Selfless Promise
"Some might consider me a fool,
But I promise you my fidelity,
Not just till we are married,
Even as we sally forwards,
I stay as true as that sun,
In our joint life, I pledge my fidelity,
And I pledge my exclusive faithfulness." ~Atul Kaushal - Drona
~Ruben's P.O.V. (Yay~)
"Well, It can't be healthy for mortals to stay here, so you two better be off." Dahlia states as she raises her arms and points two fingers at Alexander and Karmin.
"How are we supposed to leave?" Alex questions.
"Well, I'll just grab you two and teleport-" I began stating before Dahlia cut me off.
"Like this." Dahlia swipes the two fingers in the air and instantly the ground from beneath Karmin and Alex's feet disappears. They pause for a moment before they realize what just happened.
"Wait... What the fuck!?" Alex yells out as they begin to fall. They quickly fall out of our vision. What was Dahlia thinking? They could die falling that high up! Is she trying to kill them?
"What the hell was that, Dahlia?" I turn my head over towards Dahlia and glare at her.
"You need to be off too. Shall I do the same to you? Well, you somewhat have wings, so you should survive." She greets my glare with another glare.
"You're a grade A bitch, you know?"
"No cussing in Heaven. It's a simple process for who will survive: If Alexander and Karmin both decide to be uncooperative, they'll both die. If Alexander and Karmin decide to cooperate by keeping Alexander alive, like they most likely will, then Alexander will live and Karmin will die. Alex is selfish, Karmin is selfless, they're setting themselves up for disaster."
"You know you Angels aren't allowed to kill people unless it's their assigned job for them right." I cross my arms and give her a sly grin. Maybe she'll get banished from the Heavens for doing that?
"Well, we see how that job turned out for you, didn't we, Ruben?"She mimics me in crossing her arms and giving a sly grin. Is this bitch really throwing shade at me because it's about to get real dark in here if she is?
~Karmin's P.O.V.
"What the fuck was she thinking!?" Alex continuously screamed as we fell through the sky.
"How the hell would I know what she was thinking?" I roll my eyes, slightly annoyed by is earlier statements about me being a soulless idiot. He can fall to his death for all I care. I somehow manage to cross my arms as if I didn't care about falling.
"Don't you have magic? Can you even do anything besides be a waste!?" He yells at me causing me to gasp in anger. He's been pushing his luck all day.
"Shut up! I lied! I am nowhere near the 'most powerful witch' in my coven! I'm weak! The only type of magic I'm good at is manipulation!" Something in the sentence piqued his interest.
"Did you say manipulation? Hey, Karmin? Can you bring people back to life?"
"What! That's dark magic! I'm not a dark witch! I'm not allowed to use that type of magic!" Why would he possibly need me to bring anyone back to life? What is he planning?
"Hmm..." He begins to think to himself over my response.
"Why can't we just fall to the ground like this so the pain has a larger surface to spread out to instead of it being concentrated in one spot?" The begin falling with my back side and my arms and legs spread out.
"That's idiotic. There's a better way to fall, but I'm not about to break my legs."
"So you'd rather die than not be able to walk?" His logic never makes sense to me.
"Precisely. I'd rather die than become immobile." What a little ungrateful piece of shit. Why do I even like him? Honestly, I hate him.
"We'll hit the ground any second now. Here." He grabs me and holds be close. He places his hand on my head and brings my head up to his chest. I immediately become super flustered and unable to stop the blush creeping across my face.
"What are you doing!?" I shout in a panic by his sudden actions. Now is not the time to be making a move on me, but I have no problem with the moves he's making.
"Karmin, promise me something."
"Hm?"
"If I need you to, will you become a dark witch?" How am I supposed to respond to that? I would never forgive myself if I became a dark witch. I could never become a light witch again if I do! Of course, I could never become a dark witch for his sake!
"Of course, I will! Anything for you, Alex!" Contradictions...
He chuckles slightly, "You're so selfless."
After he states that, I realize what he's doing. Is he actually wanting me to become a dark witch when we fall? Is he planning on actually dying right now?
Everything that was just tiny specks in the sky moments ago suddenly begins to enlarge telling us that we have become closer to the ground. We seemed to be falling where we were before, in the castle of the Queen Who Cried for an Eternity. I need to think fast and find a way to keep us both safe. I don't understand how Alex can be completely fine with death and dependent on me to bring him back even after I told him I couldn't. False confidence maybe?
An idea struck me too late in the falling process. Could I try to manipulate the impact of us on the ground so no one gets hurt? Could I try manipulating something? I stretch my arm out and a purple aura forms around my hand, but I was too slow. The moment I try to cast the spell, we hit the roof of the castle and through it onto the castle ground in the thrown room. I no longer feel Alex's hand keeping my head on his chest. I sit up and look at Alex with my eyes wide. I could feel my body quivering with emotion that I couldn't pick out perfectly, was I sad or scared? I look down at my hand in horror, I was too slow. I felt like Spider Man in that moment, being too slow save Alex.
"A-Alex?" My voice cracked as I spoke. Why did he do that? Why was I too slow? "A-Alex... please, please tell me you're joking with me right now?" Alex never seemed like the type to joke around, he was always serious.
