Bloodlines

Saying Goodbye

I could have sworn that I heard his voice. But it doesn't matter now. I'm dying. I can feel my life slipping away. No matter how hard I tell my eyes to stay open, my eyelids just grow heavier. No matter how I force myself up, my body refuses to stand. I just laid there and thought to myself. My poor babies, my husband and my unborn child...what would happen to you without me?
But oh well, I guess. It would take a miracle to save me. With my bones shattered, and mind turned to mush, there's not a lot of me left. Even if I live, what good am I too my children?But they would be devastated if something happened to me...but maybe it's for the best...
I heard foot steps and then a pause before they started walking towards me again.
"Amethyst," this voice wasn't Manta's but it was just as rude,"You must get up."
I tried getting up,"I knew you'd save us," I tried to wrap my weak arms around him,"My hero."
"Amethyst. You must get up." He demanded.
I opened my one good eye,"Kal...I....can't."
"Please," his voice becomes softer,"You must...I can't lose you too."
I felt someone, I'm guessing Kaldur, pull me into his lap and he began to stroke my hair,"What...do you mean..?"
He got quiet and stopped combing my hair.
"Kal," I gasped,"What..happened?"
"Opal, Alexandria, Tulio," he took a long pause,"they didn't make it. Manta poisoned them. They died in they're sleep, peacefully and together."
My heart broke into a million pieces,"He did what?!"
"I'm sorry."
I couldn't hold my tears,"You're lying! My babies are okay! They're fine! They're waiting for me at home and they're laughing and playing together and-"
He had to be lying, I thought. His voice was robotic and he had to have been making up the way they died up. He didn't really know what happened to them. He was just trying to make it better.
I couldn't yell anymore. I could barely let out a whimper. I felt my body get heavier.
"Please love," he pleaded with me,"I need you."
I felt my eyelids get even heavier. My body became limp and I couldn't move,"Amethyst, my love please don't leave me too."
"I'm sorry...I shouldn't yell at you like this when I know this is our last moments together," I took a struggled breath,"You gave me everything-"
"Amethyst please don't," I put a weak finger to his lips.
"It's okay babe. You'll be okay. I'll be with them. Again. And hopefully be happy."
"Don't talk like that, you'll make it!"
"Baby...you know...I won't-"

I shook her as hard and as fast as I could,"AMETHYST GET UP! YOU WILL NOT DIE ON ME! GET UP!!"
When I realized that she wasn't getting up, I stopped. My fathers men arrived as I was carrying my dead wife in my arms. They all had their guns pointing at me and telling me to stop. But i could not stop.
"Take me to my ship."
They gave me questioning looks and stares,"Your ship?"
"Yes. My ship," I continued walking,"Did you not see your bosses corpse on the ground? I'm your boss now."
They stared in shock.
"Don't just stand there! Move and do as I say! I'm Black Manta now! Get me on my ship get send some men to get my children's corpses and call Ra's Al Ghoul!" as I walked away I mumbled to myself,"I know that Ra's owns Manta a favor."
A guard came up to me,"Sir, what are you planning to do?"
"I'm bringing them back."