The Book of Plot Twists

The End of the End (part 2)

We part and I draw her in. I'd been waiting a long time for this.

See, time moves differently In-Between. One second here is nearly a century there. I floated around for hundreds of years before finding the book. And finding the book led me to a special motion that could keep my precious princess alive for much longer than she was supposed to.

"Hunter, I've missed you so much," she heartbreakingly whispers.

"I know," I whisper back, "I've missed you too."

Our beautiful moment was cut apart by the group of onlookers begging for answers. "I'm sorry, but could someone please inform us of what is going on here!" A certain snappy one shouts.

Aria, one who wasn't easy scared, was standing up to me.

I turn to face her. One flick of my hand causes her mouth to glue shut, panic rising within her. She lifts her hands to try and get me back, but stumbles in surprise when nothing happens.

I laugh at her shock. "I drained your powers. You can't use them against me."

Samson rushes to her side and begins to inspect her mouth. He moves to her mouth to heal it open, but finds I have drained his as well.

"You people have yet to realize just how much strength I contain. Without me, you would be nothing! I made you!"

They start to argue back, but I hush them all. Emily (formerly known as Evelyn) begs me to tell her and them what I mean. I tighten my grip on my girl so that she doesn't get scared and push away when I answer.

With Samson and Aria still struggling towards the wall and Emily right on my side, I began my story.

You know, I always dreaded the moment I would come clean to those around me. But at the same time, it had to be done to get her, and I kind of liked the idea of someone knowing the great power that I had. Because if they knew, then I could finally get the praise that I deserved.

And believe me, I deserved some praise. Putting these big plans into action was not as easy as it seemed.

I told them about my human years and how I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the world. I told them about how everything in life was going perfect--until it wasn't.

I told them about the horrible accident and my bloody and painful death.

I told them about how I found the book. And how it told me what I needed to do to give my beautiful girl--who was barely alive--many more years on earth.

"I was able to manipulate time in a way that humans thought was impossible. The book gave me an opening into hours before the crash, before my death.
"There was a boy with a horrible sister. She pretended to be loving and kind, but really she hated him and wanted him gone. She deserved to die, and my girl deserved to live. I made the boy see her in her true form, and I rose the anger in him until he lost complete control of himself. That girl's soul left her body, and my girl's went in it."

I could feel Emily's eyes widen and her heart pound (and not in a good way) at my explanation. "You killed a girl? For me?" She asks, horrified by what I said.

"I didn't. He did," I justify.

"Yeah, but you made him!" She screams, pushing away from me. Her friends and enemies in the room stay silent--a good choice on their end.

"I didn't make him do anything. The thought was there, I just nudged him in the right direction," I explain. The look in her face didn't change, so I continued with the rest of my reasoning. "You were doomed to the same fate I was, but you deserved better. I gave you a chance to change your eternity! To do something good!"