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you up? The first text was from a far away window, surrounded by the white walls of the hospital in contrast to the black void of the sky on the window. I answered with the simple darkness of the room, and short yes. you okay?
The second matched the darkness of my room, I sat up complaining of the pain in the way.
"I'll take that as a yes" Penny said as she met my eyes. She readjusts her glasses, and sigh. "How are you feeling?"
"Pain, honestly." She nods, "You?"
She paused for a second and sighs, "Like I was trucked by lighting."
I nod back this time. We fell into a weird silence, not exactly uncomfortable but weird. It's not like we don't have any more to say, it's more we don't know where to start really.
After Agatha called her parents, Penny's and Baz's and her parents found all of us unconscious with two bloody dead bodies. After we all were taken to the hospital to recover. Penny and I were put in the same room. She didn't want to leave me alone. After we gave into the many drugs and spells until we fell back asleep.
"You know anything about Baz?" Penny finally broke the silence.
I look down at my phone, and unlock it when I noticed his name on it. The ceiling it's the same from ours. for someone who's already dead, you'd think this be less painful. you?
"In pain too, but he's here," I explain as I answer. probably been worse in the past.
"Good," Penny explains with more enthusiasm I expected. I turn to her frowning. "We need to talk."
"With Baz?"
She looks away from me for a moment before turning back with an intense stare. "First you need to tell what happened with Baz and you."
I open my mouth to answer but I stop myself, I don't know how to start. How do you tell someone you made out with you lifetime enemy? "I guess things changed around us." I look at my phone to avoid her eyes.
The ceiling again. yeah I'm sure He doesn't have to send the second text with a (sarcasm) for me to understand but he does anyway.
"I can see that" Penny states in a way she wants me to call for my attention.
can you come to our room? I type instead.
"Simon you..." She pauses, in doubt, "...you were going to let him kill you..." Her voice is cautious. I can feel staring at me, waiting for my reaction. I clench my hand around my phone. I expect my magic to start boiling at the memory, but it doesn't come. My stomach forms into a knot and it starts a wave of nausea. "...but killed him for Baz..."
you miss me already snow?
I don't follow his joke. penny wants to talk
"Simon?" She calls me again, worried.
"He wouldn't stop," I mumble with the knot now on my throat. "He wouldn't stop hurting everyone." I close my eyes to blink the tears away. I saw Ebb on the floor and the ever-growing pool of blood around her body. Another blink and Baz was barely standing dripping more blood than he probably has. Another blink and the blood thirst in the mage's eyes before they lost all life in them. Blink, and I was crying.
"Simon..." Penny now sat next to me hugging me, "You did the right thing."
"You saved us all you brave bastard." I look up to see Baz lying against the door frame with a tired smile, dark circles under his eyes, dry lips, messy waves contained behind his ears and bandages over all his body. "You wouldn't answer anymore, I thought I would come to check what you wanted to talk about."
I unlock my phone to find an unopen notification from him. I turn to Penny and encourage her to talk. "What is it?"
She moves away from me and readjusts her glasses. "What is it between the two of you?"
My eyes moved to Baz, he is calm like always but he doesn't answer or move. Finally, he meets my eyes. "I think I should sit down then."
He takes a chair that Penny's mother brought before and sits next to my bed. I wait for someone to talk, when I realize they are waiting for me to talk. Again I don't know how to start so tell her everything. From the accidental text, to the fight with Agatha, to Christmas party...everything until I went to Baz house. Baz also listens, nodding at certain parts, rolling his eyes in other, and frowning just after I explain the night we kissed. I turn to explain the end to Penny only, to avoid looking at him. She only frowns.
There's a moment of silence of her thoughtfully staring to the sheets of the bed before mumbling a quite, "...Everything makes sense then..." Then she abruptly looks up to me. " The Mage was at Baz's house looking for something when he asked you to leave Watford?" I nod, she doesn't seem to be really asking as much as thinking out loud, "He must have to been looking for something to...fix...you..."
She turns to Baz, finally back to reality, when he finally talks, "He was trying to extract something from me, when Ebaneza came to check on the loud noises..."
"Right! He wanted her power also...he must have wanted Baz's...to kill two birds with one stone..." Penny finished her thoughts, "He didn't expect no one to interrogate him about Baz's disappearing, he didn't know you two were dating..."
I stare to Baz my heart raising. "It was my fault." Both of them turn to me, surprised. "Ebb...you..." I stare the scratches and bruises on his porcelain face, then Penny's. Her dark skin hides most of them in poor lighting of the room, although her face looks tired and her eyes shine in worry. "All of it, the dead points, the Humdrum, the dead points...all of it it's my fault."
"Simon...you didn't know..." Penny tries to grab my hand but I pull away, shaking. "Si..."
"No." Baz says, he voice clear and loud. "You hear him." He tilts forward and rests his elbows on his knees. "He said created you. He wanted to control a power he couldn't have. So he passed it down to you."
Penny opens her eyes wide. "What?"
"It makes sense if you think about it," Baz puts his hands together and stares at them as he talks, "He was the one that cared about the prophecy, the one that knew where to find Simon..."
"No magic parent would ever abandon their child..." I mutter softly
"Unless he was hiding something..." Penny finishes.
Baz nods and then looks up to me. "I'm sorry Simon."
"I killed my father..."
"You killed a madman." Baz takes my hand, trying to reassure me.
"You did what you could," Penny takes my other hand, "You saved us Simon..."
"We wouldn't we've been here with you."
Only because I put you in danger first.
But I don't say it. Instead, I just stare at the walls blankly as tears fall down my cheeks. "Bunce, would you let me a moment with Simon?" His voice is cool and calm.
Penny's squishes my hand for a couple of seconds before getting up and giving us once las uncertain glance.
Baz sits in front of, where Penny was before. He tries to clean the tears on my face but other's quickly replace them. He sighs and gives a soft smile. "It's a lot, isn't it?." He whispers. "There's so much happening right now, but it's the end of it." He takes my hand with both of his and raises it, it's cold but I don't mind. "We survived Simon, both of us." He leaves a soft kiss on my hand, "Together." He leans in and kisses me softly, he lingers on my lips a little more than I expected but I can feel him smiling. "That's more than I thought I'd ever had."
I pull away and quickly wipe the tears from my cheek with my free hand. I laugh, some sobs slip in between. "Yeah...me too..."
"I love you, Simon..." He squishes my hand as if he feared I am going to pull away.
I stop laughing. I stare at him for a second. Now I am the one that cups his face. I lean until his forehead touches mine, I lift my hand with his still grabbing around mine and wrap my free hand over his. "I love you too." I lay a quick kiss on his lips.
"I thought that would kill me." He whispers after a while.
I clenching in my hand around his, pulling them to my chest. "Yeah me too..."