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These hands squeeze the gaping wound from his abdomen, trying to prevent this reddish liquid that vampires at this school love as much. If the blood that continued to stick was not convincing enough to understand it was over, her heart will help her do it. This organ synonymous with life had already exceeded 100 beats minutes in some situations, at this moment the number of beats was less and less numerous. His breath is getting harder and more jerky. If no one found it within ten minutes future she probably won't survive.
-"You cling hard to life for someone who waits to die since birth."
-"We all wait to die." With his least stained hand, Wednesday pushed on his arm to straighten. "We do it just differently."
-" That's not what I was talking about. And you know that very well."
-"I thought it was customary to preserve the dying?"
Goody watches the sighting with his arms crossed, detailing the least of these features. She had never seen so many emotions on this neutral face. With frowned, jaw tight, eyes sparkling, ghost would never be able to decipher this face, it was new.
"If you seek gentleness, you will not have it from me."
Wednesday don't look for sweetness, or even to live, she wanted to know if Enid wore well, she just wanted to check that in her misfortune she is not boarded her roommate, she wanted, she needed to know that this sparkling young girl would remain sparkling for decades. Goody told her she was destined to stay alone, she just has to check to stay alone, and that no one accompanies her in an early death and especially not her sweet werewolf classmate.
Without a word, Wednesday it pulls on the ground, preventing a cry from escaping from these lips by biting the inside of the cheek.
-"You are too weak."
-"I die, I'm not disabled."
Goody rolled his eyes and saw his descendants fight to walk on those legs despite the pain.
-" And what are you going to do?"
-"I can't die now."
Goody is constantly telling him that this is exactly what was going on.
- "Do you want to live?"
-"I want Enid to live."
After these words, Wednesday's ancestor missing.
Wednesday inspires, her breath trembles, she knows very well why she is in this state, and it's not just because she is draining her blood, but for something much more serious.
The few minutes she walked were emblazoned for her forever, a real torture and everyone knows she is an expert in this field.
So is that the worst of all the dead?
Dying without knowing if the person who gave her a chance to live is not dead? Nobody should sacrifice their life for someone like her.
People like Wednesday die for people like Enid. And not the other way around.
Wednesday felt a liquid on those cheeks, she did not bleed there and no drops fell from the sky. With a brutal gesture she erased those tears. She couldn't afford to be weak now. She can do it later, when she finds Enid. Maybe they will have a little time, maybe Wednesday can tell her about the pain that inhabits him throughout his being and again, this pain has nothing to do with death, this pain exists in her little body because of that horrible smile that pierced the walls that Wednesday had forged around her heart. If Enid hadn't returned to her life she wouldn't be there, she won't try to survive.
The realization there struck, Enid made her want to survive, Wednesday found the person she loved there.
And she understands it on the day of her death.
A rustle made her head straighten up there on Wednesday, with his eyes folded, she searched for the one responsible for this noise.
-"Is there... someone?"
-"Willa. .?"
That sound, she could recognize it anywhere, these arms almost fell to Enid's voice she took the step.
The tears she did not want to allow to flow eventually fell at the same rate as her body when these eyes lay on her best friend's mutilated body.
-"i'm sorry."
Enid cough while trying to smile, only blood springs from her mouth, she tried to lift her arm to wipe her mouth without any success. Wednesday truly cried now, in great silence but unable to stop. She should never have let Enid follow her in this investigation.
The young Addams tried so hard to stand right, to give himself a more comfortable posture, his legs bent on her side, her right arm circling her own belly and her second hand glued to the face of the wolf, gently caressing her.
-"I guess I can't get more from you in terms of hugs". The youngest kid jokes, her mouth through always wanting to smile despite physical and psychic pain.
Wednesday wasn't stupid, Enid had to lose as much blood as she did. She was going to die, and it was because of a fault.
-"I wipe blood from your face, you don't like it."
Enid knew this girl with a beautiful black color, it was just a pretext, as when she used Thing to tell her she missed her.
- "It's not your fault." Finally let go Enid. By frowning." I decided to save you, I could never have lived if you were dead without trying anything."
-"And the same goes for me."
Enid gathered all this force to get this straightened on those hands, the other girl hastened to slip these legs to the level of that head.
