The Moon and the Earth

Chapter 25

Maddie

That night I stayed with Moon. Once again we fell asleep in each others arms. I kept waking up to make sure she was ok and to give her the dose she needed.

Then a thought came to mind.

I carefully got up as not to wake her and went downstairs, luckily her mom was in the kitchen reading a book. She looked up at me and smiled.

"Is everything alright?" she asked.

I nodded. "I have some questions about Moon."

"Yes."

"Is there really no cure."

Her smile faded and she set the book down.

"There is, just not for her."

"What?"

"While she was in a coma, they made a cure, and it worked for anyone born with it or if they were injected with it, but they tried it with her while she was out, and it didn't work, they tried it again when she was awake, they didn't tell her what it was. And it still didn't work. When they came up with it she had it for so long, the disease had made permanent roots in her. People who are now say 50, they can take the temporary solution if they had it as long as she had."

I took this in.

"What I have doesn't affect me like Moon, it threatened my life once and that was in, I recently found out they can remove it. "

Her smile came back.

"I want to inject myself with what Moon has once they do."

I could see the shock on her face.

"W-what?"

"I love Moon I really do more than I love anyone, and I know she feels the same way you can see it. But one wrong move one slip up," I paused for a moment and looked down. "one time I forgot to give her the dosage, and she doesn't realize it, one time and I have lost the only thing I live for , everything that matters to me."

I could see it in  her eyes, she knew this was true.

"What would she say." I asked.

"It wouldn't be like how it was with Sam, we all knew she wouldn't want him when she woke, and granted he still hasn't given up, he has been calling the house every day. But with you, a part of her will be glad she can spend your lives together, another part will be sad that you have to suffer as she has. When do you plan to do this."

"The surgery to heal me is in a month."

She nodded.

"Spend that time with her, don't let her know, she will stop you."

I nodded and thanked her for the information. I went upstairs and slipped under the covers taking Moon with me. She cuddled into me.

I whispered into her ear. "I love you."