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(Kurt’s perspective)

She looked terrified.

Her wings fluttered and she stared down at me with such pain in her eyes, it put me in pain.

I reached up to her, I completely forgot my surprise as I found myself in a tight embrace which seemed to quell some of her pain.

Suddenly she let out a shaky but confident laugh.

I stared down into her eyes, down……..

“If I’m flying so are you!”

I stared down and sudenly we both crashed down to the ground.

She screamed. I felt a pain in my side as A kept screaming.

“A!”  I managed to yell.

I got up and stared down at her. Her eyes were closed, she was screaming in pain, and I realized - this is my fault. I’ve hurt her. I dropped to the ground and sat there staring at my best friend.

I didn’t notice the time passing by.

Suddenly a voice whispered,

“Help her! By sitting here you’re just making it worse!”

I could feel myself straightening up and felt my tear stained cheeks.

“Good” the husky, deep voice continued.

“Pick her up and straighten out her body”

I didn’t know why I obeyed the strange voice but I did. I didn’t bother to question the fact a voice had appeared and was telling me what to do - life had been stranger today.

“Ok put her down in that patch of moss to the left”

I carefully layed down her delicate body  completely straight, I noticed for the first time that her light green dress had been ripped and torn to reveal long scars down her arms and torso. Rage boiled inside me.

The voice continued with an urgent voice as if trying to distract me

“Put your shirt and jacket over her she’s shivering in her sleep.”

I did so and tucked it around her tightly.

“That is all you can do for her now. Sleep”

and as if his words had been magic I dropped to the ground and was asleep.

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I woke, there was a soft voice beside me.

“No don’t…….. Go”

I quickly got up and saw that A was still asleep.

“Cold ….” she murmured

I quickly knelt down and tucked my shirt more tightly around her. I lay down next to her and tried to sleep but couldn’t.

My thoughts kept rushing back to how I was the one who sent her crashing to the ground and the deep scars running across her body.

She murmured again,

“Please…… leave….. try , understand…… Kurt……..”

I shot up at the sound of my name and listened intensely,

“Understand…”

she murmured again, this time a full sentence.

“Kurt, try to understand, I love you”

I lay back down in shocked silence.

It was just sleep talking a voice in my head whispered.

Another one argued though It would make perfect sense!

But a calm cool voice interupted the others Do you feel that way about her??

That was the main question.

The other voices came back

NO! What about Lee-Lee what about Kenz!?

They’d understand!

The argument seemed to last forever,  as he faded into sleep again.

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“You have 24 of your hours. Say your goodbyes. You will come back here!”

The husky voice was back……….