-"Don't make any effort."
-"Yeah… tests again…" she deeply inspired struggle against the desire to fall asleep." When you can stand on your legs."
-"I came to you."
-"Shit, Weds." This scorn Enid, are laughing quickly becoming a cough straight.
-"What?"
-"Nothing, never changes." Enid lay on his sides with her head on Wednesday's crossed legs, these arms tightly clamped around his waist. "We're fucked, aren't we?"
-"My inspirational capacity is bad… you spit blood. I... " her voice trembled, Enid straightened her head towards the wet face of the smallest, she lifted her arm gently to wipe away the tears that Wednesday hates.
-"We're together, so it's good."
Enid smiled, a real smile, her typical smile, the one that Wednesday had painfully fallen in love with.
When Enid's eyes began to leave these eyes closed, Wednesday shook her.
-"Enid! You have to stay with me! I still have things to tell you. I have to talk to you, I'm so sorry." Wednesday's head fell in the werewolf's the neck.
. "Please. Enid…I never liked to live…now I want it…I want it if you’re there."
-"Chuuuttt…" It was the first time that Wednesday smiled for something other than his uncle, we horrified him. She was happy that her wolf was still with her." I listen to you."
-"You are the reason I want to live… you are my reason to live Enid. understood that. I'm sorry I took a lot…so much? ...All this time to understand it."
Wednesday surrounded these arms around Sinclair's shoulders.
-"They come... the others". Enid does not express any joy, Wednesday wiped just the little salt water still squeeze on those cheeks. They knew they wouldn't get away with it.
-"Enid."
-"Yes?"
-"I want to know... what it feels like to... kiss you."
-"Do it, before we can't." Despite her face covered in blood, Wednesday did not hesitate, she put her free hand in Enid's hair before bending and connected these lips to that of Enid, none of them had the strength to deepen anything. Just one pair of lips on another yet it had more effect than any she fucked that Enid had had with Ajax.
They are really mistaken, Enid who thought Wednesday incapable in love, she was no better, the queen of the gossip hadn't even been able to see herself in love with her roommate, the most cliche thing on this damn planet.
Wednesday saw nothing, no vision, his mind was empty complement. Just one thought she wants to live so that she can kiss until the end of time Enid. She began to understand these parents.
She had completely missed.
She would have preferred to live in the despair and misery of life if that meant that Enid never knew her.
-"They are here!" Scream a boy.
Wednesday moved away not immediately leaving Enid's eyes, then these eyes are connected to that of Ajax. He knew, he understood.
He turned his eyes away and scream in the dark forest.
-"Hurry up!"
-"I won't be able to last... not long."
-"Enid."
-M"mh... just, I want... you, I…" she frowned looking for words that never came. "Yeah... I love you."
These eyes are closed, Wednesday holding in these arms, hugging her with the strength that she has left.
-"I too… I love you. I... I need a break."
Race steps reached these ears, Wednesday couldn't even do where to say something when she was taken by the shoulders and removed him from his lost love.
- "Enid…"
Someone whispered to her with words in a quiet voice despite the situation while she was being carried in someone's arms.
-" We take Addams relay. Now, you have to fight to live. Wednesday, do you hear me?"
- "I... Enid... the last veil fell."
Black Absolute.
[...]
The room was white, everyone was waiting in morbid silence. Maybe some of them cry, cry over their fate, they were not even close friends of the two girls. Their entire gang was fighting to at least see what happened in the operating room.
They were too busy being angry to cry now.
- "LET US GO IN ! WE CAN HELP YOU!"
- "Yoko…" Divina shot her, she wasn’t stupid, she knew what her girlfriend meant, she was no longer allowed, she was no longer allowed. "You have to let the doctors do it."
-"I can't hear anything."
-"Can't hear doctors anymore?" Bianca asks, maybe it was a good sign, they had succeeded?
- "Their hearts... I... Bianca, you have to do something. Yes. . if we're fast enough I could, maybe I'd have time to bite them, they…"
Bianca didn’t need to hear more, Wednesday and Enid had given their lives to save them, it was her to do it now.
The doctor arrived, with a weary face and accentuated dark circles they already knew what he had come to tell them. The mermaid pulled her necklace without hesitation.
