Amethyst Genesis: Bleeding Ruby

Rested Arms

Hal groggily wakes from his slumber, the effects of the venom slowly wore off but lingered, he scans the room slowly he was in same room he was when Fey barged in last time. He notices Kara quietly napping at his bedside, passed out but sweating. "Did I save her?" he thought, "WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?" His mind raced to when he was last awake, but it didn't pop up in his mind. All that mattered was Kara was safe, he hugged her tightly, waking her up, he started sobbing in relief that she was alright. Kara, after being hugged by him, burst into tears that he woke up and held her tight. The pair was reunited and safe.
Hearing the crying, Jeta burst through the door, with stress marks adorning his soft blue eyes, sees Hal awake, he fell to his knees happy that Hal finally woke up. "You've been knocked out for a whole week. We were so worried!!" Kara says crying. Hal's shirt was soaked from her tears and in relief that he was alright.  He smiled weakly and caressed her hair and started to soothe her. Kara's catlike eyes stared at Hal's; it glistened as she was wiping away tears.
Jeta smiled that the two were together again at last. Hal's body was left unfazed by dehydration and hunger due to the venom not only knocking him out; but saturating his cells throughout the whole time he was out cold. Aria walks in sipping on coffee and smiles at the two. She envied their bond. Kara grabbed Hal and looked him straight in the eye and with a gaze piercing his soul and screams at him "I'm never letting you go, ever at all, you are not leaving my sight!!" She grips his shoulder tightly with her hands. "Promise me you'll never do that again!!" she demands shaking him to accept the promise. Despite it being 9 days of being separated, the two missed each other dearly, they were inseparable. 

Hal tries to wobble out of the bed, but she holds him down, "Promise me, you won't sacrifice yourself for others. Promise me you'll live for yourself." Kara pleads holding him still. Hal struggles for a bit to avoid answering. Defeated, he sighs "I will, I promise." he hesitantly answers. Kara gets off of Hal and sits on the chair next to him. "Its been a week since you last moved. I don't think you should be getting up anytime soon." Jeta says, pulling in a wheelchair from the hallway and moving it closer to the bed. "But if you want to move around, Kara can use this." Jeta turns away and walks back to the hallway. "I'll leave you two lovebirds be." Aria smiles and winks at two and follows Jeta out to the hallway, leaving the two as red as tomato vines. 

"Here let me get you on that." Kara says as she lifts Hal up to the wheelchair, carrying him like a princess; making him blush as she does it, and rests him on the seat. "Thanks..." Hal says as he rests his face on his hand, moving up after waking up took a toll out on his stamina. He lays back and sighs in exhaustion, Kara starts to steer him to the exit of the door. She started wheeling him forward towards the exit, but she stops. Hal puzzled at her pause, he moves his head up to see what was with her, Hal saw a sight he hasn't seen in a while, he saw Kara grinning playfully at him, as wide as the horizon, with a sudden burst of movement, she ran, wheeling him fast; she wanted to have fun with him.

As the two zoomed around the hallway, Hal noticed Kara was laughing for the first time in a while. All that stress from the nights before and recently was washed away with relief. As the two reached the stairwell, Hal motioned her to stop wheeling around. He put his hand on his knees, and arduously rose from the seat. It took quite a bit of effort to stand but with Kara's support by lifting his shoulders over hers. The two proceeded to walk slowly upstairs. "Heh, it's been a while since you acted so sweet with me." Hal poked at Kara. "Shut it, we both know I could just drop you, sliding down faster than a sack of potatoes." Kara chuckles to Hal. The two managed to reach the surface, and into the lounge.

 "I noticed you weren't opposed to being called love birds, hm?" Hal teases, while resting on the seat opposing Kara. "Because I don't oppose the thought. In fact, I look forward to it." Kara says confidently towards Hal. Hal's face went red, and he smiled at her, she didn't oppose the thought of being with him, she wanted it. "I guess, Mom approves, we are close after all." Hal sighed smiling in joy of her confession. Kara holds his hand tightly. "I've been wanting you all this time, despite what has happened so quickly, godlike beings and weird monstrous beings, I want to be the one who protects you." Kara says with enough devotion it warms up the room. "You really are the one treasure I can't afford to give up." she says holding his other hand tightly, clasping both in hers. "If that monster even lays a hand on you, I'll make sure you are safe." Kara continues as she pins him slowly down to the couch. "So please, be mine and mine only." she asks with loving pleading eyes. Hal can't resist her cuteness; the pair was inseparable after all. "I do." Hal says surrendering himself to her embrace.

*sip*

The two's moment was interrupted by Aria loudly sipping coffee while watching the two from the kitchen . They look at Aria, bright red in embarrassment. "Don't mind me carry on what you two were doing, just not on my couch." Aria said, the two got off of each other and started to hide their faces in a pillow. "That couch cost me a pretty penny, I don't want you ruining it, Miss Kirinui." Aria sighs stirring up more creamer in to make her coffee less bitter, "Damn it, we only got hazelnut." Aria empties the bottle. Hal and Kara smile at each other in confidence, that regardless of what comes at them, they'll fight it together.

 Aria swings the fridge door wide open, and reaches deep to find something, she gasps. "JETA GET YOUR ASS HERE NOW!!" Aria yells out. Jeta rushes downstairs with great concern, "I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY THE LAST SLICE OF CHEESECAKE WAS FOR ME!!" Aria smacks him upside of the head with the note, "What's this?? What does it say on it?" Aria shoves the paper in his face. "A name?" Jeta answers dazed "ITS MY NAME!! AND YOUR FATASS STILL ATE IT" Aria screams. Jeta gets spooked and tries to run away, but she grabs his leg and drags him downstairs. Hal and Kara hear a scream as the door slams, not from Aria but from Jeta.

Hal and Kara snicker and burst out laughing over how ridiculous the events that just transpired were.  As they were wiping away tears, Hal picked up the remote and turned off the tv, it played a broadcast of, people surveying the wreckage of the floating island Lyra inhabited, nobody was harmed due to Aria and Fey's efforts, but the rubble still was a nuisance for the citizens. "After you passed out, Jeta hit Lyra so hard, the island shattered and fell to the ground below." Kara says, hands reaching behind his shoulder. 

The lighthearted relaxing atmosphere, suddenly became eerily quiet as Kara, fixedly stared at the screen, Hal turns to see what she sees, he himself goes quiet from the sight, the report showed Lyra standing on top of the rubble, and her slowly walking toward the camera from the hill of rubble. Lyra grabbed at the camera and gazes directly at the lenses. "Oh Hal~ I know where you are, I know how you double-crossed me and I'm not too pleased, give up and I may spare your little girly." Lyra smiles after saying those words. She reaches through the lens of the camera and to Hal's unfortunate surprise, she managed to reach her hand through the screen, she traveled through radiowaves of the broadcast to get to him faster. 

Kara's eyes widen within the split seconds as Lyra breaks past the screen and stands over the two on the couch. Kara grabs Hal and, with her right hand, she tears open a rift in space and throws Hal in. "Kara!!" Hal screamed as the rift shuts, trapping him inside.  And at that moment, Hal saw only darkness.

THE END