30 minutes after Radial pushed Rave, he was still on the floor. An hour after Opal checked my vitals again Rave refused to leave. Two hours after everyone had fallen asleep, I stayed awake reading, Rave stayed awake on a medical bed writing. Now at 3 in the morning the unbearable silence was getting to me. Novus laying in a comatose has more peace than Rave has in this moment, he constantly cleaned his reading glasses, cracked his knuckles, he clicked his pen, either attempting to create noise out of silence or simply to annoy me. Click, click, click, pause, “Do you intend to cause me to become corrupt again?”
Click, sigh, “No, I’m sorry. I do it subconsciously when I’m uncomfortable,” Silence again. I go back to reading, in a way I’m hoping to find answers for Novus. Something to wake her up, I glance over to Rave who was still writing away, then he stops, “Liam, how does it feel when Novus freaks out when your skin touches?”
I put my book down and stare at him, what the hell does that mean? I pause, “What?”
“I just want to hear your thoughts from your perspective.”
“Gods..um,” I sigh, “it kinda sucks. Some people spend their whole life looking for Soulmates for me to have mine right next to me, and in the end she doesn’t love me.”
He nods his head writing down what I said, “But what about a platonic relationship? Soulmates don’t have to love each other. What about the Soulmates that kill each other because they don’t want the burden?”
“That’s their fault,” I say quickly, “we were intended to be lovers, at least, that’s what I think.”
Rave laughs to himself, “We don’t know what the original intention of Soulmates is. Just because you think you know isn’t always the right answer.”
I roll my eyes, “What are you saying.”
“What if we have multiple Soulmates, but we don’t know it. What if Soulmates travel from different realities?”
“So you think, somewhere in the worlds there could be a Rave, and there could be a Liam that are Soulmates, even if we hate each other in this reality.”
“It is a possibility,” He says softly, what the hell is wrong with him? For the next 30 minutes the silence came back and then click, click, click, “Liam.”
“What now.”
“What if you could talk to Novus through a vision?”
My attention is caught, I fully set down my book and face him, “Explain.”
He stops and chews the top of his pen for a moment, “Novus was able to communicate with others when she had visions. Of course they were only auditory, I’m not sure now that she is a full Watcher, but now you are too and you could communicate with Novus I just-”
I cut him off, “I’ll do it.”
“What?” he stares at me waiting for a reply, but I didn’t have one,
“I said I’ll do it.”
He doesn’t wait for me to back out, instead he takes off his glasses and walks over to me, “I don’t know how to trigger visions other than stress.”
“Don’t tell me you idiot, just do it.”
Rave takes a deep breath, “Did you know the chances of finding your Soulmate are about 1 and 10,000? You found yours and she doesn’t even love you,” Not exactly stressful, he continues, “there are several alternative realities that we have all lived through, but not all of us remember, that means every time you less likely to find Novus,” that’s a little hurtful, “I’ve known you since we were children,” I didn’t know him, “we had conversations, you and Novus discovered each other we were all friends,” I don’t remember this, “and then you were murdered.”
“What?”
He doesn’t stop, he paces around the room, “Novus’ adopted mother, murdered you for being her Soulmate because she didn’t want Novus to be tainted. Yet here you are.”
“Rave what are you talking about?”
He looked at me and it looked as if he smiled, “Haven’t you ever wondered why Novus automatically knew you were her Soulmate?”
A pounding headache came, I clutch my head as memories attempted to come through, but it’s too much, too much to remember at once, I close my eyes, and I realize the hum of the Infirmary was gone. It was pure silence,
“Liam?” Novus voice has always been calming to me, she has always tried her best to comfort me even when I hurt her, “Liam!” I suppose I want to hear her voice to make sure she’s okay, she’s the only one that ever accepted me despite my flaws, “Liam open your damn eyes!”
She’s actually here. I open my eyes and Novus stood before me, a woman in which I didn’t know stood beside her, “So this is Liam.”
“Liam what are you doing here? Are you getting visions?”
Nothing made sense, Novus kneels beside me, I stare at her forgetting what my original task was, “Novus, how did you know we were Soulmates?”
“What are you talking about? We’ve known each other since we were kids.”
I shake my head, “I don’t, I met you when we were teens, on Earth.”
Novus stares at me, “I met Raisa on Earth not you.”
The deafening silence was too much to bear, so many thoughts rushed through my head, Novus stared at the ground, it was too quiet. All of the thoughts rushed together, it became hard to breathe, but I refused to show it. I just stared into the distance, everything I’ve known is wrong. What part of my memory was correct? I didn’t know. I didn’t want to know. We sat in silence, until I felt something wet at my feet, my eyes glance up, water, “Novus, do you see that?”
“Water? Water. Liam you’re stressing yourself out. In your vision when you become too stressed your body has a reaction to wake you up, or kill you.”
“What?!” The room starts to fill faster than before, Novus grabs the young woman’s arm who looks at me,
“Liam, you came here for a purpose! What was it?”
I remember, “How do we wake you up? Novus everything is going wrong! Please just tell me!”
Novus doesn’t say a word, the young woman she clung to sighs, “A man named Caius, tell him to ask Radial about the puppet research. I don’t know where he is though that’s all I can say.”
The water begins to rise above our chest, Novus’ chin was already under the water, she was panicking, “Caius, he’s at the castle. I heard Rave punched him!”
“I wouldn’t be surprised!” The woman shouted, “tell him Ultima misses him.” Novus was under the water, the woman barely staying afloat,
“What do I do?!” The woman smiles, then she falls under the water, as did I. Novus struggled holding her breath, I close my eyes and shout, “Stop!”
“I haven’t said anything for the past hour?” Rave’s voice gave me a sigh of relief, I open my eyes and I sat in the Infirmary once again. My body showed no signs of being wet, and the sunset rose above shining bright in my eyes. It was morning, and I knew how to bring Novus back.
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