//this turned incredibly long and I couldn’t fit it in an ask but this is the death meme:
There had only been a moment of shock when Sid stood over him and revealed that it was Paige who had given him up. It made sense—he had lied to her about Lina, about his intention to shut the trafficking organization down, almost everything except for how he felt about her. It all seemed irrelevant and so far away now. At the beginning of the summer, he found himself remembering just why he missed Graceland when he had been begging to go to D.C. since he arrived there. It hadn’t just been the house, it was her.
And she had wanted him dead.
By some miracle, the doctors had been able to bring him back after six minutes of flat lining. Mike didn’t understand what the point of it all was. Before he had lost consciousness, he had resigned himself to his fate—maybe he thought it was penance, and he deserved it, or maybe he was just so damned tired of it all, of wanting to do the right thing and being met with opposition on every side, of failing to do the right thing and the people around him suffering because of it. Whatever the reason, Mike had been prepared to die. Yet he hadn’t.
Charlie was explaining Paige’s plan while he sat up in bed, trying to resist the urge to inject himself with more morphine to alleviate the incredible pain from his gunshot wound. Then he put two and two together—she was going to catch Sid, but not for his murder. She intended to let him kill her.
He checked himself out of the hospital and rushed over to where the two were supposed to meet. It was all a blur, running out of the car and hearing the gunshot, muffled by his own scream as he shook Charlie’s arm off and dashed toward the fallen agent. He didn’t even register the other shot as Johnny sniped Sid before he could turn on him.
She looked shocked that he was there, and to be frank, he was too, and as angry he was at her, he was angrier at himself for allowing this to happen. “I’m sorry.” His voice came out a strangled cry as her eyes froze over. “I’m sorry, and I forgive you.”
