I Heard You
A/N: SPOILERS FOR SERIES 5 FINALE! Okay, now we got that over with… I'm pretty sure I'm going to be uploading the whole of this fic today. But we're starting with one chapter. Btw, I'm just gonna tell you now, that Matt ain't gonna die in this, I don't think I could handle that. So here ya go…
Disclaimer: I don't own LOUK, blah blah blah. If I did, then Jamie Bamber wouldn't have ended up on the floor with a fucking bullet through his chest!
"Matt!" Alesha called out his name, but it was lost in all the noise of the moment. She could already see people frantically making 999 calls, so she ran to him, kneeling on the ground opposite Ronnie. The tears were already falling, and the pain washed through her like a poisonous venom.
She looked straight at Ron, and she could see the horror on her own face reflected in his. Her eyes were drawn back to Matt, and she surveyed his injuries. The two shots to his chest were already releasing blood at an alarming rate, and the red running from his mouth gave him a look of helplessness that she'd never see in him. Until now.
Alesha thought back to the first aid training she'd briefly received as a kid, and the countless times she'd seen this sort of thing on TV, and finally, did something that might actually help. Ronnie was still looking at her, "Pressure Ron. Put pressure on the wounds." The older detective pressed his hands to the furthest bullet wound, and she did the same on the other.
Matt was past the point of pain. All he could feel was a numb tingling, and the overwhelming force pulling him towards the darkness. His eyes shut for only a couple of seconds before her voice pulled him back. He stared at her, clinging onto the sound with all he had.
She made unwavering eye contact with him, determined not to let him go, not without a fight. "Matt Devlin! Don't you dare fucking die." He tried to smile, but nothing surfaced, and his eyes drifted shut again.
The tears on her face were now falling freely onto the jacket that covered him, and she looked down at her hands for a moment. "Matt!" She called his name again, and his eyes shot open for only a second – just long enough for Alesha to communicate what she had been aching to say for months, maybe even years. "Matt, I love you." Ronnie's eyes snapped up at the startling admission, and then they slowly moved away as he realised; he had known it all along. They'd been in love with each other since day one, and the only ones not to have seen it, were the hopeless pair themselves. And with that last sentence, Matt's eyes fell shut, and the sirens emerged in the distance.
She wished he hadn't done it, she wished he'd let the kid take the bullet. That was what she told herself, but Alesha knew that it wasn't true. Matt wouldn't have been Matt if he'd put his life above Kaden's, she just hoped it wouldn't cost him his life.
A/N: Pleeeeaassse let me know what you think : )