UNHIDDEN THE TRUTH I
KHAL'S POV
"Mom!" I was screaming, calling her repeatedly in the dungeon. I did not want to admit it, but I felt so weak when I was passing by the dead prisoners. All of them as if before they knew we were attacking them, started to kill the people in cells, one by one, therefore we could not save their lives.
Pyro never left my side, he was my protector during the battle at the request of Zarya. I felt like I had nothing beside me, he barely talked. Sometimes, I forgot he was with me unless he killed the people approaching me.
Pyro showed me his hand. "Element of Fire, bring us to Khal's mother." The fire was written on the soil, giving us direction. My knee was trembling as we approached the last cell.
"Mom?" My voice was a little soft and low as I could feel the fear. My knee was down on the ground when I saw my mother laying on the ground. Full of arrows, stabbing in her body.
It took me a second to speak or move. "Mom!" I hugged her so tight as she was running out of breath. She was trying to inhale and exhale.
"Stay put. I will Hali, he can heal your mom." Pyro immediately ran away from us.
"Mom… don't leave me please."
She raised her bloody hands and cupped my hands. "The flower will bloom… in spite of bad weather."
I shook my head as I could not absorb her real condition. Any time, she would die. When I was a kid, she talked about that every time I was crying. "The flower will bloom in spite of bad weather." Then, I would stop crying because that means, no matter how difficult the situation, no matter how painful it is. It will pass by and I will survive. Soon everything will be okay.
But no words can soothe my heart if she leaves me. "I don't know if the flower will bloom again if you disappear from my life…" I embraced her so compactly as I cried out. "You are the flower itself."
She smiled at me. Her beauty would never be faded. She was the most beautiful woman in the entire universe. The best of all mothers. "I was raped and you came… you kept me breathing." She caressed my cheek, removing the tears, but no matter how she removed it, that would just produce another tear. "Your father… is Zakan Wixx."
That pulled all the pain together. It was confirmed for a little while. Why is still make me suffer?
"He never intended to…" She coughed repeatedly, difficulties were there. I looked side by side. I was finding if Hali had already come.
"Please stop talking. We'll discuss it once you are okay." I lifted her in my arms and hurried to move her out of the burning dungeon.
"He never intended to… rape me. He… he forced to… do it. If not… many men will abuse me." She talked hardly, forcing herself as if, when she did not say, she had no chance to spell it out all, so I was listening while running out of the dungeon. She placed a rolled paper in my hands. I watched her slowly closing her eyes. "No! Don't shut your eyes, Mom!"
"I… love you." She smiled at me before she held my nape tightly as she breathe in a large amount of air, finding the relaxation to inhale.
When I arrived out of the Dungeon, I shouted loudly as my knee landed on the soil. She did not breathed, no pulse. I tapped her cheek plenty of times, but she was already dead.
"Mom!"
If there was a time machine, I would go back in time, spending all my days with her. I hope I could do all the things she requested for me.
"Can you come home?" I said "No," because of the shooting for my new music video.
"Where are you? Can I go there?" I spelled out "No," because I did not want her to involve in my messy world.
"Let's have a Sunday date. Are you free?" I told her "No," because that was the only day I had to rest.
"I will bring you lunch." I said "No," she should be in the house and taking her time relaxing.
"I cocked for you. I hope you can be with me, even if a few minutes will do." I spelled out "No," I was in the meeting, discussing my new character in my incoming movie.
All those simple gestures, I hope I said "yes" because I could not bring back time. I could not be with her again, seeing her smile, hearing her "I love you, Khal, my one and only baby boy." Even if I was a big man. She treated me like a baby. She never failed to be a mother in the ways that she knew.
It felt like the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" song played in my mind. She was singing that song while hugging me, brushing my hair when I could not sleep at night. Her voice was so beautiful, so relaxing, so loving.
"Mom!" I cried out on her neck while bursting out the pain, grief, sorrow, and sadness. "I love you so much! You're the best mother in the entire world!"
"Give me her!" Hali grabbed her body. "Heal!" He tried everything that she could do. "Fucking heal! Heal! Heal!"
For the first time, I saw Hali's hopeless expression. The tears in his eyes slowly crawled down to his cheek. "Heal! Please heal!"
My mother was not yet a mother to me, she also took care of Hali and all my friends when they stayed in our house. She made Hali feel that he had a second mother and that he should not hate all women because not all of them were the same. Sometimes, I got jealous, she loved my friends just how she loved me.
Hali burst out crying while he kept on healing her, even though there was no progress. "Khareena, open your fucking freaking eyes!"
My sob was louder as Hali spelled out my mother's name. He had no respect for him at all, he treated her as if they had the same age, but now, I could see, my mother really had an impact on his life.
Slowly, I was accepting that Hali could not revive my mom's life. I opened the rolled paper she gave to me and read it with my unclear vision.