Chapter 13
Eye of the Storm
~Max POV~
Everyone has left the meeting but Liz, and i used to think nothing of this but since this war has started our relationship has changed so much. I don't even really know who she is anymore.
"You need rest for tomorrow Liz"- I tell her... A part of me is saying this because it is true. The other part is simply because I am afraid at what she will say.
"Max we NEED to talk"-She says again
"Do you have a different plan for tomorrow?"- I ask her, I know I am playing a childish game at trying to avoid the subject. But I don't think I could handle it right now if she tells me somthing i don't want to hear or if we argue. I am just to weak right now..
"No... Max, look at me... I am looking at you and I DON'T know who you are anymore? And I don't think you know who I am anymore either. We've been avoiding this to long"- Liz tells me as she lays one hand on my arm.
She is making this difficult... I just can't do this!
"Lets not have this conversation now Liz"- I say backing away from her touch. I see a flicker of pain in her eyes but then it is sheilded over by determenation.
"Then when are we going to have this conversation Max? Tomorrow we are basicly going on a suicide mission for Michael! If we dont talk NOW then we may never have another CHANCE! Don't you get it Max?? I don't want to go into tomorrow, not knowing if you still LOVE me or not?"- She says as the tears that she has held in these past three months are let out.
She is just standing their alone crying. I walk up to her and wrap my arms around her in a hug. I whisper into her ear:
"I DO love you! I have never stopped loving you and never will!"
She looks up at me and through the tears I see something that I have not seen in a long time. Something that has left this group and that is hope. She looks like someone who has been reborn. And as I stand here in a hug with Liz, I realize that I know longer dread tomorrow either. I have also been renewed of all my strength.
~Kyle POV~
I am outside the base itself and am taking a walk before I go to my quarters. My mind reeling over the plan for tomorrow. I know that most of us will not make it. And with the strength of our will power recently it seems less likely that it will even succeed. I look up and see Rene a little ways ahead. Since this war has started I have asked her out at least five times but she always says she can't start a relationship now, with all this uncertanty everywhere.
"Hey"- I say from behind her, I know I startled her by the way she jumped slightly.
"Kyle, you scared me"- She tells me, even though I already knew it.
"What's on your mind?"- I ask trying to make conversation because I know the longer I can think of things to say, the more time I can have with her.
"Tomorrow"-Is all she said, and is all she needed to say
"Scary isn't?"- Duh? what am I? An idiot? Of couse it is scary
"Kyle, I don't want to die... I havn't even lived!"- She tells me, her eyes glistening with tears that she is holding back.
"You won't... because I won't let anything happen to you."- I tell her while saying this I step forward
She lays her head on my shoulder and whispers "Thanks"
I then lean in an kiss her, but the most surprising part of this was not that I kissed her it was that she kissed me back. And I know there is noway I am going to let her go.
~Maria POV~
I need Michael! I need him and where is he? He went and got himself kidnapped! How selfish is he! When I need him the most, he had to go and act like a hero. I swear I can't leave him alone for a second with out him getting himself into trouble. So that is why I have decided that tomorrow once we rescue him, he will never be rid of me. Even though at times all we do is fight and argue, he is still someone for me to fight and argue with.
"Michael, I swear you give me the biggest headaches...but God knows I love you"- I say to no one.
Why? Because I am in a room by myself, I have no one here to comfort me. Not my mom. not michael, not my (step) brother, and not my best friend. Just me and tonight I don't want to be alone. I have to find someone.
I leave my room and the first person I see is Isabel.
"Iz.... Hey!"- I call over to her
"Hey Maria"- She says as she wipes her face from the tears she once had on her.
"Are you ok?"- I ask her and she gives me a kind of harsh laugh
"You're asking me if I am ok? When I should be the one asking you that..."- Iz tells me. I was surprised by that, I don't really know why. I think it is because if their was one person who I knew least out of our original group it would have been Iz.
"I'm surprising not crying my eyes out, but I can't say I am great."- I tell her honestly
"Maria, do you think we'll make it tomorrow?"- She asks me and for the first time since I have known Iz her eyes looked like ones of a little girl who had lost her way. Not Iz's normal composed and mature look. She looked very vulnerable.
"Yea chica, I think we will be.... You wanna know why?"- I tell her... I don't know why but seeing Iz like that just gave me a new perspective... that it will be okay.
"Yea.. why"-She looks at me with confusion
"Because we got something that the other side dosen't... We have love. In the beginning we all knew that, all the way back to when we started running. And since that time we have forgotten. But here we are... all ready to die for another one of us. You see Kivar and Nicolas are missing that. All they have is hatred. And if anyone should know how love conquers all... it would be our group. We are a family. That is how I know, even though for a long time I had forgotten. Just like all of us did."- There I just finished my speech and you know what... it was damn good! I should do that more often.
"You know what Maria... you're right. I just hope everybody will realize that.. before its to late"- Iz says, and I look at her and I no longer see a little girl who is lost but the Iz who we all once knew and loved. Iz the christmas nazi, Iz the strong one. Not the loner.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Micheal POV~
Why haven't they killed me? Or tortured me for that reason? What are they planing to do to me? As the questions run through my head, I realize that wasn't the thing that was bothering me. Not the unanswered questions but instead I am scared for Maria and the others. What are they planning on doing? Because if I know them, which I do... they are planning on getting me out of here. But the only way I can see possible is inpossible. And I don't think they'd do a suicide mission for me. Like at one time I thought they would. It is in this way that I am glad we have dispatched as a group. I couldn't live with myself if they died for me.
