HOLY HOLY HOLY $%$ IT'S DONE!'
I feel so sad about the end, and the fact it ended! But I'm happy with the ending and that's a good thing, seeing I lost my touch for this story. Thanks for all my reviewers and readers for this story, you've been a great help and I loved your reviews! I hope people enjoyed this story till the very end.

Sentences entirely in italics is Nourasion. Just so you know ;)

Chapter 14

With a start and an unusual yelp, Eva rose quickly and looked around with dazed eyes. Where was she? Shaking her head a few times to get rid of the wild feeling she had, Eva quickly noticed a warm heavy blanket on her.

Oh god. Almost afraid to do it, Eva pinched the blanket in two fingers and raised it.

Oh. Yep.

Definitely not fully clothed. With a blush even heavier than the blanket, Eva held her hand up her face to conceal it from anyone who might be watching. Of course, in this situation, she didn't want to have anyone watching, aside for some help from Jessica or…

Aikka eyed her with a scrutinizing feel to it from his spot, a safe distance away from her. When he was noticed, he gave a half-hearted smirk. "You humans sure sleep long."
Eva's heart skipped a beat. So they really did. She deduced that much from her situation, and G'dar who was rustling peacefully behind her.

She blushed more than that she thought was possible and held the blanket up to her eyes, looking at him curiously. Why was he so far away, in the first place?
"H-… How long was I out?" Eva said, after taking a deep breath to ensure she wasn't stuttering.

He shrugged carelessly and looked up, at the sky. It was beginning to darken a little, so perhaps four or five hours. Had he been standing there, watching her the entire time? Add ten points to the creepiness scale.

They looked at each other for a while before Eva lowered the blanket and held out her hand. "Come here already." She said, quite annoyed he was standing all the way over there.
He raised an eyebrow, and she noticed he was perfect looking again – he'd done his hair and was fully clothed. Tsk, bastard.

"Did you mean it?" Aikka asked, leaning away from the tree he was standing by, and making his way over. Eva followed him with her eyes and frowned. "Last night. You meant it right?"
At her clueless look, he sat down in front of her and tugged at the blanket. She yelped and kept it closer to her. "Let me see."

"No." Eva said quickly. They both knew what this was about. They just had sex, so she sure wasn't shy about herself or anything. "And yeah, I meant it. All of it." Eva quickly said. From what she could collect, the few things she actually said was that she loved him so much, and that she wished he could bite her, as well, ecstatic as she was.

He growled, obviously annoyed, and succeeded in tearing the entire blanket away from her. Eva shivered from the unsuspecting cold and pouted, pulling her knees up to her chest. She didn't really like it when he looked so pained.

"You could've stopped me at one point, you know."

"I thought you looked like you were enjoying yourself, though." Eva said sarcastically and he scowled at her.

"We're not doing this again. You might die from blood loss with your tiny posture."

"I can handle some pain." Eva said, rubbing her hands over her few cuts. After a while, Eva had experimented in some places and decided she didn't mind him 'sucking blood right out of her' (as she vulgarly put it), as long as he didn't stay somewhere too long.

"And I don't doubt you can. I just wish to keep you… presentable."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"That this will arouse questions at your lovely base."

"Jessica learns when to shut up. I'll cover it from the others. Think of it as your earlier saying; at least you've left your mark. On numerous places."

"I was so close to biting you, you know that?"

Eva smiled and took the larger piece of the torn blanket to wrap around herself much like a dress, before crawling over to him. He tensed, but let her lean against him anyway. "Somehow this seems unrealistic. It's a war and we're sitting in a nice, peaceful field. It's almost irrational."

Aikka snickered at her. "Not all places are crawling over with enemies." Eva smiled at him and looked around again, before noticing a crumbled technical object nearby.
Her… her walkie-talkie? She gaped at it before scrambling over to it, and Aikka made a noise of protest when she moved away from him.

