The damaged brains

Chapter 38 - The End .

        *****  Eight Months Later *****

After the incidence of Unt Laura and Kevin, both Ian and I  though without really stating the obvious knew it . Deep inside we knew that the others were all dead , somewhere out there in this cruel world .

For the last eight months we hadn't seen any sign of hope nor of humanity , Grey and  Cassandra hadn't been anywhere to be find ..

From time to time I even wished to see the infected people , or even the army ! Yes that sounds insane but that much solitary gets you out of your logical mind .

Couple of times  Ian brought a cat to the cottage , they both died not after long and we decided no to have a pet after all , pets die and we did not really need more of the word death .

After Ian burried Unt Laura and what had left of Kevin's poor body we agreed to leave the cottage for good ,we gave up on the hope we held on to that his sister and my brother would be back but after that I got really sick , and I was at the edge of life ..

Ian had wandered through the city collecting medical supplies from its empty hospitals , in less than a month he turned the cottage into a virtual pharmacie ..to my relief he'd done everything he could .

We grew to love each other more in the past eight months , I'd be long dead without having him here with me .

One night and after we had our usual late-night dinner of grilled vegetables , I curled up on Ian's lap as always resting my head on his shoulders  .

" Ian .. " I whispered in his ear while he kept looking above the gray pacific ocean , the darkness surrounded the place and only few stars shone faintly in the cold feburary sky.

" Humm " he hummed under his closed lips still staring at the far distance ahead .

" Do you think we'll ever find any survivors ? " I asked the question for the one million time , I felt myself to be an old grandma who's sick with a weak memory , he gave me the answer he always had given me .

" Even if we don't Em , we still have each other , I would trade the whole world to be just with you and honestly I feel blessed . " Wasn't he the sweetes man alive ?

I grabbed his face with both my hands as we got lost in the most passionate kiss , he ran his cold hands sleepily  under my shirt and rubbed it over my swollen belly .

" Do you think ... " His eyes got wider with joy and excitement .

" Yeah .. " I laughed .

" I think it was a kick yes ! ." I said and we both laughed out loud while he kissed my pregnant belly .

I lost myself again on Ian's shoulders and suddenly I thought about everything I had gone throught , this time not as Emma Peril but as Dua Ying .. the secret I kept even from my ownself .

I remembered the cruelty I had killed my mother with, and even after she died I ripped the skin out of her body .. not for self defense no , I felt a vague will to destroy who ever knew my secret and by calling me cursed I knew she had find out .

Even poor Unt Laura , how merciless was I when I broke her neck ..the poor old lady came to warn Ian , she knew I was cursed and unhuman and I couldn't risk to fail after so many decades of waiting .

I remembered how had I ate the little boy's flesh , I did it to make a show .. yes I am a coldhearted creature  . This whole pandemic was nothing but a first step to what's yet to be fallen on this damned world .
       

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At a far point where the gray pacific ocean stretched away to the horizon a light flashed on and off , exactly when I expected it .. Grey was ready too .. well Domenic Ying was my eternal twin's name if the world is intrested to know the name of the damned twin who lived through the begining of time ,Cassandra was about to give birth too .. that's what his signal ment.

When the signal stopped I grabbed Ian's hand and laced my fingers into his , he did not know about my secret but I knew his ..  one way or another the beast within him had to rise up , it's high time for us to end this miserable world and let live the cursed two beings yet to be born .. my own child and my brother's  shall rule the world and we too shall die and vanish once they'll be born .

An evil smile appeared on my lips as a bouts of pain ocasionally invaded my body that night and at last the pain got intense , I couldn't handle the pain and I knew I was about to deliver .

Ian gave me an alarmed quizzical look.

" Yeah .. it's time . " I answered him not waiting for him to ask .

I saw the edges of Ian's lips quiver , it was as if he was forced to speak of words that wasn't his own .

" As I told you my love , I shall love you harder when we meet again .. "

                         - The End -