𝑆 𝑇 𝑈 𝐶 𝐾

𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯

"I KNEW I'D FIND YOU HERE." Robby announces, sitting down on the warm sand next to Silas, their eyes settling on the beautiful sunrise ahead of them. the sun peeked over the horizon. "Everyone's been searching for you. Tory told us you just left after you dropped her off at home."

The sky had now become pink, with the light of the sun coloring the clouds above with a pinkish hue. As the sun slowly ascended, the pink slowly became a pale yellow mixed with blue. It truly was an adoring sight. It made Silas forget about all his worries.

"Everyone can stop worrying. I'm not going to run away again." Silas lifts his knees up to his chest.

"That's not what they're worried about—."

"You don't have to lie, Robby." Silas huffs. "It's what you're all worried about. You think I'm going to go off the edge again. I'm not. I've been driving around town and then I found myself here. I needed to clear my mind."

"Have you slept?" Robby asks, trying to look Silas over, but he hides his face in his knees.

"What does it matter?"

"You need to sleep, Si. You need to actually rest." Robby turns his body towards his boyfriend. "We can talk about everything that happened later—."

"I want to talk about it now." Silas's chin is placed on his knees. "Rest can wait."

"Si—."

"Do you know how embarrassing it was for me to stand there as you questioned me and stared at me with such an extreme amount of disappointment in your eyes?" Silas ponders. "I never thought you'd look at me that way. You promised me you would never look at me that way."

"I know and I apologize—."

"I don't want an apology. I'm so tired of hearing apologies." Silas cuts him off, growing frustrated. "Robby, an apology without change is meaningless. I've been trying to better myself and help you. I know I did some horrible things. I know I should've never ran off the way I did. I know your trust in me has dimmed, but if you're not able to look at me the same way, just tell me that."

"Silas, I'm just scared." Robby admits, fighting back tears. "No, I'm terrified. Seeing you collapse on that floor, haunts me. Seeing you unconscious and hooked up to all to those wires, completely haunts me. The images replay in my head every chance it gets and I can't shake off the thought that you could've died there on that mat. You-You could've died and there was absolutely nothing I could do. I literally watched the life leave your eyes as they fluttered closed. It's imprinted into my head. That's not something that goes away and I kept it to myself because I know how much it would've affected you to hear. I didn't want you to carry that weight. But here we are."

Robby chokes on his own sob and the sound alone shattered Silas's heart. He caused this. How could he not see how bad his boyfriend was truly hurting?

"T-The pain I felt is so indescribable. I-I thought I would never see you again, Silas. Do you know even know what that's like? I wanted to protect you from any more pain and it was only hurting me more." Robby trembles. "I tried so hard, but I can't do it anymore. I can't keep acting like I'm okay. We're both hurting, Silas. And when I heard you were with Kreese again. I panicked. I was disappointed that you didn't tell me, that's it. I didn't want you to get tied back into Cobra Kai. I don't want you getting hurt again."

Tears ran down both their cheeks as they turned to each other. Robby takes Silas's face in his hands, wiping away his tears ever so gently. "I don't want to lose you. I don't want to come close. Never again. You're all I have, Si. You're it for me. You own every piece of me and that's never going to change. We cannot give up on us. We have been through too much to give up now. I want to be with you until the end of time, you hear me?"