The Devil and I: The Battle Within.

The End.

Everything was quiet. I didn't notice David coming. He grabbed my foot and dragged me towards the fire.
"You know he deserved it Emily. He killed my Elizabeth."
As I was being dragged I noticed a loose rock that looked pretty sharp I lifted it and tucked it into my pocket. I felt so numb. I lost him. I lost Morgan. My Harry had lost his daddy.
"What are you going to do with me?"
I looked at him now, he looked calm even though he had just witnessed his brother who had waited for him, who looked for him just fall to his death. He just looked at me and shrugged.
"Kill you probably no point letting you live if Elizabeth isn't there anymore."
"What about Harry?"
His face went blank and I got angry,
"My son you bastard! The one you promised Dolly! The one you stole!"
His face briefly showed a look of acknowledgement but then he kicked me in the face causing me to blank out briefly. When I came back to the room I wished I had blanked out longer because David was staring at me with about a metre of rope. I was glad my little boy was hiding but I didn't know what would happen to him with his mother and father gone. Maybe he would try and find Newt and Lauren. Maybe he would find someone close to here and be sent to a children's home. I just needed him to be safe. I knew that if Newt had heard what had happened he would make sure my baby was alright. Emily, get up! Fight! Oh mother I wish I could but I have nothing left, my head feels like it's been completely ripped apart as does my soul and heart. My heart only beats now for my little Wolf who will be lost in a world of officials and strangers. Would he even remember me or Morgan? No Emily! Fight! I needed Elizabeth. She could solve this, give me some time. Mother find Elizabeth tell her to come! Until my mother could find Elizabeth I needed to distract him. I sat up showing him I wasn't scared. In fact I wasn't scared, not for me, but for my son I was. For Harry I was terrified, he wouldn't understand why we weren't there anymore, he wouldn't understand why he was alone.
"Where did you get that?"
He stopped straightening it with his hands and looked me straight in the eye. His black eyes were blank, although he was Morgan's brother he was nothing like him. He was cold, dark and horrible. He had killed for the sake of killing. He had brought a curse on us when he made that deal with John, who he had Morgan help him kill because the deal didn't go the way he wanted. He was spoilt. If things didn't go his way he would force them to be somewhat the way he had imagined.
"Believe it or not but I've been living here."
"Why not go back to hell? You fucking belong there you should have gone back and rotted away. Alone and miserable forever. You deserve it."
"Ouch! Someone's spitting venom today."
I smiled even though it hurt my face but I tried not to wince even as blood trickled into my mouth from the cut on my lip,
"What can I say David? You bring the Devil out of me."
He laughed at me. He was still laughing when my mother came back and said she is coming just hold on. Behind David I saw a white mist that didn't look like the smoke from the fire but something completely unearthly. David didn't stop laughing when I pulled myself to my feet but he did stand too and pushed me back to the floor. He stopped when a voice echoed from the cave walls, the voice was sweet and delicate.
"David."
He stopped dead and looked to every wall to see where the voice had came from but I knew where it came from. David must have seen me looking at her because he turned and found her.
"Elizabeth!"
He ran towards her as if I wasn't there anymore, it's the way it has been since I was born. David never saw me as Emily he only saw the Elizabeth in me. He tried to hold her but she was just mist so his arms passed right through her.
"Elizabeth you came back!"
He sounded upset but that was probably because he knew if she stayed forever he will never get to hold her again. I thought back to Morgan and how I would never get to hold him again, how I would never see him smile or push his hair from his eyes in the dim morning light. I was over come with a rage so deep and so dangerous I barely could stop myself from screaming but I did but it left me shaking with it.
"I want to touch you."
"But you can't my love, you can't. Just wait"
"Why?"
I felt the rock I put in my pocket shift as if it was begging me to use it, I put my hand on it and pierced my hand with the tip. The pain felt good for a moment but then I realised the distraction I had asked for was here it was my time to act. My time to finish this. Elizabeth's misty form became more solid as she folded herself into David's arms where she stayed as I locked eyes with her. Her head gave me a brief almost unnoticeable nod.
"I can't stay in this world David it's not mine anymore..."
Elizabeth unfolded herself and looked deeply into David's eyes. I quietly and gently stepped closer, with each step I felt my arm getting higher and locking into place. I was ready. David was completely unaware of me under I pierced his neck with the rock and drew a line across his throats making sure I added all the pressure my body could. It was deep as I felt it knock bone so I had to draw it back and go over the bone. I prayed he would die.
