Page 104 of Darkness

Cain picks up his sword as Yang picks up the spear again, and they both fight. Swinging towards each other, dodging each other. They both back away from each other, then they come back to each other, swinging their weapons. There are punches and blade sounds echoing off each other.

I whisper to myself. “You can do this.” I believe in him. I have faith in him to win. He needs to win.

Cain gets in a good couple of cuts and stabs on Yang. Yang continues to slash Cain’s skin with the poisoned spear.

As they both fight, Cain kneels and slashes the back of Yang’s legs making him fall to his knees, Cain gets his sword quickly and digs it into Yang’s chest.

Yang’s body hits the stony ground, and before Cain can look over to us, he falls as well.

“Stay here!” Lincoln shouts then runs towards Cain, checking for a pulse.

“Lincoln?” Hayden and myself shout at the same time.

“Come on, my boy, come on, my boy.” David chants to himself.

My heart just completely drops when Lincoln does CPR on Cain, shaking his head.

“Why is he not waking up?” Logan pulls me in and wraps his arm around me.

“He'll be fine. It's Cain. That man's not going to die that easily.” I hear Logan.

Looking back over at Cain, Lincoln is still doing CPR on him, and he shakes his head. There are so many thoughts going through my head at the moment, the time feels like it’s ticking at the slowest pace it can.

He knew this was going to be a fight which might have killed him, and now he's not waking up.

Epilogue

Autumn-Rose

“You need to sleep.” I turn to face Lincoln at the door, then turn back to Cain who’s been on a life-support machine for a month now. A fucking month, and Doc isn’t telling me anything. I know Lincoln told him not to say anything in front of me.

“What did Doc say?” I ask.

“No chan-”

“I know you’re hiding something from me.” I cut him off as I look at Cain. He seems so at peace, my finger moves softly over his jaw.

“No, I’m not. I told you Doc said he might wake up, he might not. That’s on Cain, but-”

“I know, Lincoln. He gave you a timeline for everything, but I won’t let you turn anything off. He still has time before you do.” Three months was Cain’s time, he gave himself three fucking months. Stupid, he should have spoken to me about it, but no, he told no one.

Lincoln sits next to me, and pulls my chair closer to him, turning me to face him. “I know you hate me, because you thinkI’m hiding things from you, but I’m not. Cain told me to tell you everything, and I have. But as his friend, I’m making sure I’m doing everything he asked of me.” Lincoln wipes the tears away from my cheeks.

“I know,” I say through sobs.

“It’s been a month, and he made me promise something, and I don’t care how much you fight with me, you’re doing it. Not for me, but him.” Lincoln looks at Cain, and no matter the front Lincoln puts in front of everyone, he's hurting. I know he is.

“What does he want me to do?” I ask.

“The jet leaves for England tonight, he wants you to go home, see your family. And before you fight with me, if anything changes the jet will be ready for you to come-”

“No. I can’t leave him.” I pull away from Lincoln, how could Cain even think I would leave him?

“You can and you will. I will call you every day. But he wants you to go home-”

“This is my home!” I shout at him.

“Autumn, your home is here with Cain, but you need to see your mom and dad. You need the comfort of your family and support.” Lincoln hands me the ticket, and I stare at it for the longest time.

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