"You crushed it!" She said, slightly outraged, and his response was a chuckle.

"It interfered with our session."

Eva glared and jumped to her feet, tightening the blanket around her and finding that she could decently wear her jeans if she kept them up with her hands. "Yeah sure, I have to get to my base. What if something happened?"

"You want me to give you a ride?"

"The base isn't very far from here. You should go back too though, your pets might get suspicious." Aikka scowled at her comment but nodded nonetheless, jumping on G'dar with fine ease.

"I'll see you later then. Meet me here tonight, okay? Be careful too." He smiled when Eva rolled her eyes at him and confirmed his words with a nod. "…I love you." He added after that, with a certain hesitation. Eva looked at him in silence, before breaking out in a big smile.

"I love you too. I'll see you tonight."

She turned around when G'dar rose up in the air and silently walked over to the base. She knew Aikka wouldn't leave just yet just in case there was a Crogg lurking around here, but she made it to the base safely and without anyone noticing her current state.

Just as soon she had showered and dressed though, Jessica walked into the room and shouted in surprise. "Eva! Man, you scared me. Thought you were with Jordan!"

"Jordan?"

"Yeah, I was told you left with Aikka and that you said you'd probably go to him after that."

"Oh… I did say that, didn't I?" Eva rubbed the back of her hair and went to put her belt on with the necessary weapons. Jessica narrowed her eyes.

"If you haven't been with Jordan, where were you all night?"

Eva froze momentarily before smiling lightly and playing with her belt. "Out."

It took a few seconds before Jessica gasped dramatically and threw herself at Eva. "You were with him? All night? My god, what did you do!" Jessica added the last few words in astonishment when Eva winced away from her. Leave it up to her friend to touch the painful places.

"Eh…nothing."

"You slept with him, didn't you!"

"Keep it down, you want the whole base to know!" Eva scolded, slapping Jessica's hands off of her and sitting down on the bed with a glare. Jessica looked even more outraged now and stood in front of her.

"He's a Nourasion, Eva! What were you thinking!"

"You didn't seem to mind his race earlier."

"That was when the worst thing he'd do was slap your butt!"

Eva looked away from her friend's face and sighed. "It just happened and I'm perfectly fine. Yeah, I know I'm hurt and you don't need to scold me, because I knew it when it happened and I was fine with it. Aikka would never hurt me intentionally."

"Sure. He's a freaking vampire, he doesn't know what 'on accident' means!"

"Don't-"

"All units assemble at the main lobby." The message was repeated twice and Eva looked up, annoyed at being interrupted. Jessica looked fairly annoyed as well and grabbed her belt with weapons.

"Damn announcements. Been going on all night."

Eva followed her friend, now curious about the situation. "Why's that? Did something happen when I was gone?"

"Stan lost it. He's planning an invasion on the freaking royal palace. Not the main building though. But still, it's heavenly guarded! I don't know what to say to him anymore."

"But we might get in if we use our sniper's and close-combat fighters."

"The losses would be bigger than the number of kills, I believe. I don't know what he wants to fulfil with this." Jessica complained while they walked through the hallways. Eva nodded with a frown.

"And when-"

"This week. I've been hearing about it but it could be any day now. Probably tonight, seeing 'all units' were called. Thankfully training is a daily routine for us or else…"
As soon as Eva and Jessica entered the main lobby, Eva set out to find Stan and found him pretty quick.

"Stan? What's the meaning of this?"

She watched, fairly amused, when Stan paced around the table someone was working at for a while before stopping in front of her.

"They invaded Tom's base last night. Koji was there too. They killed or captured everyone in there. We can't wait any longer, they'll just keep on going with finding and killing us. Best to make an impression right now."

"They got Koji? Why wasn't he here?"

"He wanted to go out and inform the other bases about what new information we found. Luckily, Jordan's base had just moved out towards us or they would've been found out too."
As if on cue, Jordan's hand landed on her shoulder and she winced slightly, before turning around to greet him.

