@forgottengun || intimacy meme
“just a little longer” twist; it's new dawn & That One Headcanon I texted you bye 👀
the pain is fading from that red hot agony it once was . paul seed is finally geting some of that peace he’s sought for all these years . blue eyes flutter open to see birds flying over head and those colors of green and pink he’s grown accustomed to seeing day in and day out . and in this solemn moment of wonder , HE SMILES .
where they are going , he knows exactly and though the outcome is predictable he can’t help but still feel relief that maybe just maybe he’ll get to see him one last time . the only bits of peace he’s ever known , despite desperately trying , have been with issac . he’s waiting for him , paul can feel it . probably going out of his mind and he knows what this will do to him but at least he can set sight on those eyes one last time .
a fleeting feeling of HOPE , sets in at being able to see his family again though . Jacob, John, and Faith have been waiting for him and he FINALLY gets to see them again too . what this will do to Joseph . paul has always owed him his life and in that life he saved , paul found love where it was never supposed to be . in the arms of one of jacob’s experiments , HIS DOG . no but issac was ALWAYS much much more than that . paul could see the human beneath all the conditioning . the one that helped paul through thick and thin and loved him despite all of his flaws .
finding him again had been a true miracle at the beginning of this new world . all the time spent in the bunker grieving him along with the rest of his family with nothing but a shattered heart and memories built to last a lifetime . seeing him alive though and that they could get a second chance at this life . . . TOGETHER ?? it was everything . their lives were always meant to intertwine and to overlap . their purposes found within each other .
when he closes his eyes , he lifts his hand weakly to his chest . his heart has always belonged to his dutiful protector . paul can see that smile and the way those blue eyes light up when he looks at him . how he’d been SAVED under paul’s guidance forces tears to glide down his cheeks . they aren’t from pain or from sadness , but the happiness that he’s gotten to experience in those moments shared with someone with such a big heart .
it’s true what they say about being close to death paul can vividly remember the first time they ever met , the quiet bitterness and the dismissal that he never regretted . it was needed but even when issac was still needed the most , he was there just beyond the pines . their first kiss also comes to mind , the silent wonder and nervous roaming hands . the stigma of intimacy with a herald and how terrifying it would be for him , but yet paul was enthralled with the man that issac had become .
when he opens his eyes again , he doesn’t know how much time has passed only that when blues meet blues his heart skips a beat . never fails , but issac standing above him KNOWS the gravity of the situation and the acceptance of it has brought him to tears . the words being said only make sense if paul realizes that he’s been talking to the downed man for awhile trying to wake him and the only time he feels the sadness set in is when he sees what this is doing to his love .
“ it’s okay . . . “ he says all too weakly while fingers grip at the hand on his chest , all too weakly as well which only makes it worse . issac knows . “ someone’s coming . please . “ paul blinks a few times and his gaze drifts off to the sky above him . ‘ just a little longer . . . “ he pleads with the former apostle . he misses cascade and he misses the way the world used to be but nothing ever felt quite like somewhere he truly belonged . not until issac . when he brings his eyes back to issac’s his grip is loosening . a couple of tears fall down his cheek that issac is quick to wipe away . “ you’ve always been my home . “
at least he got to see issac one last time and feel the press of a kiss against his lips before eyes close for the last time . all he ever wanted was peace . and when rush recruited him , paul thought that yet again he could make a difference to be there even after rush died to carry on his work . all he hopes for now is for issac to find the strenght to keep going . then again they did never fair well away from each other . and when he takes his last breath , their foreheads are pressed together and he knows they’ll see each other again . hopefully eden truly does exist .