Vita et Mors - Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil Fanfiction

Chapter 40

A/N: I was hoping to get this next chapter up as soon as possible, because I'm working really hard next week, doing loads of stuff (yippee... Sarcasm) and then I'm going on holiday. I don't know whether to be excited or not, because it's a lovely modern apartment, with a sea view, but holidays mean exercise. And little wifi. And I'm not good at dealing with either of those. At all.

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(3rd Person POV)

"How do you know this girl?" Dan asked.

Gemma and Sophie were too busy scrambling in their pockets, searching frantically for something to reply. "I don't have mine," Sophie whispered, disheartened.

"Neither," Gemma sighed. "Lily, you're going to have to come with us. Okay?"

"But -" some of the men started complaining.

"You can't just take a girl!"

"What about her mother?"

"How do you know her?"

"What are you looking for?"

Sophie held up a hand and they fell silent. "We can't answer those questions. None of them at all. I fear it may be very, very, very, very bad. I suspect it is. No more questions, but this girl is coming with us."

Everyone frowned at Gemma and Sophie, who made no move to explain or even look away from the small girl, standing on the street of a strange city, in the dark and cold at night. A girl that held so much knowledge, too much of the wrong kind for her age. For any age.

"Lily, promise me, no matter what, you will not leave Sophie and I," Gemma pleaded with her. "It's so important. Do you know why?"

The girl called Lily just stared for a moment before her mouth fell open in a cute 'o' and she nodded silently.

"Come on," Sophie said, picking the girl up and giving her a piggyback. "I'm so sorry guys, but we're going to have to run back. Catch you all later!"

With that, they ran away. Leaving those who thought they could be trusted alone, confused.

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(Unknown POV)

"Operation Spiderweb has commenced," the man seated at the head of the table announced.

I felt my head droop, and resentment and a feeling of despair wash over me. I had failed to save them - those to whom I was guardian.

"Jason?"

I raised my head and looked the man in the eye. "Yes?" I said smoothly, blanking the emotions as I had always been taught.

"It is time... To tell them. Tell them - the twins - their history. It will break them. But it's the least we can do before the end," the old man said slowly and hesitantly.

I nodded, aware of everyone's eyes on me.

I could feel the temperature of the room, see the thirty or so people seated in dark leather chairs at this long, wooden table in a simple brick room of a hidden area. But the thing I felt most was the love for them.

After all this, after all their hard work, after my one promise to them - to be their guardian - it hadn't worked.

Spiderwebs had. We had run out of time, and the deal was up. We hadn't found the girl, so we were forced to remain on the grounds of the contract.

Two lives for peace.

It just so happened to be the two lives that meant so much.

Not just two normal people - two loved people.

Not just two loved people - two vital people.

We were going to fall without their final sacrifice for this cause. And I had been told to deliver the bombshell that their final sacrifice would still happen - but it wasn't enough.

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A/N: I really want to leave it there, but it would be my shortest chapter yet - probably. So that's what I'm going to do. We've reached the climax of the story, but there's still a lot of mystery going on, that only I know the answers to. Of course I know the answers. I'm writing this story. Sorry. Rambling here. Bye.