Departure ↠ Argent [3]

Epilogue

                                    3/28/2014

Dear Allison,

I can't do this anymore. I can't go on anymore pretending to be okay when clearly I can hardly breathe without you here.

No one has been the same since your death. Stiles surprisingly is the most normal one out of all of us now. I'm glad for him, he deserves that much after the complete hell he's been through. He's been blaming himself for your death, but I only tell him that it wasn't his fault. He wasn't the one who tried to change the future; to change fate.

As for Lydia, she calls me a lot now in the middle of the night because she can't sleep. Most of the time, we talk about how much we miss you until eventually one of us finally falls asleep. It's nice to know that someone is going through this pain with me, but then again, I wish she wasn't. She didn't deserve to lose you either.

I haven't seen much of Scott lately, but I've just been assuming that he's been grieving your death too and spending most of his time with Kira. I'm glad he's happy. He deserves it too.

As for me...I wish I could see your smile again. I wish I could see the way that dimple pops up on your left cheek when you laugh at something just one more time. I wish I could hear your voice again. I wish I could wake up in the middle of the night by your side, but I can't. Never again can I have those privileges. I wish I would have taken in those last few moments a bit more...maybe then it would fill my broken heart, but even that's unlikely.

I'm not really sure why I'm writing this letter. Someone told me that if I wrote down my feelings that it would help, but I don't think it is. If you were here, you'd probably tell me that writing you a letter is ridiculous, but then again, if you were here, I wouldn't have to write you a letter in the first place.

I love you, Allison. I always have and I always will.

I'll see you again someday on the other side.

-Corey

I shake my head as I stare down at the letter in my hands, the wind in the air trying to rip it away from me. This letter was one that I had written years ago...ten years ago to be exact. I had wrote it when I thought I lost myself with Allison. I forgot that it had even existed.

"I forgot I even wrote these," I say to myself, my fingers running over the words written on the paper. "I can't believe I still kept this one after all of these years."

"What is it?"

"Letters I wrote to you," I breathe, crumbling the piece of paper in my hands.

Allison smiles at me as she reaches for the paper. "Let me see-"

"But they don't matter anymore," I smile back at her, holding my arm away from her so she couldn't read it. It wasn't like I was embarrassed or anything for her to read it, but there was no point in her reading it now.

Allison raises her eyebrow at me. "Oh come on, let me just read a little bit of it."

I feel the wind rip at my hand as I let the piece of paper go, letting it fly in the wind. Allison gasps as she watches it disappear into the golden sunset on the horizon, the bright colors radiating off of her skin. I smirk. "It slipped."

"I swear when we get down from here, I'm going to kill you," she laughs at me with smile, her eyes filled with a happiness I was glad to see. Like my old letter had said, I wished that I had taken in her smile more, and now I did have that chance.

"If you kill me, you'll just bring me back," I smile as I scoot closer to her, wrapping my arm around her. "Just like how I brought you back."

"Maybe you're right," she smiles at me. "I love you too much to kill you for good."

I kiss her on the forehead before I pull her to where her head is resting on my shoulder. We both look out over the sunset, the chair we were sitting in rocking a little with every movement we made. For our first wedding anniversary, I thought I'd bring her back to the Navy Pier...finally being able to afford it and to bring her here under different circumstances.

"Happy endings weren't meant for people like us, Corey," Allison sighs into me, her hand finding mine as she tangles her fingers between mine. "How come we found ours?"

"We aren't at the end yet, so don't jinx it," I laugh as she shakes her head. "But I guess fate was just on our side, wasn't it?"

She sighs happily. "The world sure works in funny ways, doesn't it."

"Shh, let me watch the sunset in peace," I grin down at her as she rolls her eyes, the ferris wheel starting to lower us downwards slowly. The sun starts to set behind the clouds then, the colors of gold and pink fading away into darkness.

Allison sits up and looks at me then, not saying a single word. I cock my head. "What are you looking at?"

She grins. "Nothing, I'm just thinking."

"Thinking about what?" I ask her, curious to know what was on her mind.

She doesn't say anything as she kisses me on the lips, it still feeling like it was the first time. Being with her here and now was something that was supposed to be impossible; something that I didn't deserve. But somehow, fate dealt me the right cards, and I had her back...I didn't lose her.

Allison leans back as the chair rocks, staring into my eyes as she grins, her little dimple showing up like it always did.

"I guess I do believe in fate after all."

[] [] [] [] []

you don't hate me now, right? this wasn't even originally planned you guys..I just felt too bad to leave it off the way I did. I just wanted my babies to be happy.

but yeah, that concludes this series. Ill leave you guys with the wondering of what happened and how he brought her back, but at least she's alive, right? I'll be posting one other chapter with some other things I think you might want to see, so please come back for that.

I love you all and I hope you enjoyed reading.

xx