It All Comes Crashing Down

Love Is A Weapon

Polly POV,

I really want to talk to Daniel but he's pushing me away. Ever since Brendon passed he has been quiet, subdued, broken. I want to help him and Eve does as well but Daniel doesn't trust her. Not yet, I look at him, prodding the ground with a stick. 

Then I speak up, "Daniel, how can I help you?" 

He stares at me with his deep, soulful ebony pools. I can tell that he will tear up or make a run for it soon but if I can't help him then at least I can try to understand him. We are all going eventually so he may as well leave this place with some faith.

Daniel POV,

I can tell that Polly is trying to stop me from pushing her away. We have been friends since all this began. All meeting 3 years ago in the tree, or what's left of it. Me Polly, Eve and... and... and Brendon.

I can't do this, not now, so i whisper, "please Polly. Let me go."

I stand up from where we are both sitting and turn to face Polly, her soft features are pricked with pain, anguish and I feel a stab of guilt in my chest. I caused this. I caused all of this to happen, 

"please, i'm a grenade, I've already blown up once... and it killed..." I trail off as I think of the blast that killed him. "Don't let me kill you as well"

Polly POV

The words are rolling around in my head. The one, Daniel. His words. A grenade. A grenade's words. Except, it's not true. He's not a grenade. I am.

"why, why, why, why, why." I say to myself, my head in my hands, "why did i have to have been put with these people, these lovely kind generous people. And one of whom is dead. Because of me" I start to cry as I finish my outbursts.

 It's not Daniels fault that's he's broken. It's mine and I am going to make myself pay.

Eve POV

I head back to camp, a pile of logs curled up in my arms. I have gotten stronger over the weeks we have been here and now carrying these loads just feels like carrying laundry into the wash. Not that I'll ever get back to that life. No one will. As i get to our makeshift home I hear a soft sound. Crying? I run around to the clearing and the campfire and see Polly, her face in her hands and elbows resting on her knees. She looks broken, a role usually reserved for Daniel in the past couple of weeks. Not that anyones judging. We're all broken in some way just some of us are better at hiding it, or handling it. 

"Hey Polly, whats wrong." I want to say, where's Daniel but as soon as she hears my voice her head shoots up and her eyes are wide and frightened. I can tell she needs me more than Daniel does at the moment so I don't mention him. 

"Did you... how long have you been standing there... did you hear anything" she said looking up at me, her dark green eyes brimming with tears making them seem almost sage green.

Polly POV

I feel sick. What if she knows all of it. That it's all my fault. I was waiting for the right time to tell her but now i think she already knows.

"please Polly, let me help you, you've always been there for me and Daniel now let me be there for you." Eve says to me as she sits down next to me wrapping her arm around my shoulder pulling me close. 

I want to start crying again but I don't deserve to. I'm not the one who got hurt. I move away from her and her arm slides to the ground coming to rest next to her.

"Please Eve, I'm fine, we need to go find Daniel, I hurt him before you came over, I need to fix this. All of it." I say before standing up and walking away.

If she realises the implication of my words she doesn't mention it becuase a few seconds later I feel an arm sliding into my arm and not a moment later we have our arms linked together and i am leading us in the direction that Daniel went.

"Let's go help Daniel." Eve says looking at me with a smile on her face. If she wasn't trying to make it reach her eyes i'd say it is the most genuine smile I've seen in a long time. 

Daniel POV

I am sitting in a tree, a small one but with lots of leaves and branches so if Polly tries to find me then she won't unless I give myself away. I don't want to hide from Polly but I can't talk to her about Brendon without shattering my heart.

Again.

She doesn't understand and probably never will, there is no one out here to love anyway. There is Eve but I know that Polly isn't in to girls so yes.  There is no one for her. At least not that I know of. I wonder what's worse, losing your love or not having one. 

"Daniel. Daniel are you here?" I am pulled out of my reverie when i hear the sound of Pollys voice. 

I peak out from behind the leaves of my hideaway, in front of me stands Polly and Eve. Both girls have fear etched on their faces but i can also see that Polly looks... is that guilt. I mean sure she brought back the memories but i hope that she doesn't feel responsible for them. Stupid feelings are responsible. 

Love. 

At this i climb down from my perch and face them. As soon as she sees me Polly runs to me. And flings her arms around my neck. I am momentarily stunned but relax into the hug. It's nice to be in the embrace of another's. 

"I was so worried that you had been taken" Polly says before breaking out of the hug.

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