War Over You (TomTord)

Chapter 6

"Why are you here?!" Tord stormed over to the two soldiers.

"Sir, you have to come back." The soldier with shoulder length hair said.

"Sir, the army needs you." Said the other soldier.

Tord took a step back. "I'm sorry, I can't... I'm not your leader anymore... I quit."

"Sir, please. Your men are under attack!!"

"Pat, I can't... I've hurt my friends and now I am here to make it up to them. I can't just leave again." Tord looked at the ground. "They still don't trust me."

The soldiers conferred with each other,  "Paul... he needs to come back...", "I know, otherwise we're gonna lose our men." Tord looked back at me.

"Guys..." he ran forward and buried his head into my chest. His little warm body felt comforting.

"I'm not leaving!!" He shouted. "The truth is I have a life now!! I refuse to go." Tord's shook as he cried. I hugged him tight. He pushed away slightly and looked up at me. I met his gaze. Edd stood there looking at us in total shock and confusion.  Edd walked over to the door and made himself look big trying to cover up the scene that unfolded behind him.

"You best go."  He said to the soldiers.  Although he was the shortest of all of us, he still acted like the parent.  Edd closed the door on the men. 

"Thank you Edd." Tord said with his thick accent. 

He pulled out of the embrace and wiped his puffy eyes on his shirt before hugging the boy in the green.

"Edd do you mind if Tord and I have a minute?" I said with sincerity.  Edd shrugged and left my apartment.  I slowly walk up to Tord put my hand on his shoulder.

"Who were those men?"  His silver eyes got big and watery as he looked at me. 

"They were rehabilitating me for service.  They are just worried about me, kinda like parents.  They just want me to continue leading them."  He looked away.  "I'm sick of the Red Army.  I don't want to help them."

I made Tord face me. "Those are your men out there.  They have fought along side you, for what they believe.  They protected you and now you are ditching them?"  He finally met my gaze, I told him "You have to go back to them." 

"I DONT WANT TO, because it means I will have to leave you, Matt and Edd."

"Then I'll come with you."  His eyes grew with concern.

"I can't let you risk your life."

"You cant risk your homeland!!" He broke down sobbing in my arms.

"I don't want to leave.  What we fight for is pointless, but I fought to see you again.  You remember the giant robot?  We needed it to help in the war and I was joking when I said all of that taking-over-the-world-crap." He whimpered as he buried his face in my shirt. "I never meant to hurt you." I slowly walked him over to the couch so we could sit down. We sat there for what felt like hours. He  continued crying for a while, so I stayed and comforted him.

"Wanna watch a movie?" He said out of the blue.

"Why not." No one moved, he was still wiping tears from his cheek. Finally, after 10 minutes, we broke apart and prepared for the movie.

~TIME SKIP~ (TORD POV)

Tom and I sat on the couch together. We ended up watching the movie Return Of The Insane Zombie Pirates From Hell 6.