I grab his hand that was once holding my head and check his wrist for a pulse. None. I check his neck for a pulse and get the same result. I begin to feel tears develop in my eyes and fall down my cheek, "You idiot!" I shout as I feel my eyes are blurred with tears, "Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!" I shout as I feel myself begin to lightly pound on his chest, "Why? Are you an idiot!? What satisfaction do you get from saving me? My life isn't even important! That was completely worthless! Your life is so important! You're fucking royalty! You have so much ahead of you! You're going to become king again, marry a woman who is beautiful and is in the same social class as you, you're going to have such an amazing life and I'm not even going to be a part of it! Why did you do something so stupid when you know I can't do anything!?" I stop pounding on his chest and bow my head down in disappointment with myself as the tears fall on top his limp body.
What was he expecting me to do? I can't just instantly become a dark witch! I have to practice the magic and learn the spell and it'll be too late to save him if I have to do all that. If this were a fairytale, I could just kiss him of the lips and everything would be all right. Even if this was a fairytale, kissing him on the lips wouldn't work. He needs to be kissed by his true love in those, and I could never be his true love no matter how much I wish.
Miracles don't exist. I always thought that it was a miracle that I got to meet Alex and actually be one of his"friends," but that wasn't what happened. I ended up being the death of him, "What am I supposed to do now!? My only purpose in life was to help you and now you're gone!" I bet he's disappointed in me. His ghost is probably looking at me in disgust because of my worthlessness.
~Ruben's P.O.V. ( a few moments before the crash)
We watched them fall through a sphere. Alex seemed to be constantly yelling while Karmin was absolutely done with Alex's bullshit.
"How do you think it'll end, game maker?" I question Dahlia. The way they're acting now makes it seem like they aren't willing to cooperate and will both end up dying.
"The obvious answer, Karmin will sacrifice herself to save the life of the one she loves, Alexander. Like I said, Alexander is selfish and Karmin is selfless." She answers as if this concept doesn't move her in any way.
"But what if they cooperate?"
"Then they'll both die. Simple." She's absolutely horrible. The first time I met Dahlia she was the sweetest person I've ever met, but after I fell she changed.
We continued to watch. Alexander and Karmin were still arguing as Alex states something that makes Karmin yell at him back with a sad look across her face. Something about what she said caught his interest and he seemed to no longer be yelling at her. Actually, after a brief exchange of words, Alex held Karmin close as if to sacrifice himself.
"What's he planning?" Dahlia questions in shock of his actions. They didn't match with what she presumed would happen at all.
Karmin didn't seem to realize what Alex was doing until it was too late. She tried to stop it and save him, but failed in the end.
"How sad, I bet Alex wouldn't even be able to make it directly into heaven because of all his unresolved issues that plague him. He's honestly too precious for this world." Dahlia rolls her eyes and begins to walk away from the sphere.
"That was an unnecessary action to take upon them, Dahlia." Samson speaks for the maybe second time today.
"I know." She states before walking back towards the gate.
"I hope all her wings become stained with red and she has to deal with the pain I did when I was banished."
"Her wings were probably stained with a small streak of red. It won't be noticeable." Samson states as he follows his girlfriend back into the gates.
~Karmin's P.O.V.
I keep my head bowed as I look at him. I place the palm of my hand against his face and rub his cheek with my thumb. Cold.
"Ack!" I heard a pain screeching, broken scream that snapped me back into focus and move my hand. Once lifeless Alex eyes instantly shot open as he screamed out and raised his upper body, causing him to arch his back in pain.
"Alex!" I shouted in shock and joy. I wrap my arms around his neck in a tight hug.
"Don't hug me, it hurts." He attempts to push me away but seems to be unable to.
"I thought you died! I was so scared!" I refused to let go of him and kept him in my embrace. He gives up and sighs.
"I feel like all my bones just shattered and I don't have the energy to stop you." I let out a little "yay" in response. He places his head on my shoulder which causes me to blush again. Alex has never liked me hugging him and rarely lets me even touch him, which is why I was so shocked when he held me earlier. I've never even kissed him on his lips before, he won't let me. Even now he's only allowing me to hug him because he's exhausted, but I don't care.
"Karmin," He places his hand on my cheek before planting a small kiss on it, causing my heart to race like crazy and for me to become even more flustered than before. He's so touchy today and I don't think my teenage body can handle it! "Thank you..."
"But I didn't do anything..." I felt bad that I couldn't ease his pain in any way. I didn't specialize in medic magic, that's what Anastasia, my sister, was good at.
"Doubt it." He places his head back on my shoulder and closes his eyes. He's probably resting.
Wow, this chapter didn't have Alex's perspective in it at all, that's a first. This chapter made me sad so I went to get toast and came back to finish the scene. Sorry for being gone for like two or three weeks...sorry. I couldn't think of what to write and last night I got this idea so I wrote it before I start school again tomorrow. What do you think of it? Did it make you sad? Well, I'll see you guys next week (hopefully).
Hmm... Questions: Who is your OTP (One True Pair/ favorite ship) in King Stupid?