ROGUE🖤 (Cole x OC! Lavellan) ✓ [COMPLETED]

Ch. 26 *I Give My Love To Thee*❣️

NALIA
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I left Cole on the battlement three hours ago. I would've stayed out there all night with him if it wasn't for the fact that tomorrow is the day we face Corypheus.
I was supposed to go to sleep, but I kept tossing and turning, so now I sit up on my bed, pinching my fingers nervously as I think about everything.

We are ready to strike. And yet...I still feel scared. A side of me wants to run, hide in the deepest corners of the world, away for everyone and everything.
Of course, such wishes like that will never come true.
Besides, Corypheus would find me wherever I go.
I have to do this...

We have enough force to take him on, and we have a dragon. But still...it doesn't help with the weight on my chest. It still presses down heavily on my heart.

I glance at the blue flowers in the vase on my nightstand, and I can't help but smile softly.
I remember the day Cole gave them to me. Such shyness and sweetness attached as he tucked one in my ear...

"I'm glad you found me. It will hurt less, now that I have your light."

I stand up, closing the distance between me and the flowers, picking one up to admire it in the moonlight.
I never really thought that I'd find love, let alone find it in the strangest of ways, but I couldn't be happier, I wouldn't want it any other way.

Someone knocks two times, so quietly that if you didn't listen you'd miss it.
But I hear it.
"Come in," I say, laying the flower down. Who could be here at this hour? Hopefully not Sera... the last time she came to see me it ended with awful pranks and raging vents from my advisors. Though I don't deny the fact that the pranks were fun.

The door opens, and in steps Cole.

My heartbeat quickens.

"Cole!" I smile, "what brings you here?"
Strange of him to arrive, knowing we just were together a few hours ago. Is something on his mind?

He shuts the door softly behind him before coming towards me. "I wanted to know how you were feeling," he says sweetly, standing in the middle of the room, hands behind his back and his gaze lowered to the floor.

"Don't tell him your stressed, Nalia. It'll only worry him." I hear the little voice in my head say.
I smile again, though it's kind of forced.
"I'm well," I say. Not a very good lie, knowing he can see right through me.

"You're lying," he says before looking up. "Why do you lie to me?"
I sit on my bed, hands in-between my legs. "I'm sorry," I reply, "I just...don't want to think about it."

He sits beside me. "I can help, if you'd like." He whispers.
I stare at him. "I'm scared that we'll fail. The whole world is depending on us Cole and I...It frightens me."

I bring my hands to my face, breathing in and out heavy breaths. My heartbeat quickens as I begin to feel an anxiety attack come on.
Just breathe, in through the nose, out the mouth...

Cole raises a hand and places it on my back. "It's alright..."

"Is it? Cole I..." I look back at him. "I don't want to lose anymore people. I..." I trail off, my hand squeezing his. "I don't want to lose you," I whisper before letting myself fall into his arms. "I don't know what would happen to me if I lost you."

He smiles softly, running a hand through my hair. "It's okay," he whispers, fingers tracing the bones in my spine.
Shudders run through me, feeling his touch through the thin material of this nightgown that I wear.

I swallow.

"You won't lose me, Nalia," he brings a hand to my cheek, lifting my face so that he can look into my eyes. "I promise."