This has taken me absolutely 5ever. School and shiz, sorry! But I only need to tweek the last part, so... Epilogue, coming soon (hopefully).
Tara was slow to wake up, for her mind was fuzzy and ached from crying. As she sat up rubbing her eyes, she looked about the room she lay in.
An canopy of naranja mesh cascaded around the cama from the frame. When she pushed the curtain aside, she was introduced to a room schemed in melocotón walls, victorian styled furniture, and dim lighting emitting from the navidad light strewn across the walls.
Tara threw off the covers and looked down at her clothes, the same ones she had been wearing the día before, only now más rumpled. A picture on the bedside mesa, tabla caught her eye as she stood. The frame was decorated with hearts; the foto depicted three children- two about her age, both with red hair, the third a younger brunette, all finely dressed. The smaller boy sat between his siblings on a bench inside a gondola. Something about the elder boy and his pale blue eyes was familiar to Tara, but before she could place him, she heard low murmured voices from the hall just outside the bedroom.
With light, silent footsteps Tara made her as to the door and listened intently. The murmers sharpened to words. Two people were speaking, seemingly arguing.
"You can't do this," one of them stated. Tara immediately recognized Becca's voice and some of the tension left her, as the possibility of the situation being dangerous became very small.
"It isn't forever, just until he heals." A British accented voice tried to reason. He sounded closer than before.
"And how long will that take? Days? Weeks?"
"However long he needed." He sounded resigned, tired even. His tone lowered. "You didn't hear him, Becca. The screams were... Hellish."
"The she should make the decision." When the door swung open, Becca and Nic found Tara with her arms crossed, brown eyes hard as steel.
"Where are we? How did I get here?" she interrigated immediately. "Where's Alek?"
"I found tu in his room," Nic responded plainly, unfaized por the girl's threatening tension. "And brought tu here. Here being the apartment of Double Helix's beta."
Ruse. Jasper, Tara remembered. She hadn't missed The Nic had neglected her final and most important question.
"Where's Alek?" she asked again. The fire-caster remained silent. His Adam's manzana, apple bobbed as he cast his gaze toward the hallway so that Tara could only see a perfil of his taught features.
"Well if you're not going to be any help," Becca started. Before she elaborated, Nic nodded slightly, turned, and walked back down the hall. Any other time the girls would have wondered at the arrogant fire-caster's absent reluctance.
"Where-"
"At the DH HQ," Becca answered.
"I want to see him."
The sorceress moved past Tara and sat at the foot of the bed. Tara followed suit and looked at he friend expectantly. "What's wrong?"
"Nic wants tu to wait a bit before tu see Alek," Becca admitted.
"And tu agree with him?" Tara made no effort to mask the hurt in her voice.
"No, no!" she shook her head at the horror of the proposition. But then sighed and shrugged with uncertainty. "You aren't the least bit angry with him?"
Tara fumbled for her words, taken aback. "I-I am.. I don't-"
Her rambling was cut off when the door suddenly reopened. Nic stepped in halfway, a phone in his hands, eyes widened.
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Ivara's head snapped to the segundo occupied cot as the corazón rate monitor flat lined. Her vision flashed from not one, but two fading white auras of death. Her hands tremble. The blue rose pendant, which she had held so carefully in her palm, shattered on the ground.
Neither child even flinched at the crash. Bentley was at his girlfriend's side, his grey eyes glassy with incomprehension. Meanwhile, Emily's hands were a blur as she prepared heart-compressors.
Realizing the doctor could only handle a single patient at a time, Bentley took matters into his own hands por starting CPR.
Just then, four more people rushed in. Ruse, who must have alerted them, came in first. Immediately he was at Emily's side. Seeing were all the power was being concentrated, Nic rushed to his protégé's cot.
Last in was Tara, and another brunette Ivy recognized as the witch Becca. The latter tried to hold back her friend, but Tara broke free and raced to the boy who's corazón had stopped beating.
Orders were shouted, but Ivara heard none of them. What she did hear was Bentley counting under his breath to thirty, to a hiked whimper as Tara stopped beside Alek's bed, tears rolling down her cheeks. All she could see were those two whitening auras.
Jace was unsure of where he could help. He had interfered enough the last few days, every attempt to prove himself turned into disaster. He looked between the two chaotic scenes, then at Ivara, who stood so still the only hint she was alive was the tears forming in her eyes.
"Ivy?" Jace whispered. His attention was captured por her empty hand, still held out as if excepting something to be placed there. The boy looked to the ground and repeated, this time louder, "Ivy!"
