Unspecified Part Three

'The pain is fading, but not in a good way.' Adriana grabbed his hand in her weakly. 'I don't wanna die Lucas. Help me.' She said as tears flowed down her cheeks. Lucas bit his lip as he cried with her as well before her hand went limp in his and it fell onto the bed cover.

'Adriana?' He asked as he cried before falling down onto her chest and lay there. His head was over her heart as he spoke to her lifeless body. 'I'm gonna miss you so much.' He lifted his head and started to stroke her wet hair. 'I may not have known you for too long, but I damn well know that I'm going to miss you a hell of a lot. We all are.' He looked up to the ceiling. 'God, you're not going to hear me so I may as well get this out in the open. I love you. I have done since I first saw you. And, trust me, it was nothing to do with your nakedness at the time. I barely even noticed that, I was looking into your eyes the whole time, and I know how corny this sounds but, I just needed you to know that. You had to know…that I love you.' Lucas licked his lip before leaning down and placing a soft kiss onto Adriana's lips. He started to pull back and was surprised to feel her breath on his lips.

'Adriana?' He leant down and put his cheek near her lips. He felt it again, a small breath. 'CPR.' He knelt up and started compressions on her chest before breathing deeply inot her mouth again. He moved back swiftly as she sat up with a deep breath and he helped her to lie back down again and stroked her hair again. 'Hey.' He said softly to her. 'Welcome back.'

'Thanks.' Lucas contemplated it for a moment before leaning down again and kissing her firmly on the lips. Adriana snaked her arm up around the back of his head and held it there as she kissed him back.

'You have no idea how long I've wanted you to do that.' She told him with a small giggle. He leant down again with a smile and placed another small kiss on her lips before drawing back and allowing her to get her bearings back and sit up into a cross-legged position. 'I know what I have to do.'

'How are we meant to find him if we have no idea what we're looking for?' Josie asked Corrine as they walked through the nearby town.

'I have no clue.' Corrine stopped and turned to face Josie. She looked to her left and saw a dark alleyway and looked to her right to see the busy main road through town.

'This is so frustrating! We are meant to be looking for this guy who we don't even know and it's the only way we know of to save Adriana from an imminent death. For all we know she could be dead already!' Jose ranted before Corrine halted her with her hand.

'Shush' She looked to her left into the alleyway. 'Do you hear that?' Josie and Corrine listened closely and they both heard a small groan. They looked at each other before running into the alley and stopped as they saw how beaten up Brett was.

'Oh my God.' Josie said as she held a hand up to her mouth and Corrine slowly approached him. 'I guess this means that Adriana is okay, then?'

'I guess so.' Corrine muttered as she stared in wonder at all of his wounds. 'How are you still alive?' she spoke to herself as she reached out a tentative hand to touch one of the bloody holes but was stopped when his hand gripped hers.

'Don't.' He got out after a pause. 'They could get infected, I've already come back once.'

'Once?' Josie asked from behind them.

'Lucas must have done something, CPR, I dunno.' Corrine told Josie as she sat next to Brett.

'What do we do now?' Josie asked as she too knelt beside Brett.

'We wait.' Corrine told her confidently.

'Wait? Why? Shouldn't we get an ambulance?'

'No, Adriana knows what she has to do. Z's known all along, too.'

'What?'

'She has to give up the one thing that has kept her alive for so long, and is killing her now.'

'Her powers.' Josie said in amazement as she processed the information she had just been given.

'You what?' Lucas asked shocked at what Adriana had just told him.

'I have to heal Brett and myself. Look, if Brett and me are connected, then I have to heal the two of us, not just him.'

'But, that'll take a lot of your powers.' Lucas tried to reason with her but she put her hand on his mouth and kissed his cheek tenderly.

'It'll take all of them.' She whispered into his ear and he pulled back harshly. He stared into her eyes and unspoken messages passed between the two fo them before he nodded to her silently.

'Do what you have to do.' He said to her as he moved off the bed and gave her space to work.

Adriana sat on the bed in a meditation position and started to breathe deeply. She closed her eyes and dark orange and red lights started to swirl around her as her obvious wounds started to heal in front of Lucas' eyes. The lights continued to blur around her well after her marks had gone and only scars were left. Suddenly, Adriana's head tilted back as far as it could go and all the colours imaginable appeared to rip themselves out of her chest and out through the roof and into the town.

She fell backwards, limp to the bedcovers and Lucas ran over to her, cradling her frame to his body. 'Adriana?' He stopped worrying, though, as she giggled.

'I'm free.' She smiled up at him giddily. 'I feel great!' She stood up quickly before falling back down with a hand to her head. 'Ow, head rush,' Lucas laughed as he picked her up and span her around before putting her back on the ground and kissing her passionately.

Corrine and Josie sat up as hundreds of different blurred lights entered Brett's body and illuminated all of his wounds as they healed over and left scars. The lights left Brett's convulsing body through his mouth and eyes before grouping together into a ball and disappearing into millions of particles that dissolved into sticky goo on the floor.

'What was that?' Brett asked as he slumped forward onto his hands. Josie and Corrine looked at each other smiling before answering in unison.

'Magic.'

Josie and Corrine walked into the science lab to see Vaughn, Marshall and Z sitting in there already.

'How's Brett?' Professor Z asked the two girls as Corrine sat next to Marshall and Josie sat as far away from Vaughn as she could.

'He's in the hospital.' Josie told him ignoring the confused looks Vaughn was sending her way. 'He was pretty beaten up despite Adriana's healing. Where is she, by the way?' She asked as they all looked around the room for the two missing members of the Science club.

'Er, guys?' Corrine called as she stood at the window. 'You may want to see this.' They all huddled to the window and looked out across the grounds to see Adriana and Lucas walking around the outside of the school hand in hand, briefly stopping for hugs and small kisses.

'I think I stand for everyone when I say,' Marshall stated to the group. 'Finally.' The members of the science club that were there laughed as they released all of the tension they had just been through and smiled as they saw two of their best friends becoming more than just friends.