Part 5 of 5
The Chase
Heart pounding, blood racing… he realizes that he will actually catch her!
Heart racing, blood pounding… she realizes that he is finally caught!
They stop running at the same moment.
They face each other on the beach and see the truth in each other's eyes at last. They begin to walk along the beach side by side with hands behind backs. All the doubts, the hesitation, the fears, the misunderstandings, it all comes flooding out and is discussed at great length and in great detail.
They shake their heads at the total bollocks they'd almost made of it. He had almost run back to England! She had almost gone back to undercover work! They had almost lost each other!
They laugh at their foolish viewpoints on perfectly normal happenings. All the insults and seeming betrayals are trotted out, hotly denied then coolly explained until they come to a final and complete understanding.
Everything becomes clear.
They walk for many minutes then stand just looking into each other's eyes and marvelling that they'd almost missed this magic moment by the scantest of margins! How tragic! How awful! Imagine coming this close and almost missing by a heartbeat? As they study each other, they feel those heartbeats speeding up.
Fidel and Dwayne can just make them out way off in the distance. Nothing exciting is happening. Camille and the Chief are just talking and there's no more beer. They decide to leave. BORING!
It's only boring from a distance and only for a very short time as two hearts come to the same decision at the same moment.
The two men roar off on the bike. If they'd looked back down the beach one last time they would have seen that there's now LOTS happening way off in the distance.
But that's another story.
END
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