Aili's P.O.V
"Liz," I shouted, bolting out of bed I found myself in as every bone in my body screamed at me to stop.
"Aili, lay back down," I heard Sam say as she put her hands on me
I fought her, "But there's an intruder, I have to warn Liz," I said, trying to get out of the bed
"Allison," Sam yelled, and I looked at her, "she found out."
Only then did I realize I wasn't at home. Silent beeps sounded throughout the room as I realized where I was, "Where is she?"
Sam's lips thinned into a line, "Check your wrist," she said, and my heart dropped as I checked the wrist that had her name. It still had her name on it, but it was fading fast.
"I need to see her," I said, "what happened," I then asked as Sam started walking towards the door.
"I'll explain and show," she said, "come on," she added, nodding her head towards the door. Once I got up and met with her, she sighed, "First, let me begin with, I'm sorry I wasn't there to help you two. I was attending to personal things when Liz texted me about you two wanting a day off. When you blacked out from the intruder, he was going to shoot you, but Liz stalled him long enough," Sam started explaining. "Sadly, I wasn't fast enough to get to them because the deities that I was telling you guys about were yelling at me for being on my phone. Once I got there, the intruder shot Liz in the chest after she told him your story and explained why she said what she said during the address."
When she finished, I looked down at my feet and realized that I didn't see the male body I passed out in. "How long have I been out for," I asked hesitantly, "and what state is Liz in?"
"You were out for a full twenty-four hours, and as for Liz," she paused, looking into the room that we stopped in front of. "She hasn't been doing too well since you weren't waking up, you can go and see her, but I don't know what she'll do."
I looked into the room and what I saw broke my heart into a million pieces, "Liz," I breathed before running to her bed.
She was hooked up to every machine imaginable just to keep her alive. A bandage covered her chest as she looked at me through the plastic of the mask; tears were in her eye as she looked at me. "Aili," she said faintly, "you're alive," she added with a smile.
"Yes, I'm alive; you know I won't go down without a fight," I said as tears streamed down my cheeks. "Why did you do that," I asked Liz as I brushed her hair out of her face.
"To save you," she said, and I smiled, "I wouldn't live without you."
"You thought I would," I asked with a sniff.
She smiled softly, "I didn't think he would actually shoot me, not until I said that last part," she replied and groaned. "I wish I could kiss you right now," she muttered as I just realized that my tears were wetting the mask that I was wearing. "Please stay with me," she said as I moved my hand to hers.
"I won't go," I breathed, "I promise," I said, squeezing her hand in reassurance for the both of us. "I will never leave your side with you no matter what. I want to be married to you, I want to graduate with you, I want to have children with you, I want to have a life with you. Please promise me that you won't give up," I said as the tears became a river on my face.
"I promise," she said, returning the squeeze, "so much for that time to ourselves," she added, and I laughed.
"Miss Ransom," a voice said to my right, "could you please leave? We don't want to risk you being infected with the virus."
I looked to the doctor on my right, "But Sam was able to stay here, why can't I?"
"That's because you're not a goddess, ma'am," he said, and I closed my eyes.
"But I live with her. You can't say that I can't stay by her bedside because I don't live with her. I'm already in here," I shouted, holding onto her hand tightly.
"Aili," the goddess began from where she stood next to the doctor. "Please listen; I will update you on her condition whenever it changes. If her name disappears from your wrist, I will ask the doctors if you can see Liz. I will also ask them if she can have a marker to write to you," she finished as I felt my hand being squeezed. I opened my eyes to see Liz looking at me with eyes full of hope, "Go home with Sam, I promise I won't give up, and I don't want you staying here when you could die from the virus too. Please go," she said as the tears kept going down my face.
"But I want to be here if you die," I said, and she smiled
"I won't die," she said, "I promise, I have a goal now," she added with a smirk, and I smiled and squeezed her hand. "If you die on me now, then I won't exactly have a goal now, will I," she asked, and I chuckled then shook my head. "Go, keep an eye on the house and calm the nerves of our family," she said, and I smiled
"Okay," I said, "but you better write to me as much as possible," I added before giving her hand one last squeeze before stepping out of the room. "Is she really going to survive," I asked Sam as we walked back to my room so the doctor could check me out
"I'm sorry, but I can't tell you that answer," she said, and I looked at her, "I was told that I can't tell the future of you two; I had to make an oath not to tell you," she said, and I nodded
"That's understandable," I said once I made it back to my room, "can you tell me what happens if she does die?"
Sam nodded, "You will be given a choice to live and continue your life looking for someone who also has no soulmate, or you could join her in the afterlife. If I understand Liz, I believe that she would want you to choose life than kill yourself just to be with her," she said, and I nodded as I looked at Sam in her eyes.
"I just don't know what I'd do without her," I said as tears welled up in my eyes.
Sam sighed, moving a chair in front of me and sat in it, "Take it from me," she began. "I lost the love of my life multiple times, and I'm still living. Some of the loves that I lost were even before I was a goddess. If I did it then, you could do it now, but that is only if she doesn't survive," she said playfully, punching my knee.
"Will you still be with me," I asked, and she nodded
"I am assigned to a couple for as long as they both live," she said, and I smiled just as a doctor came in to give me my clothes and urge me out of the hospital
Soon we were in the car on the way back to the house, "Sam," I began, "why did that man shoot Liz?"
"That's because his soulmate died before he even met her," she said, "when Liz said 'we need each other just as your soulmate needs you' he shot her because he never met his."