"Hey shortie. How're you doing?"

"I'm fine." She turned back to Stan. "Why didn't I hear about this?"

"We paged you last night but the signal disappeared." He narrowed his eyes when Eva's eyed widened and she bit her lip to keep in a chuckle, but dropped the subject and turned to the people crowding the main lobby. Some guy Eva didn't know personally, but knew by face that he was higher than Stan, explained the situation.

She leant at the table and worriedly looked at Stan. "Tonight? Are they sure?" At his nod she sighed. "I don't get it. It's going too fast. This needs preparation."

"And lose more bases? I didn't think so. Almost three/fourth of all the bases in the neighbourhood are willing to corporate. We gotta make our move now."

"This is insane." Eva said after she listened for a while. Of course, since she had her own team, she couldn't just leave. Deciding they didn't need any more of the religious bullshit that the leader was spouting, she jumped on a table and shot her gun in the air once.

"Everybody from my team, come over here. Time to discuss this." Almost immediately the leaders of the teams stood on the tables and the crowd dissipated in groups around them.
Eva crouched down with some difficulty (her back ached!) and looked around. She missed one. Couldn't afford to wait for her though.

"I know this idea is ridiculous and I can't even guarantee that I'll make it out alive. But there's are a few things you have to hold yourself on. Listen to me, stay with at least one other, and shoot everyone you don't recognize as one of our own." Eva thought of Aikka but knew he would manage if he happened to be around. The chances he would be around were low anyway.

"Despite of what you were told, I want you to follow me and listen as I say. We're not going to barge in like a few other teams, we're going to distract the guards. Okay? So the other make it in safely. Use as much throwing knifes as possible and we should definitely stay on the roofs if we can."

The group talked amongst themselves and Eva straightened up, looking around. She wondered how the hell they were going to manage this. They were given a few hours for preparation, and along with the other team leaders Eva went out for more ammunition and walked around her group to make sure they were fine.

Once she sat down for some rest, some thoughts came to her. Aikka said he wanted to meet her this evening… and if she wasn't there he would probably come and look for her. That wouldn't be bad at all, he'd be here and not there. Or he'd come to find her. Struggling with the possibilities, Eva didn't notice Jordan coming up to sit next to her until he did.

"What is your position going to be?" He asked, tiredly, and Eva couldn't blame him. She shrugged.

"Rooftops mostly. I'll form a distraction."

"Good. You should stay out of sight too. We'll handle everything else."

"I'm not going to chicken out of this. I get excited by thinking about it!" Not. "And I wouldn't want your sorry ass on my conscience."

"I'm serious Eve. I don't want to see you get hurt, so you should stay away from the battle." His hand rested at her arm and suddenly Eva got a weird, fuzzy feeling. She frowned at it. This came close to what she felt with Aikka… but it was probably because he was being protective now.

Shrugging his hand off, Eva ignored the slightly worried and hurt look on his face and looked at her lap. "I can't stay out of it. With Aikka… I've become involved, you know. If he happens to find me there, or I find him, he could be of help."

"You want to ask the Nourasion Prince to help you?" It didn't come to her as a surprise that Jordan knew about Aikka and her already. She couldn't stop the rumours around the base even if she wanted.

"His name is Aikka and yes, I do."

"He's a lapdog of the Croggs, you know, our enemies? If he finds out about this he'll murder us all!"

"He cares about me and my thoughts, you know."

"So he'll kill us and take you as a whore. It's all the same! Eva, I swear, if you go anywhere near him, I'll-"

"Hurting him is hurting me. And I know that is hurting you. Don't push it Jordan. You're my friend, one of my best, but…"

Jordan raised his eyebrows and glared. "Oh, I get it. Your knight on a beetle comes first huh. Guess he can sway you right of your feet with those vampire looks of him. He probably put a spell on you so you'd do as he say."