Eye of the Storm
~Max POV~
Everyone has left the meeting but Liz, and i used to think nothing of this but since this war has started our relationship has changed so much. I don't even really know who she is anymore.
"You need rest for tomorrow Liz"- I tell her... A part of me is saying this because it is true. The other part is simply because I am afraid at what she will say.
"Max we NEED to talk"-She says again
"Do you have a different plan for tomorrow?"- I ask her, I know I am playing a childish game at trying to avoid the subject. But I don't think I could handle it right now if she tells me somthing i don't want to hear or if we argue. I am just to weak right now..
"No... Max, look at me... I am looking at you and I DON'T know who you are anymore? And I don't think you know who I am anymore either. We've been avoiding this to long"- Liz tells me as she lays one hand on my arm.
She is making this difficult... I just can't do this!
"Lets not have this conversation now Liz"- I say backing away from her touch. I see a flicker of pain in her eyes but then it is sheilded over by determenation.
"Then when are we going to have this conversation Max? Tomorrow we are basicly going on a suicide mission for Michael! If we dont talk NOW then we may never have another CHANCE! Don't you get it Max?? I don't want to go into tomorrow, not knowing if you still LOVE me or not?"- She says as the tears that she has held in these past three months are let out.
She is just standing their alone crying. I walk up to her and wrap my arms around her in a hug. I whisper into her ear:
"I DO love you! I have never stopped loving you and never will!"
She looks up at me and through the tears I see something that I have not seen in a long time. Something that has left this group and that is hope. She looks like someone who has been reborn. And as I stand here in a hug with Liz, I realize that I know longer dread tomorrow either. I have also been renewed of all my strength.
~Kyle POV~
I am outside the base itself and am taking a walk before I go to my quarters. My mind reeling over the plan for tomorrow. I know that most of us will not make it. And with the strength of our will power recently it seems less likely that it will even succeed. I look up and see Rene a little ways ahead. Since this war has started I have asked her out at least five times but she always says she can't start a relationship now, with all this uncertanty everywhere.
"Hey"- I say from behind her, I know I startled her by the way she jumped slightly.
"Kyle, you scared me"- She tells me, even though I already knew it.
"What's on your mind?"- I ask trying to make conversation because I know the longer I can think of things to say, the more time I can have with her.
"Tomorrow"-Is all she said, and is all she needed to say
"Scary isn't?"- Duh? what am I? An idiot? Of couse it is scary
"Kyle, I don't want to die... I havn't even lived!"- She tells me, her eyes glistening with tears that she is holding back.
"You won't... because I won't let anything happen to you."- I tell her while saying this I step forward
She lays her head on my shoulder and whispers "Thanks"
I then lean in an kiss her, but the most surprising part of this was not that I kissed her it was that she kissed me back. And I know there is noway I am going to let her go.
~Maria POV~
I need Michael! I need him and where is he? He went and got himself kidnapped! How selfish is he! When I need him the most, he had to go and act like a hero. I swear I can't leave him alone for a second with out him getting himself into trouble. So that is why I have decided that tomorrow once we rescue him, he will never be rid of me. Even though at times all we do is fight and argue, he is still someone for me to fight and argue with.
"Michael, I swear you give me the biggest headaches...but God knows I love you"- I say to no one.
Why? Because I am in a room by myself, I have no one here to comfort me. Not my mom. not michael, not my (step) brother, and not my best friend. Just me and tonight I don't want to be alone. I have to find someone.
I leave my room and the first person I see is Isabel.
"Iz.... Hey!"- I call over to her
"Hey Maria"- She says as she wipes her face from the tears she once had on her.
"Are you ok?"- I ask her and she gives me a kind of harsh laugh
"You're asking me if I am ok? When I should be the one asking you that..."- Iz tells me. I was surprised by that, I don't really know why. I think it is because if their was one person who I knew least out of our original group it would have been Iz.
"I'm surprising not crying my eyes out, but I can't say I am great."- I tell her honestly
"Maria, do you think we'll make it tomorrow?"- She asks me and for the first time since I have known Iz her eyes looked like ones of a little girl who had lost her way. Not Iz's normal composed and mature look. She looked very vulnerable.
"Yea chica, I think we will be.... You wanna know why?"- I tell her... I don't know why but seeing Iz like that just gave me a new perspective... that it will be okay.
"Yea.. why"-She looks at me with confusion
"Because we got something that the other side dosen't... We have love. In the beginning we all knew that, all the way back to when we started running. And since that time we have forgotten. But here we are... all ready to die for another one of us. You see Kivar and Nicolas are missing that. All they have is hatred. And if anyone should know how love conquers all... it would be our group. We are a family. That is how I know, even though for a long time I had forgotten. Just like all of us did."- There I just finished my speech and you know what... it was damn good! I should do that more often.
"You know what Maria... you're right. I just hope everybody will realize that.. before its to late"- Iz says, and I look at her and I no longer see a little girl who is lost but the Iz who we all once knew and loved. Iz the christmas nazi, Iz the strong one. Not the loner.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Micheal POV~
Why haven't they killed me? Or tortured me for that reason? What are they planing to do to me? As the questions run through my head, I realize that wasn't the thing that was bothering me. Not the unanswered questions but instead I am scared for Maria and the others. What are they planning on doing? Because if I know them, which I do... they are planning on getting me out of here. But the only way I can see possible is inpossible. And I don't think they'd do a suicide mission for me. Like at one time I thought they would. It is in this way that I am glad we have dispatched as a group. I couldn't live with myself if they died for me.