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Chapter Twelve: Always

The next day at school, Trinity refused to look at Neo and walked right past him in the hallway. Neo hardened his heart and walked past Persephone, ignoring her blatantly.

There has to be a way to get Persephone out of the way before she kills innocent people.

Neo wondered all day. Through all his classes, then the answer came to him.

After school was over, he walked over to her house.

Knocking on the door, he waited and then froze in shock when she answered the door herself. "Neo, so glad you could come," arching an eyebrow in false wonder. She held the door wide so he could enter.

"I've come to tell you something, so you'll never misunderstand again." Neo turned to look at her as he walked forward.

"Great, I can't wait," Persephone clapped her hands in glee.

Neo stopped directly in front of her, "I don't love you, I never will, so stop casting spells to make me fall in love with you, I love Trinity, I hate you. You're an evil deceitful bitch." Turning to look at her, he waited for her rage to consume her and it did.

Black veins emerged throughout her flesh visible to his eyes. "If I can't have you, then no one can."

Closing her eyes, she lifted her hands to the sky and screamed, a glass shattering cry of anger and rage that called to the hells.

Neo braced himself, a blinding light engulfed him, a supreme power invaded his body, he felt himself swell with power.

Persephone hit him with a lightning bolt that seared his flesh. Neo dropped back for a split second and then shot back with a lance of fire that scarred her marble perfection of a face.

"Nooooooooooooo," she screamed, lifting a hand to her cheek.

The door flew open, Trinity was clad in a scarlet dress, armed with a sword and dagger. She rushed at Persephone, but was cut dead by a lightning bolt that slammed into her body.

She fell to the ground, life bleeding out of her, a crimson flood flowed.

Neo looked at her as she bled to death. Closing his eyes, he embraced the feelings of rage and anger.

Summoning all his power into one force, he propelled from his hand like a fireball that enflamed Persephone. "Damn you to hell eternally, you bitch." Neo cursed her.

Persephone screamed and vanished in a blinding flash.

Neo knelt by Trinity, his hand covering her heart, his mind focused on all the happy memories of their life together. "I can't live without you Trin, I love you too much to let you go."

A sharp breath grabbed his attention and through his tears he could see her looking around at him.

"Neo, I love you." Cradling her in his arms, he carried her out of the wreckage that was Persephone's hell.

The End (for now)