Angst Prompts - Loss

[chaotically_rem]

Loss.

Leon stood over the edge of the platform while everything came crashing down around him both literally and metaphorically. NEST's infrastructure was collapsing into deadly pieces fast but he couldn't help but hesitate despite the urgency in his gut. He found the tumbling infrastructure ironic while the walls of his heart broke off piece by piece, the black void beneath him on that catwalk taunting. It wasn't necessarily her slipping from his fingers that broke his heart - it still did, it hurt, but in a physical way - but maybe it was the fact that she had somehow stolen a smidge of his shine off him when she went, taking a piece from him he'd never get back.

He didn't have time to grieve, or even time to be upset. He needed to survive.

Leon rushed for the elevator. If he lived to see the break of dawn, he would think about her. If he didn't, then none of this would matter at all.