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Dawn was breaking.
Reyna's breath came in quick intervals, frantic, rushed. Uneven due to her running pace or the fear that clutched tightly at her heart, she didn't quite know. All she knew was that she had to keep going. She had been running for what seemed like hours. In reality, she wasn't sure how long had passed since she left the blazing camp behind.
Bellamy and Finn had been separated from her along the way, but she didn't care. They had pulled her away before she could find Darius, and now it was too late. Tears had flowed down her cheeks for so long it felt like she could cry no more. She didn't know when she stopped, just that the streaks dried on her blood-coated cheeks.
The wounds she'd received in the fight the night before started aching, burning, stinging. She hadn't even realized how many cuts she'd gotten until the battle was over.
At last, she found herself in front of Darius' cave. She knew it'd be empty, but she had nowhere else to go. And though she didn't know she'd end up there, the path had led her right to the entrance. She wasn't thinking as she entered, her brain felt like it had stopped working. So much had been taken from her in just a single night: Darius, Octavia, her home.
Nothing mattered anymore. At least not for now.
"Reyna?"
Reyna froze in her steps.
Her body was left statue-still in shock. How was it possible? Her mind was suddenly reeling and it wasn't until Darius stepped into view that she crumbled. She looked at him, tears falling down yet again as she took him in. He was there. He was alive. She could do nothing else but stay there in her stop, quiet sobs leaving her lips.
In seconds his arms were around her and she was clutching at his shirt, soaking it with her tears as she held onto him. His hands caressed her back, up and down and up again while her body shook in his arms.
Reyna's grip on his shirt didn't falter. She felt if she let go for just a moment, he'd disappear again. She couldn't let him go.
Everything else faded away, and she only knew that Darius was alive and well. Now, it was the only thing that mattered.
His hand stroked Reyna's hair and her hammering heart started gradually slowing down its frantic beats.
"I thought you died." She sobbed out, "I thought I lost you."
Darius cupped her face and forced her to meet his eyes, "I'm here, see?" He said, "I'm okay." Slowly, he dipped his head so he could catch her lips in a kiss.
