Supernova

Chapter Seventy Nine - Too Good to Be True

A/N: I'm telling you right now...don't get too comfortable. I'm warning you with the chapter title, damn it! Do Not Get Too Comfortable. Consider yourselves warned!!

The next morning, I woke up to silence and solitude with a grin on my face. Sure, my boyfriend may not want to marry me, if he was even my boyfriend at all anymore, but not a single thing could kill my mood.

Today was the day I was getting rid of Elias.

There was, admittedly, a part of me that would be sad. Somewhere in that dumb multiverse he used to talk about to me sometimes where everything was different, there were versions of us that really were twins, or at the very least friends, and I'd have been lying if I said I wasn't jealous of them. But these versions of us were poison for the other, and if this Elias stayed the fuck away from me and got the hell out of my life, we'd both be safe. How could I not be happy about something like that?

Katsuki was who the hell knows where when I made my way downstairs and I didn't see Kiri either. But who the hell cared? Not me! I was about to run across the city to Demon and Elias' empty apartment where the three of us would get in a rented car and take it to the airport, where they would get on an international flight and I would stand there, making sure they sure as hell did.

This. This was what bliss felt like.

I couldn't get over there fast enough. I ignored Mina's screeching and Midoriya's tell Claeson I say bye, and thanks for everything! Thanks for anything besides a big heap of nothing would be a bit of a steep ask in terms of messages I'd be passing on to Elias, but I sure as hell would tell him bye! I thought about it giddily the entire way over, the walk up the stairs, and into the apartment.

But then I saw it. The nothingness. The emptiness, aside from the duffel bags and suitcases, of a space I'd napped in, cried in, healed in, confessed in, apologized in. It hit me like a devastating tidal wave.

"Hey Nova," Elias greeted me.

"Took you long enough," Demon scoffed. His voice was so low, and he refused to look at me.

"Oh no," I managed as my vision started to blur.

I'd been so happy about getting rid of Elias, I hadn't thought to practice saying goodbye to Demon. Again. That really was the stupidity of it. Maybe I figured things would be different this time around because I didn't love him anymore, but that wasn't exactly all the way true. Maybe I had learned to love him in a different way, because this was excruciating.

"That's about as much crying as I can handle," Demon said. I heard the front door open and close.

"There's no need to cry," Elias said, the blur of his form coming over to me. "It's alright. It's not forever."

I was disgusted by how badly I wanted to believe him.

Tears fell for a little while longer. Crying was always the easiest thing in the world once I'd gotten started.

I wasn't sure how long I would have continued to do so if it hadn't been for Elias releasing his grip on me and telling me that he didn't want to be late, and we'd better get going. I tried to recall the excitement I'd had about him getting on a plane today, but now it just felt like one of the universe's insufferable unkindnesses.

I kept it together halfway decently on the car ride, so long as I didn't make any attempts to look at Demon. Which I didn't, really, except for a few instances to check whether or not he was being just an avoidant with his gaze, which he was. None of us spoke. None of us even tried to.

The airport made me feel like I was going to puke. Luckily, I'd been treated to some breakfast and the last of the black blood I might ever drink, so I was keeping it together worlds better than I should have been able to. I wanted so desperately to be happy, but there was so much tragedy laced in every step the three of us took closer to the security gates where they'd be passing through and leaving me behind.