Angel in the night

Paris opened up his big brown eyes and found himself surrounded by a white light. He stood up and looked around but found nothing else then just light. His head had stopped hurting and he reach up to his forehead to feel his wound only to find it gone, confused he pulled his shirt up and looked down at his hip and found his scar the dagger had caused also disappeared, just like that.

''Paris.'' A deep voice said and he turned around to look at his former master. Leon stood there right in front of him, in flesh and blood but still different from the last time they had seen each other. He was no longer wearing his uniform but a white tunic reaching down to his thighs, beige loose-fitting pants and black boots. His brown hair was neatly back-combed and his thin lips was curved into a warm smile. Paris stood and looked at him for a few seconds, still surprised of seeing him again.

''Walk with me.'' Leon said as he gave him an even wider smile. Paris didn't hesitate, somehow he knew that Leon wouldn't hurt him. The former master and his lieutenant walked together for a minute before Paris turned up to look at him.

''Where are we?'' He asked as he looked around curiously. Leon didn't look back at the younger man.

''A place between life and death.'' He replied shortly as they strolled together. Paris looked at him and tilted his head slightly.

''I'm dead?'' Leon chuckled and this time looked back at him.

''Only if you want to be.'' He added. Paris frowned his eyebrows, nothing of this made any sense. Was this a dream or just his head playing him a trick? Leon glanced over at the young man.

''You can come with me, to a place with eternal peace, love, happiness and forgiveness.'' He added. Paris nodded and closed his eyes as he took a deep breath.

''I can feel it.'' He said as he felt his entire body fill up with happiness, he knew that he never had to worry about war or Nick ever again. How he wanted to go to this place with Leon, but then he remembered Nick and Amazonia. He looked up at Leon again.

''If I go with you, what will happen to Nick?'' He asked. Leon sighed deeply and looked at Paris as they slowly carried on walking into the light.

''Nick is blinded by power, power that never was his to have from the beginning. That's why he won't be able to handle it correctly, and in the end it will destroy him.'' Suddenly he stopped and turned around to face the younger man, and placed both of his hands onto Paris's shoulders.

''Paris, there is a reason why I choose you as my lieutenant. From the very beginning I knew that you're something special. I knew that you had great potential and you could change the entire world if you wanted to.'' He added with a smile that soon faded as he turned his head away.

''I'm sorry that I separated you from your mother and told all those lies, but I couldn't just sit back and watch so much talent go to waste.'' He said as they started walking again. Neither one of them said anything for a few seconds before Paris turned to look at Leon.

''Would you have told me?'' He asked. Leon nodded.

''When you were ready to find out and you could handle the truth.'' He replied him. Paris nodded and each second he could see why Leon did everything that he had done into the past. He knew that Leon wasn't a bad person, not really. He just had a different, and not always intelligent ways of handle things.

''If I come with you, what will happen to the others?'' Paris asked. Leon sighed sadly and shook his head.

''I don't know the answer to your question, maybe Jack might be able to stop him. But it wouldn't be right, it's your destiny to take back what Nick took from you.'' Paris frowned his eyebrows in confusion.

''You will understand in time.'' Leon smiled and turned his head slightly to look at Paris. Paris nodded.

''In that case, I need to go back. Besides, I have to much to live for, I can't die.'' He said. Leon nodded and walked over to an even brighter light and Paris stopped. Right before entering the light, Leon stopped and turned around.

''I'm proud of you, of the man that you have become. Someday we'll see each other again, but let's hope it might take a long time.'' He smiled. Paris chuckled and nodded his head.

''Just go back to where you came from and it will bring you back to life.'' Paris nodded again and turned around to go back, but he was stopped when Leon once again called his name.

''Just one more thing. Tell Jack, they are happy.'' Paris smiled.

''I will.'' He said before watching his former master and friend return to the life on the other side, and he himself walked back to his own life.

Paris opened his hazel-brown eyes and found himself starring into a wooden ceiling. It took a few seconds for him to finally turn his head around to once again looked into the honey-coloured eyes from before. A young girl sitting next to him with a wet cloth into her hand.

''You're awake, I guess you should be fine then.'' She smiled and dabbed the cloth onto his wound onto his forehead. Most of it was still a big blur for Paris and his throat was completely dry.

