I will die for you
The moment when she turned the tattered prince around to take a hold of the life to force it to stay in him, she realized. She looked the crimson and ripped flesh where streaks of blood were pulping from. The idiot would die for her.
Burning white lightning was meant to her – the girl who had loathed the prince and his people. The one who had been cold and angry towards this man. And all the same seeing him crawling closer to her, trying to make her see who he really was. Maybe because he came to her with so much effort and force, he could not stop when she had already given him the permission to stand next to her. No – he came all the way inside her heart.
Behind the tears she felt her success of saving his life and understood that next time… she might fail. And the fear of that made her release the gathered tears. What made the fear so great was the fact that she knew there would be the next time, because he would always be ready to die for her. Then he breathed and softened his gaze when it came to lay on her.
He looked at her deeply with the amber eyes, silently begging her to hear the three words behind his actions. And she heard them. And it was only because she understood the weight behind the unsaid words she made the decision to die for him also. She locked her honest reply deep within her and would never reveal she felt the same. Because she would have to let her heart die within this moment, to keep him from dying for her in the future.
This time she would protect him, even if it caused her own life. And the only way to protect him, was to stop him from protecting her. So she closed her heart, letting it turn cold and silent, ignoring the pain for it surely was no worse than strike from the electric bolting. So that he wouldn´t die for her, she had to die for him first.