He fell to his knees and reached for the pieces of the blur rose. It had broken into individual petals and know those petals were fading to a bleach white. Before Jace could grab one, they melted, like snow flakes.
He looked up to where Nic was pulling Bentley away from the still blonde girl, shouting that it was no use. Then his eyes averted to Alek's cot. The doctor was rubbing the compressors together and Becca had pulled Tara back away from him so she would not get hurt.
Jace looked back at the floor and whispered a simple, "I'm sorry." Just as Xian shouted, "Clear!"
In perfect unison, as if rehearsed a hundred times, two gasps of life emanated from either side of the room.
Tara was slow to wake up, for her mind was fuzzy and ached from crying. As she sat up rubbing her eyes, she looked about the room she lay in.
An canopy of naranja mesh cascaded around the cama from the frame. When she pushed the curtain aside, she was introduced to a room schemed in melocotón walls, victorian styled furniture, and dim lighting emitting from the navidad light strewn across the walls.
Tara threw off the covers and looked down at her clothes, the same ones she had been wearing the día before, only now más rumpled. A picture on the bedside mesa, tabla caught her eye as she stood. The frame was decorated with hearts; the foto depicted three children- two about her age, both with red hair, the third a younger brunette, all finely dressed. The smaller boy sat between his siblings on a bench inside a gondola. Something about the elder boy and his pale blue eyes was familiar to Tara, but before she could place him, she heard low murmured voices from the hall just outside the bedroom.
With light, silent footsteps Tara made her as to the door and listened intently. The murmers sharpened to words. Two people were speaking, seemingly arguing.
"You can't do this," one of them stated. Tara immediately recognized Becca's voice and some of the tension left her, as the possibility of the situation being dangerous became very small.
"It isn't forever, just until he heals." A British accented voice tried to reason. He sounded closer than before.
"And how long will that take? Days? Weeks?"
"However long he needed." He sounded resigned, tired even. His tone lowered. "You didn't hear him, Becca. The screams were... Hellish."
"The she should make the decision." When the door swung open, Becca and Nic found Tara with her arms crossed, brown eyes hard as steel.
"Where are we? How did I get here?" she interrigated immediately. "Where's Alek?"
"I found tu in his room," Nic responded plainly, unfaized por the girl's threatening tension. "And brought tu here. Here being the apartment of Double Helix's beta."
Ruse. Jasper, Tara remembered. She hadn't missed The Nic had neglected her final and most important question.
"Where's Alek?" she asked again. The fire-caster remained silent. His Adam's manzana, apple bobbed as he cast his gaze toward the hallway so that Tara could only see a perfil of his taught features.
"Well if you're not going to be any help," Becca started. Before she elaborated, Nic nodded slightly, turned, and walked back down the hall. Any other time the girls would have wondered at the arrogant fire-caster's absent reluctance.
"Where-"
"At the DH HQ," Becca answered.
"I want to see him."
The sorceress moved past Tara and sat at the foot of the bed. Tara followed suit and looked at he friend expectantly. "What's wrong?"
"Nic wants tu to wait a bit before tu see Alek," Becca admitted.
"And tu agree with him?" Tara made no effort to mask the hurt in her voice.
"No, no!" she shook her head at the horror of the proposition. But then sighed and shrugged with uncertainty. "You aren't the least bit angry with him?"
Tara fumbled for her words, taken aback. "I-I am.. I don't-"
Her rambling was cut off when the door suddenly reopened. Nic stepped in halfway, a phone in his hands, eyes widened.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ivara's head snapped to the segundo occupied cot as the corazón rate monitor flat lined. Her vision flashed from not one, but two fading white auras of death. Her hands tremble. The blue rose pendant, which she had held so carefully in her palm, shattered on the ground.
Neither child even flinched at the crash. Bentley was at his girlfriend's side, his grey eyes glassy with incomprehension. Meanwhile, Emily's hands were a blur as she prepared heart-compressors.
Realizing the doctor could only handle a single patient at a time, Bentley took matters into his own hands por starting CPR.
Just then, four more people rushed in. Ruse, who must have alerted them, came in first. Immediately he was at Emily's side. Seeing were all the power was being concentrated, Nic rushed to his protégé's cot.
Last in was Tara, and another brunette Ivy recognized as the witch Becca. The latter tried to hold back her friend, but Tara broke free and raced to the boy who's corazón had stopped beating.
Orders were shouted, but Ivara heard none of them. What she did hear was Bentley counting under his breath to thirty, to a hiked whimper as Tara stopped beside Alek's bed, tears rolling down her cheeks. All she could see were those two whitening auras.
