He loved her more than anything else.
He felt good when he was with her.
He felt good about himself when he was with her.
Part of the reason why he felt good
Was that Demitria was such a good person
And she loved him right back.
Marcus had been around a bit, and he knew just how precious Demitria was.
He had never met anyone as
Perfect For Him
As Demitria.
Then, Marcus lost Demitria.
Marcus was sad.
And the longer he went without Demitria
The sadder he became.
He tried to do the best he could.
He dated.
He tried to love.
He talked himself into thinking he was in love.
He liked a lot of people.
But none of them were Demitria.
And she was no where to be found.
Then, as quick as he lost her
Marcus found Demitria again.
She appeared, flittering in front of him
Just as insecurely as she did way back when.
And Marcus grabbed on.
He was not letting go of her this time.
And Demitria grabbed on to Marcus.
She was not letting go this time.
Jack told Rose
Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to him.
It brought him to her.
And he made her promise not to give up no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless.
She made a promise to never let go.
And then Jack let go.
What a pansy.
What, you're gonna let a ship wreck and a little freezing water get in your way?
Quitter.
Marcus was not going to let go.
And Demitria was not going to let go.
And they held each other.
And they held tight.
As their meteor sailed through the atmosphere
Burning them for their choices
Burning them for not letting go
All you have to do is let go, and the pain will end.
And if I let go, I will let go of Demitria.
I have lived that pain, and I will not live that pain any longer.
Ever again.
And the fires got hotter
And the smell of flesh burning was all around them
And they both lathered as much salve on each other
Caring to their wounds
Tending to each other
And they did not let go
All you have to do is let go, and it will be all over.
It won't be over for Demitria even if I let go. With me here, she has somebody to salve her wounds.
With me gone, she has no one.
And the fires got hotter
And her family moved away from her
And her friends moved away from her
And his friends moved away from him
They did not want to get burned
His family said, "We're not moving away!"
And they didn't
And they got burned
And he tried to push them to safety
But they kept coming back
And they kept getting burned
Burned so badly.
Kurt Russell held on to his firefighter brother who told him to save himself, to let go of his brother.
Kurt Russell didn't let go.
You go, we go, Kurt told him.
And Marcus held on.
And Demitria held on.
And the fires got hotter
And then the meteor crashed into the ocean.
And the moment they thought was relief from burning
Was really the introduction to drowning.
Their world of fire turned into water.
It's gotta be over some time, right?
And they were drowning.
Lots of things pulling them down
With no hopes in sight
Nothing they could grab on to that might take them to the surface.
It felt like a doomed game from the beginning.
And Marcus Would Not Let Go.
He continued to hold his breath and hang on.
If Demitria is going through this, I will go through this with her.
I can feed her air.
And every time an air bubble came along, he sucked it up
And put air into her.
And she found pockets of air in her shirt, and fed them to him.
And they held on.
And the water turned to ice
When is it going to end??!!
You can't see the end.
You have no hopes for the end
Because it's not there.
There's no end in sight
Because you're frozen
The water in your hair freezes
And becomes solid
And your scalp freezes
And your eyes freeze
And you can't cry because your tears freeze in your eyes
And the cold slowly tears through you like the slowest dagger
Slowly, slowly
Ripping you apart
And Marcus Held On
"Let go!" people said.
And as he held on, he told the people
This is bad, as you can see. This is really painful, as you can tell. There are many, many things about this that I would not choose for anyone. And living without Demitria is worse than all of this.And Demitria held on.
And Marcus held on.
And they froze together, binding together in their ice.
And they bitched at each other.
"Stop peeing on my leg!"
"I can't stop peeing on your leg, I'm frozen to you and can't move!"
"Pee on someone else's leg!"
"I don't want to pee on someone else's leg. I want to pee on your leg!"
And the ice got bitter
Bitter
Biter!
It was biting them all over
Making their skin tight
Then numb
Then tingle with a thousand needles of freezing hot pain
And they SCREAMED!
and they SCREAMED!
and they SCREAMED AND SCREAMED AND SCREAMED!
and SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
IT HAS GOT TO END!!
IT IS DEAFENING!!
IT HAS GOT TO END SOMETIME, RIGHT??!!
IT MUST END!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
MOUTHS WIDE
YELLING
SCREAMING
FOR
IT
TO
STOP JUST STOP JUST STOP JUST STOP JUST STOP JUST STOP!!!!!!!!!
--breath--
--echo--
Just
Stop
just
stop
just
stop
stop
stop
stop
And it was silent.
silence
huge and enormous
And enormouser than before.
And somewhere
Someplace
Somehow
The ice started melting.
It was slow.
So very slowly does ice melt.
And it became water
And water reminded Marcus and Demitria of when they were drowning
And they became apprehensive that it was going to turn back into water
That it was going to turn into something else
That it was going to be pain
But
For now
It was relief.
It wasn't torture.
It wasn't ice.
The ice was ending.
Yeah, it was cold. Really super cold.
But they weren't being ripped apart anymore.
And slowly
the ice
melted
into
cold water
and
They Held On
as the water
slowly
dripped
away
from
them
And They Held On.
And the water slowly puddled around their feet.
And
Intentionally, but reservedly
Marcus
without letting go
ever so slightly
starting in his arm
... ... ... relaxed a little... ... ...
Oh, ow the pain!
His owie arm was not used to relaxing!
It had been holding, clenched, for so long!
Unclenching was ow painful!
But Marcus could owie owie feel an end to this pain!
It was different from before!
This pain was relieving pain!
And Demitria relaxed her hips
Oh god, that hurts!
Those muscles haven't released in years!
Like that moment when the medicine finally hits your headache and it goes away,
The relief was welcomed and apprehensive
There was no way to tell if the torture was going to come back
There was no way to know what was about to happen
But
For the first time since seeing each other again
Demitria and Marcus relaxed a little
And stretched
a looooooooooooong stretch
Oh, they still held hands
They didn't Let Go let go
They stayed touching
But they relaxed a little
And, yeah, Marcus might have peed on Demitria on purpose this time
Just, you know, cuz he wants to get to the comedy as soon as he can
And Demitria would prefer his comedy wasn't centered around urinating on her leg
And she's not willing to go anywhere else.
Even to somebody who doesn't pee on her leg.
And he's not willing to go anywhere else.
Even to somebody without his pee on her leg.
And maybe
soon
very soon
...............well, let's just enjoy this stretch right now.
Very soon will very soon enough.
And right now,
Right Now
Demitria and Marcus will
Hold Hands And Stretch.
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