ION (I Own Nothing)
Dick knew he wasn't strong enough.
He was hurt. His whole body was broken, but the world still fell around him, crashing and burning as the last sparks of life were hunted mercilessly by the abyss of night.
He struggled to his feet, every breath rocking him and causing his insides to curl and writhe. Dick leaned against the old and broken wall as he inched along, barely strong enough to put one foot in front of the last.
But he had to do this. It was the only way. The only way he'd be able to stop it. The only way he would be able to end this all, and make it stop. He knew he'd end up dead. He knew his chances were less than slim.
It didn't matter, though. In the grand scheme, it was his life for hers. His life for the world's. And that was okay. As long as they'd be okay, as long as he'd be able to salvage the last wreckage of this war-torn and blood-stained world, that was okay.
The smooth stone passed away from his bloodied and burned hands as he inched along, coming out on the other side to enter a chasm of a fight. Heroes, civilians, villains, dreamers, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, everyone and everything lay dead on the ground, the last of their life slowly washed away by the fiery rain descending upon the hot landscape.
The last who stood were fighting or running. Living, or dying while trying. But Dick knew. You could never outrun it. It would always catch you. Change you. Mold and break you.
He stumbled through the corpses and death, through the brambles and hot ashes, to the source. The whirling center of it all. He choked as the dry wind stole his breath, threatening to take what little he had left.
"Stop!" his throat was dry and cracked, and he could feel it wetting with blood as forced the word. No one heard him, but he couldn't stop. His life for hers, his life for the world's. "STOP! Take me! Take- take me... instead..." it weaned out by now, but it was enough.
He sighed in relief as pain washed over him. It had been painful before, but this was beyond agony. Beyond torture. Yet... it was so relieving. So calming to know it would all be over, soon. All be peaceful. All be calm, all be...
quiet.
Umm...?
I don't know. Just an AU I randomly thought up. You guys have no idea what's going on. I'm sorry. Tell me of you want more, reviews help, but eh... it's all good. Bye!
