My Promise by Lexa

 - You’ve always managed on your own,

your whole life! All by yourself! All by yourself! 

- And I’ll carry on until you stop offering me that help. I don’t need it.

- You know that your stubbornness will cost you dearly... I really can help.

- I must not accept your help. That is what fate has told me. That is what he told me.

- Fate can always be changed; you know, we create it ourselves.

- The world depends on me, Aliye; it was bound to happen, one way or another.

- Are you really prepared to sacrifice yourself for something that might not even turn out well? 

- I want only the best for all of you. At least for you, because you’re the only one left. Some have left, and some have betrayed me; I can only trust this to you, because I know you’ve never let me down. Even when you weren’t yourself… that’s worth a lot.

- Do you already know about her? That she’ll testify against you?

- It’s not her fault she doesn’t grasp the scale of the situation. She’s fully entitled to think I’m a schizophrenic. 

- Do you promise you’ll try to stay alive?

- No, but I can promise I’ll be there. But you must promise me one thing. 

- You know how I feel about them. They took everything from me: my parents, my sister, and even the husband I was with for such a short time. Believe me, my hatred is greater than the universe itself and cannot be measured. 

- Promise you won’t lose control. 

- If you survive, I promise. But if not, I promise I’ll wipe them off the face of the earth. I haven’t been human for a long time now, and human actions are alien to me. 

- But you still came to me to ask me to hire a lawyer, so maybe you’re still human after all, haha.

His face was obscured by black clouds of smoke before her eyes and flames that seemed to reach the sky. Alia stood amidst the rubble of stones, which were covered in bloodstains like flowers after the rain. 

- I always keep my promises. For your sake. 

A police siren wailed in the distance as a black figure, like a shadow, fled into the forest.