Devils Roses 05 - Death

Everything we have done they made us do. We can be together in heaven. Aimee this is him, for eternity, if you don't do it. This is it. Please, send us on our way. Please." He is begging me with trembling lips and silent tears. I shake my head but walk towards them.
    I put my hands on them at the same time.
    "I'm sorry." I whisper into the cold wind that is blowing my words around.
    He shakes his head, "Not as sorry as I am."
    I pull slowly. I savor the taste of them both. Phillip squeezes my hand with the last of his strength and soul and then he too is gone.
    I don’t cry. I turn and look at everyone, "Let's go find her."
    I want her dead. I want her to suffer and cry and scream in pain like we have. Everyone is dead. We are but a handful of what we once were.
    Lorri appears looking like herself. She does a head count and then her eyes meet mine. I'm glad they're normal colored again, until she winks at me with finger to her lips.
    I'm about to send Sam after her, when she winks back holding Blake's hand.
    He looks around, "Holy shit is this a castle? Where are we?" He looks queasy from the wink.
    My stomach flutters when I see him in her arms.
    "Time for me to show you what I make." She says softly. She grabs his mouth and plants the biggest kiss ever. He pulls back sputtering, "Lorri. What the heck?"
    She smiles softly, "Bite the inside of your mouth till it bleeds."
    "Blake, don't do it." I step towards them but he does it. He looks into her eyes and she kisses him again. His red blood and her black mix and seeps out the creases. Gasps, curious looks, trembling hands brought to trembling lips, all ignored. They kiss like it's the last time they will ever touch another human being.
    He pulls back, gasping for air. He looks at me confusedly. I shake my head in tiny movements, "Blake." I whisper. I can't imagine the horror crossing my face, but his confusion fades into fear when he sees me.
    "Lorri." I say stepping forward. "Why did you do that?"
    Her face is tragic and beautiful in the faded light of dusk on the hillside. She looks classic and dreadful.
    She shoves him hard off the balcony where we are. He screams. I wink but she winks and catches me in the air, taking us to the balcony where we were.
    She holds me. I try winking but she takes us back. I don’t hear his screams. Giselle is crying and Shane is holding her. His face is confused. We all are.
    "It only takes a second." She whispers, holding my head to her shoulders like a mother would a child.
    "What did you make him?"
    "A savior."
    I pull back. Lucas and Ben whine. They shake their heads like they hear something we do not.
    She grabs my face and looks into my eyes, "Do the same thing he did. Bite your cheek."
    I do it. I don’t know why but I trust her. She kisses me hard and passionately. She pulls back and grabs my head roughly. Everything goes black just as I catch a glimpse of something in the darkness. A bright light like I have never seen before.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

    I wake and push myself up from the ground. Everything hurts like it did when Dorian changed me but it's sudden and brutal.
    I glance over at Ari. She is on the ground too. She looks confused and in pain like I do.
    I look up at Lorri standing above me.
"What did you do?"
    She shakes her head, "I don't know."
    Blake is standing beside her. He almost glows in the dark. "What have you done to him."
His head snaps toward me with a grin like I've never seen. He's ecstatic. "Aimes, I'm an angel."
    I focus my eyes better and look. His shirt is gone. Stretched out from his back, is a pair of huge black wings. They blend into the night. I glance at Shane and see the same thing. His chiseled and muscular chest is bare, but behind him is a pair of massive wings.
    "You make angels?"
    She presses her lips together, "Not just any kind."
    It dawns on me when I look at Aleks. He is dressed and normal looking, except his face which is angry.
    "You have condemned our souls?" Sam says slowly looking behind him at the wings on his back.
    Giselle is shaking and attempting to stand. I wink and I'm on the mountaintop in Norway. I wink back, "I can still wink."
    She nods, "You can never go to heaven Aimee. I've taken your souls."
    "You are the devil? The real devil?" I mutter, still stunned.
    Only Lucas, Ben and Aleks look the way they did before. I scream, as my shirt is ripped from me and my back explodes in pain. I look back at the black wings and cry. They're so beautiful and frightening I can't