❝everyone i’ve loved has either died or left me and i’ll be damned if you name is added to that list.❞ POST WAR
She’d had no idea what to expect when she had agreed to come out of hiding in order to meet him. Her guard was up, ready to attack if she needed to, ready to flee if it was some sort of trap. She had considered every possibility or at least she thought she had. She expected a fight, an argument at least, but what he had to say stunned her in to silence more than any spell could do.
“Everyone I’ve loved has either died or left me and I’ll be damned if your name is added to that list.”
The words rung in the heavy silence that followed them. She could only stare at him, taken completely aback by an admission that she had been so certain would instead be him personally delivering her last rights.
There was so many questions she wanted to ask. Why now, why risk so much just for that? Did he love her? Was that what he was trying to tell her? It was such a bold statement, with no context, that she dared not take a single step closer to him.
“Alastor...” She began eventually, swallowing as she tried to gauge his body language under the darkness of the alley they were in.
“What are you saying?”
