Woken

And she jumped down.

Anika halted on her track. With her mouth wide open, everything she did was in vain, she couldn’t kill her, it didn’t work, non did, everything she had been doing was trash! The syringe fell from her hands.
"We're late again Roy. The only thing you have to do now is escape. I'll cover you up "
"Anika I can't leave you behind"
"I can't watch her kill you. Leave now."
"Anika..."
“Run Roy, run, don’t look back, no matter what happens to me, don’t you dare look back and run for your safety my life is already over, it’s ending here, no other place.”
“Anika!”
“Now Roy, run!”

He didn't look back as he ran out of the basement.
Leaving Anika to face the wrath of Maeve.
Anika cat walked towards Maeve. Smiling as she walks. Behind the smiles, she was shivering in fright. So scared that she felt she could pee on her pants.
"I can help you. I can make you human again. I know your sense of reasoning is still in there."
Maeve smirks.
"I can make you human again. But if you kill me it won't happen."
“I had no the simplest idea of what you’re talking about, all I just want is to kill you and taste your blood.”
Anika noticed her voice has changed, she talked so cruelly and with so much hate.
"So you can talk. Why play dumb "
"To kill you.”
Anika gulped, now she knew making a deal with the devil would kill her, it end up killing her instead of the other way round. This is it, it’s game over for her.
She sweeps her off her feet. Hitting her butt on the ground.
She slapped her on the face.
"For making me miserable for years. "
"For everything, I went through because of you "
She slapped her again.

Each slap was tearing her cheek apart.
"For turning me into a killer. A demon. A monster when I was only human."
"For your stupid experiment."
"Am gonna give you something worse than death itself. Bitch!"
"Then you're never gonna be human again. I thought you’re dead Maeve how come you’re still in there.”
"You were only trying to deceive me. It's a full eclipse I can never be human again. This is me now. This is how I’m gonna look for Ever. And I’ll never be able to change this me.
Never."

When Dixon woke up, he was in the hospital, his head was bandaged, Bruce was by his side. And he felt so weak and tired.
“You’re awake.”
He nods.
“How long have I been here?”
“Twenty hours.”
“what?” He tried standing up from the bed.
“Hey, stop, don’t try standing.”
“It’s the almost full eclipse. I need to go.”
“You ain’t going anywhere.”
“What’s the time?”
“6:15 pm.”
“Where’s Mom, Where are my friends.”
“They are fine.”
“I need to go.”
“No, I was asked not to let you go, you’re too weak to move around.”
“You need to let me go, I can’t do this. I need to meet her, I need to go get her. I need to save her.”
“Mom said, she isn’t human, why to waste your time over someone like her, someone who’ll never be human.” Dixon glare at him.
“I made a promise to Eamon, I would go to her, that’s the reason why I’m alive. He wanted me to go and save her and that's what I’m gonna do.”
He stood up from the bed, pulling all the needles off his skin.
“Dixon.”
“Don’t you dare stop me? I don’t care if she isn’t human, I don’t care if you won’t accept her for who she is, I don’t care if she has white hair, black eyes, or skin. I don’t care at all. All I want is her to be alive. I want her to be safe, to know, and feel loved. If you love someone, you’ll be willing to go the extra mile for them, Love could make you go crazy. It’s that kind of feeling, so strong, you won’t be able to see flaws. I love her. So much that it’s hurting. Have you ever loved someone like that? I’m sorry, tell mom, I left.”
Bruce nodded and stood up from the chair.
“You should go. I’ll cover-up. I’m sorry about my outburst.”
“It’s okay. I need to go now.”
Bruce nodded. And walked him to the door. Upon reaching the door, while he was about to open the door the doctor came in.
“Oh Dixon, I see you’re awake.” Then he looked back to the bed.
“Why are you here, you should be resting.”
“Doctor, I’m fine.”
“Dixon you’re not...”
“Doc, I’m fine, trust me, I need to leave here now, I need to go, I don’t have much time on my hands right now, tonight, the full eclipse is happening anytime soon and I need to go and save her from it, so...”
“Oh, Dixon you’re not fine. C’mon, I need to have your check-up.”
“No, I need to go.”
“Dixon you can’t leave, you’re simply not fine. There’s something that you need....” Bruce snacked him on his neck. He quickly hold him before he could fall.
“Let’s take him to the bed.”
“Bruce.”
“C’mon bro.”
Dixon nodded. They took him to the bed and lay him on the bed. They covered him.
“All done. You can leave now, you shouldn’t let anyone stop you.”
“Thank you.”
Bruce nodded with a smile.
“You should get going.”
“I’m leaving now..”

“And Dixon, be careful and make sure you come back to her.”
Dixon nodded and walked away from the hospital ward. He ran outside with his hospital cloth. Running to the parking lot, his car wasn’t there. He had forgotten, it was Linda’s car they had got in with last night. The only option was to take a cab, that seems to be what he’s gonna do, he ran outside the hospital, running till he was able to get a cab and here comes the problem he didn’t have a penny on him.
Geez!
He had forgotten, all his thought was to leave the hospital and go to her and now here he was getting into a cab without a dollar in his pocket.
“Where I’m gonna stop you, mister.”

He had to stop in his house, maybe go in and get some cash. That would do, that was it.
He told the driver where to stop and he did stop there when they arrived and waited for him to go get the money.
Dixon opened the door to his apartment and looked around him, his breath was heavy, the floor was stained with blood. His blood, their blood. Eamon’s blood. He walked in, there wasn’t a body on the ground, he thought maybe the case had been reported to the police but it wasn’t. But Eamon’s body was gone. What could have happened?
He walked upstairs to his room to get his cash. He took a lot of it and shut his drawers. This would be enough for tonight, for him to go get her, this was more than enough, he touched his face to feel tears streaming down his cheeks.
He wiped them off, he sniffed.

His best friend was gone, his brother was gone, there’s no way, he could see him again.
“I’ve got a lot to say to you, I wanted us to live long together. I wanted to have you as my best man at my wedding. I wanted you to be the uncle to my kids. My future already had you in it. But..” he cried. Falling on one knee.