#23 'Someone I want to protect'
He couldn't take it anymore and she refused to leave him.
"Go! You can make it out alive if you leave me here!" he winced in pain from this wounds.
"Never! I chose to protect you and I will die doing my job!" She replied, firing another round of bullets at the oncoming rebels. She still refused to give up on him, and he finally realized why.
"You love me… that's why you stay, right?" He gasped out.
"Not now colonel… I'm a little busy." she avoided his eyes as she pulled another clip from her belt and reloaded her gun. No one entered the room as she was poised and ready to shoot the next person who came through the door.
"Hawkeye… Riza, answer me. Do you love me?" He asked again, never moving his eyes off her face. Another rebel came in the door and she shot him down; three more came towards the sounds and every time she pulled the trigger and ended the life of one of those men, she answered his question.
"I kill for you." BANG "I would die for you." She said. BANG
"But why?" he said over the noise.
"Because I love you!" BANG BANG She leaned over him to look in his eyes and repeated in a quiet voice as he drifted into eternal darkness. "Because I love you…"