𝑩𝑼𝑻 𝑫𝑨𝑫𝑫𝒀 𝑰 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬 𝑯𝑰𝑴 - aaron warner

PART THIRTY ONE- soon you'll get better

I place my hand onto the tank and wait for a hand to touch mine through the glass to signal that emmaline knows im here.

Once i see the webbed fingers weakly press against the glass i know that emmaline doesnt have much time.

"Im not letting you die, emmaline." I whisper.

NO

I must die, i cannot live like this.

"Im going to fix you and make everything better please.." I say with tears forming in my eyes.

Aaron comes up behind me and places his hands on my waist for support.

"Please trust me.." I beg.

The glass shatters and i kneel down taking emmalines body into my hands.

I have to die.

She says and i start sobbing, "no please im going to find a way—" she cuts me off.

You must kill me now and then burn this place to the ground.

I feel my heart break into a million pieces.

I start shaking, hot tears are streaming down my face.

Memories hit me like bullets from a machine gun.

Me and emmaline baking together making a huge mess with flower.

Us building a snowman at christmas and then racing back into the house to open presents.

Us eating ice cream together during summer.

Her holding my hand on the first day of school.

All sorts of memories hit me, how am i supposed to let her go?

I used to always think nobody wanted to play with me as a little kid, but now i know emmaline did. She was my bestfriend.

I always thought i only had elemental powers but i feel something strange coursing through my veins.

A new power?

My hands start glowing a bright gold colour.

"W-what is happening—" I ask scared and confused.

The gold leaves my hands and passes through emmalines skin.

Its moving to her heart, i see it glowing.

It spreads out over her body radiating out of her skin.

I love you

She says it as if shes about to die, is she..?

"I love you too." I whisper through tears.

Shes dying.

Suddenly, i notice her skin becoming less transparent, her feet and hands less webbed.

Her eyes immediately open. The beautiful blue oceans that i thought i would only ever see in my memories.

Her nose goes back to normal and her lips too, i take the generator out of her mouth.

"Emmaline..?" I ask gently.

"Aurora—?" She says.

We both hug, "i promised you id save you." I whisper.

Shes violently sobbing, i dont blame her shes been in a tank of water for like 15 years and knew she had to die and has just been given another chance.

Realisation hits me.

The power of second chance.

We have had to sacrifice many during this battle deep down i always thought emmaline would be one of those.

But now i feel the most amazing feeling wash over me. Shes alive and im hugging her.

True happiness.

I disconnect all of the wires attached to emmaline.

"We need to get her clothes." I say to bella.

"Theres clothes on the plane, how about for now she puts on this?" Bella says handing me the hospital gown i had on.

I pull it over her body.

"Emmaline can you walk?" I ask standing up and holding her hands incase she falls.

She nods, "yes i think so." She says taking a few steps forwards.

"Right lets go before anyone dies." Kenji says.

We all start running down the halls.

We make it to an elevator and all squeeze in pressing the ground floor button.

It feels slow waiting for the elevator to rise too the right floor.

Eventually it makes a ping sound and the metal doors slide open.

We rush out and too the doors.

A group of scientists rush out of a room and i stop for a second seeing loads of the patients who are known as subjects.

"We have to set them free—" i say coming to an immediate halt and shooting the scientists.

"Ror the plane will not fit all those people." Kenji says.

"We need to go." Bella demands firmly.

"We dont have to take them with us, but we cant leave them, that is people like me. I was one of them thrown into that room and only taken out to be tested on."

"I know some of those people in there." I cant let them burn to death in here.

I walk to the doors and open them.

"Aurora!?" One shouts and i hear multiple gasps.

"Is this all of you?" I ask looking around. Theres babies children, mothers, fathers,  families all in here.

They all nod. I hear a few people saying yes quietly.

"Im setting you all free, i cant take you back with me so you will have to look after each other. But the supreme commander of oceana is dead. You may live on unregulated turf and do as you please now." I say propping both the doors open and letting all the people come rushing out.

Once i know all the "subjects" are out of the building i nod to aaron, kenji , bella and emmaline.

We run out of the building and toward the plane.

I watch as patients run free leaving nobody behind, sprinting towards all of the houses on unregulated turf.

They are free.

Iam free, emmaline is free.

The weather is beautiful now, emmaline is not controlling it against her own will.

I look around at the four of my friends.

I dont have a biological family anymore. But they are their replacement. I dont have to be aurora mishkin daughter of the supreme commander of Europe and the reestablishment anymore.

I can just be me.

Life is beautiful and bright.

And im ready, im so ready to move on and leave it all behind.

Im never going to be the girl getting tested on and abused by her family again.

Aaron and bella are never going to be abused again by their father.

Kenji is never going to have to worry about being killed for loving bella.

And emmaline, emmaline will never be locked up in a tank away from the world after being tortured and tested on by her parents waiting patiently for death ever again.

We are completely free.

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I have been waiting so long to write this soon you'll get better chapter and its finally written💓💓 omg huge plot twist🤯 i couldnt let emmaline die , in another universe she survives and it might not be in the one we read in shatter me but if i can write that she survives ofc im gonna she deserves to live☹️shes so sweet💓