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twenty two // if i'm james dead, you're audrey hepburn - sleeping with sirens

Adrian

I knew there was something wrong from the moment the nonchalant laughing outside the cabin evaporated to silence. Nico noticed it too, and when he turned to look at me, it was the first time I've seen a desperate look of worry in his eyes.

The two of us broke out the door to see a team of paramedics led by Will Solace. Nico got through the shock before I did, and immediately rushed to his boyfriend. I followed hesitantly after, a really bad feeling in my gut.

I heard Nico's voice crack as he let out a small scream. It wasn't really a scream, but more of a noise between that and a gasp. He had gotten to the scene before I did, and I could just barely make out his kneeling figure as I stumbled closer.

"Get back!" Will commanded to the rest of the campers, the paramedics laying down a stretcher. "Move!"

I had to find Mystery Girl to make sure she was okay. I had realized this was by the climbing wall, and she often challenges herself here. I wanted to call out for her, but by the time I found my voice, I was at the scene.

I didn't have to call for her, because Mystery Girl was right there.

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I hated hospitals, and the Infirmary in the Big House was no exception.

Time went by slowly, and the silence between Nico, Will, and I made it only more tantalizing. As Will cuddled with Nico on an empty cot. I sat at the seat of their bed, and seeing Mystery Girl's unmoving body hooked up to IV tubes and medical things I don't understand made me realize how truly alone I am without her.

They say that love is forever, your love is all that I need.

It seemed so surreal that someone as powerful as Mystery Girl could actually get hurt. I leaned forwards, closing in the space between me and her dangling arm, and held her hand. I reached into my pocket with my other hand to take out a torn pack of Marlboro cigarettes and held one out to her.

"You can smoke one if you'd like to," I whispered, opening her palm. The monotone beep of the IV monitor sped up slightly, or maybe that was just my imagination. "Don't worry, our dads won't have to know."

Nico and Will weren't paying attention to us as I placed a cigarette in Mystery Girl's palm. I closed her fingers around it, and stood up to put her arm on her chest.

Mystery Girl was beautiful in this moment, and she looked so serene without her signature eye-roll every second of the day. When we weren't stargazing or talking, she was always beautiful. Like Sleeping Beauty, except she'd probably kick me down there for making a Disney reference. Man, that movie was cheesy.

I sat on the edge of Mystery Girl's cot and leaned over to brush her hair out of her eyes. She had the deepest eyes I'd ever seen, and because that was the first feature I noticed about her, it was my favorite. I wanted to stare at them again, to get lost inside them, but they were closed. I could only think back to those nights on the rooftop with our hands together and her eyes illuminating everything in the night. The way she told ancient Greek stories as if she were there when it happened was quite captivating. That was when she was happiest, I suppose.

Again, like Sleeping Beauty, I wanted to hover above those lips and kiss Mystery Girl so that she'd finally wake up and we'd have our Happily Ever After.

But fairy tales are only tales, and so I stared at her never-changing face.

I looked back at the other cot, and Nico was staring back at me. He reached into the pocket of his oversized jacket and pulled out a coin.

"Put it on her mouth," Nico murmured, staring at Mystery Girl's blank face. "She'll have a safer trip in the Underworld that way."

I took the coin from Nico's bony hand and did as he said, placing the obol carefully. Part of my finger grazed her lips, and I shuttered inside with the familiar feeling.

"Just in case, right?" I asked Nico, sure that this was just a precaution.

Nico looked down at the floor and refused to meet my eyes, and muttered, "Yeah. Just in case."

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