Strength and Protection—

Prompt:Car Alarm (submitted by Mintygreen) Thanks!

I cut the engine, and as the car settled in the driveway the silence became unbearable.

"Kat..." I sighed, glancing over at the passenger seat. She didn't even look at me, she just let herself out of the car—slamming it behind her.

"Kat!" I yelled, opening my own door, and hurrying around the expensive vehicle. I grabbed her shoulders before she could storm into the garage that was filled with forgotten and broken cars.

"Hey," I whispered, stopping her and forcing her to meet my eyes. Her expression was resolute and defiant.

"Hey," I repeated softer this time while cupping her angular face in my palm—looking deeply into her ocean eyes. "It's going to be okay."

Her deep blue eyes narrowed at me, "Hale you can't just fix this, okay? You can't fix any of this!"

I smoothed back a stray lock of her ebony hair. "I know," I murmured rubbing the pad of my thumb across her pale cheeks. Her eyebrows furrowed and for a split second I thought I saw her bottom lip tremble. But she just turned away from me breathed in deeply—shrugging her shoulders back and putting her armor back on.

"Hale I—"

I cut her off with a tender kiss that made my toes curl. In fact, I was so unfocused that I didn't realize I was backing up until my legs hit the car and the car alarm went off.

I jumped away from both the car and Kat in surprise. Quickly, I fumbled with my car keys, and turned off the offending noise, but when I looked back at Kat, she wore a small smile. Faint enough to spot underneath her mask of security.

And so I smiled, put my arm around her, and led her inside the garage full of injured and dented cars.

The cars were a little rough around the edges, but they were working just fine. They were strong, and they were functioning.

They had character.

A/N: A little vague, sort of like my gambling hearts chapter, but I'm sure you got the theme of this :) I hope you enjoyed this because I really do think that Kat and Hale have a certain strength within them. Anyways, so I hoped you liked this chapter and I'm sorry about skipping last week, but I had to celebrate my birthday (even though my birthday was actually on Saturday...) so I hope that's a good enough excuse XD
Until next time!
Pickles

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