Nightmares and Fantasies | L.H | supernatural au

Ch. 39

Luke's pov:

I see nothing but darkness and all I remember is walking up the stairs to my room, then I blacking out. I know something terrible happen, I can feel my breath slipping away and a sharp pain in my heart. I feel someone take hold of my hand and I squeeze it as hard as I can. I don't know where I am, or if I'm living or if I'm dead. I hear a faint noise but I can't make out the voice or the words. I try to say something but no words leave my lips. The darkness still surrounds me but then I hear myself screaming. I feel a shooting pain in my heart. It feels like someone is trying to tug it out but at the same time, something is being shoved into it, but now I know, I'm alive. I hear the voice again, but this time it's filled with fear and panic. That must be Noreen. I start breathing rapidly but at the same time, there's so much agony, I feel as if I will never wake up and I will always be stuck in this darkness. My screams get louder and the pain only grows worse and worse. I tell myself to fight harder, I have to or I will end up dying.

I try to slow my breathing down to a normal pace but nothing works, the harder I try, the more difficult it gets. I feel Noreen's body lay beside me and my heart beats faster. The pounding blocks every other sound and it mixes with my screams. I feel Noreen's hand on my face and I grab it. I can faintly hear her whisper to me and then suddenly I feel my eyes open. I put my hands where my heart is as I sit up and I no longer feel any pain. I breathe in and out frantically as sweat glides down my forehead and my lips start to tremble. It travels down to the rest of my body and the light burns my eyes, I was in darkness for too long, it feels like this is a trick, and that I will slip right back into the darkness I was in.

"Luke..." I hear Noreen say softly.

I slowly turn towards her and tears form under her eyes. She grabs my hand and I notice all the bruises on her body. There's multiple on both of her legs, red marks on her wrist, her neck is a soft purple with blotches of blue and there are blood smears all over her clothes. I look at her chest and there's a huge cut where her heart should be. I skim my hand over her face then over the cut on her chest. My hands shake as I do and I quickly look down, the image is too much to handle.

"It was all my fault, wasn't it?" I ask with disappointment filling my voice.

Noreen lifts up my chin and shakes her head.

"It wasn't you...you have to stop buying those lies. You are not the monster," she says.

I take her hand away from my face and she stares at me.

"What happened, just now, how did I even wake up?"

Noreen sighs and outlines my collarbone with her finger softly.

"A couple days ago, after I visited my parents' grave, I came back and I saw you sitting on the bed, but it wasn't you, it was your demon. I started talking but noticed he wasn't paying attention, so I yelled thinking it was you, but then he got up and starting choking me. Somehow I got away but he continued to follow me, so I hid but he found me. I had a knife to kill him with, but he threw me against a wall and I couldn't move. He may have broken my leg...so then he took the knife and held to my chest, right where my heart is and slowly pushed it in my skin. I took a piece a concrete and smashed it against his head and that's when he dropped the knife, so then he got on top of me and I stabbed him, right where his heart was. The blood was black, but then he said, it was never his job to get rid of you, it was always mine...then you came back, your eyes were blue and you were dying," She tells me, "You were "dead" for a few days and then you started screaming and all that blood started flowing back into your heart. I didn't understand, I don't understand how that happened, I thought he was coming back, but then you woke up,"

Tears leave Noreen's eyes and I hold her close as I stroke her hair. She wraps her arms around me and places her head in the crook of my neck.

"He's gone...he can never come back," I say to her and she wipes her tears to look at me.