What I Wish Happened

Chapter Thirteen

I wiggle my wrists to try and loosen myself only to give myself rope burn and being no closer to freedom. Noise from the door opening, fills the room and Marcos walks in with a mischievous smirk plastered across his face. He stands in front of me rather than sitting as a goon placed the chair next to me. I get a deep terrifying pit in my stomach, "Well Nova, I'll admit it but it must stay in this room; you were right... I was wrong, someone did find you!" Considering how smug Marcos was I had a very, very deep pit in my stomach and within a matter of seconds I was proven right, by Leo being to lead in by two goons. He was trying to fight them off and yelling at them, shouting for them to let him go and then shouting to me, unaware of my presence in the room he was being carried into. As soon as his eyes land on me I could see an amazing amount of relief quickly turned to fear and anger.

Leo was lead to the chair placed forcefully and held down until he was secured without a possibility of escape. "What do you want Marcos?" All my emotions turn to anger and betrayal. "Nova! Are you okay?" Leo's voice is normally comforting but right now, I'm too angry. Every tiny noise sinks away, everyone looks at me as my words show my absolute uncontrollable anger, from the corner of my eye I see Marcos leave locking the door behind him. I turn to Leo, tears building up in my eye, "What the fuck did you do?!" He looked down in shame, and clenches his fists as a tear before he looks up at Marcos with anger. "I owe him some money, I didn't pay all the money I owe him from when I was dealing... I was dealing for free because I owed him from when he was my Dad's dealer." I look at him completely unsure if I feel angry or sorry for him. I reach my pinky finger over towards him, "So when your Dad died, the debt went to you, Leo I'm so sorry..." he reached his pinky over to me and loops his finger with mine. I still feel anger, but not towards Leo but towards Marcos, and towards Leo's Dad.

I look over at Leo and a single tear rolls down my cheek. as I let the tear run down my cheek, the door clicks open again to allow Marcos to walk through. He stands in front of us and smirks to himself as he look at mine and Leo's pinky finger intertwined. "So Nova, what did he tell you?" He crosses his arms over his chest, "He told me, that I'm here because I matter to him, and his dad owes you a large debt, so, Leo what do you owe him?" Leo avoids looking at me and wasn't trying to hide that fact that he was before he then turns to me with tear after tear running down his cheek. "I owe him thirty-seven thousand, four hundred and twenty-one dollars, but I am so so unexplainably sorry that this happened because of me. When River told me that you were missing I got the deepest most horrible pit in my stomach that it is because of me, and I was right, and I don't deserve you, I caused this, I made this happen. You'd probably be at home in bed safe if it wasn't for me, I'm so sorry Hermosa..." the tears don't falter, the steady stream of water down his face gets heavier and heavier, until he can't breathe or speak any more.

All I want to do is wrap my arms around him but I can't do that, which makes I begin to cry along with him, "Leo... I don't blame you, it's okay, I... I'm just glad that I have you here..." He looks up from his shame spiral and looks over to me, our chairs are close enough for my hand to grab on to his for a brief amount of time, but not too long before it begins to ache and hurt. He forces out a brief smile. As he lets go, I twist my body so my feet are on the chair and my knees are against my chest, and I lean my head against my knees, this is the first time that I haven't been terrified to fall asleep and therefore I quickly fell asleep.

I wake up and with Leo watching me slightly and smiling, "You're beautiful when you're sleeping." I smile and look to the floor, at a small blood splatter, it's Elijah's blood. As I notice curves in the area's that it has landed I feel my heart ache and tears roll down my cheek, I feel like I am now realising that he is gone, that he is dead, I let out a whimper and a slight scream. "Nova... what's wrong are you okay?" I shake my head and let the tears roll down my cheek. "Elijah... they killed him." My voice aches as I look over to him, he budges his chair over towards me and wraps his fingers around mine, and leans his head forward to kiss my fingers. I lean my forehead on his shoulder just to get some of his scent. As weird as that sounds it is my only source of comfort right now, it is like no matter how bad life gets if Leo is there my life will be okay.

I let the tears fall down my cheeks, "He is gone and he hated me. But worse of all, I didn't ever get to say goodbye..." he leans his forehead against mine. "I am sorry I did this to you, Nova..." I see a single tear roll down his cheek and I catch it on my lips, as I press them to his cheek, I feel tingle rattle through my body. "I never wanted to cause you any pain, and that is all I've done. I am so sorry." I shake my head and bury it into his shoulder, "I am okay Leo because I have you..." he smiles and hesitantly presses his lips to mine. "And Nova Black... I am not going anywhere." I smile as he puts our names together. He smiles at me and presses his lips to my left dimple. "Nova Black?" He smiles at the sound of it too. "One day. I don't know when but that will be your name." I smile at the idea of being his wife.

Our sweet moment is quite quickly interrupted by the door unlocking and two goons coming through. They don't speak but I notice one of them holding two bowls and two bottles of water. One of them unties us and the other stands close to the door. The main goon untying us walks back and takes the bowl and water tucking the bottle under his arm, "You have an hour and we'll be back." They follow each other out and lock the door behind them. I'm still sat in my chair Leo stand first and picks me up and pulls me in for a tight hug lifting me off my chair and without my feet touching the ground and I am in his arms. I wrap my legs around his waist, holding on to him for dear life, I pull my head back and look into his deep blue eyes and I see them sparkle as I caress his cheek. "You can never leave me, ever." He presses his lips to mine as he lets my legs fall to the floor and touch the broken cement, "Never." I press my lips to his. As odd as it sounds in the situation, I feel safe under his touch, and in his presence.

I sit down to the floor with crossed legs, and look at him as he passes me a bowl and a bottle of water, I take a sip and the chilled water slides down my throat; it almost burns slightly, a single bite of the food fills me up almost immediately. I smile as I look at Leo, after the small bowl of oatmeal is gone and the bottle complete empty I look at him and fall onto his lap, his legs stretched out in front of him, me sat on his lap and his arms wrapped around my torso, squeezing tightly. I feel his lips on my temple and smile to myself.

Our moment was interrupted again by the same goons. One grabbing onto my arms the other grabbing Leo, we don't fight because that will just cause more trouble, that will just cause one of us getting hurt. They strap us to the chairs and leave again, Leo surprisingly quickly falls asleep. As I watch the light touch his skin, I realise over again how utterly beautiful he is. "I love you too Leo.." I rest my head on his shoulder and quickly fall back to sleep in this utterly uncomfortable position.

As I wake up again, I am saddened to realise that I am still in this horrid room. The fact that Leo is beside me makes it a little bit closer to bearable. He groans and smirks slightly in my direction, "Are you staring at me?" I smile as I edge closer towards him, "Not staring, just admiring." He moves his head to look away from me, "Well you're just creepy." I smile and move away from him, "Do you remember on your birthday we went to the Malibu rock pools?" He nods and looks away from me, "Nineteen days ago." I gasp and feel a tear roll down my cheek. "No, if it was nineteen days after your birthday, it would be December 10th." He nods, "Happy birthday Hermosa, I'm sorry we can't be somewhere nicer." I lean my forehead against his, and feel a slight smile encroach my lips, "All I need is you." He brushes his lips against mine, I feel his breath brush past my skin, "I know that's not true, but when we get out of here, we will have everyone you love in one room, Alexis, your brother, your parents, everyone." I smile and press my lips against his.