Disclaimer: All original characters from the House of Night books belong to P.C and Kristin Cast but the storyline and new characters belong to myself.
My Version of Burned
Chapter 8
Zoey's POV
"I don't love Stark," She murmured in my general direction, "Can you spell ew? That's just sick. The only reason I've been stopping you from having sex with him is because I thought that if you did, you would become pregnant," She pointed a finger at me, "And because of that baby, a world war would start."
And it was then that I realised the redness in her eyes.
"You had a vision..." I whispered gently. It wasn't a question but Aphrodite nodded anyway.
"The last one was inbetween when I called you and when you arrived but I've had them more than once, that's why it was so important for you to come." She admitted, tears in her eyes.
"The same vision more than once?" I asked her. She shook her head.
"It gets worse every time," Aphrodite explained, stifling her sobs, "It started off with you giving birth to a child and Stark was there holding your hand so obviously I assumed it was his. But then it showed..." She cut herself off with a cry. It wasn't the kind of crying you did if you were upset about breaking up with your boyfriend or losing a friend. It was the kind of sobbing like someone had died...
"Aphrodite," I spoke, looking into her watering eyes, "Who dies?"
"Everyone!" She burst out, "Me, Darius, Stark, Damien, Jack, Erin, Shaunee, Grandma..."
"Grandma?" I cut her off, covering my mouth with my hand to stop the pained scream from coming through.
"Yes, but that's not the worst part," She had stopped manically sobbing and was now starting to hiccup, "Stevie Rae, Heath and your baby are on his side." I didn't need to ask who he was, I had figured it out a while ago, "And...and..." She stuttered.
My heart finally broke with no chance of repair because I knew what she wanted to say.
"Aphrodite, what?" I begged her, even though I knew what her response would be. She just slightly shook her head.
"No!" She cried, "No, it can't happen. It can't!" It seemed that the reality of the situation had only just hit her now and it had hit her hard.
"But it will." I said slowly, my vision going fuzzy with tears as I started to fall towards the floor, collapsing as if I was in slow motion.
"Zoey!" Stark shouted, pushing through the locked door and getting to me just in time to catch my falling body.
Soft tears slipped down my white face as I pulled up my hand to find his face just as easily as the tears had found mine. I stroked his tear-stained cheek.
"I love you." I told him, barely above a whisper.
Then it all went black.
And everything disappeared.
I wasn't dying, I knew that because I could hear voices, but I didn't want to cope with it all. I wanted to give in to the darkness.
"Zoey?" I felt Stark's warm breath of my face and I breathed heavily at the touch of it.
"Z?" He got closer and closer until our foreheads were touching.
"Shh, need to rest." I whispered, blocking out everything I could hear after my short sentence.
Aphrodite had witnessed the end of the world. Not just my world, my friends and family, but the entire world. I knew why and it pained me to think about it.
It hurt me so badly.
I would take a raven mocker slicing my chest open a hundred times in comparison to this.
I would take Stevie Rae keeping secrets from me a million times in comparison to this.
I would take leaving Heath in comparison to this.
The worst had come and I didn't know how to handle it. I thought my life was bad before and now this had to go and happen.
The only thought running through my head was that everything was over.
That I was finished.
A/N: I've decided that this is gonna be another two-parter chapter because I don't really like switching POVs in the middle of chapters and I have to do Stark now. The next chapter will be around 600 words like this one so be prepared because it's short but important. I seriously hope you are enjoying the re-writes of my story! Much love:')
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