Devils Roses 05 - Death

She looks at Hanna and sighs. "Worst day in a thousand years. I swear to god." She turns to see Giselle, holding Shane, sobbing. Lorri looks at me, like I am to blame. "Excellent job Aimee. This really is the shit icing on the fuck up cake."
    I point back at Shane, "He's a traitor. Him and Mar…"
    A man's scream cut's me off, "LORRI" I don’t get to finish saying his name and he's there. Marcus is right outside the guards. Giselle drops Shane and runs across the guards. I wink to her and put myself between them and her.
    Shane lies still on the ground, but Marcus is fuming mad and pacing the line of the guards.
    "You give her back. We made a deal." He speaks through his teeth.
    I whisper, "Traitors. They're traitors."
    Lorri ignores me and stomps across the grass in her big boots, "Fuck you and your deal." She looks at me expectantly.
    I jump and blurt out as much as I can, "He and Shane have been helping Jonathan with the blood bags and blood drugging. He's the one who double-crossed us on the brothel with Ari. Shane knew we were going there. I told him in the alley when we thought they would take O. He was pretending to try to win me back again. Marcus is the one who wiped Oliver and made him evil."
    Lorri's face trembles with anger, "You killed Dorian with your actions. Dorian." Her words are short and sharp. He winces but still forces a smile across his lips in the end.
    "Lorri, it was a bit of fun. You know better than anyone how I feel about the sheep. You know how Dorian felt."
    "I DON’T GIVE A GOOD GOD DAMNED ABOUT THAT! YOU KILLED DORIAN WITH YOUR ACTIONS!" Her spit flies from her mouth. She is frothing.
    Something ripples under her skin. Something scary. I look back at Lydia. She nods her head towards the house. I take a step back from Lorri and Marcus.
    Marcus points, "Give her to me."
    "NO."
    "Give her over or I will go home and get Henry and he will BLOW YOUR MAGIC HOUSE DOWN!"
    I take a step back.
    Marcus's eyes land on me, "You little bitch. I saved Shane for you. This is how you repay me? You steal the one thing that soothes my heart and heals me and makes me almost human again?"
    I lower my gaze.
    Lorri shakes her head, "She didn’t make you double cross us and work me and Jonathan against each other. You always were just out for yourself. All along you've been the same selfish little prick you were when Ethan went bat shit crazy."
    A loud rumbling fills the moment of silence between the bickering.
    Marcus's eye gleam as a wicked smile crosses his lips.
    Lorri's head drops as a sigh leaves her lips. I close my eyes. The rumble turns into a groan and then a moan and then a gasp. I turn my head and look back. Hanna looks like she is having a seizure on the ground. She is trembling and twitching and vibrating.
    I bite my lip and glance at Lydia again. Terror crosses her face.
    "Ophelia." I say quietly.
    Sam vanishes from where he was standing.
    "She'll cross the guards, there is nothing you can do about it Lorri. She'll cross and destroy shit and none of us is strong enough to stop her when she does." His voice is filled with humor and joy. He knows Hanna will need him now.
    A grin crosses my lips, "I know something you don’t." I smirk and wink home. Well, to my hometown.
    I wink into his bedroom by mistake.
    "Aimee, what the fu..? How did you do that?"
    Alise screams.
    I grab him off my sister with one hand and grab his bathrobe off the floor with the other. I wink us both to where I am praying to god Aleks is. The place he talks about.
    He is. The muted sunlight and the fresh mountain air are majestic. I take a deep breath and smile. I look over at Blake, who is heaving spaghetti all over the rocks. I grimace and walk away. Quickly.
    "Hey." I say it softly. I want to shout it and tell him to hurry the frig up, but I can't. He's broken and it's my fault. His red-rimmed eyes look brutal.
    "Hey."
    I look down and nudge a small stone with my boot, "I'm sorry. You know that right? I never meant for him to die and for me to live. I didn’t even know what was going on. I didn't know he loved me. I don’t think I've ever known it."
    He shakes his head, "He was such an asshole to you. He was so good at it. You never would have guessed it was all an act. A despicable act. A way to spare himself the pain of you not choosing him and sparing you the choice."
    "I feel like Harry Potter I swear. The whole Severus thing blew my mind equally."
    He looks confused.
    Blake coughs and shouts, "Aimes, what the