Coconut Grove everything ends here

if tegan was another guy, he might've told her to go, run, save yourself -- but this was tegan, and if you expect anything romantic out of him you really haven't been following his threads well enough at all. i mean, the kid is selfish as all get out and had approximately 0 good character development and growth... it's all been downhill. but hey, if you wanna hold out on a miracle happening by the end of the thread i'm not gonna stop you. you're breaking your own heart. 

50000000 thoughts were running through his head right now. for starters, as bat leaned into him, supporting him the best she could, tegan noted how ouchie his man parts were after all that yanking. like... ): not that it would probably matter anyway, but he seriously doubted that bad boy would ever work the same. he was also thinking about how they should've just left earlier instead of dilly dallying around. or maybe they should've left like last week -- or maybe he never should've left in the first place. he was thinking about how he was never gonna see finley again -- or elwood -- or meet any of his probably stinky new siblings. how he'd never get to tell anyone that he'd managed to lock down a bitch. or meet the children he had probably knocked up mariposa with....... or tell bat that he probably had children. jesus christ this was a nightmare. he wished he could just stop thinking and fucking die already. 

the sound was louder, the territory darker, tegan choked on a sob and stopped misstep, grabbing bat's scruff with his teeth and wrapping his forelimbs around her. I LOVE YOU, he yelled directly into her ear -- just in case she couldn't hear it. he wished he would've said it earlier.

he would rather spend his last moments here than frantically running.