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Live Free or Let Me Die
Digidestend Angel
Chapter 18
Your Love Keeps Me Alive
I cannot be silent, I m crying out
My soul is cold, my heart is numb
I break from my old self and step into You
-Skillet
4 days…
4 days…
4 eff-ing days…
And Cat was wasting away before his eyes.
Beck Oliver was truly in hell.
He's eaten good meals, he's had plenty of water, he's had bathroom runs, and he's had good night's sleep every night.
Cat has had no food, no fluids, she's had no bathroom time, and every time she was falling asleep, someone would come in and kick her awake.
Even though Beck was healthy and well, he was dying and sick inside.
He wanted to die.
He wanted to die with his wife.
Julian was fine.
He was with Jade.
"I want to be with you, Cat." Beck whispered to her as she forced herself awake again. She was beaten awake every time she almost passed out, and she just didn't want to go through it again. "If you die, I want to go with you."
Cat shook her head. "No…you need to go back to Julian."
"He's perfectly fine with Jade, and you know it!" Beck snapped at her and she just rolled her eyes. "Please…"
"We're not pulling a stupid Romeo and Juliet scene here, Beck." Cat said with a raspy voice, since her throat was so dry and scratchy. "You need to be a man."
Beck scoffed. "A man protects his wife. You're being starved and beaten on a daily basis!" He sighed deeply. "I've failed you."
"You've failed no one." Cat tried to comfort him. "You can't control this. Lucy has complete control right now. We have none. Please promise me you'll take care of Julian."
Beck shook his head. "I can't live without you."
Cat closed her eyes, but snapped them open again. She looked to have given up. "You don't want to hear this, but I want to die already." She let a tear escape her eye. "I can't do it anymore."
Beck sobbed with tears leaving his eyes.
Suddenly, the man watching them came in. Cat glared. "I'm awake, so what do you want?" It wasn't time for a bathroom run for Beck, and he just had his breakfast.
The man took out a key and walked up to Cat, and he began to unlock her chains around her ankles.
Beck's heart began racing. Was he taking Cat somewhere?
Suddenly, once Cat was free, he stood up. "Lucy is allowing you to be with your husband, since you are on the verge of death anyways." And he left the cell, slamming the door shut and walking away. He sounded as if he was leaving.
Cat looked to Beck, who crawled as far as he could go with his ankle chains still bolted to the wall. "Come to me, Cat!" He cried out, wanting nothing more than to touch her one last time. "Just reach for my hand and I'll pull you over here!" He knew she was too weak to crawl or walk.
Cat shook her head, making Beck ticked. "No. I smell." She hasn't had a toilet to use, you know?
Beck growled in a bit of desperation. "Cat, reach for my eff-ing hand!"
Annoyed, Cat painfully fell to the ground when she tried to movie towards him. "Ow…" She reached for his hand and he grabbed her hand and gently pulled her over to him, until he could soon cradle her in his arms. He sat against the wall as he held her close. "I missed you." Cat smiled weakly.
Beck kissed her forehead, loving the feeling of her in his arms. "I missed you too. I love you, Cat."
"I love you, Beck." Cat laid her head against his chest. He felt her slowly go limp in his arms.
She was asleep.
Beck couldn't stop the tears that left his eyes, flashbacks of the memorable moments of his life coming to mind.
"Beck!"
Beck walked into the bedroom of their new apartment home in Hollywood, CA and leaned against the doorway, smirking at his wife of almost a year and a half. "Yes, my love?"
Cat laid comfortably in their queen size bed and smiled at him. "They're kicking again."
Beck came to the other side of the bed and went under the covers, laying close to her and put an arm around her petite body, while the other went to her 8 month pregnant stomach. After a moment, he smiled. "Wow, one of them has some kick."
Cat nodded, cuddling up to him as they both relaxed. "Yes, they do. I cannot believe we're having twins."
Beck kissed her head. "I can't believe we're back home and not traveling constantly like we did all year last year."
"Jade and Andre are glad we're back." Cat commented. "Robbie and Tori too. Can you believe Andre FINALLY asked Tori out?"
Beck scoffed. "Yeah, it only took him –what- 7-8 years?"
Cat giggled. "It looks like it. And Robbie and Trina are getting married? This is all so much to take in."
"At least you're one of Trina's bridesmaids." Beck shrugged.
Cat suddenly frowned. "Yeah, her fat bridesmaid."
"You're not fat, Caterina." Beck said sternly. "You're the most beautiful pregnant woman I have ever laid eyes on."
"Beck, I want to go walk around." Cat whined suddenly, but Beck shook his head. "BECK!"
"Cat, no, you have to stay on bedrest." Beck told her. "The doctor said you need to stay OFF your feet as MUCH as possible. The only time you can stand up is to go to take a shower."
"Even then, I don't! You carry me and make me sit in a chair inside!" Cat snapped. "I feel fine!"
"You collapsed!" Beck practically yelled. "You passed out in the middle of your baby shower from exhaustion!"
"But-"
"Cat, when Tori called me and told me what happened at the shower, I stopped breathing for a moment." Beck confessed, giving her shoulder a small kiss and leaned on it. "I thought you were seriously hurt. It killed me that I wasn't there."
Cat pouted. "But I'm fine."
Beck couldn't stop the twitch in his eye. "Do you HEAR a word I say?"
