The graveyard scene (But worse)
FEATURING: Kai Nightingale, Wren Atticus, Cain Corbin
WRITERS: 💎, ✨, 🩸, 🌸
Kai enters the graveyard, dull and reaking of death. He takes a step, and then another, forcing himself forward. Finding himself in front of the tomb, he forces himself to look up:
"Willow Farhner".
It had been a year since her death. He had hoped some of the pain would have alleviated by now, but his grief was relentless. Tears threaten to break through, but he blinks, and forces them back into confinement. He was here to pay his respects, and nothing more - anything else would be far too painful.
A few minutes pass, before he realizes he's not alone. In the corner of his eye sits a young boy, a few graves away. Curly hair and glasses, he places flowers in front of two different graves. Kai thinks he hears crying.
He sat down between the two graves. Well, sat was not the correct term as it seemed like he simply fell to his knees and stayed there. Kai could just barely make out the slight movement in the boy's shoulders as he cried.
Kai doesn't know how long he had been sitting there watching this familiar stranger cry at these graves. He had never seen this person here before, despite coming here almost every day for the first few months.
Something in Kai forces him to stand up. He starts to move forward before looking at the entrance of the graveyard. A figure stands waiting for him, a friend he had met not too long ago through one of his coworkers. He gave a slight nod before he kept walking towards the figure.
"Hey, man… You alright? Haven't uh… Haven't seen you here before." He said, extremely awkwardly. The boy turned to him, and despite the red-rimmed eyes and never before seen glasses, Kai managed to recognize him. "Oh fuck!" He jumped back slightly as Cain did the same, hastily wiping his eyes.
"Oh- uh- hey- uh- hi. I. What are you- No that's a stupid question. Um… Didn't. Didn't expect to see you here." Cain managed to say, his words jumbling a bit together. Kai managed to get a closer look at the gravestones, they were a pair that hadn't been cleaned in what seems like ages. Nor had he ever seen anyone put flowers by them. Kai had kinda assumed that they were abandoned.
The two existed in silence together, neither really sure what to say. They weren't really that close together, existing on the same team, sometimes arguing, but they don't know much of each other outside of their vigilante personas.
"Oh. Um. I'm here to visit a friend." Kai mumbled
Cain shifts awkwardly where he sits. "O-oh, uh…" he rubs the back of his neck. "I'm… sorry."
Kai lets out an uncomfortable cough. "Uh, yeah, sorry to uh… you, too." The words leave his mouth and the conversation comes to a close. A stuffy, persistent silence hangs in the air, and-
And, damn. Kai doesn't really want to be the one doing all this emotional bonding shit, but… But, well. He told himself he would try and be… better. For her. For himself. So, with an achy breath, he works himself up to utter, soft and sorrowful, "who, uh, are you here for?"
Cain lets out a jagged, ugly laugh, one that's less from genuine amusement and more uncomfortably forced out of him. "Uh, my, uh. My parents."
Kai doesn't need to say anything. The words linger in the air between them as they gaze down at those forgotten, moss-ridden slabs. Well- forgotten to all but one person, it seems.
"Isn't it funny?" Kai begins, and hey, he's getting better at that. Making that first step. "They're right next to each other. Almost like you were always meant to crash our mission."
Cain blinks. Maybe, Kai thinks, this isn't the best time to make a joke, but Cain doesn't seem to take it to heart. In fact, he seems almost-?
"Kind of a shitty destiny." He wheezes this time, something more sincere.
The silence that falls between them isn't as thick, anymore. The skies are still looming with a storm on the horizon, but light still flickers through the gaps.
It's nice.
Kai turns, and Cain is gone, and he feels like a weight's lifted off his chest. Maybe things are looking up, he thinks to himself as he walks through the cemetery gates.
And, in the distance, a cold, magical boygirl stares into the sunset. "I, too, am in this fic."
THE END.