โณ @worthystill | continued from x .
Amity was under no illusions...
In their line of work, there are no happily ever after's... They don't get to have that luxury. And for a good fucking part of her life, she'd been completely fine with that.
Then Thor had walked into her sights.
And at first, it was easy to play her feelings off as nothing more than admiration for a fellow teammate... After all, you didn't get to be part of Hound Wolf Squad without both exceptional perseverance and skill. And while yes, he had both of those in abundance, he also possessed a strength of heart, and an absolute and unwavering loyalty.
So yeah, it was easy to brush it off... For a time.
But somewhere between all of the mission briefings, and the fighting tooth and nail out there beside each other, having each others backs like no one else... Somewhere in those scarce moments of downtime, somewhere in the midst of everything, she'd gotten to know him.
โโโ And therein had been her fatal mistake.
The logical part of her had been screaming at her to 'stay away', to protect herself from that inevitable heartbreak. But her heart had been warring with her logic, desperately urging her to fuck all of the warnings and to just steal whatever moments with him she possibly could.
Is that what she'd been hoping for when she'd spoken those words to him out loud? Honestly, she doesn't even know at this point...
Crossing her arms over her chest, as if to guard her heart from the ache that was already swiftly awakening within, the petite blonde stares up into his face with a desperate kind of pleading. And when blue eyes meet blue, the silence that stretches between them speaks far more volumes than any words could ever hope to achieve.
It's only when he does finally answer her that Amity realizes she's been holding her breath. And while she may not have known what exactly it was that she had been hoping for from him, she knows it sure as hell hadn't been that...
Brows furrowing, she doesn't attempt to hide the frustration marring her features, โI don't know, Thor, avoidance sure seems a hell of a lot like pretending from where I'm standing...โ Her teeth worrying at the inside of her lower lip, she takes a step towards him before she can think better of it, โDon't you think that this life is already enough of a hellscape as it is? That maybe... Maybe, if there is the smallest sliver of a chance for some kind of respite from it all, that we should stop avoiding and just take it while we can?โ
