𝘼𝙐𝙍𝙊𝙍𝘼; 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮

ᵗʰⁱʳᵗʸ ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ

11×24

There is a moment when you just have to snap out. You have to suck in every fear, every doubt and go after what you want. Chase it. Don't let it slip from your fingers. Do everything you have to to not lose it. There is something, someone that means everything to you. And if you let it go, it might cause you one of the worst kinds of pain.

So Aurora followed Jackson, between the chaos of the hospital she caught up with him and she found herself in the men's bathroom. "You don't get to decide that we're just over if I leave. You can't just make me choose between you and going there. I won't be gone forever." She yelled the moment she opened the door, not realising that someone else was inside as well.

The man gave them a look before leaving.

"I'm not making you choose anything. If you want to go, you can go. But you can't expect me to wait any longer. I was waiting for you for months." Jackson said once they were alone.

"I was not myself last year. I was continuously scared that something will happen to you too. I still am, but I'm handling it." She tried to make him understand what was in her head. But it wasn't that Jackson didn't understand. He just understood for too long.

"What about me? What about the fact that I needed you here?" He yelled.

"I didn't leave." She argued.

"You almost died, okay? It might seem unfair, but I needed you. I needed you to lay down next to me every night, so I could hear your breathing. So I knew that you were alive. I needed to know that nothing would happen to you again. I needed you close to me."

"Jackson, I just needed time." Aurora's voice soften a bit as Jackson's words hit her hard.

"I know, I respected that. I did. But the moment I thought that you and I were getting back to normal, you decide that you want to leave. So I'm done. I'm done waiting. I'm done trying to make everything okay when they will never be."

"Jackson come on... I-" she tried to explain that she hadn't even decided if she was going to leave. Even though she wanted it to.

"Just go, okay? Find yourself. Be happy. I'll be here if you need me. But I have nothing more to give, because apparently whatever I give to you is not enough. I'm not enough." His voice was barely a whisper in the last part. This time Aurora didn't follow him.

"Damn it" she yelled and sucked in a breath as she tried to pull herself together. But she just needed to break something. And she did... she ran her hand through a mirror, breaking it. Her heartache was so much that she couldn't even feel the pain in her hand. "Okay." she breathed out and moved out of the room as blood ran out of her hand.

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"What are you doing?" Jo found Aurora in an empty space cleaning her hand. "What happened?"