Once and For All

Torrance's POV

Nick came down stairs after a little bit, he comes over to me and grabs my hands, pulling me up into his arms. His hand stroked my hair and down my back. "You did what had to be done, Torr." I looked into his eyes, tears streaking down my cheeks. "He..killed himself." I buried my face in his chest, putting my arms around him with a huge sigh of relief.

He held me tighter. "The best move he has ever made." He pulled back and wiped my tears away. "We need to get rid of him. Can't just leave him in the basement, Love."

"I know, what are we suppose to do with him?" I looked up at him.

"Wrap him up and sink him somewhere...Some place deep."

I nodded. "That always works." I swallowed the lump in my throat. "Guess we better get doing that soon, huh?"

"The sooner the better but if you need to take some time first....." His voice trailed off as he looked at me. I shook my head. "No, I'd rather get him out of here as soon as possible." He starts gathering up things they need, tarps and what not, he wrapped the body in the tarps. "We can apparate him somewhere and sink him." He held his hand out for me to take*

After taking his hand and holding on tight, she says "Ok, baby. I'm ready when you are."

He apparates them to a coast line somewhere in southwest England, it’s all rocky and stuff. He finds a boat tied to a pier and puts the body in there, helping me in too, we start to row out, it’s really windy and it’s helping to push us along faster. When we get out far enough Nick ties cement blocks to Parkers feet and then dumps him over the side.

I sat there watching Parker sink, then looked at Nick. "I can't believe he's actually gone." Nick pulled Parker's wand from his pocket where he stashed it and dropped it into the water too. "He can't hurt anyone anymore, baby."

I smiled. "I know. I'm finally free to move on with my life."

"Take my hand...and we can start moving on right now." He held his hand out to me again.

I took his hand and smiled, staring into his eyes. He kissed me softly and apparated us back to his house. I wrapped my arms around his neck as we landed in his living room, continuing to kiss him.

"Stay with me tonight?" His lips moved against my mouth.

“Mmm, yes.” I whispered against his lips as I played with the hair at the nape of his neck while kissing him. He picked me up and carried me upstairs, my legs wrapped around his waist. He laid me down on the bed kissing down my neck. “Wait, Nick. Stop.” All that ran through my mind was what Parker had done to me. “I can’t…not tonight.” He sighed and rolled off of me. “Do you still want to stay with me then?”

I nodded, “Of course, that’s not the reason I wanted to stay. I want to stay because I love you.” He wrapped his arms around me and held me tight, we laid there and snuggled chatting a little but not saying much. I hadn’t felt this free in over a year. Since I was with Nick last. We held onto each other until we fell asleep and all through the night.