Prompt: A misunderstood yet beloved character found lifeless after battle. Her sister saw him after promising they’d be together again after everything was done & A Kitchen Fan Lullaby.
Tiktoks: One, Two
Warnings: Character death, mentions of multiple bodies, mentions of a battle, mentions of blood
Characters: My OCs
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It was done. Everything was done. Finally. Silena sat in the puddle of what looked like a mix of rainwater, blood and dirt, but she didn't care. She was tired. They all have been fighting for so long, and they finally... Won.
Silena sat there for what felt like only a few minutes, but when she refocused at the people and bodies that surrounded her, she noticed how dark it had already become.
A small light came from a group at the far end of the field. She assumed it was Lucian, Adriana and some of the other rebels. She couldn't know for sure, but she knew at least Lucian was there.
Her gaze moved from the group to the other people surrounding her. Most were walking and checking the bodies that laid motionless, assessing how many we lost and how many were enemies. She didn't want to know who died, she didn't know who survived.
She felt numb. It had been 3 years of this, she grew out of the end of her teenage years in a war. Albeit a small one, only involving a few forces against Arya's corrupt branch of the government. Silena lost so much, she was forced to keep so many things a secret from those she cared about.
Her hands came up and ran through her matted curly mess of hair. She knew she had to help, she couldn't sit here rotting in the puddle of... Liquid she sat herself in.
She moved like a zombie, walking towards the nearest person. It was Edi, not surprising Silena at all. She knew he would be one of the ones checking bodies if he survived. He was the one person who could bring one of them from the brink of death... If he got there in time.
He offered her a weak smile, but Silena could only nod towards him. She glanced at the pile of bodies that laid in front of them before returning her gaze on the golden boy. When he gestured towards the pile she immediately understood what he meant, moving to help him move the bodies so they all could rest normally.
They had moved 3 off before Silena couldn't take the smell anymore, holding up a hand and moving to the side. Edi let out what sounded like a soft, barely there chuckle. It was more like a huff of breath if anything.
Silena held a hand over her mouth, willing the bile to go back down her throat. But hearing the bodies being shifted made it difficult for her. After a few moments she heard a sharp intake of breath. This made Silena freeze, terrified of who she would see if she turned around.
"Lena..." Edi's voice mumbled and Silena could already feel the tears forming, the hand at her side clenching at nothing as the other moved from her mouth to her heart. She breathed in a few times, trying to regulate her breathing before turning around.
Silena isn't sure who she expected, honestly. The fact that she didn't know who it could've been that was close to her, it could've been anyone. Anyone she associated with, and Edi would've called her the same way.
But she didn't expect to see her baby brother's lifeless form being the one that was at the bottom of the horrid pile of bodies. The one who was forced to see the dead almost all his life had joined the ones he held close. She felt tears form in her eyes, dropping to her knees as she stared at his face.
She had been forced to miss so much of his life, forced away from him due to the horrible foster care system. Forced for him to live his life thinking she chose to be away from him. Forced to watch as he betrayed her and her friends by siding with Arya. And finally, forced with the realization that she wasn't even here to protect him when he needed it most.
A choked sob left her mouth, her trembling hand moving to cup his cheek. She found herself in a state of shock, unsure of what to do. Her hands kept reaching for him, shaking his shoulder, caressing his hair, smoothing his shirt down... But he never reacted, his eyes held nothing anymore, no personality, no shine... No life.
Silena didn't realize how pathetic she looked, mumbling repeated phrases, "Reggie, my baby.." "It's okay... You're okay..." "I'm sorry... I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry..." "Couldn't protect you..." Every word she couldn't find herself to say to his face was spilling out, "I love you..."
She held his body for god knows how long, mumbling words and phrases that soon blurred together into incoherent muttering that most likely looked insane to others. But she couldn't move, couldn't stop, couldn't breathe.
Oh... She couldn't breathe. Silena barely even noticed how her breaths became rapid, and her chest constricted with every choked breath she tried to make. Her hands were shaking, gently pushing back the curly hair that covered Reggie's eyes.
Silena felt a hand on her shoulder, but she didn't move. She did feel how she started to feel a bit calmer, it definitely didn't take everything away, but at least she could breathe somewhat normally again.
Silena started to hum softly, a soft tune that she remembered from when it was just her and Reggie. When she was 5 and he was 3, before she was taken away from him. It was a tune she always used to calm down his nightmares he always had.
Now here she sat, 15 years later, freshly turned 20 and he couldn't even make it to adulthood. Now the tune was to comfort her through the loss of her brother, the one person she wished she could have kept close to her all her life. The one person she genuinely wanted, hell, she had promised to go back to after all this had ended.
Now she couldn't. And all she had was this stupid song.