Firefly Glen [M] stop, don't save yourself

"NO!" 

too fast, it happened too bloody fast. jaws had snapped uselessly shut upon taut air as the force of west tyree slammed into her side and sent her flailing helter skelter away from the monstrosity bearing down on them, only able to loose that desperate scream as she slammed into the snow and saw the glint of those wicked claws strike upon his figure. a hoarse cry hiccuped from the tightness of her throat as she scrabbled to her paws- too slow, she was moving too slow. yet she had managed to take a whole of two staggered steps when the force of his shout stopped her in her tracks;

"RUN DAMMNIT." 

her eyes widened, knowing - the second she noticed that his gaze did not so much as try to seek her out she knew-- and even as she hissed and launched herself forward obviously not even considering the idea of heeding his command, she was not quick enough. a strangled screech forced itself out into the frigid breeze as he pushed towards the throat of the beast and connected just as it too grabbed him in a soul crushing, fatal embrace. 

'please, no' her legs felt like they were going to give out, trembling with a force like no other as she grit her teeth and pushed them harder 'please, i can't lose you too you stupid, stupid, brave, loyal, idiot' she collided with the side of the bear in what truly were only a matter of seconds but in this hazy midst she'd come to realise the jarring damage seconds could inflict-- and that she'd let too many slither by in which west faced the bear alone. she grabbed and tore at anything, trying to be enough of a pest that it might swing that terrifying head away from him, tears and snot mixing with any blood that sprung free from the tears she sought to inflict. 

there had been a moment, when it had spoken their tongue and stopped the franctic dash of her heart, where polaris had fallen victim to two very conflicting emotions. foolishly, oh so foolishly she had found fragile hope in the knowledge of its awareness- thinking maybe, just maybe it would hear reason, that empathy occupied some shadowed chamber in that thumping heart. the other, more rational part of her mind had recoiled in an entirely newfound terror, at the knowledge that this was not just a frenzied attack of a mindless ruffian. that it was in fact, a creature who believed this slaughter was within reason- that it knew what agony it inflicted and continued on regardless. now she might have laughed at the moronity of harbouring such pathetic hope mere minutes ago, this was in fact-- a fight to the death, there was no other way in which this could end. 

she seen him, out of the corner of her eye there he was-- her jaw fell slack, hopping backwards and feeling the entire process of her mind still as he slumped to the ground...and did not get back up. 

she didn't remember moving but then she was there, panting frantically and trying so hard to ignore all the blood sneering up at her from its stark position eddying with the snow. "west" she gasped, unable to even make the time to offer him the entirety of his name as her heart stumbled along a path of borderline hysteria and she pushed him as hard as she could with her head. "west please...get up" her voice cracked, a sob hitching forth as she pushed against him with all her might "you need to move please west, get up!! you have to run"

she didn't want to look behind her, see how close the bear might be as she slipped on his blood and slumped into a crouch. "i had it handled you idiot why would you...you cant do this to me please you can't leave me, get up i....i love you west please, please dont leave me here we can run we-- you just need to get up!" 

she didn't even notice the progression osiris made towards leta's side, didn't notice the life depart from him with his final call- there was nothing else right now but her and west and all this blood. "please" she whimpered.