American Assassin | Completed

Chapter 12: Will You Stay?

•Mitch's P.O.V.

After a damn long training I was about to head out in the middle of the night, just to clear my mind, and breathe some fresh air.

"Mitch, where are you going?" I heard a familiar voice behind me.

Yn.

"Just a walk. Wanna join me?" I asked her and she nodded.

We were silent for about half an hour, then she suddenly decided to break that silence.

"We haven't forgotten them, have we?" "What do you mean?" "This is all for them, we haven't lost that purpose..." "No, we haven't, Yn." I figured we haven't talked about our loved ones for a long time.

"I think about him every day... Them actually...Even if I didn't know her, I knew she was special the first I saw her when I bumped into you... I almost ruined your phone." She smiled a little when she remembered that. "Well, it doesn't matter anymore, those sons of bitches ruined it anyways." I remembered that I was filming that proposal.

"Mitch, I have something for you. I wanted to give you that earlier, but it was too damn hard.... After I bumped into you, I told Jared that you two make a sweet couple, so I filmed you, and my phone survived that day, so..." She handed me her phone after she pressed the 'play' button.

Time really passes by. I was so happy that day. I realized that as I was watching the video Yn had filmed, my proposal.

"Yn... I don't know what to say..."

"How about nothing?"

I was speechless.

"I know this will be a very poor gift from me, but that day... My proposal speech would have been a disaster if you hadn't run into me. You took away that nervousness I had... And Jared, we were talking after I proposed. He was the first one to congratulate me. He gave me some advices, too... I will never forget that." I finally said.

"Mitch... Now I don't know what to say..."

"Yn-" She interrupted me by hugging me.

I really needed that.

•Your P.O.V.

My arms wrapped around his neck, and his arms covering the whole territory of my back.

His face was in my hair as I grabbed his.

That feeling... His breath running through my hair. I never wanted to let go of him, and I guess, he didn't want to let go, too.

I backed my head a little, and he slightly directed his eyes at mine.

We paused for a moment, but then reality kicked in. That can't happen. Mitch and I. That just can't happen.

Jared and Katrina, it's not fair towards them.

I coughed and backed away further. "Uh... Let's get back, shall we? I think it'll rain." I finally said. "Yeah, yeah..." Few moments later, and the rain started wetting everything around us, including us.

Maybe I wanted to kiss him, oh, hell I wanted to do that so bad, but what's the point? We have been so damaged and I don't think we are capable of loving anyone else ever again. It's sad, I know. It's true.

Those walls we have built up, they won't be crashing for a while, and we are both aware of that... And one more problem. Vulnerability. Even know we are each other's soft spots, what would happen if we got even more emotionally involved?

"What's on your mind?" Mitch figured out I was thinking about something. "Nothing. I'm just a little bit tired."

"You know...this will all be over one day, and we will find our happy place... Away from all this crap." "I find it hard to believe in that, Mitch..." "Why, Yn?" He stopped.

"This will follow us till the end. Haunt us. Maybe this training will end, and our mission, but what then? We lost them... What else do we have?" I was getting hopeless.

"We have each other." He said. "You really think I believe you'll stay with me after all this? I'm not stupid, Mitch. After this we will go our separate ways. I know it. Why would you stay? I only remind you of that day."

"Why won't you believe I'll stay? Yes, maybe you remind me of that day. But you also remind me that I stayed alive every day after that, because of you. And yes, I'll stay with you because you are the only one who keeps me from loosing hope. I've lost so much and I'm not planning on loosing you. Say you believe me..." Those words... My eyes filled with tears.

I didn't want him to see me like that, so I kept walking while he stood there.

"Oh, fuck it! Fuck everything!" He said as he rushed towards me. I turned around and the next second filled with everything I haven't felt in a long time. He gave me a passionate kiss I've needed for so long. His lips were so soft and also strong, his moves were truly calming.

While we had that moment, his hands held my head and he didn't plan on letting go.