Reggie's Return

Delsin's P.O.V

'Reggie's been dead a week' I think to myself as I sit down on a bench after a long day of healing the injured Akomish. It's so weird to think I'm never going to see him ever again. We held his funeral the day after I got back and I completely refused for it to be formal. I knew Reg always hated formal funerals; he said you should celebrate someone not remind everyone they're dead. So instead of 'his life story' and hymns and black attire we had happy memories and up-beat music and colourful clothes and flowers. Luckily it was sunny that day and everything was cheerful, for a funeral. I shared the story on how Reggie saved me. Everyone had listened with interest.

I may have given Reg the funeral he would've wanted but that doesn't change he fact that he's dead. My brother isn't coming back. My eyes well with tears and I lean forwards, my head in my hands.

"Still missing him?" I look up to find Nick, a complete jerk that once tried to drown me when we were five.

"Could you just leave me alone?" I ask, standing to go.

"Aww, not going soft on me are you?" He says obnoxiously. I stop in my tracks. "You used to love fights,but it's no wonder you're becoming a coward , you're just like your brother, he was a coward too." I clench my fists warningly, but Nick never knows when to stop.

"The Cowardly Rowe Bros,eh?, one so weak he couldn't keep hold of his brother as they hung over a deadly drop, the other so stupid he was murdered by someone a hundred feet away!" I turn slowly "What kind of name is Reggie anyway?" Nick continues foolishly as my blood boils "I for one can't understand how he made sheriff," I pounce, knocking him to the floor. My hands clutching his neck in anger.

"Looks like there's no one here to stop me doing this!" I say an evil tilt in my voice.

"Don't be ridiculous, your brother always stops you from-" he stops mid-sentence realisation hitting him. I look angrily at him and I pull back my fist ready to give him the pounding of a life time, when I realise that Reg hated it when I fought people. I can imagine him now telling me how stupid violence is.

" Reggie wouldn't want this," I mutter to myself. I look again at Nick then at my raised fist and I stand up slowly pulling him up and shoving him back down to the ground in warning.

I don't say or do anything else before wandereing aimlessly away.