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[Trekk]

She doesn’t come to life immediately. He doesn’t expect her to. This get-away is exactly what happened all those years ago. It is a repeat of their old life together, though slightly twisted to include the newness of the present. But he has it all planned, he is watching her and soaking up her beauty, and she is awestruck by him and what he has prepared. They are walking the parallels of the past and the present, but he hopes the future will have a different outcome.

Yet she pulls away (like she did all those years ago) and he is left standing alone once more.

Will he always be destined to be left alone?

He chokes on a sob, suicidal eyes finding her bright green ones because they are his anchor (they are the rock he stands upon, they are the lanterns that shield the darkness, they are the songs he whispers to himself to keep the snapping demons away, they are the boat he rides upon when the waves are rocking). He almost misses her words – too caught in the sway of emotion – but it jerks out of her throat like a nuclear missile heading straight for his heart.

He can’t find words. He’s never been good with words; he’s never been good with anything, really. Everything he’s ever wanted since he met her has led up to this point and now that it has come, he doesn’t know how to react. How long has he been waiting for those words to tumble out of her lips? Too long, he’s sure.

“What?”

trekk.
he fell apart with
his broken heart.