You know that feeling you get sometimes,when you've been holding on for far too long,
when you've tried your best to keep control, when you couldn't let your inner man win...
When you're so damn sure you've tried your best, you held on to it with your life, you didn't let the anger kick in,
When were more than willing to struggle than loose it all...
But....mmmh...
but at the mention of one statement,..
She lost...
She lost the battle she had to embrace...
She lost the feelings and humanity...
She had lost it all...
Alice had lost it all...
"She's the witch that took your mother.."
Those words echoed through her senses like an image reflecting itself on a mirror...
It was almost impossible to feel that much rage stirring up inside...
Those words... they stored up a certain kind of rage, something she didn't even feel when Ryder slapped her...
She closed her eyes and this time, she didn't convince herself to calm down..
She didn't tell her self, not to be a bitch..
This time, she lost the gear she had that always aided her to stay in control....
And in one swift roar....everyone around her was thrown metres apart,
She let go off herself..
Of her patience....
Of her control....
Now, all hope was lost,for when Alice let the curse win, there was no longer an Alice to be called....
And before the eyes of the witch, who was now held against a tree with a piece of wood painfully stuck deep inside her stomach....Ryder now uncouncious from the force that hit him..
Gregory holding on to a weak branch as the unfamiliar wind can staggering against his face..
And the pack... In one way or another... The were all down..
For when their master was at stake..their powers couldn't work....you get me right...
And slowly, so slowly... All the creature's that Alice possessed began imprinting themselves on her heart, in her personality , her face...the transaction came with a certain kind of, a deep sharp pain , like her insides were tearing themselves apart...
Like the one hundred and sixty four creatures living inside her were trying to contain themselves.. Wasn't it impossible... For a girl to posses so much power, what of curse was this...
She screamed her lungs out, finally unable to control herself, her knees digging against the ground.. Her body still producing some kind of dangerous emissions...
The emissions that hit Ryder.. And he woke up, as though acquiring a certain kind of humanity from Alice...
He look at her, her face unseen, the faces that seemed like thousands still appearing on her...
And for the first time...he felt a pang in his heart, like he too was in the sane pain that Alice was in...
As she screamed...
The way she screamed...
Like she was begging for release.
Like she wanted a way out....
He felt every bit of it...
He felt everything..
He felt love...
Something he would never agree with...
A taboo he'd never fall for...
But here he was, looking at the face of death, and falling in love with it...
With the personality that possessed it...
And so he struggled his way through the wind that was keeping everyone away from her...
Until he finally reached the fire...
The burning furnace...
The only layer enclosing Alice...
And when the fire felt his presence...
It had a mind of its own...
A heart of its own...
For it parted and made a way.. A clear way that led to Alice.
It was magical.... Like impossible...
And as Ryder walked through it all..
Alice could feel herself break apart.. Like she was afraid that he'd see him like these..
At her weakest...
Her scariest...
Her ugliest...
Her unmanageable...
But he still smiled...
Because he didn't need to look at her face to fall in love. He just that imperfection...that brokenness...
That stubbornness of hers...
And those little threats she always had...
She was perfect...
She was perfect...
She was perfect being imperfect...
And he..
The bad boy..
The devil...
He was perfectly okay with it...
Hr couldn't ask for anything different...
And when he reached her, kneeling on the ground..in tears.. In burning tears..
He got down on his knees..
And wrapped his hands around the masterpiece his heart had learnt to beat for..
That very embrace stuck back all of her brokenness...
All of her depression...
Her anger...
Her pain...
Her tears..
The fire around them...
Its all disappeared..
And in Ryder's arms , remained the beautiful girl he'd sturbonly fell in love with...
" don't let me go.." She whispered afraid that she might turn again..
Afraid of what she might let herself become, in the presence if a person she too was falling for...
He smiled encouragingly at her, as though gappy that the bitchy Alice wasn't here to spoil the lovely moment...
" i will never let you go.. "