Chapter 7: Silent
Graves walks silently beside Caitlyn, she looks at him all the time and notices that he was lost in his mind. She has just followed his lead without knowing where are they going. Then a tear rolls in his face, she blinks. All suddenly, Graves falls to his knee and starts crying. Cait freaks out "What happened to him"? She sit down and let his head rest on her shoulder, whispers:
_ Everything will be alright, Graves, everything will be alright...
Under the light of the moon and of the lamp post, an officer, helps an outlaw. No one pass by, not even a sound except from them, crying and whispering. Graves rests in her shoulder silently, Cait then ask him:
_ What's wrong?
_ Your hands, they remind me about the last night before my captive.
_ You want to share the story?
He nods and starts to tell her about Elena. In the end, he stand up and so does she. He wipes his tears out and say:
_ I'm sorry for these meshes. Thank you for listening and also I want you to know that I feel bad about the prank early on.
She looks in his eyes, they are not the tough ones like she saw in the match but these of a soft heart man, full of emotion. Her voice is trembled a little bit: "You are welcome, and ah, where are we?". He looks around, they are near the forest outside the League: "Oh my God, we are in the other side of the living quarter". "You mean the jungle?". He nodded and looked at Caitlyn, her face shows her tiredness and she seems preparing to fall. Graves catches her in time, he smiles: "Too weak to stand on your own"? She laughs: "Well, well, well we have our notorious outlaw back , aren't we. Be a gentleman you know"? He raises his eyes bow and laughs, with Cait in his hands, he sings an old song, the song Gangplank or Fortune sometimes sing in the League, 1 of the traditional songs of Saltwater. Caitlyn smiles and think: "He is special, unlike any criminal I have met, not threatening but courage, not mad but humorous, even tough and dangerous but he has soft heart and more, what a gentleman he is". Then he sing an song from Pitlover, the old western song and somehow, Caitlyn know this one. She sing with him, their voices echo through the living quarter, some yelled out "Shut up", some opened their door to see who are they. Then he places her down in front of her room: "You remind me about Alistar". She stares at him: "What? what do you mean". He walked away: "Good night Sherriff and ah, your weight". "You!" This time, she just smiles and shakes her head lightly. "Good night to you too, my criminal".
Caitlyn changes her clothes and sit near the window, watching the moon. She hadn't fell like this before. An outlaw, one of the kind she has hunted for long time, but Graves, she changes her opinion, he is special, and what kind of this emotion was, he has just left for minutes and she starts to miss him and wants to have some speech to him. She sighs and looks out the window, an old story returns in her mind
