petrichor { zeke & parker }

Parker's excitement is written all over her face. An alarming sight, I'm sure, to anyone who didn't already know this was the only place she ever really felt alive. On a training mat staring her asshole of a brother in the eye, fists clenched and teeth gritted. It swells my chest with pride, hindered only slightly by my incessant need to be the best. She had been practicing, training just as hard as I had at her age, and If I'm not careful, one day I'll wake up and she'll surpass me.

That I simply cannot allow.

She smiles, almost playful in her circling of me, and it throws me off. That's not something one sees often on the face of Parker Lachlan, and she uses it as the perfect distraction. A sharp pain spreads out across my shin where her kick had landed, and I groan immediately with displeasure.

"Feeling cheeky today, are we?" I grinback, even let out a small laugh. If it were anyone else, after that hit, all I would see now is red. I'd go for the jugular and never look back. But this was just for fun, right? Lachlans never take things too far. "Do your worst, baby sis."

Smile wide and limbs loose, I fake a lunge left and then hook right to strike.

He should be ashamed, really. The fact that Parker of all people just blocked one of his punches. It was absolutely unacceptable, and he's kicking himself for having spent time training her personally. "I've created a monster," he says, but he says it with a smile to hide the fact that he isn't joking in the slightest.

This was supposed to be his place. His favored terrain. The main stage. The throne room. Where the great and undefeated Zeke Lachlan reigns supreme. If he wasn't the best, wasn't the King of the mat, then what was he even good for anymore?

"I just don't wanna hurt you," he lies, rubbing at the part of his wrist where he heard something snap faintly after her last blow. "But fuck it," he shrugs and shakes out his arms, biting down on his lip to distract from the pain of moving his left hand even an inch. "Let's go, P."