Eunomia

Chapter 73 "Stupid asteroid"

~Bryony~

I entered the industrial unit with Sebastian, he could barely walk so I helped him, the blood made his T-shirt have a redder tone that seemed black and his mouth was also dirtied with that same dark liquid, there was a stake going through his heart and all I could think about was that this meant the end but I refused to accept it... There has to be another way.

"Help him!" I begged when I entered catching Ambrose and Leoni's attention that immediately came running to us.

I helped Sebastian to lay on the floor because he could barely stand his weight and I didn't want him to waste his energy in something as dispensable as standing.

"What happened?!" Leoni screamed as Ambrose bent down to get to Sebastian and pulled the stake out of his chest, the stake rolled on the floor and I moved away so that Leoni could get closer to Sebastian.

"I don't know... I didn't see it but when he turned around he had that... stake deep within his chest and I think it went trough his heart..." I hurried to explain with the fear of losing him reflected on my voice.

Leoni and Ambrose tried to evaluate Sebastian's situation but at some point Ambrose stepped away, Leoni and Sebastian stared at each other without blinking and I could see a tear escaping Leoni's eyes. Sebastian tried to raise his hand to touch Leoni's face, she grabbed it and placed it on her cheek. Sebastian smiled, he gave a long blink and looked up to Leoni again, she had her eyes full of tears and also tried to smile at him but she let out a laugh that sounded so broken and so full of sadness that I also felt her heart  breaking, because mine was doing it too.

Leoni got up wiping away her tears, her mascara wasn't ruined but her eyes were glassy from crying.

"Come on, Ambrose..." Leoni stifled a sob. "Let's leave them alone." Leoni grabbed Ambrose arm and was about to leave the industrial unit, probably with the help of her friend because she seemed weak.

I didn't understand anything what got me angry. They were leaving, they were leaving Sebastian, to do what? Die? How could they give up so soon, I wasn't up to let that happen.

"And that's it? Are you going to let him die?!" I screamed aware of my anger and that I paid it with them fairly, they wanted to let Sebastian die without fighting.

Leoni and Ambrose stopped walking, I looked at their backs without being aware I was creating an illusion my chest went up and down euphorically, that was the way my heart would beat if it could.

"You are cowards...." I sobbed falling on my knees but I wasn't going to let them turn around and see me so broken, Sebastian was barely some feet away from me so I went to him. I held him in my arms and I he looked at me.

"It's fine..." He got to say but he lied.

"What do you want me to do?!" Leoni turned around annoyed when the true is that she was as sad as me. "I can't do miracles, Bryony. A stake in the heart means the end. I can't change that..." She sighed trying to calm down. "Wounds in the heart don't heal... You end up dying from them."

A chill ran through me because she was very right in that sentence. Wounds in the heart are deadly, I died once from one and I didn't want to let Sebastian die that same way... Though he would die in a more literally way I wasn't ready to accept.