Chapter 130: Dancing On My Heart
Chapter 130: Dancing On My Heart
"Jeebus! K, why do you have to do that?!" Healia started as I formed.
"Is everyone gone now?" I asked, not answering her.
"Yes, we can go back now; everyone is through, even those walking corpses you send with Gobby. That's what you wanted, right?" Healia asked.
I nodded and pointed at the shimmering image. I wasn't in the mood to talk right now.
I had to go let her relive all of this, but she was strong, stronger than I could ever be. She always thought that I took care of her, but I wouldn't have made it without her.
A heaviness played over my heart like a dancing lead plate as I walked into the rift and felt my body contract and then expand again. We were both shit out of the rift, but I caught Healia, so she didn't fall, but then we were rushed by everyone, but I was only looking at the person standing back.
Like the connection between us became a real and tangible thing, the girls and our friends and families all parted. I walked forward, not keeping the steel from my eyes; it was the only thing that I could hold onto right now without falling apart.
"Baby?" Lesha asked me as I took her hand.
"Let's talk in our room; there are some things that we need to talk about," I said quietly as I pulled her along to the stairs.
The room had gone silent, and that one made the deafening pound of my hammering heartbeat that much louder. Lesha followed along quietly, and that was good because I didn't think that I could speak anymore without getting a hitch in my voice.
After we went to the room, we went in, and I closed the door behind us. I led Lesha over to the bed and sat down on it with her, I was trembling, and I couldn't stop it as tears filled my eyes.
I wished I could just let this go, she didn't need this, but there was something wrong in each one of us from the asshole that started all of this. I had to do this and get past it.
"Baby, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Lesha asked with a worried look on her face.
"It's because I love you so much, and I hate myself for what I have to do to you right now, but there isn't any other way. No amount of me trying to explain this will work, so I need you to know that I love you and that each of the girls will have to go through this just like I did," I explained, forcing steel into my voice to steady it.
"I trust you, baby. If you have already done it, I will do it too," She told me with her face moving to a more determined look.
"Then look into my Real Eyes," I said, and instantly Lesha froze and was encased in blue light.
While the scan messages scrolled across my HUD, all I could hear was the thundering of my heart in my ears as I waited for an eternity. I had no idea how she would react to the memories, but I knew she was very strong, and I shouldn't have been surprised that she would be smiling after.
"BABY!" Lesha Squealed as she tackled me to the bed and started to rain down kisses on my face.
Okay, I had not expected this, and kind of a hammering heartbeat replaced the old as I wrapped my arms around her. I pulled her into a deep kiss as hot tears ran down my face, and we kissed for what felt like forever, but when we stopped, I knew that I could never get my fill of her.
"You did all of this for me?" Lesha asked me with a small cute smile.
"And I would do it again, every time. There isn't another soul in any world that loves you as much as I do. The day it all happened, I told Dave that I would give my life to be with you. He told me that he might ask me for it in the end, but Lesha, there is no me without you, and I refused to live a life that didn't have you in it," I said to her as tears streamed down both of our faces.
I pulled her into my chest, and she tightened her grip around me. I would never let her go, and I would never give up on us. Till the end of time itself, I would fight; nothing could ever keep us apart, not even death.
The two of us laid in each other's arms with our eyes closed. I just wanted to enjoy this, but I had to get to Dyster and get the rest of the people.
"I know we have to go," Lesha said as if to read my mind, but I must have become tense.
She always seemed to beagle to read me like a book without me even trying to give her a clue.
"Yes, I need to go get the others and then do the rest of the girl's, but I am not excited for Trinity because I have no idea what is going to happen to her," I said as the two of us sat up and wiped our faces off.
"She is just an A.I., right? ? it shouldn't hurt her, and the real one is with Hyde, right? Dave wouldn't have left her with Bhan; none of us but Hyde can stand the guy!" Lesha said with a smile, but I shook my head as we went to leave the room.
"That's not what I am worried about; I am more concerned about how she and Candi are going to act after this. Candi will have assumed that this was the real Trinity, and it should have been, but I know why Dave would have left her with Hyde. There is no safe place in this game then by that monster's side," I said as we walked out and headed back over to the stair.
"True, she is safer with him, but you're right, and I am not sure how Candi is going to react. It's almost cruel to do this, but They had never been an actual couple until after they got into this game. So really, she has only ever been in a relationship with this girl, but I think we might have to change her name," Lesha said as we started up the stairs.
"I will go and get the others. Then, I will get you to bring me the girls one at a time and not tell them what we are doing. I don't want to give Reginold the chance to do anything to them," I said as we neared the top of the stairs.
The two of us stopped talking as we reached the top and entered back into the room, but only Healia was in the Waystone room. I was only partially surprised; it wasn't like they could just wait for me.
"Everything is okay with you two?" Healia asked as we entered the room.
"Yes, just a bit of a shocker to remember everything, and a bit bleak for how many times we have lost. Still, from what I can remember now, this is the farthest that we have ever made it, and we have never been able to get our memories back like this," Lesha explained to Healia as I stepped forward and let go of her hands.
"I will go back now and get the rest, but I will also be trying to bring the Laughing Crow with us, so prepare for a big load of people coming through. It will no longer be safe for them there now that I have stirred up the pot," I explained as I stepped up to the rift.
Waystones, that was just another fancy name for Rift Portals. They could be used with linked artifacts to return to or travel between places if you controlled both sides. I would be destroying the rift at Dyster. Even if they couldn't make it here, I was taking no chances.
I had seen these idiots in other games, and their powers were far from average, and they had a real bad habit of pulling things out of nowhere. So, destroying the Guild was the best option to keep everyone here safe.
I turned back to Lesha, and she ran over to hang me and give me a kiss before I left.
"Please be safe! I remember all the fun things we did, so don't you go dying on me before we get to do them!" Lesha whispered into my ear, and then she bit my earlobe playfully, sending waves of pleasure through my body.
"Don't worry, my love. I will be back to make you squeal after I am done getting our boys, okay?" I asked with a devilish smile, and Lesha gave me the same one back.
"Get a room for you two!" Healia complained as I turned and stepped into the rift.