Save Me

CHAPTER 9: PAPA

Twen's POV

Jamie turns to look at me and smiles, he has blood dripping out his mouth and down his neck. He has his hands over his stomach, and they too are covered in blood. Jamie turns his body in my direction and begins walking towards me.

He gets a few steps in but then stops and collapses to the ground, he falls to his knees and coughs up more blood in the process. I jump up from the ground and dive to his side, catching him in my arms before he completely fell to the ground.

"J-Jamie," my voice and body trembled as I hugged him and felt how cold his body was.

"T-Twen...put me down." I do as Jamie says and carefully lay him down on the ground.

"W-What do?" Cracked my voice as my tears continued to fall. "How help."

Jamie smiled at me and shook his head no. "You...must continue...without me now."

"NO," I cried out. "No leave you...can't."

Jamie grabs a hold of my hand and continues to smile at me. "I will...always be with you. No matter...where...you are." Jamie coughs up more blood but doesn't stop talking. "I'll always...be here." Jamie lets go of my hand and places his hand on my chest.

I place both my hands over his, and cry out, almost waling, not caring if someone or something heard me. "P-Please...please no leave me. No live without you."

"Y-You have to go...before anyone else comes."

I throw myself on top of Jamie, careful not to hurt him, and hug him as I cry. "Please no leave me, papa." I feel Jamie twitch under me and then feel his body tremble. I feel as his arms come around me and I hear him begin to cry.

"I-I'm...sorry Twen. I...couldn't keep...my promise." I shake my head no, not wanting to hear as he says goodbye to me.

"I love you...with all my heart."

"Love you, papa."

There's a silence as we sit there hugging each other, crying in each other's arms. Though it's soon interrupted with Jamie pushing on my chest.

I let go of Jamie and I can see how pale he is from blood loss, how he's covered in blood, and how his body trembles. Jamie smiles at me and says, "It's time."

"It's too late," coughs the rogue, "they're...almost here." I look up towards the rogue, I had forgotten he was still here. The rogue looks the same as Jamie, he's covered in blood, his body trembles, and he's very pale.

I look back towards Jamie with worry, but when I look down his eyes are closed. "J-Jamie," I whisper.

"JAMIE," I yell out. "OPEN EYES." I shake Jamie trying to wake him, there is desperation in my voice and my eyes are clouded by my tears that have no end.

I call out to him and shake his body over and over again, but to no avail, he doesn't awaken. I sit him up from the ground and hold him in my arms, rocking back and forth as I cried my eyes out.

Not even a couple of seconds pass when I hear noise out in the distance of the forest, I know it's Michael and his rogues getting closer.

I look down to Jamie in my arms and look up into the forest, sniffling and with tears still in my eyes, I carefully place Jamie down on the ground.

"I sorry papa." I run my hand down his forehead to his cheek. "I sorry papa." Reluctantly, I get up from the ground and run in the opposite direction leaving his body behind.

I run as fast as I can, not looking back, tears pouring out of me. As I run there's only one thing going through my mind, and that's, that I'm a terrible person, I left my papa behind.