Consuming Darkness: Sebastian Sallow

Chapter 85

-Ronnie-

Pain.

Everywhere.

There wasn't a part of my body that didn't hurt. It coursed through me, reminding me that I was alive.

No... No!! I kept my eyes closed tight. I didn't want to be alive... To live in a world where Sebastian was dead... Pierce was going to take me... use me! I wanted to die! I needed to die! Tears poured from my eyes at the reality of my continued existence when I felt something in my hand.

My eyes opened and rested on my hand to see a bloodied and broken hand in my own. My eyes followed it in disbelief.

"Sebastian...?" My voice didn't even sound like my own and was barely audible.

But how? I'd heard Pierce scream that he was going to kill him the last thing I'd heard before the world had faded had been him screaming the killing curse. Was this some sick way of Pierce trying to manipulate me? By putting his lifeless body so close to me? I choked on a sob looking at his beat-up body.

My Bash...

I had to get up...

I called out in pain and pushed myself up. There were so many things broken in my body. I favored my left arm, my right shoulder dislocated. My breathing, labored and painful from broken ribs. "Sebastian...?" I asked, tears welling in my eyes once more. I reached out and pushed my hand through his hair.

"Sebastian..." A sob tore through my body. I cried out in agony, the pain of seeing him like this was worse than anything I had ever experienced. Worse than death itself. I pulled myself toward him my hands on his face as I cried.

I laid my head on his chest, resigned to letting myself die here with him, letting my grief consume me, my heart-shattering in my chest. I wanted to die here with him before Pierce could take me away.

Wait... my eyes looked around, keeping my head on Sebastian's chest. Where was Pierce? I saw a body lying on the floor a little bit away from us, with a piece of the floor sticking out of the neck.

"Pierce?" I asked with a hoarse voice. I could hardly recognize his face, but she knew it was him. He was... dead? How...?

Then I heard something that sent a shock through my whole body and filled me with a glimmer of hope.

A heartbeat.

Sebastian was still... alive? No... it was my mind playing a cruel trick on me. I had heard Pierce cast the killing curse. I knew I had. What happened... But then how did Pierce die?

I heard the doors to the Map Chamber open. "Ms. Underhill?"A voice called out.

I didn't respond, I focused hard on listening to Sebastian's chest. And then I heard it again, a weak but steady heartbeat. The sound constant.

He was alive.

"Help!" I shrieked.

"Please! Help me!" I shouted desperately to whoever had just walked in. "Please! He's alive!" I felt my vision narrowing again at the exertion I was forcing my body to endure. It didn't matter... nothing mattered except that I had to save him. "Please! Help!!"

"Veronica? Sebastian?" Professor Weasley's kind, but panicked voice washed over me. "What happened?"

"I... I don't know... I... my head..." I responded. "Please... I thought he was dead... he's not he's alive... please help him!" I gripped onto Sebastian.

"Okay... Let's get you two to the hospital wing," she said calmly. "We'll get you help."

"I'll be okay..." I breathed out, trying to stay conscious. "Please just help him..." tears continued to stream down my blood-stained cheeks.