Jace was unsure of where he could help. He had interfered enough the last few days, every attempt to prove himself turned into disaster. He looked between the two chaotic scenes, then at Ivara, who stood so still the only hint she was alive was the tears forming in her eyes.
"Ivy?" Jace whispered. His attention was captured por her empty hand, still held out as if excepting something to be placed there. The boy looked to the ground and repeated, this time louder, "Ivy!"
He fell to his knees and reached for the pieces of the blur rose. It had broken into individual petals and know those petals were fading to a bleach white. Before Jace could grab one, they melted, like snow flakes.
He looked up to where Nic was pulling Bentley away from the still blonde girl, shouting that it was no use. Then his eyes averted to Alek's cot. The doctor was rubbing the compressors together and Becca had pulled Tara back away from him so she would not get hurt.
Jace looked back at the floor and whispered a simple, "I'm sorry." Just as Xian shouted, "Clear!"
In perfect unison, as if rehearsed a hundred times, two gasps of life emanated from either side of the room.
1. Make a really stupid joke that a 5 año old might laugh at. Ex) knock-knock jokes, chicken crossing the road jokes.
2. Start actuación like a little kid with her.
3. Shooting colored paintballs with a gun.
4. Falling down on purpose
5. Being afraid of an animal she turns into
6. Copying her
7. Sing disney songs with her
8. Dance on the mesa, tabla with her
9. Randomly start yelling about things that don’t make any sense
10. Babies
11. Bratz muñecas (cause their feet are bigger than their heads)
12. Sponge Bob and Plankton canto the F.U.N song
13. Jello (cause when tu poke it, it wobbles like a hula girl)
14. GUMMY BEARS!!!!
15. Mel slapping people
16. Guys wearing Tuxedo T-shirts
17. Kittens
18. Guys striking out
19. Tom and Jerry (old not new)
20. Casper the Ghost
21. Smiling sun in cartoons
22. The word espárragos
23. Asking for frutas punch
24. Clowns
25. People saying they are going to kick another person’s butt
2. Start actuación like a little kid with her.
3. Shooting colored paintballs with a gun.
4. Falling down on purpose
5. Being afraid of an animal she turns into
6. Copying her
7. Sing disney songs with her
8. Dance on the mesa, tabla with her
9. Randomly start yelling about things that don’t make any sense
10. Babies
11. Bratz muñecas (cause their feet are bigger than their heads)
12. Sponge Bob and Plankton canto the F.U.N song
13. Jello (cause when tu poke it, it wobbles like a hula girl)
14. GUMMY BEARS!!!!
15. Mel slapping people
16. Guys wearing Tuxedo T-shirts
17. Kittens
18. Guys striking out
19. Tom and Jerry (old not new)
20. Casper the Ghost
21. Smiling sun in cartoons
22. The word espárragos
23. Asking for frutas punch
24. Clowns
25. People saying they are going to kick another person’s butt
EXTREME SPOILERS FOR DIVIDED WE FALL AHEAD!!!! IF tu HAVE NOT READ THE anterior BOOK, DO NOT READ THIS PREVIEW!!!
Scene 2:
"You are a good man." Barbara dicho once more, firmly.
"Thanks, Babs." Sam dicho softly, looking into the red-head's blue eyes. Barbara returned the gaze. Sam leaned adelante, hacia adelante and brushed a strand of hair put of her face. "You are one of the best people I have eve met in my life." Sam dicho softly. "I'm glad we're friends Barbara."
The red-haired girl smiled and leaned forward, pressing her lips slightly to Sam's. Sam reached one hand into her fiery hair and pulled her closer, deepening the kiss before breaking off and standing up. "We tried this before. It didn't work out."
"Yeah..." Barbara said, looking to the side. "Sorry."
"Me too." Sam said, slipping on his mask and jumping from the window.
Barbara took a deep breath and about a full sixty segundos before returning to her computer.
Scene 2:
"You are a good man." Barbara dicho once more, firmly.
"Thanks, Babs." Sam dicho softly, looking into the red-head's blue eyes. Barbara returned the gaze. Sam leaned adelante, hacia adelante and brushed a strand of hair put of her face. "You are one of the best people I have eve met in my life." Sam dicho softly. "I'm glad we're friends Barbara."
The red-haired girl smiled and leaned forward, pressing her lips slightly to Sam's. Sam reached one hand into her fiery hair and pulled her closer, deepening the kiss before breaking off and standing up. "We tried this before. It didn't work out."
"Yeah..." Barbara said, looking to the side. "Sorry."
"Me too." Sam said, slipping on his mask and jumping from the window.
Barbara took a deep breath and about a full sixty segundos before returning to her computer.