Febuwhump Day 25: Assumed Dead. Warning: Angst, MIA, KIA, War
He was gone.
Gone and there was nothing he could do.
He wished he'd tried harder to dissuade him from leaving. Scott would have listened to him. They were best friends as well as brothers.
But Scott had been so excited to … to leave them and be his own person. Virgil understood, he did. He had done the same thing, leaving for Denver and his own dreams.
Now, now Virgil sat on his bed, the telegram held tightly and eyes staring at it.
MIA presumed KIA
Have hope, his dad said.
But what hope was there?
This was Bereznik.