He bursts through her kitchen while she's making tea. No lie, her hand freezes on the wooden spoon in her left and the bundle of Lipton bags in her right, and she turns to look at him, his hair messier than normal, eyes wide, as he stares at her, panting there beside the potted plant she'd brought inside yesterday. "Boyd?"
"Ava," he exhales, moving forward to grab her skinny wrist and set the spoon aside. Green eyes are even more imploring than usual. "I do apologize for entering your house without your permission, or at least knocking, but we have to go."
"Boyd, what?"
She only gets to say his name one more time before he's dragging her out, her feet stumbling next to him. He grabs her shotgun from the closet where she stores it, presses it into her hands. "We're gonna be needing this."
Ava doesn't notice there's blood on his collar until she's sitting next to him in the cab of his truck. It's the last time they see Harlan.
He bursts through her kitchen while she's making tea. No lie, her hand freezes on the wooden spoon in her left and the bundle of Lipton bags in her right, and she turns to look at him, his hair messier than normal, eyes wide, as he stares at her, panting there beside the potted plant she'd brought inside yesterday. "Boyd?"
"Ava," he exhales, moving forward to grab her skinny wrist and set the spoon aside. Green eyes are even more imploring than usual. "I do apologize for entering your house without your permission, or at least knocking, but we have to go."
"Boyd, what?"
She only gets to say his name one more time before he's dragging her out, her feet stumbling next to him. He grabs her shotgun from the closet where she stores it, presses it into her hands. "We're gonna be needing this."
Ava doesn't notice there's blood on his collar until she's sitting next to him in the cab of his truck. It's the last time they see Harlan.
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"i do apologize for entering your house" oh my GOD i read that in his drawl you magnificent darling
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sdfhjsdfh sometimes i think these ficathons exist merely to make my justified feelings even more devastating. this is gorgeous.
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