212 We Should Stop Here

"I don't know if I should thank you or hit you instead," Timothy said after the three of them settled down on the living room.

Ashton just looked at them not intending to answer.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Xander asked after a sigh.

The event of the past few days was tiring enough but the things he learned in the past hour was even more tiring.

"It's her wish," he replied seriously.

"But you gave Alissa the key to that place, if it was her wish you wouldn't have given it to Alissa," Timothy added.

"That part is my wish," Ashton answered honestly.

He had been allowing her to do whatever she wishes but that doesn't mean he has no wish for her.

And seeing that she was being affected more and more, he decided to just do what he wishes.

Suddenly Xander punched him in the face.

He knew it was coming but he allowed him to do so, he fell back with the strength but he just stood up as if it was nothing.

Though the side of his lip was bleeding.

"I guess we can say that were quits for making us swear that you would marry our sister without our knowledge," Xander said just looking at him.

"If I could I would punch you as well. But indeed one is more than enough," Timothy added.

Ashton didn't speak, he knew this was coming but he actually expected more.

He knew of their love for Nathalie after all.

"Well compared to that mischief of yours, you were her greatest support, so we really are grateful to you," Timothy added.

"There are others as well," was what Ashton answered.

"We are grateful to all of them but you will still be the most grateful we are to," Xander added handing him a handkerchief.

Ashton took it and wiped the blood in the side of his lip.

"We should probably rest for now, everything still feels so surreal to me that I haven't truly digested everything yet. I still feel like I am in a dream," Timothy finally said.

*****

Ashton was reading some files in his bed. Before looking up after hearing a knock on his door.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be resting?" he asked seeing who the visitor was.

It was already in the middle of the night.

"I needed to speak with you," she answered.

"You may seem fine because of your half immunity to poisons and such but that doesn't mean that your body is completely fine with that short moment of rest. Go back-"

He stopped speaking when Amber wrapped her arms around his waist.

She was a foot smaller than he is so the top of her head only reached his neck.

He looked down at her without moving.

"I have lived my childhood filled with guilt. I had hated myself for being sick, my brothers wouldn't be left behind if I was not. So I did my best to improve rapidly."

She started speaking without looking up at him.

He was still not moving, letting her speak.

"I wanted to return to them as soon as possible, I gritted my teeth with all the medications and endured every possible pain I would feel. Yet we were still unable to return."

"After you left, I dedicated all my time to improving everything I needed to be able to get my revenge. My feelings revolved around Revenge and Guilt."

She felt the change in him after saying this, she could only hug him tighter.

Ashton was about to pull away from her when he felt her hug him tighter.

He could only let her do so.

"But for the past year, so many things have changed. My life that revolved entirely around revenge and guilt completely crumbled. "

This time she looked up at him with her eyes on the verge of tearing up.

"My life still has revenge and guilt in them but for the most part…. for the most part to the point of me forgetting about my revenge, my life started revolving around you."

"I left for Kuiper country earlier than intended not to be able to start everything earlier but instead to get something special for you. And sometimes that scares me."

"What if my world suddenly revolved around you that my goal for my parents and family were to disappear? I know my parents would have loved that but… my past self won't."

"The struggles she had been in and the pain she had experienced won't allow me to just give everything up. But I just love you that much that if you were to seriously tell me to stop, I would willingly do so."

"That I know, if you were to leave, my whole world, my whole current world would surely crumble to bits and pieces. My answer to Timothy and Xander a while ago was true."

"But it was not the entire truth, I no longer live entirely for guilt and revenge but for a future that I could freely be just me with you. So please don't be mad, please don't leave me."

His back that was walking away a while ago, gave a dark shadow in her heart.

She suddenly felt so scared that one day, he might truly leave her because of what she is currently doing.

"I love you Ash, I love you so much that just the look of your back walking away without looking back scared me so much, I just had to go to you."

Ashton cupped her face and bent down giving her a full kiss.

It was passionate and filled with promises.

"I will never leave you, remember that. No matter how much you push me away I will never leave you," he said after kissing her.

"Don't you ever think that I would leave no matter what. That is how much I love you too. My world have crumbled over and over again in the past and it was you who rebuilt it."

He wiped the tears that finally fell from her eyes.

"Maybe I just felt a bit mad a while ago because of hearing you say that you lived all these time because you have guilt and hatred to lean on. But that doesn't mean I would leave you."

"Listen carefully Thalie."

He looked straight in her eyes.

"My current world has been rebuilt to be with you, to support you and to love you unceasingly. Surely we would have our time when we would fight with each other but no matter how big that is, I will be right here."

"I have never been so sure of something my entire life. And this is the only time I could say the words always and forever. I will love you no matter what."

"You want your revenge? I will be there with you. I won't tell you to give it up, nor will I tell you that's enough. Instead I will give you a push. For I know that your shadows won't completely disappear until you get justice for your parents and all those people who died protecting you."

He had long apologized to Carl for his revenge was no longer his top priority. It was now to take care and watch over Amber as she took hers.

He could only say that Amber would surely get them back for him.

"Remember that Thalie, I love you for who you are, no matter what I discover about you I will remain here loving you."

Amber was teary eyed and she felt so lucky for having such a person to love her.

Seeing her teary eyed look with a bit of blush in her cheeks, looking up at him like an innocent kitten, Ashton didn't hold back and bent over once again.

The kiss was even more passionate than the one before.

His lips were on hers as he pulled her inside the room, closing the door behind her and pressing her on it.

Amber kissed him back with the same passion and intensity.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist as he carried her. Her support was the door behind her and his arms.

His tongue slid inside her mouth exploring more and more of her.

Amber matched his movement playing with him in his every move.

She even pressed her body closer to him as if they weren't close enough.

They would stop to breath before continuing once again.

She can tell from his kisses just how worried he was for her when she went there on her own to rescue her brother.

She can also tell from his kisses just how relieved he was that her life no longer only has guilt and revenge in it.

And most of all, she can tell from his kisses, his vow and pledge of loving her and only her in this lifetime and even the next.

It felt like forever before Ashton pulled away from her full of difficulty.

He looked at her as she looked back at him.

"We should stop here," he said.

Her lips were swollen and her eyes were clouded while her cheeks were completely red.

With her outstanding look, she was already alluring enough but with her current look, she was even more seductive without her trying to do anything.