Chapter 45: Chapter 45

“Why didn’t you tell him!” Eamon yelled at Green, he keeps hitting his fist on the table, biting his lips in annoyance.

“You should have told him, how do you expect him to feel when he wakes up and she’s gone. He has every right to know!”

Green was pacing in front of him, with so much quilt in him.

“I wanted to tell him. She won’t let me, I made a promise to her. That I wasn’t gonna tell him, she told me she was gonna tell him herself. I don’t know. I..”

“Dixon will be so mad when he finds out what you’ve done. There were days you could have let it slip out but hell no! You held it in. Told no one. You allow her to bear the pains alone. She alone on that painful and lonely path. You’re so cruel.”

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t.”

“I’m not sure, I’m the one you should be telling that. You didn’t hurt me but her and Dixon. Most especially Dixon.”

Green sniffed.

“I never wanted all these to happen. I cared for her. I had to do what she asked me to do.”

Eamon fell silent, if he hadn’t threatened Green he won’t have been aware, he told him everything, who she was, and what was happening to her. And all he did was feel sorry for Dixon. He fell for the wrong girl, love isn’t just for him, he hadn’t been able to get it all right. And now it was a demon he fell for. Someone who could kill him. How did he do that?

Stayed with her all this while, eat with her, teach her, bath her, and slept in the same room with her. Dixon did all that. Because loved her. And she wasn’t able to kill him because of that love he had for her.

Love?

They said it conquers all,

Will the love prevail now, how is it gonna save them.

“Today is the last day isn’t it?”

Green nodded.

“Second to the last day,”

“Had any idea where she would run to.”

He shook his head.

“She doesn’t know anyone around, if I hadn’t been here I might say she would have come to me, but here I’m, I don’t know where she would have gone.”

Eamon signed, while he stares at Green, he was still pacing.

“And there’s no way to cure her.”

He shook his head. Then paused.

“I think there’s away. I don’t know if it’s gonna be possible.”

“Tell me about it.”

“It’s a sacrifice of the loved one.”

“Sacrifice?”

“Someone has to die for her to be human again.”

“That’s the sacrifice of love.”

“Yes, Someone who loves her, I told her about it and she warned me not to tell Dixon about it, scared that he might want to end his life trying to save her and she doesn’t want that to happen.”

Eamon sighed again. This has been a lot more difficult than he thought. How or where are they gonna start from if they truly wanna help her.

“This is all so complicated. And I still think he deserves to know all these, you kept him the dark it’s not right.”

“I don’t know. I thought it was for the best that he shouldn’t be aware of it, but seems I was wrong. So wrong, I shouldn’t have listened to her.”

“Well on the other hand, if you hadn’t listened to her she might have killed you. You know that. You were scared too of the possibility of her knowing you told Dixon. It won’t be good either. This is all messed up.”

He grunts.

“Stop pacing and sit let’s think of something. Something that could be of help, they would be home any minutes.”

“What should we think of?”

“How should I know.”

Green signed again, clasping his hand over his head. This was all over for him. If anything happens to Maeve he’s doomed.

He wanted her to be safe and he couldn’t protect her. He couldn’t save her when he wanted to.

“I’ve failed. When I let her out of the basement. I thought I’d saved her completely, gave her the drugs of being half-human and half-demon. I thought she would be safe. But I didn’t know there were more to just being safe from the basement.

I promise myself to take care of her, to atone for my sins, I was gonna help her. But I failed.” He sniffed.

“You don’t know how awful I felt, watching her dead each minute in front of my eyes. Never felt this way before.”

“It’s okay, you did your best, what’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen, there's nothing you can do to change it.”

“I thought I could change it, I thought I could make her human again.” He sniffed again, wiping the tears that were streaming down his face-off.

“C’mon don’t do this Green. Stop it.”

“I’m sorry, I just got too emotional.”

Eamon held his hands over the table and squeezed his hands.

“It will be fine. Everything would be fine. You just had to believe that.”

“I’m trying to believe it, that everything would be okay, but I don’t think it would ever be.”

“Stop saying that.”

“That’s how I feel.”

“It’s the second day, it isn’t that last.”

“To us, this is the last day, the last day of trying anything. The last day to help her. This is it. And we lost, I lost moreover. I couldn’t help her.”

“Look at me,”

Green did.

“I know you did your best, and I got pissed when I found out all these things you said and did, but I got to understand that you did all that because you love her. And you wanted to protect her. Green, you’ve done more than you can.”

“I still feel it’s not enough. She’s gone die tonight.”

“We’re gonna find a way. This time it won’t be just you, the mistake you made was doing it all alone. This time it won’t be just you but for us. We’ll all be in this together. Find a way.”

The door opened. After a few minutes and the atmosphere was less tense. He got in, with his eyes red and swollen. He had cried. Cried because she was gone. Cried because she didn’t give him a chance to prove that he could do anything for her to trust him.

