He should have understood what would occur.
Deep inside he knew that this would have happened. That he'd lose the one girl that treated him differently than the rest. The one that treated him as if he really had siblings. The small times they had sat by each other and just talked. Normally. The one goddamned time that he was allowed to feel as if he could finally understand where people felt akin to family, he assumed wrong.
Every ounce of his being wanted to tear into the creature that did this. That caused the separation to occur. He wanted to rip it's every limb from it's tangled body, to mangle up the very arms that dared to lay a finger on her. He was powerless to do so, and he knew it. Maybe if he tried, even though it wouldn't work, he'd be able to stay with her. With the one person he held close to himself.
He held her bloody head in his hand, gently. The blood had began to soak through her blonde hair, knotting it as it dried. The skin that normally held color was beginning to fade, her skin turning to that of paper. All thoughts of the creature left his mind. It wasn't about that thing anymore. If it killed him now, it would never be because of it. He would never think about it. Not now.
He swallowed harshly, bringing a free hand to cup her pale face. She's gonna be okay... She'll be okay... She promised. She promised she'd be okay...He hadn't noticed the tremors in his hand until now. She wouldn't leave him, not now.
When her eyes opened, albeit weakly, he felt his heart stop. She wasn't going to be okay. She wasn't going to be able to make it through. He had never felt so much pain in his heart, not even when his entire biological family abandoned him. She meant so much and he knew she would leave him. She would leave him, alone.
Despite his knowledge, he forced a smile. He couldn't hold it though. His smile began to falter, and tears began to form, heavily blurring his vision of the woman. Why was she smiling? Why at a time like this? She was dying and she was smiling at him. What the hell was her problem.
Her smile. It hurt. Why would she be smiling? "S-stop it." He murmured, voice low. "Why... Why are you smiling at a time like this?" The voice began to rise, not in anger, or frustration in her, but in himself.
"Why?!" He cried, never once losing sight of that smile. Great heaving sobs wracked his body-- he had promised never to feel this way. Not as long as he stayed away. Despite that... "You... You promised me that you would stay with me! You said that we'd go together, that you wouldn't leave me! Why would you do this now?! Why did you lie to me?" He screamed, never once letting her go. "And yet now that you're here, in my arms, dying, you have that smile-- that smile is still on your face! Are you mocking me? Laughing at me because I don't understand something?" He questioned, voice fluctuating with each cry.
The blood that streamed steadily, trickling down her chin, reminded him back to something she spoke to him once. "You said that life was like a river, didn't you?" He began, quieting down-- sobs dying down with the girl's withering life. "You told me on that first day we saw each other, 'while a river flows together, it's made up of individual parts. That's what makes it's pattern unique. But because it's not altogether, sometimes the outside layers need to escape, and become something else. Sometimes they change forms, and are taken from their home; from the river.'" He paused, taking in a shaky amount of breath. "you said, 'but in the end, though they were taken from there, they do meet with the friends from then again, one day. Maybe it's not in the same spot, or as the same person, but they know when they find each other again.'"
Tears spilled onto the other's bloodied cheek, rolling down. "Is that why you lay there, dying in my arms, while holding a smile?" He asked, blue orbs watching for anything. Anything.
The girl did nothing but blink, slowly. He hadn't much time left with her.
He would let her sleep soon.
"I..." A long pause. "I'll meet you again, then. But, like you promised, you'll wait to see me again."Â
"Because that's how life works, right?"
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