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Adalyn's POV

I had another restless night, even as I slept curled into Grayson's body. The radio, our only form of getting news these days had spoke of nothing but the devastation at the Canadian capital. Where hundreds of thousands people had been taken by the blast and even more were injured, suffering burn wounds and radiation poisoning. 

I guess I couldn't help but be restless, thanks to the ever impending doom of the human race that I knew was coming. I could not shake the anxiety that swelled in my abdomen. I feared for my own life and those who I cared about the most. The secrets I knew, like Grayson's and his family, may have saved my life but I did not know what that meant for the others. I knew deep down that Grayson would do everything in his power to protect me. I also knew, that he wasn't going to be able to protect everyone and defeat his uncle. More people were going to die and I feared they were those I knew losing would destroy me.

Grayson's arms were tightly wrapped around my torso as he breathed deeply in slumber. I didn't want to disturb him since this was probably the first nights sleep he was actually getting. I shuffled a bit and he groaned, pulling his arm from underneath me to flip over to his other side. I waited a few more moments for his deep breathing to return before I pushed myself up. I rested my bare feet on the cold hardwood of his bedroom and looked towards the window where I could see into Cara's room. 

I knew she was sleeping but I wanted to go over and see her. Turning on my phone I saw that it was three in the morning, too early for the rest of the world to be awake. Even the aliens needed sleep. 

I reached out my fingers and grabbed yesterdays socks to pull them over my feet. My toes were slightly numb now from the temperature difference. I lifted myself off of Grayson's bed. He stirred a bit, but settled back into slumber. 

I padded down the stairs on the tip of my toes, to muffle my movements as I left the Nicene house. I pulled on my boots as I reached the stairs.

"Addy?" I jumped and turned around to see Declan was rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. I shook off the fact that he had whispered out loud and concluded that he must have been on watch last, 'Where are you going this early?' he said to my thoughts this time. 

"I just want to go see Cara next door." I was honest with him, because I knew he would have tried to poke through my thoughts to see if I was lying. 

'Okay, just don't be gone too long. Grayson will freak if you're not here.' He returned to the armchair he had been unconscious in. He was right though, I would have to be back before Grayson panicked that I was no longer in his bed. 

I opened the door and shivered at the winter breeze that smacked my facial features. I now regretted leaving the warmth of Grayson's bed.

I bounced through the snow and dug the spare key from the garage outdoor wall lamp. I turned the deadbolt with the key inside and returned it to its original position in the "super secret hiding place". 

Her house was dark, everyone sleeping like a normal person should be at this hours. I took off my snow covered boots and carefully walked upstairs to Cara's room. The door was shut, so I reached out and turned the knob slowly before walking in and quietly closing it. I slowly released the knob to stop the latch from clicking audibly. 

Cara was snoring softly in the fluff that was her duvet. She had clothes and pillows dispersed around het floor. I noticed that her suitcase was packed by her closet. Her family was fleeing too. 

I walked over to her bed and pulled off my socks before tugging the duvet backwards. She stirred then, from the motion of me crawling in next to her.

"Addy? Is that you?" She blinked a couple of times and tucked her hair behind her ear.

"Yes." I whispered back.

"Come here you sexy bitch. I missed you." She pulled me into her arms and started spooning me. As she ran her fingernails up and down my forearm with her fingernails is when I let the tears fall, "What's wrong?"

"Everything." I said with a chuckle. I felt my right nostril plug up making it harder to breathe normally.

"We will get through this, Addy." She smoothed my hair.

"I am just not so sure about that anymore. Grayson-" She cut me off before I could finish.

"Grayson? Hold on... are you guys together?" Of course that is the detail she would focus on.

"Yes. Kinda, I guess."

"It's about time you got a boyfriend. Of course it had to be during the end of the world but hey, romance is romance. And I do believe that we will get through this, regardless of the aliens. We will find a way to beat them." As she spoke my thoughts drifted to Dr. Carson and the weapons that I knew he was working on. Maybe we did have a chance.

"Can I tell you something?" I wanted to tell her everything about the Acadian's and the war with the Trasian's. I wanted to tell her about Grayson and his family, to get this burden off of my chest.

"Of course, Addy." So I told her. I told her the whole story. 

When I had started she stood up abruptly and turned on her side table light. She had listened to the whole thing without a single interruption as I faced her. I told her about the nacho cheese incident and even how Grayson had erased her memories during my depressive episode. She seemed to have taken it well until I finished and all she mustered was a laugh. The expression on her face was humorous, like somehow I had told her the funniest joke.