"Don't be such a kid!"

"You're the kid here! You're a frigging human, he's a Nourasion! How can you even think about being friends!"

"We're not friends!"

Eva shut her mouth tightly at his hurtful look. She knew he knew that she didn't mean that she didn't like Aikka. Great. Now Jessica, Stan, Koji and Jordan knew about this. With a huff, Eva stood up and walked over to her group again. They'd better get started and cause a commotion.

In just one and a half hour, Eva's team and two other teams were positioned on the rooftops near the side building of the palace. They could use this building for an entrance to the main building, and if they stirred enough trouble there, they had to run for it and hope the royal's learnt their lesson for the time being.

After telling her team where to sit and what to do, she left the rooftops and landed on the ground near some trees for cover.

Looking around to secure the area, she grabbed her walkie-talkie and turned it on. "We're put." Eva said softly through it and received a few confirmations. Leaning on the tree, she waited. She was going in there, protective people and good senses ignored.

It took about half an hour before the shouts started and through the walkie-talkie commands were heard. Eva jumped away from her hiding place and walked along the walls of the building, trying to go unnoticed. The people on the rooftops had done a fairly good job of getting the guards outside, and the way in was secured by two people of her own. She walked over to them quickly and nodded.

"Miss. Team 2, 5, 6, 8 and 12 are in the building."

"Good. Report to Team 0 that Wei going in. By the looks of it, Wilde is going in too." Eva said, rolling her eyes as Jordan came running over as well. He scowled at her for not doing as he said but grabbed her elbow anyway, spurring her into the hallway a little. She got the point and softly ran alongside him, before they met up with a bigger group.

They split up after that and Eva silently walked behind three people, observing the rooms. There were still Nourasions in there who haven't noticed them, but they wanted to avoid as much fights as possible until they were all the way in. It'd only serve as a problem. Realizing this wouldn't get them to their destination soon enough, Eva went into a different hallway then the rest and slid across the walls. This felt so unreal that she wasn't even tingly. It felt like a damn videogame.

As soon as that thought was finished, Eva slid across a door which magically opened and she was yanked inside unceremoniously. She shouted in shock and held her gun against the first thing she could feel that was alive, and gaped as her captor was yanked away from her as well and she felt something sharp at her throat.

That didn't concern her at the moment though. "Fuck! Aikka, I could've shot you!"

"Canaan, lower your sword this instant!"

"But my lord, she-"

"Now."

Eva blinked at the foreign words and only just noticed the sword at her throat being removed. She stared at it with wide eyes – that was one big sword. And it seems the chances of him being here weren't as low as she thought. Giving the room a quick scan, it reminded her awfully much about a training room.

"Wha…" Eva muttered, confused and most of all surprised. Aikka looked at her out of breath, and somehow she came to the idea he had been training before. He had a dagger in his hand as well.

"How did you… Did you smell or hear me or something? I could've sworn I was…"

"We knew about the invasion, and I kept my ears out for you." Aikka said quickly, looking at the door for a moment before walking over to her.

"You knew about it?"

"Apparently there is a spy in your midst. I've had someone dispose of him."

"A spy? For real? Who?"

Aikka shrugged, so it wouldn't be someone he recognized from her stories or someone he'd seen at the base. Eva felt slightly relieved – then it wasn't one of her dear friends.
"Man, I thought you wouldn't even be here. Didn't you tell me you'd meet me tonight?"

"I heard of the invasion and knew you wouldn't stay behind. Seems useless to wait for you then."

"Aha… Who's he, by the way?"

"My swordmaster Canaan."

Eva looked at him with a slightly wider eyes, when she remembered his name. Aikka apparently told him about her and he was under an oath of secrecy. He didn't look too pleased with her being here, though. Eva bowed her head slightly in acknowledgement. Best not make any more enemies.

"Canaan, leave us." Aikka said after he stored his dagger in the sheath on his hip. Canaan frowned at the younger Nourasion.

