Part 3:
At 4:51 Liz sat in her corner again, running her fingers through her hair. Still she was unable to cry, unable to shed even a single tear, though her very being was shattered. "Some pain is just too much to bear, I suppose" she thought inwardly…
Every moment she relived Kyle's words. Each sentence a dagger straight to her heart.
Yet still she couldn't feel.
A feeling that was as entirely fucked up as the situation presented to her yesterday.
"But, you can feel," came the voice again.
"How?" came Liz's honest question, completely forgetting the early morning hours of the cold metal against her warm skin.
"You need to feel, Liz, you can do it……..the same as last night. Just go to the bathroom. I'll take over"
The voice had never betrayed her, not like others, other, she corrected her grammar in her head.
So Liz stood up shakily, and headed for the bathroom.
2 and ½ minutes later she watched herself from the sink as she sat on the bathtub edge, running the edge of the blade over her left forearm, closing her eyes as she did. Relishing the pain. Tears came to her eyes as she smiled.
This was it.
This was feeling.
A minute later she had a towel wrapped around her arm and was shedding off her pants to get a better look at her wounds. She walked lightly around the room, wearing only her white t shirt and her bikini underwear. She paced back and forth, enjoying the feel of the pain of her leg, and the synchronous throbbing of her arm.
A knock at the door finally broke her morbid reverie as she went to answer it, still in a hazy fog, though she finally realized what she was wearing, and threw on a pair of shorts, completely forgetting about the obvious damage to her body.
"Who is it?" she asked wearily.
"It's me," Alex's voice came through the door, "please let me in."
Liz's face went slack, and she ran her fingers once more through her hair absently.
She opened the door and turned her back, walking towards her window, never noticing that there were two others with Alex.
"Liz……" Alex began, "you have to tell me what is wrong, so I can help you." He spoke slowly, hoping his words would take effect to her mind.
Liz turned around slowly, her leg and towel wrapped arm coming into view of the others………..
All three sucked in their breath at the sight of Liz bleeding openly, and just staring at them.
Liz's eyes widened as she saw Max.
"Oh my god." She shook as she backpedaled, opening up her window and attempting to climb out to the patio, unfortunately, she didn't' have the same dexterity due to her weakened state…….Instead she closed her eyes and slid down the wall to the floor. Willing the invisible state once again.
At 5:10 Liz parker was surrounded by three individuals who were each in their own respective states of shock.
"Why?"
"Oh My God"
"Liz, oh God, Liz"
ran through their minds.
Suddenly Liz opened her eyes.
"Get him out of here." She seethed towards the trio. Instead of leaving the three moved closer to Liz, enveloping her.
Maria sat next to Liz, holding her hand, trying to figure out what to say, as Alex took in the wounds on her leg. Her body unresponsive, he unrolled the towel from around her arm.
Max felt ill. Why would she do this? Why would anyone do this?
"Liz," he began, "Let me heal you."
"Please." He added…..
Liz shook her head. Remembering months back.
"you can't touch me."
Her thoughts ran through her mind for what seemed like an eternity, Flashing on the back of her eyelids in rapid succession. Max healing her. Max saying they couldn't be. Max trying to fix it.
"Fuck it." She said softly.
She looked all three in the eyes, uncaring of their shocked expressions.
"There's something I need to tell you. But it will destroy the world," a smile leaked to her lips. "Like we really care, Liz," came the voice"
"In October, Max came to me from 13 years in the future. He told me that us being together would cause the end of the world."
She started to laugh at that, then she began to cry, her body racked by sobs.
"Tess would leave, which would in turn make you powerless. So what did I do? What did self-sacrificing Liz do?" she asked them.
"I had to sell my soul for the lives of billions that's what. I had to do something so monumental that Max would think that I was the Evil. So the future version of Max and I concocted a plan."
She sobbed some more, Taking her fist and slamming it into her still bleeding thigh.
"I would pretend to sleep with Kyle, so Max would never love me again."
She sobbed harder.
"I, Liz Parker, president of the Science Club, honor roll student, single-handedly saved this whole fucking planet." She stated between her labored breathes.
"So all of you get the hell away from me, because none of you can know what I am dealing with."