Kryptid

Chapter 30 : twilight

Alex pov:

The pain manifested itself into a monster. That was the only way to describe it. It had claws and teeth and it was killing me. It lashed out at my chest and left lava on the wound. I screamed but I was trapped in my head. My body was failing, dying. I literally felt my body dying and my heart failing. I could feel every single part of my body that was suffering from the pain. I tried holding out but my resolve failed. I silently begged to die. This pain was inhuman, intolerable. It spared no part of me and consumed me slowly like wildfire. I was scared. I was going to die. I could feel it and I was terrified of the idea. Then I thought of why I was dying. I had taken that knife for Isabelle. I had done it to protect her. To keep her alive. I had traded my life for hers. This made the pain worth it. Suddenly the pain dulled, replaced by a warm feeling. Dying wouldn't be so bad. Isabelle was alright and safe and now she wouldn't be hunted. She would be sad but she would move on. She would live. The thought filled me with happiness and the warm feeling spread.

I remembered hearing that when you died the brain released a chemical that made dying painless and easy and happy. That's what was happening. I could feel it. The infinite darkness filled with pain and sorrow was giving way to a light in the distance. The closer I got the more everything faded. Finally I was done. I could sleep and never have to worry again. Suddenly a bloodcurdling shock went through me and the light disappeared. The pain rushed back in and I regained focus. What the hell was I thinking. I couldn't give up. I would fight. But the pain was getting worse. I could barely think straight. But I would fight. I would endure. For Isabelle.

Isabelle pov:

I swam through the gray murkiness. Where was I? How had I gotten there? I tried to think but my thoughts felt like mud, sticky and unmovable. Finally a bit of clarity hit me. The skyscraper. Alex dying. I had to wake up. I had to save him. I heard very distant noises and I tried to wake up but I couldn't. My body wasn't responding. I tried and tried but something was stopping me. Before I could wonder what it was my thoughts fogged over and I fell back into peaceful bliss.

I was waking up again. I could feel my thoughts solidifying, becoming clearer. I could feel my body. I was in a soft warm bed. If I was ok then why was I so worried? I could just fall back asleep into this comfy bed. "Isabelle wake up. Please. We need you." I heard some distant voice ask me. I recognized the voice slightly. I swam through the the layers of sleep curious to see what the voice was. Suddenly my eyes darted open. It was bright I closed my eyes again. I felt like my entire body was half asleep. I could barely move.

I opened my eyes again and they adjusted to the brightness, only then did I realize I could barely keep my eyes open. I was in a hospital room, max was to my left sitting in a chair looking at me worriedly. To my right a doctor stood in front of a doorway. "What's going on?" I mumbled. My voice didn't work fully. I was confused. Where was Alex? "My name is Doctor coulson. I'm the one who's trying to save your friend Alex." He told me in a gentle voice. Then I remembered Alex. My heart took off in my chest. I tried moving but as barely able to. "What happened? Is he ok?" I asked. "Isabelle calm down. Listen to me. You're friend is dying. We've stabilized him for now but he's deteriorating fast. His left lung has been punctured and he's lost a lot of blood. He has a very rare blood type, O negative.  One that we don't have on stock here. But there is one person here who has the same blood type. You. But even with the blood his chances of surviving are very slim. There is only one thing we can do. It's a highly experimental treatment the military has us testing. It's not legal for me to use it but I'm asking your permission. Let me use it so I can save his life. You're the closest thing he has to family so I need your permission." The doctor told me. Tears welled in my eyes. Alex was dying as we spoke. "Do it. Do whatever you have to take as much blood from me as you need but just save him please." I begged as I started crying. The second I said anything the doctor opened the door. "Nurse get in here." He shouted and soon a nurse came into the room with a cart.

By now I was hysterical. Alex was dying. Because of me. He tried protecting me and now he was dying. Max was holding my hand and trying to reassure me but it wasn't helping. I also became aware of a pain In my ankle. The nurse poked me with a needle and soon a warm feeling spread up my arm. I looked at the nurse who was removing the needle from my arm. "It's to help you relax." She said softly. Slowly I settled down. My vision went blurry as the nurse started drawing blood. By the time I felt the blood being drawn I was already asleep.

Alex pov:

Help me, I begged in my head. I couldn't fight much longer. It was so bone wrenchingly cold and the pain was almost too much to bare.  Voices swam in out of the pain and darkness, speaking gibberish. The feeling in my body came and went and when I could feel it, it was agonizing. I felt a new poking sensation in my arm and at the same time something cold flooded into my chest. This time the pain was severe enough I slightly writhed on the operating table. "Sedate him" the tiniest voice whispered. As the cool liquid entered my chest another feeling replaced it. The feeling of being completely lost.

Time passed. Years passed. I was trapped in an infinite gray land. In the distance there was a whole land of unexplored things. Feelings, sensations, voices and pain. Always the pain. My thoughts wouldn't move. It felt like they were frozen and unreachable.  Every Time I tried to reach anything I was rewarded with a dragging feeling like I was falling down into nothing. As what seemed like years passed I noticed that ever so slowly I was resurfacing. Waking up. But between me and the outside lay all the pain and murkiness that held me in this land. The longer I stayed here the more the pain grew. I would wake up soon. I felt it. My thoughts started to move at a maddeningly slow pace. I dimly remembered a building an me standing on it in the rain. Why would I do that? I wondered to myself. 

Then the fog completely and utterly cleared. I could feel my broken body. Something was holding my leg in place and there were bandages covering the wound in my chest. My entire body was lit with pain and I couldn't move. Where was I? Where was Izzy? Was she ok? I started to panic. I couldn't move and I could barely breathe. There was something in my throat making it hurt. I had to wake up. Something was wrong. Then I felt a weird cooling sensation in my arm and with it the fog came back and I was pulled under.

Voices swam through the darkness. By the time I heard them they were distorted and quiet. I couldn't make out what they were saying or who they belonged to. Something was keeping me under, Making my thoughts turn foggy and making my body seem like it wasn't there. It felt like I had been trapped in this place, this twilight zone, for years. I prayed this would end soon. I was going crazy here.