Elliott's POV

I was on the ground, my body aching, my twin sister beside me, and I could see both my parents dressed in white together.

"Mom, dad, what's going on?" I asked.

They didn't say a word. They just came over and both of them put a hand on me and Ellie's shoulder.

I kept looking at the man who attacked us. What could he possibly be looking for? Suddenly, he pulled out a huge and loaded rifle. He was coming towards us.

As he pointed the rifle to us, we heard a bang.

But neither Ellie or me got hurt.

The man dripped his rifle and fell to the ground. Behind him was a police officer with his gun.

Oh my gosh.

He came over to us and started calling for an ambulance.

That's the last thing I heard before all went black.

When I woke up, I sitting in an ambulance, I looked around me and the nurses seemed to be busy. I looked over at where many tubes led, they led to a body.

My body.

What the... ?! This can't be! Am I dying?

"Hey what's going on?!" I yelled to one of the nurses. They didn't seem to hear me. They just kept working on my body.

Where's Ellie?

I hyperventilated going further in the ambulance and saw Ellie's body in worse condition than mine.

"El? El can you hear me?!" I asked grabbing her hand.

"Elliott" I heard behind me. A soft fragile voice. I turned around and saw Ellie.

I immediately threw my arms around her and she hugged me back. I felt my shoulder get wet. She was crying.

"What's happening?" she asked me with so many tears in her eyes.

I rubbed them away with my thumbs.

"I don't know El" I answered her. I saw her look behind me and she sobbed harder.

"Is... Is.... Is that me" she asked me chocking on her own tears.

I nodded.

She collapsed into my arms and cried softly. We fell to the floor and we just hugged each other, never letting go.

When we got to the hospital, everyone got out and we followed. No one seemed to even notice us.

They rushed us to the ER and started to do immediate surgery.

"Do you think we can make it?" I asked Ellie.

"I think its up to us. We have to be strong" she said grabbing my hand.

We felt a light behind us. We turned around and saw our parents.

"Mom dad!" we yelled and hugged them.

"Mom dad please tell us what happening" I begged.

We released each other and we went outside of the ER to talk.

"You are both in a very critical condition due to the beating you received" dad said.

"What about mom? Ashley?" Ellie asked.

"She was informed about the situation. She's coming as soon as she can but there was an accident so it could be a long while before she gets here" mom said.

"Mom dad, are we gonna..." I asked.

"We don't know" mom answered giving us a hug.

"What we do know" dad started "is that both of you are fighters. And we will also be with you every step if the way, even when you can't see us. Both of you are the most important things to us in the entire universe" he said joining the embrace.

I felt safe and warm. My parents, both of them, my mom and dad. My twin sister. All 4 of us together. Though I was scared, I was also happy.

I don't know how long it was after the surgery but me and Ellie were put into a room divided by a curtain.

"We have to go but remember, we are always here" mom said.

Dad took her by her hand and they both disappeared.

Ellie and I rushed to our bodies and stared blankly at them.

I couldn't recognize the boy in front of me. He was covered in bruises. Had many tubes sticking out of him and his eyes closed shut.

I didn't even dare to look at Ellie's body one more time. What I had seen in the ambulance was enough.

Ellie's POV

Me and Elliott just stared at our bodies. I had caught a glimpse of his when we came into the room.

I went to the other side and stared at the girl before me. I can't recognize her. Her face is covered in different shades of green, purple, and red. Her body was completely motion less. Almost dead. Tubes coming at her everywhere. She looked dead.

I looked dead.

I went to the other side of the room and met up with Elliott. We just sat in the chairs inside the room and talked.

"Im so scared. Where's mom, why isn't she here?" I asked.

"Im scared to. But remember, we are a team. Also remember what mom said. She's stuck in major traffic" he answered me.

"Do you find this a little creepy?" I asked him.

"What?"

"That we are looking at our bodies and no one can see us. It's like straight out of a movie or that book we were reading. If I stay" I told him.

For the first time in a while, Elliott released a small laugh. I laughed with him.

We went to the lobby to see if mom would ever come. A while later she came bursting through the hospital door.

"Where are they?! Where are my children?! She asked the lady in the front desk.

Elliott and I stood up and ran over to her. I stood on one side of her and Elliott on the other.

"Do you think she can see us?" I asked.

She didn't seem to notice.

"Don't think so" Elliott said.

"Ma'am calm down. What are their names?" the woman asked.

"Ellie and Elliott Malloy" she said.

"Are you their mother?" a doctor said coming from the hall.

"Yes" Ashley answered.

"Well the twins are in a very delicate condition. But the girl, Ellie, she received a harder beating so she might take a longer while to recover. But as of now neither of them have woken up from surgery" the doctor said.

"Oh my gosh" mom said. She sat down in one of the chairs on the verge of tears.

Suddenly Elliott and I felt a sharp pain all over our bodies. We both dropped to the ground and held on to each other by our hands.

"What's happening?" I asked in pain, holding my stomach.

"I don't know" Elliott said.

Suddenly, a nurse came running down the hallway.

"Doctor, something's going on with the twins!" she yelled.

"What?!" mom, the doctor, my brother, and I exclaimed.

Me and Elliott started to run to our room not caring that the doctor wouldn't let mom come. We had to get to our bodies.

We got there before the doctors and we saw are machines were spiking up.

"How do we stop this?!" Elliott yelled.

"I don't know!" I yelled.

Then four doctors came in, two attended each of us. We just hugged each other in the back of the room, crying bit not knowing what will happen.

Will we die?

The doctors started to yell and rush and our machines were getting worse.

I felt a light behind me.

"Mom dad!" I exclaimed.

"Sweethearts, we tried everything that we could but we can't do any more. Its time" mom said

"What? No we can't go!" Elliott yelled.

"We want to stay with Ashley" I said.

"We want to live our lives" my brother added.

"Are both of you sure?" my dad asked.

"Yes" we both said.

"Ok. Come here. Lets give it one last shot" mom said extending here arms.

All four of us hugged each other tightly.

"We love you, don't forget that" dad said.

"We wont" me and my brother said.

I took a deep breath. I pray to god this works.

Everything went black.

"They're awake!"