Chapter Fourteen- Mending the Broken
Greay looked at Elsa in shock and confusion. She had just… kissed him?! His mind was reeling, unable to comprehend what was going on. Elsa looked at him with a smile.
"Even if no one else does, I love you," She stated with an unbreakable firmness.
Greay bit his lip, trying to wake himself from the dream. But a dream it was not, it was an unbelievable reality where he was indeed loved. He reached out and pulled Elsa toward him, embracing her as tears of unimaginable relief and joy poured down his face. Every wound in his heart had been closed, every scream in his soul silenced. There was only relief. Now, he didn't have to worry, he didn't have to hide. The whole world may come against him, but now he had a reason to stand up and fight back. Now he had someone to live for, to die for.
"I… love you, too." The words he had always hoped to have the chance to say, now uttered in the perfect moment, a moment which was seemingly eternal, and yet at the same time, agonizingly short, broke y a servant knocking at the door to tell Elsa that the invading fleet had just received reinforcements that where surrounding the city and nearby mainland. Elsa left, leaving Greay to himself, where blissful rest overtook him.