The look he gave her was as cold and hard as ice and, even if he had not verbally responded, would have communicated the answer as clear as day.
[color=#7CD98A]"There was a lot of death that followed." [/color] Of course he had killed the bastard - as well as everyone who had known and kept it a secret. He had embraced his fury, raining vengeance down like a summer monsoon. [color=#7CD98A]"I killed him, though far more swiftly than he deserved." [/color]
He had been the last to die. He got to experience what it was to have everything ripped away from him, to know emptiness and hopelessness. It wasn't enough. Nothing would have ever been enough.
He forced himself to the present, pushing the memories down into the inky black abyss in his mind.
Wrapping his arms around her embrace, he was silent for a moment.
[color=#7CD98A]
"So...I'm scared. But for every ounce of scared I am, I am ten times more happy. The past is terrible and tragic and...over. And our children will be loved and grow old and love children of their own." [/color]
They would. They had to.
[color=#7CD98A]"There was a lot of death that followed." [/color] Of course he had killed the bastard - as well as everyone who had known and kept it a secret. He had embraced his fury, raining vengeance down like a summer monsoon. [color=#7CD98A]"I killed him, though far more swiftly than he deserved." [/color]
He had been the last to die. He got to experience what it was to have everything ripped away from him, to know emptiness and hopelessness. It wasn't enough. Nothing would have ever been enough.
He forced himself to the present, pushing the memories down into the inky black abyss in his mind.
Wrapping his arms around her embrace, he was silent for a moment.
[color=#7CD98A]
"So...I'm scared. But for every ounce of scared I am, I am ten times more happy. The past is terrible and tragic and...over. And our children will be loved and grow old and love children of their own." [/color]
They would. They had to.
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