Chapter 14 Reality

A dead weight fell against my chest and somewhere in the darkness, I heard her sweet voice. Urging me to wake up, urging me to live, pleading that I was ok, I kept trying to find her, but all I saw was darkness, there was no light and all I could do was wonder blindly, everything I had done had been for nothing, I really had failed.

"Kane, please wake up, please you gotta wake up!"

She kept pleading and begging, that weight on my chest heaving up and down with emotion. I kept trying to find her but the darkness pulled me away from her. There was nothing I could do and I was forced to twist trying to escape the black.

"Kane you gotta wake up! Please...just open your eyes, please" Her tears flowed on my chest, I felt the wetness, her weeping made me realise that I wasn't dead just yet, I was stuck and I needed to fight it. My eyes fluttered open and everything spun a little. I tried to adjust but it was hard, white blared at me and all I felt was dizzy. I tried to get up but her soft hands pushed me to the bed. I was so out of it, I didn't even comprehend that I felt her skin.

"Where am I?"

"Your in hospital, you took a pretty bad shot to the head" Her eyes softened as her hand rested on mine. "You did it Kane, you saved me"

"Ah Mr Jacobs, you're awake." A tall balding doctor came in, "You took a pretty nasty shot, you've been out of it for a while." He went over my notes making his judgement, Raven slipped out of the room while he told me what was wrong. Nothing he said helped because all I saw was Raven walking out of the room and leaving me alone.

One month later...

I thought about her everyday, everything seemed to go back to normal except for the loose ends. I had saved her and now I didn't even know what happened to her. I was given much needed time off to get everything sorted. Thank God for that because I was still wondering what was real and what wasn't. Mark didn't remember anything about suddenly turning into a quaker and his arm healed. I guess that was Raven's doing, saving everyone but her self. I missed her more than I realised, she had become a part of who I was and I wasn't the same without her. I knew that would happen, she would gain her life back and I would be left alone to pick up the broken peices. The musical chimes lifted me from my thoughts, whoever was on the other side would be a good distraction.

"Raven?" I was shocked to see her standing on my front door step, still dressed the same only her hood was down and those horns were gone.

"Hi Kane" She got out softly, "May I come in?"

I held the door back for her, still in shock that she was here and hopefully alive. When the door was shut she jumped into my large arms, wrapping her arms around my neck. "Thank you so much," She hugged me tighter whispering her gratitude.

I set her down and looked at her, I couldn't help the hurt, since that day she had been gone a month. "Where were you?"

"I was sortin out the loose ends, when a soul comes back from the dead there are loose ends that need to be tied up, sadly that meant a month away from you, of course it don't help when your twin raises from the dead as well"

"Iziah's alive?"

"The quakers broke their treaty, she was allowed any one thing in exchange for another treaty, she chose life"

I pulled her into my arms again, just feeling her skin against mine was the best thing I had ever felt in my life. I picked her up and pulled those lips to mine, soft and sweet was the only way to describe it. I pulled away from her and just looked at her silver pools. I was still wondering what the hell was going on, I was more than confused but I can't be blamed for that. Not really.

"Are you real?" I had to ask because I wasn't sure if I could take it if she wasn't. She gently took one of my hands, the other still holding her against me, she put it on her chest, her heartbeat nice and strong.

"Do I feel real?"

I kissed her again just losing myself to reality, for once it didn't suck. I took her to the bedroom and laid down beside her.

"Your really here" I whispered as I lay gently moved until I was hovering over her, her face stared up into mine.

"I am here and I plan on staying, always"

"Always?"

"Always"

A/N Only one chapter left and hopefully it's what you've been waiting for *cue dramatic music* LOL