Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
Night is falling
You've come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore
Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see
All of your fears will pass away
Safe in my arms
You're only sleeping
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
-Annie Lennox, Into the West
Chapter Sixteen
Cassie could see it but it seemed no one else could. A wave of light issued from her body it washed over all the men but stopped before it hit Clark. It just halted a wall of blinding light.
Her bonds melted away from her wrists. The machine gun fire issued around the room. As every bullet hit the wave it disintegrated into tiny little pieces which vanished. Cassie could see it as if it was going in slow motion. She raised her self from her chair and started to walk over to Clark methodically, something else was guiding her body.
She could hear the yells of Luther's men but paid them no attention. She heard more gun fire and felt a burning sensation in her back but ignored it, it was superfluous now. She walked through the wall of light and it warmed her to the core.
She gently knelt in front of Clark his lip was quivering. She put both hands on the sides of his face made him look her in the eye.
"I am sorry," She whispered to him, "I love you," With that another blast of light emitted from her body.
It washed over Clark's body and wrapped it's self around them like a cocoon. His eyes closed. Cassie closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around him. He gasped and she could feel real pain.
She pulled back and looked at him. His eyes were open and he was looking at her. "Cassie?" He asked quietly. She smiled weakly and fell backwards landing hard on the floor on her back.
He moved to kneel beside her. "What happened?" He whispered to his hands hovering over her body.
"I saved you…" She whispered. Another blast issued from her body, only this time it wasn't gentle and white, it was cruel and black. It washed over Clark without harm.
Cassie could hear screams and blasts, everything went blurry and then just darkness….
Clark's eyes fluttered open. He coughed. He was covered in the dust of the wrecked building. He pushed himself up with his arms. He looked around himself. He was in the middle of an enormous crater. He pushed him self up until he was resting on his heels.
He could see the corpses of Luther's men scattered around him. He looked down at his own battered body. There were small circular tears around in his suit were the bullet's had entered his body. He traced his fingers over the healed flesh. There was no mark.
The rain was falling heavily around him; He looked up at the thing that was lighting the eerie scene. He could hear distant yells of people, people screaming his name.
The light was about twenty feet from the ground. He pushed himself up to look at it. Something inside of him wavered, he was scared.
He gently kicked off the ground and felt himself rise. The fear turned to dread.
He was level with the light now and could see what it was.
"No…" He whispered. He could vaguely hear the people running to get closer, yelling his name.
He reached out and his hand was drenched in the heat of the light, he tenderly touched Cassie's cheek and no matter how hot the light was her skin was as cold as ice. His hand went into her hair; tears were flooding his eyes. Why didn't she wake up?
Suddenly the light went out and he could feel her body shift in space. He quickly wrapped an arm around her waist as she fell. Her upper body hung over his arm limply and her legs dangled beneath them uselessly. For the first time Clark could see her torso.
His hand played over her stomach and felt the once warm blood mingle with his fingers. The bullet holes that had once been in his body were now in hers.
"NO!" He found himself scream. He could sense that the people under the scene stiffen and stop yelling.
He as going higher and higher into the sky. He couldn't save her this time, he knew it, and he couldn't leave her behind to try. She was gone, her body was cold….but it couldn't be…she couldn't leave him.
He flew off he couldn't stay in the city any longer it seemed to be collapsing around him. He put an arm around her shoulders and one under her legs and flew faster.
All he was aware of was her cold body pressed against his chest.