“Dixon?” Eamon called. Walking up to him. He took the bag off his hands.

Dixon sniffed in reply.

“Where’s she?”

He walked past the two of them, settled himself down on the couch.

“Can I get a glass of water?”

“Sure.” Eamon hurried off to the kitchen, returning very quickly with the water. Give them to Dixon.

“Thank you.”

He gulped it all down. Dropping the empty glass on the table.

“Care to tell us what happened?”

Green was standing close to them. He didn’t get too close to Dixon, he might hurt him when he starts talking about everything he’s been hiding from him.

“She’s gone, she left me.”

“Did she tell you where she was going?”

“She didn’t say anything, she told me she was gonna die. I mean that’s insane. How is that even possible, I don’t understand, she left me with a note of not going to come back and I’m just so confused, I don’t even know what I’m saying. I just want her here. I just wanna see her again. Tell her everything would be fine and she doesn’t need to be scared.” He rasped.

“All she said it’s true.”

“What do you mean?”

“Green has something to tell you about her.”

“What does he have to say.” Green didn’t move from the spot he was, he stood there and cleared his throat.

“Dixon she’s dying, to be precise she’s gonna die this night and nothing can be done to stop it.” Eamon gave him a look at the last sentence he made.

“What she said is true. She had thirty days to live with you, you had seen the symptoms. The white hair, the blood, and dizziness. It’s all sign of her death.”

Dixon stood up.

“That’s what you’ve been hiding from me, that’s it isn’t, what you refused to tell me.”

“She warned not to say a word to you.”

“And what day is today?”

“The second day. Tomorrow is the last and the night of the full eclipse.”

“And what happened after the full eclipse?”

“It’s over.”

“Over, and you think I shouldn’t know about all this, that I won’t be able to handle the situation. Is that what you think.”

“That’s not what I think..I...”

“Ho-ho. Dixon stops there.” Eamon stood in between them. He was ready to hit him just now. If Eamon hadn’t come in between them, he would have grabbed him.

“You should hear him out.”

“I asked thousands of times, for him to tell me what was wrong, but he didn’t say a word, I pleaded with him, that I wanted to know what was wrong. But all I got was nothing was wrong, everything is fine! He hid all these from me. I should have known. But he didn’t say a word! And now she’s gone, why is he telling me!”

“I’m sorry Dixon, she asked me not to tell you.”

“And you keep shut about it.”

“I had to obey her, she told me she was gonna tell you everything herself. That’s why I couldn’t say anything to you, I wanted her to do it herself. Because she promised she would.”

Dixon stares at him. He didn’t know what to do, he withdraws and walked back to the couch and slumped on it.

“What’s the use now.” He muttered. Turned his head to the side, so he was avoiding them.

“I’m sorry Dixon, she didn’t want to think about her, she didn’t want to get you all worried and having false hopes. She wanted you to live freely.”

“What other thing are you hiding from me?”

“The sacrifice of Love.”

“Sacrifice? What’s that about?” He asked turning his gaze back to them.

“It’s one of the ways I found, that’s gonna help her in being human but however someone who loves her dearly has to die for it to happen and a slight mistake could ruin everything.”

“Why didn’t you tell me, you found something.”

“I wanted to, but she won’t see to it. She didn’t want you dying for her, she didn’t want you doing anything that could risk your life for her.”

Dixon huffed.

“This is what I’ve come about Dixon.”

He notice they were both silent and he took that as a good ahead, Let’s hear what you’ve got to say.

“Instead of us bickering each other, asking this and that. We’ve to find a way, I’ve told Green about this. We’ll come together, it won’t just be Green doing everything, we’ll be together and look for another way, a way that doesn’t involve one being killed.”

“She’s already gone.”

“We still have a few hours.”

“I didn’t know you were this dumb, there’s nothing that can be done to save her,” Green replied him.

“There has to be away.”

Dixon didn’t say anything but hugged the pillow that was on the couch tightly to his chest. He still couldn’t believe she was gone.

“Dixon what do you think. Let’s do this together.”

“Is it gonna bring her back. Is she gonna come back to us?”

“She will. That’s if we found the way to save her.”

“And what if we don’t, and only gave her false hope and only end up hurting ourselves more than we intended. How are you gonna solve all that shit.”

“But you shouldn’t give up, you of all people shouldn’t.”

“Who talks about giving up. I’m not gonna give up on her, I’m just trying to understand her reason. If this is what she truly wants.”

He looked away from them, he doesn’t wanna end up crying in front of them again.

The hurt that he felt, his heart aching so bad. And the only person he longs for isn’t here. She had left him. Because she was trying to protect him from what harm?

Why didn’t she stay, why didn’t she stay with him?

He was ready to be with her, he didn’t mind if her hair was all white, he didn’t mind if her eyes were all black, he didn’t mind if her veins were prodding out of her skin.

He wanted to be with her, just like that.

He didn’t give a damn!

She was his alien.