Coffee Break

Rest, Easy, My love

TW; mentions of blood, death, blood and pain

Eric pulls my hand as we run breathless through the forest, laughing as we dodge the low branches of the old trees, it's not until it's too late when we hear the cracks of the dead leaves and twigs just a couple of meters behind us, I hear Eric's breathing hitch in his throat like he has seen something I have yet to. But no matter how hard I try- I cannot see anything dangerous- "Noah!" Eric screams at me, pushing me back into reality and then I finally see the thing Eric is so scared about. It's tall, so fucking tall, it carries itself at around 9 feet tall, a dark green coat that blends so well into the nature around us. So easy to hide in. "Noah we have to run!" Eric states, clutching my hand harder as he pulls me backwards and my legs begin to understand the need to run too.

So that's what we do, we sprint over the deceased leaves and sticks, below branches and above weeds that have overgrown the woods, but we don't get far when we are caught off guard by a ditch in the surface. Eric just about has time to push me away from it before falling in it himself, screaming in pain as he stops rolling and I can finally understand why he's in agony. When he rolled down the ditch he had went over a fox trap and got caught in the crossfire, attacking his ribs violently carving into him. "Eric! Eric can you hear me?" I cry out to him and hear him mumble, "Love, I'm wounded not deaf" I nod but realise he cannot see me and voice out to him, "Ric we need to get out of here" and I go to sit on the bank of the ditch but Eric calls out to me: "Noah, you need to run, you need to get out of here" but I decide to ignore him and slide down the ditch on my ass, taking out the pocket knife that was hidden.

"Love, please" I roll my eyes at Erics heroine act, "Eric no offense but you're not my dom, you cannot tell me what to do, so shut the fuck up and let me try and help" I see him twitch in pain and I give him the only type of painkiller I can, he takes it from my grasp with a slow movement, but gives me time to tug the fox trap out of his side. He leans forward in sudden agony, eyes wide and face scrunched in torment, "Holy fuck" he screams, I put my hoodie immediately onto his wound making him stop breathing out of the amount of discomfort he's fell into. "Hold this tight to your side, I need to get something out of my bag" I tell Eric and he nods in relief that the trap is out of his body. But he's not safe nor is he out of the woods yet, "'oh Noah, we won't need the first aid kit! We are only going on a small trek through the woods!' Ha don't doubt me next time stupid" I make him slightly laugh at my impersonation of him, but Eric is pale and losing a lot of blood which means he's also losing strength to stop the bleeding.

I kneel next to his impailed side and take out the cleansing alcohol, the bandages and the whiskey we also brought along that we were going to have before we got rudely interrupted. "Drink this" I tell him, and he complies, that's when I pour the cleansing alcohol onto his wound. He screams out in agony, and a lot of rude words, I manage to clean the blood away and wrap the bandage around his wound: enough for him to get up and use me as a walking stick to get back to safety before that thing comes back and kills us. It takes Eric and I approximately ten minutes to get up and start walking, and that's when we encounter the tall creature again- but this time it gestures to behind him- a path presumably to a road.

I turn to look at Eric, who has gone much paler and weak, and give him 'the look' he tries to shrug but hurts himself more and grunts, so I make the rational decision to walk the path with Eric still at my side, exhausted and barely conscious. "Love? You need to stay awake for me, okay? We are nearly at a road, stay with me Ric" he slowly nods and opens his eyes a slight bit, which is enough to give me hope. With Eric leaning all his weight on my shoulder it slows me down, but I know I have to keep going, otherwise we will both encounter death.

I'm not sure how long we have left till we reach the road but I hear Eric take a long ragged breath and then the arm on my shoulder lags and his legs collapse beneath him: I manage to hold his weight and lay him down slowly onto the dead leaves and grass. I beg myself not to cry in front of Eric, but the tears fall without permission, down my face and onto Erics bruised cheek, Ric opens his eyes again but only to close them again when he mumbles, "N-Noah i-i love you and I-I always will" he musters up the strength to caress my cheek one last time before I kiss him knowing that it will be the last one I ever get from my boyfriend. "I love you too, my love" I rest my head on his forehead before i hear him take one last short breath, his hand that was on my cheek falls effortlessly to the ground, numb. My tears begin to endlessly flow down my face, I wasn't fast enough to get him the help he needed, but instead of worrying about everything else I hug Eric one last time.