I felt Kyle-Doc-move right before the sun came up, "Mmmph where do'ya think you're goin'?"
"Well, I was gonna surprise you with a picnic at sunrise but you just had to wake up." He flopped back onto the bed. I wriggled underneath him and groaned, "Awe come on, just go back to sleep." I mumbled, "I don't wanna get up, let's just sleep the world away." I rolled over and pulled the covers back over my head. He then promptly yanked them off the bed....along with me. We tumbled into the floor and he landed on top of me, our faces centimeters apart. I could feel his heart beat quicken while mine felt like it had stopped. He looked into my eyes and I stopped breathing, "You look awful," He smirked. "First thing in the morning is not your look." I pushed him off me, gathered up my quilt and jump onto my bed. I tied the quilt around my shoulders and put my fist above my head, "I am captain of the dawn!" I jumped onto him and he fell to the floor, "No one insults the captain of the dawn!!!" I was yelling at the top of my lungs while he couldn't help but laugh at me. I jumped up and started running around the room making swishing sounds. I looked absolutely insane.
He finally caught me and drug me back into bed with him. I was flopping around trying to away so i could run around the entire house before the dawn, "If the sun comes up I'll surely die!" I yelled never breaking character.
"Then so be it, I want you to sleep now. It was a mistake to wake you up." He laughed and pinned me against the bed. I froze wishing he would close the distance between our mouths so I could taste his lips.
"I guess every hero dies eventually." My voice was barely over a whisper, he leaned over me and placed a kiss on my forehead.
"Dream sweetly for me my moon." And with that he rolled off me and untied the quilt from my shoulders. He spread it over us and pulled me back against him. I turned around and kissed his cheek, "Dream sweet enough for the both of us." I buried my face in his neck and fell asleep locked in his arms.
I never felt his shaky breaths or saw his tears.
Kyle's P.O.V.
How can she be so free when she's being dealt such unfair cards? It's bull shit, thats all this is! She never deserved this, nobody deserves this. She's so brave to try and keep everyone else happy while she's dying. I wish I could save her, I would trade anything for her. I've known since the begining that she was going to die, I even tried to leave to save myself from the pain of losing her, I just couldn't leave. She deserves so much more than I can ever give her but I'm too selfish to walk away. I'm not as strong as I pretend to be, I'm too selfish to put her first and thats the greatest weakness I have. I hope she makes it through day 14, then she'll lead a normal life but it's so unheard of for the runt to make it through this that almost nobody remembers it.
I cried while she slept, wishing I could rewrite fates design but knowing she could still defeat her own body.
