"I'm sorry I didn't arrive earlier," he whispered, holding me close to him, making me try to speak.
"He's dead," I murmured with my face buried in his chest, feeling as he was catching my face to look at him. "I killed him, Mon-el," I sobbed, not daring to meet his eyes.
"You're free, Kaelah, you have to think that," he whispered kissing my hair wanting to calm me before grabbing my right hand, caressing her. "It's disappearing," he said, causing me to look at it too. "I need you to let me know if you get dizzy," he said, lifting my chin, making me nod, because the truth was that I was starting to get dizzy.
"Mon-el ..." I closed my eyes, clinging to him, feeling as he held me to prevent me from falling when I finally lost consciousness.
I opened my eyes in alarm, believing that everything had been a dream, however, when I realized that I was in the DEO, I knew that it had not been, that after what I had done, I was free.
I looked for Mon-el, not finding him inside the room, noting that he was talking to Kara, Alex and J'onn, who seemed to be in full discussion on some subject, which made me want to find out, but at the moment I had no powers, so it was impossible for me to hear them. I remained in the same position as I was until my eyes met Mon-el's, who warned the others to look at me, forcing me to close my eyes.
"Hey, Kaelah" I heard my sister's voice, so I looked at her. "How are you, sweetie?" she asked me, but I kept silent. "It's not your fault, you were just defending yourself, okay?" she said. "You're not a killer, Keaks, you're not." She tried to calm me down, but I only managed to start crying, making her to dry my tears.
"I'm sorry." I looked at Mon-el, who frowned without understanding what I was referring to. "He was your brother," I said, watching him as he shook his head at my words.
"He was, that's true, but he hurt you, I can not feel sorry for him," he explained at the same time I looked away, knowing that both had been united during childhood, so it was obvious that it was not true nothing of what he had just said.
"Do you want to see the kids?" Alex asked as if she wanted to change the topic of conversation by making me nod, watching her leave the room.
But she barely had time to enter the room, for Rhea appeared in it, causing both my sister and Mon-el to stand in front of me, preventing her from reaching me, but what I did not understand at the moment was what she had come.
"Mon-el, prince of Daxam with rights to the throne," said his mother, approaching us. "Now you must come and assume your destiny, you can bring the Kryptonian, and of course the children," she explained at the same time I was looking at him, watching as he pondered the offer.
"Mon-el, no," I denied, observing that he was going to reply, so I sighed. "Okay, you want to go do it, but I'm not going and the children much less," I warned before asking my sister to go home.
I did not even look at him one last time before I left, angry, picking up the children to go to my sister's apartment, where I ended up breaking, sobbing and hugging her. I honestly did not understand how it could be possible that he was meditating on that offer, not after all we had fought to be together, to continue here ... Seriously, I did not understand.
"You should talk to him before you make any decisions," she whispered.
I nodded, I had to, I could not deny it, so I sat up to go to his apartment. I called insistently until he opened me, watching the surprise on his face and then invited me in, so I sat down in the couch with my head down.
"Is everything okay?" He asked sitting down beside me. "The kids?" He continued.
"Yes, yes, they are fine," I replied. "About what your mother said ..." I went to speak, but he interrupted me.
"It's my people, Kaelah," he said. "Maybe I should," he commented without looking at me.
"You have to clarify your priorities, your people or your family," I looked at him. "If you want to leave, do it, but I won't, not after all I've struggled to stay here, with you, with my family," I began, "I will not deny your existence, they will know who their father is, but if you leave, forget me, please do so, "I assured him getting up to go to the door.
"Kaelah ..." he whispered.
"No, you know where to find me when you make the decision," I interrupted before leaving.
I still did not understand the reason why he did not want to reject the idea of going back to Daxam, deciding to stay here with us.
I sighed trying to reassure Kyron, who had not stopped crying in the last few minutes, finally getting it, at which point my sister appeared in the living room, smiling slightly.
"One day, Kara, it's been one day" I looked incredulous while cradling the little boy of three months ."I don't think it takes so much to make this decision" I sighed. "He will leave, he will do it and he doesn't know how to tell me, I know, Kara, I can not do it, I can not raise two kids by myself, I really need him" I threatened to cry.
"Hey, Kaelah, give him some time, okay?" She approached me. "If he leaves I'll be with you to help you, always." She smiled caressing the boy's cheek, who could not help smiling at his aunt's gesture.
