*PLOT TWIST/ALTERNATE ENDING! so i got this awesome terrible idea for an alternate ending to all this, and I want the other one to be the ending i think, but if you want to know what i was considering to do instead, here ya go. This picks up during the chapter when Lief is about to go into the tunnel. I'll copy and paste some of what previously happened in italics...*
*dain pov*
"You're dying Lief, but I'm giving you a choice. I will pick you up and leave you outside this goddamn tunnel and you'll live if you promise to leave me and Jasmine alone forever, and if you don't make this swear to me right now, I will leave you here forever you to rot in here with your blood stained hands and guilt. Your choice. You are so much better than this and if you give up on hating me and don't start hating her you will be so much happier and this filter wouldn't be hurting you so much, would it? Let us go and I'll save you. I don't like you, but you're actually an okay king and just need to get over this, alright? Move on and tell Jasmine you're sorry or you'll never be able to live with yourself even if I let you out of here." I stared down at him, daring him to speak. Lief's eyes were crying, lips trembling and all he said was, "I...hate me. i hate me so much. Just leave me here."
"you know, I think that's the easy way out." i said, gripping his collar and clenching my teeth together. lief stared into my eyes and I knew he was telling the truth when he said, "I promise. I'll leave you...I'll leave you two alone. I can't believe the crap I've done-"
I slung him over my shoulder and ran out of the tunnel before he could finish apologizing. As soon as we left it, Lief took a deep gulp of air. it was like he had been drowning underwater and unable to come up for air. He panted on the grass, crying and then passing out. I had let him live. After he killed Glathon. After he beat Jasmine. After he came ready for my blood too. And even when he was there and vulnerable and I wouldn't even have to touch him to kill him, my stupid human heart grew weak and made me be the good guy. But i had more important things to do then gaze at the pitiful sight of unconscious Lief.
I took off into the tunnel, and Jasmine was limping over to me too, her arms reaching out. I reached her and picked her up, hugging her tiny body close to mine and swinging her around while she cried. So much crying going on and I hate it, but when i set her down she was smiling. She started kissing me all over my face in bloody little pecks, "You. Genius. You're. Alive. I'm . Alive. We. Survived." she said in between kissing me and I raised my eyebrows, "So I'm guessing you want to go back to Del?"
As I opened my mouth to speak, my vision swam. Was it raining all of a sudden? I looked at my hand, the image trembled and flashed before my eyes. What was going on? I stared at Jasmine and focused on her face, which now looked panicked. "Dain, what's wrong?" One minute she was there, and suddenly she looked like Lief. I gasped and fell back. She leaned over me, then she looked like Lief again, he had the belt flying towards me, then it was Jasmine trying to wrap her arms around me. "Jasmine, don't leave me, no, don't leave me Jasmine!" I begged, but with every word I realized that she was disappearing more quickly. I could feel rain on my neck, but forced myself not to see it. Is this what I've been doing the whole time? Forcing myself to see a beautiful lie? I focused on her, focused, focused on how her face would look, how she bent down to kiss me in fear even though at this point, she wouldn't have kissed me, she would've asked what was going on. But this is my world. And this is the end and I need to feel her kiss please just for a moment-
I snapped back to reality and felt the belt wind around me. It was a mix of the pain of a python squeezing you til your bones break, a hot metal bar being twisted securely around you, and the ache of being punched all around you. All this came over me Lief wrapped the belt around me. My knees melted into goo, and I slid to the rain slick castle ground. Watching my reflection in a puddle revealed how quickly I was melting away now into nothing. I would become nothing so soon. My hair dripped into my eyes, and then my eyes dripped down my chest and I tried to find that place again. That place i had built up and created the second I knew I would lose. That place where I could wake up from this, where my master could bring me back and I could choose to not serve him and feel Jasmine's kiss and befriend a gnome and become a human. That pitiful place that I should die for even considering. Me, human? There's nothing more disgusting.
Lief's hands reached into what used to be my spleen and pulled out the belt. He looked at me sobbing and relieved and conflicted. If only he knew that I wouldn't have killed him in that place I made. If only he knew that right now I'm blazing and dying with my master still overflowing my ol mind but if I could come back I would never think of my master again. That Jasmine could love me. That I could exist and he could exist and we all could be happy. But I can feel my heart melting now, the hand print and eye fading into white and then to red. This is what's real. This is the end. And there is no second chances for 'Dain' to become real.
so pretty much, it was all just a flash through his mind while he died because he was considering what would happen if he could change things. its the more depressing ending and harder to write and i wanted his journey to be real. both endings could make sense i think...and both could be completely ridiculous. comment with what ending you like better, im really curious : )
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING333 I MIGHT DO SOME DAIN/LIEF FICS MAYBE. FIRM MAYBE ; )