Newt POV

I was surrounded by darkness.

"Damn...this must be death," I mutter as I look around.

Suddenly, my vision gets filled with colour...or actually, it's only white light.

"He didn't make it," I hear a voice as I spin around to see a White Suit and a Cyan one.

"I'm Joining the club eh," I joke as they are silent

"What's your wife gonna do?" (Y/N) asks as my head goes through a mess of emotions.

"I don't know, our company should compensate them for my death," I say as the cyan suit stands up.

"So your just gonna leave her?" A familiar voice asks

"Nothing I can do," I say hopelessly as tears come to my eyes. My son will grow up without his dad...my wife will be devastated.

"Nothing I can do," I mutter as I start sobbing. Will I ever see them again? Can I watch over them like most people do for their loved ones after they pass away...Can I?...can I watch as they move on from my death.

I know it's normal to want your family to have a happy life...but I want to be part of that happy life. If I can't be...I don't know...I just don't know.

Olivia embraced me into a hug as I have a mental breakdown.

During these parasite attacks, I act calm and collected...but in reality, I'm a mess inside. All I think about is my family.

"Newt, I told you not to come...I told (Y/N) not too as well and look where we are," Olivia says as her voice breaks

"It wasn't by choice," I say as I fake laugh

"So get back down there, your time isn't up," (Y/N) says as he kicks me. I start falling as flashes of colours consume my vision. It straightened out as I saw it one last time.

(Y/N) looking down on me as Olivia joins him...he waves goodbye as my mind goes blank

Petra POV

(Y/N)s body goes limp as I experience the same feeling I had when I stabbed him...why am I doing this?

"I trust you," his voice repeats in my head

"Save him,"

I took great care as I disconnected (Y/N)s visor as I rush to Newton.

The Orange suit was lifeless as I rolled him over. I could see his face, his messy Blonde hair was strung over his eyes.

I worked on getting the visor on. Finally, it popped into place as the suit starts its life support systems.

I can hear the machine doing lots of work...but his vitals aren't getting better.

"Dawson! Dawson! I need you!" I yell as a purple suit comes rushing in.

"Med bay! I need to get him to the med bay!" I scream as my words jumble out. Dawson got the idea and we both picked Newton up as we rushed to the room.

"Ok, set him down!" I say as we reach the table.

When I checked his vitals...they were gone.

No

No, no

No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!!

My mind racing as I think of how to save him.

"CPR!" I yell as I start operations so I can get his suit off while he stays safe.

I cut into the suit as I gain access to his chest.

I start doing compressions as I have another device feed him air.

"Come on!" I yell as I see the vitals start up again. I almost jump in glee....but they stop again.

I continue doing this...then it became stable.

I looked at the time and I had been wrestling with him for 20 minutes.

"Is he good?" Dawson asks.

"For now, I need to keep a close eye on him," I tell him as he nods

"We need to return to base, I'll do that and gather up anyone who survived," Dawson says as I nod. I was tired, but I kept my eye on Newton to make sure nothing happened.

Newton POV

My eyes felt heavy, but I slowly managed to open them. It was bright, a light was hovering above me.

"Congrats, you just came back to life," a strange person says as I looked around. It looked like I was in a hospital of some sort.

"Where am I?" I ask urgently as the person smiled

"Your back home, you've been back for the past few days," he says as my head starts rushing

"Parasite! Where's the parasite!" I scream as the doctor calms me down

"Don't worry, your crew took care of it," he says as I look at him

"Yes, they are the talk of the planet. Parasites are soon not going to be a thing of worry after the technology your team created goes into production," he says I look around again

"I'm not dreaming right?" I ask as the doctor smiles. He walks to the door and opens it revealing a woman and a kid.

"Kayla! Ryder!" I say as I recognize them as my wife and son.

They both rushed to me and embraced me into a hug.

"You're not going back into space!" Kayla says as she cries. Her embrace was warm, I felt cold compared to her.

"Dad!" Ryder says as he tries his best to join in, but he is a little too short to clear the bed fully...he is only 3 and half years old after all.

"Man, am I glad to see you," I say as I drag him up and we hug altogether.

"You died! Newton you actually were dead!" Kayla says as tears run down her face

"I was never in any danger," I say as my tears start coming out as I realize

"I had (Y/N) and Olivia protecting me from above," I say as I start sobbing myself.

I've lost both of my friends...I hug my wife tighter as I think about it more

"I heard (Y/N) didn't make it," She says as I nod

"Yea...he didn't," I mutter.

In a few short hours, I was told the whole story.

How (Y/N) didn't die from the stab wound...but rather suffocation as he told Petra to give me his visor.

I've somewhat forgiven Petra. Given the chances, I'm not sure who I would choose over (Y/N) and my family...but she still isn't on my good side. I hear without Petra I woulda had a certain death, so in that aspect I'm grateful.

Speaking of Petra, she's made leaps in technology toward fighting against the parasites. Currently, she's on government watch after attempted murder on (Y/N). But her tech has made detecting, killing, and extracting the parasites very easy...yes I said extracting

Tia was the test subject. The parasite inside her was taken out and now she is back to normal with police keeping a close watch on her for the short term future.

I laugh a bit...even now.

We were the first to start it....and we were the last to end it (Y/N)

Most of the crew actually survived. Dawson, Petra, Nat, Tia and myself.

(Y/N), Louis, Jayden were the three who didn't...and they will be the last ones to suffer from the parasites

A couple of years later and now the parasites are a thing of the past.

I stoke my wife's hair as we hold our newborn daughter.

"It's the anniversary isn't it?" My wife asks as I nod

"Yea, it's the 10th year since the first parasites infected my crew," I say as she hugs me

"I knew Olivia and (Y/N) would protect you," she says

"How?" I ask her curiously

"I don't know," she says as I'm unimpressed

"Ok...I just a feeling...like....like I could.....

Trust them...yea trust...I trusted them,"

I look to the ceiling. Trust is a strong word...

It's also a powerful emotion.

End

(A/N): there it is, the end to this adventure. I hope you enjoyed the book, I had a decent time writing it. Normally, my books don't end like this, but I thought this ending was very suitable for this story. This is truly a book about deception and trust. I've played a lot with making you guys dislike a character and then they turn out to actually be good, for example, Newton. A lot of you guys didn't like him in the first half of the book, he was untrusting of (Y/N) and it was conveyed very clearly. But in the second part of the book, Newt did like (Y/N) and I tried hard to get you all to like Newton, I think I may or may not have succeeded in that. In my opinion, this is one of my better written books. Either way, I hoped you liked the book. Check out my other books, they all have different plotlines from the source material and you will never know what's about to happen in any of them, just like this one.