"My lord, she's with weapons. I won't leave you with her."

"Canaan, when this is all over I intend to take her with me and make her live with me. I believe you can trust her just as much as you could trust me. You need to inform my father of the situation as soon as possible. Now go."

"Woah, make me live with you?" Everything seemed to go a little fast today, for Eva. She rubbed her forehead and looked at the door for a moment.

Canaan glared at her for a while before he sheathed his sword as well and nodded with a bow. "Very well, my lord. I'll take my leave. Be careful." As swiftly as Eva had been pulled in, he left the room and the door fell shut with a soft thud. Eva whirled around to Aikka again, and he smiled at her.

"You didn't think I would leave you as soon as this was over, right?" Oh well, he had a point. "I intended to ask you to come with me. Would you refuse, I would drug you and kidnap you."

Eva chuckled at the absurdity of the situation. This wasn't a moment to be cheeky at all. She grinned at him. "You didn't even ask me properly, how could I answer?"

"I don't know for sure how you humans do this, but we Nourasions get down on one knee and just ask."

Despite the danger that was lurking outside and the constant worry about her friends, Eva's heart did a leap. Get down on one knee? For real? She looked at him with wide eyes. "Uh… I don't get your definition of going down on one knee… is it different from ours?"

Aikka shrugged and took her hand. "I won't do it yet. I'll just explain the situation for you. I haven't got anything to offer you at this moment except for a promise, so, I'll do the formal activities later."

"You're pretty damn confident about this. What are your plans?"

He smiled widely, baring his fangs. "When our planets are both free, I will ask you to come with me to my planet. I'll introduce you to my family and they'll accept you. There's a legend about a human befriending the Nourasion king. It's only for the Croggs that they are not very hospitable to humans right now."

"I somehow understood that ten years ago."

"And after your father has also been brought to my planet to enjoy the sights, I will ask him for your hand and his approval in marriage."

Eva's breathing sped up slightly and she felt ridiculously stupid at being so ridiculously happy at the cheesy moment. This shouldn't be happening right now, this wasn't romantic at all, she knew some people were being killed nearby! But still, it was somehow… enjoyable, this moment.

"You do know my dad would never approve."

"Then I'd just have to put him in the dungeons until he will. Because I do intend to make you my wife."

"You have no idea how bad I want to defeat those Croggs right now."

Aikka looked worried for a moment, before he let out a little smile again. "I would love to tell you that you should stay in my bedroom and stay hidden until this was over, but I know you wouldn't listen."

"Damn right."

He leant forward to rest his forehead against hers and Eva closed her eyes, trying to not think about the fights waging outside at the moment.

"Please be careful then. Some of the Nourasions here are more skilled than the guards outside. I will keep my eye open for you but I cannot do much until you humans have reached your destination."

Eva nodded, breaking loose from him in case he changed his mind about letting her go, and walked over to the door. She turned around before opening it and winked. "I do intend to keep you on that promise about Nourasia and all."

"I intend to do even more than that, so don't worry. I love you."

"I love you too."

He looked slightly worried again before he smiled and nodded, and she left the room quickly, hearing him leaving soon after her. Knowing he'd be behind her until she reached her group, Eva made quick way of the hallways and heard Aikka snicker once she stopped at a corner.

"Canaan must've called most of the guards away. You're lucky."

"So are you. They could be seeing us right now." There was a touch on her shoulder before she heard some footsteps in the hallway left of her, but she knew it was Aikka and went after it slowly.

After a while, she met up with some people who were hiding at a corner as well. They saw her and waved her over quickly. "Miss, should we open fire? There's a line of guards."

"Surprise them, I'd say. Unless we can get past them."

Aikka covered the mouth of the human girl he recognized as Eva's friend. She yelped and kicked around, but silenced once she knew he wasn't going to do anything else. He let her go and she whirled around.

"Oh, it's you."

