Hello to anyone reading this. Right now I am going through a period of grief in my life and am dealing with a massive opioid dependency (pills, i dont touch needles). Writing this is how I am coping with this. Please don't judge me. Thank you for reading this.

Theme to this fiction is Get Up by Korn Ft. Skrillex

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Holding her back, it took every ounce of her siren's strength that she possesed to keep her from breaking away and rushing into the next room where she could hear the sobs of agony tumbling from the lips of her sister, Angel.

"LET ME GO LILITH! LET ME GO I NEED HER I HAVE TO BE BY HER!"

The purple haired Siren she held back was none other than their lost sister Artemis.

Maya was in the next room with the raven-haired girl, doing everything in her power to hold the fractured pieces of the the girl's mind together as her sobs ripped through the air. They has somehow managed to save the data stored in the broken NU-U station and with the help of all three of their strength had manifested a new form, a perfect unblemished replica of Angel's body.

"LILITH LET ME GO, DON't DO THIS I NEED HER." Artemis cried out as she strained hard against her sister's hold, trying as hard as she could to break free

"ARTEMIS! She needs to be healed, Maya is doing everything she can to hold her mind together, she's in too much pain to be conscious right now, for the love of God settle the fuck down!"

"No, please!" Artemis cried, finally giving up against her sisters' hold and falling to her knees, tears streaming down her face.

"You have too much energy flowing off of you, it will only hurt her more to be close to you until her mind is healed!" She tried to reason with the seemingly broken girl she now held limply by her wrists. Gently sitting down next to her sister, she took her in her arms and wrapped them around her, pressing her cheek against the purple tattoo-lined one of her sister. Picking her up bridal, she moved over to the couch at the other end of the room and lay back down against it, holding hte crying girl tightly against her body and nuzzling her, trying to offer any kind of comfort she could. She could feel the pain radiating from her mind, as sirens they were all connected

"Angel.." She sobbed weakly.

"It's going to be okay, im so sorry."

In the instant that the last Eridium pipe had been destroyed and Hansom Jack had seemingly won, knocking Lilith out, Artemis has substantiated into reality next to him, physically grasping his face and tearing his head away from his shoulders, killing him. From there the three sirens had worked tirelessly to collect enough energy with their minds to substantiate a perfect replica of Angel from the energy surrounding them. Artemis hadn't held back, pouring her life force so strongly into the pile of energy it had nearly killed her, only after every blemish and mark had completely sealed over and turned into white scars had she relented at a scream from Maya, and shut off the tap to the power that flowed from her, nearly killing herself in the process.

For almsot two years she had felt Angel in her heart, heard her in her mind, felt her emotions spill into her consciousness and it had so deeply impacted her that she had developed feelings for the girl so strong that they were indescribable.

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Lilith spent the night with her sister on the couch, they had fallen asleep tangled around each other, Artemis' face cradled in the crook of her neck. She woke the next day to the feeling of her sister gently tracing the scars on her throat that jack had left when he'd almost captured her.

"Hey... how do you feel?"

"I'm alright, I guess." Artemis responded, wrapping herself more firmly around her sister.

At that moment Maya walked into the room, a look of unabashed exhaustion on her face, tattoo's faded and skin pale. Without saying a word she made her way over to the floor next to the sofa and sat down, leaning back against it, resting her head on Artemis' hip. Her breath was deep and still came in short gasps, growing longer and less violent as she closed her eyes and without a sound fell into unconsciousness.

Six hours later the three of them woke once more, Maya explaining that she had done all she could, and in the end had had to resort to narcotics to stop the physical and emotional pain Angel was experiencing.

"I gave her 60 milligrams of morphine into her carotid, it seemed to dull her and she finally fell asleep about an hour later. She's... her mind was broken... she's healing but it's going to take time, and a lot of work."

And love

Lilith quietly thought, looking down at the purple haired girl in her arms, who was now quivering with pent up emotions. She finally let the sobs start to come back up Lilith felt hot tears rolling down her chest.

"So she's not in pain right now at least?" Artemis asked.

"I'd hope to God not, not many people can be after taking that much morphine to their bloodstream."

"Good.. just... thank you Maya." She sobbed, reaching over to run her fingers through the blue haired woman's locks. Maya smiled sadly, leaning back into her touch and closed her eyes once more. Shed taken a few drops of the clear liquid from the vial herself, the emotional torment of melding her mind with the broken girl in the next room had taken it's toll on her, too.