"I try not to sometimes." Cat grinned up at him and he took that chance to kiss her lips. "I want to be a mom already."
"And I want to be a dad, but some things are just worth waiting a bit longer for."
Beck kissed Cat's shoulder that was nearest him, and he kissed a burn Lucy gave her with that dammed lighter a few days back. Cat unconsciously hissed at the contact, and Beck figured the burns were still painful to her. It killed him to know it was his fault she was tortured that way. I have to think good thoughts…
And another great moment in his life came to mind: it was the day his pride and joys were born.
"Beck, just hold one, please!" Cat begged, with her 4 pound each twin boys in her arms. She was still in the hospital, but she had just had the twins an hour before. She was exhausted. "They're already fed, but-"
"I'm scared I'll drop one!" Beck snapped at her, as he paced in front of her bed.
Cat giggled. "You should count your blessings that Jade didn't hear that. Come on, Beck. You won't drop him! Just pull up a chair and sit down in it after taking one."
Beck groaned as he gave in to her pleas. "Okay, fine." He pulled up a chair, and stood beside her bed. "Um…how do I do this?"
Cat couldn't control her laughter this time. "Okay, just take the one nearest to you. Nathaniel." She tried to help as she moved Nathaniel towards Beck, who put his arms under the newborn. "Good." Cat soothed his nerves with her soft voice as Beck took the baby into his arms and sat down right after. "See? Not too bad, is it?" She asked as she used both arms to hold her other son, Julian, who was 12 minutes younger than Nathaniel. "Oh, Beck, aren't they beautiful?"
Beck nodded, staring at the baby in his arms. "Yeah…but they do look a bit like aliens."
Cat was about to scold him for that comment, but she took a good look at Julian and nodded in agreement. "Okay, yeah, I see the resemblance now."
"I come in peace." Beck used a strange, high-pitched voice suddenly, making Cat laugh again. "I hope they don't look like this forever. No offense, but we're better looking than this, so we would have created damn good looking kids."
Cat rolled her eyes. "They grow out of this stage, don't worry. They'll be gorgeous and hot boys."
Beck gave a firm nod. "Good."
"And they'll be total womanizers, like their father." Cat gave her husband a wink.
Beck raised his eyebrows at her statement. "And this is coming from the biggest flirt at Hollywood Arts in high school."
Cat shrugged. "I wasn't THAT bad."
"Oh, no, you were worse." Beck chuckled out. "I wish we realized our love in high school."
Cat shook her head. "I don't."
Beck stared at her in disbelief. "Cat, if we did, you wouldn't have been with Todd and you wouldn't have been abused for such a long time."
"Beck, if I hadn't been with Todd, none of THIS would have happened." Cat pointed out. "We wouldn't have had our so-called adventure, we wouldn't have gotten married in the most romantic place, we wouldn't have met all of the people along the way, and we wouldn't have met our beautiful sons."
Beck blinked. "Okay, I see your point."
Cat giggled. "Thank you. I love you, Beck."
Beck stood back up, gently not to wake Nathaniel, and kissed Cat's lips. "I love you, Cat."
Beck kissed Cat's forehead again, and rocked back and forth. "Someone help us…"
Beck had been alone with his wife for over an hour now and the time passing seemed so short, unlike the rest of the time he spent away from her. He wanted it to last forever. He knew she was slipping away, physically, in a quick manner and it was terrifying that his last moments with her were in a filthy cell, chained to the damn wall. He was praying it would be in a hospital room or in their bedroom when they were old, and that they would die together from just being too old to live any longer. He knew it never happened that way, but he could hope. He just never thought he'd lose his wife THIS way.
This is the most gruesome way to die, in his opinion.
He decided.
After his wife passed, and they force him to bury her god-only-knows where, he would find a way to end his life. He couldn't go home and face his only son. Jade and her fiancée would be perfectly fine raising Julian. Jade would do anything for his son, which is why they made her the godmother. Andre would do anything for him as well, hence why he's the godfather, but Andre could only do what Jade wants.
They would all understand. Cat's his best friend and soul partner. There is no Beck without Cat. He cannot live without her.
Suddenly, he felt a tug on his shirt. He looked down and his wife was staring at him, weakly, but she gave him a soft smile.
"Hey, Beck."
"Yeah, Cat?"
"I have a plan."
Dang, Cat…cutting it a little close there, don't ya think? AHHHH, the next chapter is going to be CRAZY! I promise you, it's going to be like crazy…I already wrote that, but it will be…anyways, yeah.
The picture of my newborn son is my profile photo now, so you should click on my name and go see him :) He's so ugly in that picture, but oh well. He's going to be a good looking kid, I swear.
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-Digidestend Angel and Nathaniel-
PREVIEW FOR CHAPTER 19: Rebirthing
The two began running painfully with thorns and sticks cutting their feet, but they ran fast. Beck kept a good grip on Cat's hand. "Come on, Cat, hurry!"
"HEY!" They heard from a bit of a distance.
Cat whimpered. "Beck, they're coming!"
"Don't stop!" Beck yelled out. He had no idea where they were going, but the forest had to end sometime. Soon they heard a sound they never wanted to hear this way. "Is that-"
"It's a helicopter!" Cat squealed out, in a happy voice.
Beck narrowed his eyes, trying to catch his breath. He saw a man with a gun show himself from the chopper and he panicked. "RUN, CAT!" He yanked her forward as the gunshots fired.