Goodbye to a World (Dave/Jade)
“Hey.”
Jade looked up. She felt….. Different somehow. Emptier. More fragmented. More tired.
“Dave?”
It was so good to see a familiar face again. She smiled at Dave, pausing to take in his lovely new god tier outfit, her eyes trailing down from his face to his symbol to-
Oh god
Jade’s breath caught in her throat when she noticed the bleeding wounds in Dave’s chest. They were such an ugly shade of crimson. Still wet. Spreading it’s ugly, ugly, red everywhere.
“Dave…….?” She choked, not able to finish her sentence.
He grabbed Jade, hugging her so very very tightly. Dave started choking on tears, burying his face in Jade’s chest.
“It’s okay. We’re going to be okay.”
“Dave, are we...dead?”
The memories flooded back to Jade. The Condesce, the glitches, the horrible feeling of having your free will wrenched from you. And the death. The horrible, bloody carnage that she herself had caused. She remembered all of it.
“Yeah, I think we are.” Dave said.
Jade began to cry.
Big, heavy tears that rolled down her cheeks and mixed with snot and dirt and blood that she didn’t know was there before. She couldn’t take it.
“Don’t blame yourself.” Dave said, brushing the hair out of Jade’s eyes.
“Dave, it’s my fault. If I hadn’t gone grimdark, wrecked the game, threatened to wreck the game, and gotten in the way of things-”
“If it’s true-If it’s true...Fuck it, I’ll still love you.”
Dave hugged Jade even tighter.
“You’re okay. You aren’t a bad person.” He said.
“Thank you.”