Kairi & Erik (My Alien Romance)

Kairi & Erik The End

Okay here it is the end! :( It kind of makes me sad. I might write a sequel we'll see. I just wanted to thank everyone who has read along with this story. I appreciate it I know that I didn't get that many reads but it never was a popularity contest with me so I just like knowing that somone read what I wrote and liked it! So thanks so much everyone for all the comments especially you rozamate! Your comments kept me posting! ;D

"Here he is" I said handing over my heart in the form of a dejected looking Erik.

"Thank you" the man in the black suit said "you did the right thing." As I watched Erik walk away I felt like I was trapped in my own body. What are you doing I screamed to myself. The pain was growing the farther he walked away slowly tearing me apart. It was a physical pain right where my real heart was thumping wildly. Why how could I have just turned him over. I wanted to run after them to scream that it was all a mistake but I might as well have grown roots into the ground. I was frozen in place. I wanted Erik to look back, to see his face one last time. Erik granted my request but I almost wish he hadn't. The look he gave me pierced me straight through my already bleeding heart and then he was gone.

Somehow I made it back to my home which was surprisingly devoid of my family. I noted this as an aside not something I really cared about.

I turned on the TV in my despair trying to erase the look of betrayal I saw on his face when they had dragged him away. It took me a second before I registered what the newsman was saying.

"Yes you heard right folks. An alien was discovered in our presence a true from the stars alien. Unfortunately there was a complication while the said alien was being questioned about yes you guessed it an invasion. The alien died this morning at 8:00 a.m." Erik's face cold and lifeless was plastered across the screen. I dropped the remote and I heard screaming coming from somewhere. I realized that it was I who was screaming and I turned and ran from the house. I just kept running as sobs racked my body. What had I done? I had betrayed him. It was my fault, all my fault. I looked up realizing I had reached the shore where I had first seen him for what he truly was and a new wave of grief washed over me. Not even thinking I ran to the edge of the cliff jumping off. I couldn't keep going, keep living, knowing I had betrayed him. As I fell I took in the angry waves seeming to reach up greedily to suck me in. I plunged into the icy cold water wondering what would take me first. Would I drown or would hypothermia set in first. I didn't care. I didn't even fight the waves as they pulled me under dragging me deeper and deeper under the water. Erik should have never saved me that day. I shouldn't exist in a world where Erik doesn't. I could feel myself running out of air and as the darkness started to creep in I mouthed the words. "I'm sorry... Erik."

I woke shaking with tears running down my face and my arms reaching out. My body wouldn't stop convulsing as grief washed through me.

"What's wrong" I heard a voice ask tenderly as arms wrapped around me.

"Oh Erik" I said as I clung to him and relief washed through me. I was relieved not that I hadn't perished but that he hadn't. It... It was just a dream. No not a dream a nightmare. As I lay there in his arms slowly my shaking slowly I rejoiced in the fact that he was here, alive, safe, at least for now. As he stroked my hair trying to calm me strangely my mind wildly turned to the story of Romeo and Juliet. I had never really understood Romeo and Juliet before. What would possess someone to turn their backs on their family or destroy their own lives because of someone else? Now I understand a little better. For I stand at a crossroads. It is not a choice between the right path and the wrong for both paths would end in grief, because I had a secret, a big secret, a secret so immense that the fate of the world may lie in whether or not I expose that secret. Yet if I do I'll betray the one I love. So which path do I take, save the world or protect the one I love. As I lay there in his arms I see one path fading away and I realized that I never really had a choice.

"Kairi what's the matter" Erik asked staring down at me worriedly.

"I know the truth Erik" I said sounding tired.

"What do you mean" Erik said shutting down and looking guarded.

"Please don't play pretend" I said standing up. I had made my choice but I was angry. "I know why you're really here. I know that you lied to me." Erik eyes widened and he opened his mouth several times but nothing came out. I got up and went outside grabbing my coat as I went. It was cold crisp morning and the fresh air felt good on my puffy eyes. It still hurt that Erik had said he loved me but had called me his enemy.

"Kairi, we need to talk" he said coming out behind me. I nodded at him trying to hold back tears of a different sort.

He led me through the woods giving me space unlike the way we usually strolled together.

"I'm sorry" he said "no wait let me finish" he added before I could cut in. I closed my mouth determined to hear what he said.

"I don't just mean I'm sorry for what I've done to you though I truly am. I'm sorry for coming here. I shouldn't have I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway. I followed my orders instead of my head." Erik took a deep breath and turned to look at me.

"I was going to ignore my conscience. I tried to convince myself that your kind didn't deserve this planet that I was just setting things right but then I met you. You showed me how good and beautiful and pure your kind could be and I fell in love with you. Someone I was supposed to hate. You were so that I couldn't believe that you were real, that you actually existed? You were perfect for me in every way and I knew that if I lost you I would lose myself but I had responsibility, obligations, I had sworn oaths. I loathed the person I would be if I hurt you. Yet would I turn my back on my people and if I did how would I protect you." I felt myself starting to warm as his seeped into my frozen heart. I could hear the ring of truth in them.

"I remember one day at school before you knew and I looked at you into your beautiful clear trusting eyes and I thought how could I betray this girl, this human? It tore me up inside after you told me you loved me. I remember it kept running through my head what would she think if I told her the truth about my real purpose here, that I had been sent to study and learn her people's secrets so that my people could destroy them? How could she possibly love me after that?" Yet I could I thought. Nothing could stop my love for him.

"Then I realized that I didn't have the answers to my questions but it didn't matter I would rather spend a little time in paradise with you here then a lifetime without you. Listen I know I blew it and I know there is no way you could ever forgive me and if you want I'll take you to the police station so you can turn me in (I shuddered as he said this as images of my dream flashed through my mind) but I want you to know I'll do my best to protect you from them, whatever it takes to keep you safe." I held my hand silencing his words.

"Erik" I said "I know this might be hard to believe but I can't not love you. I tried last night when I thought you were going to destroy humanity but even then I couldn't..." I shook my head unable to continue. I saw hope slowly spread over Erik's face as I said this.

"Erik I forgive you. Who knows what I would have done if I had to make a choice like yours." I said this to be nice to Erik. I knew that no matter what situation I had been put in I would have loved Erik and I could never harm him. I reached up tentatively and stroked Erik's dirty face. I pulled him towards me and he read my intention and met me halfway. Our lips mingled different from any other kiss we had shared. Others had been all heat and passion. This was slow, tender and sweet.

We pulled apart and continued our stroll Erik grabbing my hand and his fingers slid perfectly into mine like the spaces between my fingers where made just so his could fill them. We walked into a small clearing and I smiled as we looked up at the stars. I realized that love is complex, sometimes illogical or irrational, and also irrevocable. Here I stood with a man that could not only destroy me but all of my people all humanity my own personal Romeo, my love, my life, my soul mate, my enemy. Yet love him I did and always would. I would stand here beside him whatever decision he made. I had already made my choice. Come what may I could not betray him.

The End

* So I was wondering if people who read up to this point could comment and let me know what they thought of the book and give suggestiona. Let me know anything I could add or change! Thanks!