The Genie's Curse

Chapter 32

Keme watched her and looked at Allon momentarily mouthing the words, 'seriously?' He didn't pay the food another glance shifting in his seat away from the two closing his eyes.

Her lips twitched up, "Thanks." She dug into it taking a big bite of the burger stopping when she did and shewing it slowly. She looked over at Allon and swallowed, "Do you like the changes there have been through time?"

"Some of them, others not so much." Just as they spoke the doors opened and people started getting in the plane, "We can talk later. We shouldn't miss our flight, maybe you can tell me what it is you don't like."

They didn't talk much in the flight and kept to themselves, any time their eyes were caught staring at one another it just tensed up the atmosphere. The topic they were previously speaking about, left aside not even mentioned. Few times asking how much longer the flight took and that's about all the communicating they did before reverting back to the silence amongst them. The silence just got them all thinking back on the times that had long since passed, specifically for her.

The idea of finally fixing her wrong doings seemed still so astonishing. Everything that had happened in total these past months had been one surprise after the next. Getting found was really something she didn't expect, after being buried so long. But beyond them, the mere thought of having help on the revenge she'd wanted for hundreds of years was just unbelievable.

Before she could even notice they were out of the plane, she was already in another car headed to Banaue, a famous region of the Philippines. Where Keme had reasons to believe, Keir could be. And just like the plane, the car ride seemed to start with the same silence.

"Is no one going to say anything?" She asked from the backseat at the two who sat up front, Allon driving this time unlike the last.

Keme looked back at her with a puzzled look, "Say what?"

"I don't know anything." She insisted, unsure of what really to talk about.

Allon spoke up, "Banaue is a beautiful place, I'm sure you'll love it."

"What's so great about it?" She asked, looking at the two.

Keme began his barrage of reasons, "Everything, it's an amazing place, the view is breathtaking, people are great, it's simply fascinating. Just think about it, Tsuru, picture yourself having fun and enjoying it."

She sighed, listening to him, "Where in the world haven't you been yet?"

"Um..." he stopped to think, "That's actually a really good question," Keme tapped the door with his fingers rhythmically thinking, "I can't really think of anywhere I haven't been yet."

"Really? No, where?" She was surprised to hear that but it was to be expected, they had been around for a very long time, it was simply that since she hadn't been everywhere she expected it to be the same for everyone.

So many places to visit in the future, yet her head is still stuck in the past

Tsuru clutched her lamp tightly against her chest and looked at Keir standing not too far away, having his back facing her, "Keir?

He half-turned to look at her, a long scar covering half his face while smaller ones trickled at the corners, "Yeah?"

She floated closer to him and placed her lamp aside, "Make the wish..."

"You know I won't-"

"I'm not asking! I'm doing this for your own good, Keir, please! Just say it, I'll make it happen, there has to be a way around these rules." She was sobbing by now wanting him to just be done with it all so things could return to normal. So he would be back to his old self, no more scars adorning his body, no more worries of watching him fall ill.

He grabbed her hand gently rubbing her palm without looking up at her, "Would it make you happy?"

"Yes!"

Keir rested his hand on her cheek and pressed his thumb on her lips, stepping closer and closing the gap between them with a hug, "I wish to be immortal."

Her eyes closed, and her fingers snapped... the rest is an endless void of failed revenge...

"Tsuru, wake up. We're stopping to eat." Keme was shaking her back and forth until she opened her eyes and winced at the light shining through.

Rubbing her eyes and letting out a yawn before unbuckling her seatbelt, "Sure." She didn't take a good look at the place just getting out of the car, to begin walking behind Keme, "Hey... I got a question for you."

"Yeah." He stopped in place and looked at her from the corner of his eye, "Ask away."

"Do you think I'll hesitate?"

He turned to face her completely and questioned, "Hesitate?"

"Yes, Keme. Do you think I will? When going to kill him..." She repeated.

"Will you?" He stared at her.

"I'm asking you, come on. Just tell me, do you think I've got all it takes?" Tsuru huffed, she looked him dead in the eyes.

Keme tucked his hands in his pocket and sighed, "Through all the years, I've seen people do things I've never even imagined they'd do... so I can't say what you can and can't do. Nobody knows you better than yourself. Heck, I could spend an eternity with you, and you could still surprise me." He took a breath, "So, I won't answer your question Tsuru. Because I don't know the answer... it doesn't matter to me what you choose to do anyways. No matter what you choose, I'll stay by your side, I'll still follow you around even if you decide not to kill him. And if you do, I'll be here to wash the blood out of your hands."