Shook Bo stared at the dead bodies, the muddy water was dragging by. He reached his hand out for Jia's, who was busy trying to identify the victims the knight had killed so merciless.

Innocent men, innocent women, innocent children.

Jia didn't know most of them, but as she saw a young woman from the group, Xiumin had leaded to a higher spot, she sobbed desperately. They didn't make it, the wave had covered it all.

All of a sudden the tree began to crack loudly and Jongdae locked them both in his arms.

"Protect Bo!"

Jia looked into his eyes with a frantic gasp. Save Bo, no matter what.

Her fingers clamped the jacket Bo was tied to, the other arm she wrapped around Jongdae who was tightly holding Bo in his arms.

inhale

take all your strength

hope

The tree fell with a horrifying crash and hurled them into the dangerously howling water.

And then it all was black.

Jia didn't know where up or down was, she also didn't know how long she had been under water.

She didn't know if she still lived. All she was sure of was the jacket that was holding her beloved kid. She would never let go, never. She had promised Xiumin, that she would save him, and even if she maybe couldn't save Xiumin, she couldn't break the last promise she had given to him.

With a scream, that got drowned from the water around her, her head hit something hard. There was no strength left to fight against the force of the knight that was trying to choke all the life left in her. There was no strength left to help others, there was no strength to hold the jacket. There was no strength left to survive without the help of an angel.

There has been an angel. There has been an angel beside them, taking care of them, fighting against the death for them, as they were to weak. There has been someone, that put them before him, that put them before everything else. And that someone, that angel, was holding both of them in his strong arms. Not that he had the power himself to save them, they gave him the power, the will, the desire, to save them.

And you are so much stronger when you have something, someone to fight for.

They woke up in his arms, breathing heavily, but at least they breathed. Jia's pain in her head and lungs clouded her mind, so she didn't notice that her saver collapsed next to her, leaving the crying Bo sitting in the mud next to them.

"Wake up!"

Frantically he wiped away the tears that were streaming down his scratched cheeks. He buried his face into the jacket that was tied around his waist to tight, that he could only breath barely. Longing for affection and shelter he snuggled down in the mud between them, still shivering from the icy cold.

"Wake up please...."

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Sorrehhh this capter is so short and also strange idk ... :") hmm this is so sad to write I want to cry each time please save me ><
Thanks for every read and vote Ily <3
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