Chapter 10: Finale
But that won't stop me from getting her back.
I looked at my surroundings and spotted the mountains with the ruins on top in the distance.
I headed there.
I finally reached the top after a long way up, the sky was turning orange with the horizon covering the sun as it set, as I got closer to the peak my ears caught low crying.
It was gentle and prideful even like a true warrior.
I take a deep deep breath before daring to get closer and when I'm ready I sneak behind a rock and gaze at her. I cant see her face its between her drawn knees, her whole body is shaking and her majestic scarlet hair was flying freely in the air, I watch it waving in the air mostly to the right where the wind was blowing from.
Thousands of questions popped in my brain.
Over what is she crying? 'Killing' me? The past? The future? All the guys she slept with? She got a STD? She pregnant? With another man's baby?!
I have to get closer.
I sneak closer again but this time when I'm 3 meters away when I step on a stick and it breaks making a tiny tiny noise that the super secret mafia trained fighting machine would never let go unnoticed.
I looked down for a second and when I looked back up she was facing me with a gun pointed at my chest from a distance of about 2 meters.
Tears rushing down her face.
"Jellal..."
I can see it in her eyes, in her very soul...
She remembered everything.
I take a step "Don't. Just go." her voice is shaky, insecure and her hands can't be still, she won't shoot me, she never would.
I take another step "I'm not afraid" she steps back and keeps the gun pointing but her face just says she won't shoot, that look in her eyes, she's just afraid. Afraid of getting hurt again.
I have to do something that will demonstrate her that I will never hurt her.
Another step closer gets me a further step from her as she backs up.
"I know what happened, they told me everything you've been through and everything you've done"
She froze, those words hurt her I can tell. But I didn't break eye contact even though I can tell by her glare that she made bullet holes in my body in her mind.
I took the advantage to make a few elephant steps closer and went she notice my proximity instinctively her thumb loaded the gun, her reflexes were very slow, she was gone from reality, I can tell the past still haunts her to this day, she's afraid of ghosts I'd say, and I'm a very vivid one.
The gun's canon was pressed to my chest, but I didn't gave further attention, cause I know she won't shoot me.
I dare to gently brush a strand of her beautiful scarlet hair off her face and tucked it behind her ear, tears kept rushing down her face even though she was trying so hard not to cry.
I smiled a little and she looked me in the eyes.
"I'm not a ghost that came to haunt you Erza, I'm here. I'm alive"
She pushed me away and brushed the tears away from her face but they kept coming and eventually she gave up on them but still with her fierce glare.
"No! You're dead I saw you! You died! You...left me..."
"Erza-"
"Stop. Don't. I cant take this, you have to go"
"I cant let you go, I won't let her go, not again"
I get close but she steps back again "Just go...please...just..." her voice was shaking and she looked down.
I stare in disbelief and she looked up to my eyes, I know she can see it, the pain, the loss, the l that I've been through, how much I missed her too...
"...go" she got those words out of her chest releasing her breath, her pain.
She looks down and avoiding my sad eyes but after I while I step closer once again.
"No"
"Cant you see how broken I am? Please go"
"And you don't see how broken I am?!"
I'm too quick for her confused brain to react and in a big couple of steps I'm close to her and holding her face softly in my both hand.
"I can't do this shit anymore" a small ironic laugh escapes my lips "how can you be so selfish? I've been missing you like crazy, as a matter of fact I am crazy. I've gone mad for you and because of you, Erza...because I love you"
Tears fill her eyes once again.
She doesn't push me away this time, she just cries and cries.
"I stabbed you" I gave her a truthful look and responded "I stabbed you first"
*wink* *wink* there's always room for a dick joke to lighten up the mood, aint it? She laughed a little and I smiled a little as well, but then her face contorted and she started sobbing.
"My heart is broken" she said between tears and harsh yet short intakes of breathes but I reassured "That means it still works" I places my arms around her into a warm and tight embrace, she didn't protest but didn't return the hug either and I was practically flirting with dead now that I was pressing my chest to the gun's canon.
But I know she would never shoot me.
"I tried to kill you" she said weakly and muffled but I caressed the top of her head so she knew it was okay and I forgive her.
My head rested on top or her as I continue to caress her.
"People do crazy thing when they're in love" that seemed to soothe her more and after a moment I let her go from my embrace but keeping her close to me.
I take her face in both of my hands as I did earlier and look her in the eyes, but not as softly this time and the pressure made her lips pucker.
"I might kiss you" I threatened, she had stopped crying and looked more clam than before but there was a hint of fear in her voice as she spoke "I might be bad at it" a small laugh escaped my lips but I didn't kiss her right away, instead I made a confession.
"I was a virgin before you" her eyes widen which made a funny combination with her puckering lips, I felt heat on my cheeks and I was compromised to give further explanation.
So I did, when my first hotel was build I needed fame to have more costumers. I casually found my doppelganger he went by the name of Mystogan, and curiously he was very shy but you know what they say 'shy in the streets, sexy in the sheets'. He was very good at sex...or so I hear, and well I didn't even give him money the sex with beautiful women was enough for him. What a guy.
"You were my first love and hopefully will be my last" I concluded with a big proud smile on my face.
She was silent for a bit before she started crying even more.
I panicked at first but after listening to the words softly spoken by her lips I knew.
I just knew.
"I love you so much Jellal" and our lips connected into a passionate kiss, it was as if all our worries had gone away and after everything we've been through we can finally let go of the past and be happy.
"I love you too Erza" I hold her cheeks again squishing them like before and I looked right into her soul.
I smiled.
"And please! For the love of God" I paused and swallowed, I have been wanting to say this since forever but its so hard to believe I can finally say the words that I can hardly even breathe.
She gets this but saves what I bet is a very sarcastic/dirty joke and just waits expectantly with a smile on her face.
A real and genuine smile.
And seeing that smile is the only thing I need for the words to come out just like they should.
"Never Forget How Much I Love You"
