War Over You (TomTord)

Chapter 19

Guys please bare with me there is a lot of switching POVs

(Tom POV). 

I closed my eyes, waiting for the fatal blow from the dagger.  To my utter surprise, all I felt was something ram into me.  I opened my eyes and took in my surroundings, trying to figure out what happened.  Tord had jumped infront of me at the last second and blocked the knife.

His entire body relaxed and he fell to his knees before fully falling flat onto the ground.

"TORD!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.  I was able to get my arms free.  I dropped down to him and grabbed his shoulder, flipping him over.  His eyes were wide and watery.  His head lolled  to the side helplessly.  "Tord, speak to me!!"  He blinked and his eyes flicked back and forth wildly. He slowly managed to turn his head and face me.

"T-Tom,". He stuttered.

"Yea it's me."

"I-I don't want to die..."

"You won't, I won't let you.  I got you."  Tears rolled down his cheeks, and I gathered him in my arms, pulling him in tight. I started to sob.  "I won't let you die."

(Tord POV)

Tears fell onto my jacket.  His lip quivered.  "I won't let you die."  He said before breaking out in tears.  I stiffly turned my head and looked at the ground next to me. There lay the bloody dagger. I saw someone getting closer. They reached down and picked up the knife. I'm sorry I could not protect you Tom. The sleeve was blue and red. Paul. Paul threw the knife across the receding crowd. This was followed by more shouting. Paul looked down at me the looked back around and yelled something. Pat came rushing over.

I felt a hand under my back and head. I looked, it was Tom, he propped me up on his knee.

A cold rain started to fall. A cough ripped through my body. I shuttered as I saw I had coughed up blood.

(Tom POV)

He started coughing up blood, his breathing became heavy. He clenched his jaw and squeezed his eyes shut. I took off my shirt and looked at the wound. I wrapped the shirt around my fingers and shoved the fabric into the cut.

"Aaah." He cried out in pain.

"I need to stop the bleeding, I'm sorry I'm hurting you." I retracted my hand and looked at his face. He slowly opened his eyes and met my gaze.

(Tord POV)

I looked at him. With all my remaining strength, I lifted my arm to his face and then the upper half of my body. His arms wrapped around my back. I closed my eyes as our lips met. I could  feel myself slowly blacking out. But just in case it was something more permanent than just fainting I had to have this moment with him. The kiss was long. I enjoyed every second of it. My body was going limp. My arm slowly slid down and rested on his chest. We slowly pulled away, I was smiling.

He lowered me to the ground.

"T-T-Tom, Jeg elsker de-" My vision blurred and the world around me rapidly faded till it was nothing more than darkness.

(Tom POV)

His face softened as his body went limp.  The rain started to wash away the blood that had begun to pool.  Tears rolled down my cheeks.  He looked too peaceful to be sleeping.  In my heart I knew he was gone, but I just didn't want to believe it.  I held him closer to my chest not wanting to take my eyes off him, just in case I would miss something. 

I looked past Paul and Pat, Edd was helping Matt to walk, they froze at the scene splayed out in front of them.  Silence fell over us. 

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked up to see who it was, it was Pat.  His eyes were red from crying.  Paul knelt down across from me and put two fingers up to Tord's neck.

We waited as Paul checked his pulse.  He slowly looked up with pure sorrow in his eyes.

He shook his head confirming my nightmare. 

Tord was dead...