Something was lurking on the horizon.Death!. As I was saying before, we
knew they had to die...Valmont and Merteuil...of course, not the Valmont
and Merteuil we see before us...but the ones they'd left behind. And just
as we knew, so did the young boy, Sebastian Valmont. So, when his naive
adventuree asked the inevitable question he didn't know how to break it to
her. "Sebastian" she asked as their barriers of not speaking about the
subject had clearly been broken. "Uh huh" he naively replied unbeknowingly
the question. "Are our parents going to be die?". As she stopped he had
carried on. And as they were joint by the hand, their was a shudder as the
question and the hand join pulled him back to her. It took him a while to
answer "I think so". "I'm sorry...what I've done to your mum" she replied.
Sebastian scratched himself awkwardly and looked away, till he eventually
casually remarked "You did what you had to do!". "She nodded...she let me!"
Kathryn said. "I know!...it's just...she's my mum...and I think I might
have lost her!". Sebastian had broke into tears. Kathryn just went for
it...on the impulse...she comforted him. "It really sunk in when we were
five minutes down the road...that we should've stayed because...she was a
alive...and it might be the last time I see her". Kathryn begins to cry
again. "No! They'll let us see them!" Kathryn reassured him through her
sobs. "Do you want to see your father?" Sebastian asked. "I'm not sure...I
suppose so...if he doesn't die then I don't want to see him after...one
last good-bye!...that's all I ask!...maybe a chat about stuff!...How he
could do that!!!". Now Kathryn is in more tears so Sebastian comforts her.
They cry in each others arms. "I'm scared Sebastian...there's so much going
on and I can't deal with it all!...it scares me!". "It scares me too...but
we can be scared together!". They hugged and cried together again. They let
it all out - no boundaries. "I need you, Sebastian...no one else can
understand what I'm going through" she cried. "Are you going to tell your
family? Friends?". She Kathryn shuddered to a stop. She hadn't thought
about it!. How could she tell her mother?. She couldn't!! - it would break
her heart!. Her mother had spent the last 5 years of her 9 year life
protecting her from the truth about her father - if her mother found
out...she try and kill herself again!. It was decided in that quick second
- "I can't tell my mother!". And as for Eloise! - well ,she'd blame herself
too!. "No! I can't tell anyone!". "Not even your friends?" asked Sebastian.
And then Kathryn smiled. "I only need one friend to support me and he's
right here!". Kathryn takes his other hand and smiles. He smiles back
chuffed. But, then a thought washed his face pale!. "Oh my goodness,
Kathryn!...what happens when they came to rescue us?...they'll separate
us!...our parents will separate us!". "I can't bare for that to
happen!...No! We'll have to stay in contact!...visit each other
constantly!!!" she exclaimed. "Deal?" she asked. "Deal" he agreed. They
accompanied this with a handshake. "Come on!" Sebastian jumped to action
pulling Kathryn along with him. "We can still make it if we try...We may
still save them!". The pair ran. They ran and ran until they saw the next
town. They ran to the nearest place and they didn't have to say hardly a
word as everyone knew who they were!. They were stars!.
