able to find the boy. not that he had searched hard, the child was young enough to not be tainted by his father's poison. he was willing to let him go rather than hunt him down and kill him as he'd been ordered. "you are his son," he shook his head and stepped back, "the gods have a sense of humor, that much is apparent. with you now as my apprentice you are safe. even the king will not fulfill his order to have you killed."

JJ looked down at the boy, he had been right. the child had no clue of his father's doings. "there is only one Sorcerer that can kill without punishment," he said softly, "and that is because he only acts upon the orders of the king himself." he knelt beside him and placed a hand over his back, healing the majority of the damage, but leaving a few to remind the boy to never try that again. "Your father was a Necromancer, the one from your vision. I killed him upon the orders of the kind because of his crimes against humanity."

JJ grabbed the boy's arm and stood, making him stand as well. "come, i will prove it to you." he let go and walked to the hidden set of stairs in the basement of the house. he had come here after killing the necromancer and searched for him lab to find the remains of the bodies he had taken. it had been easy for him, but he guessed that the stairs were well hiden from most people. he pushed the panel to open it and lead the way down, creating a ball of fire in his hand to light the way. once at the bottom of the steps he sent several balls floating to light the room. the only thing that had changed from when he left it was the amount of dust. the blood stains across the floors and on the tables were obvious. tanks filled with organs and human parts lined one wall and the tables had straps for the people he brought that needed to be alive at the beginning of the spells. "he was trying to bring your mother back to life," he said softly as he looked over the area. "this is where he worked. it is where he brought the maid's daughter and where i found her body after it had been apart for parts."

JJ stepped away from the door, "you have two feet, use them. take yourself from here, boy." he wasn't going to carry the boy away, if he wasn't strong enough to walk away on his own, he would never be able to put this past him. "you can do it, put one foot in front of the other. turn around and never look back."