The Brothers

20 - {Ending Paths}

~Third Person POV~

Amser grinned with pride gleaming in her eyes, watching Chance's wings carefully. "Ready?" she asked him, and he nodded. He gave her his orb to remove his mortal soul, so he can return to heaven. "I'll surely miss you, sweetie." She gave a somewhat genuine smile and continued the process to remove the male's soul from his body.

In doing so, a white smoke left his body and he collapsed to the ground. His eyes drained of their color and turned grey, and she set the orb on the ground to set the soul back to the upstairs. She was about to put his soul back in the body before picking it up and shattering the glass, watching as his soul flew out and up to the clouds.

Amser D. was proud of herself. She was proud of how successful she was to convince a certain angel to return to heaven and stay there permanently, to let his brothers 'live in peace' with him while being able to be with his two other loved ones. She convinced him to let go. Of course it wasn't easy to convince such a stubborn man.

It had to take almost eighteen and a half visions in one vision orb to get him convinced that she wasn't pulling any tricks on him, that he would live a wonderful life with his entire family in one place, not having to worry about where anyone is. The visions were, at least in her words, proven to be as real as reality itself.

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~Theo's POV~

I opened my eyes, sitting up immediately. I held the side of my head, and it was like it was aching. Was I sick or something? I rarely had any headaches, let alone aches in general. Looking around at my surroundings, I was in a forest, or at least somewhere with tons of trees and nature.

"Theo?" I looked up to a man in his twenties or something, holding his hand out. Taking it, he helped me up on my feet. "Did you fall or something?" he chuckled, and I was confused. Did I know this guy? Or the more appropriate question would be, how in the world does he know me?

I started to feel afraid of what they were planning to do with me once the other blond came over. Why am I in a forest and where are my brothers? "Where's Liam? And Chance?" They looked at each other for a moment. I tried again, "Where's Liam and Chance?" I didn't care if they kidnapped all three of us, I didn't care if we were hostages for something, I just wanted to see my brothers again.

Before I knew it, everything went black.

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My eyes shot open, and I looked around in utter fear. And then I looked up at the two blond guys standing over me. "Where are we?" I asked them, trying to hide the fear in my voice. I blinked a couple times, processing who the people were standing before me. "Orlando? Christian? What.... What are we doing here?"

Orlando wrapped his arms around me in a tight, warm and friendly hug. "Don't you remember, Theodosia?"

"Don't call me that," I glared at him. I hated that name, and I wanted to change it when I got older. "Remember what?"

"Today's the day!" Christian was trying to do his best, enthusiastic tone possible. I asked what he meant by that. "We promised to escape our houses, and today's that day!"

"I'd never promise something that stupid...." I started to walk away, but Orlando grabbed my hand.

"Aren't we best friends, buddy?"

I sighed softly. What kind of friend would I be to break a promise? "Okay, okay. But where are we supposed to go? Won't our parents find us?"

"Up there looks good," Christian pointed to a fairly tall tree with leaves starting to fall from it. "What do you think, Theo?"

"I'm not a tree guy, but sure!" I smiled brightly. I hoped our parents really wouldn't find us, hiding in a tree doesn't seem like it'd actually work, but I trust my friends more than myself. So, if they think it's good enough for the three of us, then so be it. They're the closest I have to family, and I will treat them as such.