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“Would you go now, if you could?”
“With you, I would.”
“Then we’ll go together. Afte...
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“When the war is over. We’ll run away somewhere no one knows us. We’l...
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“Of co...
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He was lying. They both were. It was daydream to think it possible. She squeezed his hand tight...
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If the ring activates only once, it’s not Resistance-related. Signal back when you’re there, and I’ll come for you.”
“Call me, and I will come.”
F me
Kaine called her. Often.
Ugh love this
“You’re all right? Has anything happened to you?”
“You’re mine. You’re mine.” He’d repeat the words over and over. “Say it. Say you’re mine.”
“I promise, Kaine. I’m always going to be yours.”
“Be careful.” It was always the last thing she said to him before he left her on some rooftop. She would hold his face in her hands, staring into his eyes. “Don’t die.”
Why do i have a feeling this is it for them and that something bad is going to happen soon
“You’re mine. I’ll always come for you.”
Kill me
“I’m going to take care of you. I swear, Helena, I’m always going to take care of you.”
“Kaine, I’m all right. Nothing’s going to happen to me.”
Duuuuuuude dont say that
“The Eternal Flame is not going to hurt me if you fail an assignment. They aren’t going to torture or endanger me to punish you. I’m not a hostage. I’m in this war because I choose to be. I’m not fragile. I’m not going to break. Please.”
But you do somehow
“Let me get you out. I swear it won’t affect my aid to the Resistance. Just let me get you out.”
You shouldve let him
“I’m going to take care of you. I swear, I’m always going to take care of you.”
“I’m going to take care of you. I promise, I’m always going to take care of you.”
She’d promised Kaine that she was safe, that nothing would happen to her. She could not die.
She looked down at her hand, wishing she had the resonance to send a pulse code to Kaine. Some way to tell him she was sorry. That she had tried.
“Because I have warned you, if something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order of the Eternal Flame. That isn’t a threat, it’s a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the Resistance as Holdfast’s. If you die, I will kill every single one of them. Given that the risk to their lives is the only way to make you value your own.”
She hated this war. She had thought she could do anything. That she was strong enough for it. That there would be no limit to what she was willing to do or endure. Apparently, Kaine had become her limit.
She couldn’t imagine herself without him. She didn’t think she’d even exist anymore.
“Just live, Helena.” His voice was shaking. “That’s all I’m asking you to do for me.”
“I’m sorry,” he was saying, “I thought I had more time to explain. You’ll be safe here. No one will find you. I’ll be back as soon as I can.
What do you mean?!
“What exactly is it that you think I do with all my time? I kill people. I order other people to kill people. I train people to kill people. I sabotage and undermine people so that they will be killed, and I do it all because of you. Every word. Every life. Because of you.”
“You are so much more than what the war has done to you.”
“Just—just like I am. There’s more to both of us—it’s just waiting to get out. Someday, we’ll leave all this behind. Go far away, and you’ll see. The two of us—I think we could.”
He raised an eyebrow. “Do I get any say about this future life of ours, or are you making all the decisions?”
Running like a ragged seam down the centre of her chest was a huge incision, sewn closed with black thread and bone wire. The skin was swollen, yellow, and white and pink.
Oh my this is how she got the scar
“Do you see my scars that way?” he finally said. “When you look at me, are they all you see?”
She flinched. “No.”
“Well.” He met her eyes. “I don’t see you that way, eit...
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He let go of her wrist and lifted his hand, the fingertips tracing the scarring until it was covered by his palm, warm against her bare skin, t...
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“You are. It doesn’t matter what happens to you, you wi...
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“Be careful,” she whispered. “Don’t die.”
When she reached the rooftop and saw Kaine already there, standing beside Amaris, her knees nearly gave out. He was in uniform, clean and polished, wearing a row of medals as if he’d just come from a ceremony.
We love a man in uniform
She swallowed bitterly. “What did you expect me to do?”
“I don’t want you in this fucking war.” The rage in his voice was raw. “All I do is worry about what will happen to you if I fail to meet all requirements. If you get captured, you have no idea what they’ll—”
“You know I would if I could. I’d run with you and never look back.”
“I know—” Her voice broke. “Don’t die, Kaine. You can’t leave me behind.”
“Mine. You’re mine,” he said as he kissed her.
“Always.”
“But if I don’t come,” she said, ready to resort to anything if he’d just cooperate, “that means I won’t see you again until—until after.”
“Then I’ll see you after. Send someone else.”
“Ka...
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“I found you after a bombing. I had to watch them cut you open, trying to get the shrapnel out. You nearly died so many times on the operating table, I lost count. If you’d been an inch closer to the blast, that shrapnel would have gone through your heart. You want me to ...
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Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.
