Into deception

Break

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~Max~

"Have you seen Mia or Bane? I haven't heard from either of them this morning" Levi walks in rubbing her tired eyes open.

"They're sleeping" I take a sip of my coffee glancing back at her.

"They? As in together?" She frowns.

"Yeah, I went to check up on him and found them sleeping" I press my lips into a thin line remembering how Bane was holding her, for some reason it was more sad then warm to look at. Maybe because I know how much they're both trying.

"Should we- I mean should I go wake her?"

"No" I quickly say "no no leave her, they need the rest" I pray she doesn't ask why that is because I don't know if Mia told her what I now know, and there's no way I'm opening my mouth about it.

She stands still, watching me and occasionally turning her head to the side. I freeze with both confusion and the want to laugh.

"Levi- what are you doing?" I ask in amusement.

"You know, don't you"

The amusement gets sucked out faster than my next breath, but I keep calm "know what?" I laugh.

"She told you" there's sadness in that sentence, a lot of it.

"Told me what I'm confused"

"Max stop, she told you about that day didn't she"

"You're gonna have to be a bit more specific"

"The baby Max, she told you about their baby"

And just like that I've gone painfully cold. Being reminded of their loss somehow makes me feel like I lost that baby too, it's selfish to feel like that I know, but I can't help it.

"Yes"

"Thought as much" she sighs moving to fill her own cup of coffee and I can't keep my mouth closed.

"Was it because of the adrenaline shot I gave her?"

She turns around fast only to stop as her coffee tilts far out of her cup, her body stills, regaining the lost control of her coffee cup so it doesn't continue to spill everywhere "don't do that, don't start looking for where and what went wrong"

"But was it? You were there when the doctors told her weren't you?"

I keep my gaze glued onto her as she takes a seat opposite from me and its how i caught into that painful wince she made, it was brief, ghostly.

"I wasn't" she swallows hard looking back at me "I was walking back to her room at the time- and- and when I walked in she was already on the floor bleeding out, mere seconds away from death"

"She found out alone?"

She nods.

Fucking hell. Literally.

"When they managed to sustain her she went into shock, I had no hope in those moments, even the dam doctors were giving each other looks and fuck me did I want to kill them. It was then when I asked what happened where they told me the news, they said it wasn't initially from the explosion but instead from the stress, the trauma. She lost the baby because of everything that happened in that little time Max, not because of the adrenaline shot I made you give her"