We Bent Fate

Chapter 19.

Time is so much like water. It can pass slowly, one drop at a time or rush by in a blink and even freeze.

For a few minutes, I humoured myself by thinking that it was Martha's trick but her eyes were sea green and her body had gone completely still. 

It wasn't Martha who manipulated time.

It was my own body, my nervous system shutting down this time. 

"No." I found my voice which sounded strange even to my own ears. 

"No no no." I shook my head. This can't happen again. Funnily enough, this time I felt no tears welling up my eyes, I did not feel the stabbing pain of my heart sinking. I felt nothing and it feared me the most. 

The next thing I knew was that Martha was hugging me tightly. "Its okay." She whispered, her face calmer than usual.

"No." I declare stubbornly. "Nothing will happen to you."

"Prophecies are never false." Chloe noted and I strode towards her within seconds. 

"Say that again and watch me rip your throat apart." I grit my teeth. I felt someone tugging at my hand and saw Martha pulling me against Chloe. But I just stood there and glared back at her.

"It will be easy if you would just accept." She spat back and I grimaced at her in disgust. What kind of a sister is she? I flare my nostrils at her and spin around, wanting to storm out of this place before I hurt someone really badly. 

"Austin, listen to me." I hear Martha calling out for me.

"Nothing will happen to you." I repeated. 

"Chloe is right. It will be better if you would just accept this." I heard her say and my steps came at a halt. I turn around dramatically.

"I wish I would have never met you in my life!" I glared at Martha and stormed out of the place, on foot. 

Martha's voice carried itself out of the doors but I didn't stop. It is done. No wonder falling in love with an immortal is a sin. They are so infuriating! 

I swallowed my anger hot and burning like lava in my throat when it was only a flicker of fire; the time when Martha sacrificed her own life because of me and went to the underworld; the time when Martha broke up with me for the first time and even this morning when Martha almost compelled me to forget her and move on. 

I had swallowed my anger inside like it was the warmth I had needed- an evidence of an undying sacrificing love but now this anger burned in my belly. Hot flames licked inside me, eating and burning me inside and out, and now it had come out flared up in my mouth like the golden liquid escaping a dragon's mouth to the one person I love the most. 

I wish I had never met you in my life!

I'll never forget how her eyes burned white in my fire into ash. It was unfair how she never took as much as she gave. How can she expect me to accept her death?

A wave of grief sloshed over me and I could not tell if it enraged my flood of anger more or washed over it. I stopped running, bending my face upfront in a slouching position as my chest heaves heavily. I can hear my heartbeat and I wondered if it is just that or the time ticking. 

When my breath evened, I jogged my way to my apartment and was about to call it a night without dinner when something caught my eye and I stopped in my tracks. 

My eyes widened when I saw Martha sitting at my couch, talking to Robbie and smiling at him like nothing happened. "How did you-"

"Oh, there he is! Hi, Austin." she rose up from her seat and strode towards me. I breathed heavily and saw Robbin disappearing into his room. 

"How did you.... come here.... so fast?" I was still panting. 

"Lila recently told me that I have a power to making an entrance and appear anywhere I please without walking or taking a journey through any vehicle. Cool no? Though, journey is still my favorite part of travelling." She said, her cheeks puffed into a wide smile. She was behaving like everything was alright. 

"I don't want to know anything about you. You wanted a break up, right? This is break up. Now get out of here." I said, anger crawling up my throat. 

"Well that is good. At least I wouldn't have to conjure some power to make you forget me before I die. At least you won't feel anything for me." Her face was calm but her voice betrayed her. I bit myself reluctantly, trying my best to hide my pain. 

"Get out of here." I said. 

"I will." She nodded. "I came here to tell you that I am an immortal. I am an unchanging element of the world that had stayed here when even your great grandparents were not born and I will outlast your grand kids and possibly even their kids. I am the goddess of destiny and if I don't control my own destiny then who will?"

A flicker of hope lit inside the darkest voids of my heart and I breathed as if I had been holding my breath for a long time now. 

"I hope you succeed." I tell her, meaning it.

"She will be burnt anew, attacked by those who try to douse her but blazed by the smoke of her past, she would bring light in the times that seem the most dark." She whispered, almost like it was a song. 

I have heard it before. Lila had said it. 

"What is it?"

She grinned at me and cupped my cheeks. 

"Bye, Austin. Take care of yourself." She said and evaporated in the thin air.