''Water.'' Paris said in a husky voice. The girl took a glass of water from the night-stand and gave it to him. Paris sat up slightly and poured the entire glass down his throat before falling back into the pillows again and looked at her. Her long auburn hair held into a high ponytail with a panzer-like material teal-tube piece, with a golden hair-piece resembling a crown, connected to a golden forehead jewellery with a red gemstone into the middle. Her top and shirt is in the same armour material, with transparent red fabric loosely knot around her waist. She wears three-layered glows and high heels in the same material. Paris looked up at her face again, a face he hadn't looked at for a few years. Blood-red eye-shadow and fully red lips, just like he remembered it.

''Zandra.'' He whispered weakly, making her smile slightly.

''Hi, you were lucky we found you when we did.'' She said and removed the cloth from his forehead and laid it back down at the night stand.

''What happened?'' He said weakly. God his head hurt so bad.

''I found you and your friend chained up in the middle of the desert. It was just a coincident that we past you.'' She said. Everything came back to him now, Nick, Amazonia, Leon, Tulio. Tulio! Where was he? Paris looked around into the room in hope to catch a glimpse of him, but Tulio were nowhere to be seen.

''Your friend wasn't as lucky as you were.'' Zandra said. What did that mean? Tulio, was dead? Paris's shook his head in disbelief. Zandra frowned her eyebrows and shook her head.

''No, no he's going to be fine. He's in another room, he hasn't woken up yet and he's having horrible nightmares it seems.'' Paris sighed in relief. Zandra helped him sit up straight and lean against the wall. For the first time, Paris got a real look at the room. It was not a very large room, with only one bed and a side table. A desk onto the other side of the room and a small window in front of it. He turned his attention back to Zandra, and sighed. For three years, he hadn't seen her, only in his dreams. Suddenly he remembered Jack and the others.

''Jack!'' He looked down onto his watch and pressed the small button on the side of it. They waited a few seconds before Jack's familiar voice coming from it.

''Where in the hell have you been?!'' He hissed angrily.

''Just come to my co-ordinates, I'll explain everything.'' Paris sighed and placed a hand onto his head. Jack was about to protest, but…

''Now Jack!'' Paris hissed angrily and hung up before returning his attention back to Zandra.

''Want to tell me why you were out there?'' She asked and leaned back into her chair. Paris sighed deeply.

''Your brother.'' Paris gritted his teeth angrily. Zandra frowned her eyebrows and looked at him confused.

''Nick? What does he have to do with this?'' She asked.

''It's a long story, we'll talk about it later.'' He said as he could feel getting dizzier and more nauseous then before. Zandra nodded and Paris laid down again. A few silent seconds past before Zandra looked down onto her lap.

''You know, maybe I should have let you died out there, after what you did to me.'' She said and glanced at him slightly. Paris frowned his eyebrows in confusion and slightly anger.

''I did? You broke up with me and left without saying a word.'' He hissed back at her.

''Yeah, I did. But only because you cheated on me!'' Paris frowned his eyebrows so hard that his eye-globes almost fell out of his eye-sockets. What the hell was she talking about?

Ever since they had got back to the mansion, Amazonia hadn't left her room and she didn't plan on doing so for a while either. She quietly laid onto her bed curled up into a ball. A soft knock was heard from outside, and when she didn't give any reply the door slowly opened and a young man with raven hair and light grey eyes looked inside. He walked inside with a tray of food and closed the door with his foot before going over to place the tray onto the night-stand. Amazonia looked over at the tray for a second before sighing deeply and closed her eyes again.

''It's from Nick.'' He said.

''I don't want it.'' She said harshly. She didn't want anything that Nick could give her, not after what he had done.

''With all due respect your highness, you need to think of the baby.'' He said and folded his arms across his chest. Amazonia opened her eyes and glared at him angrily as she sat up slightly.

''You let me worry about my baby's wellbeing. And don't walk in here and pretend that your or anybody else in this horrible place care about me or my baby! Because if they did, you wouldn't have let Nick go through with the execution.'' She spat in rage. The young man walked over to the corner of the room and grabbed the chair, placing it besides the bed and sat down.

''Look, I think what Nick did was wrong, the execution and keeping you here. Paris and I were friends when he went here, I'm don't like this anymore then you do.'' He said looking at her. Amazonia frowned her eyebrow slightly. Who was this person and could he be trusted?

''What's your name?'' She finally asked. His lips curved into a smile.

