Devils Roses 05 - Death

hell is going on? Where are we? Why did we come to a mountaintop to talk about Harry Potter? How the hell did we get here? Are we really here?"
    Aleks looks past me and waves, "Hey Blake."
    Blake's face gets red like when he rants, "Hey strange guy, I don’t know sitting on the mountain." He looks at me and holds his hands out, "What is going on?"
    I sigh, "I don’t have time for this. I'll get the girls to give you back your memories when we get back. Just stop being a tard. Think Dr. Who."
    His lips lift, "For real? Awesome." He tightens his burgundy robe and doesn’t even think about the fact he's barefoot and it's freezing.
    Aleks laughs and stands up, "I need you." His words are soft.
    I don’t have an answer but I know what my heart is telling me. The place around us is familiar. When I look past him at the graves, I feel like throwing up. I feel weakened and sick. I feel like jumping into his huge arms and letting him crush me into him.
    So I do it.
    I step into his huge embrace and let him wrap it all around me. His warmth and smells crash against me. His lips meet mine and it's heaven. His kiss is hungry and crazed. My body responds. I jump up and wrap myself around him. I could die smelling him. He pulls back and looks at me. My lips almost keep kissing the air. "Why did you come?" He asks.
    "Uhm. I don’t….oh yeah. Oh my god, we have to go. Hanna is back." I jump out of his arms and drag him to Blake and wink us all to Marcus's house. We are standing in the hallway.
    "Why are we here?" He asks.
    I put a finger to my lips, "Henry, remember. You stay out here and keep watch for him." I wink myself and Blake inside. "Blake, if we steal these notes can you make a cure from them. It's for a friend who is a rage monster Hanna? Uhm like the Hulk."
    Blake scowls, "What? Am I in a coma? Are we dead?"
    I drag him to the notes I noticed the last time I was here. I flip open the book and show him the formula.
    He reads fast. He shakes his head, "What is this? This is craziness. Aimes, this is to make the monster worse. See here. Notes on adding rage."
    I growl. I wink us to the hall and grab Aleks and wink us to Dr. Jekyll's office.
    He's at his desk. He smiles at me and then looks at Blake and frowns, "Odd, but welcome nonetheless. How may I help Miss James?"
    I take a deep breath and try to say it all so he and Blake get some details. "We know about your daughter's raging monster condition, obviously. Anyway, you had notes. Last time you had notes. It was on the timeline they made. You gave me notes and Marcus made a cure from them. Well this time Marcus just has the notes. He knows how to make the cure. It's the cure he has made for you."
    "Aimee I was there for it all." He says impatiently.
    I point to Blake, "He wasn't. Anyway, you know how it's short term? Well, I was wondering if you could make it long term and make some fast? Like now?"
    His eyes brighten, "Do you have any of the notes Marcus worked on? Without them I can't get past where I am. He won't give them to me."
    I slap down Marcus's papers and push the still robed and completely confused Blake at the doctor, "Totally ahead of you doc. Make Blake here understand what's going on. I don’t have time to help you or explain further. Hanna died today. It's just like last time. She's raging around Lydia's house as we speak and Marcus is trying to take her."
    The doctor's face drops.
    "Sensitivity never has been a big thing for you." Aleks steps forward. "We can get her back. Aimee can wink her. And I have something that will solve the Marcus issue."
    I look back at him, "You're going to Henry?"
    He nods. I feel sick.
    The doctor grabs something from inside of his desk and passes it to me, "It's a single round. You can't miss. It'll drop her like a dead deer. You'll need to bring her home after that. Roland and I can keep her safe, until the potion is ready."
    I look at Blake and smirk, "This is the thing you've always dreamt about. It's real. All of it. The science fiction isn’t fiction in my world. It's just science and fantasy meeting. You want in?"
    He grins from ear to ear, "Hell yes. This is probably a dream, but I'm so excited I don’t care." He chuckles, "So this is the science grant you're working on?"
    I grin, "Something like that. This is my boyfriend Aleks."
    He puts a hand out, "It's nice to meet you." Aleks shakes his hand and looks weird. I can't imagine how messed up it is, remembering everything from so many different times.