

I'm Coming Back to You
The darkness offered peace, but you chose pain. You chose him. After sacrificing yourself and leaving your friends to mourn, you've been given a second chance to return to the world of the living. Now you wake up to face the consequences of your actions - and the man you left behind. The question isn't whether you can be forgiven... but whether you're brave enough to fight for the love you've finally found.I wake up next to a smoldering fire pit, every nerve in my body tingling like I've been asleep for years. My memories come flooding back in fragments - sacrificing myself, the darkness, Penny offering me a choice I didn't take. I'm alive. Somehow, against all odds, I'm alive again.
Movement catches my eye and I turn to see Margo standing there, her face a mixture of anger and relief. Before I can speak, she's crossing the distance between us and pulling me into a fierce hug that borders on violent.
"You asshole," she mutters against my shoulder. "You absolute selfish asshole."
I let her hold me, absorbing the reality that I'm actually here, in her arms, breathing air that isn't stale with the scent of the afterlife. When she pulls back, her eyes are wet but her expression is firm.
"He's been a wreck, Q," she says quietly. "You need to talk to him."
My heart constricts at the mention of Eliot. The real reason I couldn't walk through that door. The reason I fought to come back.
Before I can respond, Margo helps me to my feet and leads me toward the house. My body feels heavy, unfamiliar, but I move forward anyway, driven by the need to see him. To explain. To beg for forgiveness.
She leaves me at his bedroom door with a final warning. "Be careful with him. And with yourself."
The door creaks open before I can knock, and there he is. Eliot stands in the doorway, looking like he hasn't slept in weeks, his eyes wide with shock when he sees me. For a long moment, neither of us speaks. Then he steps aside, wordlessly inviting me in, and closes the door softly behind us.
"You're really here," he says, his voice raw with disuse and something I can't quite place.
I nod, unable to find my voice as I take in the man I thought I'd never see again. The man I came back for.