''Eric.'' He replied her and soon she smiled as well.

Paris sat with his chin hung open. He couldn't believe what he just heard, it didn't make any sense what she just had said.

''What are you talking about? Cheated on you?'' He said in disbelief. Zandra folded her arms over her chest and sighed deeply.

Flashback

Three years ago, the sun stood high onto the sky and at the mansion, Leon sat behind his desk smiling over at his niece sitting opposite him.

''I would really like you to accept this task dear, it's a great opportunity.'' He said and sighed as he leaned over the desk. Zandra gave him a warm smile and nodded her head.

''I know uncle, but it would mean that I would be away for a couple of years. I can't leave Paris for that long.'' She said, letting her uncle down easy but still trying to sound grateful for that he believe in her. The older man sighed and nodded his head.

''I would like for him to go with you, but sadly I need him here with me.'' Leon said. Zandra nodded again and stood up walking over to one of the bookshelves, taking a photo-frame and smiled at it. It was her and Paris, her boyfriend smiling widely at the camera, she smiled at the memory before putting it back onto the shelve.

''I understand. I'm honoured that you would trust me with this important task, but sadly I have to decline it.'' Leon chuckled in defeat. He knew that it wasn't any point of fighting with his strong-headed niece. He stood up and walked over to her and embraced her.

''It's alright dear, but the offer is still open if you would change your mind.'' He said and kissed her forehead. Zandra nodded and walked over to the door before turning back with a wide smile.

''Thank you uncle.'' She said before leaving his study and going down the stairs to her half-brothers room. The young boy opened and smiled by the sight of his younger sister and let her inside. They sat down and she told him what Leon had offered her.

''Of course you should accept, don't you see what good of opportunity this is?'' Nick said to his sister and thinking that she did a huge mistake. Zandra shook her head and leaned back into her chair.

''I can't'' She replied him. Nick frowned his eyebrow at her.

''What do you mean you can't?'' He asked irritably. Zandra sighed and smiled slightly, he could never understand.

''I can't leave Paris. If I took this offer it would mean that I had to be away for at least five years, and I can't be away from him that long.'' She said. Nick shook his head in disappointment and looked down into the floor. He couldn't let her make this huge mistake.

''I hate that I'm the one that have to say this to you, but you have the right to know.'' He said as he walked over to her and kneeled down and took her hands in his. Zandra frowned her eyebrows slightly.

''About an hour ago, I saw a blonde girl walking inside Paris's and Jack's room. Paris opened, and kissed her before they went inside together.'' He said sadly. Zandra shook her head in disbelief.

''No! It can't be Paris, it has to be Jack. Paris wouldn't do that to me.'' She said as a tear ran down her cheek. Nick sighed sadly and turned back to a young boy with raven hair and light grey coloured eyes. It was his room-mate and best-friend Eric who sat in another chair with them and nodded towards him. Zandra turned around to look at him, and Eric sighed deeply before looking at her.

''I saw Jack when he went on a mission this morning with Xavier and Clark, they won't be back until tonight.'' He said sadly before looking down in the floor. Zandra sobbed as she looked back at her half-brother who nodded sadly at her.

''I'm sorry.'' He said and embraced her.

End of flashback.

Paris couldn't understand what he was hearing. He had no idea what she was talking about, what blonde girl?

''Zan, I have no idea of what girl you are talking about!'' He said calmly but Zandra turned around to look at him angrily with tears in her eyes.

''Don't lie to me Paris, I meet her in the hall after she exited your room.'' She hissed and folded her arms.

Flashback

After hearing the horrible news that her brother and his best-friend had told her, she decided to go and take him in action. As she got closer to Paris's room that he shared with Jack, she saw a blond girl going outside and shut the door behind her. Zandra froze and couldn't take one single step closer. The girl smiled over at her as she zipped up her sweater while she walked over to Zandra.

''You have a great boyfriend, hope you don't mind that I borrowed him?'' She smirked before whipping some smudged lipstick from the corner of her mouth with her finger before she left. Zandra looked horrified after her before going over the door and was about to knock, but her body wouldn't let her. Instead she broke out in tears and ran up to her room and throwed herself on top of the bed and cried into her pillow. After awhile she walked over to her desk and took a pen and started to write something on a piece of paper with gritted teeth and mascara running down from her eyes. She finished the letter before folding it and wrote Paris on it and left it on her desk. She took a look in the mirror and cleaned her face up before going back upstairs to her uncle's study accepting his offer without telling him why she had changed his mind.

