29. Sleep
"It's like falling asleep," she murmurs, and he ignores the stinging tears in his eyes and reassures her, "I'm gonna wake you up so soon."
"It's okay… if you don't," he words leave her lips with so much effort, as the last strings of consciousness leave her body. "I will," he vows, unable to hide the trembling fear in his voice.
"I can't see you," she whispers, her heavy, tired eyelids barely open, and he moves closer to her, he sniffs his words and say, "I'm right here, baby." The hand he holds in his hands is freezing cold and when he brings it to his lips, he knows it is only moments before she is gone.
"Keep talking to me," she urges him, the comfort of his voice the only thing keeping her connected to this world, the only link she has, the on thing she can hold onto to make sure she can come back.
His eyes are blurry with tears, and he is glad she doesn't see him anymore because he does not want her to see him like this, broken, scared, and unsure.
He looks at her, his heart shattering into a million pieces and he falls in love with her again. She looks so weak, vulnerable and yet she remains the most beautiful person he has ever seen, the most important thing to him in this world.
He kisses her cold knuckles and presses her hand against his chest. "You're just gonna go to sleep," he says, his voice barely a whisper, "and then you're gonna wake up, we're gona have a life together," his voice trembles, it shakes, but he means every word. "We're gonna have love, and kids, everything… we're gonna have it," he says and he has never said anything like this before, not to anyone, but at this moment it doesn't matter, weighing his words doesn't matter because he means every single thing he says, and the terror behind these words is nothing compared to that of losing her now. "Anything that you want." He will give her the world, she just needs to be strong enough and survive this.
1 more to go! sorry this one is crap but I just couldn't with this prompt, I don't know why :/
