Adelaide - Finished!!

Sugar We Are Going Down Singing

Kevin's POV:

--- Ada?

He barely woked up in my arms but he started to kneel at her.
He mumbled something. "My queen", non-stop. Carlo was coming back with the thermometer. Adelaide's face was hard to read. Excited, surprised, sad.

He was trying to stand up, weak, also trying to kneel. I kneel at her.

--- I'm s-sorry

Then Carlo finally brought the thermometer. He stayed next to his brother, asking him:

--- Sorry for what? Come here, come, let's get your temperature, I think you are having a bad fever!

--- Did you bring the water?

--- What? No?! I couldn't hear you guys! I couldn't find the damn thermometer either!

--- There's no need to curse that way

---- Oh, there isn't? My brother is in the verge of a breakdown and there's no need to panic??

--- He's alright getting better, that must had been just something in the moment...

While we were arguing, Adelaide watched Cole trying to kneel at her. He did it. He said.

--- Your...Your highness..

And then he fell again. I got him this time, and carried him home. Adelaide stoped me, Carlo screamed at her. Then, she said:

--- Thirty seconds.

--- What?

--- Give me thirty. Watch out.

Saying this, she went closer to him and whispered.

--- You are there, aren't you?

--- Yes, my queen. And I need to-

Then, she grabbed his coat. She pulled it, and pulled him out of himself. It was weird to see.
Cole fell backwards on the ground.
She was still holding his coat. Holding Edmund's coat.
Did she just kill him???

Carlo passed out while I remembered I could call an ambulance. Oh, and yes, their 30 seconds. I was counting.

Edmund kneeled at her again. What did he call her, Queen? He was so in love with her, probably, that's what I thought.

--- You have my sincere apology. Wholeheartedly.
What are you going to do with me??

Suddenly, she hugged him. Tightly. Tears scaping her eyes. She said something, so, so softly I barely heard it:

--- I thought I wanted revenge. But I just wanted this. I wanted to talk to you. Listen what you have to say.

--- And did you? You forgive me? It was unforgivable and...

--- We got thirty seconds. Actually, now twenty. I just want to get this straight so we can move on cuz..

--- You didn't cuz of me??

She walked away quickly.

--- Shut up and listen. We don't have enough time.

He sighted and said it really fast:

--- It was your father. I know you won't ever believe me but he tricked me. Tricked me and tried to do it again. Making me the sucessor, not a women, not his daughter, not you. A man, me. He made me poison you, and I was a fool, I was the most--

She interrupted him:

--- You were blind. Like me throughout all those years. Blind by rage, you, blind by guilt, by love, even, in the end.

--- You believe me?

--- How come I didn't notice you two...my own father...

---- Also your mother!

--- I know. Now I know. But the past is in the past, and we both gotta move on. Even if don't together but one day I'm sure...

--- So, you forgive me?

--- Do I have something to forgive?

--- Yes, please. I lived my whole life with something to be forgiven. Even don't deserving it.

--- Ten seconds, you two!!

--- He sees us?!

--- Yes, but he's good. He helped me find you. You won't remember this but I--

--- How?? What?? I won't remember what??

After that she grabbed his neck and kissed him. Her hands were running through his hair, his hands in her cheeks. Tears in his own cheeks. She smiled and talked between kisses:

--- I forgive you, Edmund McCarthy. That's a royal pardon, so you have to accept it.

He held her even more tightly. At this point I felt like I was interrupting something, so I looked away. But I still heard him:

--- I don't deserve you. I never did. You...you regret it?

--- It could have been good. I could have ruled the world.

--- We could have done it together.

--- And we will. We will meet again, we will rule the whole damn world together, even if it is just our own worlds.

He cried in her shoulders.

--- We both chose questionable paths for...mixed reasons. Mixed feelings. Of using and being used. Abuse and being abused.

He nodded only.

--- But, do I regret??

He nodded quicker.

--- Not anymore.

She held his face.

--- You are the woman of my life, Adelaide, and even of my death. You couldn't had been more kind. You had many reasons to make me suffer.

--- I once did want it. But I think that's not how we learn. I mean, I think you learned your lesson.

He smiled sadly.

--- Yes, I did

Some silence.

--- Three seconds!!

She grabbed his wrist and looked in his eyes:

--- Until we meet again, Edmund. Until we meet again I will be happily waiting, but running down my own path. I hope you do the same.

He sighted.

--- I'm sorry for wanting to kill you in first place too, don't you worry.

They laughed. She kissed his forehead and kicked him to Cole's body, while he said.

--- Until we meet again, I'll be doing the same.

The sirens could be heard already. She fell in her own knees, crying.
Carlo woke up and thought he dreamt it, then he took Cole to the ambulance. He fainted for 30 seconds.

Cole's heart stoped to beat for 30 seconds.
Cole was dead for 30 seconds.