I looked at my sister the moment they knocked on the door, thinking to open it, finally approaching me, facing me, who smiled slightly.
"Hey" he smiled watching Kyron, stretching his arms to hold him. "Hey, little one, aren't you still asleep?" he spoke sweetly. "Well I come to take your mommy, so I think it's going to be your aunt Kara, who's going to have to make you fall asleep," he said, getting my sister to come and pick him up." Shall we go? "He looked at me.
"Eh ..." I doubted, I really did.
"Go, I'll take care of them," Kara encouraged me, pushing me to leave, so I had no choice but to follow.
He grabbed my hand to guide me to the park, stopping when we were in one of the clearings. I smiled looking up at the sky, worshiped as the stars, reminded me of my childhood.
"Do you like it?" he asked receiving my statement. "Are you mad at me?" He asked sitting on the grass, forcing me to do the same.
"No, no, Mon-el, it's just ..." I closed my eyes
"There is something that I must say, I suppose" he removed the hair of my face. "But I can't do it neither of your form, nor of mine, but having as base this new culture ..." he explained beginning to get me nervous, "You know that I love you, don't you?" He waited for me to nod in order to continue speaking. "So you know I'd rather die than lose you, don't you?" he repeated the same process as before "Kaelah, be sincere, without cheating" he said getting my laughter "Answer me to this: Would you marry me?" he asked, showing me a ring.
"Mon-el ..." my nervousness was present. "Yes ..." I tried to whisper, not moving the moment he kissed me, smiling when he broke the kiss. "This means that you don't go, right?" I was confused, maybe too much.
"And leave you behind?" He looked at me. "No, Kaelah, no, I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving you." He kissed my forehead. "I hope your sister can take care of the kids tonight." he smiled and kissed me again.
"I hope so" I laughed with my forehead stuck to his. "I love you" I whispered.
"I love you too, Kaelah," he whispered back.
I opened my eyes because of the rays of the sun, smiling at Mon-el lying down beside me, completely asleep, so I spent some time watching him before tickling his neck, holding my laughter to see that he was moving, eventually turning to me, seemingly angry about it.
"Take advantage to sleep ..." he whispered hugging me, so I closed my eyes, trying, seeing me interrupted by my cell phone, so I had no choice but to separate him to take it.
"I didn't tell Kara," I whispered at the incoming call. "Yes?" I took off.
"You had a good night, didn't you?" She asked.
"Yes, thank you for keeping the children," I replied.
"Open the door or I swear I throw it down" she warned, so I hit Mon-el's arm before getting up to open it "Hey ..." I smiled allowing him to move with the pram.
"I love spending time with them, but next time warn me, I want to be aware that I'm not going to sleep," she commented as I watched the children, noting that they were both asleep "What happened last night?" She asked curiously.
I showed the hand without wanting to respond directly, hoping that she would deduce it, which she did, because she embraced me with contained emotion.
"I'm so happy for you, seriously." She smiled as she pulled away from me.
I smiled back at the time one of the little ones started to cry, so I approached taking Kaia.
"Hey, baby," I whispered, getting her to calm down at the sound of my voice. "Have you missed us?" I questioned, watching a smile forming on her face before she yawned. "Shh, go to sleep, sweetie," I cradled her.
"I have to go, I'll see you later," my sister said goodbye.
I placed them both in the crib before returning to the room and lying down again, closing my eyes with the intention of sleeping, but this time it was Mon-el who decided to hug me, scaring me enough to open my eyes.
"What if it's me who doesn't feel like sleeping now?" He smiled.
"I don't care," I replied, reposing myself, feeling him kissing my lips.
"I watched it in a movie," he commented and stroked the bridge of my nose.
I allowed him to continue with whatever he was saying and doing, letting me be unconscious in just a couple of seconds.
He watched her asleep beside him, hugging his arm with a small smile on her face. He could not avoid hugging her, sticking her even more to him, caressing her hair, focusing on keeping her asleep.
"You're so cute together," he was scared to hear her voice." I mean it, you're too adorable. "
"Mother, what are you doing here?" He asked confused.
"To receive an answer to my offer," she replied.
"I'm not leaving, I'm not going to leave them here," he explained. "You can leave without me, I will not regret it," he said, hugging Kaelah tightly as she tensed.
"Maybe you do, son," she said, disappearing from the room.
He sighed in confusion, was she going to leave permanently? Or was it part of her game?
Thanks for reading,
Ayrin