Shit. Only 4 chapters left. 4. Fucking four.

I remember when I was only 4 chapters into The Last Judgement. And now we're at the end of this story. Time flies when you're having fun, eh?

I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 35
The Rest of My Life / Let Him Go

Ashton got out onto the roof and went over to the ledge of it, looking over the desert and to the city you could only just see in the distance. He breathed deeply, shutting his eyes and rubbing his head as the sickness began to take over him again. He opened his eyes to find himself looking down at the top of the warehouse roof which made him feel even sicker, so he looked back up.

He couldn't help his sickness, he'd been like this for a while now. Trust me, if he could help his sickness he would.

But hey, you can't help or control the natural symptoms and side effects of being pregnant.

It'd be brilliant if he could, he'd have a better chance at hiding it.

Not that he wanted to hide it, he just didn't want to tell anybody yet. Not after what they've all just been through, he didn't want to add even more stress upon Luke. The only other person that knew apart from himself was Ross 'cause he caught him being sick twice and wouldn't stop questioning him on it. He kept insisting that he checked nothing serious was wrong with him with them all being outdoors for weeks on end and living in unsanitary conditions.

Ashton managed to get Ross to keep his mouth shut and not breathe a single word to anybody for the time being.

"Ashton?"

Ashton perked up and stood up straight at the sound of Luke's voice "Hey."

Luke stood next to him and seen he looked a bit delirious "Are you sure you're alright apart from just feeling sick?"

Ashton nodded "Yeah, I'm fine. Just er… Saving the world and building what you basically started is more tiring than you think," He said, making Luke laugh softly "honestly, I could sleep for a week right now."

Luke wrapped an arm round him "I know, me too. And you can after this."

"After what?" Ashton asked, a little confused "please don't tell me we missed something…" He said, becoming full of dread which was a little amusing for Luke.

Luke shook his head "No, nothing's wrong."

"Then what?"

Luke stared over Ashton with an admiring smile whilst Ashton stared at Luke wondering what he had to wait for. Seconds later, Luke leaned in and kissed him softly on the lips.

After a short while, they pulled away. Ashton sighed happily "You know, if that's all I had to wait for, I could have gotten that anytime I wished." He said, and Luke shrugged.

They stood barely an inch apart from one another and Luke looked at Ashton nervously yet happily "You know… This whole 'end of the world' thing… It's scared me a hell of a lot for more reasons than one. I just haven't shown it." Luke said.

Ashton nodded "Yeah, I know… Me too."

"For starters, I thought we were going to be fugitives on the run forever, then I thought we were all going to be trapped in 2037, then I almost lost you over a stupid situation, and then I almost lost you again as well as Brad… Honestly, I thought Rocky had actually killed me when he pushed me and I fell in the river."

"Me too, I almost pushed him in after you."

Luke let out a small laugh, wishing he could have seen that moment but he was too busy getting washed away by the current in the river and almost drowning. "After that I thought the world was doomed for good but hey… We found a way round it and I almost lost you again in the process… If I wasn't so determined and in love with you, that drain pipe you were holding onto would've broke and you would have fell to your death."

"And I'm glad of that." Ashton said, wrapping his arms around Luke's neck and giving him a gentle kiss on the lips.

Luke pulled away from the kiss "My point is… I love you, I love you a lot. A-and this whole thing has made me realise that I don't ever want to be away from you and that I want to spend the rest of my life with you no matter what – even though I'm going to have to be away from you more than I'm with you 'cause of you going back to Australia with Brad and me staying here," He said, making Ashton gradually smile "listen… I've been planning to ask you this for a while now… Even before this whole situation started – a little while after Rocky got trapped in 1995 for a few months. I just… I never knew when to ask or if there was a right moment."

"What?" Ashton asked, knowing where this was going. If there was one thing about Luke you had to know, it was that he wasn't very subtle.

"Do you think I should swap rooms with Ross so I can have a room to myself?"

Ashton's smile fell and he raised his brow, giving Luke an unamused look. "What?" Luke asked.

Ashton slapped him round the side of the head "Ask what you were really gonna ask!"

Luke yelped in pain "That was what I was gonna ask! Come on, I wouldn't be annoying Rocky anymore or be having him complain to me, Ross would have to put up with it instead – it'd be paradise."

