Kara gasped expecting to be in a place full of clouds and angels, but instead she was facing the stone cold ground and had a splitting headache. Turning her head and looking up she could see Quasimodo and Lily in his arms coming down and picking her up, her hands still bound. When they were all out from underneath the Place de Grieve, she noticed Clopin looking relived with tear stained eyes as he saw Quasimodo grab the rope, which he came down upon and brought Lily and Kara high into the air above Paris. To Kara this seemed unreal, she was supposed to be dead, but here she was up in the bell tower with Lily and Quasimodo. He led them to a room where they were to hide and be safe from the guards and Frollo.
"Stay here, I will make sure no one gets near you!" he said with determination.
"Thank you Quasi…"Kara breathed as Lily helped remove the rope from her neck.
Lily untied her hands and they walked over to the bed, which lay against a wall.
"Lily how am I alive? I felt my body drop…" she said still not believing that this was real. Lily smiled, but it was a weary smile, she too couldn't believe that she was alive. Kara rubbed her now rope burned wrists and Lily told her what happened.
"You would have to thank Clopin for saving you, he pulled out a dagger hidden in his shoes and threw it, cutting the rope. I must admit it was a nice shot, set you free and got the hangman right in the chest."
"Clopin…" Kara sighed with a smile. They could hear Quasimodo outside the room as he went back and forth defending them while saying 'Sanctuary!' Both Kara and Lily were grateful to him; they were saved because of him. Sitting there and not knowing what to do, they inspected their wounds.
"I'm going to kill Clopin for giving me a headache." Kara laughed as she still continued to rub her burned wrists. Lily pointed to the tops of her feet that were now lightly burned.
"Oh Lily, does it hurt?" her friend asked.
"Yeah but its not as bad as it was when there was a lot more fire on it." She joked. Ripping some small pieces from her skirt, she tied them around Lily's feet to try and help. There suddenly was a burst from the door,
"We've done it! We've beaten them back! Come and see!" Quasimodo said with excitement clearly present in his voice. Together they went out and looked over the ledge of Notre Dame.
Many people could be seen fighting the guards; finally the people of Paris were fighting back! The gypsies were free from their cells and were too helping to fight, though Kara couldn't spot Clopin, Esmeralda or Phoebus. They looked over to see that Frollo's carriage had been broken, and a large piece of wood placed at the foot of Notre Dame's gates, while a pool of hot liquid surrounded its every corner like hell was at their feet.
"God…I hope no one is hurt." Lily said looking at the battle below. Kara nodded her head, and turned to see Frollo coming up the stairs.
"Quasimodo, I never thought you would help these gypsies! They are just like your mother!" he said drawing a large blade.
"Quickly grab onto me!" Quasimodo said as he lifted them and had both girls holding onto his back, as he swung over the ledge and grabbed a close gargoyle. Kara and Lily screamed, once again their life was in Quasimodo's hands.
"Leaving so soon?" Frollo smiled as he swung the large blade, barley missing his arm. Quasimodo moved from gargoyle to gargoyle while Frollo tried knocking him down, and the two gypsy girls clinging for their life. Finally Frollo's sword got stuck for a moment, allowing Quasimodo to move far enough away to try and put them down. Lily started to move off him first and grabbed onto a large gargoyle, but Frollo was ready and swung, but she moved faster than the old man and got out of the way, but Kara was still on Quasi and half of the gargoyle.
Her hands dug into the stone creature as she could feel Quasimodo move away from her. Frollo was ready to strike her, when he fell backwards on his back. Lily had pulled his cape trying to help distract him from Kara.
"You little bitch!" Frollo yelled kicking her off his cape and cutting her right arm. She yelled in pain and placed her hand over her wound.
"Lily!" cried a man. Clopin ran and pushed his body into Frollo knocking him down once again. Clopin punched Frollo hard in the face three times to daze him. Once he was sure he was dizzy, he got off him and went to Lily,
"Where is Kara?" he said placing a hand on her wounded arm.
"There over on that gargoyle!" she said pointing to the closest gargoyle near the corner of Notre Dame. He got up and ran to help her.
