Remembering. (LIAM STEWART x OC)

Chapter 15

Gens POV

I wake up to multiple voices and I automatically freak out. I move suddenly and I begin to fall out of the tree but I don't hit the ground. Chubs uses his powers to stop me and when I get my balance he crosses his arms.

Liam is still asleep but vida and Jude are back now. They are arguing like brother and sister and I laugh at them.

"Jude! You can't just eat them!" Vida raises her voice at which I shush her. Jude doesn't like it when people yell at him. It makes him scared and makes him feel vulnerable.

"I didn't know!" He says back.

"What's wrong now you two?" I ask them at which vida turns to me and looks like she is about to cut someone's head off.

"Jude almost ate poisonous berries." Vida says calmly but I can tell it's only because she is guilty about yelling at Jude. I feel my eyes bug out of my head and I snap my eyes to judes face.

He looks guilty. "What!?" I yell at him.

"I thought they were good!" He yells back and I'm surprised he found his voice.

"Ok ok! Just... don't eat anything without asking me chubs or Vida." I say to him. He nods at me and we have a little group hug.

"Ok chubs I'm gonna go scout the area for things we may be able to use!" I yell over to him and walk away before he can say anything to me. Truth is I'm trying to ignore Liam and I think he knows that.

I walk around for about 3 hours before I hear vida yelling for me. When I show back up she tells me it's my turn to watch over Liam. I pray that he stays asleep while I'm watching over him.

I run my fingers over his stubble and the feel of him is so familiar, yet so unfamiliar at the exact same time. I go to move my fingers away from his face but he grabs my wrist.

"Don't stop. That feels nice." He says. I panic and visions of the time in the woods flash through my mind.

"What?what are you smiling about?" He asked me. I reached up to tame his wild hair and as soon as I realized what I was doing embarrassment flared in my chest. I went to take my hand away when he grabbed it.

"Nope. Mine now." He said and I smiled softly.

I felt tears prick at my eyes but I blocked them away. I pulled my hand away and he frowned. He opened his eyes and looked at me. Neither of us said anything and I tried to act like he wasn't affecting me.

"Are you just gonna ignore me?" He asks.

"Tell me about the girl from your dream. What's she like?" I asked him. Surely we aren't the same.

"Well she looks like you. She...she smells like firewood...and oranges. But not the bad kind- more of a citrus kind of smell. And...I have this Polaroid of me and her." He explains to me. I smell like firewood cause of my powers and oranges are my favorite fruit. We took a Polaroid together at the mall that one time.

"She is a green. She is always wearing black...like she is at someones funeral. She tells me that black is the absence of all color. She has these...the auburn colored eyes. She...she is the best thing that ever happened to me." He says. I told them t first I was green. I did always wear black. My eyes are auburn in the dream because that's how he sees me. I can't say the same about being the best thing to happen to him.

"She replaces the nightmares that come of my escape from camp and I like that. It's like she is saving me in a way." I like to think I saved him in a way but I know I only screwed up his life more for him. He can never know what happened.

"She sound amazing le-" I stop myself for saying lee. "Liam ." I finish.

He nods but it's hesitant. He caught me trying to call him Lee. "Here. Charles told me to give you these meds when you wake up along with these natural meds." I hand him them along with water and crackers.

"Thank you." He says breathlessly. I play with his hair more and when chubs walks up to us I looks like a deer caught in the headlights.

"Genevieve I need to talk to you." He says. I nod and we walk off while Jude and Liam converse.

"What the hell are you doing?!" He yells at me after we have been walking for a while.

"He wanted me to play with his hair..." I mumble.

"What game are you playing at? Do you love him or not? Do you want him to have his memories or not? Are you going to stay with us? Or not." He yells and then whispers the last part. I feel so bad when chubs starts to cry.

"I'm sorry chubs." I say to him but he shakes his head.

"No... don't say that when you don't mean it. You were never sorry about taking his memory!" He yells.

"I regret it everyday!" I yell back. I feel my blood and veins get hot.

"You know, it isn't the fact that you took his memory and now he barley knows who he is, it's the betrayal that hurts. You betrayed us all." He spits at me and that's all it takes. My hands light on fire and it spreads across my whole arm stopping right before my sleeves.

He backs up and I follow him. "Scared now?" I ask him. He doesn't answer just stands his ground.

"I took this out of his life!" I wave my arms in front of his face. "I didn't remove myself! I removed a monster who would only bring him pain!" I yell.

I cool off and the fire fades. He goes to touch me but he feels the heat coming off me and stops. "Gen..." he starts but I wave him off and storm away. I can't have him yelling at me like this. It hurts me so much what I did and now he is using it against me and it's not fair. He can't to that.

I keep walking and then I start to pace around. I feel a panic attack coming on. My fingers numb and I can't hear anything. I hear feet behind me and a panic I turn around and throw my arms out with fire on my hands.

When the tears clear out of my vision I see that it's Liam. "Oh my god." Is all he says and I panic even more.

"I...I ca- I can explain... please just let me- don't leave me... please don't leave!" I sob and fall to the ground. He walks as fast as his body will let him and crouches down to my side.

"Auburn." He whispers. "Tell me 5 things you can see." He says.

"Trees, grass, moss, leaves, you." I say

"4 things you can touch." He says again.

"Your skin...the ground... my clothes...your hand..." I say in between cries.

"3 things you can smell."

"Smoke...trees and rain." I say calming down a bit more.

"I forget the rest... I'm sorry." He says and I laugh a genuine laugh.

"Why did your eyes look like that? What are you?" He asks me and I let out a shaky breath. I don't want to do this.

"I'm not a green like I said I was. I'm a red... and a orange." I tell him and he nods but he looks so confused.

"How?" He asks me.

"I'm not sure. We were looking into it for a while but we couldn't figure it out." I say and realize I said we, not me.

"We as in me and a group of people." I say and he nods still confused.

"Who?" He asks me and I know I'm about to let the cat out of the bag.

"The league..." I say and he stands up. He falls and I go to help him but he moves out of my grasp.

"Your our right though?" He asks me and I shake my head no and I can feel the tears pool in my eyes. He pulls at his hair and curses under his breath.

"What the hell is going on?!" He yells and the whole group comes over. Here we go.