"Luke!"

"Alright, sorry," Luke said, letting a small silence fall over them "will you marry me?"

"Well, no, I don't think I want to now. Not after that little stunt."

"I was joking!"

"Oh, joking? What else are you gonna joke about?"

"Oh, so you don't want to marry me?" Luke asked, as both his and Ashton's voices raised gradually.

"Never said that."

"Then do you? Yes or no? Are you going to marry me?"

"It depends. How much do you want to marry me?" Ashton asked, almost shouting by this point.

"More than anything in this god damn world!" Luke shouted.

"Alright, then yes, I'll marry you!"

"Then I'll marry you too!"

"FINE."

"FINE."

A short silence fell over them both as they looked at each other seriously but it broke when they started laughing. "I love you." Ashton said, walking over and hugging him.

"I love you too." Luke replied kissing him.

"Awe! Yay! Now can I be best man?" A familiar voice asked from the direction of the entrance to the roof.

Luke and Ashton looked to see Ross and Rocky stood there and by the looks of it, the question had come out of Ross' mouth. "Sorry Ross, but I already asked Rocky." Luke said.

"Can I be yours then?" Ross asked, looking at Ashton "or are you gonna make Brad yours?"

"Dude, he's their kid," Rocky said, before Ashton could respond "the child of the bride and groom – or in this case grooms – has to be the flower girl that drops petals as the bride or groom walks down the aisle or the ring bearer."

Ross smirked "Oh my, God, that means he's gonna be wearing a dress and dropping flowers or living in fear of losing the wedding rings – I can't wait to see this." He said, being highly amused by it and it hadn't even happened yet.

"We're not cruel enough to make him wear a dress, Ross." Ashton said.

"No I know but it'd be funny just to see the look on his face if you tell him for a laugh."

Luke sighed "Ross, he's not the same person he was three hours ago. He's not going to have the same response anymore."

Ross' face fell as he let that slip his mind "Oh, yeah… I forgot about that… I keep forgetting." He said, and Ashton stroked his back. In a way it was sweet that Ross wasn't seeing Brad in a different way or any different to how he used to be and the person he is just because of this one major accident that, yes, is going to be kinda life changing for him.

Rocky looked over at the other end of the roof, seeing how it was burnt "Someone must have put the fire out then."

"By the way, I thought I should mention this. This base has no leader or anybody in charge anymore. And even though the last time with Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey turned out bad, I'm still feeling like there should be someone just to keep kind of control otherwise hell's just going to break loose." Ashton said.

Rocky shrugged "I don't know. But we can go back inside and try to sort that mess out with everyone – you know? Try and find a couple of people who are willing to do it?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Man, things are going to be really weird around here now. Especially with Brad, Dan, Will, Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey gone – you know, faces that you're used to seeing pretty much every day, if not all the time… They're no longer gonna be there when you wake up or walk out of your bedroom door or bump into you in the hallway. Yeah, I know Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey weren't the best people in the world but it's still going to be weird not seeing them." Ross said.

"Yeah, I get what you mean. But everything's got to change and end at some point." Luke said.

"Yeah…"

"Anyway, let's get back inside and sort this whole boss situation out." Rocky said, walking away from the ledge of the roof.

The four boys all walked away from the ledge of the roof to make their way back inside the base, and Luke trailed behind a little bit.

And what happened next was as though it happened in slow motion.

During the process of them making their way back to the door, the boys had failed to notice a figure watching them from the far end of the roof, and once the boys started edging away from the ledge that figure made their way towards them discretely yet quickly. The boys had their backs to the figure so this made what the figure was about to do even easier.

Luke was the closest. It was their best shot.

The figure walked up behind Luke and grabbed him as tightly as they could, making Luke unable to move, which made him let out a scared gasp at the feel of someone grabbing him which caught the attention of the others and they turned round to see none other than Maxwell having hold of Luke.

What the hell?

Luke killed him, how was he still alive?

"Let him go." Rocky said, aiming his gun at Maxwell and pulling back the hammer.

Maxwell laughed at Rocky "You won't shoot me 'cause you'll hit your friend."

"I have a very good aim."

Maxwell backed away from the boys, still having hold of Luke, until he got to the ledge of the roof which sent the other three boys into panic as well as Luke himself.

