"I–it's not your fault. You couldn't have stopped them. It––" He raised a trembling hand to Daniel's cheek, red with his own blood. "I just wish I had told you that I lo–– I love..." And with that, he went limp, eyes empty as they stared up at the sky.
"James..." Daniel choked out, staring down at the dead body in his hands, his body collapsing on top of it, shaking, sobbing, nearly w a i l i n g like a widow at a funeral. And in a way, he felt like one -- James hadn't even fucking finished his sentence... "Don't -- Don't do this to me, don't leave me here, I loved you too, I love you too, why would you..." He cried out, feeling hands around him, people trying to take him off of the dead body, people he thought were Carina or Roksy trying to help him, trying to pry him off of the cold dead thing in his arms that no longer held life. The body that would never smirk or smile or laugh at him again, he'd no longer see those lips curl around a cigarette, he wouldn't hear the giggle of him while he was intoxicated or high... He'd never see him again. "I love you." He whispered, staring down at the body as he was finally dragged away, his eyes dead in his skull, wishing more than everything it was him who had drawn his last breath and not the Potter boy. "I l o v e you."









