* @bukley prompted: ❛ look at me… i’m not gonna make it. it’s okay, i’m fine with that. but… you can’t stay here. you’ve got a good long life ahead of you. & you’re smart, too; too smart to wait around here & waste that long life. so you get out of here, & you go live that life. live it for both of us. will you promise me you’ll do that ? ❜
they were stumbling . . . less cautious over the thick vines that crept across the ground, exhaustion clinging to their bones like the grief that followed their trail. particles of the upside down scratching throats while the struggle to breath could be heard in their sharp inhales of breath. with each passing step he could feel robin slump a little more, practically taking her weight on as his own while struggling to remain upright became more pressing. when her legs give out from underneath, the surprise of it has him crumbling with her, a groaned curse falling free from split lips while he disentangled their limbs. gently trying to maneuver robin while nonsense poured freely from her throat ( blame it on the adrenaline . . . on the way her mouth worked faster than her brain could keep up ).
one minute . . . he’ll give them one minute of rest before they keep going . . . before they both get out of here. her frame cradled in his arms, while he attempted to find the source of what had been causing warmth that wasn’t his own to spread down his side. ❛ yeah, no. that’s not happening. ❜ he wasn’t fine with it . . . there was nothing fine about this, about the idea that she was ready to give up or that this speech held any weight. he was the idiot ( not enough thumps to the head could correct that ) . . . the guy with no prospects of a future, who worked minimum wage jobs because his douchebag dad wouldn’t let him live down his failure at higher education. he wasn’t the one who was supposed to make it ( comfortable with being the last priority ). . . she had her whole life ahead of her, promise . . . a chance to escape this shit hole of a town & be something bigger than he could ever imagine. ❛ you’re gonna be fine, okay ? i’m right here . . . ❜
mumbled apologies spared while he pressed firmly to the wound that was leaving a puddle he couldn’t acknowledge right now . . . ( how the hell was he gonna get her out of here ? ) glancing around, throat rasp from the multiple crushing chokeholds suffered through the day ( in that moment there was no care as he screamed for someone to help . . . for anyone to show up ). ❛ we’re gonna get you outta here & . . . you’re gonna be fine. ❜ unsure who was trying to be convinced . . . the fight draining from her eyes had a terror filling his. robin was always so full of life ( almost annoyingly so at times ) . . . she kept him sane in a way, his anchor in the never ending storm, a safe haven when all he had known before her was an echoing emptiness. she was his person . . . & losing her . . . it’s like losing a limb.
phantom pains to exist in her place, unsure his own survival rate without her comforting hand between his shoulder blades. relied on her more than he realized . . . but more importantly, he knew she still had so much to offer. there were hopes & dreams that she had laid trust in him to keep & she deserved to experience those things ( trading places with her would be a deal he’d make without a moment of consideration ). ❛ it’s gonna work out for us . . . we’re, you’re gonna make it . . . ❜ wasn’t making that promise that he’d live for them both . . . couldn’t . . . how could he ? unsteady hands come up to cup her cheek, smearing scarlet against pale white ( horrific in the way he couldn’t tell which of theirs it was ). shaking her slightly, as if that would be enough to earn him a glare & one of her classic warnings paired with the familiar ‘ dingus ’ tease ❛ c’mon robin . . . i can’t do this without you, alright ? i . . . don’t do this. ❜ ( ‘ don’t leave me ’ balancing at the tip of his tongue while tears leave tracks in the dirt coating his bruised face ). it was his fault . . . he brought her into this bullshit when all she had been trying to do was make a living. ❛ god dammit robin ! open your eyes . . . please . . . ❜ he wasn’t ready to stop being robin buckley’s schmuck ( it was fun while it lasted ).









