Prompt: #01 - Beginnings
Word Count: 150
Rating: PG
Author's Note: The final chapter of this mini-drabble. Enjoy!
"You could stay."
He stops abruptly in his tracks, surprised. They stay this way, frozen, for a while—was it a few seconds, or was it a few hours? He can't tell.
"You could stay," she says more obstinately.
"I can't," he tells her. His voice sounds dead to his own ears. "I have to go. I have to."
He briefly wonders which one of them he's trying to convince, but quickly banishes the thought.
"But you could stay," she insists, staring up into his eyes.
He wants to look away, but there is something intimidatingly passionate in those azure eyes, something that begs him to acquiesce.
Stay, her eyes are urging him. Don't leave. Stay!
Dropping his gaze to the ground, he mumbles in a low voice.
"I... I guess I could stay, for a little while."
She grins and tackles him in the biggest hug he's ever received.
END.