I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind."
"Never," I say. "Not never."
He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither."
"You promise?"
"Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly.
"I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.
But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
Patrick NessIf you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
Patrick NessI don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick NessI do what I have to do," I say.
I do what I have to do to save him.
I do what I have to do to save Todd.
We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
Patrick NessAnd I know it -
I know it in my heart -
Right now -
Todd Hewitt -
There's nothing we can't do together -
Things change, but they stay the same.
Patrick NessMe and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.
Patrick NessYou love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact.
"I do," I say. Also a fact.
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