Chasing Rose

0. Prologue

"Rose… baby, can you hear me?" His voice was laced with fear and what seemed like, love.

Every word actually. I could hear everything he was saying and yet I couldn’t respond. My body was trembling and I felt as though I would black out on this street, in his arms. Of course they were his arms, it was always his arms.

"I.." nope. I couldn’t. nothing would come out.

"No baby… god… fuck." I could hear the emotion laced in his voice, and for a moment, my heart's feeling took over the rest of my body's.

He always knew the right things to say, if I was sick, or just in need of someone; someone or him? I didn’t want to answer that question. We both knew the answer. Which is how he got me in so deep.

But tonight, right in this moment, he was at a loss for words, and fuck, did it scare me.

I didn’t have the strength to keep my eyes open, so I did what I had the strength to do.

I closed my eyes and thought of him. Everything we had been through, and for a minute, laying in his arms and reminiscing was the only thing keeping me going, from what, I had no idea. I didn’t want to know if these breaths were the last ones I might take, or if the warmth from his body would be the last thing I felt. If I died right here, right now, would I be happier? Would I be somewhere else?  Some place free of everything scary and haunting in this world? God, did I want that.

But I couldn’t let go, not yet at least, I have fight in me, I always have. Daddy had told me every day; "Rose, you are one strong hearted girl, one man will be very happy one day, but baby, make him fight for you god dammit."

My father was now somewhere else, and the question I was asking myself was, would I find that happy place with him tonight, or would I be the girl my daddy knew I was, and fight for him, fight for myself?

As I felt the steady rhythm of his heartbeat against my chest, I knew, that night, I would be fighting my hardest battle yet. 

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