That sounded fairly venomously. Aikka frowned lightly before dusting himself off. "Ahead of you are two low-ranked guards, but there is also a strong captain. You should go left. There are no guards for the first few hallways, and then you'll run into a line of guards. Another group should have made it towards there now."

"Why should I trust you?"

Aikka ignored her. "Most of the guards assembled at the bigger rooms to take care of the humans there, thus he hallways are remotely safe."

Realizing he wasn't lying, Jessica sighed. "What about the Croggs?"

His face turned into a sneer and he bared his fangs angrily. "Haven't seen one of them since this shit started."

"You're getting left behind then?"

"Unlike them, my people do not run from a fight. Try to kill as less as possible, they fear the Croggs and don't know better."

Jessica nodded before eyeing him. "Could you… help me across? I know it sounds pathetic that I'm asking help-"

"It's okay. You're a friend of Eva."

"How is she? Did you find her? I assume you tried."

"I found her and she is with a team. She's fine."

Jessica chuckled softly and slumped her shoulders. "I can't believe I'm having a conversation with a Nourasion. The prince, too."

"Get going, we don't have all day." Aikka said, nudging her. Jessica nodded and walked across the hallway towards the left, Aikka silently following behind her.

He had spared Eva's friend the trouble and disposed of the Nourasions by either hitting their pressure points or ordering them elsewhere, until a loud crack sounded from the human girl. Jessica stiffened and grabbed her walkie-talkie to put the volume down.

"There's a signal coming from… a lot of signals coming from one place. They started already!" she didn't pay the Nourasion any mind and ran towards the place the GPS on her walkie-talkie told her to go. Aikka raised his eyebrows and closed his eyes, listening to any sounds and hearing the fighting crowd from one room as well. The ball room? What a great place to fight.

The room wasn't hard to find for him at all, and he got there fairly quick with his speed. He passed the guards and the humans quickly to find a higher place and stood on it, looking at the situation. A lot of people were here, and his swordsman was here as well. He recognized his personal guard and some other trustworthy people in the area as well. Good.

As if on cue, Canaan shot a spell up in the air and it hit the ceiling with a loud crack. It didn't break however, but it cleared his way and he quickly made his way over to Aikka.

"I've tried to distract many of them, but the humans attract too much attention."

"Can't we offer a peace making?"

"I've discussed it with your father. Since the Croggs are not here, he is willing to form a truce with the humans and work this out."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"The leader is not here. We need to find the leader and bring him to the king."

"There are many leaders from what I know. There's a trustworthy one, called…Stan. His skin and hair are darker, darker than most humans. He smells of old gunpowder and has a low voice. Find him."

Canaan was off quickly and Aikka sped over to his personal guards to inform them of the situation. He couldn't do anything about the fighting at the moment, not until Stan met his father and they formed a truce. If the Croggs were to barge in at any moment and the truce hadn't been formed yet, they would be in trouble.

Jumping down into the midst of the crowd, Aikka tried to dispose of as many people as he could, without killing them. But some people really got on his nerves.

He had smelled Eva's blood and followed that direction to her, out of the ballroom and into the hallways once again – and he was close, so close. Most doors were already opened, ruined or slammed down, so it was easy to move around.

In a spur of moment Aikka heard that obnoxious voice of Eva's male friend, as he shouted at his underlings, but as he should, Aikka ignored him completely.

The only thing he was going to do is leave here with Eva and wait for the truce to be formed.

Aikka could've sighed from relief when he smelled her, almost next to him, and yes, finally, one more room. He heard shots and sped over to the room, pushing Nourasions and humans aside along the way.

He was happy the Croggs chose to leave the palace once the invasion started. They wouldn't be needing them here anyway. Canaan was, next to a good swordsman, also a good sleuth, and he would no doubt find Stan within an hour. Or at least any other leader that had access to every walkie-talkie. He had seen a leader in the ballroom as well, but he had been killed before he arrived.

