The fate of ten was AMAZING! So here's my sequel to it, hope you enjoy it :D
Disclaimer: I do not own the Lorien legacies or any of its characters. Read on!
John
I remember something Henri once told me when I was small. The world is in your hands, but you cannot let this overwhelm you. As a hopeful youth, the war always seemed so small and far away to me, therefore, I did not think much of this phrase. But as I stand here, shaking and sobbing, barely able to control my broken consciousness, it seems so real.
Sarah is dead.
My heart feels like it has been ripped away from me, like everything I've done, every broken and vulnerable emotional wound Sarah had healed for me has been ripped apart, and is bleeding over my soul.
Sarah is dead.
"We have to go!" A voice calls. Sam. My eyes snap open, I hastily wipe away the tears flowing down my face. It feels like I've been sucked into another dimension. Words aren't processed, things aren't moving, time is frozen. I pull my arm away from Sam's weak grip. I swallow a lump that has formed in my throat.
I don't know what's happening. Before I know it, I'm sprinting away, turning invisible.
What are you doing? I ask myself. I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing, where I'm going. All I know is that I need her. I need Sarah. A sob escapes my lips. I drop to the floor, and close my eyes.
"John!" Sarah cries, giggling.
"What are you doing?" She says, smiling at me. Her smile is beautiful. I trip over BK's leash and fall head-first into the freezing mounds of snow. Sarah laughs again. I pull Sarah's leg, making her fall into the snow too. She shrieks.
A snow covered Bernie Kosar, jumps on both of us. I let out a laugh, then pull BK down to sit next to us.
I stare at the sky, a beautiful shade of blue, just like Sarah's eyes. Snowflakes fall from the sky, landing on Sarah and I.
The two of us lie there, listening to each other's heavy breathing.
"One day. One day I'll take you up there." I say to Sarah, motioning towards the sky.
"Where, silly?" Sarah asks, staring up at where I'm pointing.
"Lorie- I mean, I don't know. I'll take you somewhere where the freezing snow isn't making our fingers numb." I reply, I wanted to say Lorien. Sarah smiles.
"I would like that." She says. She leans over and kisses me.
No, I tell myself. I need to stop think about her, I plead. Please. Even in my mind, the single word sounds so broken, so effortless, so totally done, that I can't seem to force myself away from these painful visions.
"John! What's going on?" Sarah asks me. I can't force myself to meet her beautiful eyes, because i know what I'll see in them; hurt and betrayal.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." I replied, glancing uneasily out of the room where Sarah decided to develop her photos.
"Please," Sarah begged me. "these... these mogadorian men, they're here, aren't they?" Sarah said, her voice filled with bitterness and fear.
"Yes. We're going to have to fight."
"No!" I shout at myself, tears flowing down my face. Suddenly, the sky opens up, pouring rain onto the world. "Stop it! Stop it!" I shout, furious at myself for remembering these painful memories.
"Hey." Sarah says, hugging me from behind, then turning around to peck me on the cheek.
"Hey," I respond, a lop-sided grin spreading across my face.
"What do you want to do today?" Sarah asks.
"How about the zoo?" I reply.
"Sounds perfect," Sarah responds, her beautiful smile lighting up her face.
I pull up tufts of grass, then hurl them at the gray, cloudy, evening sky.
My lumen fires up, I set the grass around me on fire, just to watch it burn, just to see as much destruction done to the world, as the world has done to me. I hear heavy footfalls coming from behind me.
"JOHN! Please stop! You're going to hurt us!" Sam screams, trying to find a way around the ring of fire surrounding me.
"I can't! Sh-she's gone, Sam!" I yell. I let myself turn visible, fire burns around me.
"Listen! John, I'm sorry! But we need to go! You're going to burn this place down!" Sam yells.
"Sometimes I just want to close my eyes, and let the world deal with the mogadorians." I tell Sam, my words gentle and soft now. I don't scuff the flames out.
"John, no. Please, not right now! If you think that closing your eyes and letting go is going to make Sarah proud, is going to avenge her, you sit here, and you die. Stop hiding, face the world like a man!"
I blink. He's right. I extinguish the flames, and walk towards Sam, not meeting his eyes, ashamed of how cowardly I acted.
"I'm sorry about Sarah." Sam says quietly, not looking me in the eye.
"Yeah, me too." I reply bitterly. My sadness turning to hatred. I'm aware of Five, Nine, and Walker's goonies watching this scene play out.
"Lets just go." Sam says. Wiping a tear from his face.
"Okay." I reply quietly.
I ignite a small flame in my hand, and make a silent vow. I will burn every last mogadorian. I will watch the world burn.
XxxX
Ella
I pick up the phone from where Sarah has dropped it.
"H-hello?" I ask, into the phone. Static is the only reply.
"Ella? It's Sam. Is she actually...?" Sam doesn't have to finish his sentence, I know he's talking about Sarah.
"Y-yes." I manage to choke out. I wasn't even close to Sarah. I hardly even knew Sarah. But something about her death has ignited a flame inside of me, and it burns with rage.
Sam mumbles something about having to go. I hang up the phone and crawl over to Sarah. Hoping she'll pop awake at any moment and start complaining about how badly her head hurts.
My world is so broken, and I can't even imagine how John is probably feeling right now.
I grab Sarah's hand and clutch it to my chest.
"Please, Sarah." I cry. More tears flowing down my face. I grab Sarah's shoulders and shake her. "Please! I can't let this happen to John! Please, wake up!" I cry.
"Please." I say quietly, sobbing uncontrollably now. A pair of strong hands grab me from behind, and I can't control myself anymore.
"Shhh, Ella." The source of the hands tells me, smoothing my hair down. I turn around, and face Six, who also has tears in her eyes. But Six is being strong for me, and I have to be strong, too.
"Everything is going to be fine." Six tells me, sounding unsure. I hug her back. Nothing is "fine" right now. Lexa is crying softly to herself as she mans the ship's controls, Marina is unconscious, Sarah is gone, the garde are scattered, and Mark hasn't said a word in ten minutes.
"Everything will be okay."
XxxX
John
As soon as I take another painful step, another step without Sarah, my head fills with pain, extreme pain that I can't even describe.
I yell and clutch my head. Spots dance across my vision.
It feels like my head is being split in two.
My vision turns black as I fall into unconsciousness.
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