here it is. The cure to all the confusion. Hope it should suffice.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own POTO. wish I did thoug. Really really did. I hearda rumour on the internet though that AWL is out to steal my songs. YOUR ASS IS MINE WEBBER! no just kidding ha. never believe what you here on the internet.
CHRIS' POV
Looking around I saw that we were still in Covington Park but on the other side of the bank, and Adry was no longer with us.
"You look… amazing Chrissy. I just can explain it." Dare whispered in my ear. I couldn't hold back anymore. I stopped turned him around and hugged him as hard as I could.
"Oh God Dare I missed you so much." I said.
He squeezed my waist tightly and said, "I missed you to Chrissy."
We just held each other there tightly, I was afraid to let go for fear he would disappear and he didn't want to let go knowing it was the last time.
"We have a lot to talk about you and I. Erik knows everything so he'll be fine. Adry wants to talk to him though, she… has some catching up to do on her own." I was still a little confused as to what was going on but felt it would all be explained on due time. Until then I just wanted to catch up with Darienne.
"What's going on? Adrienne said that you and Erik were one in the same person, but how can that be?"
He let go of the embrace and held my hand giving it a tight squeeze.
"Come on. Take a seat." He said sitting down on the grass and pointing for me to do the same. I did, resting my head on his shoulder and breathing in that familiar scent of Lever 200 soap.
"Well you see-
ERIK'S POV
I looked up noticing another figure coming across the water towards me. When I looked a second time I noticed she looked like my mother, but much younger, at least what I could remember her looking like.
"Hello Erik. Its good to see you again. I guess I have a lot of explaining to do don't I." Said the young girl taking a seat next to me.
CHRIS' POV
"The reason I look like Erik, as you already know, is because I am Erik. After I died… well I was given a second chance at life. A second chance to atone for all of the wrong, and to lead a happier existence than the one I had lead before. But I wasn't the other one born into a new existence. My mother was too, so that she could have a second chance with me as well."
"Adrienne." I breathed out already knowing who.
"Yep."
ERIK'S POV
"Mother." I breathed out as the girl came closer.
I noticed it was the same girl who had went to talk with Christina, and the same one Darienne had said had been reborn as his twin.
She had long raven black hair that was iron board staight, her eyes though were more blue than the sea after a storm, and her skin was a plae white. I saw now where I had gotten my complexion from, but she was smaler than me by 6 inches or so.
"Yeah. Oh God Erik I am so sorry about everything. I never gave you a chance. I just… I was so scared. If anything I was acting selfishly, but Dare… he showed me how wrong I was. He showed me the person I missed raising. But looking at you now, you turned out for the best. Christina needs someone like you now that Darienne is gone. Of course you already know why all that happened now don't you?"
I shook my head and got up to hug the young lady. I knew why things had turned out this way and I felt that no matter how much I hated my mother, this was her in a new life and she had indeed changed.
CHRIS' POV
"Why is all of this happening? I don't understand." I said. I really was confused and felt that the world was closing in around me.
"It's happening because in all the world you were the only one who could love me. Reincarnation can change the way you appear to the world, but it cant change who you are at heart. I didn't want to be loved because I was handsome and musically talented. Maybe I used to, but not anymore. I wanted to be loved because I was me. No girl could love me for who I was. I already knew I was going to die. I wasn't meant to live that long. Just long enough for a second chance, including Adrienne. But most of all, long enough to give you what you deserved."
My eyes widened at this prospect.
"Yes Chris, all this, everything that has happened. It's because of you, and a little because of Erik."
ERIK'S POV
"Hey Erik. I don't know what Christina will choose. I really don't, this is going to be the hardest thing for her and I know it. But there is something you need to do."
I looked over at Adrienne from across the table. She was fiddling through Christina's folder of music.
"Here." She said.
I looked down at the scrap of paper to see it was the one Chris had ripped out of my hands. The one Darienne written for her.
"That Angel he writes about is you Erik. I think you know what you need to do." She said looking over at the Organ.
CHRIS' POV
At hearing this I stood up abruptly and looked at him with the most confusion of all.
"Everything that happened because you needed someone. I knew that the reason I was born again was to be there for you, because I knew you could love the real me. But then I died and I knew that you would be broken. I couldn't stand that. I also knew that if anyone needed someone as much as you it was Erik. I knew you could love me, even without the mask you could love me. The reason you're here is so that Erik and you can have a second chance. Cause without it both of you would have died and never been able to offer to the world the skills they so desperately need of you."
He was standing up now holding my hands looking down at me.
"I understand now. But then again I still am confused. How is it that you were born because you died here alone? That would have meant you never met me. So than if you're Erikand youare meeting me now. Then you wouldn't have been able to go into the future and do this because you would have lived a happy life. Thus creating a paradox." I said shaking my head.
All of a sudden Darienne started to laugh.
"Oh God Chris do I ever love you. That's where the choice comes in."
At this I looked at him with my eyes wide.
ERIK'S POV
"Uuuuhh, I just cant." I said rising from the organ and pacing my lair in exasperation and anxiousness.
I was scared, scared of what was going to happen and of Christina's choice.
CHRIS' POV
"Chrissy, why do you think it was that you were afraid to love?" he asked me.
I looked down not at first knowing the answer. But then it came to me.
"Because I was afraid of what came with the territory of loving, to give your heart and trust to someone body and soul. I had done that the second I was born; only to be turned away for not being what my parents wanted. I was afraid I couldn't be what someone else wanted so I just didn't bother with it."
My eyes went wide the realization of the truth behind it all. I had never known any of that till now.
"Now look across the water." He said pointing at the other riverbank. You have a choice Chris. You can either come towards me and go into the future to return to the way things were before. Or you can go back there with Erik." He said Pointing both ways.
I stared for a second my heart split into. Tears flowing unbidden down my face.
"There is a catch to both choices though Chrissy. If you choose me… then we get to relive those last few days together. We'll go to college and eventually I will die, and so will Adry. You'll meet someone else and fall in love. You'll marry him, and you'll have kids. But you wont remember any of this. None of it."
I stared at him shaking my head. I had wished so often for this to happen. For just those few moments with Darienne I would have given anything. But now one of those things I was giving up was Erik.
"Your second choice is to stay with Erik. But if you do… the future is blank for you if you go with him. I don't know what will happen."
I looked at him and then down at the pacing form of Erik in his Lair with Adry. I was crying so hard now. Not this... of all the choices I could have been given. Not this choice, it was to much and my heart was splitting in two different directions. With Erik or Dare, both the same down to the core, but both so different because of their upbringings. Now I knew how Christine had fealt and I pitied her.
"Don't make me do this I cant. I cant." I whispered into the grass. Dare came over and picked me up hugging me.
"Whichever way you choose Christina it's your choice and I can't help you. Or say anything that might influence your choice. But I can say this; if you stay with Erik you will remember everything. You'll get to keep the memory of your past and you get to make the memories of your future. With the other way… you'll keep your past but forget all time spent with Erik at all. So you wont have to be plagued with any grief."
I looked up at Darienne and then down at Erik. I knew what I wanted.
With the tears streaming down my face silently I walked towards Darienne.
OH NO EVIL CLIFFIES OF DOOOOOM! so what is gonna happen. hmmm I wonder.
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