Don’t Leave Me Here Alone

        It was a dismal night, as a human Kat appeared in town. She’d just escaped a prison world. She was glad, since she knew she had to help Elijah. Since she was descended from Travelers, which gave her magic, she’d been able to look at what was happening outside of the prison world. If she wasn’t too late, she knew she had to save him from himself. He wanted so badly to end his own suffering and be reunited with Hayley, but she couldn’t let that happened. She’d be miserable if she lost him.

        She put the ascendant in her jacket pocket. She then looked around, seeing that she was in the town square. Then she saw him not far from a bench, on his back.

        She rushed to his side.

        “Elijah.”

        She pulled the White Oak stake out of him. She wanted to break down, but she didn’t. She knew that wouldn’t help. Instead, she hovered her hands over his chest, concentrating on bringing him back to life.

        “Come back to me, Elijah. You can’t leave me. I won’t let you. I still need you. You don’t get to die and leave me here alone.”

        After a few minutes, she finished the spell. She then used a twig nearby to cut her wrist, and began to feed him her blood, needing to save him. She didn’t care if she died in the process. She’d die for him if she had to.





        Elijah was in what appeared to be the woods. He could see Hayley in the distance. He was happy, having succeeded, and was about to join her at their campfire, but stopped. It was faint at first, but then it began to seem closer. He could hear Katerina. She was begging him to go back, saying she needed him and she wasn’t going to let him die.

        “Come on. Guilt and grief isn’t reason enough to die. I need you to come back to me. Not just because I’m human again, but also because I can’t live without you. It would break me. I know miss her. I also know you blame yourself. Hayley died willingly to save her daughter, just as I would’ve done for Nadia. It’s not your fault. There’s nothing you could’ve done. Please. Come back to me. Drink,” he heard her add. That’s when he realized that she was right. He also realized that he’d made a mistake in abandoning her. He knew the way she spoke, she was telling the truth and also hurting. He realized that she’d told him the truth all those years ago. Maybe if he hadn’t completely abandoned her, maybe things would’ve turned out differently. And one thing he hated was hurting others. Especially, Katerina. With those realizations, he made up his mind. He turned away from where Hayley was, whom was having a time of her life with her deceased werewolf pack.





        What felt like ten minutes later for him, he was back. He didn’t know how long it actually had been, but he could feel the familiar liquid go down his throat. That’s when he let go and looked at her. Then he realized that she’d fed him her own blood.

        “Katerina,” he greeted.

        “Finally,” she greeted back, her wrist by her now, where she was still knelt by him. “Don’t do that to me ever again. Besides, you’re supposed to outlive me. Not the other way around.”

        He sat up and rested a hand on the side of her face. Looking at her, he could see how much him dying had hurt her.

        “I promise, I won’t leave you again,” he promised her. “How long was I out for?” he then questioned, seeing that it looked like she’d had to feed him quite a bit of her blood, in order to wake him up.

        “Twenty minutes, but I’ll be fine.”

        Later, her wound was taken care of, she helped him get through losing Hayley, and they got back together again.