With the way things were going, this was actually going to work. Aikka grinned in anticipation. They would, together with the humans, defeat the Croggs and chase them off this planet. Other planets will hear of their success and Nourasia will offer them alliances, and they'll keep the Croggs off bay. This would work. He would get back home and marry Eva.

He stood still and muttered a spell at a Nourasion who slightly smelled of her blood. He was sure to kill everyone who even dared to lay a hand on her, human, Nourasion or Crogg.

"Ai….kka…" Two simple breaths stopped him mid-sentence, and he felt the magic he's been working up for the spell leave his body like snow for the sun. Just as the few feelings of hope he had earlier.

Paralyzed might have been the right word.

Behind the Nourasion guard was his Eva, staring at him dazedly as the alien in front of her greedily suck off her neck.

It happened so slow, but once it progressed Aikka growled – roared – speeding over to them. He grabbed the Nourasions shirt and his head, snapping it. He might have even ripped it off, but all he saw was how Eva fell on her back, moving up and down rapidly; like an epileptic attack, and she glanced at him helplessly.

Aikka sat down quietly, pulling her up quickly and sucking on her wound, mentally cursing. He knew it was hopeless. She wouldn't act like this if the venom hadn't already gone right into her blood stream. Nothing, absolutely nothing he could do.

He felt his right hand gripped and looked up; she wasn't even crying, but held her eyes closed as she rode out the attack.

"It's okay." Aikka murmured, staring at her intensely. The thumping stopped almost immediately, almost like it was fake, but he knew the reactions to the venom well. He cursed yet again, squeezing her hand, but there was no reaction.

This wasn't supposed to happen – he couldn't believe his own eyes as he continued to stare at her. When had this all started anyway? They should be on G'dar now, flying of to God knows where. This couldn't have happened this fast! Curse his hopeful feelings – he shouldn't have been distracted from his instinct and think about the future!

Maybe, Stan or any human that knew Aikka didn't tell all of the humans that Aikka helped the humans, or maybe it was the way he was bent over his human girl, but it didn't matter, because he wouldn't have thought about it either way.

Aikka's eyes didn't even widen when a bullet with that damned Drudger's blood pierced his back. Three more went in, followed by two more, and he squeezed Eva's hand again, blood trickling out of his mouth and nose.

At least, he thought, he wouldn't have to live without her.

His sight worsened and reddened, tear-like blood wetting his cheeks, but he didn't mind. He stared at his Eva, her calm face, and took comfort in her, knowing he wouldn't have to miss her at all for that god damned immortal life of his.

And he fell, still and silent, smelling her scent and trying to stare at her striped cheek for as long as possible.

Six months later

"And with that we near the end of today's news. Last topic; everything is fair in love and war, or so people say. The girl has not yet been identified and has been buried, but we now know the alien boy was in fact a Royal of Nourasia, Prince Aikka. The government was outraged that the Royal Palace of Nourasia kept the death of their son a secret and has asked them for a meeting to settle any other problems they might have in the future. People who might recognize – "

Don Wei shut of the television, the photo of his daughter lying there with the Prince dead, burned in the depths of his mind forever.

That one invasion that night, the one his daughter had to be in, moved the end of the war, and Eva would have been proud to say she made part of it. It had cost the human rebellions, who formed a truce with the Nourasions the same night of the invasion, only three more months before the Croggs retreated from Earth. Some Nourasions went home, followed the Croggs, and some died or stayed at Earth to lend their magic and technology.

But what importance did it held for him? He had lost everything – his family, his job, his wife, his daughter… He had nothing left.

Don Wei reluctantly grabbed a box of pills and looked at the etiquette of the secretly bought Stroh rum, though he knew he would die from only the alcohol itself.

It was a comforting idea that he would be nothing too, anymore.

T.T It's not a happy ending but I think it fits perfectly.
R&R! :D