@makopoisoned asked: ❛ run! i'll hold them off for as long as i can. ❜
“No!” The response was immediate and sharp. There wasn’t a moment taken to think, or to consider what he said, she wasn’t leaving him. She wasn’t ever going to leave anyone. It wasn’t the kind of thing that she did. Hell, it made her skin hurt the thought of it, as if something sharp was crawling underneath it. “I’m not doing it!” Oh, she sounded like a petulant child but she meant it, and if he wanted to argue about it they could, Yuffie would happily smack this notion right out of his brain.
“I’m not doing it. You don’t leave people behind!” Emotion caught in the back of her throat, a lump she couldn’t seem to swallow, this bubble of something that threatened to take over the entire situation. She didn’t have the control to take ahold of it, and while it might have been the most inappropriate moment for this to happen Yuffie didn't have control anymore. “That’s not happening again!” This time it was a full on yell. She was ready to tear him limb from limb for even making such a stupid suggestion.
“You have people who care about you, jackass!” One hand flew out, a weak attempt at a shove as tears threatened to spill over and down her cheeks. “Do you have any idea how much it would hurt people if something happened to you?” How much it would hurt her. Yuffie had lived through that kind of agony once already, she could suppress one. Pretend that it hadn’t happened. Try to ignore the searing pain that sat in her chest at moments.
No, she knew she couldn’t deal with that.
She couldn’t add another name to the ledger of people who had died trying to protect her. “Are you stupid!” A shaking breath, Yuffie became very aware that it felt like she couldn’t breath, this spiralling feeling ran through her that she knew wasn’t conducive to getting out of this situation, all Yuffie could do was scramble to cling to whatever threads of sanity was left with her in this moment. She had already decided if this was how they were going down it going to be them going down together.