JACOB POINT OF VIEW

"No! Emma, don't you dare do this to me, I need you. I can't do this without you." Her eyes stayed close, and her breathing gets slower and slower.

"Jacob..."

"Stay away, Zack!" The anger rushes through me at the realization he was in on this.

Deal, with him later, Emma's first priority.

He walks around to face me. He looks down at Emma, and before he could do anything, I grabbed her and put her in my arms, protecting her from them.

"Jacob, I know you don't trust me, and you probably will never again. I'm sorry... I think I can heal Emma, but I need to start right away." He told me sincerely. I look at him, and I could tell he feels really bad for what happened to Emma.

I have no other choice, I need his help.

"Okay..."

"Good, but not here. Let's go into..."

"Wait Zack, we need to do this now!" I cut him off can't believe what I'm hearing.

"I can't use my powers in here. He didn't just charm your guys chains, but the whole room. We need to go somewhere my magic can work." Zack replied rushing. He gets up and I follow him carry Emma in my arms, but there's this constant question in my head that won't go away, not anytime soon anyways.

Pretty smart, Emma not telling anyone that she had powers so it would come to a shock for everyone. Definitely for me, but if my director charmed this room so powers doesn't work in here, how was Emma able to use her powers?
.........

Zack took her back to her room, and immediately started working. He kicked me out of the room to have more space to work with and to be able to concentrate more, but I still fought to get back in, until he sent Zeke and Zeth to get me. They held me captive in Zeke's room as Zack worked on Emma. It's taking everything in me, not to force my way out.

The suspense is killing me! I respect Zack wishes to be alone, to concentrate more, but if I don't get an update anytime soon I'm going to march in there myself and get one.

"Guys, I need to hear..."

"Jacob it's been five minutes since your last update, I'm sure everything's fine." Zeth told me sincerely, but I heard a hint of annoyance in it.

Five minutes?! No way, at least an hour.

The door opens and Zack comes rushing in, his face expression unreadable. "Okay, I'm done. I sucked all the poison out of her system with a syringe thing. Of course I had to use my powers to draw the poison up on surface where the syringe could reach it, but it was possible. Her wounds healed overtime when I was working on getting the poison out, and she went back to breathing normally, but... she still hasn't woken up yet." Zack eyes traveled to mines as he told me, but I didn't stay any longer, I was finally able to go in and see Emma.

I ran to her room, to see her breathing was back to normal, but other than that no movement was made. I walk over to the couch where she was on, noticing the bed covered in blood.

I sit on the ground looking up at her. "Emma..." the tears I was holding in came out all at once. I took moment or two to breathe before continuing.

"I'm sorry, I promised you you'll be okay, but it's my fault that you're in this state. That dagger was meant for me, yet you took the blow, and it's all my fault, I guess I'm the villain in the end. I'm sorry I didn't mean to... " I turn away not able to look at Emma anymore the tears silently falling.

A hand touched my cheek, and I leaned into its touch. Immediately as I do so she started wiping the tears away.

Emma...

EMMA!

I turn to her too shock to move. She immediately starts laughing. "See I actually got the tear this time, not your eyeball." She finished jokingly, and I finally snap out of trance.

"Man, have I missed you," I replied as I leaned and kissed her. She kisses me back passionately.

She quickly backs away and slaps me lightly on the arm, suddenly serious.

"Wow, I thought we're having a moment," I replied teasingly, wanting to see how she would react to her words.

"Who says we weren't having a moment?" She asked firing my words back at me smiling, but the smile immediately disappears.

"Jacob, how could you say such a thing?" She asked back to being serious.

"I'm sorry, what?" I asked completely lost.

Did I say something wrong?

"When I was sleeping I heard you talking nonsense. Your not a villain, your a hero, your my hero, and trust me that dagger wasn't meant for you, it was still heading towards me, I just moved you aside so it would for sure hit me, but your the one who saved me..."

"No, that should've been my blow, I promised no harm would come to you..."

"I'm still alive aren't I?" She questioned at me.

"Yeah, but it's still my fault you almost died, and you would've too if Zack didn't have healing powers." Her whole faced expression showed how shocked she was about Zack and it made me suddenly envious of Zack.

I should've had the healing powers to save Emma not Zack.

