By now the nightmares were coming less often, but when they came, they seemed to hit her even worse, especially in nights like tonight when a storm was going on outside. Just closing her eyes to relax had been enough for one of her nightmares to play in her head. She hadn’t had to be deeply asleep for that to happen. At the beginning they had been tormenting her whenever she had closed her eyes. It had been almost a year since the Gambit had gone missing in a storm and these kinds of nightmares had started haunting her. She buried her face in her pillow, silencing the loud sobs that were falling from her lips. She slumped back into the mattress as her whole body started shaking violently. She reached her hand out for Oliver, needing to feel him, but all she felt was the cold and empty sheet on the other side of the mattress.Īs her fingers clawed into the fabric, a choked sob escaped her lips. She felt her lungs burning for air and tried to take in a deep breath, but her throat felt choked. Her lips were wide open in a scream of shock, but no sound came out. Tears were welling in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. Then he whispered with a voice so cold that it sent a violent shiver down her back, “Why didn’t you save me?”įelicity’s eyes snapped open and she sat up in bed abruptly.
He pulled her closer until her nose almost touched his. He stared at her with dead, blue eyes that showed no sign of life.
#Endless smile dada life skin#
His fingernails clawed into her skin forcefully and kept her from moving away. His fingers wrapped around her wrists, though. When suddenly his eyes opened, she flinched away. She put her fingers to his face, shaking his head to get him to wake up. She whispered his name desperately, wanting to wake up and fight to get to him, so they could find their way out of this together.įinally the water pushed her close enough. He was right in her reach, but whenever her fingers were about to touch his face, the water moved him out of her reach again. She got closer and closer to him, but it was never close enough to touch him. She reached out her hands for him in the water, longing to touch his face and tell him that everything was going to be alright and that he was going to come home to her like they had planned. Her name, happiness, should be the last word he would say. If he died, he wanted to die with her name falling from his lips. The urge to release it grew quickly, though, and he used his last breath to whisper her name into the water.
He knew this was his last breath, so he wanted to hold onto it for as long as possible. He recalled his happiest memories, the ones of his family. His body would rot at the bottom of the ocean, never to be found and brought home for his loved ones to bury.Ĭlosing his eyes, he was trying to fight the need to release the little air that was still in his lungs. He wasn’t going to get back to the surface again. He knew in the little part of him that was still conscious that these were his last seconds.
He had given up fighting and accepted death.
It was deadly silent, frightening in a way but also peaceful in another. So deep under the water that there was no more howling of the wind and no more thunder to be heard. The water dragged him back under and pulled him deeper and deeper into the darkness.Įverything became quiet. He couldn’t feel his arms or his legs anymore and he felt himself disconnecting from his body. His arms and legs started hurting with the effort to move, growing heavier with each movement, until the pain paralyzed him. The desperate need of oxygen grew until his calls for her turned into whispers and finally ceased completely.
#Endless smile dada life full#
His lungs burned with the need for more air as the time he had over the surface grew shorter and there was barely time to take in a single full breath. The struggle for survival left its mark on him, though. Oliver continued fighting his way to the surface every time, giving everything he could to survive this. The water pulled Oliver down again and again, keeping him under the surface longer each time. The raging storm sent the ocean into wild movement. He was calling out her name, begging for her to save him, as he was fighting for his life.
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