Breaking My Heart
"Because you're breaking my heart"
She'd finally said it. Just the way she'd said 'I love you' now she had told him how he'd broken her heart. Not just now but also all the other times she'd had to watch him screwing other women and never giving her a second glance.
Owen felt that his heart would have shattered if it could. Hearing Tosh's sob made him feel like his own heart was breaking. Taking a deep breath he calmed himself. "I'm sorry" She didn't say anything.
They were both thinking how the man, Owen Harper, who didn't do apologies seemed to be saying sorry a lot now. Since he'd died. Since his life had been cruelly taken away from him. And now it was going to happen again.
But he wasn't ready this time. Last time he'd died on the spot. He hadn't had any idea that he was going to die. But this time he did. And it scared the living hell out of him. So to keep himself calm he spoke to Tosh.
She didn't want to. Didn't want to tell him how he was going to die. What was going to happen next. But he made her. And as usual she succumbed to him. Just like she always did. Watching his body decompose. There was something he'd never thought would happen to him. But he also hadn't thought that he'd be shot and then brought back to life.
He took the time to think and talk to Tosh at the same time. He decided that this was the perfect moment to apologise for everything he'd done and also to thank her for everything she'd done. Tosh started to talk about his second week and how she'd had to cover for him.
That was his Tosh. Always there for him. Helping him. Even after all the shit she'd had to go through because of him. "I'm sorry" he said again. "Me too" she whispered over the comm. He smiled and looked up. At all the flashing lights on the screen that didn't mean anything to him. But then he realised that it was a signal.
The meltdown was about to start.
"It's starting Tosh" he said, feeling that she should be updated on what was happening. What was going to happen. He stood up and faced the screen. Hearing the hitch in her breath as she said his name, he decided to reassure her. "It's alright. Really Tosh. It's alright."
And it was. Because he was finally going to die. And he'd done everything he could. He'd even apologised to Tosh for breaking her heart now and all those other times. And so it was alright.
"Oh God" he whispered. And as the white light surrounded him, Owen Harper stood tall and did not close his eyes but faced death like a soldier. He stood tall and did not crouch like a coward.
And as the white light surrounded him completely and before he was pulled into oblivion, he heard something that would live with him forever. No matter what.
Tosh's soft voice saying, "Owen… Oh Owen…"
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A/N: Another Exit Wounds fic. Even though I had told myself I wouldn't and completely ignore the ending of this episode, the ideas don't seem to want to leave me.
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