"We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way."
Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

Maeve is sitting restlessly on that chair. She has stopped counting the hours after she was taken, knowing that being aware of them would only make everything even more hard to take. She knows now that Diane comes and goes, playing a game with her mind.

Her latest trick was showing her pictures. Pictures of her, walking around, even with her disguises on. But there is one picture that hurts her the most.

It is of her and Spencer kissing after their date on the restaurant. It hurts Maeve to know that Diane was there and that she knows all about them and watched their date.

She does not have time to answer her because she hears a knock on the door.

"I guess your prince charming came to your rescue, huh?" Diane said "This is going to be the best party you both could ever go to."

Diane goes to answer the door, but first she places a chair right in front of Maeve and takes the gun. There's some talking but it's too low for her to understand what is being said.

Spencer gets dragged inside and sits on the chair; he is obeying everything, but never taking his eyes off Maeve. He looks at her reassuringly, as if to say 'I will protect you'. She looks at him on the same way.

His words are soft as he speaks with Diane, being so calm and understanding with her, that Maeve almost doubts of why he is there. But then she notices his fingers and how they are tapping on the armchair.

It's a code for something, it takes Maeve a while to fully understand, but once she does, every little doubt that could ever fill her mind goes away. It's the Morse code and it says 'I LOVE YOU.'.

She wants to say it back -Oh how she wants to- but she can't. Not with Diane standing right in front of her.

"Can we make a deal?" Spencer asks all of the sudden and makes Diane turn at him. "Me for her, I'll take her place."

"Why?" Diane asks and Spencer swallows hard.

"Because I read your work. And it's brilliant." He says and Maeve starts to understand his plan. "And if you kill her, or me, then you'll go to jail or die."

"So?" Diane asks. "Why would I let her go?"

"If either of these things happens, then your brain will be wasted, think of all the great things you could do. That we could do." It disgusts Spencer to say those words, but he knows that with Diane Turner that is his only way. "If you kill Maeve, then she will not have to live with the fact that you are smarter then her."

"Then say it." Diane asks glaring at him, holding her gun tighter. "But say it to her face; say that you never loved her."

He doesn't want to, but he knows he has to. He only hopes that Maeve understands.

"I don't love you. Sorry." Spencer answers, obeying Diane and breaking his own heart in the process.

"I understand." Is all Maeve replies. He only hopes that she truly understands what he meant with these words.

"See, isn't it better when we're all true to each other." Diane muses, untying Maeve from her chair. Spencer sighs in relief, but he knows that this isn't over yet. "I only want you, Dr. Maeve Donovan, to see one thing before you leave."

Diane then, unties Spencer and makes him stand up; he doesn't know what to do now, especially as he doesn't even have time to process what could happen as Diane kisses him.

He is motionless, showing no emotion at all, he tries to hide his disgust of her but Diane notices and backs away.

"LIAR!" She shouts and before either Maeve or Spencer could do anything, she shots him.

Maeve tries to run, to check on Spencer, make sure that he is okay but she can't, she can only watch him falling to the ground as Diane hold her, with the gun on her throat.

She doesn't even try to hide her relief as Spencer stands up weakly. His shoulder is bleeding but Spencer shows no sign of pain.

It's the adrenaline and Maeve knows that once that adrenaline is gone he will have pain but right now she is glad that the bullet did not hit him in any place that could cause him a bigger damage.

Other people walk in now, with bulletproof vests and guns in their hands. Maeve wonders that there's a big possibility that this are his teammates -She knows he wouldn't come here all by himself. Spencer makes a stop signal with his hands, as if to tell them to not shoot.

"We have a deal, let her go." Spencer argues with Diane, who only pushes the gun at Maeve's neck harder.

"Well, you lied." Diane says.

"I did everything you asked." Spencer continues"The deal is still on, but if you pull that trigger then I won't help you. Me for her, let me take her place." He repeats.

"Don't do this Spencer." Maeve pleads, making him look her in the eye. She can see the fear in his eyes, she is scared too, but she knows that if he switches places with her, then that means that he will die.

Spencer doesn't reply her, just looks at her and then glares at Diane.

"Thomas Merton." Maeve says, looking softly at him. No other ´person in the room understand the meaning of this name. They can know who he is, but no one knows why this means the world to them. It these two words she says everything: I love you, I'm sorry.

When he replies, repeating those two words, she knows that he will love her forever no matter what. Just as much as she loves him.

"Who is he?" Diane screams at Maeve, fingers on the trigger, ready to pull.

"He is the one thing you can never take away from us." Maeve answers her boldly. She knows that's he's angered Diane, but she also knows that Diane herself knows she can't win. That's why she places the gun on her own head.

"Don't do this Diane, please." Spencer begs at her, but there's nothing that he can do now. Maeve knows that if she pulls the trigger then they'll both die. And that Spencer will watch it.

That's her only sorrow.

A gunshot noise blasts through the air and the last thing Maeve hears as she falls to the ground is Spencer screaming.


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