Birds of a Feather

A Rough Night

Ida POV

I was sitting in Moxxies at Sanctuary drinking like usual. But tonight had a reason, my boyfriend Ryder dumped me. He was in a fit of rage and I was trying to talk to him and he punched me in the face and said we were over. Moxxi had to send me home but I lived with Ryder so I had nowhere to go. I wondered if I should crash at Scooters place when someone tapped my shoulder.
" Need a place to stay, chica," I turned around to find Mordecai smiling.
" Yea I do," he grabbed my hand and started to walk to the fast travel station, we were going to tundra express. He had a camp there that he was at, he was only in Sanctuary for some more rakk ale. We made it to his camp on top of Tiny Tinas workshop, he pulled me to the chair and sat me down.
" What happened amigo, you look down," he sat on the other side of the fire.
" Ryder broke up with me and Moxxi cut me off when I was drinking my pain away, literally," he had a good look at my face and I knew he saw how purple around my eye was. He got up and went over to a bin in the corner full of water and dunked a rag in it, soon he dapped it around my eye. I kept my eyes looking at his goggles, we are close but he never took them off around me.
" Do you ever take those goggles off?" He stopped and looked at me, Bloodwing in the corner flapped her wings.
" Not in along time," he put the rag back in the bin and gave me some ale.
" Can I see your eyes?" He took my hand and sat us in the middle of the camp so there would be no light. He started to remove his goggles and I could see him shaking, I grabbed on to his right arm trying to calm him down, it worked. He placed his goggles on the ground and looked at me, his eyes were black with white glazed over them.
" I wear the goggles because I am colorblind and when you can't see the world's true colors why be able to see in the first place,"
I was taken back by his sadness, I hung on to every word he said. I looked him in the eyes while he looked at the stars. I grabbed his hand on my right and held it while I picked up his goggles with my left. I placed them in his right and closed his fingers.
" Life is too short to live the way other people do, live how you were made, colorblind or not, you still mean the world to me," he smiled and pulled me into a bone breaking hug, Bloodwing let out a cry in the corner.
" You too blood," Mordecai laughed and I yawned. He let me sleep while he took watch, without his goggles and for the first time he was letting himself be free. I had no nightmares that night but dreams.