"How are you still alive? Luke pushed you off the roof." Ashton said, confused and a little bit panicked.

"Mariah, Abasi, Isaac and Oakley knew it was going to happen – so they came to the future before this day happened and saved me from falling. They caught me and transported me safely to the bottom where I laid there for a while to make you both think I was dead. I guess you should have made sure I was dead instead of just looking, huh?"

At that moment Luke began to curse himself 'cause that was the one thing Lucy and Future!Michael had told him to do when he got sent to the future.

To make sure Maxwell was dead.

But he didn't and now his life was in jeopardy.

Maxwell glanced over the ledge of the roof, seeing how far down it was until you hit the ground and it was a pretty long way down. Not to mention that the warehouse was just underneath them too so if someone were to jump or "accidentally" fall, they'd have to smash through the warehouse roof before they hit the floor and died. Or at least become paralysed.

There was no way you would get out of a fall that big without dying or doing some serious, life changing damage to yourself.

And wouldn't it be an absolute pity of that were to happen to Luke?

"Let him go, I'm sure we can sort something out." Ross said, taking a small step forwards which only made Maxwell get closer to the ledge and it made Ross stop getting closer.

Ashton looked over at Luke who looked petrified, but he noticed that one of Luke's arms was free and it was discretely reaching into his pocket where he had a pocket knife. Ashton grinned to himself a little.

Maxwell had no idea what was coming.

"No way… You ruined my plans and killed my friends. Do you think I'm going to let you get away with that?" Maxwell questioned.

"We did it to protect everyone and save them. If you did what you, Priscilla and Harvey planned to do the whole world would have been doomed," Rocky said, and all he got was a disbelieving look off Maxwell "look, how about we make you a dea—"

"No," Ashton said, cutting him off and looking at Maxwell "do it," He said, making everyone confused but Luke "kill him."

"What..?" Maxwell asked, becoming confused himself.

Luke got closer to pulling the pocket knife out of his pocket. He had it in his grasp, he just needed to pick the right moment. "Well, if you were going to kill him, you would have done it by now so why aren't you?" Ashton questioned "are you too scared?"

"I'm not scared."

"Then do it."

Silence took over as nobody had a single clue as to what was happening anymore – until Luke pulled the knife out and stabbed Maxwell in his leg as hard as he could, making him scream in pain and let go of Luke.

Luke went to go run away from Maxwell but unfortunately for him Maxwell was too good at dealing with pain and had incredible reflex skills that he grabbed Luke again, pulling him back and punching him in the face.

Suddenly Luke's plan had begun to go south.

Luke hit Maxwell back and kicked him further towards the ledge in the attempt to kill Maxwell off for good, but Maxwell did his damn best to fight back and right now it was a 50/50 between Luke and Maxwell at who was going to win.

None of the other boys dared to interfere with this fight due to them both being so close to the edge of the roof where one of them could fall at any minute if they made one wrong move.

Luke took one last swipe at Maxwell but missed which gave Maxwell the opportunity to grab Luke's arm and twist it. Maxwell then grabbed Luke by the scruff of his shirt and hung him over the edge of the roof, looking back at Ross, Rocky and Ashton.

They were petrified and had no idea what to do next.

"Please let him go…" Ashton said, beginning to beg, realising how they had no plan or negotiation that would work to get Maxwell to let go of Luke.

Maxwell gave Ashton a mockful sympathetic look "Awe look at that, your little lovers beginning to panic now. I mean, just look at that fear," He said, looking at Luke who was breathing heavily and could no longer feel the upper part of his body on the roof which made him feel very uneasy "you know what fine… I'll let you – I'm being stupid. This is no way to create peace."

Maxwell went to bring Luke back onto the roof but instead he glanced back at the others with a big smirk plastered across his face.

"NOOOO!" Ashton shouted, running towards Maxwell to save Luke but it was too late.

Maxwell let go of Luke and he began to plunge to his death, making Ashton stop in his tracks.

Maxwell looked directly at Ashton with an evil grin, knowing what he was about to say wasn't possible and he would gladly watch Ashton fail at this:

"Catch him if you can."

Next: Catch Him If You Can

And after all this time it's finally Ashton's turn to save Luke instead of it being the other way round. Do you think he'll succeed?

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