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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Beckett Oliver

I opened my eyes to a swarm of pain and an extremely dizzy head. As I looked around the room I noticed Tori lying under a blanket holding Robbie's hand as she looked out the open balcony of the lighthouse. I followed the direction of her eyes and found Andre stood waving and shouting out to the sea whilst Jade stood with her arms crossed behind him. I stood up slowly rubbing the large bruise on the back of my head. "So nice to see you're alive." I said my voice dripping with sarcasm.

Jade turned around and looked surprised before regaining her cool with a flirty smile that I recognized all too well. "You didn't need to knock me out to stop me you know." Jade pondered on what I had said for a second as Andre walked past us down the steps. "I did sweetheart. Because there's no way in Hell you were going to stop until you got the job done." I looked away from her truthful words and my eyes came to Robbie who smiled happily at the sound of my voice.

Jade walked past me and bumped her shoulder into mine. I turned around to look at her and she smiled more genuinely. "You want to go see you brother or not?" she said just as I paid attention to the aircraft that was landing on the beach by the lighthouse. Jade and I went down to where Andre stood holding Aniq and Connor and cheering. "You little rascals did it!" He said before shouting out in triumph.

As Jade and I approached Aniq ran over to me and I hugged him. "How'd we do bro?" Aniq asked to which I replied. "You did great kiddo. You did great." Connor beamed from the side of the military aircraft with Jade and Andre stood watching. They were waiting for me to lead them. I breathed for a second and closed my eyes. When I opened them again I found my little brother smiling at me.

"Here's what we're going to do. Andre and I are going to bring down Tori carefully while you guys wait here and prep the plane for emergency takeoff. We're going to move soon because the Zowls are going to come for us as soon as the sun sets." Connor nodded seriously but then Jade added something. "The traffickers are here too and they are looking for us dead or alive. I had to take the side streets to get to the lighthouse safely."

I gritted my teeth at the news of more danger heading our way but then Jade noticing; spoke up. "Connor here should have some binoculars in his fancy fighter plane. I could use that to watch them and tell you guys if they approached." Connor's eyes lit up and his boyish grin was set to full blast at the mention of his name. "I have not only one, but two pairs of binoculars. You can definitely have one!"

"Wow. You are resourceful!" Jade said sarcastically punching Connor on the arm playfully and he smiled at first but then mouthed 'Ow' to Andre who chuckled. Connor handed her a pair of binoculars and Jade set off to the truck testing out the binoculars. I watched her, confused why she would stand on the ground instead of on the lighthouse but then Andre patted me on the arm and we set off back up the lighthouse with Aniq. As we entered Tori looked up at us happy to see Aniq but his expression was not as welcome.

Aniq walked towards Tori who held on to his hand as he knelt down looking at her. "I'm glad you made it here safely, Aniq. I was worried." Tori said but Aniq's eyes were no longer focused on her beautiful brown eyes but on Robbie's empty ones which looked around, searching for Aniq's voice. "What happened to you and Tori, Rob? And where's Cat I haven't seen her." I helped Aniq up and looked at him. "It's not important right now. We'll tell you later."

Aniq shook his head tears coming out and looked at me pleadingly. "Beck. You need to tell me what's happened to Cat, Robbie and Tori. I deserve to know about the only family I have left. Please." I let go of Aniq who prepared for the worst but Andre spoke up before I could. "Cat was bitten and turned into a Zowl after she helped save Tori and Jade from the traffickers. Beck was the one to put her out of her misery. But after that Jade got that nasty cut on her face and Robbie was blinded in an explosion after some Zowls attacked."

Aniq stood still shocked but then he spoke up quietly. "So how do we want to do this?" he said pointing towards Tori who was laid on her back looking up at us worried. Andre walked forward holding the medical stretcher that he brought from the fighter plane. "Beck and I will take Tori just help us get her onto the stretcher and then help Robbie down the steps of the lighthouse." Together Andre, Aniq and I lifted Tori onto the stretcher and carried her down the steps carefully while Aniq helped Robbie behind us.

Within the next few minutes we got Tori and Robbie onto the plane safely but we're bombarded by questions from the naive Connor until Aniq took him to the side and explained to him what he had been told. After that Connor stayed quiet. Robbie was secured with a belt and next to him on the medical bed Tori was strapped in. Connor went out with his binoculars and came back running and panting a minute later. Aniq, Andre and I all looked at him, confused.

"Jade! She's gone to the traffickers. I just saw her drive the truck and leave." As I went to stop her Andre grabbed put his hand in front of my chest. "Don't. We have people here that need us. All we can do is pray she gets back safely." I looked at him angrily. Not angry at him but at the fact that Jade had stopped me from sacrificing myself just so she could do it. Andre let go of me but then Aniq started rubbing the place where Andre's hand had been on my chest.

"What are you doing?" Connor said as I looked on but Aniq made a shh sound to silence him. That's when I heard the rustling of paper in my breast pocket and I picked on the faint scent of Jade's favourite perfume something I smelt just now when she spoke to me in the lighthouse. I reached into the pocket and unfolded the crumpled paper and the faint smell enhanced a little. I breathed it in, always loving the smell of the lavender that dominated the aroma of her perfume. Andre and Aniq looked over my shoulder and I read aloud so that the names of those mentioned could hear.

Dear Beck, I'm sorry for not treating you right. I'm sorry for stopping you from something I felt I needed to do: to redeem myself. I'm sorry for what you were forced to do to Cat, I'm sorry for what's happened to poor Rob and I'm sorry to Tori Vega and every mean thing I ever said to her. Tell everyone that I love them and promise me you'll do you'll do the best to keep them safe. – Jade

Whilst reading the message we didn't notice the sunset and the faint scream of the Zowls approaching to enraptured in Jade's last goodbye.