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Octavia and Lincoln ended up moving away with Raven, leaving me alone with Sam, unable not to move my eyes over her wounded body; I couldn't believe she had willingly run into this. God, she was so stupidly reckless sometimes, but I loved her for it.
- "Is it that bad?"
- "You are bleeding from at least 10 different places."
- "That doesn't really answer my question, you know?"
- "Is not as bad as last time I had to take care of you."
- "Then we are good."
- "You have an interesting concept of 'being good'."
- "We're alive and the truce is still holding. I'd say we are better than a couple of days ago."
- "Maybe we are." –I stroke her cheek- "But you almost died, again." –I emphasized the last word.
- "I could have taken a couple more before I passed out, have a little faith."
- "I'm not joking, Sam. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you. I almost lost my mind the last time and seeing you all tied up..." –I sighed, clenching my jaw as the images played back in my head- "Your selflessness is one of the things that I love most about you but I'd appreciate it if you could just stop trying to get killed and were a little more selfish."
- "Have you forgotten one of the first things I ever told you?"
I shook my head in denial but then I remembered she had her eyes closed and forced myself to speak.
- "What was it?"
- "I speak too much and act too soon."
- "Yeah." –I smiled remembering that day- "Then, you told me O had gotten hurt because of you and I don't think I've ever gone so fast from being so interest in someone to wanting to kill them."
- "Huh." –she grinned- "So you were interested in me back then? Who'd have guessed."
- "You may not be aware of it, but pretty much everyone at camp was interested in you in some way; you were a mystery. You still kind of are."
- "Now, that I highly doubt."
- "By then most people knew you had risked your life for a couple of us. Some of them wanted to be more like you and others tried to avoid you as much as possible." –I laughed- "I'd say most of them were kinda scared of you."
- "I think you're getting confused here, Blake." –she grinned, a soft chuckle escaping her lips- "Everyone was afraid to even go near you Mr. 'whatever the hell we want'."
- "You sure took my rule to heart."
- "Yeah, that's the only rule I ever follow, feel free to brag it's yours."
