I saw James' body as it folded to the floor, and an echoing scream matched mine. Emma couldn't stand the sight any more than I could, and I felt the tears start to sting the back of my eyes. How could he be dead?? I turned to look at Jack as the tears escaped. I wanted to kill him where he stood, wanted him dead by any means.
"You can save him." Jack said with a gleam in his eye.
I didn't want to listen to him but I didn't have a choice. James' body laid not 5 feet from me life less on the floor. How could I save him?? What did this monster what from me??
"How can I save him?" I asked as a fresh torrent of pain washed through me.
"Come with me." Jack said.
Was he kidding me?? Go with him?? I would rather be dead. I would be as good as dead if I left with him. I thought to myself. But I would walk to hell and back to save James.
I looked over at Emma and saw the pain in her eyes as she dropped to the floor and screamed out James' name in vain. I couldn't let her suffer like this; I know the decision I had to make and it might literally kill me to do it.
"Fine, I'll do it." I said as she gasped and looked at me. I hoped the sympathy I was feeling was showing in my eyes.
"No, you can't Sophie." She screamed "I can't lose you too."
Jack smiled and took a step closer to me and I involuntarily took a step backwards. I could feel a wall behind me. I was trapped; he grabbed at my waist with his hands and lifted me up. I cringed at its touch, but I was frozen in place. As if on their own accord my legs wrapped around its waist and I started to cry again.
And that's when it happened; I felt flicker of hope inside. He looked at me perplexed, "You would really give your life in exchange for his?" He searched my eyes like he was trying to figure me out.
"I would, in a heartbeat." I answered almost too quickly but it was the truth none the less.
"But why, he is just a mere mortal," He was searching my eyes again. It was like he was trying to read into my soul. "Why? Sophie, would you do such a thing? You would in fact die for him."
I honestly didn't know how to answer his unique question. But the truth was I was in love with him, plain and simple. "I love him." I blurted out as I looked at his body again.
The look on Emma's face made it evident that I had finally spoken the words out loud. She gasped as she was pulled out of her own grief to look me in the eyes again. "What?" she asked completely shocked, not because of the vision that lay before her but because of my matter or fact statement I had said.
"I love him." I said again as the realisation of the words finally dawned on me. Oh how true those words were, I had never even realized it in all the time I had spent with him, all those hours of talking and laughing. I really did love him and if I died right now I wouldn't have been happier.
Jack seemed to be taken back by my words as well, he released the hold on my hips and I sank to the floor. "You love him." He said looking sideways at me.
"Yes." I said with convection "I do, and I would gladly die to save him."
"Humans and their petty emotions," He said looking at me with degust. Then he turned on his heels and walked away. "He'll be fine in about an hour, maybe less." Jack yelled over his shoulder and then disappeared as quickly as he had appeared.
I stood up and walked across the floor to where Emma sat and knelt down beside her. "Why didn't you tell James how you really felt about him?" She asked.
