💫💀Drowning (rewrite) | Sanders Sides

Chapter 13

"Roman, we gotta go, you gotta wake up, come on-"

"No-"

"Please, Roman, we're counting on you-"

"You don't get it-"

"Roman, let's go-"

"Remus, I don't want to wake up!"

This leaves me speechless. Anger festers inside me like a boiling pot about to explode and I can't hold it back any longer.

"Well, that's just great for you, Roman, it's just great that you have the rest of your short life planned out and it's great that you have goals but keep in mind, we're connected! So if you wanna die, go ahead, but I'll die, too! I'm going grey and I'm sick and I'm shivering and I know you're suffering and I'm so, so sorry and I can make it better when we get back to the real world, but for both our sakes, please..."

I reach out to grab his hand, and he doesn't pull away.

"Please, come home. So none of us have to suffer. So I don't have to suffer."

Roman thinks for a minute. His brows furrow like little fuzzy centipedes and he presses his lips tightly together. So I started singing.

"I always thought I might be bad, now I'm sure that it's true, 'cause,

I think you're so good, and I'm nothing like you,

Look at you go,

I just adore you,

I wish that I knew!

What makes you think I'm so special..."

The crease of his mouth twitches and suddenly there's not one, but two voices. Harmony and melody. The same person, the two people, singing one song. Yin and yang.

"If I could begin to be

Half of what you think of me...

I could do about anything

I could even learn how to love

like you."

Roman smiles brightly, looking into my eyes, and warmth floods through my entire being. I look at my knees and the color's stopped for the time being.

Healing.

That's the key.

Suddenly, a crackle of thunder rings through the air. Rain pours down, tarnishing our outfits, and one of the seven dwarfs, I'm assuming Bashful, runs up to Roman with a panicked expression.

"Sir! Please! I'm sorry to bother you, but there's been an attack on the castle by the Dragon Witch, and it looks like there's about to be a massive thunderstorm. We have it under control for the most part, but please hurry and come help the citizens!"

Roman tugs away from me and the warmth disappears as his fingers slip away from mine. "I have to go and save my people."

"No," I say with such force I think Logan would be proud of me. "The storm's only here because you're on the brink of death. I've been here for too long. You need to wake up to save the kingdom."

"But I told you I don't want to-"

"Roman. Listen to me this time. You're going to wake up. Either that...

either that or we'll all end up dead."