The Mage's Knight in Cold Armor: Apprentice to The Betrayer

Third P.O.V
The Holton Home

"Ludwig!" Alyssana heaved in her demonic voice, getting back on her feet and quickly getting over the pain from Ludwig's kick. "You can still come back and be a father!"

Sure, Alyssana did want to kill Ludwig and end the Lich King's dark reign over his mind, yet she still had some love for the miserable soul that is Ludwig. Besides, she had a son that wanted his father home so instead of out right killing him, Alyssana has to somehow try and overpower the Death Knight and quickly put an end to this ridiculous quarrel they've gotten themselves into. Both the warglaive wielding mage and the delusional Death Knight begun to attack each other again and after yet another flurry of attacks and both fighters having cuts and small wounds upon their skin, Alyssana had put Ludwig into a lock where they were both face-to-face with each other and a little too close for each other's liking!

"Why would I want to come back after everything we've been through?!" the Death Knight fumed at Alyssana, spitting at her face.

"Because I'm willing to give you a chance, Luddy!" Alyssana blurted out in a mix of angry and sad tones, retaining her demonic voice. "A chance to redeem yourself completely and be a soldier for the Alliance and the Ebon Blade again! To be the Ludwig I fell in love with!"

"There's no redemption for me, Lyssa! The Ludwig you knew is gone forever! He's been gone for a very long time, even before you killed me!" Ludwig argued with the internally suffering mage. "Don't you-" he paused and thought for a moment about how he was fighting Alyssana. "N-no! H-how? How are you doing this?!"

Before Alyssana could respond, Ludwig's body began to twitch, causing him to scream in pain and Alyssana released Ludwig from the lock and watched him in horror as he was brought to his knees.

"R-run!" Ludwig struggled to say until with a snapping sound that sounded like a bone being broken, he went limp, still on his knees with his head drooped down.

Alyssana dropped to her knees too, her demonic form fading away back to her regular form that she first appeared in. Her warglaives faded away as well and she crawled over to Ludwig to look for any signs of life.

"Luddy?" she snivelled, her voice becoming normal and reaching out with her right hand to touch his face. It was cold to the touch! "Luddy, answer me! Wake up!"

She studied his facial features carefully, holding his face with both hands as she sat up on her knees and she traced her thumbs over the severe burn marks that she left on him when she burnt him in Fel Fire 5 years ago. Her bottom lip began to tremble in panic and she went to open his right eye and gulped, fearing that maybe the eerie glow would be gone and there would be just be an empty eye socket.

She lifted up the eyelid of Ludwig's right eye and she saw that his eye was normal like a human eye! She recognised the brown colour of his eye and began to remember how she fell in love with Ludwig in the first place a long time ago. It was his eyes that drew her to him and he was kind to her. But the one thing that always makes it worse is knowing that he betrayed her for the priority of the Cult of the Damned and for 5 years, up until she met Illidan, Alyssana always wished that things could've been different. Tears began to fall from her brown eyes as they turned pale and she leant her forehead on Ludwig's and her sobs emerged.

"If only you knew how many times I've replayed the moment we met, the moment our eyes locked onto one another." Alyssana began to lament to the lifeless body of Ludwig. "I've always wondered; If I had known you were a part of that ridiculous cult, maybe I could've talked you out of it? Maybe then, I wouldn't have agreed to be your beloved in the first place."

Her tears began to fall on Ludwig's facial burn marks and all Alyssana could do was cry and cry as she cradled his head in her arms. "I know it's against my own morals, but maybe if I used my magic back then, maybe you'd stay and never do such horrible things again! Maybe then I...I...no." she wept until she looked at his face again and shook her head slightly, retracting as much of her tears as she could and swallowed her sorrow.
"No. No matter what I want and no matter how much I want to change the past...I don't want to change and lose what I have now. After meeting Illidan, the memory of us meeting each other for the first time faded away and when I gave into Illidan's affections, the memories of us, Ludwig...that faded away, too. That's why I can never get back with you, not only because of what you had done in the past that's too much to tolerate, but it was also because I finally found the courage to set myself free of the pain I suffered from you."