The bonging of church bells rang loudly in her ear. She could also hear the birds fly past what she guessed was the window. She groaned a little before blinking and opening her eyes then try to sit up. She let out a loud shout when the piercing pain came in at her side. Her memory had temporary left her for the moment as she pulled her shirt up to look at the source of the pain.
As soon as she saw the giant gash in her stomach she remembered everything. She remembered piercing Ana with the cross, remembered reaching over for Mara, and remembered dieing. But how was she alive now? She knew something happened, she remembered very vaguely that she saw something, someone, a few people actually, they all helped her but she just couldn't put it into a picture in her mind. And if her stomach wasn't stinging so bad she was sure she would have stayed put until she figured it all out. 'God Mara please be alive, please!' She cried to herself. Again she attempted to sit up and with a bunch of screams from the pain she had managed to.
She suddenly heard a small tinking noise as well as something rolling towards her. She looked to her left and saw a balding man, next to him was Mara's pain killers, the ones she had hid from the Head Mistress. She felt a small pinch of joy go through her as she tried to reach for the small bottle but found it too painful. She had to use what little energy she had left to make it come to her.
When the pain just barely began to numb she made her way to the open door of the church. The sun glared in her face and she blocked it with her hand. Where was she supposed to go? She didn't even know if Mara was still alive, she didn't know anything right now besides the fact that most likely all of her friends were dead all because of some greedy head mistress who just couldn't live without her sister.
She stumbled completely out of the church and looked around hoping to see Mara, anywhere outside. She didn't care where, she just really needed to see her. "Mara?" She called out. The pain in her side hadn't subsided completely and she needed some support from something before falling over. "Mara!" She called again tumbling over to the red truck in front of the church. "Mara PLEASE!" she cried out again tears spilling down her face. She heard a car roar to life somewhere near her and she frantically looked around. "M-Mara? Mara!" She continued to call out. She quickly limped her way to the corner of the sidewalk now feeling the meds kicking in. She saw a silver truck just pulling out of a parking lot to her right. "Mara!" She screamed but it came out too scratchy and practically inaudible. Her breathing got heavy and she looked down at the small pebbles on the ground beneath her and with her mind picked them up and threw them at the silver car. She could hear Mara's loud curse as she slammed on the brakes to look for the little pranksters that were throwing things.
"Alright you little fuc-" her words ran short as she saw an eyeliner smeared, blue eyed goddess. Alex watched as Mara's face stiffened and her chest heaved, and fresh new tears fall down her face. "A-" she couldn't get the name out. Even Alex could barely say Mara's name but she sure as heck could smile and stand around like an idiot just staring at the girl she had clearly fallen for.
An almost hysterical laugh came from Alex then and she began to sprint towards Mara, ignoring the pain in her side. She watched as Mara slowly walked towards her as well her eyebrows furrowed in what looked like a cross of confusion, joy, and agony.
The two met with a grunt from Alex and another sob from Mara. There arms wrapped around each other tightly as more, joyous, sobs came from Mara. "Oh God, thank God." Mara cried while Alex just shut her eyes tight and took a deep breath in. Mara pulled away slightly. Just enough so that one arm was still wrapped around Alex's neck and the other was under her shirt trying one last time to heal the hole in the blonds' skin. She pressed her hand firmly against Alex's skin and concentrated as best as she could on the gash. "Heal, please, please, please, please heal." She whispered mostly to herself. Under her hand she could feel the erratic breathing from Alex. "HEAL DAMMIT!" She shouted.