Bleed, Patch, And Keep Moving - An Apex Legends Story

Chapter 26 - And Then There Was Conflict

Ajay pulled her arm away from her face and stood up from her bed to face Octavio, "Okay Silva, we yuh wanna talk? Then let's talk. First let's talk about how ya blew me up in da arena. I bet that was real fun for yuh. Did yuh have that planned out or was it a classic last minute Silva idea?" She stopped momentarily to gather her thoughts and to try to calm herself down. 

"That's one hell of a way ta say hello by blowin up yuh ex-best friend." She paused again because she was getting upset. This is what she didn't want to happened. She didn't want to blow up in his face and let everything out and then become a mess afterwards. She truly thought that she had moved passed all of this stupid shit.

"Or would yuh like ta talk about how yuh almost died and guilt tripped mi inta makin yuh some legs. Then yuh left and played it off like it be nothin." She was clenching her fists like she was going to punch him. "I flew out ta Harmony ta be with yuh. I almost lost my job with da Frontier Corps because of yuh fuckin stunt. But I didn once complain about a fuckin thing. I did what yuh asked." A look of disappointment washed over her. She didn't know if she was more disappointed with herself or with him.

"Che. I don't want to point fingers..." Ajay interrupted him, "Then don put fingers!" Octavio continued to speak even though he know that he risked getting punched by her, "But you're the one who blocked my number." Ajay turned her back to him before she knocked his lights out, "Dis boy!"  She almost stomped her foot like a child but she caught herself and stopped herself before she did.

She took a deep breath and decided that this argument wasn't worth her time. She decided that Octavio Silva wasn't worth her time and her tears again. She just couldn't go through all of this shit again. This time she was going to be the one that walked away from him; not the other way around. So that's what she did; she began to walk away before she said something that she would regret forever.

Octavio grabbed Ajay by her wrist because he couldn't let her get away this time. She stopped in place but she didn't turn around because if she did she might whack him upside the head for grabbing her. "No. Not this time Che. We're not walking away from this conversation. I need you to hear what I have to say." 

He held her wrist tightly so that she couldn't leave. Ajay remained silent because she knew that if she started talking that nothing nice would come out of her mouth. She simply stood there with her back to him. When she wouldn't turn around he decided that talking to her back was better than not talking to her at all.

"I'm sorry Che. You're right. The way things went down back in the day... That was my fault. I threw the grenade to boost myself across the finish line to beat The Gauntlet Record. I knew what I was doing. That was my fault. I blew off my own legs in the process. That was my fault. I didn't want to wait for them to heal. That was my fault."

He clutched her wristed tighter as pain seeped into his words, "I knew that you could make me better legs. I knew that you would make me better legs if asked but I knew that you wouldn't do it if you knew what the doctors had said. I couldn't just sit around in rehab and wait to get better. I didn't have time for all of that shit. The day I left I had a meeting with Apex and I couldn't miss it."

He realized that he had been holding her wrist too tight so he let go of her. He watched as her arm fell down to her side, "I just wanted to do more with my life. To be more. I couldn't do that on Psamathe, you have to know that. I couldn't live that boring ass life like my padre. I couldn't go back to that life."

Octavio took a deep breath and prepared himself for what he said next, "I would have killed myself and that's no joke. I was ready to die Che..." He quickly shifted the topic, "Beating The Gauntlet Record was one of my best achievements and it got me a hell of a lot coverage. Apex noticed even me. They wanted me."