It was the most he could manage before he got his eyes back on the road, driving with one hand and rubbing his chest where the ghost of water still burned in his lungs, his throat filling, his body screaming...
With a snarl, he gripped the steering wheel tighter, hearing the metal rend as he held too tight.
He'd been streaming the latest installment of Outlast 2 when it happened.
By the grace of the god of Death, the impact came at the same instant as a scare in the game. Clumsily, he'd killed the stream as Charlie died, as the hole where she was opened...then as she filled it again, he managed a clumsy tweet about an internet outage. He'd explain it in a later video.
He was there in five hours.
With a little fast talking after he located a local wolf in the hospital, he threw around all his weight to get into her room.
One minute he wasn't there--and then he was. With all of his preternatural speed, he bolted in, had her in his arms, and was still shaking. It hadn't stopped since she'd stopped breathing.
He didn't say a word, just hid his face against her shoulder and held on.
For the first time in his life, Rock Devereaux was mute.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2017-05-18 07:57 pm (UTC)It was the most he could manage before he got his eyes back on the road, driving with one hand and rubbing his chest where the ghost of water still burned in his lungs, his throat filling, his body screaming...
With a snarl, he gripped the steering wheel tighter, hearing the metal rend as he held too tight.
He'd been streaming the latest installment of Outlast 2 when it happened.
By the grace of the god of Death, the impact came at the same instant as a scare in the game. Clumsily, he'd killed the stream as Charlie died, as the hole where she was opened...then as she filled it again, he managed a clumsy tweet about an internet outage. He'd explain it in a later video.
He was there in five hours.
With a little fast talking after he located a local wolf in the hospital, he threw around all his weight to get into her room.
One minute he wasn't there--and then he was. With all of his preternatural speed, he bolted in, had her in his arms, and was still shaking. It hadn't stopped since she'd stopped breathing.
He didn't say a word, just hid his face against her shoulder and held on.
For the first time in his life, Rock Devereaux was mute.