“For You, I’d Throw It All Away. My Morals, My Goals, My Life. I Would. Please Don’t Ask Me Too.”

Prompt #336

The letter in their hand felt like it weighed a ton. Their hands were shaking because they knew: no matter if good or bad, opening the letter would change their life.

“I love you,” the rogue said, finally admitting their feelings.  They held the princen’s hand and held their breath, waiting for a response.

“I… will get back to you on that,” the princen said, patting the rogue’s hand gently before they pulled away and turned toward the battle that waited for them.

“If you get arrested, I don’t know you.”

“Dearest. Darling. Sweetheart,” the protagonist flatly recited the list of endearments the antagonist was most likely to wield in their conversations. “You’re play acting at intimacy again. God, it must be desperately lonely being you.” “Oh, love. I’m not the one play acting at anything - if I wanted to be intimate with you, baby, I’d bother to learn your name.”

“I’m really sorry.”

“For what? There’s no shame in being who you are.”

The zombie apocalypse has begun. Only, instead of grunting, the zombies all constantly sing the last song they heard before they died. Surprisingly, many of them sound quite good.

“Just because you’re afraid of losing them, doesn’t mean-”

“Lesson one, don’t tell me anything about myself. Lesson two, learn to keep your mouth shut!”

“Your mother wouldn’t have wanted this!”

“You’re right. She would have done much worse.”

“I’ve never thought of you in a negative light before now.”

“Well, no one can deny I was professional up until the end.”

“Sometimes I nod and pretend I understood what you just said.”

“How were they able to hide a facility this big?”

“I didn’t actually think my conspiracy would turn out right. It’s just something I wrote as a part of my job.”

“I’m being hunted down for mistakes that you made.”

“Please, please come back to me. I can’t do this without you. It wasn’t meant to be like this.”