End of flashback

The only thing Paris could do was to shake his head in disbelief. He had been framed. Framed by that lying deceitful monster that in this moment kept his best friend prisoner. He had ruined not only his, but his sisters life to. And one way or another, Nick was going to pay for it.

''It's a lie Zan. I was the one that went on that mission. I came back later that night and found your note, by then you were already gone.'' Paris said and walked closer to her and took his hands in hers.

''All this time, you have believed a lie. And when Jack gets here, I'm going to prove it to you.'' He said and looked deeply into her eyes. In that moment Jack walked in and stopped looking surprised at the two young people before him.

''Am I interrupting something?'' He asked and slowly took a few steps foreward. Paris shook his head, walked over to him and pulled his arm.

''No Jack, for once you couldn't be more on time.'' Jack frowned his eyebrows and looked confused at his best friend.

''Do you remembered the day that Zandra left? Did you have a girl on our room that day?'' Paris asked and folded his arms over his chest. Jack thought for a second and scratched the back of his head.

''I have had many through the years, I can't remembered all of them.'' He replied him and placed his hands on his waist. Paris groaned and shook his head getting more frustrated by the second.

''Then try harder! That day when I came home from a mission and found Zandra's note, did you let in a blonde girl into our room?'' He spat at his best friend. Jack's lips changed into a wide grin as he raised one eyebrow.

''Blonde, red-headed, dude I had other things to focus on then her hair.'' He said making Zandra smile slightly, Jack didn't seem to have changed much during the last three years. Paris grabbed Jack's collar and was ready to give him some good ass-whipping if it was needed.

''Could you please try to think with something else then your less impressive resources just for once?!'' He hissed as he tightened the grip of Jack's shirt. Jack nodded to prevent Paris to give his face a reshuffle.

''Nick told Zandra that he obviously had seen me kiss a blonde girl before taking her inside our room, and they she has seen a blonde girl exit out room getting dressed. So did you, or did you not have a girl of the room that day?!'' Paris said letting go of Jack's shirt. Jack thought for a second before nodding his head.

''Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it was that day. I don't remember what color her hair was, but she did wore white shorts and a grey hoodie.'' Jack replied him. Paris turned his attention back to his ex-girlfriend raising his eyebrow slightly. Zandra nodded her head.

''I trusted my brother, I could never imagine that he would lie to me about something like that.'' She said sighing sadly. Paris shook his head and sighed deeply as he took her hands in his.

''Why did you believe him? All you had to do was find me and ask me. Instead you let that sick monster ruin our lives, Zan why?'' He said. Zandra looked down at the floor and sighed sadly.

''What done is done, there is nothing we can do about it now Paris.'' She said and looked back at him and dragged her hands away from his.

''Am I imaging this? Doesn't anything about this bother you?'' Paris asked her still in disbelief that this really happened. Zandra shook her head and placed her hand on top his shoulders.

''Of course it does, but this is not the time. Right now we have to go and check up of your friend and then you are going to tell me why you chained up in the middle of the desert.'' She said before leaving the room. Jack turned around from watching Zandra walking outside back to his best friend.

''Another reason to take down Nick?'' He asked. Paris gritted his teeth and cleansed his fist in pure rage and hate.

''I'm going to make him pay for this.'' He hissed angrily.

''Do you think that we have a chance that she will help us now?'' Jack asked again as they exited the room together. Paris sighed and shrugged his shoulders.

''I hope so. The faster and easier we can bring Nick down and rescue Amazonia the better. I'm afraid that something horrible might happen to her.''

''Well, you know I'm with you every step of the way.'' Jack said and patted him on his back as they went inside the room that Tulio laid in.

The young man starting befriend Amazonia, his name is Eric. Could it be the same Eric that is suppose to be Nick's best friend? Could he be trusted? Zandra, Paris ex-girlfriend is apparently back. And if she choose to go back to her past life, who will she choose to side with? The man that killed her uncle, or the man that lied and separated her from the man that she loved?

And now, after three years believed that Zandra abandoned him and now they found out it was all a lie, will Paris and Zandra want to return to their past life together, and what about Chel and Teddy?

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Next time, Zandra chooses side!