"It's not yours either my love."
Black blood poured from the cut and went on my hand. It felt like tar. David's eyes were wide as he sank to his knees trying to hold the gash while looking between the ghostly perfection of Elizabeth and the broken version of me. He managed to gargle out Elizabeth's name one last time before he went completely down to the ground and this time I knew he wasn't getting up. Elizabeth stayed even when I dragged David's body towards the flames of the fire he built. She stayed and watched him burn with me. She looked pained but I was completely numb to it. I had killed him. I had burned him. Yet I felt nothing as I smelt his flesh burn and watched him wither away in the flames.
"Thank you."
I said to Elizabeth without taking my eyes off David.
"Thank you Emily."
"For what?"
"Setting us both free."
I looked at her and nodded as she faded away. I stayed until there was nothing but ash and pieces of bone. It was only then I could think of my little boy alone. When I left the cave the sunlight hurt my eyes. I knew I had to tell Harry his daddy was gone but I wanted to wait for a moment.
"Harry?"
I saw his little head pop up from the rock and he ran towards me but stopped a few steps away.
"It's okay honey;"
I guess I looked nothing like his mother, I was cut broken and beaten but I was alive,
"I will be okay, we will be okay Harry. It's over."
And with that he threw himself into my dirty bloody arms. I cried as I held him knowing now he would not become a nameless face in the care system but he would be safe at home with his Mama. I pulled apart from him and we sat on the grass by the opening of the cave. I couldn't stand anymore, I was in pain and I knew it wasn't going to get better as I calmed myself to tell Harry about his dad.
"Harry."
"Yes Mama?"
"Harry your dad...he's gone."
Harry looked at me as fresh tears fell down my face stinging the cut in my lip, he looked devastated and looked back towards the cave. His body fell against mine. He had tears in his eyes. I stroked his hair getting ash and blood all over it but I didn't care I'd bathe him later, he needed me to comfort him. He needed to know his mama wouldn't leave him. I looked out to the car we had came in and I felt Harry's body stiffen. In that moment I panicked that David was back even though I watched him burn. I dragged myself and Harry away from the cave opening without looking back trying to get as far away as my body would let me but Harry stopped me in my tracks when he said,
"No he's not!"
I looked at his face when his words gained gravity and I turned to face the cave and saw my Morgan coming out. Morgan. I slowly put Harry down. He ran towards him but I could barely stand. I saw him fall. It couldn't be possible. I stumbled my way towards him trying not to get my hopes up because he might be a ghost like Elizabeth was. I was slow but Harry was fast and made contact, my knees buckled. He was here, he was real. I didn't even notice his injured hands until he held them out to us to stop Harry until he realised it was too late to care if he got blood on him. His eyes were all on his boy until Harry turned and looked at me. I was on my knees with a hand clutched around my throat. I couldn't believe it. Morgan ran over to me holding Harry in his arms. He sunk to the ground next to me. I put my hands on his face and he smiled.
"Oh Morgan."
The three of us hung onto each other so tightly it was as if the world was falling from around us. I looked him deep in the eyes and he smiled telling me he was okay and I kissed him. It was a deep kiss that hurt my lip but I just didn't care I needed this level of closeness.
"How?"
"I climbed, I climbed for you, for Harry. Trust me it wasn't easy."
He showed me his hands, but then looked at my face with more pain than I ever thought possible to be there after we were all together,
"I love you Emily. I fought to be alive for you, for your family. I climbed with everything I had. It looks like you did too. I'm sorry I didn't stop him. I'm so sorry this happened to you."
He was almost crying.
"Morgan it's fine I will heal. But I couldn't be without you."
I kissed him again. He carried me to the car, I realised how much it must have been hurting his hands but he wouldn't let me walk. Harry opened the door to the backseat and Morgan slid me in. We were together. We would make it. As he was going around to the drivers dear I leaned forward and put my hand on his shoulder,
"You promised me you wouldn't leave me...i thought you had lied but you didn't. You came back for us."
He kissed my hand and turned to me and Harry, Harry had now sat in the passenger seat,
"As long as i have breath in my body and love in my heart I will fight for you Emily, for both of you."
I fell more in love with him at that moment. He was my world and Harry was my sun.
"How do we explain this to the hospital?"
He laughed and turned back to face the steering wheel,
"Now that's a good question."