-"You will let us pass. Nobody should come…"
-"Hey, what are you doing?!"
Cried a nurse, promptly reacting Divina who took a seat next to her friend.
-"Accelerates". Ordononn Divina to the vampire. "Kent!" The boy got up quickly and doesn't really understand like all the students who wait. But he did not hesitate to use his siren song to calm any nurses or anyone who wanted to oppose them.
Yoko run with Ajax, without any hesitation, pushed the door of the block and returned inside.
-" Ajax, no one should come back here."
- "Don't look."
He positioned this in the frame of the door and tore his hat.
-"Save them."
Yoko rushed to the operating tables, the beds were joined, she wore rather well the sight of the blood, she never thought she had a high heart at the sight of this liquid. Wednesday's abdomen was always open, Enid wasn't under better conditions, the claw marks covered his whole body, an opening was made at his heart.
When her gaze fell on the floor stained with blood, she saw the interlaced fingers of the two girls hanging in the void.
- "FUCK!" She hit the first thing that was on her way, a metal table fell violently on the floor. She could not bring them back, she could not do it anymore, she should have done it in the woods, she should have relied on her instinct, not on her ridiculous doctors. Yoko let himself slide on the ground. They had just started living...
Ajax putting his cap back in place this tour to see why Yoko reacted so, he didn't stay long, he turned his eyes and ran into the hallways with his hands on his mouth holding his envy that climbed him in his esophagus.
He shook on his way these mermaid friends followed doctors trying to catch them.
Bianca stopped straight ahead of the door. Divina barely saw her girlfriend kneel on the floor, she made her way to meet her and take her arms.
- "We're going to try... "signal to Divina a flickering smile as these tears began to flow.
- "Enid did not hesitate for a second to run to help Wednesday. We have to wait until we have no chance of reacting."
-" We…"
-"We honor their memories."
-"We should cover them I hear their parents." Yoko these straightened backed by the siren to apply what she had just said.
Gomez was the first to return followed by Morticia, their hands clamping hard each other.
-"What happened?"
-"We are sorry they did not have been able to save them." Yoko apologized this straightening, to face the parents of gothic.
-"If she died, she wanted it."
The father approached the two bodies, smiling at the sight of their peaceful face and hands joined.
- "It's not your fault."
-"Of course it is! If we had been there, we would not have been in good condition but we would all be alive."
-"It's much more complicated." He stroked the top of his daughter’s head. Morticia simply looking at the gesture, she will never touch Wednesday without her consent." Addams love, Wednesday, could never have lived without this werewolf. And it seems that Enid gave that life for my daughter. She would have made an excellent Addams."
-"We would never have left it." A voice is heard, the couple of the seer turns abruptly. "Death for an Addams. Even when she died, she failed to do it correctly."
Yoko almost threw her best friend’s mother, she could kill her and if she let him do it, she will. Fortunately, Gomez made a simple gesture with his hands, Wednesday told these parents about his roommate's relationship with these parents, their daughter always hated knowing that Ester was doing so much harm to him.
-" Is that really what you're worried about? Your daughter saved this school with our daughter."
-" They are real heroines." Continua Kent. Gomez turned his head towards the young man and accepted a sign from his head. "You're here alone, who thinks she was less than nothing."
- "You saw her!" She approached to discover the trace of claw on her face. "Even alive, no one would have wanted it after that."
- "You don't want her, okay, we'll take care of her funeral. She will have a funeral worthy of the person she was. Now it would be better if you left, unlike me, I doubt you want to experiment with the incredible esperrience of a werewolf vasectomy."
- "Are you threatening me? It's my daughter, I do whatever I want."
-"Technically, she's no longer your daughter, and she was. It is the soul that makes a person, their souls are no longer here, they are empty bodies, you did not want your daughter alive, why would you waste time with an empty body envelope?" Gomez used his own ester behavior to convince him to leave.
-"We were told that she has to mutate, so it's a werewolf, it's up to us to take care of it not a clown band."
-"Fantastic! Our clown gang has wolf genes in their blood, so I guess everything is set. Maybe we'll send you an invitation."
-"You are not his family."
-"We are so much more than you." Say Bianca.
