Chapter fourty-four

I will fight.

I was yawning the whole time, but I did not give in to sleep. As we got closer, it got scarier. It did not look like the kingdom I knew, it was chaotic. Deborah must have noticed my disappearance and warned Clyde since he yanked me out of the car and into the underground they were staying at as soon as willie parked the car.

"What the hell are you doing here?!"

I shrugged, "The same reason you have for coming here." I answered calmly.

"I mean, what are you doing here?" Repeated. "Definitely not for my brother" He rolled his eyes.

"For you dummy," I said.

"Well, I don't want you here."

"who told you I do what you want?" I said, acting the hurt I was feeling.

"Eleanor, do you understand how serious this is?" He said, "this is not some kind of game, it's a start of a war!"

"I know that," I said. "And I am here to help."

"No," he said. "Since you are here, you will be in this hell hole until who knows when it goes back to normal. You won't leave, you won't fight."

"It's not your choice," I said, crossing my arms over my chest as I stood in front of him firmly. "As long as you are going to fight, I will too."

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, inhaled then opened his eyes to look at me. "Eleanor," he spoke quietly, hands cupped my face. I automatically leaned into his warm hands, closing my eyes for a brief second. "You know how much I care about you right?" He questioned, I shrugged even though I know. "I care about you way too much to let you do this."

I pulled his hands away, "you are not the only one who cares Clyde!" I snapped, "If you care about me, you wouldn't go out there and fight. You only care for yourself!" I said, "you care about how you would feel if you lost me, yet you do not care about how I would feel if I lost you! Do you know how much that would destroy me? Do you know how Awful it would feel for me to lose the only person I care about in this whole wide world?" I sighed, "you just don't get it." I spoke softly, looking at the ground. "I am going to fight." I said strictly, lifting my gaze to meet his.