Five
I was in a much better mood when we left the bar after learning Kelly was coming home nothing could spoil my mood. Any drink that Winn put in front of me I drank immediately, and there was a lot of drinks which also meant I was slightly drunk. "Liberty karaoke!" Winn shouted. I laughed and he pulled me off the bar stool, I fell onto my knees laughing, "stupid."
I laughed, "Winn I don't want to do karaoke!" I shouted trying to stand back up. Everything was spinning as I did, "woah." I held onto the table and steadied myself, I looked up at Winn who was jumping up and down. I laughed, "Winn get Kara to sing! She loves singing!" His eyes lit up and he nodded he ran over to Kara knocking me into the table and I winced, "ow."
"I forget your delicate," Winn shrugs.
I felt someone grab my arm and turned to see Clark he pulled me over to sit down and I grabbed onto him as I did, "here," he yelled over the music. I looked to see he had a glass in his hand, I shrugged and took it taking a sip. I put the glass down and frowned slightly, "What?"
"That's not alcohol!" I yelled.
"It's water," he said. I frowned slightly, why the hell was he giving me water? "You need to sober up a little bit, you can barely stand."
"I stand fine," I protested. "Winn didn't feed me that many drinks."
"I should hope so, you don't eat drinks," Clark said flatly.
I turned my attention to the corner of the stage where Winn was having a hard time standing and Kara was laughing, they began singing and it took me a moment to realise they were singing total eclipse of the heart I laughed and shook my head, as I turned to look at Clark I noticed he was already watching me. A drink was placed in front of me and I looked at the waiter, "I didn't order this."
"No the cute guy at the bar did, he's been eyeing you all night," she said. I looked to where she had pointed and he nodded I smiled and turned back to the waitress.
"Tell him thanks but I'm not interested," I said. She nodded taking the drink back, I couldn't help but grin Kara and Winn had lovely voices I could seriously listen to them sing me to sleep.
"Hey Liberty are you even listening to us sing?!" I heard Winn shout. I winced as it was through the speakers, I gave him thumbs up.
They finished singing and Winn ran over to me and pulled me through the crowd, he pushed me next to Kara taking the microwave, "Good luck, you are going to need it," Kara whispered.
The music started and we began singing, I couldn't stop grinning I forgot how much I liked karaoke I had no idea if I was good or not but who cared. I frowned as Winn started singing, what a strange song. He had chosen it's all coming back to me, as he began singing I felt a sharp pain in my head, I squeezed my eyes shut as things kept flashing in my head. My head was pounding, I looked over at Clark and Kara and they were watching me concerned, as I looked at Clark more flashes appeared in my head, I couldn't make it out.
"Liberty?" Winn asked. "You ok?"
"I need air," I gasped. I handed him the microphone and ran through the club I stumbled outside and fell into the alleyway I held onto my head tightly, my eyes widen and I let out a cry. I slapped my forehead, "oh my god. Fuck." I dug my nails into my head, "stop. Stop. Stop." I let out a cry of pain. I stood up leaning against the wall, my eyes widen as I saw a ball of fire in front of me it was coming towards me fast. I put my hands up and shut my eyes, I frowned, I didn't hear a cry of pain. I opened my eyes to see it stopped in front of me, frozen. "That's new."
It began moving towards me I dived to the floor and cried out in pain, clearly that power didn't last long, I stood up quickly this was not the time to be slow or drunk. I kicked him away from me he grabbed onto my leg and slammed me into the wall, "told you I would be back little witch."
"You know this little witch has a name," I snapped. I kicked the back of his shins making him fall to the floor, I should really start carrying around a knife or potions with me. I was sick of being stuck in this predicament.
"Knife!" I heard someone yell. I turned to see Clark, Kara and Winn stood there. I turned my attention back to the demon just in time to see the knife sink into my arm. I screamed in pain and grabbed the knife out my arm, I slammed it into his chest and he vanquished in front of me. I let out a breath I looked up to see Clark above me. "Libby."
"Kal," I whispered. He looked at me in surprised, "I remember."