-"Yeah, she hated you, if Wednesday you met before she died she would have tortured you in the worst ways, it was a real professional for that!"
-"A human against werewolf? You are completely ridiculous, I understand how Enid managed to make friends in this damn school you are all as lamentable as each other."
-"Hold me or I will kill her." Calmly announced Yoko at Divina.
-"I don't want to hold you."
-"The kids it's good." Calm Gomez.
For the first time, Morticia moved, she couldn't stand it any longer, she grabs the first threatening objects and approaches Enid's mother.
-"You never loved or wanted your daughter, she makes you ashamed, she never was your daughter, so don't mess up are name. You really don’t want to discover what we are capable of. Wednesday was one of the best, but she wasn't there alone. So leave immediately or I bleed you right away in this room. Is that clear?"
Ester's gaze passed from the scalpel Morticia held in her hands a few inches from her face, to each of the individuals in the room, she couldn't do much, yes, she was a werewolf, but there are limits for everyone.
-"She wasted us enough time while she was alive anyway, I leave her."
And Ester left without even waiting for her husband.
-"Somebody can tell me the address or you're going to bury it?"
-"At Addams, next to Wednesday you will find quite easily." Coldly say Morticia, even though this man had never been specifically violent or wicked, he did nothing. "But we don’t promise to welcome you with a smile."
He smiled politely and went to meet his wife.
-"Go children, let the doctors do what they have to do. We have to announce the news to everyone and start preparing the biggest party ever made for them."
-" A party?"
- "Yes. A party. We will celebrate every moment of their lives, every exchange they have with us. We will celebrate their sacrifices and their death."
- "I like the idea, Enid wouldn't have liked us crying for weeks. And Wednesday must have been pretty happy to know what it was like to die." Explains Divina.
- "Exactly!" Gomez hit his hands. "Now everyone come out." All the students came out, the couple of Addams did not move, until the door was closed.
-"My little scorpion…"
She really wouldn't want us to cry over her death.
-"I don’t cry about her death, but about her loss of hearing about her novel, how she tortured her brother, the tragic events of this school…."
-"I think she can understand that."
-"Yes, I think so too."
For the first time in decades, the legendary couple cried. They wept their hearts breaking for the first time.
They had just lost their daughter, their angel of mercy.
[...]
Their coffins had been buried underground for an hour now.
For an hour, music began to play hard. People were dancing, shouting, some crying again but quickly, a member of the Addams family caught him and made him laugh with a strange joke.
-"You are silent."
-"If you tell me not to appreciate it, I won't believe you."
-"You know very well what I mean."
-"I just didn't expect that."
-"I was haunted by one of my ancestors and my best friend is literally a piece of human body, you thought death would be like?"
-"I wasn't really a believer, but if I had to imagine something after death, I would see heaven. A place where we could have something we always wanted."
-"So you hoped to be a real werewolf… for your parents?"
-"Before you arrive in Nevermore, yes, after it's more complicated, I just wanted to spend time with you."
-"You are not really wrong, death allows some to have what they have always desired, but only those who have voluntarily chosen not to succumb to what they have coveted for the good of others."
-"So, we both buried our feelings for the good of others? And since we both want to be together, here we are?"
-"That's a good summary."
-"I would have preferred to spend my life with you, not my death."
-"As surprise as it may be, so too, but honestly could never have imagined such a beautiful death."
-"I'll meet you there too, who would have thought I would say that one day?"
-"The first time I saw you I said to myself “I would never understand this girl”, so it's definitely not me."
Enid remained silent, watching these friends go on living, she was happy that it was still the case. She knew that they would all recover from this bad experience.
-"Now that we're dead, what do we do?"
-"What does life mean? I speak, I think, I have memories, I just don't have a body, we live, except we're more on the same spectral pattern as the others."
- "Yes, of course." Enid smiles with a slight frown, remarks Wednesday.
- "You had no idea?"
- "Ghosts have never been my thing, it's yours. So what do we do?"
- "We live in the fact that we can still do it." Wednesday take the blonde's hand in hers, Goody told her she was supposed to be alone, Enid, that look, that smile... she wasn't supposed to be alone, she was meant for Enid." We missed our chance, we have a second, so if you really mean what you said, we can make up for it."