The three otherworldly sisters awoke a couple hours later to the sound of gentle sobs coming from the other side of the wall. Artemis was the first one to shift, but Lilith lay her hand over the purple haired girl as she made to get up.

"Don't let your emotions overwhelm you or you might do more harm than good." She said as gently as she could, not wanting to hurt the girl but at the same time refusing to be anything but honest. Artemis nodded, and got up, Maya following closely behind her.

The sight that greeted her as she stepped into the next room almost made her heart crack, pain flared up in her chest at the sight of the girl whom had shared her mind and emotions for so long as an only escape from the torment of the Eridium fire ripping through her veins, curled in the fetal position on the bed with her arms around her knees crying.

She rushed over to Angel's side and, careful to keep her mind in check, she laid down next to the girl and wrapped herself around her, tightly holding her and stroking her hair and spine.

"Angel... I'm sorry" She began, tears forming in her eyes and spilling over. At the feel of her touch and sound of her voice Angel slowly looked up at her.

"A-Artemis?" She asked, almost a bewildered look on her face

"Yeah it's me sweetheart." She gently crooned to the girl, then burying her head in her hair and continuing to stroke her spine

"H-hurts-" the bundle in her arms managed to get out before sobbing again.

Maya, whom had been respectfully looking onward from a few feet away slowly approached the bed and sat on it's side, putting a hand on a purple tattooed shoulder she softly said

"Artemis, the medication i cave her is wearing off, I need to give her another dose."

The purple head looked up at her and nodded, gently removing herself from the crying raven haired girl and collapsing down at the side of the bed, head buried in the mattress next to the one that felt like the other half of her soul.

Maya made her way to the table at the foot of the bed, pulled latex gloves on, grabbed a bottle of isopropyl alcohol, sterile cotton balls and packaged sterile hypodermic syringe. Then, grabbing the vial of intravenous liquid which simply said on it's side

*Morphine Sulfate for Intravenous Administration - 10mg/ml*

She made her way back to the side of the bed and sat down to the now quietly crying Artemis.

removing the syringe from it's packaging, careful not to touch the needs, she swabbed the flat rubber top of the vial with alcohol, then after waiting a moment for it to dry, turned it upside down and slowly inserted the needle into it, careful to keep it's tip far from the surface of the liquid. Dispensing 3 mils of the clear and deceptively potent liquid into the syringe, she removed it, set the bottle down on the bed and turned to the younger, black haired girl.

"Angel, im going to give you more medication, it will help you feel better. I need you to try to be as still as you can and give me your arm."

At this, the girl uncurled from her position, big, silver tear soaked pools looking up at Maya. She reached out to the older woman and turned her palm up. Maya gently clasped her hand and rubbed her thumb over the underside of her wrist. She notices the mottled ropey lines winding around the skin of her wrist from where her bindings in the Eridium machine had held her for God knows how long, obviously from straining at the restraints and slicing the skin open over and over again.

As carefully as she could, she held the girl's hand in her lap, wrapping a rubber cord around her forearm till the artery bulged out enough to be unmissable. Taking another sterile cotton and soaking it with alcohol. Swabbing it over the crook of her elbow she counted from one to ten, then waited a few moments for it to dry. Being as gentle as she knew how to she took the syringe in her right hand and held Angel's arm down in her lap with her left, she placed her palm so that her wrist was pressed against the girl's, and gently set the tip of the needle against her vein.

"Its going to feel like a sharp pinch for just a second, okay honey?"

She received a shaky nod in response.

Pushing gently and steadily, she inserted the tip of the needle into the girl's artery and gently pulled back on the plunger, seeing a small red mushroom of blood come up into the clear tube. Then, gently pushed down on the plunger until all but a hair's breadth of the liquid had passed into the girl's vein. Holding the syringe in place, she pressed a cotton gently against the juncture and pulled the needle out of her vein. Holding the cotton in place she reached over and undid the rubber tourniquet.

At this, Artemis looked up and into Angel's eyes, as the rubber band was removed from her arm she put her hand over Maya's and held the cotton against the crook of the youngest girl's elbow.

Watching her eyes intently, she saw Angel's body almost immediately relax after only a few moments, her pupils constricted and her breathing slowed to a gentle pace as her system was flooded with the nociceptin inhibitor.

Maya sighed, looking at the sight of the two of them staring into each other's eyes. She placed strip of tape in Artemis' other hand which was then placed over the cotton.

Angel was already fast asleep as Artemis slid onto the bed next to her, pulling her into her arms and pressing a kiss to her forehead. The two sirens slept for the rest of the day in each other's arms.