He feels like all the air's been knocked out of his lungs, when he sees her crumple to the floor of the stage, and maybe the panic's what does it for him. Maybe it's what starts a steady trickle of--of something in his head, he isn't sure. Or maybe it started earlier, when he saw her on the stage.
Either way, there's a dam in his head that has just cracked.
They'll tell him to complete it, he knows. They'll tell him to finish the job, and that he's never been known to half-ass one, that he shouldn't start now or else. They'll tell him to go to the hospital, make sure she goes quietly.
But what they'll tell him is different from what he'll do, when he gets there.]
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(I'm not losing you.)
He feels like all the air's been knocked out of his lungs, when he sees her crumple to the floor of the stage, and maybe the panic's what does it for him. Maybe it's what starts a steady trickle of--of something in his head, he isn't sure. Or maybe it started earlier, when he saw her on the stage.
Either way, there's a dam in his head that has just cracked.
They'll tell him to complete it, he knows. They'll tell him to finish the job, and that he's never been known to half-ass one, that he shouldn't start now or else. They'll tell him to go to the hospital, make sure she goes quietly.
But what they'll tell him is different from what he'll do, when he gets there.]