- "Wednesday, I really love you, I wouldn't be in this situation if I hadn't done it." Enid will be stronger with his girlfriend’s hand.
-" I too, as we agree, let's start this new life by going haunted…"
"- Wednesday!"
- "Your mother."
- "I think the idea is not so bad…"
-" So, we're going?"
Wednesday this raises and shoots Enid with her. In the evening, they observe this great celebration, realized in their honor. They will miss this life, but it is not over for them yet. They disappear with a smile on their faces, Enid screams something about Wednesday's dimples she had never seen...but the end of that phrases is choking with Wednesday's lips on her own. They disappear completely, to this new life that they begin together and end together.
but is there really an end to their stories?
[...]
[ 267 years later ]
-"Enid occupies you the wind, I take care of the door sounds."
-"Why it's always you who makes the doors cringe."
-"Because I am better than you for that."
-"How do you want me to improve if you don't let me do it?"
Wednesday have rolled eyes but she accepted Enid's request, she did not know how to tell her "no" , and especially not with those eyes.
-"Start."
The owner of the place returns, rolls his eyes at the door that slams behind it and in the wind whistles on the second floor.
-"Kids, what did I say about shoes in the house?"
-"Yes, sorry." The duo descend down the stairs, take off their shoes and return to the stairs.
-"We don't run on the stairs."
As if it was an excuse to run, they replied "We'll say hello to mom."
-"These kids tire me... and you guys too."
Cried the young woman on the wall of the house. After Removing her coat and these shoes she headed to the kitchen, opened the fridge, grabbed a bottle of flavored blood for the children and two blood bags for her and his wife.
Barely the open bottle the children ran down the stairs.
-"Cyrus, Luna! What were you told on the stairs!"
-"Sorry Mom."
-"Hi Div', she's not too bored?" She asks by giving her his drink.
-"Dying did not really help them, they remained stuck during their teenage years, at least contrary to some it does not run everywhere." This scoffed Divina in pinching her son's cheek kindly.
The mermaid takes a sip of red liquid is grimaced even after centuries she does not get used to having to drink this, real food sometimes lacks, but she will never regret the day she asked Yoko to transform it.
-" Hey!"
-" Divina is not really wrong."
Enid crossed his arms in response and disappeared. The writer has not moved.
- "Wednesday? Are you here?" Ask Yoko.
The window opens and closes to indicate a "yes".
-"Can you keep the kids tomorrow night with Enid?"
The television lit up on a cartoon channel, the children jumped out of their chairs and run into the living room.
-"Thank you very much, I wonder what we would do without you."
Wednesday disappeared, finding Enid in the room that the couple of the place had kindly arranged for them; pressed on the edge of the window.
- "Are you all right?" Ask the gothic to take place next to his cello.
Enid does not respond immediately, she simply puts her head in those hands, gazing fixed towards the sky
-"Sometimes I just forget that we are dead. When reality comes back I think about all the things I would have liked to do with you. You must find it ridiculous…"
-"No, sometimes I wonder what you would look like in a beautiful wedding dress, I wonder what my parents would have thought about you. I wonder if we would have children. I wonder a lot, and then I see you, and the only thing I know is that whatever happens, the most important thing is that you are by my side."
Enid closes her eyes as weirdly, Wednesday manages to play some cello notes, she wasn't able to play as she did when she was alive, but she try. Sometimes the Gothic that content to spin his turntable, tonight was this day.
-"I love you."
-"I will love you forever Enid, and maybe in this eternity we will find a solution for all our dreams."
The black-haired one approaching Enid encircles these arms from behind. These hands laid on her stomach and forehead press against the blonde's shoulder.
- "Ghosts who dream? If I didn't know I died, I would think I was in a coma or something."
- "Maybe we are... who really knows?"
-" Stop, you're going to make me doubt…"
Wednesday moves away from Enid so they can face it and gather their lips, even after all this time their loves were identical, always so beautiful and powerful.
-"My love for you seems false?"
-"OMG, absolutely not !"
And they kiss again, under a black sky lit with a magnificent full moon.
Sometimes, on evenings when wolves scream, if you're listening, you can hear Beethoven's Fur Élise playing discreetly, while Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair kiss as if their lives depended on it.
-The END -