Ch. 22 Betrayal

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(A/n: Phew okay, I am finally done, this chapter took me a while down and is a total of 5005 words I was going to split this into two parts but I thought it would disrupt the pacing of the chapter, none the less I think this is one of my best works yet.  I really really hope you love it as much as I do. Please let me know what you thought in the comments I always enjoy reading them.  Goodnight.)

Stormpass INN

6:00 AM

3rd Pov

The snowstorm has passed and a lot of the snow has melted and Cayde sat outside his room drinking his coffee watching the icicles hanging from the second-floor walkway melt away one drip at a time.  Soon Raven opened the motel door and joined him with her own cup of coffee.

Raven: Hey.

Cayde: Hello, is Mora still asleep?

She nods and takes a sip of her coffee and sits down next to him.

Raven: This coffee is terrible. *Sip*

Cayde: Yep. *Sip*

Raven: Couldn't sleep?

Cayde: Nope.

Raven: Bad dreams?

Cayde: Yep.

Raven: Me too.

They sit in silence for a bit.

Cayde: *Siiiiiip* Well this seems like a good time as any to talk.

Raven: *Siiiiiiip* Yep.

Cayde: I will just say it, I am sorry, I'm sorry I became distant after Wakefield.  I became jaded and was resentful towards Oz and his mission, and I took out my anger in my work, and I was at my worst in the following months I did things that...I am not proud of, and I didn't want you to see me like that I was afraid you would no longer see me as the man you fell in love with.

Raven: Oh, Cayde I never...I wish you would have told me sooner...I would have been with you the whole time.

Cayde: I actually did come to see you, on that day.

Raven: *Guilty* I'm sorry.

The Final Flashback

Year 4 Day 98

Team STRQ Dorm room.

Only Raven and Summer are the only occupants at the moment.

Raven is at her desk vigorously studying for the final in a few weeks.  Summer was at her desk to her immediate right and could tell something was off.

Summer: Raven.

Raven: What?

Summer: Please talk to me.

Raven: There is nothing to talk about, we already talked about the deaths of Ann, and Nick, and Yuri moving back to mistral and Cayde getting expelled.

Summer: We haven't talked about your thought about it especially Cayde you won't even talk about him.

Raven: Well he doesn't want to talk to me, so I don't want to talk about him.

Summer: Raven, he lost two of his friends he needs time to heal.

Raven puts her book down and looks at her friend.

Raven: I get that but it has been months, shouldn't he be healed.

Summer: I don't think you understand the kind of pain that comes with losing a loved one. He also tragically lost both of his parents two years ago and that's a wound that never truly heals, believe me I know.

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