#onelastsummertimesadness

[vikingsix]

"Little thing."

  "Logan stopped talking today, even to me.    Dad keeps getting mad at him but he can't help it...      I feel like he'll cry if he tries to talk so it's best that he doesn't..."

[vikingsix]

✺

He turned his head when he felt the smack connect to his jaw, a hand slowly raising after a moment of shock to gently brush over the reddening skin.

        "I'm sorry--"

[vikingsix]

"Hesh...?" Her voice was barely a whisper as she knelt down at his side. Tears began to form in her eyes and spill onto her cheeks as she pressed her hand gently against his chest, feeling the warm blood against her fingers. It was too late to save him, she had watched him take the bullet. He was gone and she knew this but she didn't want to believe it. Her fingers curled around his uniform as she sobbed into his chest. "This wasn't supposed to happen... please come back to me.. I love you."

[ OOHHH nOOOOOOO ]

[vikingsix]

"I love you."

  Stops.    Squints.

        "... What..?"

[vikingsix]

"Hesh..." She sighed softly, looking up at him sadly. "I'm sorry for everything."

Looking over her with a frown, Hesh allowed a sigh to slip past his lips, and without a word, he reached out and pulled her into a hug.

        "You have nothing to be sorry about, okay?          There's just.. too much going on right now..."

[vikingsix]

Promise me, you’ll never do that again…

  To put it short,    yes, he had tried to go after Logan.

  To put it even shorter,    yes, he had horribly failed.

Hesh had sent out an extraction request moments after taking a bullet to his side. Merrick, of course, responded with sending out a team to help get him out of trouble and away from the area.

As soon as he sat down inside the helicopter, one hand clasped over the wound, Hesh turned his head to look directly at her.

  Sigh.

His expression deadpanned and he rolled his eyes, flinching while listening to her words.

  { Nobody told me she was gonna be here. }

        "I'm not promising anything,          but next time I'll try to actually succeed."

[vikingsix]

"I won’t let you be on your own, not when you’re like this."

        "Kira--"

He stops, shaking his head.

        "I'll be fine... I promise.          You can't come with me..."

[vikingsix]

"It was all fake. I never cared about you."

Albeit, he's hurt, but a smile somehow manages to slip across his features, green hues matching up with hers and keeping their hold there.

        "I guess the feeling was mutual, then, wasn't it?"