Fallen Angels

Chapter 8

Oliver's pov.

I woke up dazed and confused but lay still trying to remember what had happened to me the previous night before I blacked out and couldn't remember anything.  I closed my eyes and went through the day in my mind what had happened from the time I woke up to the time that I couldn't remember what happened to me.  I remember training with everyone and telling Lydia that she couldn't fight with us and then she proved me wrong and kicked my a**.  She went in the house and Safire showed up.

My eye jolted open and I sat up, instantly regretting it.  I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen that felt like someone had taken a knife and shoved it into a cut that had already began to heal to make it worse.  I sat for a second holding on to where it hurt the most and waited for the pain to go away and I slowly stood up.  I thought harder about what had happened and remembered that everyone had began fighting and I was fighting Safire and then she grabbed my throat and I passed out.  She only got to me because I worried about Lydia, but then again if she wasn't there who knows what would have happened. 

I have to go make sure that everyone is okay. I grabbed a black t-shirt out of one of my bags that were on the ground and changed into it slowly and carefully so that I didn't hurt my self again.  It hurt to walk to so I moved slowly when I walked toward the stairs.  I thought that I wouldn't make it down stairs until Christmas.  Fortunately I did make it down the stairs, unfortunately it took at least five minutes. 

To my surprise when I reached the bottom of the stairs Lydia greeted me with excitement like she was worried about me but almost like little to nothing happened.  "Hey how are you doing Ollie?" She asked me and a hugged followed after.

"I'm really sore is all that is majorly bothering me at the moment."  I paused. "It takes me so long to get up the stairs I think that I should probably sleep on the couch for now." 

"Okay, I can stay down here with you to keep you company if you want."  She looked at me now more like she wanted to do anything and everything she can to just fix everything that is wrong with me. 

"It's okay you can stay in your room, its just hard to travel up and down the stairs."  I smiled at her and put my hand on her shoulder, which hurt.  I winced slightly and took my hand away and slowly let it fall to my side.

Everyone is acting really weird and I don't like it.  Its almost as if they aren't the same people and I'm not where they are.  Its like a parallel universe and I don't like it at all.  I will figure it out at some point in time.

Lydia pov,

"Max he still hasn't woken up yet, I don't like it.  He should have woken up by now."  I paced back and forth in the bed room.  Max was sitting in the chair next to Oliver's bed.

"I'm sorry Lydia I know that you are worried but you have to trust the stuff your dad is giving him.  You have to have hope that he'll wake up soon or else he won't."  He looked at me with worry in his eyes which seemed to me to be hypocritical and stood up to leave the room but stopped. "Just hang in there he'll come back to you, he always has and he always will."

He walked over and pulled me into a hug then left the room.  After he left I felt a tear glide down my face.  I have always wanted to cry for someone silently while I watched them in a coma trying to come back to life.  I had never imagined that it would be someone that I love so much.

I walked over and sat down where max had been sitting before, it was still warm from the heat of his body.  I grabbed Oliver's hand and talked softly. "Please Ollie, please, please, please wake up.  I can't live without you.  We need you back, I need you back just please open your eyes.  I love you."   I leaned over and kissed his forehead and left the room.

Oliver pov.

Everyone was acting like they were all okay and everything seemed different.  I walked over to  Lydia and I tapped her on the shoulder.  "Hey can I talk to you for a second please."  I smiled at her and she nodded her head and stood up.  We walked out side and I asked her what happened and she told me all of what happened even most of what I didn't remember. 

"Are you sure that everyone is okay,  it seems like no one else knows what happened." Suddenly everything about her changed and she became a different person.

"That's because no one here knows and you aren't actually here.  Your not awake your in a coma this is a reality that your mind made for you to die in comfort.  Your dying Oliver you will never wake up.  Since you figured that out it will be your turn to decide if you live or die."  Instantly she disappeared along with everyone else and the place of where I was became dark and dead around me.

Instantly a voice similar to Lydia's popped up in my mind. "You must defeat the darkness on your won if you want to live through this.  It's venador nature that once you have fallen at the hands of evil you must defeat the downfalls within your mind so you don't doubt yourself in battle so you don't fall again.  One of those distractions is love you must destroy your weakness."

"She is not a weakness you only see her to be because it is against everything to fall in love with someone because all they are is a weakness.  She has made me a better fighter and I will never get rid of her." I felt stupid yelling at nothing.  Then a dark and shadowed version of Lydia emerged. 

"Then prove that she is not a weakness and destroy her."  The thing came at me and I dodged its hits and punches and out breaks of rage. "You stupid boy why haven't you thrown any punches you will die if you cannot prove yourself."

"I will not I know this is how the Covenant destroys diseases and how they rid of the memories of love. That is why my mind always resisted when I first started to fall for Lydia.  This is why so many of them die.  They have always tried to get rid of the memories instead of use them for good."  I laid down on the hard and broken ground and just lay there staring at the sky.  I closed my eyes and imagined Lydia and all the good we've done.  I think about all we have accomplished.

I stood up and stared at the confused figure.  "What are you doing you know you look foolish,  right?"  It began to laugh.  I closed my eyes again and I forced the images and memories to the thing before me.  "What are you doing boy?" 

"I'm proving I'm correct and you are wrong for thinking love is a crime and only causes death.  Look at all we have accomplished and tell me that this is not how we should be free to fight." 

The figure was silent and I fell to the ground and my life went black.  I thought that I was dead,  then I could see people around me that seemed to be rushed and trying to fix something but had stopped dead in there tracks.  "Why are you all staring at me like that."  I sounded hazed.  My eyes hadn't fully focused yet but when they did I say Lydia rush through the people and she ran into me and knocked the wind out of me. 

She was hugging me and I could feel the tears from her crying begin to collect on the thin shirt that I had on.  I slowly rapped my arms around her, careful not to hurt myself and also not knowing why she was crying.  I also noticed the people start to file out of the room. 

"Lydia,  why are you crying?"

"Because you started to seiz and you stopped breathing then you flat lined and everyone thought you were dead then you came back and I was just so scared that I had lost you."  She was talking so fast and there were sobs in between every other word it seemed like that I could hardly understand her. 

"It's okay now you don't need to cry, breath."  I pulled her back toward my body and I kissed her head.