Hello again everyone! This is a shorter chapter, but it is the beginning of the climax of the first chapter of this story! Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 7 "Disaster"

I woke up at 5 am and put my clothes on, this was the last time I would sleep in this home. I climbed up into the treehouse, I will wait here until I can see Leslie coming. It'll be interesting to see if Jess still goes with Mrs. Edmonds or not. I decided after today I was going to return home and relax for a while. Mike was not here, but this trip was not a waste, I made some friends and learned something about myself. Sadly, one of them is most likely going to perish today.

I woke up with my head leaning on the wall, must've fallen asleep. Footsteps started coming from the other side of the forest, Leslie must've come earlier then I thought. What I saw next sent my blood pressure through the roof. "He" was beginning to try to mess with the rope. What he's done to me has made me so angry, I won't even refer to him by name.

"What are you doing here," I angrily yelled at him. "Let Mike go, or I'll kill like your ass like I should've earlier," I said while pulling out my sword.

"Language Jack, you know you can't say that and serve me," He snickers at me.

"Neither is trying to destroy someone's life for your own gain," I yelled at him.

I jumped after Mike, he woke up as I grabbed him. As I looked down, Leslie was lying in the river with blood streaming into the river. Mike nodded at me as I ran away to get her some help. Jess was running towards me when I got back to his house. I am already messing with someone's death date, what difference does it make if he knows the truth about who I am at this point

"Mr. Williams," Jess asked confused.

"Jess this is going to sound crazy, but it's your friend Jack. Get and say that Leslie is badly hurt and I am bringing her. I will explain the rest later, we need to get an ambulance out here now," I exclaimed at Jess. Jess obeyed and went running towards Leslie's house, Mike came walking behind me with a black eye. "The hell happened to you," I asked.

"Those 3 whipped my butt they were laughing about how they had fooled you into saving her. What are they talking about," Mike asked me.

"They know I changed history, they fooled me into thinking they were the ones that cut the rope. I'll have to give account for it later, but right now I'm going to try to save her life, I'm probably screwed either way so might as well," I laughed, but in reality, I was terrified of what was going to happen.

The ambulance pulled up and I placed Leslie on the gurney, her father and mother jumped into it with her as it sped off. Jess looked at me with a look of confusion, I am 9 years older then the me he's seen.

"Jack, how in the world did you grow into an adult in the matter of one day," Jess said looking at me confused

"Jess, I still appreciate our friendship, but I am not really a kid. I am the guardian of my world, and I was in your world to find my friend Mike. I knew Leslie was going to die today the day I got here, I'm not even going to get into how I knew that though. I tried to nudge you to not go with Ms. Edmonds, it looks like you didn't, but Leslie went to Terabithia earlier in the morning then I had thought. She was supposed to die Jess, bad people from my universe fooled me into thinking they were the one that got her killed, so I saved her. I wasn't supposed to do that, there's a good chance I traded my existence for Leslie," I said finishing my explanation.

"I must be dreaming, this is crazy," Jess said looking confused.

"It is, I understand Jess. You and Leslie are still my friends, If I die for her and you to be together. I can take pride in that, I am a guardian of people, it's my job. Do you know what hospital an ambulance would go to? I have a car, we can drive there," I asked Jess. Jess knew where the local place was, so me, Jess, and Mike got in the car and started driving to the emergency room. We walked in and asked to get to where Leslie was, they were very reluctant due to us having no relation to her. But I handed the receptionist a big stack of money, her tone changed very quick. Right this way Jack Burke, she smiled at me as I showed her my id.

Jess ran towards the Burkes as they stood in front of a room crying.

"Jess, she had a concussion and is in a coma. They say she has about a 50-50 chance of living," Bill Burke said as he hugged Jess. "Whatever happens, thank you for being such a wonderful friend to Leslie," Bill said while crying his eyes out. He walked up to me and hugged me as well, "You gave Leslie a chance to live, we are grateful to you Mr. Williams," Bill said still crying uncontrollably. "I have to go make a phone call, thank you both." He said as he walked away.

It's time to go I thought to myself. "Mike, ready to go home," I said while looking at him. Mike nodded, I turned my attention to Jess, "Jess it's time for me to go, were probably never going to see eachother again, so thank you for being an awesome friend," I said as I hugged him. "You and Leslie gave me a sense of childhood I never got to experience, on top of finally having two decent friends. Leslie will come back, as long as you believe she will," I said encouragingly to him. "Please don't ask me anymore questions about who I am or what's going to happen to me, that's for me to worry about. Y'all two live a good life, don't let my sacrifice be in vain,"

"I understand Jack, good luck. I hope things don't turn out that way for you, thank you for being an awesome friend. You really helped me through some hard times, I also couldn't imagine life without Leslie," Jess replied with a smile on his face.

"You're a good kid Jess, good luck getting your girl," I said laughing while I walked off with Mike.
"You've gotten yourself into some big trouble this time haven't you Jack," Mike asked.

"Let just say, I'll be writing my will when we get home," I said laughing the question off.

"You seem ok with dying," Mike observed.

"If I die saving people, then I did my job. I'll let you know a secret, I knew he was pulling something, I decided to save someone. It's probably going to cost me my life, but I decided last night that was ok. You should know I wouldn't fall for his stupid tricks." I held my sword out and opened the portal and me and Mike went home.

Jess POV

What a day this is, one of my friends is from another universe and is a guardian, the other is in the hospital with only a 50% chance to live. I should be more grateful, Jack coming here has given Leslie 50% chance instead of a 0% chance. Everything has happened so fast; my parents probably don't even know where I am at. Bill Burke walked back in looking like he finally quit crying.

"I called your parents Jess and explained what happened, they understand and are just glad you're ok. Mr. Williams told me as he was walking out he had to go ahead and move, so you can ride home with me. They gave Leslie stitches, she isn't going to need surgery, but the question is if she will wake up from the coma," Bill explained. "It's already the afternoon, let's go ahead and go home. You can ride back with me tomorrow to check on her," Bill offered.

''Thank you Bill for talking to my parents. As long as we can go after school I'll tag along" I replied trying to put a smile on my face. The car ride home was a quiet one, the image of my best friend walking up with the girl I love's blood all over him was printed in my mind.

When I got home, dad had already completed my chores. Mom tried to get me to eat something, but I was feeling it. I just went up to my room and sat down on the bed. I drew a picture of Jack then of Leslie and one of us 3 in Terabithia. After a while, I fell asleep.

My dad shook me awake "Jess, called, Leslie passed away tonight," my father said to me.