No Redemption (Completed book 6 of the Atonement Saga)

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“It can’t have been more than 10/15 minutes, although as soon as she regained consciousness she had no problem taking them on so they must have surprised her”

I whisper turning back to look at her, afraid I’d miss something if I looked away for even a moment

“Her skull was cracked in several different areas at the back, if they hit her hard once she was probably too disoriented to even figure out what was going on”

Carly tells us, gavin takes a seat beside her, pulling his legs up and laying down on the bed beside her, before kissing her cheek.

I can’t help but smile as I watch him with her, he was so gentle with her compared to how he was with me. He was so respectful and caring and I had to admit I found that trait extremely attractive,

“She’s going to sleep for a few hours, possibly even days, why don’t we get some food and let the boys lay with her while she sleeps?”

Carter asks, I walk around the bed, pulling up the safety bar and I climb in beside her just as everyone else starts to leave.

For a while we just lay there watching her every breath, it was almost hypnotic, addictive. Each one filling her lungs, adding oxygen to her body to keep her alive.

I lean in closer, kissing her cheek and I sniff her just as gavin starts to sing my girl too her. I raise my eyebrow in his direction smirking

“Sorry our girl it is”

I snort shaking my head

“I meant the fact that your— you know what, carryon, our girl it is”

He rolls his eyes then he goes back to singing ‘my girl’ as he sings he changes the lyrics just slightly to say our girl. I close my eyes and relax, knowing she’s ok and for the first time in 18 years I’m going to sleep knowing when I wake up I will have 2 amazing mates.

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Heartly’s POV

“I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May

I guess you'd say

What can make me feel this way?—-“

I hear as I snap my eyes open, suddenly I’m laying on my back looking into an obis of white, so white every muscle in my body contracts, suddenly I feel a whoosh, the floor beneath me moves with me stuck on it, suddenly I’m standing in the obis, nothing stands below me or above me, I can see everything yet absolutely nothing.

“My girl, my girl, my girl

Talkin' 'bout my girl, my girl”

I hear the voice sing again, I recognise it but I can’t put the face to the voice. It echoes around me, calming me only just slightly

Just as my heart starts to elevate I hear a popping sound, as I turn I’m shocked to see the ghosts of my past lives stand in a line, all of whom kneel, holding the shoulder of their comrade in front of them, all of them bare their neck to me.

I recognised each and everyone of the ghostly see through figures, from Anna who survived through World War 1 to Abby who was thrown out of her pack for being a demon with no ears.

As they take the knee the very last woman turns to look at me, she was aurora, mother of Olivia. She chose her daughter over her friends, she was the reason we were all here. And out all of the woman infront of me aurora and Olivia where the only ones I truly admired. Aurora choose her daughter, Olivia lived with the curse never imagining how it would effect her own child. They would have done anything to save their kids from the pain they both endured. Up until this point they were the only 2 who ever actually put their child first.

“Our heartly, our savour, today you set us free, today you didn’t do what we have done, today you sacrificed yourself, you didn’t choose another, you didn’t choose your own, instead you choose nobody. You made the ultimate sacrifice for you, for us and for our people. Today we thank you with a gift, one you will never need but something you have always desired. Go in peace my child because today you set us all free”

As she says it they all start singing to the same tune that surrounded us inside this prison world of white

“I don't need no money, fortune, or fame

I've got all the riches, baby, one man can claim

Well, I guess you'd say

What can make me feel this way?”

Suddenly I’m spinning, everything around blurs into one until suddenly I hear a loud screeching sound, catching my ears I scream jumping up. The noise was so loud it was making me dizzy, delirious even.

It rings then stops, then it rings and stops, Hope pushes forward and she yanks me back screaming as I’m thrown back into darkness. The noise cuts out letting me relax, getting lost in the peace of the quiet darkness

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“Our girl, our girl, our girl

Talkin' 'bout our girl, our girl..”

The peaceful song vibrates around the darkness, slowly pulling me towards the light. The closer I get the louder it becomes, along with it I hear beeping, the constant buzz in the background hurts my ears.

Grabbing hold of them I open my eyes, blinded by a light in my face as I squint

“Heartly, heartly are you ok?”

Turning towards the noise Hope surges forward

“We can hear”

She tells me as I look to a very tired looking Desmond

“Babe, are you ok, does it hurt?”

I whimper, trying to block out all the noises

“It hurts to hear”

I tell him out loud, his jaw drops

“You can hear me? Like actually hear me talking”

“Yes but it hurts, it’s all too loud, stop all the noise please”

I plead with him, he jumps up looking around then he points behind me

“The beeping? The beeping is hurting you?”

I nod grabbing blankets and I push them in against my ears to stop the noise, the buzzing sound only gets louder and louder as he turns the machine off.

“What now?”

“The buzz it’s so loud it won’t stop Desmond it won’t stop”

He looks around the room then he turns and he runs outside

“Gavin, Adlai, she’s awake, she can hear”

He screams making me whimper

“Oh s**t I’m sorry baby”

He says coming to my side, I fall into his chest and I use it to block the noise from my ears, the door crashes open and in runs gavin and mum

I scream as the door bangs against the wall

“s**t be quiet she can hear!”

“She can what?”

Gavin asks jumping on the bed, he looked exhausted to

“I can hear, the noise is so loud, please stop the noise”

I cry, mum looks around the room

“The static from the lights”

She calls turning and she turns them off, with it goes the noise and suddenly the pain stops

“You can hear me?”

Gavin asks, I cringe at how loud he talks but my body slowly starts to relax as the background noise cuts out.

“Sorry, but you can, you can hear me”

I nod my head

“Yes”

“Ok hear this, I love you, I love you so f*****g much I didn’t think it was possible, you are my heart and soul and our bond is real. I am yours and Desmond’s and you are both mine. Nothing will ever break this bond, nothing but death”