He pressed a hand down on my wound and I cried out in pain, "sorry Libby," he whispered.
"Mom!" I called.
I groaned, I had the worse headache ever, I opened my eyes and frowned where was I? I felt so sick, I was attached to wires, I felt sick, I sat up as soon as I did I threw up on the floor. I coughed I heard footsteps as I coughed. "This is not a hangover," I groaned.
Someone handed me a glass of water and I took small sips, the memories of last night came back to me, I looked at my arm to see it was bandaged, I looked up to see Winn and Clark, I rubbed my head. "I'm going to kill you."
"Me?" Winn said. "What did I do?"
I groaned. I pulled the bandaged away and I winced that was a bad knife wound, "mom!" I yelled. A moment later she appeared, "before you even start, it hurts." She sighed and reached over placing her hand over my wound, I watched as it began to heal.
"You need to be careful Liberty," mom scolded. "I'll see you later."
She orbed out the room and I laughed, I flipped the blanket off me and turned around I held my head as things began spinning, "now that is healed I know for a fact this is a hangover." I groaned and fell back. "Someone cook me the most greasiest food ever."
"So who are you killing?" Winn asked.
"Whoever doesn't bring me something to eat," I groaned. Winn ran out the room and I laughed I looked up at Clark and he was stood by the door. "I guess I'm killing you."
"We both know that was aimed at me in the first place," he said. I nodded, "Libby-"
"Don't," I interrupted. "Unless whatever you are going to say is going to make me feel better right now, I really don't want to hear it." I sat up and looked at him and shook my head. "You have no idea what I'm feeling right now. Hint it's what I felt all those years ago when you were telling me goodbye." I could feel myself about to cry I shook my head.
He couldn't take his eyes off me, I smiled sadly, "Libby." He went to place a hand on my arm and I pulled away shaking my head.
"I'm sorry Clark, I need time." I closed my eyes and thought of my apartment a moment later I was there, I got into bed and pulled the quilt cover around me. At least one good thing came out of last night, I knew that I wasn't crazy. I reached off the end of my bed grabbing the book from underneath I pulled it out flipping it open, I could now put a proper face to my sketches and my memories.
I jumped as there was a knock on the door, I shoved the book under the bed and ran over to the door, I unlocked it and pulled it open, "Lib!" She shouted pulling me into a tight hug.
I laughed, "Kelly," I whispered. I held onto her tightly and she didn't let go.
"Oh god I've missed you."
"Me too," I whispered. "I'm so glad you are home. I love you so much." I let go of her and she walked into the apartment I shut the door and sat on the sofa. She dumped her bag into my room and came and sat next to me, "how are you?"
"I'm good, it's nice to be home," she said.
I raised an eyebrow, "but?"
She laughed a little, "you know me too well," she said. "I did come back for a reason." She placed her hand in front of me and I looked at her confused she pointed to her hand and I looked at it. A ring was on her finger, I stared at her in surprise. "I'm engaged."
"To who?" I asked.
"Well, you'll meet him tonight, his name is Liam, we are in the same platoon and we kind of bonded and we've been dating for almost 6 months," she explained.
"Wow," I stated. "6 months? Wait. You've been dating this guy for 6 months and you have yet to bring him home?"
"Well we were deployed," she said. "Look I know it's a shock and we've only been together for 6-"
I interrupted her, "Kelly, I don't care about that, I mean the length of you two dating, when it's right you know it's right. I'm annoyed you didn't say anything in your" I trailed off. "Actually never mind your last letter was 8 months ago."
She smiled, "what about you?" She asked. "Any men?"
"I don't want to talk about it," I said. I pulled my legs up to my chest and looked at my sister, "it hurts Kelly, I just" I shook my head. She wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tightly, I began to cry and she held me tighter. "I didn't want to cry today."
She scoffed, "my aim in life baby sister is to make you cry," she teased. I laughed, "do you want me to beat up whatever guy made you sad?"
I shook my head. "No, what I'm feeling should have happened when I was 19, it didn't, it should have."