"Kara grab my hand!" he yelled as she came into view.
"Clopin!" she said smiling reaching with one hand. They grabbed each other, and he pulled her up by grabbing her waist. Finally she was safe. Kara smiled at him and pulled him close, as he hugged her tight, but not long enough until she heard him scream and tilt his back towards her. Frollo had regained his sight and stabbed Clopin in the back.
"NOOOO!!!" Kara screamed noticing the blood on her hands as Frollo drew the blade from Clopin's body. His body slumped into hers not moving. Quasimodo climbed over the ledge, still weak from all his swinging and dodging only to see his master lifting his arms high above his head and shouting,
"And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" Kara placed her body over Clopin's to protect him and save him with her life. She held his head in her hands and whispered to him,
"I love you…" a tear rolling down her face. Frollo began to bring the sword down, when Lily came and placed her hands over his on the blade and pushed him to the edge, as Quasimodo came from behind them both. He grabbed Lily's shirt and pushed Frollo off the high cathedral of Notre Dame, into the fiery pit below that opened its fiery arms wide for this sinner.
Lily couldn't believe that she had helped kill Frollo. True he was going to kill her, and he had cut her pretty good with his sword, but she loved him and that's not easy to get over. Turning away from the scene, she saw Kara hugging Clopin's body and crying.
"Please God don't take him from me…" she prayed and cried as she rocked his body. "Please…Clopin…open your eyes…tell me you love me…"
Quasimodo kneeled next to her and took one of Clopin's wrists to feel for a pulse. He was quite for a moment before looking at Kara, noticing her knitted brow and red eyes from crying so hard, her lip quivering.
"He's alive…but he needs medical help now." Kara started bawling harder, relieved and scared. Quasi picked Clopin up carefully as he walked him down the spiral staircase and down into the streets, as Lily helped Kara walked down after him. She could feel Kara shaking, or was she shaking too? They both walked out of Notre Dame to see happy faces looking at them, happy to see that they were alive. Esmeralda and Phoebus came up to them.
"Thank god your both alright!" Esmeralda said hugging them both.
"Please…where did you see Quasimodo go to?" Lily asked out of breath.
"To the doctor, we saw him carrying Clopin…" answered Phoebus. Kara closed her eyes to stop the tears from coming as she bit her lip.
"Come we must follow him!" Esmeralda said, as they all ran in the direction Phoebus had pointed.
All five of them sat in a little room where Clopin was in, resting. The doctor had told them that the blade had just missed his lungs and he was lucky to be alive. Kara sat next to Clopin in a chair holding his hand, looking at him with tired eyes, and no smile.
"Kara sweet heart, come get some rest." Esmeralda said placing a hand on her shoulder.
"No…I'll stay until he wakes up…"she said never taking her eyes off him, as if in some moment she was going to see his dark eyes open and he was going to smile at her…
"Could I have a moment alone with him?" Kara asked.
"Of course." Phoebus said as he and Esmeralda along with Quasimodo walked out of the little room. Lily was left there clutching her bandaged right arm, and walked to Clopin's side and whispered in his ear,
"Don't you dare leave us." She smiled at Kara faintly and walked out.
When Kara was alone with him, she watched his chest slowly move up and down from under the sheet and rubbed his face singing,
"My gift is my song…and this ones for you, and you can tell everybody that this is your song…" she sang choking and crying, but continued the same song that he sang once to her, when Clopin had told her that he loved her.
"I hope you don't mind…I hope you don't mind, that I put down in words…how wonderful life is…now you're in the…world…"
She took her hands and ran them through her hair, and rested her elbows on the bed, her head in her hands. Kara sat there for a few moments when she left a hand touch her hands. Pulling her head out of her hands, she saw Clopin with his eyes open and smiling at her.
"Hi…" he said wearily.
"Clopin…"Kara smiled as tears of joy went down her face, and she hugged his hands close to her mouth as she kissed it over and over again to make sure this was real.
"I love you." He said.
"I love you too." She smiled back as she leaned forward and kissed him on the lips.
