The Descendants; The Return of the Unnamed

It was a lie

Okay hey guys before we get back into it just a quick comment. I understand I've been gone for a long time but I've been extremely busy and I had to get a new computer and relocate all my documents to continue. I am aware that I will have probably lost your interest in this story but I beg you to please continue reading. We've almost reached the end! It's the last book. So to those of you still on board, welcome back! And here we go!

Ellion remembered the way his heart dropped in his chest and began aching when he saw Vivi take Alice by the hand and his girlfriend led the other girl over to Hansard where they stood by his side.

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He searched Alice's face, desperate to find a flicker of the girl he'd fallen for, the girl he loved and hadn't gotten to tell her yet, but her eyes grew cold and distant from him and she lifted her chin up higher, her back straight and shoulders back. Then pain filled his chest and he felt empty and broken inside. She was his everything and now...everything was a lie.

"You're really on their side?" he breathed, unaware of Skulduggery's mind whizzing beside him or the rest of the group that was coming closer together, using the drama as a cover-up to link up, get to Fletcher and escape. They'd needed Alice to destroy the cavern but now...she was gone. There was no hope of a successful mission. The only thing they could do was to increase their chances of success later by not being killed or captured. Losing all their best warriors here was not helpful in the least. "It was all a lie. You're a lie."

"You have no clue what I've done. You have no idea why, either." Alice responded. While she had meant it as a silent plea for him to trust her decision, that what she had just done was for a reason and she'd find a way to save them all, he misread her completely.

"Well then what else have you done?" he laughed humourlessly. He was empty and soulless. "What else is a lie?" Then the thought dawned on him. "Were we a lie? Was I just a way to get into the group? To gain everyone's trust? To make us believe all the other lies you were telling?"

"I did what I had to do." She hadn't told him he was wrong.

"Oh, my gosh, it was, wasn't it? You were using me the whole time. You never even...and I..." he fell apart even more.