"For god sake Franklin, let him go! It's me you want not him....Please... don't!"
Franklin laughed loudly, the kind of laugh that was sickening, the one that was making me kill him then and there.
He removed the hood from his head, making himself visible.
"So you did see my face that day." There was a smug grin on his lips.
Sliding his index finger over the side of the blade he looked at me.
"You should have came alone there, and I would've ended you then and there...but you had to bring him...now endure it."
The motion of his hands was slow yet steady, Swinging the sharp dagger in his hands like a professional hitman.
And before I could even process it he swung the dagger in air before stabbing Luca, right at his heart.
I screamed loudly, and now the handcuffs.
They were undone.
I rushed to Luca, shaking him, trying to stop the bleeding.
Praying for the wound to be fake like it had been mine.
"Don't go Luca, st...stay...with me okay. I will...ask for help."
I was begging a person to stay who was already half gone.
My hands, my wholeself was trembling in fear, tears streaming down my cheeks falling on his face whose head was now placed in my lap.
"Don't leave me Luca, I will die without you... don't go."
But it was too late, he was gone. His eyes were closed, his breath had been long gone, and the heart beat... It had stopped the second it was slashed by Franklin.
"It's all your fault..."
I could hear my mind blaming me while all I could do was caress his face in my lap, it had started to lose the warmth of itself, getting colder.
Joining my head with his forehead I let out many tears, as much as I could shed.
Bang!
I gasped, as a stinging pain pierced the left side of my back, before a bullet burst out from my left side of the chest.
I wheezed, trying to inhale but couldn't.
My right hand, shivering, went to my heart... touching the area where there was blood now.
And this time, it did not disappear...
I tried taking in oxygen, but could not do it.
And with a loud thud my body fell on the floor right Infront of Luca.
His eyes closed, he looked so peaceful, as if he has just fallen asleep.
And I hope... I really do hope that I also sleep the same dream.
And may we both be in it.... together.
I finally closed my eyes, while tears kept streaming down my cheeks.
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"Laurie... darling, open your eyes, please wake up honey!"
In the dark, I could hear this soft voice talking to me. It sounded like home.
"Please wake up!"
It was Kalix, but why was he here? He shouldn't be here!
I'm dead...but...where.
Where is Luca? He died with me, I was with him, he was with me.
No...this can't be.
"Laurie, wake up...!"
"Fiammetta, follow my voice!"
Luca?
I turned around, looking here and there.
"Where are you Luca? Please tell me? Where are you!"
I screamed, while crying hysterically.
I was getting scared, I didn't wanted to die.
I don't want to die!
I fell on my knees, crying like a 5 years old, rubbing my eyes like any toddler would.
I had grown up the day, I realised that no one would come to pick me up from school like the parents of my class fellows came to pick them up.
I grew up, the moment I realised that I was born with no chances of growing up with love.
When I had realised that I had no parent, no partner, no one to look after me, no one to ever want me, cherish me, love me!
But please... I don't want to die...not right now... I was happy... I was happy with Luca... I don't want him to die.
I don't want to die!
I was crying, like a newborn would, crying like a 5 five year would, crying like a toddler would.
Crying like a person, who was forced to grow up, who never had the chance to ever be a kid...not when they were born...not when they achieved something big.
I gasped as my eyes opened, the white room, bright lights with shadows of people standing around me, everything was blurred in my vision.
Blinking my eyes twice, I looked around.
My chest was heavy, I was panting.
Luca?
Luca was right Infront of me.
He was fine...
He wasn't dead, Franklin didn't kill him.
Without caring if anyone else was there, I sat up straight on the bed and wrapped my arms around him, hugging him tight.
Sniffing like a child.
He was shocked, his body tensed, but eased within a second.
Tightening his hold on me.
"You scared me"
His voice was gruff, his warm breath touching my neck.
He wasn't cold anymore, not like how he was in my dream, he was warm...like he used to be... whenever he hugged me, he consoled me.
My Luca was Alive!
Luca broke the hug, motioning over the other side of the room.
Everyone was there.
Kalix, Cecily, Cassian, and Laurel's parents.
All of them were looking at us, and all of them had weird yet different expressions.
Especially Cassian.
Kalix looked worried, he wasn't angry that I was hugging Luca.
Cecily looked sad, which was actually weird.
Cassian looked hurt, and was looking right into my eyes, but I ignored him.
And Lastly, Mr. And Mrs. Miller, eventhough Katherine had no interest in being here, and was just here as a formality.
But Mr. Miller he looked genuinely worried.
I cleared my throat and sat up straight.
"Are you okay?"
Kalix asked me, fully worried, caressing my head.
I smiled at him, and nodded.
"Good."
My throat burned at I spoke up.
My brows scrunched up that's when I felt something on my forehead, I touched my temple and felt pain shooting up from that area.
Kalix held my hand stopping me from touching my head.
"Don't! You got hurt!"
"Hurt? When did I got hurt?"
"When you passed out in the morning."
In the morning?
My mind clicked as I remembered what had happened in the morning.
I inhaled some air.
The envelope?
What happened to it.
I was wearing a hospital gow right now? Then the envelope? Someone must have checked them already.
Cecily walked to me, holding my hand.
"You really scared all of us, I had come to visit you, but no one opened the door so I contacted Kalix, and got to know that you had passed out and were in hospital. So I came as quickly as I could."
I smiled at her, but my mind, it was still stuck on where the pictures might would be.
Logan didn't say anything just caressed my head and gave a slight nod to Kalix, before leaving the room with Katherine.
Cassian who had been quiet the whole time he had been looking at me from the start, but didn't say a word.
The doctor had been informed that I had woken up and come to check on me, warned me about my sleep cycle, my stress levels that were quite high, because of which my blood pressure was touching the sky all of a sudden and I passed out, and then that the wound on my head had made things more complicated, if I don't not take care of myself, the consequences might be worse.
Soon everyone had gone, except for Kalix and Luca.
They both were all around me, taking care of me in their own way.
Unlike the other times, Kalix didn't say anything to Luca, nor to me.
Right now Luca was sitting on a chair next to the bed, and Kalix was sitting on the couch reading a file.
Maybe Luca had felt my tensed behaviour, or what, but he came close to my ears and whispered in a hushed tone.
"The pictures are with me, the doctor had handed your clothes to me and by chance they were with it...so relax."
As he parted away I saw Kalix staring at us in shock.
"She is sick, you freak!"
Kalix scolded and threw the file he was reading right at Luca's head.
"Hey!"
I retorted holding Luca's hand glaring at Kalix.
"He was telling me something!"
I explained to which he rolled his eyes.
"Yeah yeah go on defending your boyfriend, why would you even care about your brother!"
"Like you would! Once you have a girlfriend you wouldn't even remember me anymore."
Mimicking me he got up from the couch and left the room.
Leaving me and Luca to laugh at his childish behaviour.
"He doesn't hate you anymore I think."
I sighed.
"He doesn't, I was the first person he called."