Then it faded when my expression did not change. 

"I can't believe that they were, not human... this whole time?" She was still processing the whole thing.

"I know." I told her. I didn't know what else I could tell her that would help the situation.

"I mean, Grayson and you are soulmates... Xander is his uncle... Is he going to try and stop him?" I nodded my head at her question. Grayson was at least going to try and stop him. I knew that much. 

She flopped back down on her bed and placed her palm on her forehead. I shuffled over and crawled back under the covers to lay on my side facing her. 

"Things are probably going to get much worse before they get better, aren't they?" I just simply nodded at her again and she turned her head to look at me.

"Is your family leaving?" I asked her, gesturing to her suitcase.

"My dad thinks that the rural areas will be safer for us until this blows over. I said goodbye to Simon yesterday." She looked sad and more tired then before.

"Were you going to leave without saying goodbye to me?"

"Fuck no. I was going to make mom stop at your house later this morning. Now we won't have to." She told me sternly, like I was being ridiculous for even saying such a thing.

"I don't know when we will be able to see each other again." The tears brimmed my eyes again after she turned off her side table lamp.

"Come here. You are always going to be my best friend. This is just temporary until the aliens are gone." I moved over and her arms wrapped around me. Cara had been in my life for as long as I could remember. This would be the first time where we would be apart and have no way of communicating. No more late phone calls. No more Facetime. Not even old school letters. 

We laid in the dark, crying and just holding each other for the last time. We never actually said goodbye out loud, but we knew this was it. 

I wanted her and Simon to be safe. Safe from all of the destruction and danger that was on its way. More than that, I wanted things to go back to the way they were. 

I wanted coffee at the cafe on Saturdays and nights at the playground. I wanted lunch period under our favourite oak tree. I wanted us to reach graduation and get ready for prom together. 

I drifted off to sleep after the tears had made my eyelids excessively heavy. 

~

I slept in Cara's embrace until about seven in the morning. As I opened my eyes I took in her appearance of frizzled hair and drool coming out of the corner of her mouth. I knew that I had to get my ass back to Grayson soon as he would be waking up in a few minutes. Grayson had promised that we would grab some of my clothes and things today.

I carefully pulled back the covers and re-tucked Cara in. I wrote her a quick note telling her I had to get home, but that I loved her very much. I also wrote that she needed to stay safe in the next coming days or weeks, so that we could see each other again. She was my one and only. My ride and die. I needed her to make it through this so we could reunite. 

I felt my note on her side table and made my way through the snow to her alien neighbours. Grayson was in the entrance way with the door open before I made it up the top step.

"I woke up and you were gone." I could feel his relief in finding me safe, but the fury that I had fucked off without telling him.

"I needed to say goodbye to her, to Cara. I just don't know when I am going to see her again. Declan knew where I went." I pushed my way past him and took off my boots after I banged them out the door a couple of times. 

"You told Declan but not me?" I heard the jealousy in his voice and I knew that it was completely unwarranted.

"Declan was on watch and he caught me in the midst of sneaking out. Stop." He sighed and unclenched his fists. He then pulled me roughly into his arms. His face buried into the crook on my neck.

"Please don't just run off without telling me. Please." He murmured. 

"I just didn't want to wake you. You were actually sleeping for the first time in a while." I kept my voice soft as I ran my hand on the back on his neck.

"I would rather lose a few minutes of sleep than lose you forever." He pulled back and pressed a kiss to my forehead, "Let's go get your clothes." 

I sighed hoping that I would've had a few more minutes to get ready and shower. Grayson had already done so and was looking like a handsome god. I for a fact knew that I did not look anything remotely close to human because I was unbathed and had spent that last few hours crying. 

I sighed pulled my boots back on and walked beside him to his car. He turned on my heated seat as I buckled my seat belt to make sure I was warm. I was hoping to make this as quick as possible with Grayson's help in influencing my moms cognition. 

He reversed out of the driveway and shifted it into first gear as we pulled onto the street road. I was not used to driving in a standard vehicle and he chuckled each time my body flew forward slightly when he shifted. 

The radio buzzed to life with neither of us turning the dial. 

"The government has yet again, refused our offer. We shall be delivering on our promise and executing the second wave. We had hoped your leaders would be more intelligent when weighing the risk of their decision, but we were wrong." Xander's voice sounded like he was regretful in what he was about to do. I had my doubts that he felt any remorse.

Then it just went dead, filling the car with nothing my static. It made my hair stand on edge. 

The second wave was coming. I had no idea what it entailed, but I knew it was not going to just be Ottawa that was hit.