She takes my hand, and smiles towards me. "When I said 'you saved me' I wasn't talking about moments ago though you did moments ago, I was literally talking about you saving me. You gave me a life I've always wanted, adventure, a place I fit in, to feel love for once and not hatred. You completed me. You were the key to my happiness, I just didn't know it until later, but you were always the one who've saved me." I move up, to sit next to Emma, putting my hand into hers.

"You're the one who saved me, and I'm not just talking about you saving us in there by using your powers...."

"I didn't even know I had powers." She quickly includes before gesturing for me to continue, but I stop all together.

"You didn't get your powers at the hero facility?" I asked a little confused.

That's the only way to have your powers surface, right?

"Nope. I didn't even know half Xorumians get powers." She replied smiling, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.

"How did you know your powers were going to show up in there?" I asked still shocked.

"I felt it. After your whole speech it actually made me want to fight for my life, I didn't want to give up, and that's when I felt it. It started in my chest and went to my arms and that's when I broke the chains. As for the wind power, I just wanted him to go away from us and it kicked in."

"Wow..." I have no words.

"Hey, can you please finish what you're going to say and I promise I'll work on not interrupting you." She asked begging me to do so. I immediately started laughing.

"You can interrupt me anytime you want, I'm actually happy you did. Anywho, I never fitted in either, villains saw something that was okay in their eyes, yet it was just awful in mine, but when I'm with you, it's different, I don't have to feel weird about not agreeing with someone about their views because I pretty much agree with all your views..."

"Even when I say 'there's no villains or heroes, because a hero could do something bad and a villain can do something good?'" She asked, but started smiling knowing the answer.

"Especially that one." I whispered into her ear, and she immediately starts blushing and looks away.

I move to wrap my arm around her, but she looks towards me, smiling at me, and for some reason I didn't want to make it too obvious. She moves and looks towards the bed covered in blood, seemed to be lost in thought. I lift my arm, and she turns and looks at me raising her eyebrows. Me panicking, I started scratching my armpit.

"Sorry, my armpit was itchy." I told her immediately feeling stupid.

What am I doing? Why am I suddenly nervous?

It was the look she gave me... I panicked!

"Okay," she stretches out the word making the situation even more awkward.

I go to do it again, and as she turns to me, she started rolling her eyes, and takes my hand and wraps it around her shoulder. I leaned and kissed her on the cheek immediately getting her to blush again, but not even a second later, the door bursts open.

I immediately start staring daggers at Zeke, Zeth, and Zack as they walked up to Emma and just stood there. It was kind of awkward, but Emma immediately starts laughing making them even more uncomfortable.

"You know you guys are really something." She responded towards them smiling. We all look at her confused and a little worried as to why she's laughing and smiling.

"Um, you're not mad at what we did?" They asked in sync.

Her a smile quickly disappears. "Oh, I'm mad. Oh furious even, but we all make mistakes and besides you guys were raised up to do wrong things. Wrong was right for you guys and right was wrong. Though you guys did betray me, let me experience what I did with no support from either of you guys, and not to mention you guys were probably preparing for this moment where your director would capture me. I bet you guys even knew he was the hooded figure?" She asked them, her face expression unreadable.

They slowly nod their heads and Emma continues.

"Yeah. So all these things you did to me definitely made me mad and a little sad, but I forgive you guys. I don't want to hold a grudge on someone that will prevent me from still being around them, not to mention, before all the craziness happened we did have some good times. Remember that time Zeke tried to make, what was it, spaghetti?" We all immediately started laughing at the memory of it.

"Yeah, that really was just horrible," Zeth replied receiving a light punch from Zeke.

"Sorry for trying something new." Zeke replied sarcastically holding his hands up in surrender.

"You see what I mean? You guys are fun to be around with and I still want to be around you guys and I don't to hold grudges against you that will restrict me in a way of not being able to hang out with you guys." Emma told the happily, and I couldn't help, but just stare at her surprised.

"What?" She asked me, raising her hand, and waving it in front of my face. I quickly grabbed it and intertwined it with my hand.

Wow, Emma is so selfless! Here she is losing all her family, being betrayed by friends and almost dying, yet she still finds time to forgive those who wronged her.

She's so amazing...there's no words. I would have been mad at them and probably wouldn't have forgiven them, but Emma just changed that.

"I just can't stop admiring you. I love you" I whispered for her ears only and her cheeks immediately turned scarlet red.

"I love you too," she whispered back still smiling.

Seizing the moment, I leaned in and kissed her ignoring the gasps from the other three.

Right here is perfect, exactly where I want to be, with Emma right beside me.